I Came, I saw, I Tumbl'd

About this…

If you’re someone affected by the platform’s definition of what they’re going to be banning, I strongly suggest you back up your Tumblr blog. RIGHT NOW. Info on how to do that is here.

I can’t think why my own Tumblr would be affected, but I’ll be backing things up too… because in situations like this one might expect the algorithm to get a little out of hand and make mistakes that one might or might not be able to recover from. (See this article.)

For safety’s sake – because I’d very much dislike losing the content I’ve shared with other people here – I’l be embodying my Tumblr content in a new Wordpress blog over the coming days. I’ll share the address here when it’s ready, for those who might be interested.

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

*****EDIT*****

Here’s a link to the speedpaint process!! Click here: https://youtu.be/JMFS3WYekIE

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

*rises from the ashes 1000 years later like a procrastinating phoenix* 

GUESS WHOSE BACK AFTER LIKE 3 AND A HALF YEARS I THINK?!?!?!

i’m back.

lala’s back. 

tell yo mom.

also guess who died when that new steven universe episode came out? i love my new vomit pink daughter. also did a speedpaint that im editing now. 

xoxo

Changing a character to the ‘opposite’ cis gender is a very different thing than making them trans or nonbinary. Insisting that people only change characters to trans is also really damn invalidating, because it implies that being trans is interchangable with being cis. Whoopsie doodle!

rule 63 was originally a guy thing, sexual objectification thing. it states ‘for every male character, there’s a female version of that character’, and not because the dudes who were into it cared about having more realistically rendered female heroes in their media. it was made popular on 4chan and porn boards and comics+gaming forums because you could reduce a manly male character into a sexy tits-and-ass pinup. there were related kinks of sissification, but mostly it was about getting to jerk it to a sexy female version of a previously unappealing, macho male character. 

then women got hold of the rule and started going, okay. let’s look at the female version of this male character. let’s talk about being a woman in a man’s world. let’s talk about rorschach’s misogyny, tony stark’s womanizing, batman’s grimness, the fact there’s one girl ninja to every four or five guy ninjas, let’s talk about that in the hypothetical context of these male heroes being women instead. if there’s a girl version for every male character, what does that mean? what’s her story? 

and it became this really amazing lens for female fans to interrogate stories through, to examine the effects of sexism and misogyny and masculinity, to introduce another woman into a story with very few, to identify with fully-rendered heroes of the fan’s own gender. and to interrogate the very nature of gender, which led into the development of genderbends where the character’s gender identity didn’t necessarily match their assigned sex, and from there an increasing interest in, and familiarity with, trans characters, trans people, and trans issues. 

Rule 63s can be transphobic and gender essentialist, no question, just as m/m slash can be misogynistic, but it’s not inherent to the genre.