I Came, I saw, I Tumbl'd

ON HIATUS * likes sandwiches cut into four squares * Berets. A LOT. * Needs 'bout tree fiddy. * Sweaters are cool. * Aspire to one day become an animator. * Or Iron Man. ||My art tag||

[dduane]

Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th

The ban includes explicit sexual content and nudity with some exceptions.

About this…

If you’re someone affected by the platform’s definition of what they’re going to be banning, I strongly suggest you back up your Tumblr blog. RIGHT NOW. Info on how to do that is here.

I can’t think why my own Tumblr would be affected, but I’ll be backing things up too… because in situations like this one might expect the algorithm to get a little out of hand and make mistakes that one might or might not be able to recover from. (See this article.)

For safety’s sake – because I’d very much dislike losing the content I’ve shared with other people here – I’l be embodying my Tumblr content in a new Wordpress blog over the coming days. I’ll share the address here when it’s ready, for those who might be interested.

But in the meantime, seriously: friends and cousins, back yourselves up.

[tiny-freckled-artist]

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

- L

[tiny-freckled-artist]

SHAMELESS REBLOGGING

[younger-than-the-soul]

LOL BRO I DIDN’T EVEN REALIZE IT WAS YOU AHAHAHA

[tiny-freckled-artist]

BRO THAT SHOWS HOW LONG I BEEN GONE DAMMIT

also pssst here’s a link to the speedpaint i did TOOK FOREVER: https://youtu.be/JMFS3WYekIE

[tiny-freckled-artist]

*****EDIT*****

Here’s a link to the speedpaint process!! Click here: https://youtu.be/JMFS3WYekIE

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

- L

[tiny-freckled-artist]

Link to the speedpaint process has been added!!

[carnival-phantasm]

The Powerpuff Girls reboot is so bad that Ace from the Gangreen Gang straight up dropped out to join Gorillaz

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[tiny-freckled-artist]

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

- L

[tiny-freckled-artist]

SHAMELESS REBLOGGING

[tiny-freckled-artist]

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

- L

[tiny-freckled-artist]

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

- L

[tiny-freckled-artist]

*****EDIT*****

Here’s a link to the speedpaint process!! Click here: https://youtu.be/JMFS3WYekIE

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

- L

[tiny-freckled-artist]

On Hiatus

Hey there.

Been a while, hasn't it? Like a LOOOOONG while. Maybe even a year or two. I'd like to thank all those that have left me messages in my Tumblr and have enjoyed my art over the years. You guys and gals are super awesome and I love each and every one of you. Sadly, the news I carry today isn't too great: I'm taking a hiatus from art.

Art has undoubtedly been apart of my life for as long as could carry a pencil. I have watched my improvement over the years and it astounds me at how far I've come. But sadly, in the recent years, my passion for art has slowly dwindled. It been a bit of everything: lack of passion, inspiration and Real Life taking over and demanding my free time and my favourite topic, my depression I continue to battle with. Art has always been my go-to when I was down and needed a distraction. Sadly, it's just... stopped. Art doesn't excite me like it used to, art was my driving force for wanting to improve and make a future of it, and the fact that I can't even force myself to hold my tablet pen and just GO devastates me. I can't even draw an head before I bawl into tears and delete it.

So, I think the best course for my mental health/to stop myself from just completely burning out is to take a hiatus. Take a break and come back to it when I'm in a better state of mind.

I dunno when that is. But I just wanted to say thank you to all that supported me.

During the last few months of 2017, I thought I had overcome my slump, but I know now I was lying to myself. So I am gonna take care of me and come back to art when I'm #leianart again.

Love ya

💜🍗

[amascomet]

am I hallucinating

[deletingadsfhkjdhflkdjsf-deacti]

pack it up everyone! gumballs over

[spookyram]

I need to watch this episode bc like, tawog has a lot of moments that really need to be taken within context

[educational-gifs]

The Launch of the USS Detroit, or How Large Ships are Launched Into Water.

[dunkstein]

The guy who designed this, every time: oh god oh god oh god

[universalfanfic]

writing advice: never italicize words to show emphasis! if you’re writing well then the reader will know and you don’t need them!

me: oh really??? listen up, pal, you can just try an pull italics from my cold, dead fingers

[mercurialmalcontent]

I’m not even much of a fan of genderbends but goddamn am I even less of a fan of getting ordered around about what I should enjoy and how I should enjoy it and being lectured about how ‘problematic’ it is, when the real problem is that they’ve cast the thing in question in black and white and refuse to admit that there’s anything but their narrow framing.

