Hello, we're Ωob Realms, or otherwise just Oob! We're a queer neurodivergent plural system. They/he collectively as well as "you&", y'all, etc. Bodily an adult, 21+
All forms of plurality are valid! {&}
Our art blog is @oobsart, also our writing and NSFW/NSFT blog is @obliviousatthedevilssacrament!
More info + our tags guide is under the cut!
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Oob introjects' (somewhat extensive) source list!
Tags Guide:
#oob asks -> us answering asks
#oob speaks -> us actually saying something, whether in a post or in the tags of a reblog
#oob intro -> our headmate intros
#oob real -> something we relate to/something to do with us collectively
#woagh -> NSFW/NSFT or suggestive content (if we remember to tag it)
anytime there's a tag such as "#-Oob" that's the headmate that's commentating on that post
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• Feel free to ping and/or DM us!
• Doubles are absolutely okay, we love interacting with doubles, as well as those from the same source.
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Don't be an asshole and we'll get along fine. Otherwise it's into the void for you.
You DO NOT need to give every Black character you draw laid edges/baby hairs. Especially if they are children. Just because "baby" is in the name, do not assume that means children MUST have them. Learn how to draw a hairline. Learn to be okay AND NORMAL about foreheads and bald people. Learn why laid edges became a thing in the first place. Stop only ever drawing the ONE Black cultural hairstyle you saw on Pinterest, and running it to the ground like y'all did with the Killmonger locs.
Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.
Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!
This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!
{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}
category of blorbo called "technically i like them but fanons obsession with them to the exclusion of other characters pavloved me into having a negative reaction whenever i see them"
I saw on the news that the Drump administration is gonna start requiring testosterone testing for all male soldiers over 30 and wanna make hormone therapy more readily available for men with low testosterone and as a trans man I am looking extremely hard and exhausted into the camera right now
Most cis men don’t have low testosterone. If they do obviously they should get treatment because low t can really hurt people’s energy levels but you just know they’re doing this because of some sort of soy boy conspiracy theory bs.
And them trying to extend hormone treatment to more male soldiers after banning trans people from the military and making it harder for trans people to get medical care is obviously infuriating.
"he cant work a lightswitch" was meant to be a joke. but on the same lunch break i made this post he was in charge while i was away and somehow he did something that made the lights stop working properly. this dude is beyond parody
"I've got this theory that a lot of "gay" men may actually just be traumatized by their overbearing mothers and sexual abuse and adopting a "homosexual" identity instead of freeing themselves through therapy and a good wife.... I just can't prove it yet!"
#this is an example of every time you use a ‘ridiculous’ example to talk about bigotry#the bigots have beaten you there#because people do very much say this about gay men in certain circles
to be clear: my joke here is not that this would be a ridiculous example of bigotry, its that this is a very very old homophobic trope and it would be ridiculous to present it as a brand new "theory" like no one's ever tried to explain gay men like this before, & similarly her "theory" is a very old transphobic trope and it makes her look very silly to be presenting it like she's the first cis woman to ever come to this conclusion (& therefore treating it like its "unproved" and not something trans people have been responding to for decades)
Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress
This has been a common method for a long time in some states
The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh
An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually
I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.
I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.
And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?
I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.
Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.
Industry standards are industry standards FOR A REASON. Having everyone on the same workflow can be crucial to getting things done effectively and correctly without creating a lot of extra work. And those things are not going to change overnight, as much as we might want them to.
Yeah, Word, let me just leave this whole chunk of dialogue without the closing quotation marks. That's the thing to do. How dare I have two punctuation marks in a row. It's not like that's how closing quotation marks fucking work.
And you know, for young writers, this has got to be so detrimental just from the perspective of opening your document and seeing a million corrections that, frankly, don't need to be there. If you're a young writer you're likely not going to have the background knowledge to know what is and isn't a good suggestion, you're just going to see a document that makes it look like you made every mistake possible so clearly you must be a terrible, stupid writer and should just give up.
Look. Sometimes you've just got to tie up that protagonist, okay? Factually. It needs to happen. For character reasons. Let's watch how they squirm trying to escape. How their mind works when they can't rely on their body. Do they panic? do they charm? Do they go still? Is it an absolute breeze for them to escape, barely a hindrance? Or are they well and truly contained? How does their face change when they realize that? Does their stoic nature wash away? Turn to pleas and panic, knowing they can't help those they care about? Or do they turn animalistic, growling and snarling and wrenching at their restraints? Shouting threats, fighting with their words? Do they realize they may hurt themself in their struggles and stop or do they not care about that? What happens when you add a gag into the situation? Muffle their cries and threats into incoherent babble. Do they still try to speak or do they get quiet? Study how their mind works in such a situation and learn about them. ...and appreciate the squirming and noises that they make, along the way.
