Ok, so apparently I need to say this louder.

A) art or other media of your oc depicted/interacting with my LMK OCs is forbidden, you will be blocked. I’m tired of monitoring everyone’s behaviour.

B) do not make fanart/fanfiction/whatever of Wan Ji and Macaque in the position of caretakers. They will not have adopted children, biological children or have anything to do with children or raising children.

C) if you have grievances with the update schedule, shut the fuck up. Leave me alone

D) I am currently on an indefinite hiatus. I’ll be back when I’ve figured out how to make shit in my life suck less.

E) there’s an Disclaimer/FAQ for a reason. Read it.

F) if you don’t know where to find something; your answer is in the masterpost.

G) don’t tag me in something unless it actually applies to me. I will block you.

H) Mutuals and friends are the only people allowed to bypass ANY of the rules. Unless were mutuals, or I talk to you through discord DMs, we are not friends.

Gonna link the masterpost here since I need to pin this instead for a while: https://www.tumblr.com/journeytomonkiekid/673305095638745088/eclipse-apprentice-masterpost

old men that kiss

reblog if u agree

again....................I don't want Wan Ji and Macaque to have offspring. Adopted offspring are still offspring. Stop. It makes me physically sick to think about.

Cant believe I have to say this again;

Please don’t make pics or fanfics or whatever that involves Macaque and Wan Ji having kids. I hate that, it makes me uncomfortable, don’t do it. They are romantically and sexually a couple but that does not mean they will have kids nor does it mean that they **want** kids. Wan Ji in particular does not want kids and Macaque respects that, and he has no desire to have kids either. To be absolutely clear, don’t draw or write characters that are meant to be Macaque and Wan Ji’s offspring.

This comic is not meant for people under 15 years of age. I would limit it to 18+ but it’s not severe enough to earn that limitation. That being said, again, this is for your well-being that I’m making the limitation. If you think you’re “mature enough”, no you’re not.

Many of the recent comments make me very suspicious so I feel the need to make this reminder

don't forget during the WGA strike that animation is not covered under the WGA deals and as a result animation has gotten the shortest possible end of the stick in under-staffing, under-paying, and generally turning the field into gig employment.

please sign the petition here for Disney to recognize animation production workers as a union and reblog this post!

There is so much more I could say about this, but there is not enough room. Remember to check with reality rather than believing conspiracy theories promoted, supported, and funded by white nationalist hate groups.

Missouri is proposing 20% of the nation’s anti-trans legislation this session. Gender-affirming care for young folks is on the edge of being criminalized (so much love to trans friends in states where that has already happened).

Please keep up with the anti-trans legislation in your state and combat it. There are lives at stake.

Transphobes do not touch this post.

Image ID: a 10-image cartoon comic featuring Joey, a boy with short hair.

Image 1: Joey, upset, gesticulates towards an open laptop. Text reads: The reality of St. Louis trans kids. Last week, a former (non-medical) employee of Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center was featured in a viral article about how the clinic was “rushing” kids into medical care and “mutilating” us. Every single thing she said was a lie, but the media loves it. Footnote reads: I wouldn’t give any more attention to this, but it is immediately endangering the lives of trans people. Missouri has launched a state investigation and is actively attempting to criminalize gender-affirming care based on conspiracy theories.

Image 2: Joey points to a map of the United States where Missouri is singled out, and a map of Missouri where St. Louis is indicated with a star. The text reads: The Transgender Center, located in St. Louis, Missouri, has been the target of hateful attacks from the far-right state legislature for years. It is part of Washington University Hospital, a branch of a prestigious private university.

Image 3: A younger Joey injects his T shot in his leg while someone takes a photo. Text reads: I can tell you that everything in the article is false because I received care at the Transgender Center beginning at 16 years old. My medical transition has brought me nothing but joy. What a gift it is to be trans!

Image 4: A younger Joey sits on a couch and stims with a tangle fidget toy. Text reads: No one is “rushed”. I sat on many waitlists, had to have 6 months of specialized gender therapy and a diagnosis of gender dysphoria before even being referred to the Center, and I was denied as “not ready enough” by an endocrinologist the first time I finally got an appointment. Footnote reads: If you’re curious about what it looks like to be a trans kid, I did another piece on that! Check out tinyurl.com/transkidscomictumblr.

Image 5: A colorful map of the United States shows how many states have a Negative Gender Identity Policy Tally and how many states have criminalized gender affirming care. Joey holds a credit card. Text reads: St. Louis’ Pediatric Transgender Center is the only one in the region, meaning the waitlists are extremely long. Plus, no one in the only industrialized country without free healthcare is getting medical care for fun. Many American trans folks have to fundraise for our care.

Image 6: Joey, distressed, sits on a couch while talking on the phone. The person on the other end says: “That’s me!” Text reads: This former employee spoke about specific cases, and patients have been able to identify themselves. She shared our private medical info and called us horrifying.

Image 7: This is split into two panels. In the first, Joey holds up a box of condoms and a packet of birth control pills. Texts reads: She especially hated trans men such as myself, saying that trans ideology was destroying “girls”. She lamented about hormones making us “sterile”, which is a complete lie. We trans mascs have to actively prevent pregnancy. In panel two stands a doctor. Text reads: Every time I had an appointment at the Center, doctors reminded me: Remember: testosterone is not a contraceptive! Footnote reads: The wonderful Erin Reed wrote a breakdown debunking all the lies in the article. See tinyurl.com/erinreedmissouri.

Image 8: Joey, masked, sits at a circular table with his brother, an unmasked boy with fluffy short hair. Joey’s brother is showing him his phone. Text reads: Major newspapers continue to platform these complete lies because they bring in engagement and money. The Washington Post tracked down my little brother’s personal cell phone number to try to get in contact with our mom – the president of an organization supporting trans kids in Missouri. Freaky, right?