Changing a character to the ‘opposite’ cis gender is a very different thing than making them trans or nonbinary. Insisting that people only change characters to trans is also really damn invalidating, because it implies that being trans is interchangable with being cis. Whoopsie doodle!

I think the real issue here is that a lot of people want to see more trans headcanons, but for some reason think that using sj words while being bossy and rude is the way to go about it. Dress it up in progressive language all you like; at the end of the day you’re still being bossy and rude to get what you want, regardless of anyone else’s valid feelings.

[roachpatrol]

i get really irritated at kids who scream that genderbends are transphobic because they’re completely missing the context and history. they have no idea. it’s like to them, Cis People made up genderbends specifically to thumb their noses at trans people.  

rule 63 was originally a guy thing, sexual objectification thing. it states ‘for every male character, there’s a female version of that character’, and not because the dudes who were into it cared about having more realistically rendered female heroes in their media. it was made popular on 4chan and porn boards and comics+gaming forums because you could reduce a manly male character into a sexy tits-and-ass pinup. there were related kinks of sissification, but mostly it was about getting to jerk it to a sexy female version of a previously unappealing, macho male character. 

then women got hold of the rule and started going, okay. let’s look at the female version of this male character. let’s talk about being a woman in a man’s world. let’s talk about rorschach’s misogyny, tony stark’s womanizing, batman’s grimness, the fact there’s one girl ninja to every four or five guy ninjas, let’s talk about that in the hypothetical context of these male heroes being women instead. if there’s a girl version for every male character, what does that mean? what’s her story? 

and it became this really amazing lens for female fans to interrogate stories through, to examine the effects of sexism and misogyny and masculinity, to introduce another woman into a story with very few, to identify with fully-rendered heroes of the fan’s own gender. and to interrogate the very nature of gender, which led into the development of genderbends where the character’s gender identity didn’t necessarily match their assigned sex, and from there an increasing interest in, and familiarity with, trans characters, trans people, and trans issues. 

so like. people now reducing the issue to ‘cis people are gross and hate trans people’ is pretty ridiculous. it ignores basically twenty years of women questioning, confronting and then dismantling the de-facto heteronormative, exploitative male gaze in order to create the radically progressive fandom atmosphere as we know it today on tumblr. 

[damnfool-of-a-took]

I’d been trying to put into words my issue with the idea that genderbent versions of characters are somehow automatically, innately transphobic, and I think you pretty well nailed it.

[skull-bearer]

Originally, it was called ‘genderswap’ or ‘genderswitch’, which was rightfully criticized for reinforcing a binary view of gender. Hence why it is now ‘genderbend‘. Things can bend in many directions.

[guinevak]

Yeah basically.

Rule 63s can be transphobic and gender essentialist, no question, just as m/m slash can be misogynistic, but it’s not inherent to the genre.

The way I see it, rule 63 and trans/nb headcanons are two subsets of what I call “gender AUs”, and they’re not mutually exclusive.  Girl!Sherlock Holmes is an example of one, trans!Holmes is the other, and trans woman Holmes is both.  All those would be worthwhile explorations.

[actuallyclintbarton]

Yes! And all sorts have their place because all of them are exploring the experience of an under-represented group (or two) in a different way.

[curriebelle]

Thank you for writing this :) I never want to tell people that their feelings are invalid, but sometimes I think those feelings come from gut negative reactions that deserve to be re-examined. Like in this case, trans people have every right to be wary of something that could - and admittedly, sometimes does - re-enforce difficult gender stereotypes, and they also have every right to say genderbent art/fic isn’t to their taste or ask people to tag it.

But there’s nothing inherently transphobic about art that explores gender - quite the opposite, I think - and that’s what genderbends are about. It can be hugely beneficial to imagine male characters as female in order to explore roles that aren’t traditionally given to women (I would really love to see a genderbent take on, say, Stacker Pentecost for that exact reason). 

[cactuswrestling]

[the-uncultured-lesbian]

[cat-cosplay]

“Hrrit! Hai! Hiyah! HUP! Meow!” ~ Lynx, Legendary hero of Hyrule