I've been here for a few days, but I'm overdue for an introduction.
Hey, hi, hello everyone! I hope this post meets you in good health! You can call me Lizzie. I am 29 years old, an Aquarius, and I am an old fandom joiner.
The current fandoms I'm in are B.A.P (Moon Jongup is my kpop crush and bias), YuGiOh (DM and GX at the moment), Voltron: Legendary Defender, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003 or bust), Delicious in Dungeon, and I dabble in other fandoms every so often.
I'm a digital artist who's currently learning the fundamentals to improve and make beautiful illustrations again, an amateur voice actor, singer, dancer, baker, former cosplayer, and I write from time to time. My childhood dream is to be a professional singer, which is honestly much harder than singing in the shower.
I'm currently working on two canon adjacent/fix it projects. Fates Converge, which is a fan YuGiOh comic that has been in production since 2011, and Beyond the Stars (title may change) which will either be a fanfiction or fan comic of Voltron Legendary Defender.
I've been making fandom characters since 11 or 12 years old, and I do love myself some ocxcanon every so often. Technically I've been making content since 2006, but those skills have left the building.
As I've stated in other posts, I've been through a lot of tough times (as we all do), and fandom was the only thing keeping me from going off the deep end. I'm in a somewhat better place now, currently job hunting which sucks, but I'm working towards the aspirations I had when I was brighter and younger.
You are never too old to achieve your dreams and the happiness you deserve.
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Have to make a new name for my ocxcanon ship. I'm annoyed, but it's whatever. The franchise has been around for as long as I have been alive. Just need to get to work.
Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesnāt leave me with a white cast. And Iām dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and itās one of the better ones Iāve used.
Yea fam. All that āwe donāt need sunscreenā shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists donāt know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and itās a nasty combination.
āWhile incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.ā
Sorry about the link, Iām on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isnāt the most recent but itās still SUPER IMPORTANT. Yāall please wear sunscreen. With Google itās even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.
Iām gonna second the rec for Black Girl Sunscreen, itās affordable, Black owned, and immediately melts into the skin without leaving any gross white cast.
Hey. Hi. How are you? Iām sorry I havenāt been active aside from liking posts. Hereās what happened recently:
- Bucket List item crossed off: Had a vacation in Japan, took tons of pictures. Much needed break from the my home life, and would love to live there someday, if possible.
- Tomodachi Life came out, been playing that too much.
- Preordered the Voltron complete series DVDs, and those were delivered to my house the day before I left for Japan.
- As of two days ago? I got fired. So I have more time to work on my fan projects and careerā¦ but please keep in mind that I have no income coming in.
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I love me some sleepy music. listening to it right now because I really should be sleeping lol
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I left Twitter cause I got tired of receiving death and rape threats for being a trans woman by fascists on the platform after Musk took over only to wind up on tumblr with a bunch of trans women insisting we do the EXACT same thing to trans men that LGB without the T did to all of us trans people.
They want to dump trans men on their own the same way cis gays did to all trans people.
I refuse to have it. I refuse to turn on my trans brothers. I will shout it over and over from the roof tops that we need to stick together now more than ever. The discourse between fems and mascs is just about the most stupid shit you can possibly do under a fascist regime THAT WANTS YOU FUCKING DEAD.
Don't be a fucking idiot. Touch some grass. Testosterone is not some magical poison that turns you into an evil misogynist. Trans men have experiences with misogyny before they transition. Teansandrophobia is real. Trans men are real men. Testosterone should be free and handed out at your local pharmacy like napkins at McDonald's.
And the best part is that you too can believe all this and still be completely valid as a woman. Recognizing the rights of trans men to exist and be happy and support them in doing so does not invalidate my feminism nor my own identity.
I am so utterly fascinated by āSakiā, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decadesā worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from āthe fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheekā to āthe pussy is completely out on center pageā over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.
Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in āSakiā donāt wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And itās still going.
In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. Itās because the underwear ran out of places to hide. Iām obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of āSakiā, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didnāt even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!
And of course there is also the breast expansion. I donāt know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, āthe one with the big boobsā, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesnāt get lost in the noise. Itās just that normallyāin like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for exampleānormally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and youād go, āWell, this is now untenable.ā
That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.
Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.
Itās like this, okay: thereās no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. Thereās a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.
The vibe with āSakiā is different.
Itās hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as āleeringā, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into itāI canāt imagine anyone is making her do thisābut āSakiā the comic has no opinion on the matter.
There are essentially no male characters in āSakiā. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of āSakiā, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so itās no problem. Itās so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.
