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[thesituation]

it’s insane how just by clicking on blogs i see on my dash i find a 32 year old pedophile reblogging shit like this from minors. grooming going on right here in the open and there’s still people who think there’s nuance to it. treating me and people like me who noticed it years ago like we’re crazy. everyone waits until it’s too late so then we can all just shrug and move on and pretend to be above talking about it

[sunlesbian]

I think what really has me stuck on this whole discourse, other than the harm of radqueer/promap rhetoric being embraced, is the way i've seen comments in the vein of... never believe any accusation ever, especially not if the person being accused is x.

And while i hope those passing comments don't mean much and don't actually reflect the entirety of their values, it does worry me because i've been in online spaces long enough to see those attitudes realized in callout wars.

When that kind of culture of deflection and denial takes root and gets applied in marginalized communities, it leads to situations where the abusers are also marginalized and then that marginalization is used as a reason to  shield them from consequences on the grounds of the perpetrator's safety.

Like many of us have seen how abusers operate; we've seen victims be asked, coerced and manipulated into protecting their abuser just to protect their imago/the family/etc. We've seen social and material consequences be brought up as a way to guilt-trip victims into silence.

Having observed how social justice and activism-focused circles operate, i think it's naive to think that identity politics can't be used on an interpersonal or community level as another tool of manipulation or, in some cases, to DARVO the victim in retaliation.

Before i go on, i want to be clear: 1) i am not claiming ISFF is an abuser, i am discussing different ways these types of mindsets manifest when applied to situations outside of this one

2) this isn't only a phenomenom within the queer community. The same rhetoric in different fonts gets applied in many communities where they are a minority surrounded by a majority, and even in interpersonal relationships where optics are a consideration.

3) unfortunately, just like therapy speech, social justice concepts and rhetoric can be misused and manipulated. I think it's a bit unrealistic to deny that identity politics, "oppression olympics" etc can be weaponized on a community and interpersonal level, depending on the environment.

4) just because these thoughts are surfacing again on a topic that's revolving around transmisogyny and accusations towards a trans woman, that doesn't mean that i think trans women hold some kind of social power, are privileged over others in the LGBT+, are unfairly or unjustly protected etc; that is not the point i'm trying to make, and i know that in many cases the accusations towards a trans woman are a transmisogynist smear attempt. Just because these kinds of mindsets develop in some isolated communities doesn't mean that any of it reaches the larger society.

5) it's imperative we hold everyone to same standards and don't let subconscious biases fly free; if one person is dangerous for a behavior and should be removed for it, so should another one. If a cis woman or man posted the same procontact/map activist/radqueer rhetoric and it breached containment, i would report their blog as well.

6) When it comes to the ISFF situation, i agree with many that it's important that we stay vigilant to how transmisogyny operates and we should all be aware of how, in example, trans women's sexuality is overtly scrutinized and how often respectability politics are employed to justify disproportionate reactions. We need that awareness so that in situations where someone makes an accusation, we can analyze the evidence on whether the accusations hold water, or if they are coming out of bigotry.

Where they lose me is when they follow that up with "and ISFF said nothing wrong". I have detailed my thoughts on why i think the rhetoric she was spreading is dangerous and irresponsible and i stand by that. I think removing people's platforms in cases like hers is a natural consequence and a preventative measure due to the potential harm that rhetoric might lead to.

And that brings me to my point, i think?

The same way we should never just believe someone without considering the whole situation and everything that surrounds the accusation (lest we become a flying monkey in a DARVO campaign), we should never adopt an attitude where every accusation is false. We should always ask questions and consider the whole situation so we can act in a way that's the most constructive and prevents the most future harm.

Fortunately, this is often easier online than IRL, due to how evidence is so easily captured, saved and spread. Granted, on the flipside, that evidence is also easily faked and misrepresented.

