Itâs birbtober and I donât know what Iâm doing hereâs an angry swallow.
@birdtober
I'd rather be in outer space đ¸
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Stranger Things
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almost home
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we're not kids anymore.

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@smolbiotic
Itâs birbtober and I donât know what Iâm doing hereâs an angry swallow.
@birdtober
Soft idiots. Censored to be more tumblr appropriate. I might give Molly her tattoos. Maybe. Who knows? Drawing is hard, Iâm still learning and Iâm impatient as hell.
If you wanna read about these dumbasses check out Flowers and Thorns on ao3.
BIRDTOBER is a month-long event of creativity, good times and a show of love at just how awesome birds are.Â
âHOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
Birdtober starts Octoberâ 1st! Check the daily âPromptâ for inspiration, but a different bird is good too.
Draw your bird for the day! There are no restrictions for media.
Tag your post:Â #birdtober & #birdtober2020Â
Like, Share & Comment on artistâs work!
BUT IâM NOT AN ARTIST?
Birds are for everyone! Feel free to write about birds, photograph birds, share favourite bird memories!Â
(art and prompt by @autodiscothings)
B I R B
The Legend by Wynton Redmond
âI see no fucking difference between us and them, pet. I donât know why these Upper Ward assholes think their drugs, tax evasion and day drinking are classier than the rest of the strata, but here we are. Pretending that it is. You want more elasa, darling? Itâs chilled.â
-Brathan Sekat, owner of Sekat Security. Â
Well good goddamn.
-Behave, I have a colony to fund raise. I donât like them either, but I like their money. -No promises, orishen.
These two though. đ
If Ori looked at me like that Iâd melt into a pile of goo
WIP whenever
tagged by: @overbossâ, @wafflesrock16â
The usual, obviously!
tagging: @shretlâ, @n0rmandysr1â, @theuselesspotooâ, @sparatusâ, @smolbioticâ, @slothssassin-artâ, @elvhenfairyâ, @starsandskiesâ, @briarfox13â annnnnd whoever else wants to do it.
Luscious lips ahh
the look of a man with a cat whoâs suspiciously quietâŚ
A sudden urge to play the bongos...I feel it.
The goose
is running loose
to the sound
of lizzoâs âjuice.â
Okay but Iâm pretty sure they changed the word âjuiceâ to âgooseâ and Iâm 100% living for this.
This sparks joy
You dare smooch of her glorious rolls? One thousand years jail.Â
The audacity!
on style and copying.
This is really awkward, and Iâve tried to do it privately and discreetly by contacting the artist first in June, to no avail. That we share a small fandom space and audience (and it is small) makes everything unavoidable.
I have a copycat, and itâs finally reached the point of mistaken identity that Iâm doing this. Because Iâve had:
âI thought you were cool with itâ
âI thought she was an apprentice of sortsâ
âI thought it was a collaborationâ
âI thought it was your artâ
I have these comments on a fairly regular basis; doing this I hope to set things a little straight. I understand this is awkward for people who like the shared characters and content, but I would rather like to get my feelings out so you know where Iâm coming from.
on manipulation and bullying
Righto, now I know why I lost five followers over the last few days, and why a few people I thought were friendly with me have me blocked. Cool beans.
Iâm in utter disbelief that Soignee/autodiscothings felt the need to do this.
If I may, Iâm going to add my two cents here. To begin with, the above letter that I wrote and which autodiscothings published (note that she didnât publish the message to which I was responding) was in response to a message she sent out of the blue after roughly a year of what she called âa breakâ in our friendship, suggested by herâagain, out of the blue. This break was actually her blocking me on every social media. She wanted a break because she said she felt like I was plagiarising her workâshe mentioned the writing as well, so obviously it is a problem, despite her statements to the contrary above. We had been friends for two years prior to this, and nothing had changed in my work. Not my style, not my writingâI just got better than I was before.
