Foolish Slut

pfp by NightThinker on bsky Lyca || He/They || Transmasc Lesbean 🏳️‍🌈 || 29 || Black I just reblog stuff I like here & sometimes post art.

[lycapicta]

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@Lyca96 | Linktree

just a 28 year old lesbian that enjoys drawing and writing about gays

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[smallpwbbles]

Dude, people are using ASK BOXES to spoil TADC for people. I just got one, and it was a summary of the ENTIRE episode. I'd recommend turning off your asks for a bit. If not, be careful when scrolling through your inbox.

Holy SHIT dude I am so sorry about that, people are inSANE! Thank you for the warning

[trashredpanda]

Mcvadi sketchpage :3c plus an extra no shirt Cass under the cut because i couldn't resist uwu

[dappermouth]

i can understand the trials but were the tribulations really necessary

[kisses4floyd]

to the white people of the digital circus fandom...michael kovach's apology is not yours to accept.

[lycapicta]

Some sweet bunnydoll bc the jax ships are growing on me a bit (especially funnybunnydoll so may draw that in the future)

[lycapicta]

Been playing around with my Jax design again and falling into the pit of actually really liking funnybunny

[octonerd]

In stars..and time *cheers*

[courtmartialme]

INTEREST CHECK ‼️

do you LOVE transmasc riza?? do you LOVE all the rizas i've been sharing since i first started posting about FMA, almost 8 years ago? do you want me carnally(optional)?

i've decided i want to open a GFM-like thing(maybe ko-fi, since GFM doesn't work in brazil) for donations to gather funds for my top surgery!!!🥳🥳🥳 if you ever found yourself grateful for the rizas i share and wish you could show your gratitude in a way other than your support by interacting with me and my stuff, this is for you!!!

i'm still planning things out, checking with my insurance plan and talking to different surgeons to see how much it's going to cost in total. but the surgery alone tends to be somewhere between 15.000~30.000 BRL (around 3.000~6.000 USD), which is around 10 to 20 months of minimum wage in brazil. 🛌

i've been living alone with my cat since late 2023, and i currently have a job that keeps me away from home for 12 hours a day. I try to do commissions every once in a while, but it's not something i can always rely on given my life condition. but i still want to offer some incentive for whoever CAN and WANTS to support me! WHICH LEADS TO THE POINT OF THIS POST!

i'm planning on organizing a few things to put up for sale to incentive donations, those are:

TRANSMASC RIZA ZINE: compilation of my transmasc riza art + unposted sketches + new exclusive drawings + maybe some writing and other thoughts? + guest art/writing from my friends!

GENERAL RIZA/ROYAI/RIZA SHIPS COMPILATION: big ass PDF with most of my art from since i first started drawing FMA (2018) until now + sketches/whatever i never posted/posted and deleted(lol)/tomochingus lost media/whatever + notes and thoughts??? idk

RIZA/ROYAI/RIZA SHIPS COMPILATION NSFW EDITION🔥🔥🔥: self explanatory? curated compilation of my nsfw stuff which i kinda have a lot of but i never liked sharing LOL

that's pretty much what i have in mind, and i plan on working on this plan once i'm done with my current owed art before making an actual elaborate post with all the necessary info and details! for now I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. If the zines are something you'd want, or if you feel there's something more interesting to you that i could offer :] feel free to send an ask!

i'd appreciate if you could vote on this poll so i can have an idea of your interest!

would you be interested in supporting my top surgery journey, and do the "rewards" appeal to you?

i'd donate regardless of the zines/compilations

i'm only interested in getting the zines/compilations

i wouldn't be able to support financially

i'd be interested in a different "reward" (do tell me!)

Voting ended onApr 4

thank you for reading until here, and for your support as always ^_^

[shitilyposting]

"I don't wanna bother you"

Have you considered that this is how your presence feels?

[lycapicta]

Postin more self-indulgent soft ragapom bc i can

[soulful-roses]

Racism, whitewashing, and colorism are inexcusable.

It is especially inexcusable when multiple people have called it out on your official merchandise, and when a black fan attempts to contextualize and address the issue, they are blocked and ignored.

Adrienne Insertdisc5. What are you doing?

Alienating your fans of color, only addressing issues in vague, nebulous terms, and most importantly, spending years actively ignoring these problems, is downright embarrassing. You should be ashamed of yourself.

These problems are only made worse when put in the context of the game. This continued behavior speaks to a lack of accountability in you and your team. We're thoroughly disappointed in you.

[soulful-roses]

It gets worse. How could it possibly have gotten worse.

This is the most disingenuous, blame-dodging, insincere, not even APOLOGY thing i've ever read.

The comments are full of people asking about Bitter but the only response to it has been "Oh some people were mean :(". Actively choosing to lash out at one of the few open fans of color about your game-someone who took time out of their lives to MODERATE for you, mind-goes beyond words.

