I have this specific genre on pathologic sketches,

Pathologic 2 has top-notch Weird Young Girl representation. Like we have Murky the feral child, Taya who has more power than she’s capable of understanding, Grace who talks to dead people, Clara the changeling who lied her way into an evil twin situation, Capella who is eerily wise beyond her years, and a town full of little girls who trade drugs for sharp objects lol

i have feelings for you aspity

I have been waiting for this little guy to come back on my dash. He dances in sync with any music you play!

He’s dancing to Carry On My Wayward Son. It’s surreal.

Please make him dance to the song from the soundtrack of A Chorus Line: “Opening: I Hope I Get It.”

There are some great moments.

My dragon puppet is all done pretty much! Not sure how I feel about him but here he is :)

This is the coolest fucking thing to come across my dash in a long time

getting into the town like

dont really post gore here but i had to draw him

Devilman Crybaby key visual and screenshots.

Well then…it seems Anastasia may not be as emotionless as first anticipated.

cuties✨

I’ve had these Yuri On Ice genderbent sketches sitting around for AGES (maybe decades) but i’ve finally decided to post some, contribute to the pool of fem! YOI out there.

I actually did genderbends a long time ago in this post, but now i’ve changed around the designs a bit.

Let’s hope I don’t miss anyone here. Because the list is long now.

YURI ON ICE VOICE BLOGS. Yuuri: @yuurivoice  @yuurikatsudon-voicing Viktor: @nikiforoverdramatic  Yuri: @yuratchka-speaks Beka: @beka-speaks  ((also  @otayuri-speaks for both)) Phitchit: @sweet-thai-prince Sara: @thatcrispinogirl Chris: @iceisnottheonlythingillcumon Mila: @redheadrussianrumble ——NEXT LEVEL——– Vikturi’s Kid : @aiko-speaks OtaYuris Kid: @children-of-legends

ALSO! this Phitchit as well: @phichit-chu-rp

Go follow these amazing people!! ^^

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

#friendly reminder that I once put my statistics degree to good use and did some calculations about ship ratios#and yes considering the gender ratios of characters#the prevalence of gay ships is completely predictable (via sarahtonin42)

I feel this is something that does often get overlooked in slash shipping, especially in articles that try to ‘explain’ the phenomena. No matter the show, movie or book, people are going to ship. When everyone is a dude and the well written relationships are all dudes, of course we’re gonna go for romance among the dudes because we have no other options.

Totally.

A lot of analyses propose that the overwhelming predominance of male/male ships over female/female and female/male ships in fandom reflects an unhealthy fetishisation of male homosexuality and a deep-seated self-hatred on the part of women in fandom. While it’s true that many fandoms certainly have issues gender-wise, that sort of analysis willfully overlooks a rather more obvious culprit.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we have a hypothetical media franchise with twelve recurring speaking roles, nine of which are male and three of which are female.

(Note that this is actually a bit better than average representaton-wise - female representation in popular media franchises is typicaly well below the 25% contemplated here.)

Assuming that any character can be shipped with any other without regard for age, gender, social position or prior relationship - and for simplicity excluding cloning, time travel and other “selfcest”-enabling scenarios - this yields the following (non-polyamorous) possibilities:

Possible F/F ships: 3 Possible F/M ships: 27 Possible M/M ships: 36

TOTAL POSSIBLE SHIPS: 66

Thus, assuming - again, for the sake of simplicity - that every possible ship is about equally likely to appeal to any given fan, we’d reasonably expect about (36/66) = 55% of all shipping-related media to feature M/M pairings. No particular prejudice in favour of male characters and/or against female characters is necessary for us to get there.

The point is this: before we can conclude that representation in shipping is being skewed by fan prejudice, we have to ask how skewed it would be even in the absence of any particular prejudice on the part of the fans. Or, to put it another way, we have to ask ourselves: are we criticising women in fandom - and let’s be honest here, this type of criticism is almost exclusively directed at women - for creating a representation problem, or are we merely criticising them for failing to correct an existing one?

YES YES YES HOLY SHIT YES FUCKING THANK YOU!

Also food for thought: the obvious correction to a lack of non-male representation in a story is to add more non-males. Female Original Characters are often decried as self-insertion or Mary Sues, particular if romance or sex is a primary focus.

I really appreciate when tumblr commentary is of the quality I might see at an academic conference. No joke.

This doesn’t even account  for the disparity in the amount of screen time/dialogue male characters to get in comparison to female characters, and how much time other characters spend talking about male characters even when they aren’t onscreen. This all leads to male characters ending up more fully developed, and more nuanced than female characters. The more an audience feels like they know a character, the more likely an audience is to care about a character. More network television writers are men. Male writers tend to understand men better than women, statistically speaking. Female characters are more likely to be written by men who don’t understand women vary well. 

But it’s easier to blame the collateral damage than solve the root problem.