I respected her wishes and kept my distance, even though being blocked hurt my feelings and seemed a bit over-the-top, given that she had initiated our friendship to begin with. I thought âa breakâ constituted a temporary hiatus that still had some kind of opportunity for communication. Obviously, I was wrong, and she blocked me. It stung a bit, but that was what she wanted, so I didnât hold it against her. Again, I respected her wishes despite my hurt feelings.
Here is the letter she sent me, after a year of radio silence, which she initiated:
Here is what I wrote in response, in case anyone wants it from the horseâs mouth. Neigh.
Was her letter âpolite?â Maybe. Entitled and uncalled for? Also maybe. It costs zero dollars or pounds to just leave me be, to just shake off anyone who is too dumb to tell the difference between art styles. Was my letter polite? Maybe not. It was terse, it was to-the-point, but I believe I answered her criticisms logically. If you mistake assertiveness for aggression, which I think some of you in the notes may have done, thatâs your problem.
To the people saying âafter that letter thereâs not much else to sayâ and agreeing with herâwhat should I have done? Grovelled before her and begged for her blessing to draw the setting, the characters? Never draw them again, these characters that Iâve been writing and drawing since 2015? Fat chance, my dudes. Iâm not going to apologise for what I said, because none of you know the total context of our friendship, and none of you need to, because this isnât anyoneâs business but our own⌠not that privacy matters to her. I suppose I can be read as harsh, and rude, and blunt (if you canât tell the difference between aggression and assertiveness), but thatâs because I was hurting. I was betrayed, misconstrued, and punished by someone I trusted. Add that the cliquey nature of fandom, I was outright intimidated. Anyone who knows me will know I am a bit of an online hermit, a bit awkward, and no wonder, with stuff like this going down. Itâs like being back at high school. None for Regina George, bye.
Now, onto the screenshots that she has published for comparison (completely ridiculous). By her logic, I canât draw Indigoâs head from behind (those two examples donât even have the same colour palette!), I canât draw Indigo with her head tilted back at a 45-degree angle, I canât draw Kolyat doing⌠anything⌠I canât draw Kolyat and Indigo being intimate, I canât draw Shepard standing in front of a window with a datapad. I use screenshots for references, I use pictures of cities, I use Rose Leslie as a faceclaim for Indigo, and I use Kolyat as a faceclaim for Kolyat. What should I do, replace him with Kermit the Frog? Maybe I will, itâll be funny. Our styles are similar because we draw from the game, and we draw the characters semi-realistically. I donât cartoonify my art. Do you not realise that we are both drawing from the game? Soignee, you even say in your post that you donât own an art style, and that the problem isnât neon, Kolyat, or the Citadel. So, whatâs the problem, then? It wasnât a problem when I was sending you my WIPs on discord and asking for your thoughts, Soignee. When did it suddenly become a problem?
To be honest, I think all of this is in response to the fact that I have been posting more art recently. In her original letter, she said as muchââIt has come to my attention the amount of art you have doneâ. Again, why was it not a problem before? Look through my art tag. Iâve done the same stuff throughout the years, just with better technique as Iâve been practising and developing as an artist. I went from using photoshop to clip studio paint to procreate. Maybe we use the same brushes? I donât know.
I am not a competitive person. I have no desire to push people down to further myself, which is more than I can say for autodiscothings. She told me, verbatim, âI feel like you want to see me fail.â This was in our last conversation before she blocked me. I have never, ever felt that way towards anyone, and still donât, and was hurt that she would think that of me, particularly because I thought we were friends, mutually inspiring each other. Of course Iâd like more people to view and engage with my stuff, because every artist does, but never at the expense of anyone else, because Iâm not a psychopath. Honestly, if I may play armchair psychologist for a moment, I think she was projecting.
This is an insane situation. Soignee, I canât believe youâve done this. Whoops, I just quoted a Vine. Sorry, I get facetious when Iâm angry.
