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[dinklebat]

I’m like if the cambrian explosion was a boy

he/him. adult. employed.

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DNI

people who can’t solve my riddles three

people birthed from the ocean on a foggy night with a full moon

people without skeletons

corinthian columns

people who got to see the solar eclipse while I was at work and couldn’t (makes me jealous)

people who saw the northern lights (also makes me jealous)

proshippers on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

antishippers on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays

people who drive electric scooters on sidewalks

people with the same birthday as me who do not accept me as the birthday king

anyone who’s used Twitter in the last 24 hours

people who share my kintypes.

people who ask what my kintypes are (it’s private)

people who ask how they’re supposed to know if we share kintypes if I won’t say what my kintypes are (you would know instinctively based on my vibes)

people with perfect vision

tumblr user riceoatswheatgrain specifically (by request)

people who have never played the tambourine

people who read all of my DNI (why would you do that)

joe biden

[bogdwellr]

ok gay boy

[michaelwavedmail]

arcade the fakest idgafer on earth

bonus

[creatingblackcharacters]

I got something DIABOLICAL for y'all 🤣

So I asked my guy Felipe @feliville , master of color, to make me a Whitewashed™ Patroclus. You heard right! I wanted to see what he looked like, and as an aside I said it'd probably prove that he was a white guy painted brown. And y'all-

Tbh, I almost miss the original 🤣🤣🤣 das a Hwite Man, all right!

To quote 🎤:

"ALRIGHTY, SO, From time to time I make simple Black edits on mediocre or bad Black character designs for funsies, but whitewashing a character on purpouse felt Vile and Horrible to do, it even made my stomach hurt 👎🏽 ,, I hate the end result and I hate that his design is so bad that once the dark grey skintone is gone, there's no traces left that he's Supposed to be Black."

What's wild to me is how good this looks. Not as in attractiveness, but as in this is such a sufficient white guy character design. It's why I be saying I wish people would just... Draw another white man if they're not gonna put in the effort to depict us. No one would have flinched if this was the millionth white Patroclus in the rotation. Well I would have, but no one that companies care about would have.

Anyway, when I asked what he did and if it was possible to use the same technique for Black character design:

"I ONLY CHANGED THE COLORS, NOTHING ELSE... OKI, I MEAN, I DID LIGHTEN IT UP, I used 3 effect?blending? layers.

oh of Course !! I do tht all the time with my Normal edits."

[feliville]

[from left to right; Patroclus edited to have an Actual Brown Skintone, the Original sprite, and the whitewashed edit.]

Happy to help with this Fucked up Painful edit🫡🫡!! I'll be sure to see white Patroclus in my nightmares

+ here's another edit to show that you can use those 3 blending layers for Actual Good edits instead 😔

[dinklebat]

a side by side in honor of that one guy claiming this wasn’t green at all

[cheaphalloweencostume]

genuine question, not trying to be unkind: in what way is “movies that are not made for children” an incomprehensibly complex idea

[sodomit]

I don't know the full context of that conversation, but I can easily see why "movies that are not made for children" could be called an incomprehensible category.

It's because it could be defined in completely different ways, and includes content that cannot be meaningfully grouped together.

It can include movies that children are legally not allowed to watch (which is a shitty concept), movies made without children in mind, but that still attract children (like most action or horror movies), movies made by someone who's trying to be an edgelord on purpose because they believe "adult" media should be offensive (like a large part of cartoons that are marketed as for adults), movies that are considered too complex for children for some socially constructed reason.

In general, the idea that something is not made for children should invite skepsis and digging deeper.

[nonbinary-starry]

The Brave Little Toaster (great movie btw) for instance is a good example of an animation that was targeted at teenagers and young adults but became popular with kids. It was picked up by an arthouse film distributor for the theatrical release and was nominated for an award at the film festival for being the best film there (it lost because it was animated).

So like, the brave little toaster is technically in the same category as A Serbian Film.

[merlilica]

you did not seriously just compare an animated kids film called “the brave little toaster” to a Serbian film, about a pornstar in a snuff film, which has been banned in multiple countries and cited by many as the most disturbing movie ever made, because they were both art films.

[nonbinary-starry]

I'm not, I'm just saying that there's a very wide variety in adult movies

[merlilica]

In what way is brave little toaster an adult movie I am genuinely asking, because the book is intended for children, and the movie is intended for children. A kids’ film that chooses to treat its subject matter in the same way as a film made for adults isn’t a movie made for adults, it’s just a good kids’ film.

