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@joysweeper
sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.
Some clarifications and an update
This person has more emotional intelligence and healthier skills in navigating relationships than most people
Stay out of the notes of this one guys.
are you “adaptable” or are you just willing to subject yourself to existing in low key background-level ambient misery
these are different things btw. actual adaptability means not dealing with being miserable long term. and being constantly mildly annoyed/frustrated with a situation but being “able to deal with it” counts as ambient misery. btw.
let this be your sign to make your life just a little more livable. get a dollar store trash can for your bedside so Cup City’s invasion plans fall through. block a tag or post that makes you grind your teeth every time you see it. get some grip pads so your bed stops sliding across the hardwood a little bit every time you get in it. tell that person you need a little more support. if you get annoyed at a situation more than a couple times, change it. don’t be content with being miserable.
and the more that you start doing this, the better you will get at detecting your own feelings and advocating for yourself! This is an important start to being more of a person in the world if you struggle with that
What made you want to comic about a cultist breaking out of her mindset?
I grew up republican.
Weirdly enough I wasn’t religious. I grew up in a completely secular family that treated politics like religion, and very strongly so. Phanto has religious overtones because the imagery softens the starkness of it all for me. I’m still not religious, but I love me some pretty churches and cool gods.
But yeah. The concept of “is this person really your enemy? or do the rules just say they are? who made the rules and why?” is a huge part of Phantomarine. It encompasses basically everything I’ve had to wrestle with over the last 20 years. It’s very hard to be a well-socialized person when you think you have enemies everywhere. And when the whole world is at stake, it’s time to find out who could be a surprising friend.
I could break it down more someday but that’s the jist ✌️
Jerin Whistler and Eldest Whistler sister from A Brother's Price.
you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:
Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more
Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock
Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.
Have a little glass of wine
Take as long as you feel like for lunch
Deeply understand that work doesn't matter
Make sure your boss your boss knows they're always your second priority ❤️
🗣️ Hey, young Americans:
Old Millennial American speaking here. I need you to adopt this mentality as early as possible and hold to it. The older you get, the harder it is to begin this practice and claw back the extremely unhealthy effects of a workaholic lifestyle. I am speaking from 20 years of experience.
This does not mean having a shitty attitude at work, or not doing your job, or relying on co-workers to carry your water.
This means you do what it says above. It also means not making work and productively your entire personality; not tying your productivity to your value; and not becoming so emotionally enmeshed in your work and workplace so that you are living and dying by what happens there.
Good luck out there. American workplace culture is mostly designed to work you to death. Moving against that tide can be challenging, so having a healthy mindset is important to living a life not consumed by your paid labor.
It’s really fun to be
1. dedicated to Playing Nice with others, and helping others get along
And also
2. notorious for Taking No Shit
Because people will be foul and nasty to each other and then I insert myself like “hello all of my Friends how is everyone today :) is everyone feeling Kind?”
Nobody tries to convince me they’re right. Nobody tries to get me on their side. They know I Take No Shit. Everybody just Plays Nice until I’m gone.
If only they would realize that they can Play Nice and also Take No Shit. It’s possible.
Play Nice is about being civil, not being a doormat.
Take No Shit is about setting reasonable boundaries, not being mean.
I’m gentle parenting a bunch of adults.
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It is like. Shockingly difficult to argue with someone who is both dedicated to being courteous but also not moving an inch. It’s easy to be mad at them obviously but it’s difficult to argue.
I’m living life with everybody mad at me and nobody arguing with me. And if you never argue with me well then as far as I know we are Friends and I’m going to continue to treat you like a Friend.
You might think Clarity and Kindness can’t piss you off but oh what if you want to fight what if you want to fight SO bad and I don’t give it to you? I’ll let my Clarity and Kindness be the worst thing about me.
You understand. Making people say what they mean really can shock them.
Asking “what action can I take to help you right now?” in the middle of a string of complaints stops them cold in a similar way. They can’t just keep saying things they are upset about, they have to be part of the solution.
"You were not born with venom in your veins."
- @voiceofobrien
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Commission ✨
Maybe I should also add... ✨ THE DETAILS ✨.
I crafted two small spellbooks for this piece.
And overdyed/stained the ribbons with ink so they'd be more orange and purple.
Of course there's a Frumpkin (or two)
And while I didn't have a bead that said "hot boi", I did have...
