I've been here for a few days, but I'm overdue for an introduction.
Hey, hi, hello everyone! I hope this post meets you in good health! You can call me Lizzie. I am 29 years old, an Aquarius, and I am an old fandom joiner.
The current fandoms I'm in are B.A.P (Moon Jongup is my kpop crush and bias), YuGiOh (DM and GX at the moment), Voltron: Legendary Defender, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 or bust), Delicious in Dungeon, and I dabble in other fandoms every so often.
I'm a digital artist who's currently learning the fundamentals to improve and make beautiful illustrations again, an amateur voice actor, singer, dancer, baker, former cosplayer, and I write from time to time. My childhood dream is to be a professional singer, which is honestly much harder than singing in the shower.
I'm currently working on two canon adjacent/fix it projects. Fates Converge, which is a fan YuGiOh comic that has been in production since 2011, and Beyond the Stars (title may change) which will either be a fanfiction or fan comic of Voltron Legendary Defender.
I've been making fandom characters since 11 or 12 years old, and I do love myself some ocxcanon every so often. Technically I've been making content since 2006, but those skills have left the building.
As I've stated in other posts, I've been through a lot of tough times (as we all do), and fandom was the only thing keeping me from going off the deep end. I'm in a somewhat better place now, currently job hunting which sucks, but I'm working towards the aspirations I had when I was brighter and younger.
You are never too old to achieve your dreams and the happiness you deserve.
Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesn’t leave me with a white cast. And I’m dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and it’s one of the better ones I’ve used.
Yea fam. All that “we don’t need sunscreen” shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists don’t know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and it’s a nasty combination.
“While incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.”
Sorry about the link, I’m on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isn’t the most recent but it’s still SUPER IMPORTANT. Y’all please wear sunscreen. With Google it’s even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.
I’m gonna second the rec for Black Girl Sunscreen, it’s affordable, Black owned, and immediately melts into the skin without leaving any gross white cast.
Hey. Hi. How are you? I’m sorry I haven’t been active aside from liking posts. Here’s what happened recently:
- Bucket List item crossed off: Had a vacation in Japan, took tons of pictures. Much needed break from the my home life, and would love to live there someday, if possible.
- Tomodachi Life came out, been playing that too much.
- I got a Shiny Alpha Litleo in Pokémon Legends AZ. Her name is Nala. I was trying to spawn either a Shiny Pikachu or Skiddo, but that was a nice surprise.
- Preordered the Voltron complete series DVDs, and those were delivered to my house the day before I left for Japan.
- As of two days ago? I got fired. So I have more time to work on my fan projects and career… but please keep in mind that I have no income coming in.
The last thing I listened to was garageboyomar's mini-cover of Charybdis from EPIC: The Musical :> (you should go check him out on YouTube, his voice is ETHEREAL 🤩🤩🤩)
I'm literally so lazy rn but @potatoanarchist will tag enough people to make up for the both of us I'm sure (open tags)
I love me some sleepy music. listening to it right now because I really should be sleeping lol
@mattpurplehoodie
@snazzy-here
@othellovr
@jellyfishsketches
@moss-matrix
and everyone else!! (I'm too nervous to tag anyone elsseeeee. just join in if you want to and assume I wanted to tag you specifically because if you're seeing this I probably did)
I left Twitter cause I got tired of receiving death and rape threats for being a trans woman by fascists on the platform after Musk took over only to wind up on tumblr with a bunch of trans women insisting we do the EXACT same thing to trans men that LGB without the T did to all of us trans people.
They want to dump trans men on their own the same way cis gays did to all trans people.
I refuse to have it. I refuse to turn on my trans brothers. I will shout it over and over from the roof tops that we need to stick together now more than ever. The discourse between fems and mascs is just about the most stupid shit you can possibly do under a fascist regime THAT WANTS YOU FUCKING DEAD.
Don't be a fucking idiot. Touch some grass. Testosterone is not some magical poison that turns you into an evil misogynist. Trans men have experiences with misogyny before they transition. Teansandrophobia is real. Trans men are real men. Testosterone should be free and handed out at your local pharmacy like napkins at McDonald's.
And the best part is that you too can believe all this and still be completely valid as a woman. Recognizing the rights of trans men to exist and be happy and support them in doing so does not invalidate my feminism nor my own identity.
I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.
Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in “Saki” don’t wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And it’s still going.
In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. It’s because the underwear ran out of places to hide. I’m obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of “Saki”, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didn’t even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!
