Mary's Atelier

Hiya, I'm Mary and I love my OCs! ✿ Art ✿ OCs ✿ FFXIV ✿ Turtles ✿

[butch-tradwife]

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

[sabertoothwalrus]

as much as I mourn the presence of aesthetic blogs on tumblr, it was absolutely true that the vast majority of posts were images taken without credit or permission. so it doesn't surprise me at all that now, almost any kind of post with a minimal caption, maybe even linked and "credited", is ai.

I think it'd be worth reminding people to be diligent, to prioritize sharing images/videos you KNOW for a fact that the OP created. art, photography, cat videos, memes, etc. honestly, even if you DO know the art was created by a real person, you don't know if that artist was ok with it being shared on a website they don't have an account on

[npd-vriska]

for those wanting to find images that are free to use AND credited, i cannot recommend ccsearch enough!

i used it a lot when i was really into digital collage, it's a portal to different search engines allowing you to find works under the creative commons license easily :D

[mirukimary]

Well hi, long time no see!

I want to try and slowly come back to tumblr. I was completelly out of spoons for the past months (YEAR?? IT HAS BEEN OVER A YEAR???), so managing any more than bsky & its bullshit was not a possibility for me. But I'm getting better (slowly)!

Expect a new pinned soon :>

[yum505]

Cringetober 22: F2u Base

!!!! Base by @mirukimary !!!!

(I used a random color palette so she kind of accidentally turned into Rarity)

[catwings213]

He is risen

[rooksunday]

hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one

[non-un-topo]

Folks in the UK, could we have some trusted links to charities?

[raedear]

There's Mermaids which is always a great option, and then Scotland-specific there's LGBT Youth Scotland, to give you just a couple. There will absolutely be more that other people can suggest though!

[ramyeonguksu]

So. FFXIV released a new mogstation outfit that's Korean called the Far Eastern Performer's Attire. Yippee! Pungmulnori is one of my favorite things about Korean culture so I was very happy that it's an outfit I could wear in the game

Except

Why the fuck is it called Hingan?

Hingashi is clearly based on Japan, so calling an outfit that is KOREAN Hingan is extremely disrespectful to the history between the two nations, being Japan's attempt to erase Korean identity/culture during their occupation of Korea before and during WWII

This is only an issue in the English store, by the way. The French/German/Japanese shop listings only mention Far Eastern.

Not to mention that the items are also listed using Japanese terms!!! What the hell??? (EDIT: I have discovered that the other localizations also used Japanese names for the items, but their store listings don't say it's Hingan)

Ao Dai is listed in their Vietnamese name. Hell, the Mun'gaek Uibok is romanized Korean!

Square Enix mentioned how with Dawntrail they're placing greater care into the cultures they're taking inspiration from, yet the English localization team turns around and does this shit.

If you have a forums account, please boost the thread I created based on this, and share this around so that others can see!

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 23 - Free Day

Magic in Blue and Indigo

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[floramisu]

My commissi٥ns are OPEN!

Want a special piece of art just for yourself? Or a way to support my game development? Then you can commissi٥n me for some unique art!

I am currently trying to get funds for my game, Demeter: The Harvest Dies With You. Through commissions you can help me achieve my goal!

If you want to commission me, please read my ToS first! And you can find more commission options and add-ons in my Ko-fi and Website!

[endearmint]

going off the reblogs on that post, @90-ghost got deactivated only within the last few hours

ahmed's blog was vital for helping verify palestinians' fundraisers. now that his blog is gone, there's so many broken links that are going to cast doubt on if a fundraiser is valid or not

[endearmint]

@el-shab-hussein @fairuzfan @boobieteriat

i don't know who else to ping about this but this is pretty bad!

[boobieteriat]

what the hell

[ghostofanonpast]

he wasn't aware of this. @staff has deleted a palestinian blog for the crime of trying to help gazans stay alive. spread the word and let them know they have sentenced people to death.

[endearmint]

[1ST IMG: Screenshot of the reblog notes open on a post by Ahmed @/90-ghost. Ahmed's avatar has been replaced with the anonymous user avatar, and the absence of a timestamp on the post indicates the user was terminated. In the reblog notes, @/endearmint's reblog from one user has a timestamp of 6:51 AM. Directly below that is @/itsthequeercryptid's reblog at 5:25 AM, directly from Ahmed's blog. End ID.]

