Honey Bee

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

“Nothing Seeker. It was nothing.”

it’s really gross and oddly (considering the faux-feminist tone of most of the antis) sexist. it implies that since we’re women who like a toxic male character, we must only like him because we’re idiots or abuse condoners or we’re simply too uneducated and naive to like the Good Characters™ 

snape is definitely not what i would consider a role model for like… anyone. he’s nasty and brutal and a bully. but i have said it before and i’ll say it as many times as needed: that’s the point of his character and his narrative. snape doesn’t heal in the “right” way from his abuse or his bullying, but he still manages to fight his way out of the darkness to do something truly and undeniably good. he uses the hardness that his own terrible life gave him as something of a weapon - a lesser person would not have survived as snape did until the very end. a kinder person wouldn’t have survived as snape did. 

snape being an asshole and a bully and not a good person… that’s what’s so important about him for me. that he manages to do great and actually inspirational things as a terrible person. and i’m not talking about lily - i’m talking about spying on a dark lord that could kill him the moment he finds out about his treachery. i’m talking about giving his life to the fight against voldemort. i’m talking about sweating blood to make sure harry stays alive to finish the entire thing and making every sacrifice he thinks is necessary - including killing the only person who knows that he’s actually on their side - to make sure the war ends and voldemort is dead. snape dies for the wizarding world. snape does all that. and he does it even though he’s nasty and unkind and kind of a terrible human being.

as a kid, i wasn’t really abused or bullied. my thing was that i went through horrible depression and anxiety and isolation and all of that made me into someone who wasn’t good. i despaired of myself because i looked at the bad things i did and i thought i was just… not a good person. i would be petty or mean or hateful and i would think that was all i was capable of. snape was one of the characters who helped me realize that even when i’m petty or terrible or mean, i can still become something better. that light exists in me even if all i feel is dark.

i don’t know. i know a lot of fans hate snape because they view him as an abusive asshole. i think they’re wrong about the abusive part, but yeah, he is an asshole. he bullies kids and he had a really unhealthy relationship with lily and he’s petty as hell. but i needed him as a teenager and there are a lot of other people who need him too - not because they’re stuck in some delusional fantasy that he’s a good person or they’re incapable of seeing him as a toxic male character, but because they see aspects of themselves in him. because yeah, they went through something like him - abuse or bullying or isolation or self-hatred - and they need a character who shows them that even if you don’t heal in the pretty “right” way that everyone thinks you need to, you’re still capable of goodness and of love. 

It’s far more difficult to look at a character like Snape and achnowledge their humanity, acknowledge their flaws and weaknesses as well as their strenghts, and recognize the reasons why they failed as vices that we all share: greed, contempt, spite, complacency, cowardliness, and so on.