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Online store!
Finally got an online store of some kind up! Missing a book? pick it up at https://hlmartinart.square.site/
Fallen, Inc. #6 Lurking in Shadows is here!!
Happy Halloween!
Even though I rarely do fanart for whatever reason I just needed to doodle her!
Happy Halloween~!🎃
*SIGNAL BOOST PLEASE*
I am looking for an Andrea Duncan and a Shannon Douglas that went to St. Andrews Public School in Cambridge, Ontario circa 2007. Please reply to this post if you have any info about them!
Something just occurred to me.
You know how back in the pre-Internet days, it was nearly impossible to watch a TV series in its entirety because the local affiliate stations would deliberately air the episodes all out of order, then do some sort of statistical sorcery to figure out which particular episodes gave the advertisers the best return for their dollar and just run those ten or twelve specific episodes in an endless semi-randomised rotation, and that was why every time you channel-surfed across a particular show it always seemed to be the same damn episode?
Twitter’s algorithm is literally the social media equivalent of that.
In middle/high school I put all the music I had on an off-brand mp3 player and would just set it to Shuffle All. I quickly realized the player’s shuffle fuction wasn’t purely random–it was weighted towards my favorite songs (aka the songs with the most plays).
Only I had never chosen those songs. They were just the random few to pop up the first time I shuffled everything, and they started playing more and more frequently as this horribly short-sighted algorithm fed itself bad data, until I was so annoyed at those few songs that I stopped listening entirely.
Anyway a few years later Facebook did the exact same thing with my friends list, siphoning me off from seeing most of my feed because OBVIOUSLY I interacted with them the most, therefore they must be my besties. But really they were just the only people showing up for me to interact with in the first place, until I was down to just a few people I never really talked to from high school, a college prof, and my racist uncle I kept calling out.
And shortly after that, YouTube followed suit, replacing “Subscriptions” with “Recommended” as the default category, and trying to find “things I liked” when it was really just whatever three channels I’d watched last, whatever unrelated viral vid it wanted to push that week, and weird perennials like Whose Line clips or lockpick reviews or YTPs that seem to hibernate for months at a time then return like locusts.
All this to say: the big mysterious algorithms that now run all the major platforms on the internet are never acting in your best interests. They’re just that junky mp3 player’s Shuffle All with a fresh coat of paint, and, to be clear, this is by design. They are VERY good at what they do, which is funneling users into nice predictable pockets of content that advertisers can exploit.
Greetings, Friendos! I finally made an Etsy and have a ton of backstock of my comic series I'd love to get rid of before reprinting! So presenting the Fallen, Inc. Fall Sale!! Hit me up on www.etsy.com/shop/Coyotlhart ~~
Beautiful rain and two lucky pennies on my walk this New Year's Morning! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm4kwEFP2nH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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You know what I hate about toxic heterosexual culture? The way others try and force it on people.
Like, heterosexuals are so used to it that they just....do that, to other couples, usually younger ones.
My partner and I are read as straight as treated as some sort of willing participants in this.
Like the other night, after dinner at family's house I started collecting dishes to wash them, because I'm at someone's house and that is how I was raised.
Now, boyfriend knows I'm allergic to dishsoap so he comes up and insists on doing it for me, I'm grateful and pick up a towel to dry the dishes. It was a nice moment actually, he's seen me break out in rashes and itchy awful hive things that stick around for weeks.
But to the older heterosexual couples it became fodder for how I "owned" him, he was whipped and down trodden etc. When I said, meekly (I was a little taken aback by the "haha you volunteer to do the dishes and then make him do it" when I hadn't even volunteered, I was just quietly collecting dishes and starting the process) said that he had insisted, the joke became about how he probably vaguely suggested and I pounced on it or that he would be in "big trouble" if he didn't suggest it.
I didn't bother saying I was allergic to dishsoap, I've been saying that since I was 10 and no one believed me, I could already had the jokes they would make about the "allergy", so I just shut up and kept wiping dishes and putting them away.
But this isn't new, my last relationship was also previously read as cis/het and it was always like, if I asked my partner to do anything for me it was met with "see if you can get your balls out of her purse while you're at it".
Like if the hets wanna have this culture, fine, do you. If you want to act like any kindness or request is emasculating servitude and that women are harpies, whatever. But don't try and push your miserable dynamics onto everyone else.
I look forward to a cultural shift when it comes to this. The amount of times I've had to tell older women that I like hanging out with my husband only to see their shock is
sad
I have to deal with toxic masculinity Every. Fucking. Day. because apparently I can't help or do anything for my wife without a million questions to see if I'm whipped. Like why would marry someone and not lift a finger for them
This. My boyfriend is very helpful and does his share of chores, and often more depending on my mobility. His care, kindness and consideration is because we love each other, his desire to do the dishes was not out of fear, but out of love because he doesn't like seeing me with blisters on my fingers.
The kindness and respect that couples show to each other should not be subject to mockery just because it looks unfamiliar.
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“everything will be okay”: shallow and dismissive comfort that establishes impossible goal an indefinite future away
“in two weeks you will have different problems”: so true bestie the human experience
Happy Halloween!
I am so excited that the largest of the pumpkins I grew in my garden lasted long enough to become a jack o' lantern this year!! 🎃 https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZl4UwJP9a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Everyone look at my turtle lamp and weep for how precious he is
[Image description: Three photos of a turtle lamp with a stained glass shell. The light within the turtles shell is off in the first photo and on in the second and third photos, giving off an orange-yellow light from the semi-transparent glass shell. End description.]
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At last the okra we pickled was ready for tasting! 😋 They came out delicious! https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLeMSZpt3H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
First harvest! 🎃 https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCpaJMvqcx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=