Not the best but I just slapped it together out of a sudden inspiration. Looks like it’s been a rough week.

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Not the best but I just slapped it together out of a sudden inspiration. Looks like it’s been a rough week.
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Doin’ that stream thing again. Will probably be doing InuYasha, gonna start by trying to make a new icon. Let’s see how long I last.
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Doin’ that stream thing again. Will probably be doing InuYasha, gonna start by trying to make a new icon. Let’s see how long I last.
people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”
i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today
this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them
this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?
You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.
When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.
No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.
A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’
You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.
I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior.
I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.
THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS INTO WORDS.
YUP. Plus like. Let’s all remember (in the US) we’re dealing with the impact of compulsory cultural xtianity. Which holds to the belief that a person not only can, but WILL be “corrupted” by any thought, idea, concept, theory, artwork, book, movie, or person that is not Morally Pure. If you engage with it AT ALL, it leaves a stain. The result of this believe system is that no one is able to perform critical analysis, because even the act of analysis is considered coming too close to avoid being corrupted.
Thst is why so many people are ready to cancel books, actors, and ideas the moment there’s the merest mention of immorality. To continue engaging with the piece is to be corrupted. To investigate the truth of the claims of immorality is to be corrupted. To even have engaged with the piece in the past when it was considered “pure” is to be retroactively corrupted. And if you’ve been corrupted, the belief is, then you must be wholly rejected by those who know you so that THEY are not corrupted.
It’s not that people are unable to perform critical analysis anymore. The critical analysis isn’t the point. The point is, “I was told 1984 contains rape apologism and if i do anything except utterly denounce the book, my community will reject me for being corrupted.”
This is religious extremist, cult-like behavior that has entered the secular world (in the US) over the past 20 years or so, and it’s really, really hinky.
Doodling
Dooin’ an IY sssstreeeaaammmmmmmmm
Probably mostly SaA stuff
Lets see what happens
Dunno who’s interested but...
Gonna probably do some IY doodly doo streaming soon.
Probably right after I finish dinner.
-FINALLY- tis done.
This image will be available for my patrons for November! And the Photoshop file is rearing to go with this too. A few of you have been asking for prints. If I get a higher population of folks who would -want- a print of this, I’ll likely be selling physical prints on a nice 11 by 17 size paper. But I’ll need more info on that before we go forward.
Oh my dear Vlad and Lisa. I wanted better for them so dearly. Regardless of whatever the eventual third season entails, I would love to see them in the domestic vein.
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These two eventually had a baby
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Are you Ready?!
Hey guys! This is the Inuyasha Redraw Team!
We are so excited to begin this new recurrent event with you! We have made some tweaks and changes on how this is going to work so everyone can have fun, relax and enjoy! Let us explain:
Each month we are going to feature a visual prompt and some pics related with that prompt. One of these will be a main picture that everyone can try to redraw, or recreate, but if you feel the main pic is too challenging, you can try the other options.
We want original styles and ideas. You can try to do the reference with your own drawing style, adapt it to a fanfic you like, or even use another medium! Just no tracing.
You can submit your art to us directly or use the #inuyasharedraw tag
Finally, we want everyone in the fandom to enjoy this little thing, and you can help us by not bringing any drama. Our goal is to bring shine to artists, not to debate.
We begin on the 1st February!! Stay tuned for prompt and the references!
If you have more questions, you can visit our FAQ, or send us a message.
It’s coming everyone!!!
Help spread this comparison that proves animators groomed Rin and it’s anti-feminist, they never showed Rin’s other “options”. Kagome: relatives/friends/ suitors' names' given & faces given, life unrelated to lover shown indetail. Bella (Twilight): relatives/friends/suitors' names & faces given, life unrelated shown in detail. Rin: no relatives’ names or faces, no show of family burial place, unrelated life skipped. What choice? A character whose only relevant story’s to grow and marry him?
I don’t know that it’s necessarily the animators in this situation, I don’t know that I remember Rumiko doing much exploration of Rins family or options in the manga either. Granted, it wouldn’t be as problematic if the one person she came to trust didn’t end up bedding her...
I kind of wish the theme of found family didn’t get so fucking muddied by making Rin and Sesshoumaru a romantic couple. Grooming and Pedo shit are still an issue but narrative and theming wise it kind of sucks, too. The fact that shippou is gone and we’ve not really seen jaken sense the flashback, and that none of the themes have apparently carried over that found family can be as strong if not stronger than blood family is just meh... this whole sequel seems to be focused on the breeding pairs and their children and if you didn’t pair off then I guess you shouldn’t have sucked, then? At this point with how few episodes we have left even if Shippou and Hachi show up and say anything it wouldn’t be enough. And if anyone needed to realize that, outside of his self absorbed bubble of honor and duty and purity, through the love and protectiveness of the position of fatherhood given to him by a defenseless young child who both represents how he sees humanity in all of its weakness as well as the power of its heart and perseverance in the form of a fearless girl... it was Sesshoumaru. It just fucking sucks from a thematic standpoint that it seems like it’s been cheapened and perverted by this dark shadow of implications and gross conduct on his part and the violation of this small person who relied on him because people have a hard time seeing any love beyond romantic love as a proper, valid, end game for characters; especially hetero characters.
Remember that before the Holocaust, there were 16 million Jews in the world. They killed more than a third of us.
Remember that pre-war Eastern Europe was a major center of world Jewry, and it had a thriving Jewish society with Yiddish theater, poetry, literature, art, and political activism. An entire society was destroyed.
Remember that before the war, a third of Warsaw’s population was Jewish. The vast majority of those Jewish residents were murdered.
