Art…yay!

Does what it says on the tin

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@thematically-relevant-saltblog’s separate space for rewrites/retellings/redesigns because it’s fun tbh. That and it’s almost painful seeing someone artistically fumble this bad to prioritise making wanking material.

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Archival purposes. Salem drew Norah again the other day, but quickly deleted it. Her face looks more like it was based on the art by people who made redraws of her here rather than his original iteration:

Such as this amazing one

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"I love my black character" (opens box) cardboard brown dog in a mini skirt, and the bleach is still pouring

Irony at its finest.

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(Anon on)

Cis hetero white guy with a t shirt that says "I ❤️ my Asian Wife's vagina"

Like you see how weird that is, right?

It’d be weird in any way. There’s literally no reason to mention race here because it adds this weird implication that their race has something to do with why you like their genitals.

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looooool bat yaoi aint doin good so he throwing a tantrum again https://bsky.app/profile/w0lfertinger666.bsky.social/post/3mrg7fxdgfc2v

The pup cycle repeats.

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the person who made the hitomi "i love my black boyfriends pussy" art is white.... more proof he keeps adding to and allowing his white fanbase to fetishize black people ESPECIALLY black trans men

Then he has the gall to lash out and call it out only when he himself starts feeling/being fetishised by his audience.

Nobody deserves to be fetishised of course, but you are responsible the audience you cultivate, y’know?

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I remember idolo mentioned they would often have to DM Salem to calm them down when they’d publicly threaten suicide/self harm (which was part of why it was difficult to leave them, out of fear that Salem would actually take their own life), it’s crazy that Salem is still doing this despite having former friends talk about how stressful and emotionally draining it was. It’s pathetic.

They’re going to be 50 years old threatening suicide to their audience of minors

Salem uses he/him pronouns now, but other than that you’re spot on.

He wants people to comfort him and support him regardless of whether he’s right or wrong, and he’s not afraid to misuse the goodwill he’s built up or the sympathy people feel for him to keep it that way.

The only things that might break this cycle is if he’s honest with himself and willingly takes action to change, or if his circumstances force him to change.

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Interesting how there’s no toxic sapphic relationship in the salemverse huh. Tammy and Magna may count because they used to have the whole enemies to lovers thing going on (BUT, we haven’t ever seen them in conflict about their differences with Tammy being a witch hunter threatening Magna’s existence as a witch).

Last time he made an achillean relationship was this in May of 2024.

It’s just…interesting. Yeah.

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I forgot about Frances and the predatory wolf lady as another toxic sapphic relationship. There’s also the incest goats and am not particularly pleased to remember them.

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i mean that bunny and wolf are a toxic sapphic relationship. older predatory cis woman manipulates a younger trans woman to kill and butcher for her and sell the meat. i get criticizing him but those are two characters of his i actually care about and are interesting DONT ERASE MY ABUSIVE LESBIANS

My bad anon, I genuinely forgot about them and would’ve included them in that post.

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hes going full suibaiting on tumblr but not on bsky, how are people not sick of him yet?

Pity.

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salem is so disgustingly performative

if i had a nickel for everytime salem has drawn THAT specific fursona burning or stepping on nazi, klan, or general yt supremacy flags and symbols in general whilst smoking and holding a black heritage flag whilst ALSO just reiterating that he is trans, black, and will say the n word if he's feeling very revolutionist i would be able to buy a house

im tired of salem thinking that he should go down in history just because he will drop the n word ( it clearly isnt in his vocabulary naturally and he is intentionally trying to look "more black" ) once in a blue moon and will draw himself above the most evil people alive that are nearly universally agreed to be pos. why not draw art against the klan of today aka MAGA ? noooo he'll go draw art being against the most obnoxiously anti black groups to ever exist literally ever. his art isnt revolutionary, it isnt new, it isnt saying something no one has ever said before. he's too scared to make actual commentary or messages through his art. it's insanely surface level and begins and ends at "heh YEA i am a n#### and am a fag and uh yea- take that facists!!!!" while there are modern ones that he could be addressing but that would be rather controversial and scary huh 👀

his fans think he is brave for this btw. thats how i know his audience is majority white people terrified to be seen as an enemy or just real easy to please. i am not saying his art has zero value because how could i as an artist? but i am saying it is ofc political, but in such a safe baby way, do you know what i mean?? it's definitely obnoxiously political with the symbols and message that's supposed to be empowerment but it feels more obsessed with looking badass and cools rather than actually giving a message. i think salem's art is just to cope with internalized anti blackness cuz wdym your "political" art is just stating your existence through tumblr? i dont feel any pride, just a weird kind of feeling of obligation to be this loud and proud lmfao

sorry this was long im the previous anon with the really long confession :o). this is from a black demig lesbian btw

Every intentionally political piece he makes is going to keep looking like baby’s first try at commentary and symbolism until he stops reaching for the lowest hanging fruits.

