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hi i'm mait!! (pronounced like matt)
i'm an aroace genderless transman from the uk. i'm an adult. and i'm disabled.
my bday is the 17th of april ^_^
i post art on this blog: @maitaitiu
i have a ko-fi as well and my commissions are currently: OPEN
bluesky, instagram, ao3, toyhouse, artfight
i block pretty liberally so as long as youre not a prick then you're probably fine.
(i also have a selfshipping sideblog. if ur interested please dm me and i'll send u the @ !)
interests and stuff under the cut
my interests are:
pokemon (games & anime mainly)
tloz
mlpfim
the hunger games
cbs ghosts
music (of all kinds) (seriously)
crafts
ocs (including yours!! feel free to come ramble about your ocs in my ask box!!)
plushies!!!!!!!
mlp dolls
theatre + musicals (especially starkid lol)
tea!
british politics (though that's by necessity. not by choice..)
Please write your story. Draw the artwork. Finish the animation. Continue on whatever project you're working on. It doesn't matter if you're not good at it, or you have doubts, or you're afraid of mistakes. Your creation has a right to exist, and it will be important to others.
so about the “isn’t she lovely” sequence, if there wasn’t such mistreatment of black characters and black fans, do you think it would still be appropriate for tadc to reinterpret the song’s meaning?
No.
The concept of trying to reinterpret the song's meaning is exactly what I have an issue with.
"Isn't She Lovely" is a Black song, made by a Black man for his Black daughter. It is a song about Black joy, about Black fatherhood and beautiful Black baby girls. It is about Black people. It is for Black people.
Yet again, the issue is not with gender, but it is about race. To take that song out of its original context and rehash it into something whiter is what I take the most offense to, it's completely disrespectful and it doesn't even pay homage to the original culture. It's a form of whitewashing that is incredibly sinister, because it often follows along the logic of "wanting everything to be for everybody".
But you can't possibly partake in other cultures if you do not understand those cultures first, if you don't take the time to listen and be generous. To them, the song is just a song. Like most facets of the show, they take these brilliant works and strip them down to scraps, then try to spin that into something brilliant by telling people to look at the "abstract" and what isn't there. Then people go and theorize and completely overwrite the original intention, they erase the meaning, and it's very painful to witness.
The mistreatment of Black people both in and outside of the show is WHY they used the song in the first place, certainly part of it. If they had respect for Black people then this wouldn't even be a conversation.
hello cassworld sorry i stopped cassposting so suddenly :( some irl stuff happened and i didnt have much energy for drawing . anyway um .
heres a snippet of a cass wip!
the premise is its (hopefully, if i ever finish it) gonna be an au where cass finds rapunzel's tower 4 years earlier. heres some from near the very start. if shes ooc its bc shes an irritable 18 year old lol
Cassandra had left in the early hours of the morning. It was almost lunch time, and she was ravenous after hours of non-stop walking (and cutting down innocent plants who had the misfortune of having been planted in her way).
After flinging herself down onto a perfectly seat-sized tree stump, Cassandra pulled her pack into her lap and dug out the sack lunch she’d packed for herself.
A simple cheese sandwich, an apple, and some licorice sticks she’d been given as a belated birthday gift this morning as she’d passed by Uncle Monty’s. She practically inhaled the sandwich and apple, and lounged back on the tree stump, gazing up at the sky, dappled as it was through the canopy above, and chewing on a piece of licorice.
Calm.
She had a small dinner packed as well, but it was far less glamorous. She’d have saved the cheese sandwich for then, but was worried the cheese would go bad in the warm weather.
But still, plain bread and another apple would serve just fine later. If she was still hungry- or fancied something more substantial- she could always forage or hunt. Or search out that seedy pub that lay somewhere within the woods if she was really desperate. Or if she really wanted to piss off her dad, which… to be honest…
The seedy pub was definitely on the table.
With all the apples in her pack, Cassandra was honestly a little surprised that the stallion her dad had recently been riding at work hadn’t followed her. Maximus was diligent and brave beyond his years (which possibly also made him quite foolish, Cassandra secretly thought on occasion), but very easily swayed when apples were involved.
As she rewrapped her licorice in the paper bag they’d been given to her in, Cassandra startled at the sound of a warning hoot from above.
Someone’s approaching.