So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of āSakiā, right: itās just normal that they donāt wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. Itās been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. Itās just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, itās in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like whatās the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because itās mahjong time now, and weāre playing mahjong.
Do you get??? why Iām so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???
Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????
I have so many questions... How does one SUSPECT a manga character isn't wearing underwear? Like, sure, boobs are front and center amd you can see them get bigger panel by panel but how does this work for panties? Are there just that many upskirt shots?
Also how do you keep a manga about Mahjong going for 18 years, what??
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f33lz._.b3tterz: "Al only spits out what is put in. it's a program, not a textbook.
i'm a server and i had a table that TOOK A PICTURE of the menu sent it to chat gpt AND ASKED IT WHAT LOOKED GOOD!!! JUST READ IT!! then instead of looking at the itemized receipt of what they ordered, including the total, they told chat gpt what they got AND ASKED IT WHAT THE TOTAL WOULD BE."
humanleaf1: "i work at a hardware store and let me tell you its getting to the point im ready to just let people set their houses on fire. like oh chatgpt said you need that outlet? sure. go for it."
girlpansies: "I have a regular that is exactly like this. Over the last year l've seen her dependency on chatgpt get atp kinda scary. It started off with her coming in a few times a month and filling up a bag full of skin and hair care and makeup based solely on chatgpt recommendations. Then she gendered it and tells me about how "she" scans this client's face daily and tells her "exactly what she needs" based on her skin and hair type and skin tone, etc.. This last time I saw this woman, she told me she's given chatgpt pretty much her entire biometric profile for the sake of helping her diagnose herself and pick out her medications....she says things like "she knows me so well" and it's so jarring."
mermsieruffles: "We had a customer and his wife show up in store ON BLACK FRIDAY and pitch a toddler level fit because GD ChatGPT told them we had a military discount. We do not and never have had a military discount! They kept saying they had seen it online, they were owed an additional 10% off their multi-hundred dollar espresso machine! We told them if they could find it on our website specifically they could have it. They left angry."
"huh?? I'll have to double check" like, it's right on the website, right on google listing.
And then this last weekend, someone mentioned GOOGLE GEMINI! Saying "your website is different than what Google Gemini is saying, that's confusing". And i was floored. Like... MAYBE TRUST THE BUSINESSES WEBSITE, and not an ai generated prompt?? Huhhhh?? My boss, did the prompt once just to check wtf was up, and BOY did it just bs hours, had us as open on days we are closed, etc. And now i know, all of these people who've had issues are using ai. Like, so sad."
catandnova: "I work at a flower shop and had 2 ladies come in to get an arrangement. They came in with an Al generated photo of arrangements on an outdoor arch. I told them our arrangements will look different bc the flowers in the photo aren't real and the ones that are there are not the proper scale nor will they withstand this heat. So I go over alternatives w them. And her friend says to her "can u Al it, I can't imagine what it'll look like" :/"
bea_trician: "Ive had people at my day job go shopping with grocery lists written by Chatgpt. Like....is the bot supposed to know what's in your pantry?? Is it hallucinating products we don't actually sell?"
franken.twink: "I work in dme and had a guy come in asking for a resupply for his cpap with a list of made up item id's and part numbers. When I pointed it out and that we had like, his actual resupply list in our system, he just shrugged and said that's what chatgpt said he needed..just, bro"
tabbykisses: "i'm a hairstylist and often get clients coming | in asking me to give them a haircut identical to a chat-generated image. I have to explain that the haircut will never look identical to what they prompted because it isn't real; it's not a real hair texture, that's not how layers work - even stuff like how chat won't take into account their cowlicks or the density of their hair, etc. And every time it's met with stubbornness or hostility or the assumption that I can't do my job right because of this explicit case. it's ruining brains, it's making people codependent, and it's pissing me off"
temporalserpent: "I had this with some of the younger customers in my laundromat job where instead of reading the tags on their nicer clothes, they're relying on whatever ai app. So when they find out it ruined or shrank their clothes they get upset. There's so much hand holding I need to do cause they're just anxious wrecks who HAVE to use ai for simple shit."
light.does.cos: "I worked at a store that sold things to make candles, soaps, simple skincare, etc. and this lady came in asking for materials for candles. So I show her everything she would need including wax chips to make the candles colorful. AND TO MY FACE GOES "well chat gpt said I can use koolaid so I think I'll stick with that""
Reblog if youād rather give yourself papercuts between each of your fingers and then rub hand sanitizer all over your hands than use generative AI to write or draw anything ever
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