peridot's girlfriend

lapis - she/her

[peridots-girlfriend]

hey so, I think it’s about time i retire this account. I don’t think i’m going to be active on it much anymore, and it’s also attached to some painful memories. read under the line for my other, non-lapidot social media

i kept my identity on here hidden cause i’m super insecure about drawing romantic stuff, even on here, when my blog is literally dedicated to it, i’ve received harassment for my art looking “too horny” and even received that kind of harassment on my main account even though i rarely draw any romantic stuff at all.

before i say anything else i want to reiterate, once again, that nsfw is traumatizing to me, even just offhanded jokes or suggestive behavior triggers panic. if you think my art has to be sexual/horny/smutty/pornographic/erotic... well, here’s my final response to that: fuck you.

anyone that says that shit, tries to sexualize my art, etc, gets literally none of my respect. i will instantly tell you to go fuck yourself and block you. i’m not tolerating that anymore.

anyway, now that that’s out of the way, here’s the actual speech:

SU meant a lot to me, and always will, but i’m just not inspired to make fanart anymore. lapidot still is a big comfort ship to me, as well as Lapis as a character, but as i said earlier, i moved on to other interests. i just don’t have the interest or motivation to continue managing this blog when i don’t want to. if I make lapidot or SU art again, it will be posted on my main accounts.

in spite of the harassment i’ve dealt with, there are a lot of people on here who made me really happy, with the things you’d leave in tags when reblogging, the kind asks i’d get, general comments, compliments, and participation in my ideas. i don’t want to become another one of those artists that just disappears into the ether. i also want to try to stop being so insecure about my identity being tied to this account, but i think it will be okay. i’ve already had some friends who recognize my art style regardless.

i’m mata. i’m 21. i use she/her pronouns, i’m an ace lesbian, i draw, animate, and 3d model. i really love video games, hlvrai, mcyt, rain world, dinosaurs, various other fandoms, and I’m a ~furry~. i also sang on 1 (one) song on my friend’s album.

YOUTUBE - i animate a lot of warrior cats and video game stuff, like Rain World OCs.

TUMBLR - I post most of my art here! 

DEVIANTART - I don’t use deviantart anymore, but it’s a good archive of all my art over the years.

TWITTER - I am trying to move away from twitter due to the toxic atmosphere damaging my mental health, but i post/share art, shitposts, etc. when i’m not doing so on my tumblr

[peridots-girlfriend]

how do you log out on mobile

[peridots-girlfriend]

[peridots-girlfriend]

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[peridots-girlfriend]

How do you exit tumblr on mobile.

[peridots-girlfriend]

how do you log out on mobile

[peridots-girlfriend]

i recently had some clown tell me my art “looks ho//rny” and i think that’s the most insecure anyone on the internet whose opinion i don’t care about has ever managed to make me

[peridots-girlfriend]

i mean. i guess i can kind of see that with some of my older art on here but this was recent and over something very innocent and wholesome and it’s got me so fucked up

[peridots-girlfriend]

worst part is i’m sure if that person knew how much what they said affected me they would laugh

[peridots-girlfriend]

i recently had some clown tell me my art “looks ho//rny” and i think that’s the most insecure anyone on the internet whose opinion i don’t care about has ever managed to make me

[peridots-girlfriend]

i mean. i guess i can kind of see that with some of my older art on here but this was recent and over something very innocent and wholesome and it’s got me so fucked up

[peridots-girlfriend]

i recently had some clown tell me my art “looks ho//rny” and i think that’s the most insecure anyone on the internet whose opinion i don’t care about has ever managed to make me

[peridots-girlfriend]

May I dub your short lapidot comic,the one with peridot trying to confess?

feel free!

[ze-pie]

i absolutely loved these suf episodes but holy shit theres so much discourse and "THE SHOW IS TRYING TO SAY THIS NOT THAT STOP THINKING THAT" im like getting a headache lmaooo im just here for the shitposts and fanart dawg

[peridots-girlfriend]

psa: you can like a show and like the show’s characters without having to give a shit what the authors think or what they’re “trying to say” can we learn to enjoy things at face value instead of overanalyzing things until it’s not fun anymore

[aletheyass]

how are people this stupid i’m speechless

[aletheyass]

let me get this straight. this is a PANDEMIC (as officially declared by the World Health Organization), and it’s not “just like the normal flu”, let me tell you why: 

it’s HIGHLY contagious, as a matter of fact it’s more than two times more contagious than the flu;

its incubation period is 14 days, which means you could be already infected and only start to show symptoms in two weeks which, in turn, means that you have two full weeks time to infect everyone you come in contact with;

we don’t have a vaccine or specific treatment yet;

it is potentially mortal for older people, people with pre-existing conditions, and immunocompromised people BUT it’s also very dangerous for everyone else too–a lot of younger people have died;

it attacks the lungs, which means a lot of patients will need respiratory aid, which means hospitals get full really fast and if there’s a shortage of machineries (which, there is), doctors might even have to choose to save a patient over another;

that 2% fatality rate is not confirmed, it was an initial hypothesis. if you look at the numbers of Italy the percentage is much higher. as of right now the number of infected in Italy is 12462, the number of victims is 827: now i’m no mathematician, but i’m pretty sure that’s more like 6,6%; (while i’m on the subject, you may want to double check how your country is counting victims: a lot of countries are only counting people who died OF coronavirus, while the more accurate way of counting would be to consider those who died WITH coronavirus);

a lot of countries aren’t even testing properly yet, which means the numbers are highly debatable.

