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I like eyes... I also like art & writing ! side Nr. 1 (Ocs) -> @journey-through-human-lands side Nr. 2 (All my art) -> @purpurple-iris-art

[purpurle-iris]

Hi! I’m a writer and an artist and currently writing the script for my webcomic and other random short stories

if you like my art I have recently decided to create a side blog for my art @purpurle-iris-art where I reblog all of my art to

All of the art I have here is currently just tagged as #my art

And I have side blog where I post all of my oc art of my (yet to be) webcomic @journey-through-human-lands

[niph15]

good morning

[heartattackinblackdye]

my chemicals are unbalanced something went wrong in the manufacturing process take me back to the lab

[purpurle-iris]

Didn't come back wrong, something already went wrong at my creation

[noonenever]

Ouroboros—a serpent biting its own tail. The endless cycle of life and death, creation and destruction.

My OC, Raney. A second before the bite.

I struggled with this art. Everything here is designed to evoke discomfort—the pose (which is curved into a circle), the colors (I have a fixation on turquoise and red), and the fact that she doesn't fit into the canvas, as if it's too small for her.

[purpurle-iris]

Artists! What weird phases did you go through in your art?

[purpurle-iris]

“Oh, the landlord guy from that one jane prentice statement, who burned down the apartment and that one member of the cult of fire and destruction have the same name, it must surely be a coincidence”- it’s the same guy. It later turns out to be the same fucking guy I can’t believe this fucking podcast <-affectionate

[anexperimentallife]

Also applies to "AI" "artists" and "musicians."

[purpurle-iris]

People who finish drawings in one sitting are so strange to me, I just work on like four drawings at the same time for weeks

[ghobins]

wanted to try some stuff

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[argumate]

it's funny how so much of the heroism we applaud is achieved when people do their best to behave like a computer in a crisis: carefully following written procedure and not allowing their emotions to run away with them, while fictional heroism usually involves people doing something crazy in violation of procedure and letting their emotions get so intense they somehow rewrite reality and overrule physics and logic.

[purpurle-iris]

Told myself "It's okay if you don't finish it today" and then just went ahead and fucking finished it today

[purpurle-iris]

Making a drawing that looks better than the reference is genuinely such a powerful feeling like "I have surpassed reality itself in my depiction. I have become superior to the gods themselves!"

[amii-sea]

It’s a frame from new animation on process

[purpurle-iris]

The thing about the "just draw without expectations" method is not that every drawing you make without expectations is a masterpiece, it's just that you don't expect it to be a masterpiece so when it ends up becoming one it's a pleasant surprise but if you expect everything you draw to become a masterpiece some will ultimately end up not being masterpieces and those will stick out negatively while the ones that do end up being masterpieces are just what you wanted and expected

[nofilter-cory]

Judgement

[self-winding]

There's some recent post about how Boomers and older don't have a "gender neutral script for interacting with another human" program in their head, they only have scripts for interacting with men versus women, and that's why they have trouble with nonbinary identities and the like. But most Millennials and younger do have something resembling a "gender neutral script." The post attributes this shift to the rise of women in the workplace and other changing social norms around the feminist revolution.

I think there's something to the "gendered versus gender neutral scripts" idea but I'd attribute it less to the feminist revolution of the sixties and seventies. After all, women in the workplace are still recognizably women, and women having jobs is not a recent feminist invention. Rather, I attribute the shift to recent generations growing up with the internet...and specifically, the text-based early internet.

Pre-internet, having a "penpal," was a rare novelty; most actual human interaction was face to face or at least over the phone. The internet introduced the idea of having people who you talk to day after day, week after week, month after month, without ever seeing their face or hearing their voice. All you had was text and a pfp, so there was no way to reliably know whether these people in forums and chatrooms and message boards, who had become a real presence in your life, were male or female. I mean, sometimes they told you outright, but not always. You could make guesses, but you were frequently wrong. Asking directly was kind of awkward...and of course, even then, you had no proof that someone was telling the truth. And most of us internet young'uns also had the experience online of being mistaken for a different sex, and then when it came out, realizing, "Oh, huh. This person was interacting with me for the last few weeks wrongly assuming I was a boy/girl." And also realizing that maybe you had a better rapport with them when they were working under that mistaken assumption about you.

So Millennials, the first generation to really grow up with the internet, developed a gender neutral mental model for interacting with people. They developed a mindset where you waited and looked for clues to someone's sex or gender rather than just knowing based on their face or voice.

Probably not surprising that Millennials are the first generation to have a relatively mainstream concept of genderqueer or nonbinary identities. And yes, obviously they didn't invent these identities, there have always been people who didn't fit neatly into one box or another and queer communities have always had some way of describing these people. But pre-internet, this awareness was always kind of a niche thing.