Dot

26 | you can call me Dot or Dottie | agender (any pronouns) | mostly a lurker but sometimes i crawl out from the shadows to post art or whatever | the consumption, creation, and analysis of media is pretty much my entire personality | i suck at messaging ppl back (i'm sorry)

[dotsartspot]

Painkillers

a self portrait and piece of vent art inspired by my bipolar disorder

[dotsartspot]

Old piece, new name 🫶🏻

[hauntedfalcon]

I love you Pacific Rim, I love you Ramin Djawadi's soundtrack, I love you Mako Mori, I love you found footage prologue, I love you entire concept of Drift compatibility, I love you only actual golden retriever man Raleigh Becket, I love you Kwoon scene, I love you "it's not obedience. it's respect," I love you Mana Ashida's powerhouse performance, I love you Stacker Pentecost's sun motif, I love you Chuck's jacket, I love you hallway fistfight, I love you Crimson Typhoon, I love you Otachi, I love you del Toro's "guy in a suit" approach to creature design, I love you Hansens with flare guns, I love you "for my family," I love you numerous artful nods to Jurassic Park, I love you "we can clear a path. for the lady," I love you forehead touch, I lo

[selfship-quotes]

making a collection

[selfship-quotes]

adding to the collection

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[illdeactivateanyway]

I just stumbled upon an Instagram reel that said something like "I'm probably trans but I'm too much of a misandrist to accept it" with thousands of likes (including a couple of irl friends of mine who know that I'm a trans man...) but sure the queer community doesn't have a problem with men and masculinity and the radfem rhetoric that's been allowed to prosper in queer and feminist spaces these past years is not harmful to trans men at all (/s)

[wolfsteax]

I wanted to make something with different photos of my childhood to convey a sense of nostalgia with a looming dread. My childhood was often full of instability, but I felt safest at my grandparents' home. Even so, that didn't mean the monster left the table.

[unstablebill]

I feel like this is so important for really viscerally illustrating how you can have genuine nostalgia for something even if it was doing you real harm

[wolfsteax]

YES this is exactly what I was going for! :)

[scutesketch]

YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

[dotsartspot]

Okay listen... I swear I could fix Cody Walsh.

[teaboot]

“So this fic has been abandoned but you should read it anyways because…” hold up. Have you not been reading all promising fics regardless of completion this entire time

[teaboot]

Today I learned that an alarming number of yall are filtering fic by “completed works only” which is WILD to me because some of the best shit I ever read was incomplete. Just like how some of the best friendships fade, the best experiences end, the best partners pass away before you’re ready. Nobody wants good things to end but they do and that doesn’t make them less meaningful. And sometimes a tree must be nurtured before it can grow

[thatnordicguy]

I've failed to read rooms I was alone in

[appdirect]

@ihatejonarbuckle What do you think about this?

[ihatejonarbuckle]

he’s sad he no longer has garfield to abuse

[banjonarbuckle-blog]

i think this is what makes him such a pathetic person. see, when you take away those he victimizes, he has nothing. he is nothing. he’s made by the very things which he torments, and when those are gone he is wordless, and can think only of a time when his existence meant something - when he had someone to belittle and abuse. 

[murderjonarbuckle]

my take on this - when Garfield died Jon actually thought for once about how he treated Garfield, what scum he was to him. all his life it’s been back and fourth with them getting back at each other with a growing anger. now Jon notices what he has become and mourns (as he should.)

[ihatejonarbuckle]

jon would never feel any remorse, ever

[the-jon-arbuckle-fucker]

me when I’m in a media iliteracy, analysis full of mischaracterization and destructive information bias competition, and my opponent is motherfucking ihatejonarbuckle

no because Jon LOVES Garfield to death you don’t even fucking UNDERSTAND. but i guess you’re so far up your own ass you’re incapable of seeing it due to how narrowed up your tunnel vision is.

if that man didn’t cared, he would’ve let his cat get lost in the streets the time he accidentally sprang out of an open car window in Garfield On The Town special, or better yet! let a whole ass airplane take him away!!

[ihatejonarbuckle]

i’m gonna be real with you…

something tells me that my blog (ihatejonarbuckle) is not going to align with your (the-jon-arbuckle-fucker) interests and beliefs

[salvadorbonaparte]

happy international women's day to international women

[salvadorbonaparte]

the wording of this is a joke but I'm serious in the sense of solidarity with immigrant women, refugee women, women in exile, women in the 'global south', women in all countries where women's rights are being attacked.

[salvadorbonaparte]

It should go without saying that this includes trans women, since they are women.

women's rights include many things from trans rights (see above), reproductive rights, voting rights, labor rights, access to healthcare, access to education and many many more issues. These are usually not exclusively women's issues but often primarily or openly target women and people read as women.

[wildspringday]

[robertreich]

How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?

[jordanbolton]

To The Person In The Newspaper - Jordan Bolton

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[hotvampireadjacent]

Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice

On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping ar

[fireache]

[rabnerd28]

[redarmyscreaming]

Cannot consumption of AI be considered an art expression?