I do art sometimes

no name but I tag as mango because I can • you can send art requests in my ask box • socially awkward but I pretend I'm not so please bear with me I'm an idiot https://mangoesandpeaches.carrd.co

[i-donthaveanygoodidea]

Little about me so that you know what you're getting into

I type like an old person desperately trying to keep up with the Youth™

I'm french

I'm incredibly bad at communicating via text and also very awkward

Don't be surprised if I sound weird (see: all of the above)

If we're mutuals, assume we're friends or at least acquaintances, but don't expect a message from me, I'm too scared to do that

If you want to show some support for artists/writers/any creative person on this site, for the love of everything that is good on this burning planet, Reblog, please

I'm not asking you to reblog, I'm begging you to reblog

This has been a PSA

Art requests : open, just drop something in my ask box and I'll draw you something when I have the time to and the inspiration to do so (I love doing them so don't be afraid to drop a request if you see this)

Commissions : not technically open but if you want one why not (I'm just unsure as to how to set up my commissions)

Fandoms : star trek, good omens, tloz, doctor who and other stuff depending on the day

Tags : i just tag the art I post, so if you're looking for my stuff, just look on the fandom tag on my blog and you'll find all the art I drew for it

General art stuff : I mainly use watercolors and ballpoint pens to draw, as well as colored pencils, I sometimes do digital art, I can also linocut print and screen print but I don't do nearly enough of that to post about it

I have a Ko-fi

[ooppo]

I cannot believe I have people who support AI "art" follow me. If you use AI, you are nothing. You are not an artist, and you will never be one until you pick up a pencil and learn. Without real artists, you would have absolutely nothing to show for. You were more creative as a toddler with crayons than you are now.

[zestoflemon]

grace on erid

[deervsheadlights]

spiritually, pre-launch grace is a twig to me. but the infinitely funnier option is that he has amassed gosling levels of brawn because he still frequently gets pissed off at his students and coworkers and his primary anger management strategy is gym. he can swallow it down but only for so long. and if his routine gets interrupted for whatever reason the other teaching staff will eventually notice and someone will pull him aside and go "hey not to be insensitive but youre being kind of a bitch. unrelated question, when was the last time you punched stuff recreationally?"

[sunglasseshorse]

Clever fox!

[seaemberthesecond]

it should be illegal for things in drawers to accumulate dust. you were IN the drawer WHAT is your problem

[comicaurora]

girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

[comicaurora]

This feeling is strange and complicated. On the one hand it's legit quite cool that nonbinary pronouns are becoming more widespread! On the other, I've spent my whole life pursuing interests and hobbies and ideals that weren't seen as particularly feminine, and when I was younger this was a major source of bullying and stress alongside some generalized misogyny taking the form of "you can't do or be anything you think is cool because you are innately inferior and to do otherwise means violating your nature," and it took me a while to conclude that this was just straight horseshit top to bottom and I could do whatever I wanted and present myself however I wanted without in any way being Not A Girl, and now it's like the exact same concept has flipped sides and is coming from a point of theoretical validation but still calculates out to "that's not very ladylike of you, you must be something else". anyway she/her thanks gang

[comicaurora]

I think it's like. the understanding that the gender binary is a small part of a much wider space of identities is separate from the understanding that a lot of that gender binary is a false dichotomy that artificially walls off universal human experiences behind specific pronouns and while the first concept is gaining wider understanding the second is lagging a little, which means "I am a girl and I like doing boy things" reads as "oh I've heard about this, you must be one of the Others who don't do the binary" rather than "the concept of 'boy things' is stupid from the jump"

[comicaurora]

just to be 100% clear

what this post is NOT talking about: using they/them pronouns for someone you don't know, aren't sure of, hasn't had a chance to introduce themselves, etc.

what this post IS talking about: my highly personal experience seeing some people "correcting" my commenters that were using she/her pronouns for me, because, despite me exclusively using she/her pronouns and saying so whenever asked, through no action of mine they had gotten the idea that I was using "they/them".

[comicaurora]

girl help I put a nuanced personal experience on the reading comprehension website

[caffeinated-chocolate]

[sparklycartoonfairy]

I’ve seen people do au’s of Bloody Mary where Grace’s twin brother is Colt Seavers from the fall guy which I honestly love but I haven’t seen anyone do what I consider to be the funniest option available which is make Ryland Grace an escaped Ken from Barbieland.

Think about it throughout PHM Ryland never talks about having a family he mentions having a girlfriend once in the book all we really know about her is that they moved in together briefly and that she had a lot of stuff.

Let’s say after Ken and Barbie break up. Ken decides to go out on his own and stumbles upon the real world. There he learns about science and becomes completely invested in that pathway. He either eventually figures out how to become a human or he stays a doll which could explain why he was the only one to survive his hyper sleep (and so he can live with rocky longer)

It could explain why he so heavily believes in non water based life so much because he WAS a non water based life form. Water doesn’t exist in Barbieland it’s all plastic.