[2ND IMG: Screenshot of text messages between Ghost @/ghostofanonpast and Ahmed. The exchange reads as follows:

Ghost: "hey, are you okay? / your blog is gone" Ahmed: "Hey / Shit" Ghost: "not your doing then?" Ahmed: "No not me" Ghost: "fuck. / appeal? i'll contact people"

End ID.]

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

Ahmed can’t currently promote his family’s fundraiser so it’s more vital than ever to keep donating to keep them alive. Literally even $1 helps 💚

Go to paypal.me/bushrabo and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

[mirukimary]

@staff

@90-ghost is a legitimate account, bring it back.

[mirukimary]

[milfcastro-deactivated20251208]

Hey this is the devil speaking. Yeah you should start a discord server moderated only by you and invite upwards of 200 people. Make sure there's two vent channels. Nothing bad will happen if you give people unlimited leeway to say whatever they want. Several hundred people and it's only you moderating btw

[cornmaize]

You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you

[astraltrickster]

Periodic reminder that you are not immune to reactionary radicalization through fandom.

We all know the “jokes” about how old bronies either came out as queer or became fascists - except they’re not really jokes, and a lot of the queer ones admit to having been in the pipeline before they came out (some in a way that implies they never totally got out of said pipeline and don’t understand the gravity of it),

GamerGate was an entire right-wing reactionary movement that was - and this is not hyperbole - partially responsible for turning fascism into a “legitimate” position by the American Overton window, composed entirely of people who feared losing their fan spaces,

We’ve had terfs right here on tumblr dot com BRAGGING about how useful fandom is as a recruiting space,

TJLC was a big pipeline for acephobia on this hellsite in particular, when people argued that headcanoning Sherlock as ace was inherently homophobic because it was denying a TOTALLY GONNA BE CANON (while the creators were promising that it wasn’t going to be canon) gay pairing, and puritanical, and just HAVING that headcanon was saying that people COULDN’T ship Johnlock, all in the interest of a “fake” sexuality and “pretending to be oppressed” and oh whoops there you went,

We see people who all but center their fandom activity and identities around figuring out which people in predominantly queer fandom spaces are SECRETLY PEDOPHILES AND GROOMERS, acting consciously or otherwise under the assumption that predominantly queer fandom spaces are just massively infested with them in a way that other spaces are not for SOME reason, who twist the definition of “pedophilia” in these spaces until it covers shipping a 17-year old fictional character with an 18-year old fictional character, or a 30-year old with a 45-year old, or including an autistic character in a ship, and drawing two 17-year old characters kissing constitutes “child porn”, and who unironically say we should bring back the Hays Code and Censorship Is Good Actually And Our Problem Is We Don’t Do It Enough and this often becomes a pipeline to “sex ed is child abuse; people shouldn’t even know what sex is until they turn 18; you need my consent to wear certain outfits in public if I see them as sexually charged, and Pride SHOULD be an assimilationist sideshow for our corporate overlords family-friendly party with no sadness or anger or ESPECIALLY acknowledgement of sex allowed”,

We’ve seen otherwise progressive people defend literal hate symbols in fanart when pushback against the above brand of reactionaries gets corrupted into zero-nuance “it’s us vs. them so anything they don’t like is Good”,

Even outside of those examples some of the most vicious, unapologetic, blatant queerphobic abuse I’ve seen in recent years hasn’t come from right-wingers but from LGBT+ people, dressing their deep, violent, seething hatred for queer people who aren’t exactly like them in a thin veneer of progressive language, who have become so convinced that they’re the main character of the fucking universe that they think writing or enjoying a queer story that doesn’t resonate with them is more queerphobic than sending a queer person who writes or enjoys such a story countless rape and death threats and denying their identity,

We’ve seen these examples again and again and again, and we keep seeing it again and again and again, so I am once again on my knees BEGGING people to recognize that this is not Something That Happens To Other, BAD People, or Something That Happens To People In BAD Fandoms, or Something That Happens To People On The OTHER Side Of Perennial Drama; this is something that CAN happen to you.

These things are the result of the fact that fandom is, by nature, a place of heightened emotion and if you don’t know what to look out for that is very exploitable; you need to know the methods people use to do this, simply Being In The Right Fandoms or Liking The Right Ships is not enough.

