My Starseed

Name: Karu Age: 39 Years Location: Edmonton, AB Birthday: April 8th Guild Wars 2: mystarseed.5430 dA @tsukino-hikaru

[mythalism]

i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

what's the appropriate way to engage with a fandom take you disagree with on tumblr?

voice your disagreement in the replies

voice your disagreement in a reblog addition

shrug and move on

vaguepost and complain about it on your own blog but dont engage directly

send it to a trusted moot and vent about your frustrations about it in private

bald / nuance / see results

Voting ended onMay 29, 2025

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

[mythalism]

i need you dorks to REBLOG this if you voted.... i already know my circle of moots and i have the same opinion i need this to spread across fandoms to get a real accurate sample of sufficient size COME ON!!!!!! and love and kisses to everyone reblogging and leaving their thoughts in the tags <3 muah muah xoxo

[shofarsogood]

It depends on the subject.

If they're a little wrong or it's a difference of opinion, I shrug and move on.

If they're super wrong about something and it's something against the entirety of a fandom (like, for example, arguing that Magneto wasn't Jewish or his history as a Holocaust survivor doesn't matter), then I reblog and tell them off.

[bacontoktok]

[cellarspider]

May I present to you Wheel Running In the Wild, a published research paper that delights me to no end:

This paper intended to test whether would mice would run on a wheel if they found one, to try and determine if this was a natural behavior or a stress response in captivity. They put a wheel in a protected little box with a camera that took pictures any time the wheel turned, and tallied up how often it was used by what.

Mice were, happily, the most common users of the wheel, and their patterns of use indicated they were doing so voluntarily once they figured it out.

But the second most common users.

Those were slugs.

[ebonytails]

Happy Disability Pride Month!

The Disability Zebra for the Pride Animal series is finally here! (The series where I take requests and design animals based on flags) I designed this all the way back in March, and thanks to everyone's feedback, I was able to narrow it down! (Special thanks to @yomcloud for a lot of helpful notes :-]c) This will never be perfect, but I've gotten a lot of love and joy from myself and disabled friends seeing this little guy :-]

You can get this guy on Redbubble! For local conventions, I'll be selling this as stickers with the gray outline!

Fun Fact! Zebras are also used as a symbol to represent rare diseases! This is based on the quote "When you hear the sound of hooves, think horses, not zebras." In regards to what doctors should consider when diagnosing a patient. This ends up with many disabled people not getting the right diagnosis, being ignored, or their conditions not being researched enough. All this because something is considered "rare", when in fact people with these disabilities are still large in number, diagnosed or not- a lot of disabled people even feel that their diagnoses may even be more common than we think. Because of this, the animal has been embraced by what doctors may call "medical zebras", now being used to represent many different disabilities considered "rare" such as Ehler's Danlos Syndrome, CACP Syndrome, and many more!

If you are disabled or know someone who is disabled, this pride animal is for you! If you are or know someone who is considered a "medical zebra", I hope this zebra brings you joy!

[thespektorspectator]

Today I introduced my sister to “the problem of Susan” and I had to explain to her that Susan was left out of Narnia cuz she liked boys and lipstick now and without missing a beat she said but what about Peter? Does Peter not like girls? And I knew she was pointing out the inherent misogyny at the center of the “the problem of Susan” but the implications of that question are a source of much hilarity to meeee LMFAO like Does Peter not like girls? Does he like boys? Is he Gay? Is Narnia really just a homo-utopia where Lucy is also a lesbian and Edmund is a bisexual disaster and Susan was kicked out cuz she was too straight??? Can I make CS Lewis turn over in his grave with this new reading?

[amuseoffyre]

…I mean they literally were in the closet…

[shleepy-girl]

THEY WERE LITERALLY IN THE CLOSET!!!

[yumearashi]

Reblog to make C.S. Lewis turn over in his grave

[vr-trakowski]

TBH, once the nuances were explained to him, I think he’d find it quite funny. 

[hoochieblues]

@shannaraisles

YES.

