[enigmaticpenchant]

Finally making a proper pinned post.

Welcome to my blog! You can call me Ash or Tav. I've been around tumblr for close to a decade and a half now. I'm a thing in my 30s (she/they/it, but I'm also cool with any). Many long-time followers may recall my going by Sprite. That is also fine to call me.

I'm an artist and writer. While I don't publish my stories (at the moment!), I write extensively about OCs and have tons of analyses about settings I enjoy. Feel free to reach out!

Soon to be edited with my commonly used tags

My primary fandoms: Solar Opposites, World of Warcraft, Invincible, Hellaverse, Magnus Archives/Protocol, Pokemon, Homestuck, Oddworld, Invader Zim

My Links

Solar Opposites OC-Dedicated blog

Bluesky

Discord: enigmaticpenchant

Game with me! (Steam)

Artfight

I do not have an X/Twitter account.

Projects

Solar Opposites OC Masterpost

Solar Opposites Shlorpian Randomizer (text-based)

Solar Opposites Shlorpian OC Creator (Meiker doll)

Pesterquest Fanroutes (Homestuck) (No longer in development)

Thanks for checking out my blog!

[enigmaticpenchant]

Ryley wasn't an outlier, us janitors are just Like That

[evanreichel]

sketching practice

[crimsolyn]

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

[auckie]

[hungwy]

[weissthirteen]

beta server stress test going on so we are now the beatles

[weissthirteen]

HELP

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[mothicalspoken]

"am I being annoying" are you aware that my heart is trying to crawl out of my chest to get to you

[reachyoutomorrow]

[enigmaticpenchant]

my guild leader lets me choose the neighborhood endeavor because I'm so special and so cutes

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[teaboot]

I will forever maintain that genuine fortune-telling and psychic medium junk is a load of bull, but as a person who owns tarot decks and regularly uses them as a tool for self-reflection I also have to admit that it does kind of work for that and it's very very funny when it does

Once I laid out some cards before I left the house and couldn't figure out an interpretation of the symbolism that made sense outside of "stop focusing and pay attention", which was of course absurd, so I was puzzling over that all the way to my bus stop and was so distracted the whole time that I walked face-first into a massive fucking spiderweb

[lambylingames]

*saul goodman's your dragon*

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

[hoodie-doodles]

If you guys noticed that I haven't posted much lately, this is why. I was in an art block for a bit and Oddworld managed to inspire me enough to make this guy!

He lost his legs in an accident and decided to use this as an opportunity to steak from a Slig soldier and assume a fake Slig identity just to survive. He looks up to the legends of Abe from the south and wanted to make his own mark. But due to him not having the same powers, he's sort of stuck being the chauffeur for Matilda.

I may or may not make art of her in the future.

[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[shuckstruck]

It’s also common sense, though I’m not sure if studies and trials have also proven this, that under capitalism most individuals want a life that’s a little more exciting than just “meeting my basic needs”.

If I want a new TV, I suppose I could save with UBI, but if I have a job for earning extra income I’m able to rejuvenate the consumer economy with my extra income- it’s truly good for virtually everybody involved to my knowledge.

[biocrafthero]

perceived skill