Image 9: Joey, looking disgusted, leans against a door frame while talking on a cell phone. Text reads: But no one wants to talk with me, the adult who medically transitioned at this clinic as a minor and has not “desisted” in six years. The Washington Post reporter, who didn’t know anything about trans people, talked with me for 20 minutes and used a sentence of mine in an article about “both sides of the debate”. She didn’t mention that this former employee is being legally represented by a recognized anti-LGBT hate group, nor that all of her claims are unsupported by reality or science.

Image 10: Joey looks angry and gesticulates. Beside the drawing are two photos of Joey, one of him happy in front of a trans flag, and the other of him drawing up testosterone to take his first T shot. Text reads: There is no debate. There are trans people, and there are people who want us dead. There is truth and there are conspiracy theories. Where is my viral article in a major paper?

Published Feb 16, 2023. End ID.

Heyo! This is the least amount of circulation one of these comics has gotten recently, and I’m trying to combat all of the virulently anti-trans media from almost all major publications in the US right now.

If you see this, please consider reblogging! It helps a lot!

*sips tea* Let this spread all over Tumblr.

Please Reblog…

Reblog it–

Reblog this right now

Where’s the signal boost multipliers?!

Reblogging because its important

reblogggggg

Reblog, always. An important lesson I have been on both sides of first hand ♥️.

I’ve reblogged this before but, eh, doesn’t hurt to do it again. Happy new year btw. 🥂

Learning both sides of the story is a good lesson. REBLOG THIS-

Rebloged

Yes it is, Not only that but you could cause a massive breakdown for the whole of the internet.

pretty much

This man took so much longer to crack than I would have what a PROFESSIONAL

Plotting, scheming, etc.

I am weeping 😂🤣😂🤣

Chaos baby

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I really encourage actual artists to take a look. I personally saw a lack of understanding about artist consent on here. While the platform does not allow for AI art scraping or plans to create an AI, it is toying with the idea of allowing people to post AI art at all--with that just simply hosting the images with 'rules about giving credit' absolves them with the responsibility of obtaining artist consent. There is no way for Pillowfort to know that the art posted was made using art from artists who gave their permission. If you use Pillowfort please do give them your feedback.

I am an avid supporter of Pillowfort and am currently donating to it monthly cuz I believe in it. But if it allows AI art I will be withdrawing my financial support personally.

HOT & SPICY!

AI chan might be cute, but stealing art isn’t‼️

Deciding to be an artist for a living is honestly a pretty dumb decision. You get told by everyone it’s unrealistic, you’ll never be good enough, it’s not a real job etc. Still, you decide to try, you battle your negative thoughts daily as you start to second guess whether this path was meant for you - thinking of giving up several times. But you just can’t, it’s the only thing you want to do in life. You need to be a little dumb to follow this path, otherwise you’d be blinded by reason.

When AI samples images from us without permission, they’re not just taking data. They’re taking a lifetime of dedication and putting it into a program, just to spit out some amalgamation of what is supposed to mimic human expression.

Its current implementation is unethical and should be illegal. Current AI was trained on the non-consensual use of people's work and copyrighted material. There are no laws in place to protect artists, and there is no compensation for your work being used. Until the software starts to exclusively stick to art that is royalty free or with the artists permission, I ask you all to boycott AI and support human artists.

Jesus Christ guys DO NOT put peoples art into AI! This is not just for fun and games you are allowing the companies who control thr AI to steal the rights to the art.

I am **extremely** against AI for a reason, don’t fucking do that.

i know this is just one post on tumblr but i am BEGGING people who can to be loud about strange world.

it is so fucking unfair for disney to not properly promote this movie at all and for it to bomb so badly in theaters like it’s doing just because it actually had genuinely good poc and queer rep! i am SEETHING about how they intentionally set it up to fail and i can’t imagine how the people who worked on the movie feel!

please be loud about it! please go see it if you can, tell your friends to see it, post about it on social media, get it trending, get as many people to see it as possible!

let the idiots at the top know we WANT better representation in movies!

it's transparently obvious that they did zero promotion on this movie. my entire twitter timeline was people going "I've never heard of this until today?" plus a movie theater employee confirming they never saw any attempt to promote the movie:

After drowning in Encanto and Turning Red and Lightyear promos, and getting a decent amount of Raya promos - all films with prominent characters of color, including black women in Lightyear's case - it kind of seems like a specific slight to the one movie featuring an unmissable black/white interracial marriage and a biracial queer lead who, spoilers! actually gets an (also interracial!) romance on-screen.

I'm sure tumblr will be quick to attribute Disney's mistreatment of the film to the cute teen m/m subplot, but don't sleep on the interracial relationship aspect - it's not a fluke that the Respect for Marriage Act had to insist on protections for both same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. It's both! It's both.

Even looking to Disney's most famous interracial relationship that features a black person - namely Tiana and Naveen - they followed the same pattern as the movie Hitch famously did, by making the black character's love interest neither black nor white - black/black is seen as making the whole movie a "black movie," i.e. alienating white audiences, while black/white would be even more of a source of controversy than a black princess alone had been.

Now here we are, over a decade later, and Disney's still scared to promote a movie where one protagonist is in a black/white marriage and the other protagonist is that guy's biracial kid.

Radio ads, huh? You know... the one type of ad where you can't see what the characters look like.

Schoolgirls in Iran in protest against the regime sticking their middle fingers to Khomeini and Khamenei

Oh boy a lot of new readers. Reminding everyone again that this comic is not intended for audiences under 15. (Even 15 is pushing it) please read the FAQ and disclaimer on the masterpost.