Well I Don't Know!

Elsa - she/her - 30+ - Finnish

I post mostly art about my OCs, but I am know to delve into fandoms on occasion. 

- I am Pro-Choice - I support Black Lives Matter - I believe Trans Rights Are Human Rights. - I am anti-Terf - I am anti-NFT/crypto/AI

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@erlireblog - sideblog @noendcomic - tumblr for No End comic

Submissive like a guard dog is submissive.

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1. Incredibly well informed conversations of labels and sexuality between characters who WOULDN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. I don't mind it for contemporary characters who for example work with queer people, but mafia thugs?? That man will think pansexuality is attraction to kitchen ware and demisexuality has got something to do with jeans. It takes me out of the story SO FAST when they start hurling labels at each other in very calm and informed manner, like they read tumblr every day. NO! STOP IT!!

That man knows how to do every crime, has committed half of them and grown up in the homophobia, he will not discuss sexuality like me and my queer friend group at a dinner party. He still thinks dogs are boys and cats are girls.

2. Modern terms for gender and sexuality in romantasy (or fantasy in general). What do you mean this character is nonbinary? I love that they are but can we figure out something else? It just takes me instantly out of the world, it just feels way too modern... And we are inventing new words for our fantasy worlds anyway, so why not for that. Take inspiration from words like muusu (Finnish, shortened from muunsukupuolinen lit. trans. other gender), two spirit etc. Find your own word! Or just use androgynous. That's also fine.

I guess this also goes for all terms of sexuality, even gay or straight. And usually people valiantly avoid using these, but why does nonbinary slip in there then?

3. Pop culture references. I fucking hate them. LOATHE THEM. If you mention Doctor Who or, god forbid, Harry Potter in your book, I will scream. Don't you dare fucking name that band. Don't even think naming that song. And mentioning TUMBLR? Jail. Straight to JAIL.

The references date the book, sometimes makes them age poorly, take the people who don't know the reference out of the book, make the people who know it cringe. Make up a band or a movie or show. Be vague about it. It can't be that integral to the plot to have the reference. Go watch Shrek movies. They make tons and tons of pop culture references without naming SHIT and those who don't know the reference are non the wiser.

If you MUST include songs, make a separate appendix page for a playlist.

4. This is unfortunately a specific call out, but if your book is called "The Lost Art of Seducing ---" and your characters move in together in CHAPTER THREE, you need to be stopped and I hate you a little bit. What Art of Seduction?? They breathed in the same room???

Drawing, knitting and crocheting are the big ones. And DnD! On occasion assembling miniature kits.

But I've been making a lot of socks recently.

Friend asked me to draw Medusa in the spring, but since he is a fey of the Unseelie and more specifically, of the North Wind, he does not do well in the warmth.

I have many!

Smosh (Games and Pit specifically) is doing a lot of fun stuff, I love watching them. The friendships between the cast and crew just makes me feel so good. They have changed a lot since their starting days, so if you think that they are still on their annoying dude bro humor, think again!

@drawfee is a huge inspiration for me as an artist, I would like to do many of their challenges with my friends, but I haven't managed to facilitate that yet. But please do take a look at them and help them on their 2 million creep!

For video essays of weird internet stuff I of course go to @strange-aeons, who seems to be the only person who understands Tumblr when making videos about Tumblr. But go watch videos of all things weird and wonderful, like why there are no rats in Alberta.

If yes were you always since you can remember?

If no, did you fall out of it or were you never spiritual?

I'd say I've never been spiritual in any way... I grew up Lutheran, like majority of Fins, but never connected with the religion. It was just something I had to do and endure.

Hm, this was difficult to think of, because suddenly I had never seen/read/consumed any media ever...

But one that came to mind is that in The Raven Cycle series, Ronan's dad, Nial Lynch is a bad father, a creep and would be a some sort of a manosphere/maga guy if he was alive.

And YES, it is canon that he is a bad father to Declan. But sometimes I feel like the fandom as a whole forgives Nial A LOT. That man CREATED a perfect wife. There was a real life woman whom he supposedly loved but for whatever reason it did not work out (it's been a while since I read the Dreamer trilogy), so Nial went and dreamed a perfectly happy and subservient wife for himself. Weird and bad!

Growing up in rural Finland. I regard my childhood in a way very unique. While my parents didn't have much money, my childhood was very safe and very loving. I had unique experiences like going sleigh riding during the winter, ice fishing trips, swimming almost every day during the summers etc. But the community was also very close minded and conservative, so when I started to grow up and discover who I was, I also knew I needed to move out of there.

Being fat. It just makes you feel different and othered, makes you interact with the world differently and you also have to live with the fact that some people think nothing of you. But then the people who actually like you, like you for YOU, not for how you look.

This is not for the ask game I posted, but that's 100% okay!! I love to get asks and answer stuff, so no worries!

My favorites tend to be really casual, all black outfits. I also enjoy drawing techwear a lot. Flowy, drapey fabrics are also pretty fun, such as kimonos.

For the album it is definitely Lady Gaga's Mayhem. It is such a good album as a whole.

For individual songs Tattoo by Loreen (I am betraying my country with this, I am painfully aware!!) Zombie by Yungblud Huutaa by Vilma Jää