the horrors, the agonies, the sillies

late twenties | he/they

[terrieet]

I recently got into traditional animation ofc I had to draw phos firstly. I would've shown another one but yeah I can add only one in the post. Where I live proper animation paper is soo expensive so I struggle with regular one xd

Also sketches for hnk acrylic keychains they're coming out soo cute I'll def wear them all

[skelerangart]

So how bout that Balatro game

[shurale-walks-the-woods]

she’s trying to help

[drawerbread]

a very self-indulgent cam

[jadeandquartzes]

[id: art of camilla hect, drawn against a white background with a blue rectangle. she wears two swords on her back and another on her hip, as well as brown pants with buckles and boxers with "sixth" written along the waistband. she is wearing a white sleeveless tank with a harness over it, and is staring off to one side as she pulls it up to her chest, showing off her arms and stomach, which are muscled and scarred. end id.]

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[mtndewpitchblack]

[barelysusan]

happy pride month

[eccedentesiast-sapphic]

Who up crying

[manicpixiedreamkiller]

oh no they’re doing makeup discourse again. i think saying “you can wear makeup and suffer no social consequences” is like. ok here’s how it is. you can go outside without makeup on and still be allowed to exist in public. you can probably still get a job, people are not USUALLY going to treat you like a pariah. BUT. depending on the axes of privilege vs oppression you exist on, the consequences will vary pretty widely and even if you are a thin conventionally attractive cis white women people will STILL find ways to be weird to you about your grooming habits. depending on your career also it can be easier or harder to get away with certain things with your appearance. if you’re in scrubs all day no one will ever know if you shave your legs or not right. i used to work in fitness so it was really easy to get away with having slightly messy hair and a bare face and i didn’t have to worry about dress codes or wearing heels. that’s not true for women who work in an office setting or a whole huge swathe of other careers. it’s just like. you CAN decide not to wear makeup, but to say there are no cons to that choice is kinda crazy. i’ve personally had the luxury to avoid a lot of those consequences due to being white and my choice of careers so far, but i also just never comfortably conformed to gender expectations so i’m used to being treated kind of strangely by older cis women and men in general.

i guess my point is just like. if we can acknowledge that women who say “i wear makeup just because i like it and it’s my choice !” are not really making that choice in a vacuum and it’s not a true expression of agency then we have to be able to acknowledge the reverse which is that many women wear makeup because they do feel like they have no choice or that there will be social consequences for not doing so. AND once you start you do get kind of locked in because i know women in my life who work in offices and if they don’t wear makeup one day several of their coworkers will ask if they’re sick or comment that they don’t look like themselves that day.

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[itseasytoremember]

(To the tune of Rasputin): BLEH BLEH DRACULA, KING OF TRANSYLVANIA, HE IS A BAT AND ALSO A MAN

[chipthekeeper]

"I died, I don't have to do that anymore!"

[beardedmrbean]

[datclassydame]

Can @raccoonmilf vouch for this? Super rad if true.

[raccoonmilf]

Yes it’s true

[anjio00]

Why stop at minecraft to find him

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[videolottery]

Someone should make a disco elysium spiritual successor that takes place in a maze and follows a protagonist who has to eat all the dots in the maze whilst avoiding several ghosts

[dragongirlbunny]

you can actually homebrew this in d&d 5e

[stuffman-main]

imagine if you will, a fairly dry survival crafting game in which you live in a bunker and must periodically venture out to scavenge food, set up turrets for attacking monsters, etc

now, your computer inside the bunker has a game-inside-a-game on it which is a charming farming sim of undeniably greater quality and scope than the survival game you're playing. therefore, the object of the game becomes to keep your bunker secure so you can play the farming game more.

now, once you achieve the highest rating in the farming game, a secret shop inside it unlocks, and one of the novelty items you can purchase is a game console, giving you access to games-inside-a-game-inside-a-game. most of the games for it are typical mobile shovelware, but one of them is a highly polished, extremely brutal precision platformer with amazing level design and production values exceeding that of the survival game and farming sim combined.

it is only at this point that the purpose of this entire contrivance becomes clear: to create the most deranged speedrun community the world has ever seen.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy