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uh i finally made an actual proper drawing of my hetalia oc driftland
i also made a kinitopet version for him because they kinda have the same sounding name (kanieto)
I love it when people spam like my stuff or spam me in general, simply because I can go: 'Hey look-' scrolls.
I would like to announce that my little brother is a little bitch (nongendered) and I love him dearly.
I was texting him about a recent tragic realization about strawberries. And this little fucker who stole my height and testosterone from before the womb goes:
Little Bro: so that's bananas, pecans, milk, and strawberries
LB: all hurt your mouth
LB: gonna need to Kevorkian you with a banana split in a few years at this rate
Anyway I called him a cunt and I feel justified in that action. We love each other very much.
And that's very much how I see current Tim and Damien's relationship with each other. It's fun to playfully hate on a sibling who can bite back. It's flyting, but without the poetry.
I read a post earlier and then lost it before I could reblog it with some interesting information so I'm gonna throw the information out into the void.
The original post was a comment about how no one who has ever inked a comic has ever met a person of color before. They had very valid complaints about bad shading and inconsistent skin tones.
And y'all know me. I am a fiend for comic industry history.
Color in comics is obviously a huge deal, not just in skin but for iconic costume designs. The oldest and most well-known characters tend to be bright shades of red, blue, green and/or black. This is true across the board in early comics and it's due to a variety of factors. The biggest one being that most comics, to be made cheaply, could only use around 63 colors for a standard issue. On top of that, the way the DC and Marvel printed their comics was basically with pointillism and shifting densities.
Before I wind up regurgitating the whole article, let me link one of my go-to resources.
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Actually, womenwriteaboutcomics.com in general is a fantastic educational tool and a great way to keep an eye out for opportunities to submit your own comic story submissions.
Thanks for letting me nerd out about comic history again!
Do you think Bruce Wayne became written as a worse and worse parent because the idea of what makes a person "Heroic" has changed over the years?
(Cut for rambling)
At the start of Batman comics there was a very clear need for the audience to suspend their disbelief. The comic was very much a story, a reflection of the world where the reader was to be entertained with tales about a strange detective investigating the strange crimes of Gotham City.
Robin was Batman's partner, a new element to the story that appealed to a younger audience. They were a team that brought in a lot of capital. Authors would write heart-rending storylines and at the opposite page there would be a weird cheerful ad for Batman and Robin using fruit pies to stop crime.
Society evolves quickly and our media can struggle to keep up. The notion that children should be protected is a relatively recent one and it makes the inclusion of child heroes become... unpalatable to people. Modern values have changed and so too must the characters.
But applying current social values to the concept of child heroes would erase them.
Their whole existence is to be young and to fight the people who want to hurt them. To be young and be able to protect one's loved ones is a compelling story.
It's not just comic book heroes who fall under this paradox, either. Avatar: The Last Airbender is full of children learning how to fight and die for their world. Percy Jackson is another. Hell, one could even make a case for Warrior Cats. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew were facing off with murderers just as often as any kid hero.
It's a common and loved story because we've all been children who have had to carve out a place for ourselves in the world.
So the existence of Robin, of child heroes in general, becomes an awkward duality. The character is too profitable to retire. Many people can still suspend disbelief enough to enjoy the story. Other people struggle to accept that a "hero", a "good Dad", could allow his children to fight at his side.
So authors are tasked again and again to try to explain Robin. To excuse the existence of a child hero in a day and age when most responsible adults would freak the fuck out at the idea of a kid going out at night to fight criminals.
And sometimes, more often than many of us would like, they come up with writing Bruce as a bad parent. A bad leader, even. It doesn't help that writers don't often get to have stories published that have significant influence on Batman as a character. He's purposely, perpetually trapped at one starting position for every new story.
Which is a valid take. In my opinion it's uninspired, but I understand the rationale behind it. They're working against a lot of baggage. There's nearly 90 years of culture shift to account for and hundreds of authors. Even the way comics are written now is very different from back then and that also messes with perceptions.
To me, Bruce is a deeply flawed man. He's been a shitty dad, yes, but not because Robin exists. He didn't have a choice with Robin - that was decided by forces beyond his control. I don't know how to judge canon Bruce Wayne; there are genuinely too many stories for me to feel like I have an accurate read on him.
I know that he tries very hard to do good. I know that he has the potential to make better choices and take kinder actions.
I'm not going to hold my breath, though. Even if we get a canon Batman run where he gets therapy and apologizes for his mistakes and past actions, where he has some real, meaningful dialogue with the people he loves... The next writer can ignore that for a more dramatic plot where he acts like a complete drip.
Pick your preferred version and warp canon to fit that guy - it's what DC does.
