Aly Cat-Sidhe

My name is Alyx (She/He/They, age 20), this place is where my reblogs will be going. You can now find my art in @alycatartwork, @fabulousandpurrverted (18+! No minors!), and AlyxTC on Furaffinity.

[fabulousandfurvid]

Yo sorry I’ve been inactive

If my art mutuals wanna show me stuff, don’t be shy please! 

[super-metroid]

is it me or did meet the robinsons predict super mario odyssey

[punk-dragon-maverick]

[shock]

you all need to think about how you interact with trans men online, like really think

recently one of my posts about being a trans man and casually interacting with another trans man got about 90,000 notes and the tags and comments are full of ‘too pure for this earth’, ‘i’m a dirty sinner i don’t deserve to read this post’, ‘adorable cute sweet precious boys’ despite the fact that it’s mentioned that i am in college and not a child in the post and you all need to think about how some trans men do not want to be referred to that way and being okay with being referred to that way is pretty much exclusively a young teenager tumblr thing that makes a lot of guys uncomfortable. i’m just a man. none of this is necessary and it’s very performative, but…

along with this infantilizing, with this obsession with the proposed purity of another man and myself just for existing, there’s also dehumanization that comes with it, for example:

somewhere along the post, someone decided it would be a good idea to add, ‘all i can imagine is two eldritch horrors trying to get their voices as horrifying and fucked up as possible’ (not exact quote but that’s the gist of it)…

and someone decided that it would be a good idea to take my experience, wildly change the context and make a FANFIC, on MY OWN POST, of two eldritch MONSTERS upset because their voices didn’t sound ‘as horrific’ as the ‘monsters’ around them, and bonding over it together. nowhere in this fanfiction was being trans mentioned.

this is, quite possibly, the most horrifying thing someone has added to one of my posts and going beyond dehumanizing my experiences as a trans man enjoying my voice getting deeper, but also writing a fanfiction onto the post that changed the context of ‘two trans men finding validation between one another and our voices’ into ‘two monsters are sad they’re not scary enough and bond over trying to be scary together’. i shouldn’t have to explain how horrible that is for me to read, and how horrible it is to see that added on my own post & circulated through hundreds with no criticism.

quite frankly, it’s devastating to see how people talk about and interact with trans men. we are either children who must be protected and are weak and vulnerable and ‘too pure’, or we are fuel for your fanfics that completely strip us of our humanity. i consent to neither and if you think that any of these things are okay to do to a complete stranger, all you’re doing is patting yourself on the back for your performative ally points while making trans men uncomfortable with sharing their experiences and talking about their lives and trying to be happy with themselves. stop it. 

[kevinbolk]

A philosophy I very much live my life by.

[greyrosegarden]

Yeah, too bad he was a Nazi.

[goannai]

was he? shit

[kevinbolk]

I’m assuming by “he was a Nazi” you meant he played a PARODY of Hitler in a MOVIE and in that same movie he also plays a barber who disguises himself as said Hitler parody and delivers one of the greatest anti-fascist speeches of all time.

It’s okay. It’s an easy mistake to make.

[sinbadism]

Literally where does someone come up with the idea that a Polish immigrant with heavy leftist leanings is in any way a Nazi

[anexperimentallife]

In fact, Chaplin was harshly criticized by the American far right for being very anti-Nazi in the period leading up to America’s entry into World War 2, and many lambasted his film, “The Great Dictator,”–in which he parodied and ridiculed Hitler–as “anti-German” and “war-mongering.” The Nazis themselves, as well as the Nazi sympathizers and supporters of the American far right, hated him.

Chaplin’s films were banned in Nazi Germany, and Nazi propaganda smeared him constantly. (Part of the smear was claiming he was Jewish–which he was not, but calling someone Jewish in Nazi Germany was guaranteed to inflame public sentiment against them.)

Chaplin was concerned with social issues like homelessness, and was a liberal and an anti-Nazi at a time when to be either one (let along both) was to be accused of being a Communist–which at the time was pretty one of the worst things you could call someone–and indeed “anti-American.” (Because, again, American conservatives loved them some Nazis–right up until the time Hitler’s forces started invading other countries–and even then, the bulk of the US thought we shouldn’t “interfere” in what they saw as a strictly European affair.)

Even after the war, and even after the world realized the despicable things the Nazis had done, Chaplin couldn’t shake the “Communist” and “anti-American” accusations from conservative American “journalists,” politicians, and others on the far right, who were still angry with him for his pre-war anti-Nazi sentiments.

And when he refused to participate in the McCarthy’s “Red Scare” Communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s, he was banned from re-entering the United States, while on a trip to England.

In short, Chaplin’s ANTI-NAZI leanings made him so many enemies in the US that they set off a chain of events that eventually saw him kicked out of the country. Oh, sure, the US finally issued a formal apology and invited him back, but by that time, his response was pretty much, “Yeah, too little, too late.” And justifiably so.

Chaplin stood against everything the Nazis stood for, and was smeared and punished for it.

So don’t you fucking dare call Charlie Chaplin a Nazi. 

Dishonor on you. Dishonor on your family. Dishonor on your cow.