It's easiest when you are actually there in real time (as i was at the beginning of the ISFF situation. Not the whole time, since i had to take 4-5 days of mental health break from social media after) and one must always be aware that sometimes people lie online, but if multiple people are sharing the same information that they had independently documented, it's at least worth considering whether the accusations are valid.

In general, i'd just like to discourage the idea that a person must be incapable of harm due to their identity due to how idolization is another form of dehumanization. Placing someone on a pedestal can quickly become problematic and most people don't want to be put in that position.

In my opinion, considering a group of people incapable of harm functions under the same framework as flattening someone into a caricature or a concept. When we do this, when we use identity politics to idealize a group to that extent, it means treating them as lesser than the complex human beings they are.

TLDR If we confuse and conflate any criticism of a marginalized person as a bigoted attack, that relies on the presumption that they will never do anything worthy of criticism.

If any accusation of harm is twisted into a call to action for the most extreme of violence to be enacted upon the perpetrator, that will inevitably create an environment where speaking up is discouraged.

It's just something to keep in mind on both sides.

[bassilus]

So there are attempts to push and distract away from the exposure of isff and her circle by spamming the tags with many throwaway accounts.

So I want to take this opportunity to share internet safety tips people have shared since this came to light. I know internet safety tips seems "silly or cringe" like those in the 90s but if you are a minor or even an adult because you do not suddenly stop being vulnerable when you are 18, I really recommended giving these a read, they are not long. Trust your gut and remember, don't be afraid to stand up for yourself, you are not alone, the cruel reality many have experience what you may be going through.

1. In wake of the mask-off moments many users are having over ISFF, and with the influx of younger folks coming to tumblr.... IF... – @wokerevolverocelot on Tumblr 2. (51) Now, because 1. I'm getting pissed off and 2. Because I think I wasn't clear enough, let me reiterate several important points:... – @loser-female on Tumblr 3. >For those who are struggling right now and need resources and to speak out<

If anyone want to add resources in different countries, feel free in reblog or comments.

[alienlike]

i’m going into the legal field and it is very common among people like me to be passionate about a person’s legal rights, including those of convicted offenders. i’ve defended the rights of offenders and alleged offenders online and i’d do it again. but what i don’t do, unlike the isff clique, is talk about how proud i’d be to be friends with p*dos who i somehow know will never offend. i believe everyone has human rights, i believe everyone is entitled to legal representation and a fair trial, and if i went into criminal defense i would not protest defending an alleged s*x offender. i don’t believe people should be tortured or killed by the state. you can say all of that and sound normal and be normal. they all discuss this so horribly because, in my opinion, they do not care. they think they’re right, they’re addicted to clout, they’re addicted to making people angry, and they’re addicted to victimizing themselves. they are very weird people.

[sunlesbian]

People insist on calling it a harassment campaign even though it is a small portion of an online community using tools to deplatform someone who shared dangerous rhetoric from dangerous individuals and then continued to double down when it became clear that many found the rhetoric shared unacceptable.

The screenshots exist. I've made a point of not calling ISFF herself a predator or a pedophile since i haven't seen proof of it, but she IS a danger to all trans minors sharing spaces with her due to her friendships with and platforming of self identified pedophiles whose "pedophile liberation" centers around pro contact rhetoric running rampant first within NAMBLA esque circles and nowadays, radqueer and map activist spaces. She platforms and validates rhetoric coopting youth liberation that seeks to enable adults' sexual access to children and erode (not improve!) what little systems are in place (ie. age of consent) that seek to protect children from exploitation.

None of the blogs she was reblogging from that called for these things gave any indication of actually seeking to materially improve children's status in society outside of rhetoric tailored to paint inappropriate sexual conduct with minors as sexual liberation for those minors.

I keep saying this: either she's fucking stupid and has been manipulated by predators and she believes their transparent virtue signaling about being "no contact", and so she's parroting them without fully understanding just what kind of people she is inviting into her circle, OR she fully believes that pedophilia liberation is a worthwhile cause and she sees no issue with the unsaid, implicated end goals.

