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Astra // 21+ // they/them pls // I like cartoons and cute things

[primeministerofantarctica]

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20+, they/them, call me Astra!

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[masochistdickgrayson]

when a character does something unsympathetic or cruel that may not be excusable but still understandable and makes the character complex and human and the audience forgets that the character is a character which is to say a narrative tool and not a real person or their personal friend and go grrrrrr that is so ooc grrrrr how dare u try and tell a complex story grrrrrrrrrrr

[feldfrog]

Limos are such a stupid status symbol. Like yeah I'm rich. Did you see how long my car

[valtsv]

i love it when writers play sympathy chicken with me by making characters who suck for understandable reasons but are, like, so uncharismatic and regressive and genuinely difficult to root for about it. i love it when being a victim doesn't make someone a better person or motivate any kind of self reflection or improvement. i love it when people who were hurt respond in mundane, unromantically terrible ways that only make them more pathetic and repellent to others. i'm not even being ironic these are some of my favourite kinds of characters. can't say i'm as fond of what happens when they're introduced to a fandom though.

[arctasy]

when the character is obsessive and desperate and guilty and scared and ashamed and traumatized and repressed

[secretmellowart]

In this Frankenstein story, the role of Robert Walton will be played by Bubble. [Quote from Walton's conversation with Frankenstein's Creature at the end of the original novel.]

[secretmellowart]

Another wacky quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

[secretmellowart]

After doing that Kinger doodle the other day, I decided to illustrate some more quotes from Frankenstein I thought were Relevant. The moral of the story is: if you make a sentient abomination and then abandon him, he's probably going to have some emotions about it, SMH. I think I just like how Caine is a sort of "Frankenstein's monster in clown shoes," trapped in a way that's both horrible but also ridiculous— Mary Shelley in comic sans.

[secretmellowart]

Caine and Gangle go outside and touch grass. I was thinkin too hard about their Parallels as self-destructive “failed” artists and this was the result.

Brad Bird once said that you can’t create the illusion of life if you haven’t actually lived one, and that’s a line I think about a lot around the Traumatizing Digital Circus. This comic was inspired by: the purpose of making your own art in a world where AI image generators can churn out endless content for you, the way 3D software makes it easy to create infinite spaces but hard to capture authentic hand-drawn human touches, the way all my college art teachers were skeptical of the students’ desire to make anime-inspired stylized 3D visuals right up until it became the new trend in the animation industry—- and how easy it is to get so lost in the technical aspects of art & the consequences of failure that you lose sight of what art is even supposed to be for.

[also: a special thanks to the windows error message generator, this Blender grass tutorial, & all the different poets who wrote about grass— though I’ll let you guys figure out all the Tolkien/biblical/& poetry references.]

[spicy-mice]

date night

[pani-squeaks]

pimky

[livemedown]

Guess who's been binging Pinky and the Brain lately?

[toonmania-arts]

Based on this base:

[kurixta]

they make me sick

[genderqueeradrien]

the mental health services in ml!paris must be crazy robust. free weekly therapy heavily encouraged for every single citizen to practice emotional regulation and sertraline handed out like candy in every store in the city just so butterflies stop turning people evil

[genderqueeradrien]

in ml!paris the pharmacists pay you to take antianxiety medication

[genderqueeradrien]

#all this and Marinette is still walking around undiagnosed and unmedicated #she’s really an inspiration

[pierogiy]

every day i learn and grow, too

[boredhydra]

Hope you don't mind me using this as an excuse to post this image.

[grasslandscolorado]

We live in a system that makes money off of your misery and ambivalence. It relies on people thinking that they are inherently bad for the planet and that the world is ending so why change? Why try? --This is untrue! We belong here, on this one beautiful green earth and we have to work together to protect it. You have the power to do more than you know. You have a role to play in your ecosystem!

[raccoonmilf]

The notion that humans are an invasive species is an ecofascist belief. We evolved just like every other animal, we are meant to be here just like they are. This is our home and we have a duty to care for it and change the environment for the better!

Every single person has the power to make a meaningful impact on the planet. I had the most fireflies in my town this summer simply because I have a large area where the grass is never cut.

Please do not give up because you think the planet is too far gone and it’s hopeless. It isn’t. Please fight.