Conner's Vibe Corner

Conner | 20 | He/Him | Queer | That moment when I ???

[shockingevacuation]

FREE COMMISSIONS FOR DONATORS TO PALESTINE CHARITIES!!! 🇵🇸

so I'm sure everyone is aware of the genocide going on in Palestine, and even though I can't directly donate a lot of money, I've figured out a way I can still do my part!!!

If you have donated any amount of money to Palestine (above £2), send me a screenshot of your donation (preferably a confirmation email or a listing of your donation) and I'll draw you something!!! anything of your choice!

Preexisting donations and combined donations do count!!!

A £5 and a separate £10 donation count as £15!!

DONATION TIERS -

£2-£5: Rough sketch of anything you wish

£5.01-£10: Detailed sketch of anything you wish

£10.01-£15: Lined piece with flat colour of anything you wish

£15.01-£25: Lined piece with shading of anything you wish

Anything above £25: Either 1 fullbody piece with a background, 3 lined flatcolured pieces, or 5 detailed sketches of your choice!

[lengthy-artery]

discord letting you have custom emoji has really ruined my ability to communicate effectively on other apps. what do you mean i cant send jalute. what about givehand. cryingpat. torment. sittinghere. tvek. cant even send my wonderful beloved frogheart. whats the bloody point

[shockingevacuation]

my squint. my seel. my innocence. my proud. my smirk. my sobbing. my supermanpat. my tbhdance. my ohgodpleaseno. my drools. I can't even kon_run.

[lengthy-artery]

discord letting you have custom emoji has really ruined my ability to communicate effectively on other apps. what do you mean i cant send jalute. what about givehand. cryingpat. torment. sittinghere. tvek. cant even send my wonderful beloved frogheart. whats the bloody point

[fizzy-dizz]

Gotta follow my rainbow!

[daysleftofsecondterm]

962 days left

[shockingevacuation]

BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE SPEAKERS OF DC TUMBLR. I BESEECH THEE

I have a document i made for funsies that i havent worked on in. a good long while. largely thinking about nonverbal field communication for the batclan. most of the situational signals are based off of this website, and UK battlefield hand signals as a whole (due to alfred being ex-SAS and most likely teaching bruce some of those hand signals very early days.)

now. here is where my problem starts.

all of the names in this document are sign names, based off of BSL (british sign language). i only know a small amount of BSL. most of these signs are the result of me frantically googling relevant words and smashing them together to make something.

i have no idea if these names are good or not. and i am having trouble coming up with more sign names.

if you or someone you know is a BSL speaker and are happy with me pestering you with 10billion questions regarding sign names and coming up with sign names for dc characters, PLEASE message me on discord. my user is supernovatesttubebaby

you dont even have to be a big fan of dc!!! i can help out with power descriptions, appearances, and a general explanation of their personality!!!

here is what i have so far for reference!!!

[why-i-love-comics]

DC Pride #1 - “Finding Batman” (2022)

written by Kevin Conroy art by J. Bone

[laswells-ashtray]

the prettiest princess of all time

[sandmandaddy69]

[harzilla]

Reblog to cast healing for your homies.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

I cast lore healing on 968 days left

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[fizzy-tizzy]

Everyone knows the first day of Friend Grace’s class is nickname day. It’s the day when every pebble is on their best behavior to try and make sure they get a cool nickname, something unique that they can brag to their friends and classmates about.

Sometimes, Grace will do it without thinking. That’s how Kiddo and Buddy got their nicknames. Often, Grace will nickname students after their coloration. Gaia got his nickname because he’s blue and green, and apparently looks a lot like Earth. Violet got hers because she’s purple. (She was initially disappointed since color means nothing to Eridians, but then Friend Grace showed them violet flowers and said that humans often associated purple with wealth and royalty, and she changed her tune.) Most of the time, Grace will give his students what he calls “regular human names” like Abby, Carl, or Martin.

But the most coveted nicknames are ones named after Earthen creatures. When ♩♪♬ 🎵 ♩♪♬ 🎵 first introduced themselves, Friend Grace immediately perked up and shouted “Robin!” After a bit of explaining himself and a few videos of bird calls, Robin was trilling and chirping happily, excited at having a nickname that felt like a 1-to-1 translation of their own.

Even well after Friend Grace is gone, his legacy remains. A hundred years into the future, when humankind finally launches a new ship with the express purpose of properly meeting their Eridian neighbors, one of the first messages exchanged is “Hello! My name Robin.”

[nexeliam]

Sacrifice for human kind

[spielzeugkaiser]

I swear Rocky is looking at Grace like he’s his 15 year old dog who is starting to make strange sounds in his sleep-

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Not superstitious and not not superstitious but a third secret thing (read a lot of fairytales as a child and doesn't believe them but also would never be rude to a mountain while still on it just in case)

[lasrina]

I've said it before but this is both the Icelandic and the Irish approach:

Of course we're modern educated people who don't believe in fairies

But we're also not gonna fuck with 'em, we're not idiots

[depsidase]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[cloverchameleon]

[depsidase]

[renthony]

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.