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my home is war. my voice is a battle song | storm, they/them. personal & interests ko-fi

[sketchmatters]

Secret Servitor I did for @TeenyBeebArt on Twitter!

[ochrearroyo]

Pheasant dragons

[fiercestpurpose]

There’s a quality that certain books/movies/TV shows have that leads me to say, “Yeah, I can see people making fanfiction of that.” It’s something to do, I think, with how tight the story is, how much feels open-ended or like it could be elaborated on.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.

And sometimes you’ll read or watch something and you’ll say, “Ah, low squiggability,” and then you’ll open tumblr and find out that everyone else seem to think its squiggability was very high indeed.

[stars-andspirals]

drew kris dreemurr for the melanin beam challenge ran by @creatingblackcharacters!!

[diadoesart]

Giving this piece its own post outside of the Ask because I really like how it came out. If you want to read the ask that inspired it you can find it here

[illumynare]

last night I learned that lush caves can manifest in the middle of abandoned mineshafts

[thefallenland]

commission YAY💜

[nephilot]

not every piece of art centered on a straight woman is "hetslop" and at some point it becomes misogyny to dismiss art abt women with that term

[nephilot]

first reply that really annoyed meeeee (if i'm remembering correctly, idk it's been a while since i looked at this post)

[nephilot]

there is nothing to be gained by acting like women aren't oppressed by men, and nothing to be gained by acting like straight and bisexual women have nothing interesting to say abt their relationships with men. and as several ppl have pointed out in the notes, the term "hetslop" is often levied at Black women especially as well as other women of color. so like. just don'tttttt be annoying on my post like this thank you

[writingdose]

me: I should write

also me: let me play the scene in my head and fantasize about writing it instead

[tails-155]

via http://imgur.com/gallery/x5mE5

Original: http://william-snekspeare.tumblr.com/

[nekkofoxisback]

Never will these not be cute.

[nabokovsshadows-deactivated2018]

One of my all time favourite things I’ve seen tumblr

[itstimewehavesomesoliddick]

we shortly interrupt your regular shitposting program with these reptiles

[gafenstien]

@allison1710 Please enjoy these sneks again!

[phoenixwrites]

@givemeunicorns made me think of you

[william-snekspeare]

This is my stuff!! Ah, memories

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

also i know people have mentioned this before but it drives me up the wall to think about the fact that red maiden just straight up removes pk's motif from her theme. she has unshackled herself from the sins and obligations of her bullshit fucking father. this is NOT about him.

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[erogame]

[blueskittlesart]

witch hat atelier’s handling of gay representation is arguably just as funny as it is painful because straight out the gate shirahama throws two unmarried men cohabitating and raising multiple children together at you in that special manga way where you can kind of just assume that they’re not officially together purely because it’s not legal in japan. but then in like chapter 50 she introduces two side characters who stare directly into the camera and tell you that gay marriage is legal in zozah so you’re forced to spend the next entire 30-chapter arc wondering what the HELL qifrey’s problem is. and well. then she tells you

[arctasy]

when the character is obsessive and desperate and guilty and scared and ashamed and traumatized and repressed

[toolusingmammalgirl]

The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

[susandsnell]

feminist killjoy hours again, what the actual fuck is “weird girl literature” and how often do we acquiesce to the latest degrading gendered advertising campaigns

[susandsnell]

Women did not fucking pioneer horror, thriller, and science fiction as we know it for publishing to infantilize it into a high school phase

[susandsnell]

is Stephen king “weird boy literature”? Or does he get to be an adult horror novelist?

[clementine-kesh]

*producer about to make one of the worst seasons of television ever put to screen* surely writing purely in reaction to what the fans are saying on twitter will work out great for us this time