Either way, there was never anything within the discourse from her or her pedophile friends that attempted to make sure that predators wouldn't jump on the bandwagon and make contact with the minors loudly proclaiming their support for pedophilia liberation. Any reasonable concerns about her rhetoric and the bad actors that would inevitably use it to harm the vulnerable trans minors exposed to it and agreeing with it was dismissed, and instead it was all boiled down to an argument best borrowed from her own mouth:

Which is the reason for why people take it so seriously.

No virtue signaling about "no contact pedophiles" and claims of being anti abuse will be convincing when you turn around and in another breath argue that age of consent goes against children's self determination (🤨) and that parents seeking to keep their children away from pedophiles is dehumanizing those children as objects (🤨❓), so on and so on. Anyone who has seen how online pedophile communities operate sees right through that. Like i mentioned, the rhetoric has stayed the same through the years. Many of us have frog-hopped out of the pot multiple times, and many of us were burned by the hot water as minors.

There is no excusing transmisogyny directed her way but refusing to address harm perpetuated by someone on the grounds of their identity is also dehumanizing. It dehumanizes both the person causing the potential for harm and the people at risk for being harmed (in this case, the vulnerable group most at risk is trans youth, especially trans girls).

Reducing all the criticism her way as transmisogyny is troubling imo;

1) it trivilizes both the initial rhetoric being shared and the danger it poses and erases the fact that many DID try to engage her in good faith upon the initial post. There were attempts to have a constructive discussion and there were people who voiced many of the concerns and criticized ie. the conflation of POCD with proud and enthusiastic pedophilia but none of that nuance was allowed into the discussion. Either you cheer for pedophiles or you're a fascist cop

2) trivilizes transmisogyny. Criticizing someone who surrounds herself with self identified pedophiles and platforms their pro contact rhetoric and deciding that she is unsafe to be sharing a community with is not transmisogyny just because she is a trans woman. How i see it, the size of the backlash comes from four things: 1. she already had a big following, 2. she has been intentionally inflammatory in the past and was so especially during this discourse, which is, uh. A bad idea when the topic is already extremely charged and emotional for many, 3) shared community and/or identity with many of those who saw her posts; even those who never followed her, never knew of her before now, who have no personal feelings about her beyond how she behaved during this discourse and following it, don't want to share their online "LGBT+ spaces" with people who platform the rhetoric she did or is friends with the type of people she has in her circle and 4) yes, transmisogyny.

I think falsely simplifying it all to be motivated by only number 4 is demonizing those reacting emotionally to seeing pro contact rhetoric shared uncritically and is honestly just... lazy and dishonest. Not to mention, follows the dangerous trend of identity politics being used to silence intracommunity harm from being discussed.

If one wants to discuss transmisogyny and online harassment campaigns, i think that's very important! We SHOULD criticize any instance of transmisogyny we witness and i have seen people blocking and reporting those who took this excuse to misgender ISFF or make transmisogynist remarks about trans women at large.

I guess my point is; you can't oversimplify situations like this to fit into a black and white view where everyone who disagrees with her is nothing but a bigot. Not when the inciting incident was what it was.

[sunlesbian]

from 2014-2019 i was embroiled deeply in being groomed via tumblr and discord servers. the rhetoric i was indoctrinated with in these groups led to me very nearly being kidnapped irl by a 26yo pedozoo who wanted to make me a housewife. all of this isff "discourse" has been so horribly triggering but i cant leave tumblr bc its the closest thing i have to a safe space, so i wanted to say thank you for having the most reasonable outlook on all this that ive seen and for being vocal about it!

i dont want these people dead or perma-imprisoned... but i also really wish i wasnt stuck constantly having the pocd triggered seeing posts about it. i wish i were more capable of speaking out about all this to protect vunerable trans kids but the idea of vocalizing my thoughts at all has been terrifying so ive just been silent and trying to block as many people as i need to but it seems like theres always more people defending her and sticking their head in the sand

once again thank you so much for letting me ramble. ive shaking while typing this right now so i apologize if im a bit rambly or incoherent (also multiple concussions so uh once again please forgive me if this was weird)

This isn't weird at all, and for what it's worth, i don't think this was hard to read either.

