Hooray for wasting time!

32, USA. Married! I like crafting, cartoons, music, video games and animals. Sorry for my blog being all over the place. Let me know if I need to tag something, because I know I forget to do that sometimes, or if I tag something wrong. I've also made a Pillowfort account recently! I don't have much on there, I'm still getting used to everything, but I go by the same username there.

[bludragongal]

never mind

[bludragongal]

I should make another comic about blocking people for being even mildly annoying and how good that is for your mental health.

[jtem]

Yeah. That’s the way to go through life… segregating yourself from anyone, any idea that you react towards emotionally. 

“Practice intolerance of others, every day, to prove how bad they are.”

[bludragongal]

Congratulations on being mildly annoying and also blocked.

[bludragongal]

I’m blocking everyone I can identify who is harassing this person because congratulations to all of them for also missing the point of this post.

[antimony-ore]

Block me too then, I see his point more than yours

[bludragongal]

ok

[a-void-of-illusions]

I have no idea who any of you are. But I agree with OP. You dont eat shit so why associate with assholes?

[navoiigamer]

I understand both sides of this, therefore I can’t be blocked :sunglasses:

There is a difference between hate and constructive criticism. If someone is commenting on your art, for example, like “I’m not a fan of this”, they’re not saying your art is bad. Sure, they could’ve refrained from saying it at all, but it’s not hating. They could also say “What if the shading was like this” (I’m not an artist don’t blame me on my representation :sob: ), which is constructive criticism, and then again not hate.

However, if they said “Your art is bad”/“I don’t like you because of the art you make”/something similar, *that* is hate, and should be, at the very least, be taken with a grain of salt. If it’s wild, then a block is reasonable

[bludragongal]

“…they could’ve refrained from saying it at all, but it’s not hating.”

The original wording was “mildly annoying.”

Unsolicited critique amongst artists is generally regarded with the response “Thanks for the feedback but I didn’t ask.”

Have a nice day.

[bludragongal]

excellent tag added by @shadow-queens-blog

[thelandofmemes]

[danamongden]

"But 22 episodes is too much to binge in one session!"

Perhaps we should not consume our entertainment like an eating disorder.

[tacticaltaxonomist]

Have something to look forward to every thurday for half a year. A week to build up excitement and theories between episodes (or to yk, be too busy to watch). Time to create art about it.

[geardrops]

time to let things find their audience, time for fandoms to build up (time for fandoms to maintain their momentum)

[relax-o-vision]

My generations grew up watching the same TV show over the course of their entire school career. That's why Star Trek, for example, has such a large fanbase.

Seven seasons of Voyager means those characters accompanied me for seven years. That's why so many people are attached to shows and characters.

[bludragongal]

Guys. It's because studios have to raise their employee's wages after a certain number of seasons are ordered. They're "ordering" a regular season length amount of episodes, chopping it up, and then marketing it to you when it's finished as multiple seasons.

It's capitalism and greed. It's always one of those two things.

PS please support animation workers as we possibly prepare to strike

[maxmorkson]

If you've seen that one screencap, you know what it's about.

[hollowedskin]

For the people in the notes, they sell this artwork and others on stickers and other prints over at redbubble!

Clicky linky

[bludragongal]

I drew the first picture as a joke but now I guess I have 2 new OCs….. their names are Knives and Yes Ma’am

[maplesamurai]

What the Pirates vs. Ninjas internet debates in back in the 2000s should have been all along.

[bludragongal]

so, um, funny you mention that

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

There's more:

[bludragongal]

Whenever I accidentally drop something on the floor I say "ow" in solidarity.

[depsidase]

[hoodiedeer]

where is all the art that perfectly appeals specifically to my exact tastes and desires and nobody elses

[hoodiedeer]

[bvckbiter]

“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…

[qsycomplainsalot]

Yabushige has the best reaction shots

[bludragongal]

"I should be posting this on Patreon."

[thetetra]

If being hard on yourself worked it would have worked by now

[sandersstudies]

Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

[3liza]

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

[the-pen-pot]

IOS users and Patreon. Big old heads up.

"Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.

First, we want to be clear about one thing: this will not impact your existing memberships at all. Apple's App Store fee only applies to new memberships purchased in the iOS app beginning in November 2024."

Apple users, if you make your pledges through your browser you can dodge this fee.

This is just apple doing its usual nickel and diming to take a slice of every pie.

[figmentforms]

30% is a comically huge cut on top of what patreon already takes. Please, for future support of patreon creators, please avoid the Apple App version of patreon. Open a web browser and support your favorite creators that way to make sure your money goes to the creators and not just disappear into the void of another giant corporate greed hole.

I know lots of fellow artists who need patreon to live and keep making things. Don’t let Apple gobble up what you’re trying to give to them. This is just ridiculous.

[pocketss]

happy old gnoll

[entropy-tempus]

Transfemme Fashion - ft @kaylasartwork

Mini-comic based on a conversation with her about that type of clothing

[fancybac0n]

I've been wanting to find a black top like that but have no idea what I'm looking for! Is it just a bra top? cropped cami? something else? I'm so lost when it comes to fashion :'(

[prettiestplatypus]

One weird trick to date a trans woman Doctors hate it!

Bonus panels

[r-truth]

[gischtglas]

[hybernating-bear]

That's because this is Silmarillion

[shoomlah]

I got actual work done this weekend but more importantly I drew PAM WHO DEATH FORGOT

[shoomlah]

I love thinking “huh I’ve never really drawn a ton of Fallout fanart over the years” and then I remember her

[pitbolshevik]

im curious what's the first meme you remember seeing? mine was numa numa

[pitbolshevik]

wow some of yall are babies

[neonnoble]

Numa Numa, or maybe Badger song, or maybe All Your Base