we all initially underestimated the situation here in Italy and now look at us. we’re all stuck at home–we can’t leave unless strictly necessary. no school, no uni, no cinema, no theatre, no weddings, no funerals. we’re queuing to enter supermarkets and pharmacies. our hospitals are full and our doctors are exhausted. we’re all doing this not because we’re overly dramatic or something, we’re doing this because it’s the only way to prevent the virus from spreading (as the news from Wuhan show) and therefore to safeguard everyone and keep the hospitals going.  

this is not a joke and, most importantly, this is not just about YOU. you may not care whether you live or die, as the tweet states, but you SHOULD care whether you jeopardize other people’s health with your careless behavior. don’t be fucking idiots and travel just because it’s cheap and because yolo. stop for a second and THINK

[sheikofthesheikah]

Medical professional here right on the front ass line of this shit, here to correct some inaccuracies on this fear mongering because y’all are doing my god damn head in. 

COVID-19, specifically the new coronavirus responsible for this mass panic, is equally as contagious as influenza, in that it’s transmitted by droplet and fomites, meaning the SAME precautions are required for both [x]

The word you’re looking for is ‘fatal’, not ‘mortal’. 

Influenza is contagious within the first few days of an individual becoming sick, however can be transmittable up to 7-10 days afterwards. This means Influenza can spread faster than COVID-19 [x]

The prevention for both diseases is the same: cough etiquette, good hand hygiene and containment if unwell. The treatment is the same: rest, symptomatic management, and supportive measures in the case of severe disease. 

Death toll: the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is 3.4% [x]. As of posting, it’s March 12, so that number is likely to change with each day that the situation evolves. It’s likely we will see the number decrease as the virus spreads and the ratio of recovered people to people who have died evolves. This number is highly changeable and it’s impossible to provide an accurate reflection of it given the rapidly changing nature of the knowledge we have.

Of these deaths, 14% have been people over the age of 80 (reflecting comorbidities such as lung or heart disease), as opposed to 0.4 of 40-50′s and 0.2% in people aged 10-39. So no, not ‘a lot of young people have died’. [x] Only one known case of someone under the age of 19 has died in China [x].

By comparison, this flu season, 136 paediatric patients have died with influenza associated pneumonia in the USA alone [x]. Influenza is far less discriminatory in who it infects and who is susceptible to severe illness, with several. strains targeting young, healthy and otherwise fit individuals in particular. 

Doctors never choose to save one life over another. If they do, they should not be a doctor, and you have a lawsuit on your hands. If a hospital is overwhelmed with equipment shortages, they will find a way to treat the patient anyway. My hospital for example has the capacity to look after up to five patients requiring intubation (a machine doing the breathing for you). In the case where we have had people needing ICU  and our ICU is full (which has happened the last few flu seasons), we have treated the patient anyway in the ER and then transferred the patient to a hospital capable of continuing their care. I’m so gobsmacked that you’d even make a remark like this that I’m honestly wondering whether or not i should be offended. 

As of march 10, over 66 thousand people have recovered from the disease. That is more than half of those infected. 

I understand being afraid and uncertain because this is a new virus and the response to it is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before with other pandemics (Hello SARS, hello MERS, hello Swine Flu, hello HIV/AIDS! A few notable mentions since the 00′s). But for everyone using this website, the OP of the tweet posted is right: you probably won’t die from it. At most, you’ll feel like you’ve had the worst cold of your entire life and be stuck in bed for a few days. 

Take precautions! Wash your hands! Isolate yourself for 14 days if you’ve been in contact with someone who has the virus. 

But please stop spreading misinformation about the virus because it is doing NO one any favours and it is only contributing to irrational fear that is putting MORE burden on health systems that are already struggling enough.

Sincerely, your local exhausted Emergency RN. 

[linhardtsremade]

hmm. Monkey : )

[mminimatumo]

[peridots-girlfriend]

Wishing you well because I know you took a lot of comfort in these characters in these last few years. If it helps you feel any better, the one who tweeted it said it wasn't word of god so it could still be up to interpretation perhaps? Again, wishing you well 💙💙💙

i’ll be fine! i mean, it’s not every day i choose to ignore the show-writers but it does happen often so i’m kinda used to it at this point

[peridots-girlfriend]

i gave my best friend the peridot half of my long distance bracelet when i flew out to meet her and she wears it literally all the time and i

[peridots-girlfriend]

her abusive mother stole and trashed her bracelet but we met up again and made new ones together 

[peridots-girlfriend]

Oh thank god someone else said it. I've been really upset about the news and I couldn't tell why and I was worried I'd be, like, put on the aphobe blocklist if I said it out loud. I'm glad that an actual ace person put it into words for me holy shit

a claim of peri being aroace just absolutely confirms queerbaiting in the show and honestly i don’t want to believe everything that i thought was dynamic representation i used for comfort was queerbaiting the whole time so i’m making the executive decision to ignore it for my own sanity

[peridots-girlfriend]

anyone in the fandom: peri is aro-ace!

me: valid, absolutely stellar headcanon

show-writer: peri is aro-ace

me: mmm... wrong

[peridots-girlfriend]

this has “jessie zuke totally would’ve made parody lapidot fanart of this” energy and no i do not have an explanation