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wowwwwwwww this male character I'm a fan of is so weak and incompetent, he's a woman to me. not actually a woman though. that’s icky. let men be feminine. I'm just saying he's like one because he's weak and incompetent and and submissive incredibly pathetic compared to everyone around him. like women are.

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man you know female characters can have important platonic relationships and care about people without being a mom or sister or wine aunt right

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apple family dinner for a lineart exercise

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i miss him

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friendgroup call

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This one goes out to the leopard seal fans. Isn’t she beautiful?

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So whimsical I love it I'm crying

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can you post gay mallards for pride month ?

IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT YOU SICK DELICIOUS FUCK?!?!?!

GAY ASS MALLARDS!!!

photographs by Brocken Inaglory

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Pigeons by a Fallen Tub. Ferdinand von Wright (1822-1906)

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FERDINAND VON WRIGHT Study of a Sleeping Wood Pigeon [1873]

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Ferdinand von Wright (Finnish, 1822–1906), "Pigeons" (details)

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I spent more time than expected, but i did it anyway, yay!

A short comic about Sky, where she is a soul trapped in a astral world without the ability to experience the physical world again (you know, instead embodiment of Viktor's humanity / Hexcore / insert your interpretation. Plus, i wanted to show the importance of support not only from Sky (we've all seen it in the show), but also from Viktor.

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Rolling my eyes extra hard at this whole reprise of Y2K 'thin' culture...

Because anyone who actually lived through that era (not just mood-boarded it) remembers how utterly vicious it was.

This is not me being dramatic. The Y2K era was openly, casually, relentlessly misogynistic, and the cruelty wasn't a side effect, it was THE FUCKING POINT.

Y2K wasn’t "toxic by accident," and now we "know better." It was structurally built around thinness as a compliance test and public humiliation as entertainment.

Tabloids ran BEACH BODY FAIL spreads like clockwork. Adult men dissected teenage girls' bodies on television. "She let herself go" meant gaining five pounds. Eating disorders were joked about, encouraged, aestheticized, and sold back to us as personality.

This wasn't fringe culture. It was the mainstream.

The beauty standard was designed to be unreachable: prepubescent thin, sexually available, white or white-adjacent, rich-coded, starving but somehow ~effortless~

And you were required to pretend it wasn't work. The moment you admitted hunger, discipline, pain... you failed femininity.

That's textbook misogyny: perform suffering silently and smile while you do it. And the enforcement wasn't just top-down. Girls were trained to police themselves and each other: comparing hip bones, swapping 'tips,' mocking softness, ranking bodies in mirrors.

That's how the culture sustained itself: outsourcing violence laterally.

Which is why the revival feels especially rancid to anyone who grew up in that era. It keeps the aesthetic, deletes the context, erases the harm, and gaslights anyone who says, "this hurt us."

Because the fact of the matter is, it wasn't "just fashion." It was a survival environment. And we're reacting now to memory, not vibes.

A lot of people engaging with it now genuinely don't know. Which, yeah, they weren't there. They didn't grow up with low-rise jeans as a moral referendum, grownass men counting pubescent girls' ribs on camera, entire friend groups discussing bingeing methods to stay skinny, adults telling thirteen-year-olds to "watch it."

But ignorance doesn't neutralize impact. It just explains why the cycle keeps restarting.

People who didn't live through Y2K hell see an *~ aesthetic~*

People who did remember it as a system of misogyny, racism and punishment.

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there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.

i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”