Why Not? It's My Boat

Sharon | previously batdad | 37 | queer aromantic | ey/em | gonna live forever or die in the attempt | electrician by day, giant nerd by night

[mxopifex]

Want to read my fanfic? AO3 Link (also where my NSFW art lives)

I like being added in tag games, but sometimes I forget to actually do them. This should be interpreted as me just being absent minded and not me not actually wanting to do them.

General Permission Statement for making stuff based on stuff I make:

I am fine with people making translations, podfic, fanfic or fanart derived from the stuff I make as long as I am given credit for the original and your process does not involve machine learning/AI. If the work has a coauthor or is a gift, please check with them, as I cannot speak for them. I’d like to be notified of the finished product so I can check it out and be a big excited nerd about it.

If you’d like to use one or more of my OCs in a story as more than minor incidental/background characters feel free to get a hold of me and ask about it. I’m largely fine with other people writing them, but I wanna hear what the story would be before I give my blessing.

[prokopetz]

The real top five causes of major character death in mainstream superhero comics:

Marketing stunt where it's clear that the writers put a lot more effort into figuring out how they're going to bring them back once they've milked all the drama they can out of their death than they did into figuring out how to kill them off in the first place

Publisher convinced themselves that the best way to establish credentials for their latest villain-of-the-week was to have them randomly murder a popular character, having failed to learn from experience that this literally never works

Big-name writer decided to end their tenure on the character's title by breaking their toys on the way out, thus ensuring that they have the final word on the character's development, and in their hubris they believe they're influential enough that it will stick (hint: it won't)

New editor with nostalgic brain rot wanted to reset the status quo to how they remember it being when they were a kid, and the easiest way to do that was to kill off every character introduced more recently than 1987

They just had rancid vibes

[ominouspuff]

Ah yes, my favorite version of Commander fox, it’s

✨Dastardly Bastard✨

However with Fives added to the mix it’s

✨Dastardly Bastards✨

pretty muchly

[txttletale]

there's been a lot of obnoxious pop history trends in the last few years but the bizarre total sanitization of vikings/pirates has to be one of the worst. like sorry to the queer neopagan anarchy symbol in bio twitter user community but like. are you aware both vikings and pirates enthusiastically traded slaves

[txttletale]

and to be clear i'm not calling people out for liking the aesthetic or being into historical fiction or whatever i'm specifically talking about the genre of post that's like "it's crazy how most people think vikings were violent raiders when they were actually antiracist feminist sheep herders living in free love communes and operating dog shelters"

[max1461]

I think this comes from an inability people have to, like, be moderate on things.

The initial failure to be moderate comes the traditional received view, e.g. "the Vikings were all horrible barbarians who did nothing but raid and pillage and be evil". Then someone comes along and, rightly, tries to question this view. They say "hey, the Vikings were just people like you and me. Maybe they even did some things that are worth admiring, you know. Maybe we've been treating them unfairly." And this catches on, especially as the original power dynamics that motivated the received view start to fade (slander of Vikings has a lot less motivation when the Catholic church stops being so politically relevant). And people are often inclined to use these other, traditionally maligned societies as foils to critique their own society. And so it becomes widely accepted among the sort of people who consider themselves smart and thoughtful that the Vikings really weren't as bad as they've been made out to be; they've been unfairly maligned. They were just people, like you and me.

Except here comes the second failure to be moderate, when the view slowly morphs into "the Vikings were right about everything, Viking society was so much better than modern society" etc. And that's where you get these twitter leftists, who are somewhere down the second-failure-to-be-moderate telephone line.

Anyway, I'm responding to this post, and respond to many like it, in an attempt to preempt what I have often seen as an inchoate third failure to be moderate, a return to the received narrative that the Vikings just totally sucked, man. No, no! I'm not accusing OP of this specifically (I don't think they're guilty of it), but it is... in the air, around these parts.

Moderation! Moderation! Nuance! Be careful lest you become what you sought to destroy!

[jimtheviking]

(Tags from @tarantula-hawk-wasp :

#tbh this is the hardest part about teaching any type of history bc people want to either valorize or vilify and like no!! #seek truth not goodness in the past #no society is free of sin and no society is free of merit #but that shouldn't be your goal in learning about them - it should be understanding)

[bumbleboa]

tonight's stream drawing

[tyquu]

Mermays ur Kanera 💥💥💥

[stargatesource]

STARGATE SG-1 || “Small Victories Part 2” 4.01

[currrsy]

chilchuck!

[prokopetz]

If we’re being honest, most of us study our favourite character less like an entomologist studies a bug and more like an astronomer studies a distant star: drawing complicated inferences from extremely limited data, then getting tetchy about it when somebody else draws incompatible but equally well-supported inferences from the same data because it’s the fucking principle of the thing.

[vampyr-bite]

it's bruce springsteen floral shirt hours

[catbatart]

ALRIGHT! It took literally all day, but I have LISTED another big batch of minis for sale! Everything from PCs to goblins to giants to dragons!

You can find them here!

[catbatart]

OPE ADDED A THIRD DRAGON, SORRY ABOUT THAT! She was in my garage with my other giant minis and I forgot to include her. ;_;

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Happy Star Wars Day, everyone!

Leverage S04E03 The 15 Minutes Job.

Bonus:

[spriggan675]

I think adults need summer vacation. Like let's just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I'm so tired.

[spriggan675]

Love to see this post getting notes again. None of us are ok.

[lizardsfromspace]

Watching people call a UFO photo from 1996 "AI", and then someone found a upload of it from 2008 proving it can't be AI & everyone treated that as tantamount to unedited and like

When Photoshop became big we had this wave of people just assuming photos pre-Photoshop had to be real, just forgetting photo editing already existed, and I guess now we have people starting to forget Photoshop exists, and attributing the dawn of fake photos to AI?

[lizardsfromspace]

Like I was on a few forums devoted to debunking back in the day & a surprising number of people would look up if a photo existed before Photoshop, and post just that saying it's From Before Photoshop, as if it that alone was exonerating and people don't fake photos all the time pre-digital. Or even post-digital, as you could fake photos on computers before Photoshop, as this helpful documentary from 1986 shows

And now, I guess, the halcyon days before fake photos have shifted up to...2022? And people are just assuming it's AI, and when it's proved it can't be moving on like that answers that, the way they used to with Photoshop

[earnest-peer]

[mlembug]

Cottingley Fairies - Wikipedia

[mxopifex]

Spirit photography - Wikipedia

Spirit photography - Wikipedia

[leidensygdom]

Serving looks is actually one of the most important things a tiefling should do- (Vyxander is my tiefling/earth genasi sorcerer, or kineticist in pf2e!)

I've been in an itch to give the characters some fun lil casual outfits and he's always a delight to dress~

[bobalegsanji]

Soft Zoro appreciation post

Demon Pirate Hunter my ass, he's silly, cute and occasionaly a bit dumb

[eelnoise]

@bby-deerling BOISTEROUS

[appalachiananarchist]

I have an end-of-life patient to whom I spoke today. She burst out laughing and said, "It was all such fun. I just had so much fun." I wish this for everyone. I wish that we each would meet death laughing, with little regret and even less fear.

[appalachiananarchist]

It makes me smile every time I see someone reblog this post with commentary about how it made them happy or changed how they look at life and death. This little old lady had no idea how much warmth and comfort she brought to thousands.