But then again, why would he have to when his audience will devour whatever easy thing he makes and will give him the praise he so desperately craves?

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"haters just dont see why my art is appealing" oh okay

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Yo I hope it's cool that I send this here. I don't have a salt blog and don't wanna post on my main but this shit is driving me crazy and I NEEED to get it off my chest.

I'm a fat, black, physically disabled, mentally ill trans man and Salem is pissing me the fuck off.

To be so real, I was a supporter for a longgg time. I got so defensive over him. Thought he was amazing and didn't entirely understand his past.

The more I followed him, though, the more he began to piss me off. I fucking hate his insistence that he's some savior of tumblr who's singlehandedly making the best representation ever. He talks about the importance of art as social justice but doesn't do SHIT to amplify other artists in the same sphere???? He goes on and on about how oppressed he is for being a minority when there's TONS of us with the same identities as him on tumblr that he actively fucking ignores!! He makes ZERO effort to connect to the community, promote like-minded creators, or amplify the platforms of those like him. And it's because he wants to be unique.

Dude posting your fursona saying the n word is great and all but you talk about being disappointed in your predominantly white fanbase while fucking dismissing any critiques made from the in groups you're claiming to promote! Over the years I've made tons of well meaning comments on his posts, and the ones he doesn't delete he gets defensive over! Stuff like "If you're so insistent that your fursona is black, why do you only draw him with straight hair?" "Hey can we address the colorism here?" "This depiction of a cane user is inaccurate you should look up refs" like! That shit gets him FIRED up.

He rides this high horse of being tumblr's sole source of representation and then throws a fit when anyone points out how it's flawed. He doesn't want to actually build and support a community. He just wants to sport his oppressions as badges and drum up sympathy from his white fanbase until they hold him on a pedestal.

(Okay, that's all. Thank you for letting me share.)

^^^

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I want to SCREAM???? As a trans woman myself I am so sick and tired of Salem and that fucking recent post of "actually she's a canon trans woman so of course she's not allowed to feel anything" like holy fuck nobody is saying that. It's the whole constant 100% of the time "boobs and ass and pussy and omg waow a black man NO SORRY a MOUSE attracted me" you can't be serious Salem. Yes it's coming across wrong, please start understanding why this is happening. Why can't she love Hitch for literally any fucking thing else?

And man just because you get ass pats from trans women who are tokenizing themselves doesn't mean shit. You come across as a trans chaser and it SUCKS ACTUALLY.

Why can't she love Hitch for literally any fucking thing else?

There isn’t much else to love about him as a character at this point other than him being a fat fem black trans man. Hitch is either an author surrogate so Salem can fantasise about how good his relationship with Wis could be if they both didn’t suck as people, or he’s a case study on what happens when you prioritise gooning over fleshing out a character.

As long as at least one person from a group is telling him what he’s doing is okay, he’s gonna take that as a free pass and run wild sadly.

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(Anon if it turns off please) the other point for Hitomi being weird about Hitch is that she never seems to love him for his personality (which like. He doesn’t really have one anymore but still). It’s always about his body and appearance. From some old posts we know Hitch has a bit of a wild mischievous streak, make Hitomi be into that. It’s so easy.

(But then he wouldn’t get one squilliam likes and reblogs for his 900th post of Hitchtomi fondling eachother, so he will never do it)

Even Hitch’s wildness has been dialled back at this point. But numbers matter more that telling his authentic queer story to Salem I suppose.

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He keeps making the dog lighter and lighter I’m crying

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as part of the transfem voices project, mousidy felt the need to highlight the voice of a woman who, as a 12 year old boy addicted to loli pornography, molested an 8 year old girl and spent years in the juvenile detention system as a result. this woman is now a 30 year old self-admitted pedophile, enabled by parents (whose support she credits with keeping her alive) who have seemingly coddled her every step of the way, including somehow allowing their child the means to easily access pornography after molesting another child, who now self-flagellates on tumblr about how much she wants to die because people would want her dead just knowing that she is a pedophile. not even based on the fact that she was a 12 year old boy that molested an 8 year old girl.

she loosely connects her story to transmisogyny at the end by going "well idk if I faced transmisogyny before I came out but I did after I'm so scared because transmisogynists would call me a pedophile and they would be right everyone wants me dead I can't be pedojacketed because I have the jacket on :("

great #OwnVoices job, team. knocked it out of the park. hit the showers.

if you are able, consider donating to a group like Survivors of Incest Anonymous, which helps provide a safe space for victims of CSA, including victims of COCSA, to talk about and heal from their experiences.