Phrases I unfollow for include: TME/TMA, transandrophobia, and any strong moral opinion about Rocky Horror. I have no patience for trans discourse whatsoever.
I don’t do chain/copy paste ask games, but thanks for thinking of me!
I won’t post fundraisers sent in my asks or submissions. Being responsible for someone's life like that is harrowing, and I just don’t have the energy to vet them besides.
I love being tagged in posts about chickens, spiders, and evil women, if you're so inclined.
I only accept anon hate in the form of limerick. Please be aware of this before sending or your message will be blocked & deleted without comment. My blog MUST remain a silly space.
Karibu karibu, enjoy your stay!
Blacklist and Personal Tags:
#important - catch-all politics & current events tag.
#this is cassandra - talks tag. From the song by Talis Kimberley.
#sadismposting, #the intersection where the bodies meet - horny violence babyyyy! Largely defunct as I work through some stuff.
#something rotten in the house - incest, haunted houses, and greek tragedy.
#torture - Torture, trauma theory, and solitary confinement.
#echo's book club - books I've been reading!
#echoes of the past - don't worry about this one.
I can be rather inconsistent when tagging!
Interests:
Opera - #opera tag
Fashion and textile arts, focused historical techniques & materials. I’ve knitted hand warmers from yarn I cleaned, carded, and spun myself! - #textile, #move the sheep and the fences around, #clothing
Sub-Saharan African mythology & cultures, for nostalgia reasons. May rarely post in Kiswahili. - #africa
Farming, homesteading, animal husbandry, etc. No tag. Lots of chickens.
Feminism and transfeminism! No tag. Re: above, I use transfem/not-transfem.
Spiders - #spiders
World mythology, media analysis, meta narrative. Enemies to lovers, too; if the Epic of Gilgamesh did it, I can put it here. #can’t argue with a monomyth, #enemies with benefits, #stories
Character tags: #gawainposting, #gearposting, #ishtarposting, #xipe totec posting, #zoraposting
Misc: #heave ho bitches, #knightposting, #labyrinth, #minotaur, #the mask, #the body, #unified tag for posts like this, #unicorn, #angels
Fandoms & medias & sideblogs & such
No Evil (@f-yeah-no-evil)
Abzu, Journey, Sky cotl (@starsfallhome)
Hollow Knight (@bobbinbugs)
Kiwi Blitz (@normalkiwiblitz)
Project Hail Mary (@shitty-eridians)
Books: House of Leaves, The Left Hand Of Darkness, Piranesi, [quite literally everything by Borges], The Last Unicorn
Animations & Animes: Revolutionary Girl Utena, Dungeon Meshi, Blue Eye Samurai, Arcane (loved s1, s2 critical), Epithet Erased, Witch Hat Atelier, Princess Tutu + princess tutu abridged (what I initially started this blog for!), Lego Monkie Kid
Video Games: Death Palette, Outer Wilds, Portal 1 & 2, Ultrakill, Hatoful Boyfriend, Hades, Blue Prince
Podcasts: Mabel, The Silt Verses
Paul Shapera (no longer following but soft spot for older works)
Medieval literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Inanna's Descent Into the Underworld, various mesopotamian stone tablets (Agushaya Hymn my beloved)
Original Stories and Characters
Desiree: Horror. A woman escapes to an abandoned lighthouse after killing and eating the woman she lusts after, to her considerable psychological detriment. There are no rats on Bishop's Point, but the ghost is very real. Short story, final draft
Taffeta/The Perfect Machine: Mecha, adventure. Hobbyist mecha battler breaks into a private military org, trying to steal back a peer's design... and gets more than she bargained for when she runs into Taffeta, the nation's only biomecha unit. Planned as 50-page comic/may have a novelization, first draft
Starving Season/Crow & Kipepeo: Urban fantasy. During an unusually brutal dry season, a shapeshifting crow-woman 'seduces' a young man into transitioning. Now a young woman, Namirembe must navigate a new identity, sexual & magical awakenings, and her own self-loathing in a country that's Actively Trying To Kill Her. Nagawonyi, goddess of hunger, is also there. Illustrated novella, concept stage
Narcissus and No One: Mystery. A man escapes to a lovely chateau the countryside, but starts hearing a voice that repeats the last word or syllable he spoke. To get to the bottom of this, he must face three reflections (entry room, bathroom, bedroom/id, ego, superego). Video game, concept stage
Outsides-In: Horror. After failing in her performance as a 'living statue,' a girl who gave up her name, memory, and literal heart crawls through the tunnels of the underground, trying to find her way back to herself. Features autocannibalism. Originally a "human-in-Hallownest but played for horror" concept, hence the name. Needs reworking, concept stage
Eremai: Girl with a generational curse, passed down from mother to daughter, is destined to burn down everything she loves at random intervals. She is a constant runaway who tries on new personalities like hats. Originally an Aurora (Webcomic) OC, but I've cut ties with the fandom. No rework planned, but I tag for her sometimes.