To reiterate: we were friends for two years. She blocked me because she said felt I was copying her, and she didnât want to be an influence or be influenced. Her feelings are fair enough, but they stem from a misreading of my character, my intentions, and my creative process. We had one issue where she wrote her Kolyat punching a vending machine, and I offhandedly said I didnât think my Kolyat would do that. She took that as me criticising her characterisation of Kolyat, and holding her up as my âI would never.â This is wrong. I drew comparisons between our Kolyats because thatâs just how my brain works when differentiating the characters. It was not a criticism of her, or her writing, or her character, but she took it that way and this led to her ghosting me for three months. This was prior to the final conversation before she blocked me. She vastly misconstrued me and my intentions and feelings, and punished me for them. I said this to her. I feel that this is ongoing punishment. I wish she would stop obsessing. All I have ever wanted is to keep growing as an artist and a writer. I never intended to hurt anyone. I do not set out to copy. All I want to do is just chill in my little corner of the internet and just do my thing. Iâve never asked you for anything. Just leave me alone.
Soignee, I want to say itâs unfortunate that you felt the need to do this. You could have just let it be and refrained from contacting me again, or talking about me behind my back, which I explicitly said I resent you doingâand not because I was afraid people would find out my âdeep dark secret that all of my art revolves around yoursâ (Iâm being sarcastic thereâthe quotation marks to not denote me actually quoting anything, just to be clear), but because it is rude, uncalled for, and unnecessary. I would never have published our correspondence if you had not forced my hand by making it public, and I made that specific in my letter to you, though I never thought you would stoop so low as to make a public post slandering me. I am entitled to show how my letter was a response to yours, and it is only fair that I publish yours as well, to show that mine was an attempt to answer your unwarranted criticisms. I still feel that I did answer those criticisms, and I thought that was the end of this situation, and you would be mature enough to let it go. But you say in your post, âItâs still ongoing,â meaning I am still creating art. The only reason it is ongoing is because I have kept doing art, and you want to twist the knife. You really seem like one of those people who needs to have the last word, no matter how much damage it does to other people.
Soignee, as you know, I suffer from anxiety and depression, both of which were galvanised by your bullshitâyour fake friendship, your bullying, your competitive, obsessive nature. You know how insecure I am. You know how much I struggle with creativity. You know this, because we confided in each other when I thought you were my friend. Iâm not trying to be all âoh poor meâ, but I also feel the need to put my feelings out there. You have made this fair game, Soignee. You could have let it go. I know you have medical issues as well, and fandom brings joy into your life and Iâm glad of that, but that is no excuse to behave in such a deranged manner. Again, this is INSANE. I am not a threat to you.
You have a fan base, dude. You have paying customers. Why do you feel the need to tear me down? My existence should not affect you. What I do has nothing to do with you, and what you do has nothing to do with me. Maybe it did, once, but not anymore, and it never did to the extent that you have accused me of.
Re: the whole DANDI 20 thing, that was me deciding to add a signature to my work after being too lazy to do so for a few years because I felt that you force my hand. I never believed I had to do this because I didnât take myself seriously as an artist. Your accusations of plagiarism influenced that decision, of course, but my world is bigger than you.
Iâm just done, by this point. I asked you to not reply. I asked you to just let it be. I thought you could be better than this, but youâre just a manipulative bully.
Also, I want to add, that even though I am angry and hurt, and that I do not like Soignee as a person because of her actions, I do not wish her any ill, and I do not wish for anyone to turn against her because of this. My feelings towards her should not affect yours, and I will not hold it against anyone who supports herâbut I am hurt by the accusations of gaslighting. People donât have to take sides in this. Also, to those of you who are saying that I am gaslighting her into being silent, that was not my intention with the letter, I just wanted to put my context of the story out and to avoid further drama by asking her not to discuss me with other people. I feel gaslit, myself.
