and any remaining interest my friends have in me is just "hey, this animal can talk! ♪
hi im kiki
🐚 kiki/tenley, 20, aroace, gender-ambiguous lesbian
🐇 i like to code and create art. i'm big into pokémon fangames. that's mainly what i post about here...!
🦋 you may use or tag my art however you wish, you do not have to ask permission nor credit me. i don't check the notes on them too often, lurk or spam as you wish.
🌺feral porn, proship, profiction gets you blocked. you do you, but i am not interested in associating with it.
requests: open!
art trades: closed
my tags:
text, art tag, oc, fun sized (doodles/sketches)
pokémon rejuvenation/desolation, car seat headrest, the scary jokes, splatoon, pokémon, closed species (sorry), the scp foundation, warrior cats, yellowjackets, undertale/deltarune, your average 2010s animal mmo (animal jam, toontown, etc.) and lots of misc. stuff
🫧 characters i like
rebornevos: crescent, erin, melia, talon, risa's fucked up gaggle of figures, crawli, nim, nova, ava, scarlett, luna, amaria, adrienn
everyone else: agent 8 (splatoon), callie (splatoon), agent 4 (splatoon), mallow & lana (pokemon), rosa & artemis (the scholars), misty quigley (yellowjackets), good kid!!!
i am far from invested in shipping and you can generally assume most of what i make to be whatever dynamic is canon, but if i drew something you like to ship then it can be ship art. just for you.
beautiful art of my pokésona lagoon by all_seeing_bunny
I get in theory why people complain about het ships or whatever, I get wanting to watch queer media I really do, but I guess where y’all lose me is like. I saw some asshole on a post about Sinners complaining it was “hetslop”—this person was specifically doing so while also claiming Remmick was a queer character and thus they were justified in caring more about him than the Black protagonists. which is a whole other disgusting can of worms that has been well addressed by others at this point. but even in the absence of that part of the argument, like, no, i actually don’t think that a hunger for queer stories is an especially good excuse to deride and dismiss a piece of landmark Black filmmaking, especially as a non-Black person. I have a post that’s been going around encouraging folks to engage with more Native stories and characters, and I had someone come onto that post saying in the tags that they’d need these stories to be queer in order to care. and I just think that, you know, sucks! like obviously as a queer Native I also want to see more of those stories too. but idk how else to put it other than to say that Black people and people of color shouldn’t have to be like you in order for you to care about our narratives and experiences. and I think some of y’all are using this disdain for heterosexuality as a cover for your unexamined racial biases. it’s not okay to be racist to people just because those people happen to be straight, and you continue to be white before you are queer.
on an even more basic level than that, also, I simply just think some of y’all NEED to learn how to interact with media and storytelling without ships and fandom in mind. like if not being able to write fic about two men kissing is genuinely going to be a dealbreaker for you I think that’s actually something you need to work on within yourself because at that point I think you’re no longer really interacting with art and themes and narrative so much as just kind of playing with toys. which is, like, fine I guess. have fun. but it wouldn’t kill you to disengage from that from time to time. especially if would allow you to actually appreciate rich and deeply moving cultural stories from communities of color that you desperately need to learn how to see as human
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
the 24 hour endings were probably my favorite part of the paragon route… they're just oozing with mockery for the fact that you decided you're the only true person here. look at everyone and the lives that they were still living while you weren't looking at them. they still think of you as on their level. they're inviting you in on what you want to do, but you didn't share that sentiment and it's too late now. a lot of the personal visits also have some form of uncanny and undeserved fan service. if you're just playing dolls with these people, you'll get what you wanted, only you don't actually get to have it for any longer than it took you to read the scene. you want everyone's secrets, their private lives, and their affections, and sure, you can get it, but if you're just going to take it rather than earn it by actually knowing them as people, it's going to feel shallow and won't last. the closest you can get at restoring any amount of their humanity is by dying without any of the connections you could have made.