I think stories like yours are exactly why it is so important for people to combat all the forms this type of rhetoric takes because it is so insidious in how it starts from a reasonable place like the statement "people shouldn't be imprisoned for thought crimes" but slowly ramps up by pushing the boundary on what is acceptable until they can say more alarming shit without being immediately shut down on it. The whole point of this rhetoric is to obfuscate the real harm it leads to when brought to its inevitable conclusion!

Thank you for reaching out and i hope you find a way to navigate tumblr without being triggered constantly; i was there for the first like week and half before the anger and the frustration overcame the distress, haha. It's infuriating how unsafe these people are making this site while either denying any harm caused by their rhetoric or claiming they're allies to survivors.

I hope what i write next doesn't come across as empty platitudes since i mean it sincerely, but; i'm so happy you are here today and were able to get out. Healing takes time and you should respect the boundaries your body and mind set, and there's no shame in stepping away from these discussions when necessary. You're not failing the trans youth by doing what's necessary for your own well being.

Perhaps eventually you'll be comfortable enough to share your experience to help guide a constructive discussion around it, perhaps not! Not every survivor becomes a spokesperson or an activist, and that is completely fine. You don't owe it to anyone to publicize your trauma, you know?

Okay uhh sorry for rambling as well and sorry if this is a bit corny or disjointed. I hope you're doing well and i hope you have calming/grounding exercises to help regulate your nervous system and you'll feel better soon

[sunlesbian]

Continuing on from the topic of the stigma of pedophilia, the humanization of pedophiles and the convenient caricature of a Child Molester (that gets real abusers who have done real harm off the hook due to them being people and not mythicized monsters), i think this video is tangentially related wrt the topic of dehumanization.

What the discourse has failed to do is actually meaningfully challenge any of the real issues around child abuse, and in the progress, they have brought to surface some real issues that need to be discussed imo.

In example, they keep bringing up the concept of pedojacketing when it comes to marginalized groups, which is a real phenomenom. They bring up the social phenomenom of political entities manufacturing groups that you are allowed to dehumanize which would be a worthwhile conversation on its own if they were actually interested in having that conversation.

They end up doing the opposite; because of their centering of "pedophile activists", they are failing to actually challenge the social phenomenom's real effects and its roots in the carceral system. Any attempt at this has been... either extremely tone-deaf or straight up racist (ie. comparing pedophiles online today to Black communists during the red scare..), which makes it even clearer to me that they aren't interested in protecting marginalized communities in the first place.

I've found this a two-pronged failure; it has gone as far as to minimize the impact pedophiles online have on the vulnerable groups around them (survivors, people with POCD and children), when they are doing their all to spread, justify and validate their unhealthy sexual behaviors. They are denying that impact even exists, and simultaneously demand every survivor sympathize with those who seem to fetishize or romanticize the horrific abuse their trauma stems from, lest they be branded as puritanical fascist cops for being uncomfortable with "pedophilia liberation". This "pedophilia activism" refuses to even consider the fact that the venn diagrams of "person sexually attracted to children" and "person sexually abusing children" could have ANY overlap, and, in the words of ISFF, "if you think a pedo would rape a child, you're part of the problem".

These takes from the "pedophilia liberation" side where they twist statistics and try to couch their defense of attraction to children as something that doesn't make an individual any more likely of enacting sex crimes, where they defang, sexualize and romanticize that attraction, is another way to dehumanize both the mythicized Child Molester and the Virtuous Pedophile, and further simplifies a highly complex discussion where we can acknowledge that CSEM, and every other form of sexual exploitation of children, happens because of the combination of attraction, opportunity and power. Ignoring one out of the three distorts the conversation, and gives space for predators to no true scottsman fallacy their way out of acknowledging their predatory behaviors through the manufacturing of concepts like "consensual grooming", or otherwise denying their romantic and sexual relationship with a minor is predatory. This can be seen through the bastardizing of youthlib to argue that children CAN consent to sex with adults, actually, and you're an oppressive bigot if you disagree - the pedophiles pushing this agenda benefit from this kind of positioning.

