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mash is so weird like why am i getting gender envy from a catholic priest

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

fallout-lou-begas

why, i haven't the foggiest notion of what you're talking about

supermanstoddlerleash

every time someone calls a cis man an egg because he decides to deviate even slightly from traditional masculine gender norms, an angel loses its wings

supermanstoddlerleash

you do realize that cishet men deciding to goof around with things that are traditionally feminine doesn't automatically mean that they're queer, right? you understand that?

the same bitches who see a man trying on candy scented perfume rather than axe body spray and go "omg you go girl!!" "see you during your transition sweetie! 😘" "which could mean nothing!" are the same bitches who decry the gender binary and say shit like "makeup has no gender!" "clothes have no gender!" "your self expression doesn't equal your gender!" it's almost like y'all see queerness as inherently feminine. hmm.

maybe this is a hot take, but goofing around with gender expression isn't restricted to queer people, nor should it be. cishet men can wear skirts and eyeliner. cishet girls can bind and cut their hair short. cishet people can get funky with presentation and still be happy as their agab. stop reinforcing gender binaries by calling every seemingly cishet person who decides to deviate from gender norms an egg

also while i'm at it and not at the tags yet, if you use this post to bash trans people in any way, i'm throwing tomatoes at you.

mazarinedrake

Let's make it even simpler. Calling someone who self-identifies as a man a woman is misgendering them. It doesn't matter how many trans women you know, it doesn't matter if you're a trans woman yourself, in the moment you are misgendering someone, and that's cruel. Full stop. Respect people's self-identification.

penrosesun

I’d also like to take a moment to point out that when, inevitably, this sort of humor leads to people accidentally calling trans men transfem eggs and trying to pressure them into being women, ie. detransitioning, the response is pretty much always, “but we didn’t know!” Which 1) yeah, you didn’t know, because you couldn’t know for sure, because trans people are not required to out themselves for your comfort, and 2) not knowing that the person you were deliberately misgendering was trans is not an excuse. If people were regularly going up to random women and calling them by he/him pronouns and telling them that they should try being men instead, and if it turned out that some of those women were accidentally trans women, I don’t think anyone alive would think that “but I didn’t know and it was just a joke!” would be a reasonable excuse. Cut that shit out.

dcartcorner

a curiosity

(you know that one tumblr post)

micro-usb-deactivated20230625

“It's just a small handful of ibuprofen, and it will help the words fade away."

imusthavebecomesomething

dissonant-aria

Older step sibling is a fae

bareniabirkin

😟😳😳😳

squadron-of-damned

#idk what this means or if i do this but ig i'll just hold my phone with my pinky stuck out from now on??

Good question, also no that won’t help.

shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the “bottom” edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesn’t slide out of your hand that easily, you’re wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from it’s resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.

Green lines - the fingers are going their natural way. Red line - the pinky is way off, that’s bad.

theclockworkjudas

Me: Oh, good thing I never-

Me, looking down at hand: By talos this can't be happening

h4nds4ndwich

oh thats why my hadns have started to always be in pain ok

shubheshpedam

art by @yoracrab

neonshroudedgraves

Popular chat platform Discord plans to roll out age checks globally starting in or after June 2026, opting people into teens settings by def

dragonmarquise

Discord is supposedly saying this is going to affect "only 10% of users", but I really don't believe them at all. It's always going to be way worse and affect more people than what they claim.

So in case anyone needs it:

After Discord announced plans to require age verification for all users, a free, HTML-based tool emerged that aims to bypass facial scans on

sunnnmothhh

if this is not the perfect Eridian!Simon carapace idk what is

Everyone stop what you're doing. I present to you, botryoidal hematite growths, (hematite is an iron oxide mineral found to sometimes grow into these grape-like bulbous forms)

(Also makes me wanna do a take on human!Simon's mutations bubbling into rusted iron bulbs..geological horror, anyone?)

egberts

if somebody who had you blocked deactivates, their post should become free to reblog again. i'm doing the lords work. i am preserving their message, their history. and all my friends are dragging their corpse around already!!! i wanna drag the corrrpssssseee!! i wanna draaaaagggg theee corrrrpsssseee

spontaneousmusicalnumber

In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it.

The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”

sweetvantass

theres a lot of evidence throughout the movie to say that the armadillo (whose name is bibo) is a god.

they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being

they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him

he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)

miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time

they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them

famouslysleepy

YOUR TELLING ME THEY USED GOD AS A BASKETBALL?

painted-starsys

happy fathers day to these two specifically

animentality

mushruumtea

Enjoy some cute Rocky Animation snippets :)

the-quasar-hero

Y’all gotta come up with some new lines, or just absorb the information without comment.

the-quasar-hero

Like moths to a flame, huh?

the-quasar-hero

Y’all really made me google another basketball game, that’s wild.

wizardarchetypes

being an extremely light sleeper who doesn't go to bed until 3-4 am so no matter where i live my roommates & friends say stuff like, "wake us up if the tornado sirens go off, "wake us up if the tsunami sirens go off," "wake us up if that bear comes back by camp,"

when people say these things i can't help but feel i'm satisfying my evolutionary purpose as night guard. it's just easier now than it would've been for me 10,000 years ago bc i have a flashlight and a weather app.

wizardarchetypes