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A 27-year-old person who draws things sometimes | she/her, they/them | Art tag: penco draws | Writing tag: penco writes | Commissions are always open!

[pencopanko]

There has been an influx of followers here goodness meー

Hi hi, hello! Penco here! If you've come across my blog and have decided to follow me, welcome! I have been on this hellsite for more than ten years though I took a break until a month ago. I post art, fanart and fanfic (mostly Coco-related as you can probably tell by the Tsum Tsums on my avatar's head) along with others, and as of lately I also share a lot of pro-Palestine posts and have written a thought piece or two myself. I'm also super into Holostars EN right now, ARMIS specifically!

You can check my writing tag here on penco writes. I also have an AO3!

You can check my artworks under the tag penco draws. I also have an art blog! I am also available for commissions, and you can check my VGen here!

pencokun

Freelance 2D Artist / Character Designer based in Indonesia Available for commissions & studio work! Contact me on Discord at penco#7925 or

This blog is also queer friendly (not exactly straight myself wkwkwk tho I do have some restraint due to religious reasons), and as of the so-called DNI list that the kids like to use these days, I think we'll just stick to the basics. When it comes to politics... I think it should be obvious at this point. Don't be an ass.

Otherwise, welcome! Enjoy your stay!

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[xiaq]

When I was a professor I fucking LOVED teaching this comic. You can read the full thing here (and please read the letters to the editor at the bottom as well—including a message from Ray Bradbury).

[sabrebash]

I'm so glad people added the appropriate context here. Genuinely, this is one of the most important panels in the history of comics.

[ghostiegone]

💛💢

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent bands you’ve likely already done more to pay musicians than a year of spotify streaming. just pirate everything and send some walking around money to a couple artists you like. they’re probably on bandcamp, wait till a bandcamp friday. spotify hates you anyways.

[ralfmaximus]

Next Bandcamp Friday is May 1st, 2026!

Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.

That's right, you'd have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the rights holder these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of that.

This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.

Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it's yours forever.

Also also, there's no ads!

Also also also, there's no AI!

WHY are you giving money to Spotify??

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexy Jester/Clown Contest Final Round

Gavis Bettel (Holostars)

Hugh Morris (Tomodachi Life)

Muppet Joker (Tumblr)

Voting ended onMay 6

[gasterrific]

this is singlehandedly the best PR holostars could ever ask for

[wavetapper]

shirt that says I ♡ Leftist Infighting About Children's Cartoons

[wavetapper]

how the fuck does this have 10k and nobodys started shit in the notes. congrats guys you are so normal

[chilewithcarnage]

nightmare surveillance shit aside, this is so fucking funny

[melonisopod]

[adiyahahah]

Ready to fight

[sporadicspiralis]

[wheelie-sick]

link

[calystarose]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaudet_Eleven

[rubyredro5e]

Thank you Harold Domich, Robert Greenmun, Barron Gulak, Raymond Harper, Jerald Jordan, Harry Larson, David Myers, Donald Peterson, Raymond Piper, Alvin Steele, and John Zakutney.

[zzzenmui]

🌟 EN 🎤 Karaoke ‼️✨

[pankopenco]

[[Reposted from @/pencokun due to my blogs getting terminated]]

My favourite sad children

[pencopanko]

I was visiting this backup blog of mine and

well

she now has a carrot to chomp on

[pencokun]

Free Palestine, and punch a Nazi if you see one

[greelin]

not a day goes by that i don’t think of this

[pukicho]

The mafia isn't lookin for me and I'm enjoying a walk in the park

[pukicho]

Cool, not me though.

[pukicho]

I know you guys really like markiplier, but what the fuck are you talking about. What happened to him.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

so if we're not allowed to call out ai users due to "false positives"... what the fuck *do* we do about the rampant ai use then? are we supposed to just... accept the fact that people are using ai to write fics now? are we supposed to just be okay with the fact that some authors use ai??? are we supposed to just ignore it and let ai destroy fandom???

if you suspect a work is ai-generated and if that bothers you, quietly click away from the fic and stop reading the person’s works. that’s all you’re supposed to do.

even if someone does say they use ai, my advice would still be to leave them be. you can avoid their works. other people who are not okay with ai can avoid their works. harassment won’t make them stop using ai, it will just make them continue using ai in secret instead of openly. it will also just make them stop tagging their works as ai (so now people who are not okay with ai can neither avoid their works nor know for sure if it’s ai anymore).

