Previously Killer Bee Blogging

Black baby artist, reblogging cool shit. I AM 18+ but this account is relatively sfw! Insta: oatferns

[whimzee]

What’s this blog?

Hi!!!! I’m Bee, and I’m using this blog as a place to post my art and try to get it circulating. I heard that the first step to growing an audience was posting your work, which sounds kinda ghetto imo but it seems to work for other people lol. I’m taking online classes and working on my stuff outside of this blog and I’ll occasionally make text posts here too, so if you wanna help me out please consider reblogging some of my stuff! If you’re also a beginner artist trying to make a name for yourself, say something on this post so I can follow you and share your art too!

[novelconcepts]

Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.

You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.

[pydiyudie]

[mevil]

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

[lalage]

if you fight me, to me you will be unique in all the world, and to you i will be unique in all the world.. please.. fight me!

(pose references from the 1974 film adaptation of the little prince)

[sodiumvaporss]

i do have to say that no matter how shitty any sort of media is or how shitty your own creations are. always remember

[elioli-art]

Eden awaits... Watch HERE:

Coming soon: "GENESIS" - Animated Bible Proof-Of-Concept

GENESIS is an animated epic for older teens and adults, retelling Eden and Noah through bold, cinematic animation.

[wildbasil]

Can you kind people please report this etsy art thief for me (CelestiaSuncatchers) 😔 thank you so much to @mavhenan for alerting me to this

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4473648650/minthara-baldurs-gate-3-suncatcher

[longwaaaaa]

sellswords side characters😛

[p-p-pan]

🩸🩸🩸

[triptrippy]

hekki ALLMO

[triptrippy]

these things again!!

[moonasketch]

wanted to draw some silly illustrated scenes of my fav kh worlds <3

[neonshroudedgraves]

Once I feel like I have to write fanfics or fan content perfect with canon over a series. I start to feel less fun and motivated to write for said series.

[losella]

oh man, i tend to get a little "um actually" with canon but i never mean to tell people what to write. i just like to inform. if i've ever come off to anyone out there as a canon hard ass i am so sorry. i don't mean to, i just like talking about the things i like.

regarding the freak circus specifically, i maybe do this because i feel like the official content is a little hard to access in it's entirety if you don't know where to look. i'm not trying to get people to abide strictly by it, just trying to get stuff out there.

i made a post about this recently and some of the stuff i said there may have come off as harsh? ok i gotta take some deep breaths while i think about my fandom life choices.

[neonshroudedgraves]

Nah I get you about tfc and understand, and appreciate ya trying to help those who may not have access or know of canon knowledge. (Especially with their change from one blog to another. A lot of stuff is gonna be confusing I'm sure for some from that change over.)

Just sadly some others do in fact try to make people only follow canon, and that's what my posts were about. Not about anyone just trying to kindly inform others of some information and all. (Some take canon too seriously or treat it like some bible you must abide by in fan stuff I've noticed.)

Take care of yourself alright.

[darthsuki]

In my personal and humble opinion, following canon is the smallest and least important aspect when it comes to participating in fandom.

That may sound a little ironic or confusing at first glance, since one might think that creating fan content for a media should aspire to be as 'canon-adjacent' as possible at all times, but I think it becomes more obvious the longer you think about fandom not as people following a media's canon, but a community of people who are all looking at a piece of media (or really anything, since anything can birth a fandom) and going:

'You know what? This sparks joy. This inspires me. This helps me get through hard times. This lets me experience the world in a different way. This lets me connect with people. This allows me to explore myself in a safe and fun way.'

That's what fandom is to me, and that is why focusing solely on following canon to the detriment of joy, creativity and a healthy number of crack-ships and what-ifs is often what stifles a fandom from truly blossoming into something awesome. It resonates with different people in different ways, and what matters most is that you're enjoying yourself and interacting with the media and canon in a way that makes you happy!

Do you respect your fellow fans? Do you respect that canon is its own thing (whether you're trying to follow it to a T or not)? Do you allow yourself to create and interact with the media because it speaks to you in some intimate and personal way?

Then awesome! You're doing fandom perfectly! It's meant to uplift you with all the wonder that comes with the truly human act of storytelling, not to pull you down into anxiety and worry that you're not doing 'right'.

I've read, seen and experienced some truly beautiful and inspiring things from creators across the spectrum of 'following canon', and I've walked away with something truly special from all of them.

[buboplague]

[charlemane]

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I feel like I'm constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn't feel like it's run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)

And you can expand them to see rank, number of babies, and percentage of babies and add a second name to compare. (in 1973 four percent of babies were named Jennifer! 1 in 25!!!)

Also this. Cursed.

[emperorsfoot]

@homoqueerjewhobbit what name did you search for your example, and what's going on with Moldova?

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year's data for Moldova right now, so that's why it's a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I'm not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it's like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.

Here's the list of all of the countries/regions they have popularity statistics for if you want to nerd out on it!

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

You can't advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name's page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).

I wouldn't even call BehindTheName a baby name site. They have a surname sister site and a random name generator with tons of variables to set that is very clearly intended to be used for fictional characters (iirc it can even generate a cause of death? I haven't looked at it in many years so it might have changed but these things predate generative AI so unless it's been forcefully enshittified it shouldn't be slop). Like, you can use it for baby names, but the website isn't explicitly intended for that purpose. This website caters to us.

[julia-beatrice]

To quote my favorite feathery boy

"Papuga cześć" (Parrot hello)