So i want to encourage conversation that actually challenges the thought of child molesters and pedophiles as anything but what they are; person who have committed and/or have the capacity to commit harm on a vulnerable group.

Child abuse is a problem we can and should solve through youth liberation, children's rights advocacy, age appropriate sex ed and also through combatting systemic injustices like racism or homo- and transphobia so marginalized youth at higher risk of victimization can grow up in an environment where they can report on exploitation no matter the identity of the perpetrator...

And on the other hand, we need the support infrastructure for early intervention. We need ways to give children a safe, healthy environment to grow up in so that if they do start to struggle with maladaptive sexual behaviors, they have easy access to resources that help them navigate those desires as they grow into an adult. We need to do the work to create a society where children aren't victimized through objectification, exploitation and dehumanization and that requires a society where people grow up seeing children as the human beings they are; still developing, but worthy of all the dignity and human rights adults are afforded.

In the meantime, some of the ways for us to protect those vulnerable are 1) to continue advocating for resources so that people get access to support and help to lessen their chances of offending, 2) oust those who identify themselves as unsafe individuals, whether it be by identifying with radqueer identity politics or by repeating pro contact rhetoric, so that they don't have access to the vulnerable minors we share our community with.

"Pedophilia liberation" has no use and there is nothing they need to be liberated from. They are people who consciously and knowingly seek to build their identity around something that can only ever cause harm. No social justice language can obfuscate that. And seeing them as the human beings they are makes it only clearer that they are CHOOSING every step of the way there, refusing any resources or avenues to behave otherwise.

And then, i leave another link as i go to kind of tie into my first point. So, dehumanization is bad and humanization is necessary for us to have realistic discussions about what causes child exploitation and how we can even begin to weed out the root causes that enable it happening within our communities.

The above video discusses the stranger danger phenomenom, the online predation phenomenom and the combination of the two and how the systems we have in place now are woefully inadequate with actually addressing the problem.

While the video doesn't go THAT in depth, it's definitely an interesting watch and gives one a lot to think about. I have detailed some of those thoughts [here], so i won't go that in depth but. Yeah. Just something i've been thinking about

EDIT;; clarified some of my wording, since there seems to be some confusion about what i'm talking about here.

[only-tiktoks]

[kawree]

Y'all for real please do these. Even if you're certain your posture doesn't suck. One day you will wake up with impinged shoulder pain like I did and let me tell you it fucking HURTS. Do these exercises even just once a week and it will make such a difference. Especially my fellow creatives out there, stop shrimping over your work and go do these right now. RIGHT NOW.

[sunlesbian]

Someone else posted this before, but i think this is worth posting in the tag while the discussion is still going. It's worth a thoughtful watch, and i want everyone to pay extremely close attention to how some of the interviewees twho are "anti abuse" use terms like "consensual grooming", handwave away people sharing CSEM and are either pro contact or refuse to take a stance. It's a whole lot of virtue signalling while doing nothing to explicitly condemn or prevent the exploitation of vulnerable groups. They hold community with those people.

And while watching this, i'd encourage people to compare the interviewees to the rhetoric coming from the circle of users for pedophile liberation. The obfuscation around conflating harmful behaviors with thought crimes, while also perverting youth liberation to push the boundary on what is appropriate and healthy for minors when it comes to sexual contact with adults.