harassment will not solve anything. and whether or not you like it, whether or not someone uses ai is not your business. no, I don’t like ai and I don’t agree with people who let ai write for them. but I can understand that people have the rights to do things that I disagree with. even if I think it’s harmful to the environment and community. I can understand that there will be things on the internet that upset me. the “ai-generated” tag on ao3 is there so that people can either seek or avoid ai-generated fics. it’s not there so that people can freely harass ai users. (worth mentioning that harassment is strictly forbidden and against ao3’s terms of service, so you can be reported if you do that. and ao3 will not take your side — because ai-generated works are allowed on ao3, whereas harassment is not. this applies to tumblr and other social media platforms too.)

the truth is that neither I nor you can stop anybody from using ai, at least not via call-out posts or harassment. and I will never condone harassment. what I can do is mind my own business and curate my own internet experience.

and as I’ve said many, many times before, you cannot know for sure if a work is ai or not. you can only guess based on vibes. and ai was trained to mimic human-made works. so every “ai telltale” is something human-writers write before, and ai mimics that.

so no, chances are that you are not actually rightfully calling anyone out and “fighting against ai”, you are just engaging in witch hunt, speculations and accusations in order to feel better, in order to feel like you have “done something”. but in reality, you are not actually “fighting against ai”, you are helping ai harm the writing community by scaring human-writers away. more and more human writers have already stopped sharing their works for fear of getting wrongly accused of using ai.

for the hundredth time, harassment is never the answer. witch-hunt, speculations and wrongful accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

more here and here.

[sexy-people-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexy Jester/Clown Contest Semifinals

Gavis Bettel (Holostars)

April (Monster Prom)

Voting ended onApr 29

[touchoffleece]

I don't necessarily want to enhance the chance of either Bettel or some cover Staff reading my context dump for nonvtuber fans who are confused at the results, and the context dump frankly being a bit of a bummer and breaks vtuber immersion, but since I keep seeing people say those not voting for April hate women or saying unsavory things about Bettel. So:

I really like the game series but Holostars and Bettel need the show of support, so I voted for him. “But why/how does this generic anime boy twink need more support than indie characters?” New eyes by keeping Better in the running for the Holostars hopefully means better metrics for the Holostars, so the actor behind Bettel & his Holostars coworkers have a better chance keep puppeteering the anime men they were hired to puppet which are designed by Cover/HoloProductions. Fan's hope is that by showing the company there is fan interest the company doesn't downsize the English Holostar Branch like they already did for the Japan Holostar Branch, or (absolute worse case scenario) shutdown the male branch of Cover's vtubing project under HoloProductions (as the audition page which use to exist pre downsizing announcement of the JP Branch is no longer around) and fans have to most likely see some of these characters "Graduate". For those not in the vtuber sphere Graduations means characters/personas get retired up to a farm in the skies. This is especially common for Corpo Vtubers like Bettel and his coworkers who get hired to puppet a character designed my Art Mamas and 3D modeled by Papas (terms can interchange per pronoun preference but I usually see them used as Character Art Maker-Mama and 3D riggers called Papas.) with very few exceptions. So if the company shuts down and retires Holostars fans would likely have to say goodbye to their Blorbo.

If you want to show the Holostars some extra support and get a music show by seeing the digital puppets dance and sing, tune into the first Holostar 3D "Live" (term used doesn't always mean a show is "live", but more like a livebroadcast pre recorded to my understanding) organized by the Exorcist-who-is-actually-really-scared-of-Ghosts of the 2nd English group (Holostars Tempus: Vanguard, same group/generation as Bettel), Banzoid Hakka!!

THE VOICE THAT PIERCED HEAVEN🐦‍⬛🔥🔅 POST #HAKKAMINI3D 3D ZATSUDAN 🎉✨

WE DID IT MY HAKKITO 😭💟YOU GUYS ASKED ME FOR A 3D ZATSUDAN SOMETIME, SO HERE YOU GO, WATCH ME YAP IN ALL MY DIMENSIONS ✨IT'S TIME TO CELERAT

Him sharing and being transparent about some of the tough choices he had to make to make this show possible considering the downsizing news effecting the HoloStars.

[bruzum]