Not A Hero

Freelance Artist and Illustrator, I like to do a lot of cartoon fanart!  (also  a writer, I guess) Always open for commissions, I don’t mind questions, always have my ask box on :D check my Links page for more!! 29 / She-Her / INTP / reblogs of all kinds /occasional doodles/ WARNING: I posts things that may be triggering for others, please be careful when following! - currently into IZ, ZADR, GF and SU. -likely a bad person

[reynaruina]

Blog Intro

Hi there! Name’s ReynaRuina and I like to do a lot of digital art, mostly fanart of cartoons and such!! I’m currently interested in Invader Zim and  Gravity Falls , but I’m also into Avatar: The Last Airbender, Steven Universe , MLP, and some other shows; plus videogames like Minecraft, Don’t Starve and Subnautica. Here’s a little guide on the things I do in here:

Comics, Random Art and Sketches: I share a bit of new stuff every week!

Reblogs of old art: If you’re new, you won’t have to dig thru my blog to find my old stuff. I will reblog it every so often myself!

Sharing other’s art: This isn’t a “my art only” blog, I do enjoy sharing other’s work from time to time (usually pertaining to my current fixation, right now it being IZ and ATLA)

Art resources: I like to find/share a bit of that as well for personal use and my follower’s benefit, if they happen to be artists as well.

Art Highlights side-blog: On reynaruina-art I sometimes post/reblog my best works from both recent and past times. This also doubles as my current online portfolio! 

Some outside-of-Tumblr stuff: 

Art Streams: I stream every Friday and Saturday at 9 pm Eastern Standard Time on my Picarto channel! It is a nice place to hang out, listen to music, and I also have mic on :D

Twitter: I’ve got two Twitter accounts, one for art highlights of my recent/past works and another locked one with mature content (it is adults only and contains sensitive material, you can find the link among My Links)

Where to Find Me:

Asks: My Ask box/submission box are pretty much always open (anon is on! :D). I’ve also got instant messages here o Tumblr on pretty much always.

Discord: I have a private Discord server for Patreon supporters as well where you can reach me at any time for a chat!

Twitter: Feel free to follow me and message me on either account! (do not try to follow my locked one if you’re a minor tho, I will block if necessary)

How to Support me:

Commissions: I am pretty much always open for commission work, don’t be afraid to ask! Here’s a detailed pricelist (needs updating) for whatever you may have in mind :D

Patreon: Made one a couple months ago and I’ve got a few tiers, with different benefits on each! But even the lowest one grants you access to my private Discord server and my whole art archive, plus WIPS and early posts :D

Ko-Fi: If you like what I do here and wanna help keep me doing it, but can’t afford/commit to Patreon or a commission, I’m using ko-fi as a tip jar as well!! This stuff I do here is basically how I pay the bills, so however you feel like you can help keep the lights on and the art coming, every bit is very welcome and appreciated :D!

[its-jooby]

"Similar bugs would gnaw away at unguarded food supplies in my homeland. As a child, I would hunt them, eager to make use of myself and test my skills."

[kuken-i-buken]

has anyone else noticed that pretty much everyone who is worth knowing seems to be doing really bad all of the time and is never allowed a moment's respite from all the pointless cruelties and horrors ❓❓❓❓❓❓❓

[notecardpasta]

I think when you correctly identify a trauma that is the base of a woe of yours it should just disappear. It should be like "aaahh. you got me" and vanish and leave 100 dollars behind

[ambienne]

This tweet means a lot to me.

[ambienne]

It’s probably a really cool and good sign that this post I made in 2014 is going around again, right?

[fittingoutjane]

Bosses still don’t want to admit that people can’t budget their way out of a fundamentally inadequate salary.

Yes, of course there are people who make a decent income or even a high income but are always broke because they can’t budget.

If, however, you live with roommates and still spend half your income on rent, your financial problems aren’t your fault. Yes, you should still look for ways to save money, but you will never budget your way to actual stability until you attain an adequate income, and you should not feel guilty about that fact.

