megadoodles

HELLO THERE! My name is Meg Salazar and I'm addicted to art. I'm currently attending art school that will help me with my habit.

[justmegaadoodles]

Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck & Peregrin (Pippin) Took ❤️ I loved LOTR ever since middle school! It took me away when I felt out of place from the rest of the world and still does. My hardcore fandom love for it makes me only want to watch it exclusively on the extended version 👌 will there be more drawings of the rest of the fellowship? I can’t promise anything but we’ll see 🤷‍♀️ maybe someday I’ll be good drawing feet but right now oh well... . . . #lotr #fanart #digitalart #procreate #timelapse #art #merryandpippin #hobbits #ending2018 #lastartoftheyear #geek #foolofatook #rusty #fellowship https://www.instagram.com/p/BsAYJ6xgSzx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=aek3i5z3gxrx

[justmegaadoodles]

My Audrey 2 that I entered at my works pumpkin carving contest! 🎃 I got 1st place 😭😭😭 my babeee man eating plant growing up so fast and devouring human race 😭 mama is so proud 💚 — all employees have been accounted for . . . #pumpkin🎃 #pumpkincarving #contest #halloween🎃 #littleshopofhorrors #audrey2 #feedmeseymour #feedme #smile #foodcoloring #maneatingplant #dangerous #watchout #donotfeed #mybaby #💚 #latepost #firstplace https://www.instagram.com/p/BpyP8M4nmFh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rdih00pr7r77

[brynwrites]

how do you write badass independent female characters without getting too tropey and making them seem like a bitch? all my life i’ve just been making male characters because it’s easier to get away with shit

Avoiding the stigmatism against badass female characters.

This is a four part answer because this is in fact, a multi-part problem, caused equally by the writing of the female characters as it is the acceptance of male characters who fall into the exact same tropes.

1. Let your female characters be real people. They should have a wide variety of flaws and strengths, beliefs and cynicisms. They should fail and grow. They should have hobbies and likes from a wide range of areas, (not just swords and makeup). They should be as fleshed out and complex as any other character, with ‘badass’ and ‘independent’ as two tiny parts of a much greater, fuller person. 

2. Let the rest of your cast react to the female character without the blinders of sexism. If ever character who sees this badass, ambitious woman  making decisions based on logic instead of emotion, immediately calls her a cold-hearted bitch for it, then it shows the reader that she was meant to be just that.

3. Stop writing male characters who aren’t held accountable for their flaws. Sometimes female characters are assholes, and there’s nothing wrong with writing assholes, but there is something wrong with putting all our time and effort into making our female characters be properly understood and reacted to, while letting our male characters be worshiped as ‘precious children’ and ‘boyfriend material’ no matter how awful they act.

Don’t let yourself get away that shit! Hold yourself and your characters accountable. If your male characters are assholes, let the story condemn their assholery! If they hurt the people around them, make them pay for it. Make them learn all the same lessons the female characters are taught. Make them fail because of their flaws and then grow as people, just like your female characters.

4. Stop letting male character’s flaws be ignored in fandom. This doesn’t mean we should be barging into other people’s spaces demanding they hear our points, but when we talk about our favorite male assholes, we shouldn’t peel off and throw away all the shit they’ve done before hand and all the flaws they’re carrying with them. We can love and enjoy their characters exactly as they are, just like we should be able to do with all the female asshole characters, without amputating parts of them to turn them into something that’s suddenly ‘pure enough to enjoy.’

Learn about another trope often associated with badass female characters here.