[touchyourblood]

I'm crying, the brave little toaster is owned by Disney. Yes it was technically made by an independent studio but they needed Disney's permission and funding as Disney had owned film rights to the book for years by then.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[icecolddoot]

The New California Republic

Fallout New Vegas intro redraw

[cheaphalloweencostume]

genuine question, not trying to be unkind: in what way is “movies that are not made for children” an incomprehensibly complex idea

[inklingswannabe]

TADC is something I've watched out of morbid curiosity despite finding it mediocre from the start, but I find it wild how deeply nihilistic and anti-human it is by the end. All of the characters seemingly decide that their hopes and goals don't matter anymore because their real world counterparts are still out there living their lives. Notably their source for this information is "a creative ai" that has lied to them to pacify them for the entire show. A suicidal character whose whole Thing is running away from their problems and difficult emotions "abstracts" (dies) off screen, without them ever apologizing for abusive behaviours, living with the consequences, OR finding peace. It is seemingly confirmed that abstraction is permanent, and it still looks like an inevitable outcome for all of them one day. Meanwhile a new plot hole is introduced in order to revive a fully artificial ai that has been thus far incapable of understanding human complexity, but it's okay, he's better now. Somehow. In fact, he will show you all how to use his ai powers in order to make this fake world more tolerable. Isn't it that nice of him? Aren't you grateful?

What lessons should be taken from this? What real world analogues? If you were abused, live with guilt, have hurt others, and want to die rather than atone and move forward, I guess you should just kill yourself, everyone will get over it. Do you worry that you won't be able to accomplish what you want to accomplish, because the world seems against you? That's right. Just give up. Do you have qualms with generative ai, and how it is negatively impacting individuals and society at large? Do you feel powerless against it and the shady tech oligarchs that created it to spread disinformation / warp reality? Well, it's here to stay regardless, so maybe you should just get used to it and learn how to work with it, buddy.

I'm certain all of these reads are unintentional, because the show has never been particularly well-written. But it is an exceptionally poorly timed piece of therapy-speak slop, sans any real therapy, or...hope? Lol

[snowrinrin]

overhyped 👎

[snowrinrin]

dude😭😭😭

[vampiricvenus]

Atp it was a mistake to allow people with terrible gender and sexuality politics and who just run with the vibes of a new term instead of actually understanding them, to learn about he/him and transmasculine lesbians because none of these imbeciles can think in any shades of gray and took it as "trans man lesbian" instead of "non-binary person who's transitioning towards masculinity and identifies as a lesbian", and also "he/him = binary man, every single time".

[vampiricvenus]

Did you bitches know "trans man" is like only one of the million possible configurations of what a transmasculine person can be? Transmasculine ≠ Binary Trans Man every single time. And also the point of being gender non-conforming is that you don't necessarily have to identify as a man in order to use he/him pronouns. You fucking idiots.

[vampiricvenus]

How it feels to curate a list of mutuals with the rarer by the day common sense skill of trying to understand the terms they're about to use before using them.

[dinklebat]

Watched the entire amazing digital circus in one day (including the leaked finale) and man. that was mid as helllllll

the outrage over the finale is crazy like what were yall expecting 😭😭😭

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[creatingblackcharacters]

I just think I can be mad at a creator and her workers laughing off nigga jokes with no good apology (yes, even when she's trans) AND have material impact on the society that also makes my life systemically miserable for being said nigga. But I guess that's me, though. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[artsymeeshee]

(After some time)

Been wanting to do a comic on Wendy finding out she’s on the aromantic spectrum, specifically Lithromantic, after really liking the idea of her being Lithro. Included Stan as well since I headcanon him as Lithro as well so Wendy has someone who understands.

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[dinklebat]

yeehaw

decided to draw my boy in more of a 1960s pinup style! wips and references under the cut :3

[vyvilha]

the thing about self-diagnosis is that to have an official diagnosis you HAVE to self-diagnose yourself first and write down all your symptoms and then present them to the psychiatrist like you are defending it on trial otherwise if you go to psychiatrist unprepared and just say you feel miserable all the time and don't know why they will say "ummmm uhhhhh you probably have anxiety. probably just stress from your work lol"

[bebsi-cola]

except if you're a disabled child , or too disabled to look up or write down symptoms, or can't understand that your symptoms are indeed symptoms of a condition, or were forcibly diagnosed regardless of how willing you were, or institutionalised or arrested, or so severely disabled that there's no question about it. or be one of the many disabled people who can't work.

it's not like none of the people i mentioned will have had to self diagnose and then advocate for a documented diagnosis. and it's not like there's anything wrong with doing your own research and advocating for your needs to be met. but there's no way the only way to get an official diagnosis is to self diagnose first. you have to forget about a lot of disabled people to say this