[alexseanchai]

[image: tweet by _lizharvey: “If your ‘tips on saving money’ starts with assuming I pay $5 for coffee every day you already think I have more money than I do.”]

[glorious-spoon]

i don't usually go for crack fic, but there's something really beautiful about fic that takes a cracky premise and plays it utterly straight, to the point of genuine human pathos that's only enhanced by the sheer ridiculousness of what's actually happening

[saviorified]

sometimes people on here talk about "accountability" in a way that shows they think that the person they've decided is in the wrong can't actually do anything to redeem themselves other than like. suicide.

[the-quasar-hero]

More game devs need to understand the following concepts:

There is a finite amount of memory on any given device.

No matter how good your game is, players will want memory for other things on their devices.

Not everyone has a stable internet connection so making single player games needing an internet connection is not good.

[definitely-zen-browser]

4. The price of memory has more than quadrupled in the past six months

[galileosballs]

5. If you only playtest your games on machines with above-spec amounts of memory, and you don't do it for long enough, you might not notice the slow memory leak that makes your game unplayable for more than half an hour at a time on a normal-spec PC

[leonkennedysprostate]

6. just make fun fucking games again man. where is the whimsy??? the heart????

[fealty-to-thee]

Having a blorbo is SO wonderful bc you get free joy for thinking about them being happy but also free joy for thinking about them being miserable. No losing

[lyraisnotonfire]

favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!

[lyraisnotonfire]

it's like, i don't go here! but my friend does! so i know a bit about what's going on there even if i'm in a different school

[junglejim4322]

90% of age gaps don’t matter when you’re a grown adult as long as you don’t have a repeated pattern of dating people barely legal. I would date someone 30 years older than me if I liked them who gaf

[junglejim4322]

This entire conversation is somehow 90% people infantilizing themselves and 10% actually people talking about the issue of men who never grow out of dating 18/19 year olds. No it is not a big deal when a 25 year old dates a 35 year old please get a grip

[junglejim4322]

Honestly if you’re in your mid twenties infantilizing yourself on this level maybe you shouldn’t be dating anyone

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Chimes with a thought I've had for a while, actually; sleep deprivation might mean I explain this badly, but:

What a red flag actually means: something here is an indicator of a potential problem (but might be fine with a reasonable explanation)

What people have now decided it means: abuse

I've lost count of the number of times I've now had to read variants of "My partner takes all my money and gives me back an allowance because he says it's a man's job to control finances, but he's racking up gambling debts" being met with "Wow this man is a walking red flag" no Becky that is abuse. That is not an indicator. He is an abuser. Call the police. We have lost the concept of a proxy: a thing that indicates a more important thing. And it's relevant to this conversation because I'm actually going to go out on a limb here:

With the obvious exception of paedophilia, age gaps themselves aren't a problem at all - they are a proxy for the actual harmful phenomenon. Hea me out, let me explain

The reason we don't like age gaps is because of the implied power dynamic. If one partner, usually male, is older than other - particularly if the other is still quite young - the risk is that what we're seeing is a worldly wise predator who is exploiting the lack of life experience of a young beautiful woman by mentally abusing her until she's no longer young and pretty enough to satisfy, at which point he'll move on to the next. There have been enough examples of this in human history. It's unfortunately not an uncommon pattern. Genders can also be diverse in this scenario

We can't necessarily see that dynamic from the outside. But we CAN see an inherent element of it: the ages of the people involved. So age becomes a proxy for the abuse. And, hey, it's often correct.

But here's the thing: the ages themselves are not causing harm.

The power dynamic is. The abuse is.

Plenty of age gap relationships are loving, healthy and steadfast. Two people met and genuinely fell in love regardless of the outer packaging, and have a relationship with all the highs and lows and challenges and rewards as any more traditional pairing. This happens all the time

Is the age gap a red flag? Sure! It indicates a potential issue.