Iâm not intending to instigate a war or anything. I want an end to this drama. I thought I had ended it with my response to her initial letter. I thought this was over. Can it be over now?
kid, youâre probably gonna block me here, but you are plagiarizing. actively, willfully.
and your response says a helluva lot about how youâre handling being called to the table.
kolyat, mass effect in general, and neo(n)-noir are not autoâs property. she acknowledges this. however, auto talked about how they arenât upset or bothered by your writing, or the subject matter, itâs the art itself. art that you have copied directly, willfully, in a number of cases - more than what she posted here i might add - to the point where people are reblogging your work thinking itâs hers.
youâre a musician. if someone took music you wrote, changed a couple bars and called it theirs, you would be just as hurt and angry. hell, if they sold that music, you could sue and you would win.
i shouldnât have to mention courts and suing and stealing; the music industry is rife with enough examples of those. this shouldnât be news to you at all. so why do i mention it? because this is exactly the type of shit that would get you blacklisted from the field. it is exactly the type of shit that was drilled into my head from day 1 during my visual art undergrad: attribute your sources. do not plagiarize. you will be expelled from school, you will be fired from your job, and you will face legal consequences.
comparing the art iâve seen on both your blogs i will tell you now: no judge would decide in your favor.
but, this is fandom. anne rice isnât here, no one is taking you to court. auto isnât telling you to stop drawing or writing. sheâs definitely not telling you to stop creating in general. but she is wanting, rightfully, to be acknowledged as someone whoâs work you have been co-opting as your own.
so from one visual artist to another: acknowledge your mistakes and stop plagiarizing.
This is blatant mimicking. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Itâs not about the subject matter or similar references, that doesnât mean anything. The original artist has been working and developing their style over many, many years and the devil is in the details. Neons have always been a weakness of mine, and Iâve seen a hell of a lot of neons in art before but you can see what makes their work unique when you get up close. Every stroke, every line is made with intent. Their approach is completely unique to them, so itâs not hard to miss when someone tries to mimic their stylistic choices. Itâs plagiarism. Had I done anything like this in school I would have been booted out without the department head showing an ounce of remorse.
The important things to note that were pointed out by the original artist in their letter are mood, composition, colour, poses. Sharing one or two of these with the same subject matter or references wouldnât draw that much attention, but when you combine every element that makes an original piece of artwork unique then that is theft. You are stealing their hard work.
Itâs a long struggle to find your own backbone, your own signature as an artist. I rarely post art because I have no idea who the hell I am in what I draw, and itâs exasperating. Iâm working hard to try and find something unique to me and I know Iâm a hell of a ways off. For a person to have found that foothold and to have someone else stand there must be a horrible feeling.
Responding with horrible accusations on someoneâs personality and character is not okay. Itâs time to step back and practice a little bit of critical self-reflection. If multiple people can see what you cannot, perhaps youâre looking at it the wrong way. Thereâs a common thread being missed and continuing to copy someone elseâs style, especially when they make a living off of making and selling art, is not okay.
Please donât send anons to either party or attack them. I was very torn on saying this much because I donât want anyone to feel like this fandom is turning against them, but my studies and background make this a very touchy subject and I wanted to share my perspective.Â
Commission work of @paintedpolarbearâs Sara Ryder, enjoying the delights of Havarl.
Havarl aesthetic is the best aesthetic.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 19/? Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Original Female Human Character(s)/Original Male Turian Character(s) Characters: Original Turian Character(s), Original Male Turian Character(s), Original Mass Effect Character(s) Additional Tags: Drama, Romance, Slow Romance, Interspecies Romance, Salty, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Breathplay, Sex Before Feelings, Rough Sex, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Violence, Blood and Violence, Semi-Public Sex, Public Sex Summary:
If you like raunchy idiots with emotions then youâll like this chapter. Itâs mostly smut and filth, with some conversation after the line break.Â
That...thatâs the galaxyâs ass.
Ales and Eli are the beautiful @capt-biglouâs OCs. I used them to recreate this delicious genderbent cosplay (because Iâm trash and theyâre perfect for it IM0).
This is the best way to dust off my tumblr account I think.
Primarch Week Day 1
LET THE CELEBRATION BEGIN!
A flock of Fishcats- some orbed, some not.
r o u n d fish
CITADEL FASHION WEEK 2190 2020
Cosy/Hygge Kolyat
For an introverted man like Kolyat Krios, his home (and his cat) are the centre of his universe with heâs not working.Â
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Fashion!Kol đ
And a scheming Fish.