All of the "youth lib" connected to the pedophile liberation here has two goals:

defanging and sanitizing pedophilia to make a false distinction between the harmless, pure, unfairly persecuted pedophiles who would Never harm a child vs. the evil, monstrous, cruel child abusers.

redefining what child exploitation is. If they manage to argue against age of consent, against children being banned from kink spaces with adults, against the inappropriateness of adults engaging in sexual content with minors, they have already gained major ground on exploiting minors online while still holding onto the cognitive dissonance of being the Good Harmless Pedophile. It's the heating water in the pot leading to concepts like "consensual grooming"

I think the radqueer servers really bring to the forefront for why i was immediately alarmed by the rhetoric shared; i am old enough to have seen multiple waves of pedophile activism online and how those communities, even when they claim to be anti-abuse and no-contact, end up harboring predators who use the rhetoric of acceptance to groom and abuse those vulnerable. There is no net positive to people whose sexual desires are defined by the abuse and exploitation of a vulnerable people forming unmoderated communities where the focus is only on enabling and feeding those desires. It's nothing but a breeding ground for radicalization, echochambering, distortion and disconnect from the reality of harm caused by those desires being realized.

That is why i am for ousting proud self identified pedophiles and those who support them from communities where the youth are vulnerable to exploitation and manipulation. We cannot allow people who try to make their harmful sexual behavior into praxis to distort activism like queer or youth liberation into them gaining access to the youth most vulnerable to exploitation. We are seeing in real time the pushback against the reaction; people are encouraging the rejection of them if accusations of abuse come to light due to the perpetrator being potentially harmed because of their marginalized identity if they are exposed as a predatory, unsafe person, and urging uncritical, unconditional acceptance of any opinions coming from someone marginalized or you are painted as a fascist, pro-carceral cop.

In my opinion, the way this conversation is going is a result of radqueer politics poisoning the water while identity politics and social justice language are being manipulated to enable future harm.

Do i believe every person engaging in the pedophilia liberation rhetoric are potential abusers or predators? No, not really. I can see people being manipulated into accepting dangerous rhetoric when it's dressed in convincing enough social justice language, or when they are only seeing bits and pieces of the whole.

There is much to say about the harm stranger danger has done, much to criticize about the sex offender lists, about the entire pathology of paraphilias and the medical system, and how things like POCD are unfairly stigmatized, about how accusations of pedophilia are used to attack minorities... list goes on since we as a culture are woefully lacking in meaningfully tackling the issue of children as an oppressed, exploited class.

But when you look at the whole of what was posted and what the self identified pedophiles were sharing as "activism" for their "liberation", i do not think the true goal ever was to meaningfully tackle any of those issues to encourage discussion towards a future where children are more effectively protected from exploitation. I can take much on good faith and i would like to read it as good-intentioned, but the more posts i read and the more i saw what surrounded the "manifesto", the more it seemed like a calculated move to push the boundary on what is considered acceptable within the more mainstream tumblr LGBT+ circle.

Either ISFF is being manipulated into platforming pro contact map activism, or she genuinely believes all these things about children being capable of consent, or that adults seeking to keep their children from pedophiles is against children's autonomy, or that there should be mixed age sexual spaces for minors and adults to interact and so on and so on. I'd like to believe it's the former, but both are bad and dangerous and we need to nip this rhetoric in the bud.

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[bizarrebazaar13]

does anyone know where I can find good reference images of victorian-era wheelchairs? I want to draw the jovial contrarian but all the wheelchair art refs/tutorials I can find are for modern wheelchairs

[thedeafprophet]

okay so here's a few photo's i have on hand for ref

Here is an article on the history of the wheelchair, which has some info on the victorian era ones

Image from that one, circa late 1860s.

Another from the science museum, late victorian era:

This one in particular is noteworthy as : "unlike a typical bath chair, the wheels are fitted with an extra ring to allow the chair to be driven by the passenger. " so perhaps keep that in mind for drawing too

So i usually go off of the old picture + combine some facets of modern wheelchair for Fallen London, since i think The Neath could have some of it own technological advancments

Hope these are helpful!