[feministism]

[jphcrk-deactivated20251128]

Superhero movies gotta die by 2020

[jphcrk-deactivated20251128]

Nvm they gotta die tomorrow

[bonzai-bunny]

i feel like this is greatly simplifying what has actually happened. james gunn made those tweets long before the first guardians movie came out and has since apologized for them and pledged to do better. disney was aware of these tweets when they hired him. james gunn has also been outspoken about his views against trump, earning him hate from the far right.

but this right wing guy named mike cernovich, who is known for creating fake outrages like pizzagate, and has made disgusting rape tweets of his own, dredged up the tweets recently to create new conservative outrage (and there was plenty of outrage when gunn was first hired for gotg because of those tweets, which iirc is when he apologized for them) with the sole purpose of hurting gunn’s career. 

more information about fake outrage and this whole thing here

[peregrinelight]

please can we take a step back from the knee-jerk for a second. yeah the tweets were garbage. we know it. he knows it. and he apologized for it ten years ago. like bonzai-bunny said, disney was AWARE when they hired him for it. he’d already publicly apologized for them. i could care less what happens to gunn. the issue here is that he tweeted extremely anti-trump stuff, and then vile alt-right accounts dug up old, and already addressed, garbage with the sole intent of getting him fired. they didn’t want him fired for the 10 year old tweets. they wanted him fired for being anti-trump. that’s why this is such a big issue, and that’s why the cast is speaking out. 

whats the point in letting people grow if we burn them to the ground over decade old stuff that theyve apologized for? i guarantee not one single person reblogging this post has never said something vile, gross, or disrespectful. would you expect everyone to immediately delete their blog forever? i’m not defending what he did: it was gross. but he already got his punishment for it 10 years ago and he apologized. there is a bigger picture here, and its not about the 10 year old tweets. 

[despazito]

yeah you don’t have to forgive Gunn and accept his apology but realize this entire thing was orchestrated by the online far right specifically in response to Gunn opposing trump and they specifically went looking to frame him and cause a controversy

[loony-b]

They aren’t just looking to cause controversy - they are testing the waters for how big of a fish they can take out before they turn their forces on smaller, less supported artists and creators in media that are anti-Trump.

If Disney will knee-jerk turn around and fire the director for one of the most profitable and beloved veins of what is one of their biggest franchises at the tip of a hat, what chance do smaller, less supported people have?

On top of that, they relied VERY SPECIFICALLY on the reaction of the LIBERAL LEFT to do this. They leapt on the conditions that online call-out culture has created to take down someone who, as posted above, has already done their time. They’re literally using exactly the kind of thing this post started out as to take out anti-trump support. 

Use your goddamn noggins for a second here, would ya? You don’t have to like James Gunn or the MCU or Disney, but you do need to be aware of the type of precedent this is setting.  

[bikwin5]

[lbibliophile]

Just like Slughorn, Albus Dumbledore collects people. Only, instead of focusing on those with influence, he looks to the outcasts.

The expelled half-giant. The young werewolf. The repentant Death Eater.

He protects them and gives them a second chance. All he asks in return is their loyalty.

And, if on occasion he requests that they undertake a certain task, invoking their debt of gratitude - well, that is no more than he is owed.

He once thought to add a certain disowned Black to his collection, but quickly realised his mistake.

Sirius is not an outcast, but a rebel. He knowingly chose his path, and chooses what price he is willing to pay for it. He refuses to be used.

So Albus Dumbledore abandons him.

[wizardtowizard-blog]

Who gave you the RIGHT?

[bonnini]

Dumbledore knows Sirius’s loyalty lies with Harry instead of him, and he has no use for someone who is not willing to follow his orders without question. 

[marauders4evr]

Ooooohoo if there’s ever a post that fits my aesthetic…

[not-a-bit-good]

okay but then where does Harry himself fit into this collection? Is he an outcast because he is “the Boy Who Lived”?

[marauders4evr]

Nooonono, my friend, that’s what makes this post so beautiful. Because it fits the meta I’ve been trying to get people to accept for years. 

Harry was an outcast due to a childhood filled with abuse and neglect. 

Vernon made him an outcast by dismissing his claims of magic, berating him, locking him in a CLOSET and putting bars on his window, and let’s face it, even though her editor made her cut it out, Jo intended for there to be physical abuse. 

