If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday it could also be known as “2’s Day”
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DUDE
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CLUB GOIN UP
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IN LIGHT OF THE PURGE
I feel it’s important that you guys know where else you can find me! It’s all in my sidebar, but just so that you all know:
- zeda @ pixiv
- zeda @ pillowfort
- zeda @ toyhou.se
- zedachan @ twitter
- blk-kitti @ deviantart
- blackapollonia @ furaffinity
- blackapollonia @ dreamwidth
- my Weebly gallery
YO letting you dudes know on main
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Here’s my full piece for the Fate Fatale Tarot, which is available for Preorder RIGHT NOW! ♥ I’m still kind of startled that I was invited to take part in a project that included so many incredibly talented artists /;<; THANK YOU SO MUCH @fatefataletarot, this was so much fun to create stuff for!! ♥♥♥
What A Great Idea!
This billboard is made of 2,000 cheeseburgers that anyone can take for free.
This bag of chips has two perforations so you can open it more the further down you eat.
This pill bottle lid tells you when you last opened it.
This is a phone charging station where you can pedal to get power.
Trash bins in Copenhagen are angled so cyclists can toss their trash while biking.
This dressing room has labeled hooks to help you separate your clothes.
Choose a cup and let everyone know about your current status.
Doghouses near a supermarket in Copenhagen.
There’s a special place for your pet in this supermarket cart.
A cafe in Poland provides its guests with water for their pets.
These bananas are sorted by how ripe they are at the moment.
This pharmacy has a magnifying glass so people can read medicine labels more easily.
This pizza place has a display with all their pizza sizes and how large they are compared to each other.
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Big Dave
reblog to have Big Dave bless your dash with user centered design
A church in Norway built in 1181 without any nails.
of all the things to highlight about this building the lack of nails is not the thing I would have expected
Please come to my ‘Tianshan Omegaverse AU‘ TED Talk
Bear with me here, I have a whole hecka ton of visual evidence to support my fabulous ideas hidden beneath this Read More here-
Selected previews of the awesome art in this zine!
Preorder your copy here and qualify for 50% PDF copies.
In order, from left to right:
lamenart | shabbylines | MutiArt | Kimopoleis | Zeda | Emily C. | macherpuppy | Danny Deschenes | spelonberry
Get your copy of the zine during the preorder period here! We will not be buying extras for bundles after preorders close, so don’t wait!
Any singles left over will be sold individually after preorder bundles are assembled and shipped, so don’t miss out on your chance to get what you want! Keep an eye out for more previews next week.
GO GET THISSSS, I made some art for it and so did a BUNCH of fabulously gifted artists!!
Like I said over on Twitter: An image, the context for it, and an addendum: I am man-tit AND friend-flattery motivated.
Anonymous asked:
Hi, this is huntypastellance. I was contacted by MeisterGao & their friend yesterday & they wanted me to take down my reblog of the post you did about exposing them. They claimed to have changed & are ashamed of what they did & are trying to move on. The reblog is apparently triggering them & is counter-productive to them moving on. What's your opinion about this?
Out of the people who came together to write that callout post and all of the subsequent additions to it, I was [luckily] one of the people least effected by Gao’s shitty behaviour and abuse tactics. All things considered, what was done to ME was so minor that my addition to the post was trivial, and probably didn’t even need to be made.However, that being said? Gao definitely hasn’t changed. I know for a fact [via private conversation with several individuals] that Gao still lies to people about the facts that were laid out in that callout post. They still minimize their offenses, and are in fact continuing their typical cycle of playing the victim whenever anybody tries to compel them to take responsibility for their actions. If they’re not moving forward, it’s not because this post exists - it’s because they’re incapable of accepting responsibility for their actions.Further, I REFUSE to believe that Gao is actually triggered by the sight of the callout post. My mother has PTSD, and I know damn well that there is a vast gulf of difference between being legitimately triggered into remembering a traumatic event, and just getting anxious because people are learning the embarrassing and ugly facts about the hideous things you’ve done. Gao only flinches when that post comes up on their dash because they know it will cost them potential victims down the line.