[watsonmelon]

Here are a couple of pages from two Silber & Fleming catalogues from the 1880s (first, second), listing various types of wheelchairs for sale.

[icy-incubus]

Here, take these

[ikarons]

wait hang on do you have rules for how you write your ocs’ dialogue/perspective

[homunculus-argument]

Does anybody got suggestions on where to find good reference pictures of anatomically correct human skeletons (and replicas) posed in activities and natural living poses? I want to try practicing drawing a person on top of a skeleton frame but can't find good ones to start with that aren't either Very Anatomically Wrong halloween decorations, or the standard biology classroom skeletons posed standing straight.

[homunculus-argument]

Ended up using this Pixabay one

[marat]

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

[marat]

Drawing challenge: draw your favorite male characters like this

[thatdemonbish]

this is exactly why i’m a huge fan of posemaniacs!

you get 3d model pose references with the option of having a male or female anatomy for each pose

they have a WIDE VARIETY of poses that you can search for using a TAG SYSTEM

(as you can see by the scroll bar in the second image there is Even More Tags)

you can select a pose you like for larger viewing and the convenience doesn’t stop!!!

you have full 360 viewing range of the pose plus zooming in and out

and what’s that? a TOOLBAR?? MENU?? THING??

Correct!

the eye button hold a very fun menu

negative space blacks out the background and fills the pose with a solid white silhouette

the “texture” refers to the skin situation of the model with the “color” and “grey” shown below

(i usually use color personally)

then there’s the option of different sized drawing grids(4 and 16 below)

idk wtf bounding box is about but it looks like this if it matters to you

“floor” toggles all shadows on the floor, “floor grid” you guessed it puts a like perspective guide grid on the floor that goes to forever, and “shadow” toggles ALL shading. there is NO lighting happening if you turn that off. NONE.

NEXT ITEM! that box thing with the line through it? flips the pose horizontally.

the little person symbol? lets you switch anatomies

camera icon? you can choose from a selection of preset camera angles PLUS an option for … idk what to call it but you can do this!

less flat right!! i’m sure there’s a word i just don’t know but this is maximum *that* so there is less *that* if you want it

the lightbulb gives you a menu like the camera one but it offers a selection of lighting styles with variable intensity

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[luna-azzurra]

Ways I Show a Character is Emotionally Burned Out (Before They Even Realize It Themselves)

I love writing characters who think they’re fine but are actually walking emotional house fires with bad coping mechanisms.

They stop doing the things they used to love and don’t even notice. Their guitar gathers dust. Their favorite podcast becomes background noise. Their hobbies feel like homework now.

They pick the path of least resistance every time, even when it hurts them. No, they don’t want to go to that thing. No, they don’t want to talk to that person. But whatever’s easier. That’s the motto now.

They’re tired but can’t sleep. Or they sleep but wake up more tired. Classic burnout move: lying in bed with their brain racing like a toddler on espresso.

They give other people emotional advice they refuse to take themselves. “You have to set boundaries!” they say—while ignoring 8 texts from someone they should’ve cut off three emotional breakdowns ago.

They cry at something stupidly small. Like spilling soup. Or a dog in a commercial. Or losing their pen. The soup is never just soup.

They say “I’m just tired” like it’s a personality trait now. And not like… emotionally drained to the bone but afraid to admit it out loud.

They ghost people they love, not out of malice, but because even replying feels like too much. Social battery? Absolutely obliterated. Texting back feels like filing taxes.

They stop reacting to big things. Catastrophes get a blank stare. Disasters feel like “just another Tuesday.” The well of feeling is running dry.

They avoid being alone with their own thoughts. Constant noise. TV always on. Music blasting. Because silence = reckoning, and reckoning is terrifying.

They start hoping something will force them to stop. An accident. A missed deadline. Someone else finally telling them, “You need a break.” Because asking for help? Unthinkable.

[gremlinsminion]

Alan Cumming, Nasty Pig photoshoot via IG