Petunia made him an outcast by enabling and contributing to this abuse, as well as making Harry do dozens of chores while doting on Dudley. 

Dudley made him an outcast by bullying him and threatening any students at school who wanted to be his friends. 

And the rest of the wizarding world made him an outcast when they bullied him for being an outsider.

Harry James Potter became an outcast the moment he was placed with The Dursleys.

And who put him there in the first place?

[theotheryongbok]

[my-sun-is-gone-deactivated20180]

I’m here for this Anti-Dumbledore discussion.

[gehayi]

This makes even more sense when you consider why Dumbledore deliberately made Harry an outcast.

Think about it What would Harry have been like if he had grown up in the wizarding world? Or, to put it another way, what would Harry have been like if he had grown up in a world where magic was the norm?

He would have taken magic for granted. He would have been less likely (especially as he got older) to view Dumbledore as a wise mentor and more likely to see him as flawed and capable of bad decisions. He would have seen both the world and Dumbledore as ordinary, with their good points and bad points.

But Dumbledore didn’t need a well-adjusted boy who took magic and the magical world for granted. He needed a child who would love the magical world unstintingly, even irrationally, because it was a haven from neglect and abuse. Even more, he needed a child who feared this world becoming evil and who therefore would not question someone that he saw as the ultimate authority, especially if he believed that obeying that authority would keep the world safe.

Even if obedience meant his own death.

Dumbledore wanted a martyr who would die for the wizarding world, because he believed that Voldemort could not die until Harry did. Which was why he left Harry with the Dursleys and let them neglect and emotionally abuse him for the next ten years.

To get a martyr, he first had to create a victim.

[frostyemma]

well… well, shit

[dope-kulture]

[real-kit-walker]

We really are fucked I mean ww3 could break out any day and we’d all be like ”this is so sad alexa play despacito”

[dailydcheroes]

Young Justice Outsiders Trailer

[melonmemes]

The spirit of a Generation

[miracu-less]

You’ve gone too far.

[fairycloth]

I’m not kidding when I say I screamed at the top of my lungs

[systlin]

WHAT

[tntwme]

@alnoots

[helloagainfriendofafriend]

Chip skylark had a whole generation singing this song 😂😂😂💀🤣

[jxiaoo]

lol

[hollyoakhill]

do you ever think about how little Michelangelo cared

[dandraco]

All right, everyone, grab a chair and sit back because I’m going to share with you what I learned about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel in my Art History Class.

The man NEVER wanted to paint the damn thing. But the pope at the time “forced him to” According to my teacher. Michelangelo hated this man, I MEAN REALLY HATED HIM. So did a majority of people. The pope’s nickname translated literally means “Terrible pope”.

And the working conditions were awful. He had to work on his back with all that paint, which is filled with some toxic shit that gave Michelangelo a limp for the rest of his life. (Also, our teacher made us get on our backs and try drawing with both hands JUST to prove how bad and uncomfortable it is.)

At the time, the ceiling was so high, you could barely see it. You need binoculars to get a good look at what’s up there, by the time people could see the paintings, there was a lot of weird symbolism that Michelangelo hid up there.

This one? The creation of the sun and moon? God is mooning you. And the pope and all others after him prayed under that without knowing.

This one? At the time, dissecting was sacrilegious and everyone found out how behind God was what looked like half a brain. blah blah, science, science, that pissed everyone off.

And also, ALLLLLLL the men and women in the Sistine Chapel are all on fucking steroids. My teacher described the women’s bodies as “Men bodies with boobs slapped on.”

And then there is this:

Now this is the back wall. Michelangelo actually wanted to paint this one after he finished the ceiling. (and there was a different pope too, I believe.) However, originally, EVERYONE in that painting was naked. And they didn’t like it. Adam and Eve naked? That’s cool. But Jesus? Now you crossed the line. So the pope at the time hired someone else to censor it and give the important figures clothes. He worked on it for 6 or 9 months before he died.

