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@greatest-abomination
Hello! How are you? It's been a while since you have last posted your art. I miss your sparkly and beautiful drawings so much! I hope to see your art soon! Have a nice day! ♡
My lord I have no idea how long have this message been sitting but I won't be active on Tumblr anymore unfortunately! You can find me most active on my Facebook and Twitter where I post art and stupid things tho!
Tfw your ex-friend send a message after 2 years of ghosting out of your life
Then blocked you after you replied
Are you one twitter or Instagram?
Twitter, although I’m most active on Facebook due to contacts tho. You can find my Twitter here
Could you tell us your Facebook name, please?
Here you go It’s mostly my native language so uhh take with cautions
Are you one twitter or Instagram?
Twitter, although I’m most active on Facebook due to contacts tho. You can find my Twitter here
Wu Chang - Default ( + Luopan + Hand Bell + Umbrella + Posture Comparisons)
I give all my UwUs to your MediPauling art and just your art in general. I die for your color palettes, too...
Aa thank you so much m8 ;-;
your art is... b eautiful! the colours are amazingggg!! you are amazing! thank you for drawing!!
Thank you for saying such nice things and supporting me aaaaaaaaaa
Straight-shipping Miss Pauling and homophobia in the TF2 fandom (spoiler alert: it’s not homophobia (most of the time))
Gay Miss Pauling? That’s awesome! Congratulations, TF2 fandom!
However, I feel I need to wave the flag of Pairing Pacifism over the TF2 fandom yet again, because wow, you guys are yelling so loudly I heard it all the way over in the Marvel fandom.
The thing is, it doesn’t matter who said what or how you define canon. There’s a very high probability that Miss Pauling is canonically gay – it’s not 100% because it wasn’t put in a canon comic, but it’s certainly much higher than before we heard anything about her sexual preferences from an official source – but it doesn’t matter in a fandom context because people can and will ship whoever they want.
Homophobia! people cry. Erasure!
No. That’s not how it works, for two reasons:
1. Representation happens in the canon, not in the fandom. Canon and fandom are not equal in terms of minority representation. Fans shipping Heavy/Medic is not gay representation; Valve pairing up Heavy and Medic would be gay representation. Remember when SJWs claimed shipping Soldier/Demoman erased Soldier’s canon racism and homophobia? Spoiler alert: it didn’t.
Likewise, homophobia and erasure are not fans shipping Scout/Miss Pauling or whatever, it’s Valve not stating Pauling’s sexuality in the actual comic. In fact, if Miss Pauling is a lesbian and the writers/artists have known this for some time, as implied by the “we’ve never called it out” as opposed to “we just right now decided,” why did they deliberately make every single lady in the comics antagonistic to Miss Pauling?
“Comedy,” they say, but why is that funny? Why is it funny to Valve that their only supposedly-canonically gay character is denied even the chance of a love life? Spy got Scout’s mom, Soldier got Zhanna, but every lady Miss Pauling might ask on a date is antagonistic to her.
Valve is taking the cheap way out by saying, “Miss Pauling is gay; there just aren’t any nice ladies for her to date,” because nothing prevents Valve from creating a female love interest for Miss Pauling. Valve could even just state her preferences – they could have done it when they wrote Miss Pauling’s dating ad back in 2012, addressing it to “a woman” instead of using the gender-neutral “someone,” a cop-out suggesting they’d already decided she was gay three years ago but didn’t want the audience to know for sure:
That is homophobia and erasure!
Fandom shipping is not representation. Word of God is not (enough) representation. Representation is Miss Pauling saying she’s gay in the comic. Representation is Miss Pauling finding a girlfriend and kissing her in a non-sexualised, non-male gaze way in the comic.
Get on it, Valve!
2. Fandom is 99% emotions. And here’s the other thing. Fandom is actually mostly not about the fan-thing. Fandom is about people. Fandom is escapism and coping mechanisms and projecting and imagining a better (or worse, depending on your preferences) world. Fans often love characters as if they were real people, experience all the same physiological responses to their favourites as they would to a family member or a romantic partner. Fans become emotionally attached, sometimes very powerfully, not only to characters but to pairings, involving themselves in these pairings the same way they do real-world interpersonal relationships.