So, if you see someone trying to convince you that you have the ONLY valid approach to any specific character, or ship, or show, or whatever, that your ship is activism and your fanfics are praxis, and liking something else or liking the same thing differently is Only For Bad People, that is the single biggest red flag that YOU NEED TO RUN, THEY’RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT WANT

[astraltrickster]

Seeing people reblog this with mile-long DNI pages that talk about about “irredeemable media” and “you’re a pedophile if you like XYZ mainstream piece of media and I hate you” and “if you like these things that are bad irl happening in fiction in any context that’s apologism for them in reality and you should be ashamed” and “if you’re okay with consenting adults having weird sex and talking about weird sex with other consenting adults and putting weird sex in appropriately tagged fanfics that means you support rape and pedophilia and bestiality and incest and you’re evil” and “terfs and exclusionists and gatekeepers gtfo BUT combination labels aren’t valid and trans men aren’t really oppressed beyond collateral damage and fuck off if you think they are lol” and doing the biggest facepalm of my life like

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

👏 THIS 👏 IS 👏 ABOUT 👏 YOU 👏

So I sincerely hope, if you’re one of those people reblogging this, you’re taking it as a call to seriously reflect on those beliefs and how you came to hold them, and not just sitting there smugly thinking that when I said “YOU are not immune to this” I meant “YOUR FOLLOWERS may not be immune to this, but YOU are, oh great and glorious Knower of Pure from Irredeemable, holder of the True Correct Media Opinions”

[dragonesseclectic]

Let’s simplify it a bit: No one is immune to doing evil, period. Always reflect on what you are doing and saying and why. Becoming complacent, thinking that you’re a “good person” and thus can only do “good things” is the fast-lane to the worst kind of evil: that which tries to justify itself as good.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, indeed.

[crypticarchivist]

Fascism does not sell itself of hate it sells itself on moral righteousness. It gives you a target, tells you that your icky feelings toward that target are justified (often with significant helpings of the “protect the kids” angle worked in) and then tells you that you are doing good by being weird puritanical and kinda fascy towards that target.

Fascism doesn’t tell you to hate people in predominantly queer spaces on the internet, it tells you that a significant number of people in those queer spaces are “groomers” and then tells you that any negative feelings you have towards someone in that space is your intuition telling you they’re a one of the bad ones. The end result is you start militantly pedojacketing Queer people because of stupid reasons like fanart or fanfic and you start doing things like LITERALLY BULLYING SOMEONE TO THEIR DEATHBED OVER INVADER ZIM FANART ALONGSIDE SOMEONE WHO WAS EVENTUALLY OUTED AS AN *ACTUAL* PEDOPHILE I WILL NEVER GET OVER THE RIDICULOUSNESS OF MIGHTY MAGISWORDS CREATOR DEBACLE.

[crypticarchivist]

Saw this reblogged again so adding to this thought:

You don’t have to like fan service but the way some of y’all out there use the word “gooner” is seriously making me think you would scream “whore” or “tramp” at an actual woman in real life.

I want to be clear. I am not denying the existence of fanservice or the fact that it can get out of hand. I am referring to the fact that there is a certain subset of fandom that is just *itching* at the slightest opportunity to call literally anything with a drawn woman in it “goonerbait”. Even the slightest suggestion of anatomy.

“But they’re sexualizing her”

1: No they’re not. Not all the time

2: Sexuality is not inherently evil. Get the puritan out of your head.

Like some of y’all are having the same reaction to anime and cartoon characters and even (especially) fan art that the moms for liberty types are having and that should be a big red flag. You’re doing the fictional equivalent of stopping every girl on the street to measure their skirt length and yell at them if it’s not your standard.

And I never see that happening with male characters. You’re literally propagating the same “men being sexually attractive is a good thing and a source of pride, women being sexually attractive is bad it’s something they should be ashamed of” double standard within the realm of fiction and it’s increasingly looking like y’all are being trained to think that way about real life people.

This is not a “fiction affects reality” thing this is a “you’re being radicalized to see women’s bodies as shameful and sinful” thing.

This too, is a fascist pipeline.

[mangonetics]

>"this land was uninhabitable desert before we came and fixed it!"

>look at the land

>inhabitants

[making-you-in-spore]

whatever man, you're a fake creator. you're not playing spore, you're playing something else entirely

i made this anon in spore [2008]

next time show your face

[making-you-in-spore]

#the shadow on the ground showing its actually in the game is the best part

it is very much in game, here’s it being attacked by bees

[making-you-in-spore]

you guys can’t do this to me.