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[i-did]

AFTG Side-Blog

Chicano - 1999 - he/him

read these books in 2017

Main @strawberry-problems

My Tags

#mailob -> anything I post, this helps me find it

#fig art -> my art tag

#fig writes -> my writing tag

#ask -> my responses to asks

#reblog -> posts I added comments to when I reblogged, sometimes in the tags

#Aftg vibes -> reminds me of aftg

#Holes -> has something to do with the aftg holes au – currently on pause

Occasionally discuss fandom culture, especially in regards to the aftg fandom, typically get tagged:

#fandom psychology

#fandom culture

#fandom politics

Some posts I discuss heavy topics, but do my best to leave things under the cut and tagged with said content.

my NSFW tag is #osha violation and #nsft, where I occasionally discuss adult themes or draw mildly NSFW things

If you need CW tagged tell me – I do not have a perfect memory – but I will do my best.

[charl0ttan]

watching a fictional character stop being the same age as you is fucked up

[evyltalks]

he wouldn't have left.

that's the problem.

if neil ran, andrew would understand.

if neil was hiding, andrew would find him eventually.

if neil was dead, at least there would be an answer.

but neil is just gone.

[starrynet]

exactly

[basingstokemercury]

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

[ilynpilled]

a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. it is not that difficult to accept and reckon w both dimensions

[ilynpilled]

bad things happening leads to more bad things happening. u can create a monster. it is a condemnation of the bad things themselves first and foremost

[thegreatyin]

big fan of when characters meet another version of themselves and their first instinct is to literally physically kill their doppelganger with their own two hands. which could mean absolutely nothing.

[abyssaldyke]

*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?

[abyssaldyke]

Bro what the fuck did they do to Neil Josten

[wagyubeefs]

“the fandom has decided - ” “everyone agrees that - ” “we all know that this is the only right way to - ”

[antlerpains]

Randy.. this ain’t burgersburgersburgers bro

[bryszket]

PRIDE READING!!!

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[1n0sss]

Ppl where talking about a deadtired zombie au in the deadtired server (shocking) and it got my brain worms going. Imagine tim is the one takibg the pic (pls)

Unblurred vertion below

[tlirsgender]

I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror

[tlirsgender]

When they're not dangerous like a hunter but dangerous like a spooked horse kicking your skull in

[tlirsgender]

Let's hear it for prey animal rage let's hear it for killing everyone else in the world before you'll let them catch you

[valtsv]

there's something compelling to me about the fact that sometimes leaving a blade or bullet inside the wound it made is the only way to prevent you from bleeding to death. something about the symbolism of it. when the thing designed and intended to kill you is the only thing keeping you alive.

[valtsv]

also yes i do enjoy a bit of penetration imagery and the perverse intimacy of violence. if you must know.

[arr-jim-lad]

i keep seeing that post about how frustrating the buff guy -> petite girl type genderbending is, and i wanted to add my two cents regarding the addition of ‘just swap pronouns and don’t change the design’ approach because i think these are two sides of the same coin, as they both fail to really delve into what i think is the most interesting aspect of this design exercise.

the reason i find genderbending to be such a fun and interesting challenge is because, if you actually want to be good at it and put thought into it, you have to really consider the character’s canon gender expression and think about what it means to them and how it reflects in their outward appearance and presentation.

is this male character buff because he likes to work out / be strong, or does he aspire to achieve conventional heteronormative male beauty?

is this female character a tomboy because she likes to express herself in a more masculine way, or is she doing it to fight gender norms?

the answers to those questions should produce very different designs!

this website loves to say that gender is a spectrum, but sometimes i genuinely wonder if people actually understand what that means. 

gender expression, much like gender, is also a spectrum, which is why keeping the character exactly the same won’t always work, in the same way that just making the character conventionally attractive won’t always work. but sometimes, a buff dude would actually just be a hot girl. lady bane, however, would 100% look exactly the same.

[endcrys]

Things you can do with your OCs that will make them more awesome:

Make them aromantic

[endcrys]

5k notes. Nice. Other things you can do with your OCs that will make them more awesome:

Romance repulsed leading to interpersonal issues

Romance obsessed but can’t seem to ever be capable of it leading to self worth issues

Aromantic in a less obtrusive way but they’re allosexual and so everyone calls them a perv leading to guilt and self worth issues

Romance doesn’t even occur to them

[moreauver]

do you think neil, delirious from blood loss, sleep deprivation, and brainwashing, ever saw the three on jeans jersey while in the nest and called out for andrew

[teatimeisat4]

hey so what the fuck

[iwriteonthisone]

Why