And of course there is also the breast expansion. I don’t know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, “the one with the big boobs”, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesn’t get lost in the noise. It’s just that normally—in like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for example—normally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and you’d go, “Well, this is now untenable.”
That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.
Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.
It’s like this, okay: there’s no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. There’s a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.
The vibe with “Saki” is different.
It’s hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as “leering”, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into it—I can’t imagine anyone is making her do this—but “Saki” the comic has no opinion on the matter.
There are essentially no male characters in “Saki”. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of “Saki”, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so it’s no problem. It’s so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.
So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of “Saki”, right: it’s just normal that they don’t wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. It’s been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. It’s just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, it’s in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like what’s the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.
Do you get??? why I’m so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???
Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????
I have so many questions... How does one SUSPECT a manga character isn't wearing underwear? Like, sure, boobs are front and center amd you can see them get bigger panel by panel but how does this work for panties? Are there just that many upskirt shots?
Also how do you keep a manga about Mahjong going for 18 years, what??
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Headcanons are PERSONAL interpretations, not universal truth.
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Leaving kudos or short positive comments genuinely matters.
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f33lz._.b3tterz: "Al only spits out what is put in. it's a program, not a textbook.
i'm a server and i had a table that TOOK A PICTURE of the menu sent it to chat gpt AND ASKED IT WHAT LOOKED GOOD!!! JUST READ IT!! then instead of looking at the itemized receipt of what they ordered, including the total, they told chat gpt what they got AND ASKED IT WHAT THE TOTAL WOULD BE."
humanleaf1: "i work at a hardware store and let me tell you its getting to the point im ready to just let people set their houses on fire. like oh chatgpt said you need that outlet? sure. go for it."
girlpansies: "I have a regular that is exactly like this. Over the last year l've seen her dependency on chatgpt get atp kinda scary. It started off with her coming in a few times a month and filling up a bag full of skin and hair care and makeup based solely on chatgpt recommendations. Then she gendered it and tells me about how "she" scans this client's face daily and tells her "exactly what she needs" based on her skin and hair type and skin tone, etc.. This last time I saw this woman, she told me she's given chatgpt pretty much her entire biometric profile for the sake of helping her diagnose herself and pick out her medications....she says things like "she knows me so well" and it's so jarring."
mermsieruffles: "We had a customer and his wife show up in store ON BLACK FRIDAY and pitch a toddler level fit because GD ChatGPT told them we had a military discount. We do not and never have had a military discount! They kept saying they had seen it online, they were owed an additional 10% off their multi-hundred dollar espresso machine! We told them if they could find it on our website specifically they could have it. They left angry."
muleyo: "I work at a Café, and we've had customers come in a few times recently, telling us our listed hours online are wrong. And i was like,
"huh?? I'll have to double check" like, it's right on the website, right on google listing.
And then this last weekend, someone mentioned GOOGLE GEMINI! Saying "your website is different than what Google Gemini is saying, that's confusing". And i was floored. Like... MAYBE TRUST THE BUSINESSES WEBSITE, and not an ai generated prompt?? Huhhhh?? My boss, did the prompt once just to check wtf was up, and BOY did it just bs hours, had us as open on days we are closed, etc. And now i know, all of these people who've had issues are using ai. Like, so sad."
catandnova: "I work at a flower shop and had 2 ladies come in to get an arrangement. They came in with an Al generated photo of arrangements on an outdoor arch. I told them our arrangements will look different bc the flowers in the photo aren't real and the ones that are there are not the proper scale nor will they withstand this heat. So I go over alternatives w them. And her friend says to her "can u Al it, I can't imagine what it'll look like" :/"
bea_trician: "Ive had people at my day job go shopping with grocery lists written by Chatgpt. Like....is the bot supposed to know what's in your pantry?? Is it hallucinating products we don't actually sell?"
franken.twink: "I work in dme and had a guy come in asking for a resupply for his cpap with a list of made up item id's and part numbers. When I pointed it out and that we had like, his actual resupply list in our system, he just shrugged and said that's what chatgpt said he needed..just, bro"
tabbykisses: "i'm a hairstylist and often get clients coming | in asking me to give them a haircut identical to a chat-generated image. I have to explain that the haircut will never look identical to what they prompted because it isn't real; it's not a real hair texture, that's not how layers work - even stuff like how chat won't take into account their cowlicks or the density of their hair, etc. And every time it's met with stubbornness or hostility or the assumption that I can't do my job right because of this explicit case. it's ruining brains, it's making people codependent, and it's pissing me off"
temporalserpent: "I had this with some of the younger customers in my laundromat job where instead of reading the tags on their nicer clothes, they're relying on whatever ai app. So when they find out it ruined or shrank their clothes they get upset. There's so much hand holding I need to do cause they're just anxious wrecks who HAVE to use ai for simple shit."