Remember that Salonika (Thessaloniki) was a city in Greece that had a Jewish majority for hundreds of years. It used to be known as Sabatopolis – the Shabbat city – because before electric light, ships going by on Friday night would see a dark shoreline because the residents could not light lights. In the 16th century, it was known as the “mother of Israel” and was a center of Jewish life where Eastern European Jews would come to visit and study. Fewer than 1800 Jews from Salonika survived the Holocaust.
Remember that in Krakow, what used to be the Jewish quarter is now a tourist trap for the groups who come to look at what once was. The Jewish community owns several beautiful synagogues but only regularly uses one because there are so few Jews left. Without the tour groups who regularly pray with them, they would have trouble getting a quorum of ten men by the beginning of the Shabbat service. The other synagogues are museums now.
Remember what we lost.
what exactly is going in Poland right now
It shouldn’t have come as a surprise when the Polish Constitutional Tribunal proclaimed abortion illegal in the case of a fetus with a defect and/or one which is potentially dead. Perhaps there is some truth to the statement that the people should have seen it coming for years. And the same thing could be said about the fact that today, on a peaceful Wednesday on January 27th, the ruling was officially published, making it the letter of the law.
So, what does this mean, exactly? Well, for one it makes abortion virtually illegal. The only instances in which a fetus can be legally removed are as follows: (a) legal proof of rape or incest and (b) endangerment of the life of the person carrying the fetus.
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In reality, the numbers speak for themselves: while about a thousand abortions used to be performed every year in Poland, roughly 40 of them will now be legal (for example, the data from 2019 says that out of the 1110 operations performed that year, 1074 would be illegal as of today). Rape is undeniably almost impossible to prove in court, not to mention even getting a ruling within the first few months (realistically such cases take years and are almost never ruled in favor of the victim). Abortion therefore isn’t fully illegal, but almost unreachable for anybody (even if their health is at risk, an example of which might be the case of Alicja Tysiąc who wanted to perform an abortion because of her health and was denied that right, later on fully losing her eyesight upon being forced to give birth).
The previous law did not allow choice in the case of a healthy fetus & a healthy mother, making it one of the strictest law systems in this regard in Europe, but what it did is it offered a way out for people who were carrying a fetus that was dead or ill. So what happened? In short: the Constitutional Tribunal happened.
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What the Tribunal is supposed to be is a body meant to guard the constitution from the potential laws imposed by the ruling parties. The politicization of the Tribunal is widely regarded to have made it into the exact opposite of that: it seems like an institution almost openly repurposed to solidify conservative and right wing reform drafted by the ruling party (Law and Justice). With its politics leaning heavily into the positions taken by the Catholic Church, the ban had already been attempted multiple times in the past. The justices put into the positions of power at the Tribunal voted on the abortion ban on October 22th but they had yet to publish the ruling.
Meanwhile, people took to the streets. Tens of thousands marched for weeks, with the red lightning as their symbol, screaming about the many injustices the ruling party and the Polish Catholic Church have committed. The many instances of police brutality did not scare people away as they formed what is estimated to be the biggest street protests in the history of the country. The anti choice lobbyists celebrated but the overwhelming majority of the country disagreed with the Tribunal’s ruling (according to some polls as much as 75% of Poles wish to re institute the old abortion “compromise” which consisted in the right to remove a fetus with defects, and when surveying among people aged 18-29, that percentage rose all the way to 96%).
That being said, the social unrest started making people question the previous “compromise”, and there was a public debate about, perhaps, even fighting for a full pro choice option, allowing Poles to perform abortion surgeries as freely as the people from other European countries have done for the past decades. The ruling party backed down for a while, hesitant to publish the official law, waiting to the last moment.
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Today marks the day when abortion, in practice, becomes illegal in Poland. The publishing of the ruling was sudden, quiet, unannounced in hopes of reducing the public outrage. Performing an abortion has become a luxury for the people who can afford leaving the country and paying for a surgery at a private clinic somewhere abroad. That is virtually impossible for the members of the working class. Groups that are also especially vulnerable are LGBTQ+ people and people from rural areas who often find no financial or emotional support in their local communities and family members.
And so it goes. Many of us are taking to the streets again. Big cities outside of Poland will also be hosting protests in solidarity with the people in Poland. I decided against posting any direct links to the events but you can easily find them on social media, they usually gather around Polish embassies. You can also consider donating a couple of bucks to the Abortion Dream Team (an organization helping Polish people with financing abortions in foreign countries and/or help in covering the travel expanses) or to the Women’s Strike (an organization which organizes the protests).
If you want to learn more & see more of the protests in November and December, here are some mainstream videos in English you can watch: (x) (x) (x) (x)
i’m m asking all my-non polish mutuals and followers to read this. you don’t have to reblog it, but please, read about what we’re going through
I’m so so sorry @holi-holy this must be so awful to be seeing right now. If you need to talk or vent, I’m here to listen.
@goshinote thank you friend. it’s heartbreaking, depressing and terrifying but we’re not about to give up. it means a lot that you care and try to make others aware. as long as people like you exist, i won’t lose all hope ❤️⚡
@holi-holy this is fucking terrible. And it won’t stop abortions; that’s really important to note. What it stops is safe access to abortions, which is so, so dangerous. My heart aches in anger and sadness for the women in Poland—for all of Poland, really.
@fawn-eyed-girl it is. and you’re making a gread point - one that hasn’t been missed by the protestors too. this will only target the most vulnerable people living in poverty. not to mention the hurt it will inflict of the children born because of this. it’s not protecting life, it’s dictating a tremendous amount of pain on others for the sake of their conscience
thank you for caring. seeing such solidarity is a big part of what keeps us going 💛