|Alex | He/Him | Colorado, USA | Dino Nerd| I like to draw, sew, and generally do artistic things. I am a strong dinosaur, a beautiful dinosaur. --- https://bsky.app/profile/tiredmonster.bsky.social
i love the linguistic trend of expressing something difficult to describe by just not including an adjective where there usually would be one. “i had a day today,” or “he’s definitely one of the characters of all time.”
it’s like i can’t describe this so i just won’t. you get it tho.
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Designs for a fic I'm planning :D I finally made a blog for it! @to-headmare-twilight :]
I really dislike how only Canon Twilight became a princess; the irony of the Princess of Friendship becoming an alicorn, but not the friends that got her in that spot in the first place, really doesn't amuse me that much... So I wanted to give all the Mane Six their own arcs in order to earn their Ascensions !!
The idea is that, in order to ascend, one needs to push their Element and their Cutie Mark Talent to its absolute limit.
• Twilight: by casting an entirely new spell, on the Elements of Harmony, and completing it after rediscovering the "spark" of Friendship
• Applejack: by defying the Princesses', the Nobles', and the commonfolk's beliefs, to dig out the truth about a friend accused of a crime he did not commit
• Rainbow Dash: by refusing to stand down against a cursed blizzard, despite risk of losing her own wings, because giving up would mean risking losing her friends
• Fluttershy: by doing the kindest thing she could do: apologize to King Sombra and the Umbrum... Them destroy them with the Crystal Heart. The tragedy of the Umbrum is something I'll explain another day (in short: shadows of ponies who were oppressed, tortured, and hurt; coalesced into physical forms (Umbrum) and led by a king (Sombra) to get them the revenge they long for). Fluttershy knew they were made of hate and pain, so they couldn't be nursed to health nor redeemed; meaning that the kindest thing she could do was euthanize them, to release them of their lives of agony, and to protect the living ponies of the present)
• Pinkie Pie: by refusing to give up on a friend who sought to destroy himself (indeed; Discord had been willing to cause harm to everypony around him, intent on making them destroy him. It was a complicated situation. Pinkie Pie earned her wings and horn by essentially talking down a suicidal draconequus from,,, well.)
• Rarity: by being willing to sacrifice her career, her magic, and her freedom to save her friends (through luck and plot armor did she narrowly avoid losing her horn!)
★ ★ ★
Now, onto the designs: I actually put a lot of effort into giving each one of them unique traits !!
• Twilight: she's square. Heh. I specifically made Twilight as "rectangle" shaped as I possibly could, because it's supposed to reflect her personality. She's more serious than Canon Twilight, a bit more of a stickler, and has the vibes of a Headmare or Teacher, somepony used to wrangling rebellious students and keeping authority; but she is just as compassionate and strong as Canon.
• Applejack: my personal favorite, Applejack has the most earth-toned color palette of the Six, the bulkier build, and the most subtle of the Alicorn traits; I wanted her most eye-catching traits to be her mane and tail, her hooves or her cutie mark, because those are the Earth Pony parts of her. In fact, you'd need to squint to catch a glimpse of her horn...
• Rainbow Dash: of course, her wings should be the most eye-catching alicorn trait of hers, though her horn IS quite visible in its lighting shape. Fun fact! Her mane, tail and wings were so vibrant that I couldn't bring myself to give her any additional accessories. Methinks her mane and tail alone give her enough of a "pop", haha.
• Fluttershy: the daintiest of the Six, I wanted Fluttershy to look delicate as a flower, amping up the Disney Princess vibes. Not much to say about her. She's pleasing to look at.
• Pinkie Pie: I LOVE PINKIE PIE. Her mane is up in what I believe is an 80s look, she's got streamers on it (like Canon!), the cutest hooves (minor nod to her Earth Pony birth) and the most unique horn between the Six, meant to resemble her cutie mark.
• Rarity: My magnum opus. God, I love my Rarity design. I swear I tried to give her her normal hair swirls, but as soon as I grasped the tight, sharp angles of her curls, I couldn't help but imagine those in an afro-like style, in something resembling an amethyst geode. I can tell you with certainty that she pulls off this look better than Cozy Glow, and I LIKE Cozy Glow!
Oh wait, they've also got a new therapy service to shill! How wonderful for them, how long is that going to take to blow up? I dunno, but better help took way too long, that's for sure.
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I don't think you should have to sign a EULA to play a video game, actually. I don't think EULA's belong anywhere near video games. I don't think EULA's belong anywhere near any consumer products.
It would be really nice if you fuckers would stop blaming people of using AI if something is even slightly cool or weird?!?
I understand it's a scary time, nobody wants to be tricked, and honestly it feels embarrassing when you are tricked. I understand that! But AI is becoming harder and harder to tell apart from the real thing. AI is trained on human art with zero consent from the creators, and because it's trained on that human art (including drawings/paintings, photos, textile patterns, video, etc), it's only going to get closer and closer to looking real.
What you're doing by going after every single thing that might maybe be AI is hurting actual artists. Instead of going around and attacking individual people in the hopes that you'll maybe shame an actual generative AI user, advocate for human made arts. Buy artwork from humans, support them. Stop trying to punish the abuser while ignoring and hurting the victim. It might feel hopeless at times, but it's certainly more productive then the equivalent of punching with your eyes closed in a crowded space and hoping you hit one certain person inside of a sea of hundreds.
I'm going to tell you a simple secret. People who use AI to trick you are not going to listen to you whine, rant, or even calmly explain it. They don't care. Most of them are grifting for money, sometimes just clout. People like that don't give a single shit. However, actual human artists who work for hours and hours on their pieces are more often then not caught in the cross fire.
I was talking with a friend yesterday about how dog-piling can disincentivize people from doing what is ostensibly being asked for (taking accountability, apologizing, promising to make changes to future behaviour, etc). which sucks, because there are probably well intentioned people out there who deserve all three of those things, but any sort of Statement just ends up dumping gasoline on the fire.
this is because: you are giving the worst people involved the attention they want, you're giving them Fresh Drama Content, and you're letting them know that you can be made to do things. it's not in their interest to say "alright, you've worded things a bit clumsily, but you're on the right track and we think you mean well," because that ends the party.
and if you're thinking, who cares about what randos on tumblr say, your main concern should be acting in accordance to your morals – WELL! if you're a creative whose income is tied to your online reputation, these sorts of campaigns can directly impact your ability to pay bills. which can be very, very scary. and if you're any flavour of marginalized, you probably came onto a site like tumblr seeking community, and the thought of losing that community can be painful. in these cases, the best way to survive a dog-piling is "grey-rocking", or making yourself as boring and non-reactive as possible until their attention shifts to other targets. which means no statements.
so just to summarize: you are rewarded for ignoring everything, and heavily punished for apologizing and taking accountability, and yes, that is fucked up.
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I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up
This was the mainstream feminist belief like. A decade ago. Thats how hard we’ve regressed within mainstream feminism and it’s mainly because of right wingers/radfems/TERFs deciding trans women need to die.
I miss when all fursuits were this scrappy. You could tell everyone made their own, or they had local help, and what a joy that was to see. So many different looks, personalities, degrees of craftsmanship, and people who had never been creative finding a new passion. Quality didn't matter, you made a suit and you were embraced. The important thing was that you loved your character so very much that you took hours and hours to make something.
Not that those days were even remotely perfect or anything, I just miss this aspect of furry culture.
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I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes
I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.
I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.
Something about how society cares more about punishing the wicked than about making the world a better place, and how many people really struggle to shake that.