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She/Her They/Them 🏳️‍🌈 This blog has just become Zukka fanart and politics

[quill-and-chalk]

The police and the higher ups aren’t arresting protesters because they are afraid that their minds will be changed. They chose money over people and that’s set in stone. No, they are afraid that these protesters will change YOUR mind.

free palestine

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People are saying what happened in New York can’t be replicated. I’m in Texas and two of my six city council members are socialists (about to be 4 next election. God willing, but because the current socialist members won their races so handedly I’m not too worried) and in two years I can almost guarantee there will be a leftist in the mayoral position.

Get involved in local politics I BEG of you. Mamdani is not some unicorn. He is proof that we can make socialism a possibility in America if we work from the ground up.

[quill-and-chalk]

Hey update to this. My city became the first in Texas to ban Data Centers btw. It’s really not impossible to do good in your little town in the south.

[quill-and-chalk]

People are saying what happened in New York can’t be replicated. I’m in Texas and two of my six city council members are socialists (about to be 4 next election. God willing, but because the current socialist members won their races so handedly I’m not too worried) and in two years I can almost guarantee there will be a leftist in the mayoral position.

Get involved in local politics I BEG of you. Mamdani is not some unicorn. He is proof that we can make socialism a possibility in America if we work from the ground up.

[fernandesart]

Kisses💫

[quill-and-chalk]

“Y’all can’t handle complex female characters”

I mean… I think people can. Eva Stratt from Project Hail Mary is a good example. I think frankly most female characters aren’t given the same care and are usually just slapped with the label ‘morally grey’ by the writers and then it’s called a day.

Then to top it off, we inherently give more grace to male characters who aren’t written as morally grey.

So my argument is essentially, people like complex characters and when written correctly people like complex characters regardless of gender, but most people can not identify a well written complex character.

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Is the fact that people are using AI to write fanfics for themselves gonna convince y’all that commissioning fics can be a good thing ooorrr are we just gonna keep pretending that ‘fanfiction is different from fanart’

[penny-anna]

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

[penny-anna]

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

[penny-anna]

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

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I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this… Sokka and Katara are country. Wolf Cove had like 100 people at peak. Sokka literally hunted and fished. He WOULD be on Tinder holding a fish and He WOULD be listening to Luke Bryant.

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I’m going to dump my thoughts about the TADC finale here since there isn’t anywhere else to put it.

Spoilers obviously.

That finale some how dragged on and yet didn’t have enough time. That pacing was horrendous.

Which sucks because there are SO MANY INTRESTING THINGS in that finale. Yet NONE of them were given the time they deserved.

Like they dropped that they were brain scans in the first MINUTE and just… moved on. Like that’s a big reveal why aren’t we focusing on that? That’s an episode of itself and they had moved on in five minutes.

Also, like…. I’m sorry the backstory of them basically being forgotten code just got washed over too quickly that it left me more confused than anything. I think the implication is that their brains got scanned and that the circus is basically just a file hiding in an old computer, but also Cain is a super powerful AI… like did the company just ignore him? I’m not trying to be like “overly realistic” and like unnecessary holes but I feel like these are questions that needed answers. (Or for there to be better themes about them being ‘forgotten’ or ‘abandoned’)

Jax’s story also felt so meh to me. He sucked and tortured people and was a terrible person, he DIES, and then we get his backstory. I liked his story! I thought it was interesting and unique and it’s a story that I think deserves to be told… but it was just put at such an odd place. It did nothing except bring an hour long episode to a screeching halt.

This is another sequence that I think could have been better as a whole episode.

Then everything with Cain just felt like stuff was happening cause stuff needed to wrap up.

I did like the ending of them coming to terms with the circus but man that finale made it feel like they didn’t earn it. Like it didn’t feel satisfying.

This finale makes me feel so weird because individually I liked a lot of the pieces but put together they fell flat.

[incoherent-orca]

prettiest couple in the world fr

alt version below

i wanted to give them more jewelry and try a different coloring style but 1) my limp wrist gave up on me and 2) i couldn't decide on the shading/tint

and im sick of tweaking opacity so im gonna call this done!

EDIT: i hope it's obvious it's a jewelry swap

katara's earrings + her piercings are based on nuniwarmiut / nunivak island people (labret piercings, long beaded strings with wooden??? stops)

while aang's necklaces are tibetan (turquoise, coral, metal filigree). also i found out that tibetan women also use so many hair beads and you can't tell me aang wouldn't do that for her loopies

[stealingpotatoes]

reason 1 million why i love zukka: how extra insane it makes hakoda's family tree

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Guys as an Avatar super fan this leaked movie has me stressing. IF YALL RUINED OUR CHANCES AT THE EARTHBENDER SERIES AND THE ZUKO MOVIE I SWEAR TO GOD

[kyri45]

Avatar: The Last Airbender Fand-Home Prints by @Kyri45

These can be found in 3 versions both as prints and T-Shirt on my RedBubble!

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Item: A Shield Rarity: ✦ Uncommon

What video game will you defend forever?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Last of Us my beloved

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Oh my God just GIVE ME A JOB

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People are mad that writers are taking their works off AO3 to try and get them published, but I literally predicted this would start happening because writers are the only artists that can’t make money in the ‘fandom economy’.

You get mad when they commission and you get mad when they try to publish. Not to say Fandom should be monetized but IT IS monetized. You have pushed writers to the side and treated them terribly and expect them to pump out content for you. There has been LITTLE in the way of trying to bring writers into the fold of active fandom space despite being a HUGE part of fandom culture.

So yes, people will take their works off AO3 to try and make money because it’s a viable option now. You didn’t try to protect and help writers in fandom and these are the consequences.