Candy still in one hand- and one stick in her mouth- Cassandra grabbed her pack and bolted into a shrub. Thankfully it wasn’t holly or brambles, so, while it was uncomfortable, it wasn’t outright painful.
Now, Cassandra was no coward.
In ordinary circumstances she sure as hell wouldn’t dive into a bush at the possibility of crossing paths with another person.
But this was far off the beaten path.
Nobody came this way.
Nobody except for the occasional Guard patrol (who would surely send her back home), irritable teenaged girls who couldn’t get a straight answer out of their Royal-Guard-Fathers, and unsavoury folks trying to outrun the law.
Cassandra had her sword, yes, but she wasn’t looking for a fight.
Although it might be nice to let out her frustrations on some infamous robber or something, for now it was better to stay hidden.
She didn’t need to pick a fight with an aggressive burglar thrice her size, wind up stabbed by her own sword when he inevitably tore it from her hands, and have to haunt her own funeral where her father’s tearful obituary speech could be summarized with an ‘I told you so’.
(this is my main btw i just dont rb on my artblog sorry lol)
ANYWAY THANK YOU!!!! i just think 18 year old cass- convinced shes a Proper Adult- and 14 year old punzie would be a really fun duo. punzie would think cass is SO grown up and cool and cass is trying to be all Im SO responsible Im helping this Average Citizen! just like a Real Guard(tm)
a bit before this is abt how cass has only recently hit 18 and so, since shes all properly grown up now for realsies, has been basically putting down applications to join the guard every day on her dads desk and hes just been like no. cass. not yet. so Thats part of why shes particularly annoyed. so shes kind of sulking out in the woods to avoid doing her handmaiden duties in setting up for the upcoming lantern festival lol
im slowly chugging away at this fic (not sure if its gonna be in chapters or just a Very Long oneshot just yet but . ig i'll see lol) so when its done i'll be posting it on my ao3 (maitiu) ^_^ and it'll be my 2nd tts fic yay!! and my first cass one <3
if you arent standing up and being there for the trans people in your life right now i dont know what to tell you except you might be a fucking asshole
I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀
if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old
unironically i think we need to bring back computer labs because APPARENTLY some people WERENT taught basic computer literacy and internet safety in school
things about computers/the internet i think kids should be formally taught in schools because theyre important to know and the amount of soon to be grown adults i know who know NOTHING about any of these is quite frankly almost all of them (and resources to learn if you dont know these things, because its never to late to get better with computers)
how to troubleshoot by yourself when you have a technical problem
what common file types are
some very basics on how to use ""developer tools"" on your computer (because i cant think of a better way to refer to them) like task manager and command prompt (and their mac equivalents, terminal and activity monitor ofc)
how to read and understand a privacy policy and what your personal data is, as well as what it being collected actually means and steps you can take to keep it private
how to understand terms of service
(hey. if you have trouble with reading legalese and worry about being able to understand these policies anyways, here's a site that gives basic summaries of privacy policies and ToS)
what a cookie actually is
internet privacy and your digital footprint!! seriously i dont know why we stopped teaching people that they shouldnt be putting their entire real identity online in a world where your online actions can ruin you irl
basic safety measures like antivirus software (and why you should use it or if the built in one on windows or mac is enough for you) and backing up your computer (also a mac guide)
common keyboard shortcuts (and on mac)
as an additional note: things i think everyone should know on computers and the internet but schools may bit hesitant to teach about for whatever moral/legal standards schools pretend to operate on
vpns and adblockers! (btw for most of these where you can pay for things im purposefully not recommending any specific software but seriously just use ublock origin for an adblocker)
how to not get a virus while pirating something
what a temporary email is and when to use one
red flags that you shouldn't trust a website (and how to quickly check the security of a site)
what javascript on a website does and how to disable it to get around paywalls
ok one last addition! if you want to take it one level higher, i think learning the very basics of at least one programming language is good for people. it makes computers less scary and it makes you feel very cool, and a lot of people get discouraged about it because it seems overly complicated and hard to learn outside a formal classroom setting, so heres some resources for learning the very basics of python (because i consider it the easiest language to learn and knowing one language will make it easier to learn others)
an online compiler so you dont need to download anything or worry about running code directly on your computer if that makes you nervous
a basic video guide to introduce you to python and walk you through beginner steps
a guide to some syntax and commands you should know (this was literally my lifeline in my first CS class)
some performance tasks to give you things to code to practice and assess yourself
