Before I get started, a quick preface:
This post doesn’t apply to all artists.
This post doesn’t apply to all customers.
This may not be your experience, but your experience is not universal.
With that out of the way, let’s get started. This is going to be a very long post, so let me just give you the abstract:
Any artist who takes commissions has an obligation to behave in a professional manner and treat their customers’ time and money with respect. Just because art is a creative endeavor that does not excuse abusive business practices, and it’s wrong to take advantage of a customers’ good will. Doing so weakens trust in artists as a whole and harms the entire artistic community, especially new artists just getting started.
More under the cut because I’ve had this building in my head for a while and have a lot to say.
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Cleaning up my files and forgot that I had all these wing studies from circa. 2015 so thought, y’know what, I don’t need to hold onto these, so have this as a little gift from me to whomst ever needs some quick wings for their OC’s, AU’s, and Art.
With all the transphobes coming out of the woodworks I’ve been posting when I’ve found transphobic bullshit and it’s come to my attention that a lot of people can’t block ‘em as easily on the forums since this is genuinely harmful to a lot of people, so here’s a list of transphobes on fr to look out for/block.
TW for transphobia, homophobia and misgendering. Names will be in bold, reasons will be in regular text.
Ossium - has repeatedly defended misgendering in the past (including misgendering Scribbles), has called trans people sensitive for being upset about misgendering, claims that lgbtq people are “desperate” for representation and thinks it’s “yikes”
boggybuddy - claims that they do not agree with lgbtq+ view because they are Catholic, has admitted to misgendering irl trans people, uses the phrase “male who identifies as female” and “female who identifies as male”
aeonium - erased Fiona’s identity after it was confirmed, saying what if she was born with it like a “deformation”, claiming that Fiona being cis and born “deformed” is more interesting than her being trans
Of course these are not all of the people being disgusting in the forums, only ones that I’ve seen so far. Staff is also doing a pretty good job at shutting down transphobic comments in multiple threads so there are definitely ones that have been deleted and thus I haven’t seen.
If anyone knows of any more transphobes to block, please add them with a reason! The safety of trans people is incredibly important and while it’s great to see ourselves in Flight Rising, it’s even better if we all have a safe experience there too.
Nah dude, some police are genuinely trying to make the world a better place. They go through a lot of shit so that they can try and help people. I hate most of the shit police do. I don't like being told what to do either. But people are fucking killing cops. That's people killin people and it's fucked. You're the death of your own cause if you condone violence and murder ya dumb fuck. Black lives matter, let's protect them by not murdering good people and giving nazis any sort of argument.
Gonna break down this response as clearly as possible.
The origins of the police are evil.
It has been shown repeatedly that the police were formed to oppress the working class and (1, 2) and enforce white supremacy (1, 2, 3). In fact, the early U.S. police grew directly out of slavery.
The police aren’t the people you think they are.
The police don’t care about you – they don’t even have a constitutional duty to protect you. They’re allowed to take your property without your consent (the NYPD seizes so much property they can’t even log it in their computers). In fact, cops are more likely to steal your property than burglars are. They commit hundreds of crimes and human rights violations against people like you & me and get away with it because they cover for each other.
Cops tend to be unusually aggressive, authoritarian, and secretive (Greene & Heilbrun, 2011). They are more than twice as likely to commit domestic violence than the rest of the population, and (once again) they cover for each other when doing so. The police are on the side of neo-Nazis (1, 2). In fact, many times the police themselves are the neo-Nazis/klansmen (1, 2, 3). And even besides all this, cops do all kinds of other shady shit – for instance, undercover police are used to instigate fights during protests and rallies.
The police terrorize those of us who are marginalized.
The police disproportionately arrest Black people for drugs even though white people use drugs more often. They disproportionately pull Black people over for traffic stops. The police terrorize people with disabilities.They are viciously anti-indigenous – and always have been. Police terrorize sex workers. There are countless examples of police brutalizing homeless people (1, 2, 3). The police have a lengthy history of brutality against the LGBT community (1, 2). They terrorize women of color and get away with it (1, 2, 3). They kill massive numbers of people each year – and a disproportionate number of their victims are Black and native. On top of that, recent data suggests cops may kill up to twice as many people as we even thought they did. And while police love to defend themselves by saying they have the most dangerous job, that’s not even close to being true.
The police’s best kept secret: We don’t need them!
A world without the police is completely possible (1, 2, 3, 4). We have resources for resolving violence as communities without the need for state intervention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – as some examples). We as communities are better capable of resolving violence than the police are, because we don’t have the vested interest in the status quo that they have. Even if a few cops are well-intentioned here or there, it doesn’t change that the role of the police is to work against the vast majority of us in the interests of the (white) elite few.
Why are you so invested in the police when they are complicit in your dehumanization?
Well here's my drawings, I'm still getting the hang of drawing my characters body's.
chest time
This is how the grinch stole Christmas. ..By doing yoga
Another color in adopt for another 200 points on DA!!!