Furthermore this could explain why he decided to become a teacher being a doll previously it’s only reasonable to assume he’d enjoy kid’s presence the same way Barbie does.

He also loves the beach and we all know that Ken’s previous job was beach

In the Barbie movie the CEO of Mattel states “we’re not worried about Ken…. Ever.” Meaning that it’s likely they wouldn’t care at all if a Ken left Barbieland and perused an education became a scientist and eventually a school teacher.

All this to say imagine Simon and Grace getting into some kind of fight where Simon is like

“You have no idea what it’s like to live your life forced to be a cog in the system. Knowing that what you want doesn’t matter, nobody caring about who you are not even your name matters”etc. etc.

and the entire time Grace is having PTSD flashbacks of this:

And then responds with:

“You wouldn’t last an hour in the place I grew up”

[magical-awesome-kid]

This inspired me. I took a crack idea wayyyy too seriously

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[monstersovka]

🌱 dragon sword 🗡️

[jube-art]

A soulsong, a bond in Eridian cultures that tangles together lives and experiences. A person to always watch you sleep.

[teaboot]

TRIED TO COME UP WITH AN ON-THE-SPOT ANALOGY FOR BEING ASEXUAL AND THE FIRST THING MY BRAIN SHAT OUT WAS "IT'S LIKE A WAFFLE MAKER"

[teaboot]

Ways that sex is like a waffle maker:

1. Lots of people have one but you don't really think about it until they start talking about making waffles and you're like "oh shit they have a waffle maker"

2. Messy as fuck and you know what as far as I see it why even bother when you have pancakes, you don't need to bother with all those fluids and crevices with pancakes

3. WHY DOES EVERYONE AT THE WEDDING THINK YOU NEED ONE

4. Theoretically implied fun with whipped cream until it melts and starts soaking into shit

5. If you don't prep ur surfaces ur gonna have a bad time

6. It's fun in the kitchen but only on like special occasions cause again it's a pain in the ass to clean

7. ??? I prefer crêpes tbh I don't get it

[teaboot]

Looking forwards to celebrating the 6th birthday of the post I made to describe a stance I was assured I'd grow out of by 13

[wolfythewitch]

Hngr

[mooned-knights]

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

[just-craig]

i love loooooooove the idea of people's reactions to the beetles getting back to earth. just imagine:

teenagers citing his videos and data as primary sources on their school projects (how do you make an mla citation for a home video filmed in space?)

grace's final goodbye to earth getting billions of views on youtube

sexy edits of grace ALL OVER tiktok and instagram

grace becomes a whole scientific field unto himself. teams of scientists dedicate their lives to the study of his research and his contributions. maybe some of those scientists were his students once upon a time.

grace x rocky ALL OVER ao3

books on eridian language and culture hit the shelves and sell out immediately

eridian culture reignites conversations about the construct of gender, eridians become nonbinary/agender symbols

space is suddenly back at the forefront of the public mind. space-travel units are introduced to grade school science curriculum worldwide. entire classes are taught solely on grace and his scientific discoveries. EVERYONE wants to be an astronaut

of course, hollywood makes a big-budget Dr. Ryland Grace biopic. it's a box office hit. a huge online movement results in ryan gosling playing grace, and everyone agrees the likeness is uncanny. stratt is the villain of the story.

a series of heartfelt videos from grace to stratt, in which he says hello and goodbye and i hate you and thank you and i miss you, are found in the database and reposted online. there's suddenly a massive outcry of support for her, which results in her release from prison. some youtuber makes a gritty but surprisingly touching short film about her story

people coming together to make earth better. trying to repair the damages from the sun's dimming, trying to repair the environment, trying to repair global relations. they want to be an earth worth saving, an earth that grace would be proud of

space travel becomes a huge global priority, the nations of the world pool resources and there are huge advances in technology (especially with scientists studying xenonite!)

the project hail mary launch date becomes a huge global holiday. there's a parade in almost every city all over the world in honor of the hail mary. people lay candles and flowers at memorials for yao, ilyukhina, annie, and dubois. murals of grace and rocky cover building sides. people gather in the streets and remember those who saved them, and banners that read "grace rocky save stars" flutter in the wind above the crowds.

coca cola airs a VERY insensitive commercial with some low quality eridian puppets. the commercial is slammed online and company stocks plummet

people continue to live their lives as normal. because of grace and rocky, because of the beetles, the sun is saved. earth keeps spinning.

[prenbyw]

Spoon in the shape of a fish. Carved from some Sycamore I found just outside Wivenhoe, Essex.

[hinako-supremacy]

op i love your fish so much i made it a png

they are now a school of fish

[emptyskiff]

Grace's bike of "i ride a bike to work, and it's not for exercise" fame