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| Leticia | It/Its | Queer | Multi-fandom Ghost & Amateur Illustrator | Asks & Dm always open | Lurking a bunch tho|

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Hello! I'm called Leticia or Lê and I'm a ghost (⁠✿⁠^⁠‿⁠^⁠)

gender is for the living.

I'm a aspiring artist, i draw a bit of everything, mostly what i'm into at the time but yeah. bgs kick my ass tho :/

This is my main blog. it's where i'll be interacting with stuff from. Lots of reblogs and where i reply from, i know now we can reply to stuff from sideblogs but why bother most of the time anyway?

If you ever wanna talk, my DM's are always open （*＾-＾*）

@lepmldraws is my Artblog and #lepmldraws is my art tag.

@dtlenasstuff is my ducktales sideblog. its only a archive and it'll be delete soon. I'm proud of everything there but i'm moving it to my personal website. There's no reason to keep the blog up at this point.

Other places you can find me:

My personal website is where i'm archiving stuff and adding all my art and other things. It's still in the construction phase but there's some stuff there if you want to check it out.

My Bluesky where i'm posting my art and interacting with friends, I'm posting there in portuguese though.

My Pillowfort is also where you can find my art and this time in english.

And here's my Ko-fi! I'm accepting Commissions ATM and there's WIPs, doodles, more personal updates there, so even if you don't wanna toss me a coin go check it out (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Dig in!

I drew it for my birthday

I'mma be so real with y'all, one of my favorite narrative tropes for fantasy worldbuilding is "Holy does not mean safe"

I love when a story has the proven existence of Holy forces, the true and sincere presence of divine Goodness, and those forces are not corrupt, and not secretly evil— and yet still are capable of doing things that can be unambiguously described as "deeply fucked up".

There's something strangely compelling to me about the concept of a divinity that doesn't have flaws, per se, but has rules and limitations and sometimes those three words are close enough in meaning that the difference ceases to matter.

Supernatural power that's so overwhelmingly potent it can cause harm. Immortality made clumsy by its inability to comprehend the scale of mortal lives, how brief, how fragile. Goodness that fails to comprehend the distress its actions may cause, because it knows with prescient clarity that this is The Best Way, and cannot understand that mortals do not already see the clear path between cause and consequence. A Heaven that will do Good works through you, whether you consent to the necessary sacrifices involved or not. (Or, on the contrary— a Heaven so tightly bound not to violate the autonomy of free will that they are forced to look on in silent witness to atrocity, unless their intervention is specifically and purposefully invoked.)

I will literally never get tired of this sort of thing in fiction. Limited divinity; the way any rules, even the rules of the divine, will inevitably find edge cases or rules-lawyering where they do not function as intended; the inherently alien nature of things that Are Not Human and Do Not Think Like Humanity (even when those things are, objectively speaking, Good and have benevolent intent)

Give me more of that in Every Applicable Genre, please and thank you

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

woke up and someone spilled vanilla extract all over my dash, so as punishment you strange little beasties are getting all the VANILLA FACTS i know:

vanilla is the 2nd most expensive spice in the world (2nd to saffron)

which is why more than 99% of what we call "vanilla extract" is actually vanillin (vanilla's dominant flavor compound) and is not extracted from real vanilla.

luckily, even professionals struggle to tell the difference when it comes to things like baked goods. but there is a distinct difference in non-heat treated products like vanilla ice cream. real vanilla has a more complex, individualized flavor profile.

why is vanilla so expensive? because it is a ridiculously delicate & demanding crop. complete primadonna.

vanilla beans come from vanilla orchids. these crazy flowers bloom for A SINGLE DAY and have to be HAND-POLLINATED in a process that is exhausting, delicate, and requires specialist knowledge passed down over generations.

then, if you're lucky, you get vanilla beans.

which then require months of further specialized treatment.

the entire process takes about a year and can go wrong at any stage

vanilla has been cultivated for over 800 years (possibly much longer). the first known cultivators are the Totonac, an indigenous people of Mexico.

