I'm taking commissions over on Artistree as I am currently looking for a new job and would like some support! I currently have 5 slots open at the moment, and many options to choose from!
just follow this link: https://artistree.io/senthesyren and choose whichever option you'd like!
Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)
Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here and here .
I want to clarify because one point of this annoys me:
Gaiman credited A Study in Emerald as Lovecraft and Doyle fanfiction because it features the literal actual characters of Holmes, Watson and Lestrade in a world that references Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos directly and often by name.
He did not credit Robert W. Chambers despite one of the scenes in A Study in Emerald being pulled directly from The King in Yellow.
Neil Gaiman credits his influences when they are absolutely undeniable and standard 90s D&D and Marvel level nerds are liable to recognize them, but even one scratch deeper and he's always been attempting to pass off the ideas as his own. This has always been his thing and people who are a little deeper on the nerd bullshit know that Gaiman's whole thing has always been weaponizing a far more normie audience to flex on and bully around creators with less social capital in the industries that he had "outgrown."
sometimes i wish i'd been born to a less old mother. one that doubts her ability to speak english and constantly puts herself down so im the only one that she goes to to translate everything. my brother's right there but god forbid she bothers him, he gets home so tired from work and all that jazz.
im not working rn cuz of a medical leave but still. am i not human? do i not get tired? or irritated?? or am i just the constant translating machine you want to be there at all times??
i dont wanna die but fuck do i wanna disappear for a while.
So im working on an au for my tmnt03 rp blog with @godsequal and no one stopped me after i drew my Mike and her Raph so i did all 4 boys as half dragon turtles! the dragon features are based off their actual dragon forms from Season 5/the ninja tribunal arc!
FYI this au is gonna be dark and unsettling, with some dead dove, do not eat content as it's based on House of the Dragon/Game of Thrones lore! fair warning if you want to continue reading!
since this is based on House of the Dragon lore she's built up for her oc Cora, they're part of one of the dragon lord families, birthed from a slave woman being assaulted by a dragon. they're revered as gods, and treated as such, adorned in Valyrian steel armor and weapons, and lots of chains/jewels.
I'm still designing their actual outfits, but im mixing traditional ninja gear with the armor the Valyrians use, differing from each other by amount of armor and type of weapon.
speaking of weapons, since their in/from Gogossos, they're using weapons of the time, meaning I will keep their proficiencies just change the weapon. So:
Rhaegel (Raph) was a little hard, since Sai are pretty unique. but River decided to give him one elaborately made war axe and a standard throwing axe, so he's a axe duel wielder.
Duncan (Donnie) has long weapons ie. Spears, Halberds, Polearms, things he can swing like a bo staff just more deadly.
Matarys (Mikey) is also hard, as he's got a pretty unique weapon, but i kinda thought about it in dnd terms. its a bludgeoning weapon and nunchuku are considered a type of club/flail in dnd, so why not give him twin flails?
so yeah ! that's what we've got so far lol
have some progress shots of what I've draw since the top picture:
the first image is of Donnie in armor, but as he's more of a scholar, it's pretty sparce. if he does have to fight, he'd have his upper body free to move as much as he wants as his legs are more protected. he also has a polearm/halberd.
the second image is River's OC Cora in high Valyrian fashion lol (aka im still designing her armor/outfit!)
the new content filters and the flagging system require every reblogger to appeal independently from the poster.
What is happening?
With the latest tumblr content filter updates, every reblog is flagged independently from the original post without the OP knowing. This means that if your post is reblogged by someone and that reblog is flagged, you won't know. The note count will go up, but the note is hidden: you can't see it on the rebloggers blog or any other reblogs branching from the flagged post.
What should I do?
Every reblogger needs to appeal for their own reblogs. Thankfully the review time on Tumblr's side has been fast, usually in a couple of hours they restore the post. If you can notify the OP, grand. If you have time, leave a support ticket, choose feedback and tell them why you think this is a bad model.
Why and how should I do it?
We all know the latest and contested change about the note counts that was thankfully rolled back, but its ramifications are still in use. Tumblr now considers every reblog a post in its own right, as you can see from the new banners for the same post as above:
The turn this website has taken regarding the ownership of posts is at best discouraging and at worst a massive disrespect done to all the artists, creators, gifmakers, fic writers and meta writers out there, making fandom fun and alive. If artists, writers and gifmakers don't get autonomy over their own art being shared on this website, how is a reblog different from a repost, something tumblr actively discourages from doing? How can the OP appeal for a post if they don't even know it's flagged? Why are we taking away ownership of the art from the artist, the human behind it?
How do I appeal?
Tumblr has this very useful feature, both on the website and on the mobile app:
You can find all the flagged posts on your blog either by going to the relevant blog>right hand menu, below Posts, Followers, Activity>Review flagged posts on the website OR by going to Settings>Review flagged posts on the mobile
Then you click on Appeal, and write a very short reason why, describing the post. You can even write this:
This post has nothing that is against the User Guidelines.