Someday, I too, will be yuri.
she forgor
Bit of advice: pill case with the days and printed on it.
Recently noticed: the four elements they use in quadstrike are the same as the elements of the four sacred bit beasts in the original series. Nice reference. Very cool.
Link is now the only triforce holder who hasn’t had the master sword in their forehead.
This one is interesting because on one hand, Dimitri would have wanted us to vote Dedue. On the other, Dedue would have wanted us to vote Dimitri.
Hey everyone! In an attempt to combat loneliness, I created a discord thing!
As you may tell from the name it would be focused on trans experiences, but allies are also welcome. I have no idea if this is going to work, but if you wanna come chat with me, feel free to join!
The pain is more incredibly annoying than unbearable
I can bear it but come on
HRT is awesome and I simply can’t understand why anyone would ever want to take it away. These government people will go and outlaw something that has been proven to lead to a %70+ decrease in suicide rates and still have the gall to claim they care about “the children”.
They’re murdering the children.
But I seriously don’t get why anyone could look at this stuff and think it’s bad. Tomorrow marks my 1-month on androgen blockers (the pharmacy had a shortage and I started estrogen a few days later), and I’ve already seen such a remarkable improvement in quality of life. A lot of little things. The first thing I noticed was it got rid of those little lines on the side of my face. I hated those lines, they made me feel so ugly, and now they’re gone. And that was just in one week! My skin is softer now. My breasts may not be much bigger but they are now decidedly breasts. I don’t think there’s any way I can describe the elation of going from having two lumps of fat cells on your chest to having two lumps of specialized fat cells. That feminine redistribution of body fat thing is amazing! Slowly but surely my body is shifting pieces to where I want them and it is wonderful.
I cannot begin to tell you the miracle of being able to look at a part of my body and like it. It was incredible the first time it happened when I grew out my hair. It continues to be earth-shatteringly wonderful every time my body shifts, every time I look at or feel a certain body part for the first time in a while and instead of disgust I feel elation.
I’ve been on a lot of psychiatric meds in my time and while they’ve helped, the pill that seems to have landed the biggest lasting blow against my depression is that little blue pill I take twice a day with food.The fact that these wonderful, magical, fairly simple medicines with the potential to save millions of lives worldwide are being regulated, that their are people out there who want to get rid of them, it’s inconceivable to me. There are still studies being done about the quality of life increase of transitioning because some idiots refused to look at the first dozen but just looking at my self as an example, just one person on one side of the spectrum, looking and seeing this amazing, life changing thing, and learning there are people trying to outlaw it? My heart burns.
This is one of the greatest things in my life and the fact that these monsters want to take that experience away from so many, I am furious. Please think of the children. Think of the wonder, the joy, think of how amazing this could be for them. Think about tens of thousands of children in my country alone and think about saving them. Think about doing everything in your power to give these kids the wonderful life they deserve. Think of the children.
to get some hype for the potential return of spectrum force, I have here a promo drawing of one of the main characters. Hopefully some of you will recognize Ren, but here's a brief bio if you're new. Ren Miyazaki is pansexual, genderfluid, intersex, a superhero, and a graphic artist. They were one of the first to find and figure out how to use their drive key, and their artistic background helped them find new ways to use it (such as light-construct-weaponry). They're highly dedicated to helping people, and act as somewhat of a leader to the other spectrum guardians. They have a tendency to train to hard.
If you want to see more of Ren, maybe vote in the poll? it also serves to gauge the level of interest in spectrum force at the moment.
I know you done content on hard versus soft magic systems but what is your opinion on crunchy versus smooth?
I will use atla to explain.
Season one The power system is well defined but basic Air Water Earth Fire. Simple to understand very straightforward (smooth)
By the end of the legend of Korra, you have several sub-categories and completely new categories as well (crunchy)
ah, a greebled magic system
I like complicated "crunchy" yet rigidly-defined magic systems, because they give the creator a lot of stuff to play with while also giving them constraints to operate in that dictate a lot of what can and can't happen with the plot. The danger, of course, is in introducing a form of magic that actually makes no sense, or something that devalues other elements of the system because its impact wasn't fully reasoned out, or carving off a part of an existing magic chunk and making it inaccessible for unjustified reasons.
I also feel like sometimes the extra crunch of a magic system can betray a lack of creativity on the part of the creator - having to invent entirely new magics instead of considering new applications for the old ones.