And then the symbolism in this one is great. Somewhere in the right, there are homosexuals in heaven. (No matter what, the Vatican will say “Those straight men are happy” I’ll get to that in a second), Michelangelo painted himself near Jesus, and the terrible pope is in hell with a snake biting his balls.

And if you were to point ANY of this out to the Vatican, they will deny all of it and claim Michelangelo was a catholic hero. In fact, when they discovered the symbolism around the 60s or 70s, the guy who told the Vatican was kicked out of the Vatican for life.

TL;DR: Michelangelo hated the pope and made the best “fuck you” of all time.

[humanpersonface]

YO. ALL OF THIS^. Michelangelo was hella grumpy all of the time. It was fantastic.

However, as beautiful as this commentary is, I’m gonna make a little correction. The Pope isn’t the one in hell getting his balls bitten; that guy is actually the Papal Minister of Ceremonies a the time, Biagio de Cesena. 

See, when Michelangelo was painting this, as you said, lots of people were uncomfortable with all of the nudity (especially because the Last Judgement [back wall mural] was painted much later when nudity in religious art was even more controversial than before), but the dude who was the angriest was de Cesena. 

He was so angry that he reportedly burst in on Michelangelo while he was working (which is already a big no-no because Michelangelo’s requirements for working were mostly “fuck the hell off and leave me alone or else I quit and I will stab you in the eye with my paintbrush/chisel”.). He then proceeds to tell Michelangelo that this fresco is disgusting and obscene and shame on him etc etc. He also referred to it as “i stui di nudi”, which means “A stew of nudes” which is one of the best descriptions of a thing ever, if you ask me. 

So Michelangelo, probably on the cusp of homicide is like “Thank you for the notes. Now get the fuck out,” and de Cesena reluctantly does. 

Later, he comes to see the finished product and finds that Michelangelo had painted his portrait down in Hell to represent the Minos, King of the Dead. He has the ears of an ass and the above described crotch biting snake:

Upon seeing this and being enraged, de Cesena went to the Pope to demand that it be changed and that Michelangelo be punished. However, the Pope was SO incredibly done dealing with Michelangelo’s snark, tantrums, and general hatred of the world and everyone in it, that he didn’t want to do shit. 

The Pope’s response to him was literally to say “As Pope, I have a lot of influence on Earth and up in Heaven, but I have no jurisdiction in Hell. You’re shit out of luck.“ 

And it stayed.

Michelangelo, grade A artist, snark master, and professional dick.

[umbra-shadowwolf]

My art hero right there lol

[theassbuttofgondor]

All of the above reasons are why I love Michelangelo with a passion.  

[psychiclianna]

Michelangelo, Patron Saint of Tired Artists

[chulshik]

I was out with a friend tonight doing one of my fave things. Reading the backs of romance novels aloud. Found this gem.

This is honestly the most wild sounding romance novel I have ever seen and thought it might brighten someone’s day.

[island-delver-go]

[creed-of-corruption]

OK FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T REALIZE, SANDRA HILL IS THE WOMAN WHO WROTE “ROUGH AMD READY” ANOTHER EROTIC VIKING NOVEL. SOME OF THE MORE MEMORABLE QUOTES BEING:

“As Hilda’s buttermilk bosoms squished up against his granite abs, Torolf almost had a dick aneurysm.”

“Torolf entered her like she was a lottery. His engorged pecker pushed inside her and she felt fulfilled with sexual fulfillment.”

“Her body was like a beautiful flower that was opening and somebody was pushing their dick inside it.”

YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE READ THIS TO AT COLLEGE. ONE GUY COMPLETELY LOST IT FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES AFTER HEARING THE PHRASE “DICK ANEURYSM.”

[martianbees]

[redxluna]

@youseemewheniwant

[steveinaspeedo]

[willygurl68]

The only sign I’ll take directions from