I'm sick of you and your shitty behavior, Adrienne. If you were actually interested in doing better, you would not have gone out of your way to ignore the actual problem (whitewashing), and you would not have hurt someone who has been in your fandom for so many years. You're disgusting.

[the-bitter-ocean]

ISAT yetee merchandise has an ongoing issue with the visibly darker skinned characters of color getting lightened / whitewashed. (IMAGES AND EXPLANATION UNDER THE CUT)

I’m going to preface this with I’m giving both @insertdisc5 and the company yetee the benefit of the doubt because I am doubtful that this is with intentional malice, but it is a growing concern because this is a pattern that has been repeated multiple times across different products offered. Given how the (largely white) fandom space that’s curated online tends to ignore (at best) or perpetuate it directly at worst these harmful instances of characters getting their features erased … the last thing I expected was it happening in a official setting that was in *theory* looked over by the dev directly and approved. Given how the game writing makes the effort to represent the different characters and their culture in a way that felt respectful it felt, hurtful to say the least.

Many people in the fandom including myself have made posts directly commentating on this issue (that happens in fanart very commonly but now also in official merch), as well as emailed yetee and were essentially given the default (sorry, we can’t help at this time) regarding the products coming out lighter. In contrast the poster ( which is on the very same post as the whitewashed keychains and released at the exact same time as a bundle) the timing of it getting fixed for anatomical errors with the hands was handled the next day. When looking at the post I could see that there were plenty of tags, rbs and comments talking of the merch drop that happened on February 9-10 were people expressing their feelings regarding not wanting the characters to be whitewashed. Zero response.

The following photos given I’ve changed to pure grayscale solely so we can gage the values without getting distracted by red or blue tint from the photos. It goes as follows:

Now this isn’t to say that every single instance of isat merch of the characters were all lightened. Some of them like metal pins of the entire group are on model:

And even with the case of the poster or the notecard that came with the mirror photo, the skintones while not completely accurate are at least clear that both Bonnie and mirabelle werent lightened at all and are darker than their canon in game sprites. I’d rather have the characters be a tad darker than average than lightened or having features removed:

It’s clear that rather than the artist themselves of the merch doing the whitewashing, it’s due to whatever printer yetee has making the skintones far lighter than it should and that’s a problem. It’s misrepresenting the characters as well as the artists who worked hard to actually be on model to begin with. To me the solution is if you know the printer will print values lighter, you need to make the scans darker in post before delivery to compensate. Actually do multiple tests in person to check for consistency and quality instead of just rely on the display photo and hoping for the best.

I want everyone in this community ( especially those of color like myself) to feel represented and safe in the fandom space we’re in. I know some people have expressed fear of criticizing anything related to the game, because they didn’t want to come across as mean spirited or ruining the vibes or afraid of being on the receiving backlash/ hate from people when expressing anything less then 100% positive of a popular creator of work, but I didn’t want this to just get buried and forgotten or go unaddressed. If it’s not talked about and given the chance to fix it properly, we all just end up making the same mistakes over and over, become complacent and then slowly the environment of the space isn’t welcoming as it used to be. Again, to be clear this isn’t meant to be hate for hates sake or bad faith criticism. I say this with nothing but love as a fan for this games story, characters and all the lovely folks I’ve met while playing.

[buried-prose]

[the-bitter-ocean]

[ IMAGE DESCRIPTION: a of a screenshot of the tags written by @/openphrase123 :

#as someone that works in print the reason the enamel pieces are always correct is because you have to pick out specific paint swatches #whereas for acrylic stands you're at the whims of the printer being calibrated correctly #and sometimes the light on the acrylic will bounce off to make its contents slightly brighter #which is NOT an excuse because if this happens in the test prints you need to adjust the artwork slightly darker to compensate

#which is likely why there are a few printed merch pieces that come out a tone or two darker than is normal

#and these are all industry standard issues that are known and documented and have workarounds #so this is not an excuse but an explanation and a side eye because the yetee should know how to deal with this

#idk what id5's contract is with them and what correction powers they have but it is disappointing that she doesn't at least address it

#but again i haven't seen the contract so i can't say how much in the wrong id5 individually is on this one

#but yes op is right. the solution is to print slightly darker and do print testing for things like this #and it's strange that it doesn't seem to be done at all

#if a company can be pissed that their logo is a couple hexcodes off their corporate colors (i've had clients like this

#then it would be nice to have that same revision energy towards people's skin tones

/END ID.]

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[lycapicta]

long time no see for my butch pommy design. been having a surge of muse for drawing the girlies all of a sudden.

[lycapicta]

Decided to go over these with my technical pens just bc

[lycapicta]

Some more butch pommy and fem rags. They're both very lovey dovey in the mornings