just another burnt out artist

tbh, leave me alone.

[sunshien-deactivated20220126]

current mood is playing messenger between an ex-theatre kid and an ex-warrior cats kid trying to decide who would win the most important battle of our generation

[milkbishop]

i’m still right that the warrior cats would demolish the jellicles while they’re busy being sensual and singing

[destroytheart]

You’re just mad none of the warrior cats are as sexy as Macavity the Mystery Cat

[sunshien-deactivated20220126]

[iamnotlanuk]

I dunno maybe the horrors would be less daunting if we were holding hands

[animatedamerican]

with each other or with the horrors?

[kedreeva]

#well you’ve probably got two hands right (via @redbirdblogs)

[imaginedsoldier]

Overwatch design philosophy is combining someone’s fetish and someone else’s bigotry, throwing a dartboard at a map and then covering it in gundam armor

[chaostheparrot]

I’M CRYING DFGDFGLDFKHLJFDHLFJGHLJSDGHDLSAGHJ

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

It’s true and they should say it.

[gabr1elkit-deactivated20230205]

i want to see old men with full beards learning ballet and i want to see terrible art from people in their 30s who have only just got their first tablet and i want to see mothers picking up their old hobbies from before they were told it wasn’t okay to have hobbies and i want to see people in their early 20s figuring out how to be alive by making bad music in their bedrooms and i want zines to be handmade paper pamphlets of devotion and i want creation to be fun again instead of a competition where we all have to monetise joy until we lose the invaluable currency of unashamed love again

[mywritingcannotbestopped]

Is this a problem?

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[traditional-latin-math]

[draculas-husband]

[furbaspade]

Happy holidays furby people!

[storyweaverwordsmith]

I enjoy making things.

A while ago, a fellow autistic friend and I had a convo about the fact that there aren't tangles made out of metal. So I decided to make one.

This is the most recent prototype after... So many prototypes across this year. It doesn't move exactly as a store bought tangle does, but it is very close, and, a nice stim.

Anyways. Appreciate my shitty video.

[huffylemon]

[margintext]

Every day, a new realization of how criminally fucked the school system is

[guooey]

Puppies getting warm and toasty by the fire, ok?

[reesecomic13]

Slight redesign of my long Furby-

[kuttithevangu]

We must not kiss a dachshund dog

We must not smooch their snout

Who knows beneath what icky logs

They like to root about

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i vote that Coming Out Cakes should become commonplace.

when, for instance, a teen confides in their parents about their gender/sexual identity, that act of self-discovery and trust should be celebrated with a cake. or dinner out at their favorite restaurant. or both. show queer loved ones that you don't just love and support them--you also celebrate them. you celebrate them with cake.

[amuseoffyre]

Raise your hand if you have a very visceral understanding of why people might have gone a bit unhinged in the 1920s after living through a succession of natural, unnatural, political and man-made disasters for several years in rapid succession

[fernscare]

solstice greetings!

[ID: a paint and colored pencil illustration of a seated, sun-faced, leonine creature on a black background. The creature is blue, with yellow stars on its fur and a many-pronged tail. It has one paw raised and is grinning down at a circle of red imps that are dancing around a bonfire. Outside of the light of the bonfire, there are myriad creatures outlined in blue, (including a human skeleton, a dragon-like creature, and a fish), white snowflakes, and small holly sprigs. Above the sun-creature's head, red text reads "Dancing through the longest night".]

[sigaloenta]

The way I personally stay true to the story I started down on is to give myself permission to not teach anyone anything. I’m not writing a manual. I’m not delivering bromides. I know that a lot of people do take enormous pleasure and relief in lines or phrases or ideas from stories that ring true to their own lives, but it’s important for me that I tell a story and that I’m not writing Chicken Soup for the Necromantic Soul. It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t ‘this is to succour all my marginalised people’. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think <is prevalent> nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut. I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used.

I am writing for my younger self and it would be disgusting of me to try to teach her anything.

Tamsyn Muir, Interview with Ciara Seccombe, 2/5/22