Pretty much everything I write is about women because I am a gay lesbian.
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"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.
As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.
I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!
The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.
With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.
Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!
Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.
You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).
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I tried crossposting from Tumblr to Twitter years ago, figuring I could compose for the former, then deploy my technical editing skills to cut the text down to size for the latter, and I couldn't do it. Of all the editing challenges I've faced, squeezing my posts into 280 characters is the only one that's utterly defeated me.
Years later, I tried again with Bluesky and found it easy, which one might construe as a sign that I've become a better editor, but no – I've compared, and while I can reliably get my present Tumblr posts down to 300 characters (albeit often with pretty vicious cuts), I still can't do 280.
There's probably some fascinating structural reason why those twenty characters make such a tremendous difference, but I'm choosing to interpret this as evidence that Twitter is ontologically evil.
Hey guys you should totally get into this thing i like. Yeah it's mid at best. It also aged poorly. You'll get nothing out of it at all. You'll like the idea of it more than the actual thing. But at least only takes half your natural lifespan to finish it
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for ten years there were letsplayers who would record video content of themselves playing videogames and edit it down into 10-20 minute videos which they would post on youtube and other video hosting websites, but mostly youtube. now we only wake up in a desecrated field choked with a miasmatic fog and columns of graves that stretches beyond the horizon
it’s kind of funny how often the minute a piece a media starts writing intentional romantic scenes, even between a pairing i was previously interested in, is when i go :| alright. tuning out.
Before this they were being written as the characters I enjoy with a unique and complex relationship dynamic. and now they are being written as Romantic Partners™️ and suddenly all that other stuff I actually care about has vanished in favor of them being romantically attracted to each other in the same way that everyone is “supposed” to be romantically attracted to each other
like okay you’re telling me these characters are professionals who have been working together for years and trust each other so deeply that they have a constant psychic link between their minds. and you are writing them with the same awkward, flustered, clumsy romantic tension as the literally ten year olds in puppy love. why are you doing this to them! their relationship is so much more interesting than that!!!
strong independent emotionally unavailable tough as nails ruthless unyielding sadist woman with a submissive mommy kink is kind of an unbeatable combo #feminism #mommyissues
you know i used to be a starship? yeah a real big one too. called something like ‘vision of venus’ or ‘face of eros’, i can’t really remember now. they had me hauling mobile refineries and the like. but i guesssss i joked about venting everyone out the airlocks a couple dozen too many times and they had me reassigned. now i make drinks! 😊 would you like that small medium or large?
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recurring dead wife flashback where it becomes increasingly apparent that the person remembering her has dishonestly claimed a romantic dynamic to their relationship that never actually existed and erased any conflict that ever existed between them now that she's no longer able to say no to them
dead wife flashback where each time we see her she looks more confused and upset by how she's remembered, then desperate and furious, until she's hammering on the glass screaming to be let out
i would also fail to recognize the difference between the question i am supposed to ask and ought to ask. i would doom the fisher king to a wasteland tbh
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