Yay, mathy arguments. :)

This is certainly one large factor in the amount of M/M slash out there, and the first reason that occurred to me when I first got into fandom (I don’t think it’s the sole reason, but I think it’s a bigger one than some people in the Why So Much Slash debate give our credit for). And nice point about adding female OCs.

In some of my shipping-related stats, I found that shows with more major female characters lead to more femslash (also more het).  (e.g. femslash in female-heavy media; femslash deep dive) I’ve never actually tried to do an analysis to pin down how much of fandom’s M/M preference is explained by the predominance of male characters in the source media, but I’m periodically tempted to try to do so.

This, omfg.

Most of the characters in my fics use he not because gay men are my babies uwu uwu, but because canon made a conscious choice to make all the characters dudes thirty-whatever years ago, and things are just now changing.

But fetishization, amirite?

This is why my response to people talking about the prevalance of slash and femslash in fandom will always be “which fandom?” “well, all of them” no, you can’t do that.

The Supernatural fandom - glutted with slash, because every female character who shows up dies. The Star Trek fandom - same thing, Uhura is (in the original series) the main character with the least number of lines. 

Compare that to the Avatar fandom, where half the main characters plus a good number of villains are women, and they’re all written with pretty much the same care as the male ones, and het is much more prevalent.

Of course, it gets really interesting if you compare Avatar to, say, Dragon Age - where the split is still about even in number of characters, but slash and femslash both are much more common. My guess is this is because Dragon Age appeals to people who like playing games but don’t like being straight all the time, so the fandom is largely made up of bisexual and gay people.

TL;DR on the latest round of Wikileaks:

Literally nothing you do is safe from the CIA. There are numerous full-on spyware suites developed by them, mostly for iOS and Windows, but also targeting Android, Linux, OS X, and Solaris. Apps thought to be secure (Telegram with encryption enabled, WhatsApp, Signal) were compromised as well, as were a host of other devices (ie smart TVs).

THIS DOES NOT PERTAIN ONLY TO AMERICANS.

If you live in a Shengen area country, your country likely hosts several CIA backed cyberwar experts. They came in via the US consulate in Frankfurt. If you don’t, you likely do as well, but I can’t find anything without sifting through the files myself.

“I have nothing to hide, why does this matter?”: Because there are now multiple thousand “zero hour”- ie “developers get zero hours to fix”- vulnerabilities floating around that no one had any idea existed. The vulnerabilities themselves weren’t leaked, but it’s the fact that someone knew about these and didn’t say.

I hate to make this kinda clickbait-y thing, but this is honest to God one of the most important leaks in history. Our response to this is pretty much going to be life or death for privacy in the developed world. Be loud about this, be annoying about this, and do not shut up about this. Please reblog this and other posts relating to it.

Not just any someone, this is one of the U.S. federal government’s foremost intelligence agencies, the CIA, which even mainstream media has reported operates on a black (off the record) budget, infamous for handing over “full” reports that are almost entirely redacted.

It’s a wonder that anyone out there could believe they are not the subject of surveillance—everyone has something to hide.

And this leak shows that the CIA has all of these technologies and proliferates them to other entities who want this information all the time. You need your privacy to protect yourself and your information. If you have nothing to hide, you have plenty to hide:

Julian Sanchez points out:

We simply cannot possibly know when something is going to incriminate us and the State is not above scapegoating individuals or coercing them into submission. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and former defense attorney, notes:

Supreme Court Justice Breyer elaborates:

Not just the State, but anyone could draw suspicion against you if they had the right information with the right circumstances. We are entitled to our privacy, and these institutions must be held to account.

Russia just decriminalized domestic violence. 14 000 women are already killed every year by their men or other relatives in Russia. Domestic violence already make out 40% of all crimes of violence in Russia, but according to women’s rights organizations it’s probably more. This is why we must be unyielding. This is why we need to be feminists, not the fun kind. This is why we must prioritize women’s liberation from the shackles of patriarchy and being owned and abused by men.

Here are petitions you can sign to help russian women: in English: https://www.change.org/p/state-duma-of-russian-federation-domestic-violence-should-be-recognized-as-criminal-offense-in-russia in French: https://www.change.org/p/state-duma-of-russian-federation-la-violence-domestique-en-russie-doit-être-un-délit-poursuivi-pénalement-2 in Russian: https://www.change.org/p/государственная-дума-российской-федерации-домашнее-насилие-должно-быть-уголовно-наказуемым-преступлением-в-россии Here you can learn more about women’s rights in Russia and read an interview with an activist from ANNA - National Center of Violence Prevention based in Moscow - http://russie-libertes.org/2016/11/08/focus-les-droits-des-femmes-en-russie/ (text is in French) I live in Russia but I do not support its president, its government, its ideology. There are voices of protest and resistance in Russia. Photo made by me in Moscow

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this is perfect, just see the whole post.