Just a Bird in the Vents

Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.

Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like “your kids will be so pretty” they’re not dating for pretty kids. They’re dating bc they like each other.

Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.

People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.

Their partner isn’t culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.

Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But you’re not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.

Also, it is insulting both to artists, many of whom are perfectly willing to create cover art for considerably cheap or even free, and also to yourself.

Your writing is worth more than that. Your hard work is better than AI in every way shape or form. It may seem the easiest and quickest approach to completing and publishing your manuscript, but it is not worth it.

The easy route is not always the best one.

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

Entrapta: YES.

Hordak: I apologize, this is most improper to ask. We are not official. But…might I ask you to perform an intimate act with me?

Entrapta: YES.

Hordak: Okay. Okay. I must confess, I am deeply sorry for asking this of you, my lady, but I can resist no longer. Can we…hold hands?

Entrapta: wait what.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

Hello! I like dragging hundreds of people into silly ideas, so welcome!

This account is for a SPOP/Spacebat Tumblr-wide event starting Thursday, August 6th, and going until we can’t go anymore!!!

Behold mine plan;

1.) We spend the next month and a half growing our army by following this page (we can extend timeline if not enough)

2.) One or two days a week, this account will post a picture of a random background Horde Clone or two.

3.) In the comments, anyone is free to suggest names! You can like other people’s comments or boost your own name idea on your page by reblogging the post and your name idea (but you must also comment or it will be disregarded). Campaign as much as you want!

4.) After one week, I will set up a poll with the top 10 liked comments/name suggestions for the spacebat. If we have less than 10 suggestions, we will vote anyway. If we do not have three or more, we will wait an additional week. At this point if we do move to voting, I will ensure the original post shows as closed.

5.) VOTE VOTE VOTE!!! SPACEBAT DEMOCRACY!!! PICK UR FAV, ONLY VOTE ONCE!!! CONTINUE TO CAMPAIGN IF SO YOU WISH!!!

6.) At the end of the week (seven days after it opens), I will close the poll and announce the winner! We then officially dub that spacebat whatever the most popular name chosen was.

7.) Continue until the sun implodes or we run out of background clones/spacebats (a while)

8.) Eventually get enough attention to get one of the show’s creators to say the names we’ve given are canon (I wrote this as a joke but genuinely that would be amazing)

Rules:

1.) Be nice! Do not put others down or tell people not to vote for specific names. And don’t be down if a name you wanted didn’t win, it’ll be okay! And of course, no hate speech, anti-LGBTQ, racism, or any other kind of hate. Any hateful behavior will not be tolerated, and you will be blocked on the first offense.

2.) One name suggestion per person per clone. We don’t need five name ideas for one clone from one person. Don’t worry: there will be plenty more babies to name :)

3.) Nothing inappropriate or insensitive. I will delete any comments with inappropriate suggestions and write down your profile. Three strikes of intentionally doing this and you are blocked. We are respectful here. If I fail to delete one due to not seeing it or not understanding its meaning, please let me know. If it somehow makes it to the poll, it will be disregarded/deleted.

4.) No naming them after irl people please! No puns on celebrity names either. If you’re unsure if a name is ok, ask.

5.) “Name” is a strong word. Remember the spacebats are still learning naming concepts, so you can totally suggest object or place names (no real world places). Clones named ‘Coffee Cup’ or ‘Window’ would be funny and entirely acceptable!

6.) No OCs! We love spacebat/clone OCs here, and you’re free to name a clone after them, but do not say ‘that clone is now canonically my OC’ if your name wins. Additionally, if your name wins, do not claim them as yours. The goal is to come up with fandom-wide names for unnamed characters that we can all share, so it isn’t nice to steal one by claiming it as yours, whether your name wins or not :)

7.) Again, promote your names if you’re passionate, but you must comment the idea as well!

8.) You’re free to suggest the same name for multiple clones! However, not at the same time. Some weeks we will have several polls going, so wait until a name suggestion has been closed/outvoted before suggesting it again. Along those lines…

9.) No doubles! If you comment a name that’s already in rotation or has already been used, I’ll just comment under yours to let ya know.

10.) SPREAD THIS! The goal is fun and to get as many people in on it as we can! The more the merrier, and it will be 10X as fun with a hundred people rather than ten! Come have fun :D

And finally

11.) Don’t take this too seriously! As of now, it’s just a game and way to unite the SPOP/Spacebat community. You are free to not accept a name or ignore this challenge. It’s more so to have fun with the show and giving names to all these unnamed characters. And if we can get officially recognized, you could say you helped name characters on the show! But yeah, in the end, this is just for fun :)))

hey so. don’t do this.

this is exactly why I say witch hunt, speculations and accusations harm the writing community as much as ai does, if not more.

I am not saying “you’re an asshole if you think a fic is ai”. I have come across fics that I believe were ai-generated. but instead of asking (accusing) the authors, I make my own decisions whether I’ll continue reading for the benefit of the doubt or quietly exit the fics and look for something else to read.

because with every accusation like this, there’s always a chance of a genuine, innocent writer getting wrongly accused.

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

and the same could apply to Hordak and Wrong Hordak. both of them were part of Horde Prime's cult and severely abused by him. sure, Wrong Hordak wasn't cast out for being a defect but that doesn't mean he was having a grand old time with Prime.