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[strangeacorn]

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[deadsprout]

i dont want to be in a fandom that critisizes the choices of fictional characters like they are human beings. i want to see THEORY and ANALYSIS and STORY STRUCTURE and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!! I WANT PARALLELS AND MOTIFS AND VISUAL CUES!!! They're not REAL they are TOOLS so stop acting like they are people who made bad choices and should be punished. of course they made bad choices!!! that shit is funny and cool to watch!!

[futurama]

im scared

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[artmunstudios]

Lookit dat.

Look at all thems 9s.

[shinyzango]

So uh… things are starting to get a little rough here. We got bombarded by huge expences this month between bills and other overdue payments that drained a lot of our savings… and the next few months are not looking too great either…

I hate to do this, but if anyone is generous enough and willing to buy a commission over at my VGen I would greatly appreciate it ;;

And for folks who are not able to buy a commission on VGen, I also have Patreon available with cheap tiers as an alternative.

Thank you so much if you consider helping me out a bit 🥹💝

[shinyzango]

I don't want to sound desperate, but I'm seriously getting dangerously low on cash... I barely have 100 bucks in my card now thanks to the AC inconvenience (which i still have to get checked and I hope I don't have to spend more than what I have set aside for it) and I have like 400+ bucks worth of expenses at the bare minimum that I won't be able to afford this next month...

If folks are generous enough to help me out either by buying a commission/joining my patreon, or just spreading the word i would highly appreciate it ;w;'

[marcanimation]

a little revamp of something I did over 5 years ago. he full lore of this one is that back when I did the rough, I was really happy with it, but I got impatient and totally bungled the cleanup, and it went from something I was excited about to something I was embarrassed of. It was bothering me all this time, so I opened it back up

I do also wish I'd added Josef, but it's back to my froggy film for now

[recklessmoss]

🔥🎇

[kyri45]

Pride Sticker Collection by @Kyri45

Here’s my absolute best-seller coming back ONLY for the month of June!!

[artmunstudios]

I feel like just saying this into the ether of 1am ….

And I’m tired of holding it in.

Most of the fandom toxicity habits/entitlement for indie animation has always been there. This is not new.

It’s just that the most popular indie animation at the time this was happening was RWBY—and the majority online hated the show/writers/Rooster Teeth so nobody batted an eye at it. And now that this behavior is happening to properties people like, everyone is acting shocked.

But I’m not. It literally has always been like this. It’s just that these new indie creators are learning at a much slower pace than the staff for RWBY the pivotal lesson to be had;

Showrunners Cannot Stay Influencers/Content Creators. ESPECIALLY WHILE THE WORK IS PREMIERING.

Parasocialism is a Disease and if I EVER had any advice to give as someone who has been in the industry for actually quite some time (but you’d never know it because I make it an intentional point not to advertise WHAT I do under my internet persona) it’s to never ever ever EVER directly involve yourself into fandoms as personally as creators do these days. It may sound cold, and downright rude, but without fail time and time again it just gets proven that people as a whole CANNOT HANDLE IT. Direct/personal interaction especially online and outside of professional outlets like Cons, Interviews, Meet & Greets just encourages crowds (not individuals this is important to note) to believe they have ownership over your IP in some way or form. Now where this mindset originated from? I have no clue. But it’s just an observation I noticed back while RWBY premiered, I noticed it with the showrunners of Voltron were extremely active in the fandom before things went tits-up, and I’m seeing it in modern indie-animations all over now.

And note to people who get into internet fights within fandoms…as someone that used to be that guy: it’s so not worth it dude. Just block/mute shit that makes you angry and move on. You will be much happier outside of it trust me. Is it upsetting to watch fandoms go down in flames? Obviously. But when all is said and done it’s much easier to walk away.

[moldspace]

spiral sphinx

[norijammy]

tree halos

[faux-friend]

When a black person states that something you did was racist, chill the fuck out. Its annoying dealing with you panicking trying to dissociate yourself from racism. If you're not black, black people already assume youve said nigga or its variant at least once in your life. If they're interacting with you and bringing something up, its because they want you to stop doing that so they can still interact with you(if ur already friends)

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

Be the kind of person black people don't have to gamble on. Shut up and lock in

[creation-help]

No, your oc isn't too cringe or a Mary sue. Yes, it's completely fine that it looks similar to your other ocs. Yes it's completely fine that it looks similar to a Canon character design. No it's not uncreative. No the design isn't shitty. No the backstory doesn't have to make perfect sense or be all figured out. Yes it can be self indulgent or unrealistic or overly sappy. No you don't draw your favorite character too much. Yes you can flip flop between developing whatever characters you want. No you don't have to keep the parts of your character that you don't like or that make you uncomfortable just for the sake of consistency, realism or whatever else

[creation-help]

Did you know. That it's okay to make imperfect characters. Did you know you don't owe anyone a certain level of quality or a certain style of writing.

Did you know, that you're allowed to have fucking fun.

Did you know that the rise of cringe culture, "Mary sues" and the whole sphere of art critics and ranters getting popular on YouTube around the 2010s/ 20teens contributed to alot of people having terrible self esteem about their creativity. That so many people still as adults remember the things they were mocked about as teens. Over what? Ocs? Drawing pictures of rainbow haired wolf princesses? Imagining they were dating sans undertale? Is that worth making people too scared to draw or make certain kinds of characters. Look in the notes. I guarantee you'll find more than one admitting they stopped doing something they loved because people made fun of them. For doing a hobby. For not being good enough.

You don't need to be good enough to do art. You can just do art. I'm rooting for you.

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[knightsickness]

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead

[darlingofdots]

"a lot of books that are successful on booktok are not very good" and "people can read what they want and we need to stop being so fucking weird about women enjoying erotica" are both correct statements

[exaltedrevenge]