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amphipyra tragopoginis

@amphii / amphii.tumblr.com

(icon made by kingdohms) (sidebar image by vesper) hello! i'm amphi and this is my blog!! i go on the tunglr a lot but i forget to reblog things often so don't worry if i disappear for months at a time lol ____________ if i don't tag something right, reblog something problematic, etc. please let me know and i'll be more than happy to edit/delete it! Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

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hey guys, it's been a while!! sorry about the inactivity, but among other things i've been going through, my dog suffered an injury that's left her toe infected and it seems very likely that we'll need to amputate it for her to get better my family has been struggling on funds for a long time now, and a surgery like this would be a huge expense that we really can't afford i might start a gofundme after we receive lab results to confirm our next course of action, who knows, but either way these constant vet appointments alone are building up in cost. that being said, here's a reminder that my commissions are open, they're very cheap and every little bit of money counts!!

 hey heres a warning for the LGBT pokemon server run by user Amphii. their mods defend pedophilia and gaslight and twist words when confronted.

EDIT: Amphii has stepped down as a mod. Gay-Magnus claims to be following suit.

DISCLAIMER: Do not raid their server, it is merely linked for clarification of which server is being discussed.

Proof from their discord server under cut

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first, i'd like to apologize for not seeing this sooner, i've been very busy as of late and hadn't checked tumblr since our argument. also, i just want to say that i didn't send anyone after you--the people who contacted you all were people i know who went behind my back and talked with you despite my wishes for them not to, and even though i didn't directly cause that particular chain of events, i still apologize for it. you didn't deserve to have any of those things said about you.

secondly, i apologize for the way i behaved on the server. instead of prioritizing the comfort of my members, i got defensive and reacted inappropriately. i know you guys won't care for it, but i sincerely wasn't trying to insist it was ok to ship a 14 year old with a 20 year old. i've never read the manga and only had a vague understanding that trainer black was around 14 in that particular iteration of black and white, but i didn't think it'd be an issue since i sincerely thought his and N's ages were closer in the gameverse, and that the source for hilbert being 16 should be considered canon. i know now that this was wrong, that my headcanons can't magically make everyone comfortable with a ship that's otherwise wrong, and as such i've ditched the ship altogether, just as i should've when everyone intially tried to correct me.

thirdly, it was wrong for me to ban you. i thought that the newest members had only joined to start trouble, so i acted irrationally and banned the new people for "wreaking havoc," and liz for "sending them in." i know now that this wasn't the case, and you all just sincerely wanted to correct my behavior, so i apologize for that as well. i should've remained calmer instead of making the assumptions that i did.

i cannot express enough how wrong i've been about all of this, but i would like to make one thing perfectly clear: i've done a lot of growing since becoming an adult, and during that time i have never once intentionally defended pedophilia, fictional or otherwise. i am absolutely disgusted by the subject matter and i know the effects even fictional pedophilia has for real-life people, and as someone whose sibling has been the victim of CSA (written here explicitly with his permission), i would never intentionally condone it. that's been my stance on the issue this whole time and it will continue to be my stance on it.

none of that excuses what happened though. regardless, this was all my fault for my poor judgment, so i'm taking full responsibility for what happened. as you all know, i've given up the server to another user and left, and i have no intention of coming back (though the new leader can ban me if they want just for good measure). that being said, that server should be cleansed of my presence now (with the possible exception of some pinned messages), making it safe for those who are uncomfortable with me and my actions. i hope that server has a bright future without me, and i wish you all the best.

answer this privately if you can but uuhh i saw you reblogged my art of the sinnoh trio a lil while back and i'd prefer if you deleted it because according to a few of my friends who know you you defend things like hilbert/n which is pedophilia (hilberts a minor n is not) and i'd rather not have people who support that touching my art thanks.

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i take pedophilia very seriously and i don’t condone it whatsoever, so i’m very sorry that you got that impression of me.

i personally don’t view N x hilbert to be pedophilia since (in the gameverse) the protagonist’s age is left ambiguous, and one of the plot scenario developers also stated that the protags were 16 in the first bw, making them 18 in bw2.however, because one of them is 16 initially, i do not condone pornographic content of them. i just think they’re cute together in a sfw context.i understand if you disagree or if you don’t feel comfortable with that age gap, but that’s how i view their relationship. i’m sorry that my reblog made you uncomfortable though. i’ll go delete it right now.

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edit: i’m adding this onto my original response because i know responding won’t go anywhere.

here’s the source stating they’re 16 from one of the plot developers: https://twitter.com/matsumiyan/status/387216363829198848/

different sources say different things and i know you’ll just pick and choose which sources you choose to follow, but there it is.

I really hate how “queer” is being used so freely among writers now.

Even non-lgbt people are using it to say shit like “queer characters” and “queer stories” and “queer writers”. If you’re straight and cis don’t fucking use that word. It’s not your word to reclaim.

I’m not fucking “queer”. That word is a slur and not everyone is comfortable with it. Stop using it as an umbrella term. Stop using it to describe every lgbt person. Just because you like to use it for yourself doesn’t mean that everyone else likes it.

I hate the way this word has shoved itself into the writing world. If I see one more post titled something like “new queer books for 2015″ I’m going to jump out a window.

I literally stopped being comfortable with using the term to describe myself when I went back to college and had to sit in classes with straight students and professors using queer without wincing or pausing, with no discomfort whatsoever. Hearing it coming out of their mouths was painful to me. Who the fuck are they to say that so easily and lightly??

Now I wish it never was reclaimed as a way of describing the community because now anyone can use it.

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That’s pretty much why I hate it now. Before I was ambivalent, but that sealed it.

So! This may have been mentioned before, but in case it hasn’t…!

I’ve been doing variant covers for the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comic series! It’s super cool, and I’m really happy to be able to do this!

Here’s the covers I’ve done for issues 1-4!

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Me, trying to find ways to connect my favorite song’s lyrics to whatever characters I’m currently obsessed with: