I may or may not have a working laptop+drawing tablet combo again. I will hold back on maniacal evil laughter for now, but I doodled a Jaffar and a Pwinzezz while trying out different brushes and they are still trying to get used to being drawn digitally like this. But I will see how it goes.
When the fuck will PF be back, though? *tears at hair*
I’m suffering from “unable to be myself in satisfying ways” withdrawals due to the PF downtime. Three weeks without rambly, flaily, geeky, horny tagging and blogging and doodling and giffing kills the woman. I have so many stupid jokes and historical tidbits and creative shit piled up it’s like a psychological version of prolonged PMS when your period is late: you’re heavy with weeks’ worth of accumulated humours, ache everywhere and wonder when the fuck release and relief will finally arrive.
Maybe not the biggest culprit behind the Radioactive Bad Takes on this website, but the one that’s bugging me the most lately: Please, I am begging you, learn what genre conventions are and read the text accordingly.
Fiction is not reality and pretty much every genre of fiction has certain standard ways in which it deviates from reality. And I’m not just talking about how we shouldn’t nitpick the physics of how Superman is able to fly. There will be ways in which the characters’ behavior and relationships will be informed by the genre as well and it makes just as little sense to judge them by realistic standards as it does to complain about something in Star Wars being scientifically implausible.
For example, “Adults are Useless” is a well-recognized trope in children’s literature. But that’s not because children’s authors are all going around writing adult characters who are terrible parents or teachers. It’s because the protagonist of a story written for children is almost always going to be a child, and the protagonist of the story has to get into trouble and solve problems themselves for the story to be any good. Yes, in real life, teenagers shouldn’t be fighting in a war. But if the grown-ups stepped in and stopped the teenage protagonist of your action-adventure series from fighting, there would be no story.
Does that mean the grown-up characters in that series are evil people who use child soldiers? No, because we accept a child being in these kinds of situations as a conceit of the genre of children’s fiction, and we interpret the characters and their choices accordingly. We don’t apply a realistic standard because the very premise is unrealistic to start with.
Another example: An adult hitting a child in real life is horrible. But if the child is a superhero, and the adult is a super villain, and they are in a cartoon, then we can’t read it the same way. All cartoons with any kind of action or fighting in them use violence unrealistically, and if the child and adult characters are presented as equally matched adversaries then that’s how any violence between them has to be understood. The villain might be a real bad dude, since he’s, you know, a villain, but hitting a child superhero in the context of a super-fight does not make him a child abuser, specifically.
I’m focusing on children’s books and cartoons here because I think that’s where tumblr fandoms have the biggest trouble with this but it applies to everything. Characters in a romantic comedy won’t behave realistically, characters in fairy tales won’t behave realistically, characters in police procedurals won’t behave realistically, all of them will behave as characters within their specific genre have to in order to make that genre work. The second you start trying to scrutinize every single action a character takes by realistic standards, you miss the point.
Repeat to yourself: “It’s just a show, I should really just relax.”
reminds me of how every couple years some dipshit comes along and says, ‘i’m going to FIX the romance genre! i’m gonna DEFY convention! my characters don’t get together and they don’t live happily ever after because that’s how real life is!’ and then everyone who bought their book, which was billed as a romance, judges it to be a terrible romance book, because it doesn’t do what a romance book is supposed to do. and then the author flips their shit because how dare people judge them for being bad at the thing they failed at on purpose.
Shoutout to the geniuses STILL whining about love at first sight in fairytales and Shakespeare plays. Get the fuck over yourself and learn what suspension of disbelief is.
In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don’t know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it’s coming from, what it’s trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers’ blank ignorance of its genres (children’s fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn’t read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, ‘But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?’”
if tails has one million fans, i am one of them. if tails has five fans, i am one of them. if tails has one fan, that one is me. if tails has no fans, i am no longer alive. if the world is against tails then i am against the world. until my last breath ill support miles “tails” prower.
Maybe it’s because of the lack in technology and social media for me when I was growing up, but I’ve never seen as much love for my favorite character as I do now. Everyone else in the Sonic fandom had huge fans but not Tails. Knuckles, Sonic, Shadow, Sliver etc. They all got so much love and I felt so alone in loving Tails.
Now I see him plastered all over blogs and profiles. I get so excited because I’ve loved him for YEARS and now I finally get to share that adoration with other people. He’s seriously such a big and important part in my life, and I can’t tell you what this means to me personally.
a teensy bit inebriated rn and thinking about making my moots friendship bracelets but not telling them about it so they’ll just be fucking confused when there’s a random pic of a string bracelet in their inbox soon
The final update of FUZZY’s plot run is in making. My aim is to release it on 23rd day of March, as it’s my birthday. The colorist @nei-ning is ready to go as soon as I get the pages drawn on my end. Currently, the drawing project is advancing slowly as I have a few daily life stuff I need to handle first.
Don’t be disheartened because the plot run ends! FUZZY will update in the future with short strips, the similar you saw in the very beginning of FUZZY.
I’d like to draw someday Loid’s backstory fully, too, but at this moment I might drop smaller strips of it into FUZZY. The FUZZY strips don’t have to be in chronological order as they’re stories of their own.
It’s still unsure if I want to have upcoming FUZZY strips colored or go for my natural black and white style.
Okay, the story is going to be too long for a single update. So, expect an update soon and the next one arrives when I get to draw it :3
hello! just popping in and visiting this old crazy place where i spent pretty much all of my time in recent years. i miss you guys! i miss my internet dads. i think about y’all a lot!!! y’all really made me happy in a time when nothing else could. okay I’m gonna keep creeping on my own silly blog ! just wanted to say hello and tell y’all i’m still alive and love y’all ❤️