[anumberofcatschilling]

[Image ID: tag that reads, “tell Tolkien first and watch HIM tell Lewis” /. End ID]

[weaver-z]

Fondly remembering the time that a cat owner casually entered their calico Maine Coon in a cat fancier’s competition and the judges lost their minds because the cat was 1) male and 2) able to bear children

[weaver-z]

Anyway here’s Dawntreader Texas Calboy as a silly lil kitten

[weaver-z]

Here’s an excerpt from one of the articles about the drama his entry caused among the Cat Fanciers that I thought was very earnest and sweet <3

And also some of Calboy’s children!

[gasterofficial]

@pangur-and-grim

[elodieunderglass]

He is fearfully and wonderfully made!

[rainbow-lizzard]

ALT

I was about to say he would technically be an intersex king (not because I dislike the concept of trans cats, just bc intersex rep is sorely needed too) but I did some more reading on this icon and actually found the article OP referenced.

ALT

He’s not your usual male calico kitty as it turns out. That’s already cool and rare, but he’s even cooler and rarer than that!

ALT

ALT

Calboy is a chimera!! Which is really fucking cool of you ask me. The chances of having a male calico this way are slim to none, but the mad lad still exists! What an icon. I would die for Calboy.

[weaver-z]

Everyone in the tags of this post @ cat show judges

[sweetenby]

Originally I was looking for an adult picture of Calboy

(He’s so pretty 🥰)

But I also found a source for the article screenshotted above! And folks it’s WILD. It’s an incredibly interesting read if you happen to love hearing about niche hobby drama. It’s also just a fantastically written article!

The parts I find the most interesting are about how conservative the cat fanciers association is. This isn’t even all of the parts that talk about that.

People are so mad about this cat spefically because he has female colors. An animal who couldn’t choose how it was born. This is happening in Texas by the way. Hm. I wonder how they treat trans people over there?

[ilovedirt]

Reblogging again for this crucial addition

[ardienothesieno]

wait i’m sorry

people are being transphobic. towards a cat.

what the actual fuck.

[thefloralmenace]

If people could stop losing their shit everytime nature does something neat, that would be great.

[beetrootpatch]

It’s all fun and games running around Elona and being a hero, until you take a wrong turn and end up in a nest full of hydras. Oops.

Aeliarth belongs to @littledigits

[mxactivist]

Support the BBC for having a trans character in recent episodes of 'Doctor Who'

Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of Doctor Who because it contained an openly trans character.

I've made a complaint to the BBC that there weren't enough transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023 on BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)

Please note that the complaint form asks for your UK postcode, so only UK folks can join in with this - but if you suspect you might have any UK-based followers, maybe give us a reblog to boost the signal?

Reply when you've done it, so I can keep track of us!

Here's my complaint:

I recommend:

Avoid sarcasm or irony. Assume your post will be taken literally. If you are clearly joking or being mean you will be ignored or misunderstood.

Include some gratitude/appreciation. It's pretty great that they included a trans woman in a positive way, and they should know that they have explicit support for that.

[dreadlock-detective]

Hyrule Hulligans Harrass Dilf Dining Establishment

I'm playing around with figuring out tweaks to my cartoony art style for a project I'm working on and decided to test it out more by trying it on these four doofuses. I have to say, I'm really proud of how it came out. Look at how it came out! Look at the shape of Yunobo's doofy head!

That said, I need to actually go back and beat Tears of the Kingdom some time. Sadly I've heard that the Ganondorf Diner shenanigans have been patched out? Not that I'd end up doing that anyway but damn was that funny!

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Since this post will likely have more reach than most, I want to keep testing out this style on more characters and to that end I'd like to announce a limited time special for December 2-10th 2023!

More info (and a few drawings I haven't posted) under the cut!

STYLE COMMISSION INFO

So yeah I want to practice this style and other folks always seem to have neat ideas I wouldn't think of and I'm trying to raise some money to help send my wife on a trip next summer! Let's make cool stuff happen!