List of ancient beings on earth right now
Tommy Wiseau
Eric Andre
Keanu Reeves
This is Jeff Goldum erasure
Eric and Jeff are both like… Young immortals, a couple hundred years old
Keanu is a healthy fully formed immortal, a good 2-3 thousand years old
Tommy wiseau predates modern man, and has gone mad with eternity
what is this nicolas cage erasure
this is the best and most chaotic scene of the entire series and nobody can convince me otherwise
why fanworks are such a convenient social scapegoat
(this post is mostly an expansion on the twitter thread i did a while back, which addressed this question: why is fanfiction often blamed for harming young people in fandom? (please also read the spinoff additions to the end of the thread, which start here.)
this post deliberately does not address whether or not fandom should have particular social expectations/obligations. I think these ethical questions are complicated and require nuanced address, particularly because of how social media works these days. rather, this is my offered explanation for why fanworks are the chosen scapegoat for the cumulative harm of systemic social problems.)
Note this post is US-centric because the scapegoating of fanworks seems to come primarily from Americans in English-speaking fandom spaces.
I think that because fanworks have long been slapped with warnings of dark content (abuse, noncon/dubcon, etc) it’s difficult for me to believe they directly play a major part in setting young people up for abusive situations irl … for the most part. It’s less the fanworks themselves and more the environment in which fanworks have been presented over the last 5-8 years.
In my opinion, the sad irony is that fanworks only have the potential to cause direct harm by causing people to believe their contents are models for safe sex/relationships/etc because of the expectation that fandom is a space for education.
fanworks have been around for ages, but currently they are:
- in a post 9/11 social environment where the unknown/unfamiliar is feared, critical thinking is discouraged, safety is prioritized over freedom, and censorship is treated as protection,
- (but information is available in unchecked quantities that outstrips the individual’s ability to process it);
- available in a viral-sharing environment featuring nigh-infinite freedom/no moderating authority and on a highly-networked, easily-searched internet;
- where young people are often more expert at navigation than their guardians, and thus easily able to access content that isn’t age-appropriate/safe for them
- (but being young people, they often think they’re ready for that content);
- furthermore, content that is not only inappropriate for their age/maturity, but also on topics that they will never/have never received a proper, thorough education on
- (because schools have their hands tied by religiously-motivated regulations and guardians have abdicated responsibility for sex ed and lack acceptance for non-straight/non-cis identities);
- targeted marketing has encouraged and exacerbated existing stratification by income, age, gender, and sexual orientation; and
- increasing social awareness is constantly creating tension between social tradition and social advancement, putting incredible stress on anyone who represents ‘advancement’.
On that last point, my thread and this post are particularly concerned with (perceived) women, who are burdened by both traditional and ‘progressive’ social roles:*
- women are traditionally seen as child caretakers, educators, and burdened with upholding social morality as the heart of homemaking. all perceived women have to deal with this social expectation.
- as agents of social advancement, those perceived as women are still burdened with educating the ignorant and being ‘good examples’, as their mistakes will be magnified as evidence that tradition is better.
*these problems are SUPER magnified by being non-white. (and I didn’t even get into the sexual expectations.)
As an isolated space, fandom - with majority women and/or afab participation - did a pretty good job of shaking off the social expectation that perceived women are educators and caretakers. but when fandom gained visibility by the move to tumblr and Google trawling tumblr content/content going viral + all the social factors above, the ‘(perceived) women as educators’ expectation came back on fandom, and with additional exacerbation:
- in a culture focused on purity and prioritizing safety over freedom, disgust & feelings of shame both act like a moral compass & a safety warning. fandom’s judgement-free attitude about nsfw/kinky/horrible-irl content looks like a community of people who condone all these things as ‘safe’, if that’s how you’ve been taught to view the world.
- Basically: if the people who are writing/creating this stuff are treating it as nothing to be ashamed of, it must not be dangerous. right?
- Combined with the not-unusual adolescent belief that you’re ready for literally anything and know more than most adults, it’s a recipe for disaster.
- fanworks often echo aspects of the source material, including aspects that are not healthy: canon romanticization of abusive relationship dynamics, for instance. Fanworks that share canon’s unhealthy features can become a form of reinforcement/seen as tacit approval of existing messages in mass media for fans who don’t have outside education to protect them.