Thank the goddess for fanfiction.
Casual Life Update:
Remember that cat my grandparents stole a few months ago? His name is Dos. Because he was part of a litter of 4 kittens. So they were named Uno, Dos, Tres, and Kevin, because the neighbors couldn't remember Quatro.
Grandma calls him Do-si-do and he follows her around when she takes care of her chickens.
I've been thinking about my farmer grandparents a lot lately, about the people they knew and the lives they've lived. About how American culture has changed so much in their lifetimes. About how Grandma had to leave her schooling to help support her family after her mother died of cancer. About how teachers would often lock my Grandfather out of their classrooms when he was excused for religious services and they'd humiliate him in front of his peers before letting him back in.
About how a lot of people - especially in these Internet spaces - see them now, as old farm folk, and dismiss them as uneducated. As stereotypes and caricatures to be derided. Without a word to them, people will assume them to be of no use, to be able to contribute nothing of value by their experiences, and capable of no grand thoughts.
It's a bitter taste to recognize, hypocrisy.
I think about how my Grandma insists that everyone should write at least one book in their lifetime. She has books of short stories, books of poems, books of essays, books of local recipes collected by the women's societies in the area. So many of them are self-published and freely given to her by her friends and family. I love that she can pick each one up and tell me about the author and how she, and I by way of her, is connected to this person whose thoughts are inked on cheap paper.
She has her own book almost ready to go. It's full of little poems and daily devotions, letters to people who are no longer around to receive them. It scares me, because she had been in my life for so very long and I do not want to trust her to my faulty, frail memory.
Hey, shout-out to Marvel who made their (at the time) front runner, most popular and profitable hero into a domestic abuser by accident. And I don't mean "accident" as in a writer made a bad character decision that was signed off on, I mean "accident" as in there was a literal miscommunication between the writer and the artist.
Can you imagine suddenly becoming a wife-beater because two of your gods missed a memo? Wild.
BUT! Instead of retconning this, the team leaned into it, made it lore that Ant-Man's tech was giving him mental problems and emotional instability. He faced consequences and had to struggle with himself as a hero and as a person. It's a fucking great plotline, it's a fantastic story hook!
It's depth and recognition of brain disorders and loving someone and divorcing them anyway because you have to put on your own oxygen mask first. It's realizing that your long-term plans are crashing down around you because of a physical injury no one can fix. It's an identity crisis. It's losing friends because being a caretaker is hard.
It's retiring a character for legit in-world reasons and allowing someone else to take up a symbol. It's about creating a legacy.
Marvel lost a major money-maker during this time, but holy shit did they get to tell a story.
This is the stuff I think about when I get frustrated with DC's restarts and quick retcons; what kind of intense, personal storylines could we have seen play out if they just allowed their characters to make those mistakes? Take those terrible actions?
I don't want to see something awful handwaved into "it didn't actually happen", I want to peel open a character's mindset and motives and understand why it did. Give me the introspection. Give me the reasons. Give me them acknowledging mistakes.
Man, sometimes I read a fic where their version of Superman is so flat he couldn't even cause a papercut and the favored characters are all "Superman is the type of person who always thinks he's doing the right thing" and "Superman doesn't accept criticism" and "Superman is a bumbling farm boy hick stupid head" and "the Justice League is a bunch of elitist hacks and their club is only to hype themselves up because narcissism".
And I gotta. Like. Okay? That's a take, I guess. That's an opinion. It always takes me out of the story though, because it's presented as a known fact of the world of the fic despite little to no indication of those truths being reflected in the rest of the fic. It's a weird whiplash and it always leaves me almost ravenously curious as to what influenced this perception.
Sometimes it's explained as an unreliable narrator, sometimes an author's note will shrug off responsibility with "someone has to be the asshole lol", and sometimes it seems to be really and truly genuine and that is fascinating to me. I want to know the why's. I want to take them for coffee and listen to their perspectives. I want to understand.
One of my favorite Batman and Superman team up comics has a pre-jl storyline where they don't trust each other just yet. And because they don't trust each other, they both leap to save the life of a criminal being thrown out a window - they can't be sure the other won't just let this awful person die "accidentally". And because they were both distracted by that, an innocent hostage ran into the street in a panic and was struck and killed by a truck.
It was such a needless death. It was so bullshit and pointless. Both Superman and Batman recognized the need for trust, the need to let themselves be known enough, vulnerable enough, to not have this happen again.
And can y'all imagine how both their stories might have changed if future writers, canon and fanfic alike, kept that character growth in mind?
If you're looking for stories about adults acting responsibly and with measured calm to world-ending events and who will somehow stop the children who want to fight crime... You should probably go write that book. There's definitely an audience for it.
