part time creative, full time anxiety

aru || she/her || desi || writer/artist/poet || hen_of_the_woods on ao3 || 18+ ||

[neverjustblue]

percy jackson fans will read this then look you in the eyes and swear leo wasnt a victim of racist writing

[bvinhster]

hidden inventory/premature death

[classicalcanvas]

Consulting the Oracle (1884) by John William Waterhouse

[kaoruartsss]

[colinarcartperson]

I had the absolute pleasure of working with the wonderful Arryn again on this piece. I had fun with the details in this one~

[7pleiades7]

Dante and Beatrice, (Detail), (c. 1906), by Salvatore Postiglione (Italian, 1861 – 1906), signed bottom right ’Sal. Postiglione’, oil on canvas, 101 cm (39.7 in) x 150 cm (59 in), Private Collection

[beatricecenci]

Vittorio Reggianini (Italian, 1858-1938)

La serenata

[seaacearts]

I have never heard anyone talk about this one scene in moa and it makes me so mad because it's so wholesome and important to the plot

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[expressions-of-nature]

by Vladimir Ryabkov

[oldpaintings]

The White Rose by René-Xavier Prinet (French, 1861–1946)

[classicalcanvas]

Good neighbours (1885) by John William Waterhouse

[bayetea]

frank literally got stabbed through the chest with a sword multiple times in son of neptune and still survived because he's cool as fuck and op as hell but no one wants to talk about that

[bayetea]

and yet it's crickets from the fandom. you guys don't know a fucking baller when you see one

[goldcrescent]

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 🥀

[goldcrescent]

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

[aropride]

as a disabled person, i know what it’s like to not be able to work. that’s why this disability pride month i’m partnering with every single printer,

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

hello! I came across your blog and I just had a question to ask if you don’t mind lol.

oftentimes around the discussion of taboo topics in fiction, I often hear about it can affect you because what you consume will have an affect on you as a person. After all, you are taking in information, and even subconsciously your brain can take matters from fiction and consider it fact. I didn’t explain it well but here’s an essay talking about it (with sources) https://www.hilarylayne.com/p/you-are-what-you-read

I just wanted to know your stance on it because it could be a problem if people aren’t mindful of how they read books. This topic fascinates me and I always want to learn more thankssss

quoting what I’ve already said before on this blog:

❝ if someone lets fiction affect their reality enough to the point they think bad things in fiction are okay in real life and start hurting real people (or start accepting it when bad things are done to them), because the bad things are portrayed as good things in fiction, then chances are that—with or without the fiction they consume—they’re already troubled and they need help. but their inability to separate fiction from reality is not artists’ problems or responsibility. artists are not their parents or babysitters.❞

fiction can affect audiences in the sense that it makes audiences be emotionally invested in it. it can even teach and help audiences understand some things better. but for normal people, fiction doesn’t affect them enough to the point they abandon their entire moral compass and start harming other people because of what they consume in fiction alone.

I’ve been a fan of Hannibal for years, and so are millions of people all across the world. and no sane person has actually started murdering and eating people because they watched and enjoyed Hannibal.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I saw someone deadass demand an AO3 author to "post evidence" by recording a timescale or showing "real edit dates". Like how artists show their process of painting.

What are we COLLECTIVELY smoking? This is insane.

yeah this is just dystopian. fanfic writers don’t owe anyone anything. artists don’t owe anyone anything (unless they want to share the process themself). especially when you (general you) are privileged enough to get FREE contents to read and consume. if you don’t like it, if you suspect it’s ai-generated and if it bothers you, quietly leave.

this “witch hunting and demanding xyz from someone whose writing/creation you get to consume for free” is not only entitled and toxic but also damaging to the community you’re claiming to protect.

I don’t think these people actually care about the harm ai can cause. they only care about the possibility of themself accidentally reading an ai-generated fic and no longer being “morally pure”. it’s like the satanic panic from the 80s but make it modern.