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((Semi-Selective Indie Ask/RP blog for the Happy Mask Salesman and OC Sio from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. May later include art responses. Mun is over 18, but not likely to do NSFW. Feel free to ask for rules, headcanons or other info. This blog includes some swearing.))

[sacredflames]

Time to be a basic Zelda blog and post this gifset. 

I posted this a little early because of where all my followers live so Happy New Year!

[ahordeofwasps]

What the past couple days have felt like

[delphinidin4]

Tons more at the source!

[loish]

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.

[abysswarlock]

You bury a seed not because it looks nice in the dirt, but because the limbs that branch out will look nice in the sky

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

Congrats on contributing to the ancient tumblr tradition of turning shitposts into profound poetry

[seven-oh-four]

❗️IT'S MOTHERFUCKING❗️

❗️❕❗️❕OCTOBER ❕❗️❕❗️

👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻

🎃 TIME TO GET SPOOKY 🎃

👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

[titsay]

[sacrificethemtothesquid]

I don’t know if I’ve spelled it out on tumblr yet, but I want to talk about The Mammal List. 

The Mammal List is something I came up with when I was in a mental health intensive outpatient program four(!!) years ago. The premise is that we are at our core animals, and if I consider myself the way I’d consider a pet cat, I’m much more likely to practice good self-care:

1. Mammals need food. Eat something! If the Hellbeast doesn’t pass judgment on a piece of cheese, neither should you. (She also eats anything small enough to fit in her mouth, so be judicious in that respect. Food is good. Lint is not.)

2. Mammals need hydration. Drink something! It doesn’t have to be water. It could be delicious tuna juice. You’re a discerning creature. I trust you. 

3. Mammals need sleep. Make a soft nest and let yourself enjoy it. Knead it until it’s comfortable. Let yourself rest as long as you need. Just existing is hard. You’ve earned a break. 

4. Mammals need movement. Take your precious body and do something. Don’t hurt yourself. Be kind.

5. Mammals need stimulation. Treat yourself to a new jingle ball or mousie toy. Get a bird feeder and stare at it. Let yourself really enjoy it. Play is in your nature.

6. Mammals need socialization. I know this one is particularly difficult these days, but if you don’t keep reaching out, you’re going to forget yourself and start biting people. 

7. Mammals need cleanliness. Nobody likes scooping the litterbox, but it has to be done. Don’t forget your own body. Make your fur shine. Treat yourself as the luminous creature you are. 

And most important of all: don’t feel guilty. This isn’t about deserving (although you do deserve it). You’re an animal and you need these things to survive, and I very much want you to survive. 

[coffeeseed]

God, I can't tell you how much the "there's not enough enrichment in my enclosure" joke has helped my mental health. Because, for some reason I can't comprehend, pretending that I'm a zoo keeper caring for an animal (which is also me) just makes everything easier to comprehend. Like "Your head gets screwey when you're apartment is messy" just doesn't carry as much resonance as "The tiger becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered" because then I'll be like, no shit? The tiger? I've gotta keep things nice and clean for the tiger.

[tortilla-of-courage]

if you're ever bored just make a zelda oc or an au version of an existing one. i Guarantee you you'll never be bored again because they'll invade your thoughts 24/7 from then on. trust me.

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lostwolfling]

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

[judgingyourgrammar]

I took a stained glass class during the pandemic and now I have a hummingbird hanging in my kitchen window. And this year I’m finally getting chickens!!

[prismatic-bell]

This is literally why I have my Sailor Moon thermos.

[alarajrogers]

it doesn’t even have to be the trauma of bad parents. It can be the everyday human pain of “I lost my favorite toy when I was 12 and never found it again.” It can be the parents who loved you and fully sympathized with your desire to have the thing, but honey, we just don’t have the money right now. It can be the fact that you no longer live with your brother who’s highly allergic to dogs, so you can finally have the dog you always wanted that you always understood why you couldn’t get, and you accepted it, but it was still painful. It can be the Atari games or Nintendo games or Sega games that don’t exist anymore that you played in your childhood.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized – you don’t have to be suffering some great trauma, something unusual and particularly damaging, to feel pain. You don’t have to have lost your entire home in a hurricane to have lost something you truly valued and miss a lot. You don’t have to have had toxic parents to have been denied some things you wanted because they just didn’t have the money, or the resources, or the health.

Time is pain. Loss and disappointment are part of human existence. But you don’t have to try to justify why your specific loss or disappointment is especially bad to admit that it hurts and do something to rectify that hurt in some small way.

[mj-irl]

Good advice

[klinger4yossarian-deactivated20]

enjoying yourself is a good thing

[happymaskseller]

((Hey folks quick update, mun has had covid for a while now and wants to remind everyone to please get vaccinated if you’re able to! Mun is even double vaccinated and is still having a crap time with it so it could have been WAY worse if I wasn’t. Stay safe everyone!))

[happymaskseller]

((Today I realised how I haven’t checked in properly since saying I had covid and realised how bloody concerning that looks so HI I’M SO SORRY I AM IN FACT ALIVE 😅

Covid sucked, so much, and since then I’ve recovered from THAT but it did mess with my chronic conditions a fair bit and I’ve had flare ups of them from general stress too, so it hasn’t been the best time and I’ve been struggling to get much done creatively at all let alone on here. That will hopefully change soon! Just a lot of creative blocks 😓

Incoming TW - covid experience description?

And yeah get your vaccinations done if you can, because god damn I never want to get that crap again. No it’s not just like the flu, unless you’re lucky at least, and it’s so much more of a bother if you have physical or mental health issues on top. It made me feel awful and hardly able to eat for days which is a common thing when my other stuff gets triggered, but I was struggling to breathe at random moments and couldn’t relax. I had horrible headaches and stomach issues and felt like I’d run a marathon for no reason. I felt constantly on edge about anything and nothing, and it sent my depression through the floor. A couple times I burst into tears for an hour or so and each time the effort of actually doing so made me almost faint because I got too dizzy. And I would still consider my case a mild one!

How folks handle their experience and protections is their own business I guess, but please be careful and try not to put others or yourself at risk, and please absolutely never talk about this thing being a hoax or “not a big deal” around me.))

[happymaskseller]

((Hey folks quick update, mun has had covid for a while now and wants to remind everyone to please get vaccinated if you’re able to! Mun is even double vaccinated and is still having a crap time with it so it could have been WAY worse if I wasn’t. Stay safe everyone!))

[happymaskseller]

((Well shit I guess I’m 27 now 😂))

[happymaskseller]

AND HERE WE GO

[happymaskseller]

🕰⌛️✨🥂🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎉🥂✨⏳🕰

Here’s to a good 2022! Thank you to those who still follow and interact with me for being so awesome, stay safe out there!

[happymaskseller]

Okay THIS one is actually accurate. NOT LONG NOW FOLKS HERE WE GO

Hope everyone stays safe and has a good time in the last few hours of 2021! May this next year be as wonderful as possible