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tarodzz

so many TORDNADOS

and-fishing-equipment

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

#my art #the simpsons #otto mann #oil pastel

cglooksatthings

puppygirl pondering

neostellarjpg

homestuck gradually exaggerating and pushing against gender roles, especially in the nuclear family, is such a fun joke within the comic but also speaks a lot to the kids' struggles.

dad and mom form the groundwork for it. their designs are so archetypically "male and female" it's like looking at a bathroom sign. and then you're like oh, mom has a bronzed vacuum, that's pretty weird. oh, dad has an account on an app entirely dedicated to fatherly figures whose main interests include pipes and fedoras and formalwear and shaving, that's a pretty funny exaggeration of manhood. then you get to bro, who is basically an experiment to see how far you can push the "messy and irresponsible prankster" archetype of the big brother until the audience actually recognizes his actions as abuse and not sibling banter (you can push this incredibly far, it turns out). then you get to the trolls' parents, who are literal animals and monsters. and by the time you reach the alpha kids, 3/4 of them don't even have monster parents around and, for the most part, grew up completely alone. and then there's the whole meteor and ectobiology thing, where none of these characters technically had parents in the first place but still, in a weird way, have relatives...

homestuck gradually warps of the idea of family to the point where it is barely recognizable to the viewer, and even then, you can feel how important family is to these deeply lonely children. in the case of trolls, "true" family (notably, defined by genetic relation) is basically understood by their culture as a fairy tale. despite this, they cling desperately to the razor-thin connections they have to their ancestors, even if those connections lead them down a path of suffering and self-hatred. and even when these kids are completely isolated from "birth", they still manage to repeat the sins of their guardians in a twisted infinite time loop of causality and generational trauma, across timelines and across universes.

#homestuck #so good

wiltking

it makes me sad beginner artists these days dont have a big art-focused site like deviantart to get started with anymore. you can imagine the edgy manga-inspired pencil on paper ocs i was drawing and posting on dA 15 years ago and i still got comments and encouragement and nice words from fellow artists and art enjoyers alike that i still think about sometimes. now its all corporate social media. now i can post to my 15k instagram account that i've been using for years and get zero comments. and what do the beginners get? stricter guidelines? intrusive numbers/impressions/insights? the only way to get eyes on your art is to post reels? or hop onto the latest fanart trend as fast as possible lest you be left behind? get real

#i think about this every day #its only going to get worse from here on out #rip the free internet

fluttershy doodle 🦋

#testing procreate brushes again #mlp #fluttershy #my art

redstonedust

what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

konowar

#i swear #this is them #helly r #helena eagan #severance #ops post kind of just describes severance in general to be fair but i am so normal about Helena

abyssalzones

[guy who has never let anything go in his life voice] the most annoying part of the bill cipher gjinka phenomenon is that no one has ever actually captured what that character would look like as a human person fully devoid of supernatural qualities. white blond besuited bills are out of vogue now but people keep the same spirit alive by drawing him young and short and usually with some degree of hashtag genderfuckery because that's what They're into personally but if you look at his canonical characterization we're talking about someone 1. old as balls 2. who acted as a mentor for someone in his 30's 3. with the most pathological defensive measures against criticism known to man 4. and an annoying, disruptive sense of humor that mostly revolves around making people uncomfortable.

that isn't a fashionable transmasc in his 20's. that's a postgraduate professor who got his teaching license taken away for getting a little too into new age occultism and selling coke to students. come on now

abyssalzones

go buy a lottery ticket because I'm never doing some shit like this again