Sora

My hands are small and my brain is smaller. He/they/it

[strider-starfall]

I finished him guys ^_^

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

A dear, courageous activist friend from Gaza is still trying after months to raise enough money to get his parents out of Gaza and getting them the medications they need. If you could please share or donate I’d appreciate it so much. He’s been an incredible advocate for years, and his family deserves our support!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-lives-of-our-precious-relatives-in-gaza

Donate to Saving lives of our precious relatives in Gaza, organized by Owen Berson

I am raising money on behalf of my dear friend who is a Palestinian born in… Owen Berson needs your support for Saving lives of our precious

[soraleeeeeeee]

I HAD CLASSES TODAY AND THEN ZONED OUT FOR THE REST OF IT, LAST MINUTE MCIDIA AND DOTTORE BIRD STICKER

[soraleeeeeeee]

THIS ISN'T THE ONE I WANTED TO POST BUT IT'S THE ONLY ONE I HAD THE SPOONS FOR.

Palestine refugee support:

Meals of hope:

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my ko-fi to donate/commission me:

https://ko-fi.com/soralee

Even though I'm posting every day to raise funds for college, I stress that you must help the people in Palestine first. College can wait if it means at least one life is saved.

[soraleeeeeeee]

doing that thing where you draw every day or smth, anyways. I'm doing it cuz I need money for art college. anything over the goal will be donated to Palestine. Tomorrow I'll try to draw a watermelon for Palestine. For now, Alastor.

Ye 👍

donate/commission me at ko-fi.com/soralee

[soraleeeeeeee]

holdup i need to do smth rq

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ok im good now

[soraleeeeeeee]

does anybody else have The Pill Bottle™?

Like, its the same medicine but its just a bunch of different dosages. Some days I'm just gonna feel more like shit until I get a refill.

[dreaming-abyss]

Horrible pick up lines with me!!!!

Hey boy, are you from 1.6-1.8 million years ago? Cause you can be my homo erectus.

[soraleeeeeeee]

Everyday I face that fact that I'm dating this fucking idiot.

[stellerfly]

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

[pizzaronipasta]

Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s

And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.

[stellerfly]

you are a tar pit.

[pizzaronipasta]

and you are ableist.

[stellerfly]

[pizzaronipasta]

you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.

[stellerfly]

L+Ratio+It doesn't+i slept w your mom

[cripple-woe]

Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.

I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.

AI, isn’t art.

There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.

Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.

Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.

Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.

Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.

Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.

Fuck you.

[solstice-snakes]

hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.

my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.

our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.

[punk-jaskier]

Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.

Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.

What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.

Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.

No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.

Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.

[fembutchboygirl]

And also if you just really really really really cannot create your vision and need someone else to do it for you. Then just hire a goddamn artist. Save up your money if you need it so badly that you're willing to enable thieves that care as little about art as they do about the real people who make it.

[clockworkcuttlefish]

I'm disabled, I'm a writer, and I will absolutely fistfight anyone trying to say they shouldn't have to put in the twenty years of fucking EFFORT that I HAVE EXPENDED in BEING A GODDAMN WRITER behind a goddamn denny's at three AM

[mafuyuh]

#shit howl says in the book

[soraleeeeeeee]

Everytime I learn more about the book, I want to read it more

[dreaming-abyss]

Commissions!!!

I made a form too! you don't have to use it but it would be neat if you did! ^w^

This is my first time opening commissions, so please tell me if I did something wrong!

[charmallows]

sprites from the fall newsletter!

[dreaming-abyss]

IS PAPYRUS MOVING THAT LEAF WITH HIS MIND!?

[soraleeeeeeee]

My dear, that is a worm.

[soraleeeeeeee]

So I'm doing a speech assignment at 11:17 pm that's due by midnight. I open up the doc that covers what we need to do and therES 12 OTHER PEOPLE LOOKING AT THE DOC

[dreaming-abyss]

On this episode of concerning pick up lines that will probably scare people rather than charm them.

"Damn girl, are you a rotting carcass? Cause I want to draw you."

"Are you a mangled rat? Cause I'm going to pick you up at four pm."

"Your hair reminds me of the crow my cat brought in and ate, very pretty."

[soraleeeeeeee]

I am charmed.

[pikestaff]

"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

[themythicalcodfish]

To wit:

[switchelsweets]

I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.

In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:

“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.

“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”

Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

[dreaming-abyss]

I think the neighbors car just got broken into

[soraleeeeeeee]

Uh oh

[sophbun]

"i like your sonic and shadow photo" thanks! i stole it from the president :)