the Aztecs used it as a sweetener to balance out the bitter taste of cocoa. it was popular in a drink called xocolatl--the precursor to modern hot chocolate!

it is only pollinated by a very specific orchid bee!!!

which is why no fruit could be grown outside of Mexico until the 1800s

Edmond Albius, born into slavery, invented the pollination method we still use today--launching a global industry when he was just 12 years old.

today, the majority of the world's vanilla is grown in Madagascar

if you want real vanilla, read the labels carefully--it's harder to find than you think!

in conclusion, those tiny black specks you see in fancy vanilla ice cream? those are vanilla bean seeds! itty bitty orchid seeds!!! they are delicious and also a PRISSY BITCH!

(src)

death-threat-collector

Okay, but what about Saffron? Why is that more expensive?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

ok i love saffron but it is a fucking CUNT look at this shit:

this is saffron. it's made up of tiny red threads. each of those threads?

THREE TO A FUCKING FLOWER.

it takes 75,000 flowers to make ONE POUND of saffron

do u see this field? do u see this fucking field?

this field will produce enough saffron to fit in a goddam...baggie? a basket? a smallish bucket, perhaps?

and did I MENTION

the harvesting has to be done BY HAND

are u

are u comprehending

the Bullshit, are u comprehending it yet?

can u imagine. having to sit over a pile of thousands of blossoms and pick each. motherfucking. thread. by hand.

and after hours and hours

(your joints aching)

(your fingers stained)

after hours of this nonsense, lo and behold! you have harvested--about a thimble full of fucking saffron

jesus wept and so should you

she's such a whore why do i love her

notawitchbutabitch-blog

*pointing at the banilla beans, after explaining to my girlfriend that the pollination method was to push the pollen back into the flower

THESE, These are selfcest beans!

Oh!

Thank you all, i needed further explanation - And i do find it might help me!

sometiktoksarevalid

Oh, that's a little extra for a gingerbread cookie but for him fairly normYOU MOTHERFUCKER

been wanting to draw smt like this

really happy how it turned out C:

saywhat-politics

The best shot of the year

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bisexual-engineer-girl

Tango. Uniform. Mike. Bravo. Lima. Romeo.

gayhornythoughts

Kilo.

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Uniform.

November

Golf.

Papa

probablynotsamantha

Oscar

Whiskey

Papa

Echo

November

India

Sierra.

grimoiremanifest

'why did u leave this in the tags' u dont get it. if im unfunny in the tags its whatever buut if im unfunny in the post im going to be killed

even-more-nonsense

At the crossroads, don’t turn left

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meta knight hears about participation trophies and blacks out

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people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior.

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.

thisthatwhenwhere

shoutout this comment on the silksong trailer by the way

[I.D.: A five panel black and white digital comic with a supplicant and a sage. The supplicant on their knees says "Oh, all-knowing sage, grant me your wisdom!" The sage, floating ominously says "Stop taking twelve Advil a day"

"Boo!" replies the supplicant. Then the sage takes out a box of Advil and a ox of Tylenol and hands them to the supplicant. "Instead, alternate between Advil and Tylenol. They work through different mechanisms, so they are safe to take together."

"Oh!" says the supplicant, now smiling. The sage holds up a finger, saying "Never go over the recommended daily maximum for any OTC drugs. Overuse of Advil can cause stomach and liver issues; overuse of Tylenol can damage your kidneys. Always speak to a physician before combining prescription strength drugs." End I.D.]

sailor-lapis-lazuli

you have the kidney/liver backwards. advil and other nsaids cause kidney damage and tylenol causes liver damage

[ID: a two panel black and white comic. The sage dramatically says "the all-knowing sage does not make mistakes!" but then points to a hastily scribbled, sobbing artist and says "but the idiot drawing them does." The artist says "sorry!!!" while hunched over their desk. End ID]

The all-knowing sage is restricted by their medium and the artist is very very srry!!!!!!!!

PLEASE REBLOG THIS VERSION AND THANK YOU SAILOR-LAPIS-LAZULI

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