light.does.cos: "I worked at a store that sold things to make candles, soaps, simple skincare, etc. and this lady came in asking for materials for candles. So I show her everything she would need including wax chips to make the candles colorful. AND TO MY FACE GOES "well chat gpt said I can use koolaid so I think I'll stick with that""
Reblog if you’d rather give yourself papercuts between each of your fingers and then rub hand sanitizer all over your hands than use generative AI to write or draw anything ever
Anzu/Téa is a child of divorce. She lives with her father who works three jobs to keep everything afloat.
Yugi can be quite sassy when the time is right.
Ryou has tried everything to calm the spirit of the ring, and the violin is the only way to keep him quiet.
Atem has a sweet tooth.
Despite being in Yugi's body, Atem does not know how to use a cellphone. He claims there are too many functions. Yes, he even gets confused with flip phones.
Despite his gentle demeanor, Ryou will cut a bitch when he needs to.
Anzu/Téa works various jobs in her first year to help her dad out - she absolutely adores her dad for working hard and letting her go to dance classes, so this is a way to help him out when times are tough.
Atem was only pharaoh for six months before Zorc invaded his kingdom.
When Atem's father died, there was no active pharaoh until Atem turned 16 - Mahad was in charge of any rulings that required a pharaoh to be present.
Other than his brother, Seto appreciates one other person in his life. He will never say who it is, even if you get him drunk
Tristan is great with kids - despite his nephew being one of the worst kids he has ever had the displeasure of babysitting, he thinks kids are cool.
On the weekends, when there are no tournaments, Yugi hosts Duel Monsters classes, teaching kids in the neighborhood how to duel, where to start - all the basics of the game.
On certain days, the Kame Game Shop has themed event nights for small tournament runs.
Anzu/Téa has tried baking. Several times. She claims bread is the worst thing to make because she is impatient - she can only bake cookies, and those come out decent only 50% of the time.
Joey has snuck in puppies to his apartment. He will do it again. This is a promise and a threat.
Atem does not care what kind of pet his friend or lover has. He simply wants cuddles with the animal companion. Though he does have a fondness towards sphynx cats.
Seto is not homophobic. He will never be prejudiced towards any marginalized group of people. He will only judge Joey because he hates him in a petty way.
Despite how he carries himself, Joey is a fantastic worker. He just tends to be late a lot.
While Atem has a good grasp of Japanese thanks to Yugi, he does end up missing some words and stumbling over some sentences.
Atem unintentionally flirts. He does not know what he's doing half the time, he just accidentally flirts with people sometimes.
Despite Ryou's abusive situation, he does find horror movies calming, in a sense. He doesn't really have a favorite, though he does not respect horror movies that don't understand that the genre is an art itself.
Tristan works on cars on his days off. He's a pretty good mechanic.
Mokuba will prank Seto one day, he claims. He just hasn't figured out what kind of prank yet.
Anzu loves watching dance competitions. She loves studying the different dancers, she picks a favorite move that's a part of the competitor's set and she practices it until she gets it right.
Anzu loves magical girl anime, but mainly because she wants to replicate the transformation sequences and attack moves on the dance floor.
Joey goes by Joey simply because it's a nickname. He's not really a fan of his birth name, it reminds him too much of his father, so going by Joey or Jounochi is fine.
Yugi and Tea have movie nights where they watch old movies together. So far they have watched Akira six times and The Ballad of Narayama three times. They play rock paper scissors. Whoever wins picks whatever movie they watch. Yugi wins most of the time.
Yugi knows of his grandfather's past. He is terrified. He does not bring it up for his own safety.
Anzu/Téa has actual problems with her mother. Her mom abandoned her and her dad. She has overheard a lot of arguments as a child, she refuses to forgive her mother for her actions.
When it comes to video games, Yugi will play anything. Sometimes the gang will come over and play with him. Each friend has their preference on a type of game they like.
Atem hates the cold. Absolutely despises it. He hisses when the first snowfall comes. He will bundle in several blankets just to feel the slightest hint of warmth. He will steal scarves and use all of them. He will request the puffiest of coats for the most heat to be kept on his body.
Despite her name meaning apricot, Anzu/Téa does not like apricots.
Duke and Ryou are close friends.
Duke is a dice goblin. No, he will not admit it. No he will not say that he has a problem.