And that’s why people shouldn’t be yelling homophobia! and erasure! at the straight-shipping Pauling fans as a group. These fans have had six years to identify themselves with Miss Pauling, ship her with their favourites, make fanfiction and fanart for their OTPs, buy commissioned art for hard-earned money, become emotionally invested in their chosen pairings, and now suddenly they’re judged as horrible people if they don’t immediately break up their ersatz-relationships because a writer working for Valve decided to say something now which should have been said six years ago.
Imagine a couple in the real world spending six years together, perhaps having children or building a home, and then one of them realise they’re not sexually compatible and have to end the relationship. Do you think there won’t be any hurt feelings? Their partner will be happy for them that they’ve finally discovered their true self, but simultaneously their partner will be devastated because they love this person and don’t want everything they’ve created together, all the emotions and time and energy they put into the relationship, to be in vain. Maybe the relationship, and the friendships it inspired, helped them through some bad times in their own life and they’re reluctant to abandon the security it offers. But now it’s the end of that, and they’re hurting and in denial and saying ‘we can make this work, I still love you.’
Imagine this, and then imagine complete strangers coming up to them on the street while they’re trying to deal with ending one of the most important relationship in their lives, and yelling at the grieving partner: homophobia! erasure!
That’s not a nice thing to do, people. Please understand that there are some members of the fandom who are upset about this and expressing their frustration, not because they hate gay people but because their OTPs, which they spent six years building up, are now inviable. They would have been equally upset if Pauling had been paired with a male character who wasn’t their favourite, but at least then they wouldn’t be accused of homophobia on top. Tumblr always presumes the worst of everyone and is super trigger-happy about accusing people of horrible, reputation- and life-destroying things, and it’s almost never justified in the end.
A little empathy would be nice, is all I’m saying.
And to the people straight-shipping Miss Pauling: it’s okay. You’re not bad people for having a straight OTP. But you have to stop arguing it’s not relevant to the canon because Gabe himself didn’t proclaim it, etc., etc.. Word of God is not full representation (put it in the comics, Valve!) but it is a step forward, and you shouldn’t yell at the fandom to take a step backwards instead. Just let people know that you acknowledge Miss Pauling’s Word of God sexual preference (it’s progress! small steps, but change is happening!) but choose to ship her with [character] instead because you’re emotionally invested in this particular pairing. It’s okay for you to be upset because your could-be-couple at one stroke became a couldn’t-be-couple, and I understand and empathise with your frustration.
I’m also happy for the people who are almost never represented in popular media and are now incredibly excited to be recognised by an official source. Good on you!
In conclusion, please remember: Not everything has to be canon to be important to you. Not everything has to be important to you to be canon. Fandom should be large enough to embrace all of us.
/steps off soapbox.
Bless this.
Hey I’m late but thank you for making this post ụwụ
Happy new year
Well I’m answering late so it’s Happy Lunar New Year to you, mate(I’m also late to that, I’msorry)
Hey, out of curiosity, is you artstyle inspired from Daskingu's ? I know you liked their art, and I noticed that there is some similarities...It's not a bad thing, I am just being curious :3
Indeed! Daskingu and Owlys was a huge inspiration for me, I tried to not copying their style though. Personally I think my current style have changed since the last time I was being active so I don’t know if it still look similar
Why...why is your art so perfect 💘
Mate, I never think my art look decent enough but words like these help me through the days a lot, thank you so much :((
Not to be rude, but are you a guy or a gal ? Your DA profile says you are a guy however (no offense plz don't be mad at me) you look kinda feminine so I am confused ??? Answer me if you have time, and take care ^^
Call me anything you want m8, I put male on most of my online profile. People just settle with calling me Cronch I guess.
What am I doing with my life.
Sorry to send you this shitty thing, imma bury myself in shame now.
I hesitated to send you this but here I go...
Just to let you know you're on a blocklist by @wangaprick
Wait who even is that though? Can you like uh..? Fill me in cause I’ve been missing out A LOT?
Hey
It’s me, ya boi, I’m still alive. Just so you all don’t be worried too much, sorry for not being very active for the past few months. University and internships really help keeping my stress level on constant high level and I don’t really have the mood to check on a few social media accounts often. I’ll check on the inboxes and mail soon since I need to check my tumblr URL *now* to link it on my portfolio assignment
Hey dude I miss you, is everything alright ?
Aw man sorry dud I’ve been busy with university, internships and constant stress of assignments for graduation next year that I just cut myself from Tumblr and a few social medias :(( I hope you’re doing well while I’m gone though*For real I have to check Tumblr more often to assure you all that I’m still technically alive and function as a human*
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