Literary criticism terms I use on this blog despite making them up myself, much to the chagrin of anyone who does not have my back catalog memorized:
are we the baddies: SFF subgenre focused on agents of an imperial power realizing that and grappling with what to do next, in contrast to stories focusing on the scrappy rebels resisting said imperial power
I could fix him (the empire): SFF subgenre where the colonized subject being nice and/or sexy enough Ends Colonialism, frequently tied to the John President of Racism problem
librarian bait: books centered on the transformative life-changing power of books and libraries, cousin to books focused on the transformative life-changing power of storytelling and narrative in general
college brochure fiction: stories where the protagonist has an artfully arranged group of diverse friends who are as flat as paper and whose cultural backgrounds never come up meaningfully
the Dave Strider: character the fandom fixates on to the detriment of everything else, until the weight of that attention warps fanon and sometimes even canon around them. almost always male. it's happening to Gurathin from Murderbot right now
#OP tell us more about the John President of Racism problem!
It hails from an immortal tumblr post by penultimate-step, except not immortal apparently because I get 'not found' when I try to go back to the original. So here's the text:
It's always disappointing when a series makes a big deal about societal and structural problems in it's setting, making readers think it has interesting things to say about the subject, only to then resolve the problems by fighting The CEO of Racism, John Racist, so that all of society's problems would then get better because they promoted a new CEO.
I went—not overseas, but by public transport—to Corpus to hear Tamsyn Muir speak.
The bad news: Alecto is not finished. It will hopefully come out "soon" and will likely be fast tracked with few ARCs when it's finished.
The news you may take differently depending on your preferences: It is not being split.
The good news: It is not all written in Ye Olde Alecto speak (it sounds like Harrow's POV will be fairly major, but there will apparently be several narrators).
A slightly random selection of things I frantically scribbled down:
The protagonists of TLT would make an "absolutely shit" D&D party ("Palamedes and Camilla would be fine")
We could have had horse plinko and begone thot, but for the anti-meme ministrations of her editor. She would love an edition that puts all of the memes back in.
On Catholic imagery and lesbianism: "you ain't seen nothing yet"
"Harrow is now a believer without a church"
She said that while John and Alecto's relationship is not meant to be a 1:1 analogue to Humbert Humbert and Lolita, there is the idea of a man fashioning (something he thinks is) a girl into a perfect partner (the question of whether that is a sexual partner apparently may be relevant to ATN)
She does not have a favourite House and would just be a regular person in the world of TLT (though she would last about 0.5 seconds)
The tension between the Houses' ostensible gender equality and the misogyny that still persists is apparently also relevant to ATN. "John has set out to make a society on values he holds dear and cherishes and in some ways he has done really well... And in some way he has fucked it up beyond comprehension" (Maybe not an exact quote. My auditory processing is questionable.)
The backstory in NTN was planned right from the beginning
Lyctors "are not truly human any more. They've crystallised themselves" and "They have lost themselves and the only thing they've been able to hold on to is what other people make of them". She said she would have liked to make the Lyctors more alien but had to balance that with them being relatable narratively.
She is dying to read TLT fanfiction once she finishes the series.
via bree newsome bass on twitter:
“The widely circulated timeline created by @Zerflin does a great job in showing how recently slavery & segregation occurred & that they lasted longer than the modern era.
“I'd like to offer this timeline as another way of viewing the same period of history to show the constancy of both Black resistance in US & efforts of the white power structure to maintain racial caste since 1619.”
https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/986427881680228354
This second picture is MUCH more accurate!
I had the exact same experience the second time I looked at this picture as the first time. I was looking like "what is this green line? Like suddenly everything is OK? It's not. Racists are still trying to push us back to 1619. Nothing has been fixed. We still need to fight. Hard!
Hiii I haven’t posted in a while. Have a baby 🐥
"I've got you."
so here's Selene's reference sheet (FINALLY)
the leg pose is a luttle akward but that's just to show how the joints kinda just, yknow
without text:
only thing that really stays 100% the same is her wings. though i kinda draw them based on which i think would look better whenever drawing her, so it can vary. only important thing is that they should be big
the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it
this is why college, modern, bakery, flower shop, fantasy, post apoc, etc etc AU is either boring af to me or one of the best stories in a fandom. the thing that makes or breaks the story is whether or not the setting change is treated with the weight of a Character-- how does it impact characters and still keep them recognizable? it's like you've given everyone a new bestie or enemy and they all have to live with it. how does it shape them and change them? what parts survive? what parts of them impact the setting?
You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.
Oh god oh no people are reblogging this again without the context that it's speaking back against the Christian teaching that love is abnegation and that true love means emptying yourself of your own desires, suffering, and submitting yourself to death, even death on a cross.
People on the internet love to criticize work posted by Some Guy like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,
Ho hum, I drew Needle again~
