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My comms are finally open again! **Paypal only**

Before you ask, no, I unfortunately I do not have any other paying options as Cashapp and Venmo are not available in Australia :( Also have no idea how to set up a stripe account for Kofi (which would allow ppl to pay via credit card). I’m really sorry for the inconvenience!

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batshit-auspol:

Here’s our most requested item: Bob Katter’s same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

cgbcomics:

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gothhabiba:

The 2023 Barbie film is a commercial. I’m sure it will be fun, funny, delightful, and engaging. I will watch it, and I’ll probably even dress up to go to the theater. Barbie is also a film made by Mattel using their intellectual property to promote their brand. Not only is there no large public criticism of this reality, there seems to be no spoken awareness of it at all. I’m sure most people know that Barbie is a brand, and most people are smart enough to know this and enjoy the film without immediately driving to Target to buy a new Barbie doll. After all, advertising is everywhere, and in our media landscape of dubiously disclosed User Generated Content and advertorials, at least Barbie is transparently related to its creator. But to passively accept this reality is to celebrate not women or icons or auteurs, but corporations and the idea of advertising itself. Public discourse around Barbie does not re-contextualize the toy or the brand, but in fact serves the actual, higher purpose of Barbie™: to teach us to love branding, marketing, and being consumers.

[…] The casting of Gerwig’s Barbie film shows that anyone can be a Barbie regardless of size, race, age, sexuality. Barbie is framed as universal, as accessible; after all, a Barbie doll is an inexpensive purchase and Barbiehood is a mindset. Gerwig’s Barbie is a film for adults, not children (as evidenced by its PG-13 rating, Kubrick references, and soundtrack), and yet it manages to achieve the same goals as its source material: developing brand loyalty to Barbie™ and reinforcing consumerism-as-identity as a modern and necessarily empowering phenomenon. Take, for example, “Barbiecore,” an 80s-inspired trend whose aesthetic includes not only hot pink but the idea of shopping itself. This is not Marx’s theory on spending money for enjoyment, nor can it even be critically described as commodity fetishism, because the objects themselves bear less semiotic value compared to the act of consumption and the identity of “consumer.”

[…] Part of the brilliance of the Barbie brand is its emphasis on having fun; critiquing Barbie’s feminism is seen as a dated, 90s position and the critic as deserving of a dated, 90s epithet: feminist killjoy. It’s just a movie! It’s just a toy! Life is so exhausting, can’t we just have fun? I’ve written extensively about how “feeling good” is not an apolitical experience and how the most mundane pop culture deserves the most scrutiny, so I won’t reiterate it here. But it is genuinely concerning to see not only the celebration of objects and consumer goods, but the friendly embrace of corporations themselves and the concept of intellectual property, marketing, and advertising. Are we so culturally starved that insurance commercials are the things that satiate our artistic needs?

— Charlie Squire, “Mattel, Malibu Stacy, and the Dialectics of the Barbie Polemic.” evil female (Substack), 2023.

gayspock:

gayspock:

personally i dont think theres much funnier than speeding up star trek tos gifs in particular

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aureliobooks:

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

cesspitoflove:

aaa-battery-not-rechargeable:

about a month ago, my uncle asked if I had a significant other. I appreciate his gender inclusivity, of course.

I’m used to the question. it’s not like it’s something outrageous that he’s asking. so I simply said no, that’s not for me.

he looked at me and said “well, someday.” not someday maybe, just…. someday.

of course I’m not quick to anger, but there’s a part of me that’s a little more defensive about my aroace identity. so I jumped to my defense.

my uncle isn’t a bad guy, he’s quite nice and tries his best to be respectful in the current political shit storm by supporting queer people. but apparently that does exclude me, an aroace.

I reiterated that I’m just not interested in a romantic or sexual partnership, and I really do not ever see that changing.

and he said something to the effect of “it’s okay if you don’t want that now.”

and I said, “no, it’s just okay that I don’t want that.”

and he said that I was pessimistic. as if I was secretly searching for a relationship or a partner, but was rejecting love because I could not find one.

I calmly (with all the rage in my veins) told him “no, a life without love or sex is something optimistic for me.”

he had the gall to look horrified.


I’m sick of aroace people not being seen as normal human people when they don’t want the outcome of their life to look like everyone else’s. I’m sick of the white picket fence, I’m sick of the assumption that everyone has another half out there.