Bloodbending? Lightning-bending as an advanced firebending technique? Combustion Man as a unique one-off assassin? That armless waterbender lady with a completely new martial arts style? Zaheer using airbending to kill the Earth Queen? Dope new applications of existing concepts that make the magic system feel large, fluid and powerful. These are extensions of existing concepts that feel logical, or at least understandable.
Airbenders Who Abandon All Earthly Connections Can Levitate Now? Weird and kind of retroactively disruptive that it never came up before.
By The Way Lavabending Is Its Own Special Weird Thing Now Like Metalbending Was? Feels like we needed to invent a reason for this sidelined character to matter.
There's a risk to carving off too many chunks of a magic system, I think. Avatar started simple: everything the heroes could do or figure out was an extension of first principles. Lightning is kinda like weird pure fire, so lightning-bending made sense as an advanced firebending technique with a big risk of blowing up in your face. Bloodbending is literally something any waterbender can do once they realize it's possible - the horror of it is that it's a forbidden technique that becomes impossibly easy just by knowing about it. Toph figuring out metalbending by virtue of having a completely unique and incredibly granular sense for the earth around her ALSO worked, because (a) "metal can't be bent" has been firmly established several times and is clearly common knowledge, and (b) she was clearly the first person who'd ever had that combination of skill and disability and she was building her style from the ground up.
By the Korra timeline, however, we start running into things like lavabending, which should absolutely not be its own weird thing. It's just rock. We've already seen Kyoshi bend lava. If I recall correctly, the show doesn't sufficiently explain why lavabending is a weird separate thing from earthbending, making it feel like a logical component of the earthbending powerset is being arbitrarily gated just to make an otherwise disregarded character Slightly Important by being able to do it.
Stuff like that makes the magic system feel less internally solid. "Why CAN'T this magic do [thing]" is an extremely important question for a worldbuilder to be able to answer, and an overly greebled and partitioned magic system often can't explain why magic X and magic Y are totally separate. Skills and techniques and personal preferences among casters are fine to explain why something may or may not be possible for someone, but "what magic can and can't do and WHY" is something that I think should be as firmly, logically coherent as possible.
The given in universe reason lavabending was hard to do wasn’t because it’s physically hard or especially different, it’s because it’s philosophically opposite to normal earthbending. Bending is at least 50% spiritual, with each method of bending having its own underlying philosophy. Earth ending is about structure, rigidity, control and constants, while lavabending is decidedly not. Lavabending is based in fluidity and change, spontaneity, which is why it’s harder for most earthbenders to do: it’s philosophically the exact opposite of what they’re used to, what they’re trained in and what they’re almost always somewhat predisposed to. It was shown in the show, and later on I’m the comics, that Bolin is not a typical earthbender. He’s flighty and spontaneous and struggles to stay still, things that make him actually worse at traditional earthbending. This is both shown and talked about with how he can’t use metalbending, the pinnacle of traditional earthbending. Lavabending isn’t an issue of technique like metalbending where you just need to be really good at earthbending. Lavabending is about changing the material, the one thing that earthbending is explicitly not about.
Anonymous asked:
Hey, just wanted to say someone posted your St. Patrick's Day Sana to r/mendrawingwomen, and I know you specifically requested your art to not be posted there because it has happened before
Why am I not surprised 🤨
Oh well.
The mods removed it, which is nice. Still doesn’t fix the problem of places like that tending to feature a fair portion of just… people? Like, I understand the point is to fight against over sexualization of women, but a lot of posts on those types of forums end up just being “woman who has boobs”. Sometimes people have boobs. I remember blocking that badcomicsart page after the fifth time in a row I got recommended a post that was literally just power girl having a noticeable bust. It just makes me sad how the oversexualization of women has caused certain proportions (which I again need to add, real people do have these proportions. Some people have bigger than average thighs. Some people have noticeable breasts) to be considered inherently sexual, which leads to harassment of artists that draw people with those proportions, but more importantly people who happen to have those proportions. Drawing a woman with boobs does not make someone a “weirdo anime pervert”. Having boobs does not make women inherently sexual, or promiscuous, or any of the significantly worse things I’ve seen people called just for having a certain body type. And it make me upset that things meant to combat this issue end up just enforcing it.