- in fact, fanworks are often (deliberately or not) ‘in dialogue’ with the existence of these kinds of harmful cliches. it’s important to view fanworks as what they frequently are: individual reactions/remixes/retakes on things in mass media and real life, created by victims/potential victims of the harm those things can cause. (viral sharing sites often separate these works from this context.)
- on fandom tumblr in particular, people are consuming a cominbation of fanworks, fantasies about fictional characters that may or may not be nsfw, educational posts about safe sex / queer/lgbt history / sexual orientiations / gender identity / being a good ally / intersectionalism, and the importance of minority representation in mass media. conflating fanworks with good representation & educational content seems a natural consequence.
- within fandom spaces, the expectation is that fans are enlightened on social justice issues. as victims of marginalization, or at least people who are constantly exposed to education on marginalization, we obviously know better than creators of mass media. This contributes to the attitude that fan content should be ‘better’.
- Ironically, the content warnings, lack of fan culture shame, and the creators being vulnerable to negative responses together contribute to making fanworks/fan creators unusually visible examples of ‘corrupting’ content to point at and condemn.
between terrible education, a reactionary and conservative background radiation to English-speaking internet culture thanks to the US being a mess, and the fact most people are blind to social constructs that have formed their whole worldview, fanworks are getting a really bad rap.
altogether: fanworks are treated as being on par with mass media, social expectations, and culture norms in terms of the harm they can cause, even though they have comparatively little visibility and are usually created by marginalized people with little relative influence. They are reactions to mass media, social expectations, and culture norms rather than the cause of them.
however, because fanworks are easy to access without supervision, open about the content being potentially harmful, and produced by people who should ‘know better’ or are perceived as caretakers/educators, fanworks get blamed for the cumulative effect of culture/mass media/social norms. And unfortunately, because young people have formed expectations that fanworks will educate them due to those same social norms, the possibility that people will treat fanworks as models for social behavior or comprehensive guidelines to material they lack education on is increased.
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I can’t hope to propose a comprehensive solution in this post. Taken altogether, fandom is really the tip of a large iceberg of systemic problems: sexist expectations, lack of outside education, and a reactionary cultural environment are the underlying issues.
Anything fandom can do on its own will amount to little more than a band-aid. Antis will never wipe out potentially harmful fanworks, and all the declarations by fandom members that they abdicate responsibility for educating young fandom people won’t make society less expectant of us.
the only things I know we have to do in the long run is keep fighting for real sex ed, keep warning for and flagging adult-oriented fan content, and do our best to respect each other’s taste and comfort levels. (and it would be a lie to say that I expect any of it to be easy.)
So I don’t usually come up with titles for my pieces, but I was still in the process of working on this one when I thought that I would call it ‘Spring Thaw.’ Antarcticite giving Adamant-sensei a goodbye kiss at the end of a winter that was much too short /;<; ♥
To elaborate - /;<; I bet that when Winter’s ending, Antarcticite is too fragile to get in one last hug from Adamant-sensei. Just a little peck on the cheek before a long, dreamless sleep
I was commissioned to draw some VERY gorgeous characters! The svelte Chickasaw lad on the left belongs to galaxycrown on TH, the handsome Novatt gent on the right belongs to the species creator, ugly-g0d himself, and at the bottom - two beautiful boys that ALSO belong to galaxycrown! All of these pieces are Tight Pencil Papercolours~! ♥
Some more stuff happening over on my art blog :0
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You know what really normalizes abuse? Saying and acting like routinely telling people to die, wishing horrible things on them, gaslighting, and other vile acts are all okay as long as you properly paint your target as evil first.
Now that the books have been sent out, my time for posting has come! HERE are my two pieces for the Viktor’s Secret Yuri on Ice Lingerie-Themed Zine! ♥ JJ and Celestino, in classic Elvgren pinup girl style! I wanted to go for something sexy and playful- something that showcases the confidence of these two handsome men, as they explore and enjoy themselves and the glorious world of fancy undergarments! ♥♥♥
It’s been eons in the making, but now that the Zine’s done and sent out, FINALLY I can post- my contribution to the Shidge Fanzine, Equilibrium! You two kids GETCHU some mutually supportive and caring hugs! ✨💪
We still need artists to join King of Hearts, a zine dedicated to JJ from Yuri on Ice!
SIGNAL BOOSTING because I want this zine to SUCCEED!!