I’m whole on my own.

I’m whole on my own

sreppub:

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practicing some different clarks

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my half-orc guy Emmerich and his horsie Indiana (huge). made this as a somewhat-reference for artfight lol. also i liked Indiana’s design so much that I made a separate image for her (below the readmore)

also reminder that my commissions are open!

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swampgallows:

swampgallows:

swampgallows:

the majority of fanfic is unreadable. how the hell do people get like obsessed with fanfic and spend hours and hours reading this crap. like i can count on one hand the fics ive actually liked, yet i scroll past pages upon pages of utter drivel with tens of thousands of views, the whole time just baffled anyone could possibly derive enjoyment from it. whatever isnt porn is unfathomably bad or has nothing at all to do with the source material beyond borrowing licensed characters for non-canon formulaic plug & play storytelling. fanfic is the picrew of so-called literature, just frankensteining together tropes and character archetypes into a mad libs-like slurry of regurgitated content. perhaps the main issue with people who create fanfic is that they only have the consumption of mass-marketed media and the vacuum of fanfic to refer to rather than nonfiction or academia or independent creative works so they end up with an echo chamber that becomes self-referential almost to the point of parody, and anyone outside the cave can only pity their worship of shadows

i wrote this because im tired of my favorite character being depicted in fan content as a rapist and/or pedophile despite there being nothing in the source material about his sexual proclivities at all. he’s the quintessential powerhungry villain and all the fucking geniuses on fan sites can come up with 99% of the time is to “reimagine” this dark-skinned, musclebound, tattooed villain of a rated T video game as a rapist. this isnt about “minors writing for minors” (though if minors are writing this shit thats a separate problem) this is about how fanfic is so dependent on consuming the same tired tropes over and over that they perpetuate extremely lazy and harmful stereotypes at the expense of the original material and further audiences looking for faithful characterization. 

this editorial on “roving dudeslash fandom” has been linked on tumblr in the past and it’s a great breakdown of how alienating “fandom” can be for people who are actual fans of something versus the people focused only on whittling down characters until they fit the mold to play out stock storylines and archetypes (”beige blank slates”). not to mention most of this “dudeslash” is written by women for women’s consumption rather than for gay men, leading to an even more insulated and exclusionary space under the delusion that it is somehow diverse or fulfilling sorely needed representation. people love to bark “dont like dont read” because then it puts the onus on the reader to curate their exposure to oppressive content rather than for the author(s) to interrogate themselves as to what they are writing, what it contributes to and for whom, and why they prioritize the inclusion and safety of certain people in fandom over others.

this post is not about “teens are writing fanfic they have to start somewhere”

this post is not about “it’s just a hobby you cant expect it to be perfectly polished”

this post is about grown ass adults becoming so obsessed with formulaic tropes that they fully disregard canon at the expense of the source material and in turn end up perpetuating negative/harmful stereotypes. i haven’t watched the spiderverse sequel yet but i see what you guys are doing to these characters under the guise of “fanon” just because they’re characters of color. being a fan of “progressive” media doesn’t matter when the fan response is to uncritically hack away everything that makes it unique in order to jam it into the same cookie cutter bullshit they always do.

also i am saying this as a 30-something white woman who writes fanfiction. there are plenty of other 30-something white women in fandom and plenty of them are writing this shit. i dont care if it’s “see spot run” or the most eloquent prose in the universe do not give the bullshit gamergate excuse of “lol it’s not art it’s just a cringe hobby” to alienate media’s target audience from their own fandom. you guys sound like bronies

fexalted:

a tweet from elon musk that has been edited to read: "To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we've applied the following temporary limits: -we're deleting this entire site -sayonara you weeaboo shits"ALT

mindflamer:

verashalurks:

mindflamer:

don’t cry 32 heart emojis in the world ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🤎🖤🩶🤍💔❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝💟😘😍🥰😻💌🫶🫀♥️

actually 29. 3 don’t show up for me

there’s love out there you can’t even see yet but i promise you it’s there 🤍

mordred:

lovestory:

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THIS IS SODNFJSKNJKSNFKS

@lvkeskywvlker

remornia:

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Illidan playing this on his bluetooth speaker and the acoustics in the black temple make it so literally everyone can hear it

skypecallsuicidepact:

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Every time i think about this tweet i start crying

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