art is corrupted by the act of its creation

PowerLeca, she/her, rapidly aging, slowly improving

[why-bless-your-heart]

Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating. 

[putyouinabook]

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

[why-bless-your-heart]

I have a tendency to beat myself up whenever something I make doesn’t meet my expectations (which is always). The result is that finishing something = bad feelings: I am effectively punishing myself for having created something. The natural reaction to this punishment is an aversion to creation, meaning that my perfectionism is harming me, not only by causing me to despise what I do make and by impeding the creative process, but by attacking even my desire to create.

[sirfrogsworth]

I made this same joke in my head with Sonic but Crash Bandicoot is the superior joke.

[uptownthots]

remember when 'video games make female characters sexy to appeal to the male audience' was so controversial women would be harassed online just for saying it

[maskshape]

Really excited to show this off!

This is a sculpt commission for @powerleca of baby ZhenGui from the Forge of Destiny/Destiny Cycle series! He was sculpted in Zbrush with 3D printing in mind.

The style of this sculpt is heavily influenced by artwork from the artist Andelevion.

Thank you so much again for commissioning me!

[powerleca]

There he is! A baby! Just a Little Guy! 😍

Welcome to the world Zhengui!

[crustacean-warlock]

Reminder:

[nerdreamer]

[memecucker]

What I think is interesting about the “First they came for” poem is how people don’t really mention who the author was because Martin Niemöller was actually a conservative pastor initially and the point was that Communists, socialists trade unionists and Jews were all groups that the circles he ran with disliked (even if it wasn’t to the murderous levels of the Nazis) because of their shared godlessness and after the war he pivoted hard towards the left while also making it clear that he should’ve realized his errors when only people he saw as godless degenerates were being effected

[captain-trash-cannot-deactivate]

Honestly the entire poem is about realizing that one oppression leads to another until no one is safe, and against the government, there are no sides.

[richtea-biscuit]

For anyone who needs a reminder:

“First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me”

[snazzymolasses]

Okay but even MORE importantly, this man SUPPORTED Hitler at first.  This poem is by no means just some words. It was literally his life, as it really happend.

From Wikepedia:

He was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler,[3] but he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the Nazification of German Protestant churches. He vehemently opposed the Nazis' Aryan Paragraph,[4] but made remarks about Jews that some scholars have called antisemitic.[5] For his opposition to the Nazis' state control of the churches, Niemöller was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from 1938 to 1945.[6][7] He narrowly escaped execution. After his imprisonment, he expressed his deep regret about not having done enough to help the victims of the Nazis.[4] He turned away from his earlier nationalistic beliefs and was one of the initiators of the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt.[4] From the 1950s on, he was a vocal pacifist and anti-war activist, and vice-chair of War Resisters' International from 1966 to 1972.[8] He met with Ho Chi Minh during the Vietnam War and was a committed campaigner for nuclear disarmament.[9]

So yes, he supported Hitler while the Nazis were slaughtering those groups of people he didn’t like.  Then the Nazis started trying to take over his group of people, the Protestant church, and then he spoke out- which landed him straight in a concentration camp.  So yes, they literally came for him.

And then the man spent the rest of his life fighting against Nazis and their ideas and fighting for anyone who was oppressed.

This is why purity culture is horrific and needs to be tossed out the window forever.  If we immediately reject all those who fight for what is right because they once fought for what was wrong, then we lose the most powerful lesson life has to teach us- a person can change. A person can become better. A person can stop being horrible to others and become a force of good, and those good works are not erased by previous horrible behavior.

Otherwise, if we demand that our heroes be only people who have never done any wrong, we must throw this poem in the trash because the man who wrote it voted for Adolph Hitler.

Or, we can instead see this man for what he was: a human, who chose to change. And if one person can do it, then so can a country, a government, a society, dare I say, even the world.

[technofeudalism]

seeing a lot of people suggest that healthcare CEOs should go into hiding or employ more private security and i could not possibly disagree more. you can't live the rest of your life in fear. i think it's imperative that they get back to work, in person at least 3 days a week at the headquarters address listed on their company's website.

[dazzelmethat]

I wanted to draw a snake and a girl, the gay snake girl obliged. Here's another interpretation of Bai Meizhen.

[maskshape]

Really excited to show this off!

This is a sculpt commission for @powerleca of baby ZhenGui from the Forge of Destiny/Destiny Cycle series! He was sculpted in Zbrush with 3D printing in mind.

The style of this sculpt is heavily influenced by artwork from the artist Andelevion.

Thank you so much again for commissioning me!

[sassyasses]

Really Expensive Precious True Turtle printed. Gonna paint him up one day Soon

[maskshape]

Really excited to show this off!

This is a sculpt commission for @powerleca of baby ZhenGui from the Forge of Destiny/Destiny Cycle series! He was sculpted in Zbrush with 3D printing in mind.

The style of this sculpt is heavily influenced by artwork from the artist Andelevion.

Thank you so much again for commissioning me!

[powerleca]

There he is! A baby! Just a Little Guy! 😍

Welcome to the world Zhengui!

[judgejudyofficial]

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[judgejudyofficial]

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

[powerleca]

Li Suyin

She has a certain... personal flair.

[powerleca]

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/threads-of-destiny-eastern-fantasy-sequel-to-forge-of-destiny.51431/page-4718#post-31434772

Zhengui stood outside on the rocky hill with a handful of older men in the first and second realm, with what could only be the geomancer. Her first impression was that he was very old, but also surprisingly spry. More broad shouldered than his kin, with a thick frame that was still bent by age. He had long white hair, and a beard wrapped in dark green ribbon and wore an ornate headband woven with beads and decorated with three point antlers. He leaned heavily on a thick crutch of wood that seemed more like a short live sapling than anything carved. [...] "Hmph, Gui is foolishly humble, this young lord took charge of the chaos, with the help of his servants. This great work is but the foundation," Zhen hissed, tilting his head back proudly as the geyser erupted.

(first attempt at digital art more serious than a meme)

[lastoneout]

Ya know when people told me "when you're finally safe enough that you can leave survival mode and start to let go of and process your c-ptsd/trauma things are probably going to get really, really bad before they slowly start to get better" I thought that was reasonable. I did not understand that by "things are going to get bad" they meant "you're going to find yourself in the worst mental state of your entire life, but dw, that means it's working" and tbh I simply wish someone had been more clear.

[lucineblue]

Not letting these stay in the tags, damn. Let yourself be Goop.

[ayeforscotland]

*Stares directly into the camera*

[werewolf-cuddles]

[sleepie-storm]

I made some pose references! feel free to use with credit ♡

I'm open to criticism :3

[powerleca]

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The tote is actually a really nice sturdy little bag with vibrant color printing. I got the Bai Meizhen one!

Also, there are patron-only short story collections worth reading.