Hey there. So I think you need to take a step back and re-examine your own content as well as the volume of clone content you create as a white creator. I see you judging others for what they're creating frequently as well as commenting on the way others characterize clones while making points about the fetishization of clones but you never seem to stop to consider that your artworks are just as guilty of what you're so passionately against. Given you are a white person your constant creation of content that features suggestive or inherently 'thirst-post' inducing reactions is literally fetishization. When you self-insert for a clone ship you are turning a clone into an object for you to personally play with made worse by the fact you frequently twist them to have them fit with your own desires which is literally fetishization. You need to take a moment to examine how you respond to someone making a point about your own problematic behaviors as well as you *always* have a justification or excuse that lets you off the hook for things you lambast others for.
OKAY. Finally free to answer this anon! And oh boy isn't this a doozie?? Alright, under a read-more for y'all.
1. I'm not judging people for drawing clones frequently, that's not the issue, that'd be hypocritical. What I AM judging is the harmful content they create. If someone drew clones almost EXCLUSIVELY as slaves (as in, say, zygerrian collars) or often in master/slave dynamics, I would ALSO be furious and call that shit out. And I'm not "calling out characterizations", saying Fives and Echo should be sexual partners isn't "characterization" it's incest.
2. This one gets two categories! A.) I checked my feed, the max amount of posts done THIS YEAR ALONE that could be "thirsty", top at maaayyyybe six. And even then, the thirstiest is a classic male pin-up pose from the waist up with pants still on, not some sort of gross 18+ fetish art? And B.) There's a difference between fetishizing and appreciating people? As a friend put it, POC want to feel wanted and sexy too! It's just that you need to cautious and willing to research as well as take critique for what you make! And that's what I try and do despite the fact I rarely make thirst posts.
3. I just.... The logic for your next point is so weird. "Turning a clone into an object for you to personally play with". ??? What? All people take characters and input their own characterizations (Cody being oldest or middle kid depending on artist/writer for ex.) onto characters they draw or write for? I think what you might mean is that "I make them solely dependant upon my character for any character development" which is.... Also not true? I know about that risk, and take care that any troopers I ship have their own independent lives and personalities aside from whatever character I'm using?
And as for your last point: calling out harmful behaviors isn't problematic. If and when people have pointed issues out, while I may be defensive at first (as most people are) I still take time to listen, understand, and take the critique.
What I'm "lambasting" is the literal romanticizing of real world harm. The people who do this expect to not be criticized for this choice. These people are wrong in that expectation.
And lastly, before I sign off, here's a great definition for fetishization:
Appreciation is looking at someone different than you and going "those features are really beautiful, I'd love to draw that", not the above.
The scent necklaces are amazing! I had a tea tree one but then i accidentally slammed it against a railing and there's probably still nice smelling glass under my desk somewhere.
Awh that’s a shame, but good to know that they’re definitely worth it ^_^ I definitely need to get something to stim, literally while I’m sitting at the table now I’m playing around with a fork that got left behind. (Parents are in bed, my usual downstairs on my own ritual basically) For some reason it makes a funny sound, which is also a thing for me, sound is the main thing. I usually go around with 1 earbud with music when I’m outside and just in general it’s sounds that distract me more than anything else (humans are so loud, why are they so loud T_T Even my dad’s /breathing/ can set me off because it’s so heavy)
okay, okay, fine. i'm going to take a clonezipan and hopefully stop freaking out over nothing. in the mean (spelling?????????) time: I think i found NagaSato on tumblr by accident, is it weird to follow them? Oh and, yes that is what Stimtastic is. They are perfect and i love them. They have spinner rings and safe to chew necklaces and fidgets and things.
I think I found them too yesterday, I don’t think it’s creepy (although I must admit to my own reservations and not having followed them either… yet), I mean we’re here on tumblr to be in touch, right? And who doesn’t like a new follower :P
The non-creepy part that feels creepy to me is approaching someone and actually initiating conversation, good grief that’s terrifying.
I was planning to buy something from stimtastic, but I never got around to it, I guess. One of those scent necklaces because I literally cannot handle certain smells around me, I think that’s what they had?