Is it inherently abusive? Absolutely fucking not.

OP is right - we need to stop focusing just on the numbers and twisting the facts to fit by infantilising the younger partners, and start focusing on the actual harms. The DiCaprio Pattern of only dating under 24s repeatedly is itself a proxy, too, actually - but a much stronger one than the simple presence of an age gap.

(Even so, in DiCaprio's case, until any of his former partners come forward and describe him as abusive, actually, even that is up in the air - my personal interpretation, given how strong a pattern it is, is that he's a loser who views women as trophies (consciously or not). If any have come forward and I don't know about it, of course, fair enough. But those women were adults capable of making their own decisions, even if they might later come to regret it. And regretting poor decisions is part of life! That's how it goes, particularly with relationships. As long as they weren't abused, there's no biggie. And just as he was looking for young-and-beautiful, there's no way they weren't, on some level, looking for rich-and-famous; it goes both ways.)

Also, another element of this: I think a lot of modern extreme puritan discourse on this is actually ironically down to the age of those taking part. Up until your late 20s, ten years is actually a huge span of time to you, because in your own life you were in a completely different developmental phase ten years ago (teenager), and a completely different phase again ten years before that (child). That skews your sense of what a ten-year gap means. Whereas once you're in your 30s and beyond, ten years is like. Yeah I was an adult ten years ago, and I still am now. That's two adults. Who cares.

(Anyway I am hoping and praying I explained that well enough, and also that Tumblr's famous reading comprehension skills are solid enough to follow)

[finnglas]

Finally, some good fucking age gap discourse. *sticks a gold star on this thread*

[cazort]

On the topic of how ppl use age as a proxy for power dynamics, I would add, people are often highly likely to overlook abuse being carried out by a younger person. There are a ton of factors other than age that can lead to exploitation, like race (think of white women threatening black men with accusations), wealth, social class, neurodivergence and (dis)ability (disabled ppl can be very vulnerable), and social connectedness (isolated ppl are more vulnerable). And age doesn't always go the same way: elderly ppl can be exploited and abused by younger ppl, such as those after their money.

Look holistically for the power dynamics. Age is a clue, but not the only one. And younger doesn't always mean more vulnerable: at higher ages it often works the other way around.

[yellbug]

i'm so disturbed by the idea that not everyone is delighted when they spot a hand drawn amongus crewmate out there in the world. i feel pure joy when i see it especially these days

[6qubed]

there was a work truck at my job a while ago where someone had tried to play god

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[hellothanksjellyfish]

Just gonna leave this here

[shower-raccoon]

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

[shower-raccoon]

don't worry, your'e still in time for 3/22/23, 32223, palindrome day the second

[thirdman000]

I missed BOTH of them.

[shower-raccoon]

don't worry, you're still in time for 3/28/23, 32823, palindrome day eight

[god-of-not-so-good-ideas]

im very exited for next years weed palendrome day of 4/20/24

[shower-raccoon]

so it's weed day and palindrome day, on leap year. perfection is achievable

[shower-raccoon]

oh shit, it's 4/20/24, 42024, weed palindrome day

[cyrannus95]

missed it, scheduling for the next one on may 20 next year

[shower-raccoon]

oh shit, it's 5/20/25, 52025, palindrome day

[ultrasweethibiscustea]

scheduling next year’s for 6/28/26, 62826 :))

[loserwithagelpen]

HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T MISS IT (also happy palindrome TEN DAYS!!! in pride month??? yesss)

[xbubbledumbbx]

Fuck I missed it

[googlemenot-deactivated20230921]

[huffylemon]

my birthday is in july! :)

[chainmessage]

[084392]

Some fans of certain media will comb thru all the canon material for their ship and be like "ohhh this is soooo much content we're being spoiled!!" and then you look over at them and *all* their content and its like

[maidslime]

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.