#rant(?)

[wheatfish-in-a-basket]

I'm a bit hesitant to post more art on due to it being stolen and run through ai to remove my watermark. Now it's everywhere without credit to me. It's very disheartening to watch my hard work now stolen.

Example below,

[clementinesmustyhat]

“Luke died because people shipped him with Clem” NO TF HE DIDNT STOP SAYING THAT 😭 HE DIED CUZ SEASON 2 WAS DOGSHIT NOT BECAUSE A WEIRDO WAS SHIPPING HIM WITH CLEM

[raddest-highway]

i love silver so much but some silver fans make me kinda mad. theres way more underrated and underused characters than fucking silver the hedgehog dude are you serious whine about a different character for once like i understand but silver does NOT have it that bad a good chunk of sonic characters have it way worse

[dreaming-of-barbi]

Little reminder that Franco is a victim, a product of the environment he grew up in and is currently in. He didn't have a chance to be a better person thanks to his father.

Most likely he was belittled for his interests and only being praised when he did something his father "approved of", like when he killed a man for him. Franco was never given the chance to do good, to be a normal kid. Growing up in the mafia, violence and abuse was most likely all he knew, it was his normal. You don't play with toys or read books, you hunt down bad guys and get shit done, like your father. He never had a mother figure and if he did? They were his step mothers.

Knowing how his father was, I wouldn't be surprised if the women his father was with weren't the kindest to Franco. They could have even been encouraged to do things to him while Franco was told to just deal with it because he's a man.

I will stand by what I say, when I say that

Franco hasn't done anything wrong. He is a victim, and is only doing what he's known his entire life.

He's a product of his upbringing, he had no guidance when he was a child. If anything, he was "guided" down the path he's on now thanks to his father, his life.

How would you know better, if you were never shown better?

[xoslvn]

“That better not be my circus,” I say as I glance upon something that is not only my circus, but also contains my monkeys….

[eddcoola]

I gotta draw more fataldeath cause my cries and pleades for them will never be heard

[cotta-dog]

I see a lot of posts about being more "kinlike" and about things to end physical (species) dysphoria. While it isn't exactly my experience, I would love to say that I am actually more bothered by the way people perceive me (a human) than by my own body.

I can summarize it to "being holothere-y/holothere-like"; the way I see myself in the mirror. My face feels weird a lot of times, but the rest of my body just isn't human in any way and I am completly aware that I am a dog and this is a dog's body. Tbh, I don't have much problems with it — actually, I really like it and it feels good to remind myself of that.

The real problem is the way people see me.

I am not human and any nonhuman being (for me, there is no difference between a "physically identifiable" [animals, plants, objects etc] and a "physically unidentifiable" [...animals, plants, objects etc that SEEM like they are human] nonhuman and both...) could easily tell the difference between me and a regular human. Or a human. I'm not one, in any way at all.

I feel trapped in the way other people around me see and treat me.

I hate wearing clothes and shoes, having to interact with people, having to study almost 24/7 about topics I don't care about; I hate pretending I am human, and whenever I hear some generalist speech like "us, humans" or "we as a society" or even "like the sentient people that we are, differently from animals", I feel dysphoric.

I feel like my body isn't enough. Like my identity and all the signs I show and tell them...

I feel like it isn't enough at all.

I am not dysphoric by my body. I love it. I love my fur, my paws, my ears and all parts of it. I like seeing my body and I am proud of having a body like this...

I just wish people could see it the way I see it.