The rest of us are here to read stories about child heroes facing seemingly insurmountable odds and winning, even if at great cost. We're here for the drama and the crash outs and the moments of peace and the friendships forged from circumstances that none of us will likely ever understand.
They're all stories. Each character is important and exists and it's the way they are so that the story gets told. Each character is moldable and can be changed completely depending on the storyteller, because the story is the important part.
I feel like people need to appreciate human and monster relationships more. There’s such potential for allegory there, but also just like… fun. It’s fun. But it can also be meaningful.
“What are The Honeycomb Files?”
“The Honeycomb Files” are going to be posts about me talking about my MHA oc, Hachimitsu Chibana [The Pollen hero, “Lady Honeycomb”]
There’s so much things I want to talk about regarding her, along with other MHA ocs that will probably have their own posts (that are not under the Honeycomb Files category). But for now, I’m mainly focused on rambling about Hachi 🐝
The files will consist of how Hachi interacts with certain people, parts of her backstory, possible drawn-out comics! I might even ramble about how she is in different AUs for the fun of it 🫣
Please be patient with me since my writing is a bit rusty! My ask box is open just in case you have any questions about Hachi!
Not shifting rant, but I just want to ask how people keep up with schedules and everything 🥲. I just missed my drivers license appointment today, I couldn’t take it because I didn’t have a paper, and I want to cry waterfalls. And I was late too!? The shame and embarrassment makes me want to eat glass
I was born 17 years ago today… Jesus Christ I feel old lol!
I’ve never liked growing up. If you asked me I would rather stay a kid forever! Less responsibilities, less stress, no asking me if I’m too old to go trick or treating or too old to play with my Plushys… kids have it good…
Wish I was a Lost Boy from Neverland, never grow up 😊
😳 Oh Damn I gotta draw that!
I don’t know why but for some reason I can see Mera with ice, poison, and or ghost type Pokémon… is that just me?
I feel like the people in my Pokémon ghost story are out of character. This was a hard one for me to write because I personally have never been in a relationship before so romance has always been super hard for me to write. Hope you guys enjoyed it anyways
SO
What happens when an adult with semi adult money at their disposal for a gift, hyperfixates so bad you can't breath without prior approval from the hyperfixation?
This happens
You get a new tattoo based on the story of Hyacinthus and Apollo and have to explain like 20 times why you want this very hyper specific tattoo
Anyways guys, look at my new tattoo, the greek says Lost Lovers
just need to let out some not so family friendly thoughts
cuz my hormones are not letting me rest tonight.
cw: sexual content below the cut
18+ only, MDNI with this post
PLEASE I JUST WANNA GET RAILED SO BAD, MY HORMONES ARE MAKING ME FERAL I JUST WANNA- ugh- please just put a cock inside me 😭 i don't care if its real i just need to feel little and safe, even if you call me your whore 😭🫶🏼 please i just wanna get railed till tomorrow. every surface of the damn room. messy. wet. loud. rough. soft. anything. please 😭
I need to draw my MC sona one day.
I do think mc me and art sona me would not get along however. How Imagine e2Joel & editorJoel get along. Without any kinda smooches going on. Just violence, me thinks.
Also need to draw artistsona so there's that. I want my own pfp. Someday
I need to find an easier way to color that doesn't take 2 years
wait TODAY’S EASTER!?!
damn
I suck at keeping track of things
"Drink on that choke!"
-Me, at school with @iliketurtles-verymuch being stupid
Do you guys ever follow someone really cool, and the next thing you know, you're now mutuals
How.
Why are dishes never ending
I just looked at one of the old projects I made on Scratch
I want to punch my younger self in the face
I'm not going to be too active this month (if that isn't obvious from the lack of posts :P) I'll try and post whenever I can, and to everyone who tagged me in something, thank you! I'll try to reblog....eventually :3
Me: *checks inbox that I have not responded to yet*
Me: HOLY CRAP, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH
Also me: *does nothing*
GUYS. MY PENCIL HAS BEEN FOUND! YESSSS
Fun Fact! I don't have a sketchbook, so I would steal my friends' notebooks, specifically @justsomeorangepeeler's.
First she gave me an 80 page one. I finished it.
Then a 200 one. I finished it.
Now we both stole my other friend's notebook, because we're too lazy to buy sketchbooks
(the traditional art I post is actually from those notebooks)
buttt, since we take turns, sometimes I don't have it, and end up grabbing random pieces of paper, and doodle on those :)
Guys help, I can't find my drawing tablet's pencil. I can't do digital art until I find it, soooo I might just post traditional art :]
If you sent asks, I might not be able to like, draw a reply, BUT I'LL TRY MY BEST!!!
Thank you :3