IT'S ALWAYS FUNNY IN SILLYDELPHIA

homogenous fandom mess zoot | he/him | 21 | art under zoot.draws, rambles under zoot.posts | asks always open! :-]

[ceruleanheaven]

guys i liedddddd 😭😭😭😭😭 i actually want it 😭😭😭 i want it so bad 😭😭😭😭 i want it so bad its ruining my life 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[femmenietzsche]

I like how from the perspective of a follower someone getting their life together to the point that they no longer post is exactly indistinguishable from them getting killed by a gas explosion

[ocularmacdown]

being unrequited in love with your best friend who you live with and who everyone is convinced you are dating to the point at which you have both mutually agreed to pretend that you are just for the bit is real. it's real and it could happen to you.

[ocularmacdown]

wdym i have to say goodbye to my cat. what if i don't want to. no offense to my friends but i don't like any of them even half as much as i like my cat...i feel like im gonna throw up :((

[ocularmacdown]

watching justice league dark: apokolipse war is just "oh that's. that's gore. that's gore of my comfort character... :(("

[ocularmacdown]

close ups of the cards from my prev post ! lowkey want to design an entire batman deck, right when i'm about to have no free time.,,,

clean versions and xtra thoughts under the cut !

- did some extremely basic researching what each of the suits in a deck represent, and pretty happy with how each fell into place:

diamonds - wealth, power, maturing

spades - wisdom, power, overcoming challenges

hearts - love, childhood, new beginnings

clubs - grit, growth, youth

- REALLY enjoy giving batman a more bat-like design. went with vampure bat here cuz that fits his brooding cave vibe best, but now i'm thinking about the other bats (girl, woman, wing etc) being different species ?? food for thought

- doing this made me fall in love with duke from my small amount of research into him and now im kind of obsessed...waiter waiter! more signal please! i think dc were kind of giving him a medieval knight vibe with his hero suit, so really wanted to lean into that (ty to the person in the notes of my previous that noticed this YAY YAY YIPPEE). he's the guardian, he's the protector, he's the light of gotham. i am not okay about him...

- rly wish babs had something badass about her oracle costume. idk, i love her drip, but i think it could do with a little spicing up. i kind of want to redraw hers and try to incorporate her wheelchair into the card design, i think that would be sick

- haha jason got exploded

[ocularmacdown]

got an awesome deck of cards recently and started getting feverish about these guys specifically..,..hougghk

[corvin-art]

Justice League sleepover <3

[ocularmacdown]

eternal torture of only ever wanting to draw fully realised and perfectly finished illustrations, but this being the worst possible thing for improvement....ougkh

[laptoparmageddon]

You're now a character in media that's being labeled "bad queer rep", what did you do?

I committed a crime

I fit a stereotype

Dressed how I like to (Not they way they wanted me to)

Dared to be a person of color

I'm annoying

I'm bad at communication

No plot relevance

I'm just mean

Neurodivergent

Queerbaiting (I'm not queer, I'm just like that)

Voting ended onSep 16, 2025

Note!

Note!!

NOTE!!!

These are NOT what I believe to be bad queer rep. I don't really think about that too often. This is what I've seen fandoms argue over in the past.

[samsheadraws]

oooookay. a BUNCH of my design sheets (though Superman isn't final) for reference! :D

superman/clark kent, flash/barry allen, and red hood/jason todd with a bunch of notes and thoughts spread across the pages. important missing notes: superman's suit is revealed via magical girl transformation, barry allen's day job is based on the CW show, and jason is a zillenial and it shows.

[artisimpossible]

It's always nice when you write a thing and someone goes "Wow, I really needed this! Thanks!"

Like I don't think people realize how rare the "this was great!" comments are compared to the "you're everything wrong with the world for having said something I didn't like" comments are. Especially now that some people consider me a "big name author", the number of positive comments I get is about the same as when I used to self pub, but the mean ones are a lot more frequent a lot meaner. Even just a "this made me happy :)" comment can really lift my spirits when I get them!

[artisimpossible]

@ocularmacdown I completely forgot I posted this, but thank you SO much!! Your tags totally made my morning! I was actually just saying maybe a week ago that I have a lot of regrets around MCD, specifically because it feels like hardly anyone *got* what the story was doing, but you totally got it and that means so much to me!! I specifically went into it like "I want to write a romcom with a character who looks like me" and also "I feel like the way romances in YA especially portray the experience of teen love is so ridiculously unrealistic that the expectations it gives teenagers really sets them up for failure", so I ultimately wanted "a cute romance" but also "a subversion of romance tropes that lovingly deconstructs the genre and contrasts it to real life, and 99% of readers I hear from only got the first part of that haha

I will say that I think I am also a little less critical of the genre now that I am a bit older and wiser, but I still see MCD as a good message to teens saying, "Yeah, your love life probably won't look like a romance novel, and that's good actually because sometimes things that look good on the surface are rotten and sometimes things that seem unimpressive are actually beautiful. Also, you are never too trans to have a beautiful love story".

Anyway, thank you for reading and engaging with what I wrote, and letting me know that you enjoyed it! Let me know if you'd like a less grainy version of the alternate cover art <3

[ocularmacdown]

oh my god i can't believe i missed this, but thank you so much for responding!!?! i honestly didn't expect u to see my tags, this is so awesome !! thank u so so much!!

my ego is thrilled that i have achieved a certified Good Grade™️ in "understanding author's intentions in queer stories", something that is normal to want and possible to achieve... okay but in all seriousness, i am literally buzzing from your response! read it out to the aforementioned sibling and they are just as hyped ofc haha. i've never been happier to have spilled my heart out in tumblr tags now!

thank you again (i feel like i can't say that enough haha), both for writing the story in the first place and for taking the time to engage with a random fan. i think a non-grainy version of that illustration would make me melt into a puddle or explode into confetti or something else of that nature... but confirmation that a story i really loved means what i really hoped it meant has already made my year !!

[ocularmacdown]

gritting my teeth and taking a shot and trying not to put a fist thru the wall every time a significant tim drake moment is supposed to happen in a dc animated movie and he simply...is not there

[ocularmacdown]

desperately wanna be chronically engaging fandom but there is sooo much on my plate rn....

[atomikats]

i only threw this party for you or whatever charlie xcx said

[ocularmacdown]

hairs pricking on the back of my neck telling me something truly insane just happened in sunny...

[artisimpossible]

It's always nice when you write a thing and someone goes "Wow, I really needed this! Thanks!"

Like I don't think people realize how rare the "this was great!" comments are compared to the "you're everything wrong with the world for having said something I didn't like" comments are. Especially now that some people consider me a "big name author", the number of positive comments I get is about the same as when I used to self pub, but the mean ones are a lot more frequent a lot meaner. Even just a "this made me happy :)" comment can really lift my spirits when I get them!