Details:

Please email zeratanus AT gmail DOT com with the subject Style Commission

Cost is $25 USD, paid upfront via paypal. I'll send an invoice out for you once we've agreed on the commission

1 full body character, colored and cell shaded, no background

Please provide an image reference of the character, preferably in color and full body

Either OCs or Fanart is fine

Safe for Work Only

Unlike my usual commissions, these are supposed to be quick so no approval process. Once the commission is confirmed I'll get to work and post the finished product here on Tumblr when it's done

if you want to be tagged when its posted, please include your tumblr username in the email. Sometimes Tumblr refuses to tag certain accounts so I can't promise this hellsite will work but I'll certainly try!

I'm down to hear a bit about the the character's personality and try to incorporate that but the pose itself is up to me.

I think that's everything! If that sounds good to you, drop me a line!

Guess I'll end off with a few more unposted test images for the project this is actually for!

[mystarseed]

My latest video sharing my completed coloring book pages is up! I finished 10 pages in October!

Donate to my Extra Life campaign!

You can grab the coloring book page I drew in my shop!

[mystarseed]

Happy Friday the 13th!! Imagine having a Friday the 13th in October of all months, isn't that grand? To celebrate, I am going to offer a challenge. Every year I fundraise for my local children's hospital (The Stollery Children's Hospital) via Extra Life. I would like to get 13 people to donate $13 today, on Friday the 13th!

As an incentive, I will color (and record) a page of Joshua Dunbar's Halloween Cuties coloring book to upload as a short! I will also stream the real-time recordings during the evening to see how many I can get done in one day.

Make your donation here!

And make sure to pick the Halloween Cuties incentive! If you have a page you'd like, I'll do my best to prioritize those. There's only 31 pages so if by some miracle this spreads far and I get more than 13, know that there's a max of 31 pages I can do =P But feel free to donate more if you're able to!

(due to my limited reach, I've extended the incentive till Sunday at midnight.)

[juney-blues]

heartbreaking:

girl has sooooooo many ambitions and ideas for projects but can only get 1.5 basic tasks done per day

[itsnickha]

[mystarseed]

My partner found a bunch of old printable business cards and a friend of mine who plays MTG with a goblin deck has been asking me for some goblin tokens. Thus I decided to give #gobtober a go, and the first night got 2 done. We'll see how far I go. I think the farthest I've gone is like... 7 days? into these challenges? Before I give up/get stuck. My plan is if I can't think of what to do for one, to just skip and do the next one I CAN do. Maybe that way I'll get farther.

Besides, if I can make a whole bunch I can sell them as a set of character class tokens/cards. Because the hustle never stops and I have to find a way to monetize everything I do.

[mystarseed]

Another month, another compilation of colored pages. I'm definitely getting into the swing of this, and I fear my book collection will soon become so vast I will not be able to color a page in each book each month, as I have been mostly doing so far...

[pigeon-fish]

Kobold

[zoe-the-astromaniac]

Be careful of Asexuals y'all, I heard they aren't fucking around

[mystarseed]

I am trying to get back into a creative/productive mind space. Too many days go by where I do nothing but stare at my screen, feeling too tired to even play Genshin or any other game for that matter.

So that's how I got that video out, and today I set myself a 1 hour timer and took out my sketchbook. I wouldn't allow myself anything BUT art. No pressure, just... sketch whatever, it didn't have to be perfect.

I got a chibi sketch out, and that only took 20 min, so I turned back to this piece. I'd done Nahida back in April in one sitting, then was paralyzed with how to draw the second half, because what if it doesn't match? What if it's not good? Eventually I got a sketch out, and it wasn't perfect but it was done. Then on another day I inked it. Then I was scared of my markers (this was done with water markers not alcohol).

So today, after the sketching had me pumped up to keep going... I grabbed my markers and began coloring. And in the end I did art for over 2 hours so I could finish this, and it's not perfect.

But it's done. And I'm proud of it. I just have to not... stare at it too closely to see all the errors and mistakes. Because those don't matter. What matters is that when you look at it, it looks great. And it's done.

And I can share it with the void.

[mystarseed]

I colored so many adult coloring pages last month I decided to do a little video showcasing them all! Which one's your favorite?