[stele3]

The Nazis hated Charlie Chaplin so much they listed him in their Big Book of Jewish Enemies, despite him being gentile. No, really: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579971/Nazi-propaganda-book-targeted-Charlie-Chaplin.html

[skipperdamned]

He was also of Rromani descent sooooooooo

[greenwingspino]

Charlie Chaplin always the legendary silent actor back in the day…

[curseworm]

catholic school speedrun

[curseworm]

during the first liturgy if you slap the communion wine out of the priests hands and collapse at his feet hollering in tongues you can clip right through the floor and go straight to hell

[catbun]

[fabulousandfurvid]

@moustachedpotatoes

[metalslugx-deactivated20220413]

[saxor6]

[rapidpunches]

Hello friends, this is the long awaited tutorial on Line-Quality, Art-Style, and Same-Face-Syndrome.

Line-Quality is improved by building Muscle-Memory.

You build muscle memory through Drawing-Exercises.

Art-Style is developed over time through Observation and Routine.

Routines such as… Drawing-Exercises. 

And now for… the Ultimate Drawing-Exercise-Routine!

It’s called Snake-In-A-Basket!!

Draw any kind of snake inside of any kind of basket. You have 5 to 20 minutes to complete it before each/every Big-Serious-Illustration to tackle. No more, no less time!

Draw it… NOW!

(my example that I drew in GIMP)

Art-Style is not necessarily what you think it is. A fairly common style issue discussed in artist circles is the inability to draw the same character twice while retaining their likeness or the lack of uniqueness which makes our art (recognizable) distinguishable from another’s “oh! YOU drew this!”.

Here are the fastest pathways to attaining the elusive Art-Style:

Repetition!!!!!

Recurrence-of-Thematic-Elements (everyone is sad, robots, someone is always shirtless, etc)

Same Color-Palette used for everything you draw

Same-Tools (line width, brush set, same paper, canvas size)

or Same-Program

(examples of palettes!! you can’t go wrong with having a rainbow)

Some Amount of Explanation:

If you draw on the same size or same scale (A6, A5, A4, A3 | B6, B5 | Letter) or in the same orientation (Landscape or Portrait), it helps you learn Composition intuitively by training you to make use of the space you have. Also it’s easier to print out and frame if you draw on common photo print sizes 4x6, 8x10, etc.

Even if you make a lot of use of Blend/Blur and you’re more of a Painter than a Cel-Shader– deciding to use a Set Personal-Default-Color-Palette instead of randomly choosing them on the Wheel/Triangle-Thing will still give you enough stable consistency.

Onto the next thing!

Same-Face-Syndrome is normally caused by one of two things. If it’s not one then it’s the other: Same Shapes or Same Details.

To make noticebly different characters you have to Exaggerate.

Circle, Square, Triangle, Rectangle? Short, Wide, Tall, Thin?

Before you try your hand at drawing any Face or Body Type, draw another Snake-In-A-Basket first. 

You think I’m joking?

No. I’m not.

So to wrap up, you need to Warm Up to draw, you need to make a color palette and stick to it –or just use the same Crayola pencils, or the same kind of Bic pen, same kind of sharpie, .7 or .5, and have themes like “plaid flannels for everybody” or “hoodies and jeans”. Find those things you can execute consistently, like hatching or stippling, and if you like it, stick with it! 

Hope this helps!

Now draw a SNAKE-IN-A-BASKET!

[frogonadogonaloginabog]

Why the snake in a basket though?

[rapidpunches]

This is the alternative looks a bit more abstract. The Snake-In-A-Basket makes use of different lines going in different directions but in one visually comprehensive Object. Its purpose is to build confidence in making long, medium, short lines.

[gunsandfireandshit]

[cupidsenpai-deactivated20171221]

official hex maniac art: 

y’all????:

[heyday-mayday-deactivated201807]

Tiddys are nice coward!

[cupidsenpai-deactivated20171221]

Your url is a shitty 2000s band

[trilllizard666]

at least source the damn art, bitch

[da-moose-mcgillycuddy]

http://borvar.tumblr.com/post/165599062866

And I’m not gonna tolerate thicc Hex slander. She’s our zany cutie.

[k1ng-n0thing-deactivated2018031]

Y’all need girlfriends

[borvar]

drawers:

y’all????:

[pomki]

Drawers:

Y’all????:

[nebulajam]

Drawers:

y’all????:

[spiddermen]

this post is what it’s like to go through an unstable portal

[silenhalle]

I’m insatiable, even if my cup is full.

[jasper-rolls]

a favourite bit of speedrun trivia: lanky kong is quite literally the most useless character in donkey kong 64

he has the slowest land speed of any kong, almost all golden bananas that you’re meant to only be able to get with lanky’s unique moves can be gotten by using exploits with other kongs, and any bosses you’re meant to fight as lanky can be accessed with other kongs by using a glitch that lets you clip through the floor of the boss room (which also conveniently skips having to pay the banana toll). the only reason to use him is for the levels with a lot of water since he has the fastest swimming speed which is a limited skill at best, and if you’re doing an 100% run where you have to use him to pick up the blue bananas

he has no style, he has no grace, this kong is a fucking waste

[cat-memes-only]

“I can kill you now, bitch”

[drunkonnjealousy]

My northeastern people feel this rn

[fabulousandfurvid]

yup

[ppiixxeell]

[ageisme]

[zestyzelda-deactivated20190110]

I…. I think I’m going to do this to design my barbarians outfit for D&D….

[zestyzelda-deactivated20190110]

GUYS THIS WAS A MISTAKE!

[ageisme]

This is the best addition to my post. Thank you.