theludicroustadpole

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Decided to draw some Magnus OCs of my friends!! I made some of them as gifts, but some are completely original

Alias belongs to me.

Reese belongs to @nyllyte

Icarus belongs to @theludicroustadpole

Jammi belongs to @sinisterspoon

Acteus and Ruby belong to irl friends of mine

Their Entities and pronouns are listed next to them!!

FOLLOW MY MOOT THEY MAKE COOL ART AND ARE REALLY GOOD AT STORYTELLING

Posted this in the TMA community on here as well. May as well put my sapphics here <3

Alias Locklace (left) is an avatar of the Vast, and Meevee Abelin (right) is an avatar of the Corruption. The Literal Only Reason that Alias can handle her with her crippling bug fear is because its moths rather than like, worms or something.

If anyone is interested I'm gonna reblog this with Alias' backstory later :]

Hard pill to swallow, maybe, but sometimes you are the problem. You may not have been initially, but people around you can only have so much endurance for understanding why you're "like that" and how you got to where you are now. Even if you were the one who was victimized, hurt, or abused to begin with, your behavior affects those around you. There's a point at which personal responsibility needs to kick in, or you will become toxic. You can become toxic even if you never become an abuser yourself. If other people are constantly having to help dig you out of the holes you made but you keep slapping their hands away, you cannot expect them to have an indefinite amount of patience and energy to keep trying. If you're not putting in the work to recover from what damaged you; if everyone else in your life is consistently the only one making a real effort to effect change for you--you're the problem.

She does not want to die burned in the field, please help us by donating at the link gfm💔🥺🙏

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random vent

y'all ever look at a Wilbur or Lovejoy tiktok or a fan tiktok & just get really sad because you miss when you thought he was this sweet fun British guy & you miss when you were able to not be disgusted by his music or is it just me?

i miss the feeling of wishing to go to a lvjy concert & being excited when Wilbur or Lvjy drops a new song. i miss being sad &/or bored & going to Wilbur's old vods to make me feel better. i miss being excited to watch Sorry Boys videos because there was going to be a new Bursona. i miss being excited to see Wilbur in any of Tommy's vlogs. i miss wanting Wilbur & Lovejoy merch. i miss dreaming about screaming the lyrics to Perfume, or The Fall, or It's Golden Hour Somewhere, or any Lovejoy song. i miss crying to Mammalian Sighing Reflex. i miss being excited whenever i heard Wilbur or Lovejoy songs in public. i miss being proud of Lovejoy whenever something good happened to them. i miss talking to my moots about Wilbur & Lovejoy. i miss being excited to write Wilbur fics.

i wish he was one of the good ones.

i wish we could have one good one.

not nearly enough people are fuming about the cass review. do you understand the eventual implications? trans people in the uk will be considered children up until the age of 25, and denied HRT/surgery/even basic measures like legal name change and social transition. all owing to a biased and largely unscientific study. you know what “treatment” for gender dysphoria is recommended by the review instead? conversion therapy.

this will kill people and they know it, because they prefer us dead and out of sight. the government, the NHS and even the opposition have made this clear again and again. a twenty-five year old can have sex, get married have children, join the military, earn a living, be halfway up the corporate ladder or highly successful in their chosen career field by that age, but they can’t transition under NHS rules. this is a death sentence for trans teenagers and they are going ahead with it. it’s trans genocide, same as across the pond.

i’m so afraid for my trans siblings and our futures. i’m so scared for myself. what are we to do if not even the party that is supposed to be on the “left” gives a shit about our safety and mental health as long as they get voted in? labour have become tories with a red coat of paint. it all feels hopeless

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If we let ai image generators and their users discourage us and stop us from making art, then yes, they win. If we literally ignore them and make art because we can and because we are human, then we win. The people who use ai will eventually get bored of it and stop using it as much. There’s only so many things that people who are unwilling to use their imaginations can think of. How we keep human made art alive is by supporting human made art and human artists!! AND, ai art is digital, not physical. There’s no ai oil painting, there’s no ai sketching, there’s no ai pencil and paper, if you’re worried about ai stealing your digital art, make traditional art! Don’t ever give up because if we give up then they automatically win. Nothing will ever replace human made art because we won’t let it. We will always be here creating because we can, and because WE are human.

I think the best way to fight this AI shit is just to support actual creators. The cat's out of the bag with AI; our data's going to be taken and used without our consent whether we like it or not, so maybe we should put efforts into holding up those who create their own stuff. Comment/interact on people's writings and art. Make it worth them posting; make it clear that what the people are interested in isn't generated stuff, but things that people have actually done themselves. It's a drop in the ocean, but showing creators that it's them that deserve the support at least serves to cut off a tiny bit of oxygen to these AI hogs - and make a difference to creatives who are trying against hope to share with a community.

I will never understand A.I "artists". What do you feel when you get complimented for your "work"? Surely not pride. What is there to be proud of? You did nothing. You didn't plan it, sketch it, spend hours on it and trying to make sure it looked good, or got excited to make something you love You entered a few prompts and the final product that took a few seconds is likely stolen from a real artist, and those that do compliment you usually don't know it's A.I, then backtrack when they find out.

Like how could possibly consider yourself an artist in any way? You're not. Art is created by humans. A.I is just a copy, a weak imitation, a mishmash of things it scoured for online.

A.I art is not art, and A.I. artists are not artists.

The same applies to writing. That, too, is a form of art. You are not a writer. You didn't think of how you want the story to go. You didn't research to make sure what you wanted to write was accurate or to give a character or place a unique name. You didn't spend ages trying to get the scenes and dialogue just right, filled with passion about what you were creating

No, you entered a prompt in a generator that probably stole someone else's writing and claimed it as your own. You're not a writer. You're a fraud.

A.I is worthless. It is not art. It is not human.

please fucking vote

Reblog to kill it faster

people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”

the flour massacre

these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood

evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing

since the old version of this post was flagged for 'adult content'...

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a trans non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the trans enby spectrum!

Anyone who reblogs this post will have their user written on a poster saying "We Stand With Palestine" that I hope to put up somewhere in the village I live in, or the town that the village is next to.

Martin Blackwood is canonically fat 👏🏼 good at rowing 👏🏼 could and would defeat Alexander J Newall in hand-to-hand combat 👏🏼 and don’t you forget it 👏🏼

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A small compilation of Content creators' responses to Wilburs "apology"

In case anyone else needs to see how they don't support him.

edit: heres a minor update

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HERES A CLIP OF TUBBO TALKING ABOUT IT !

last edit: (i hope niki is okay<3)

"The 9 years old girl who remained under the rubble for 10 hours has made it safely. I see no one sharing. If she were dead, everyone would share! Share positivity…"

Video of her ordeal.

And May The Screams You Ignored Haunt You Every Night:

This was a choice.

A choice of complacency.

A choice to ignore.

A choice to be willfully ignorant.

We funded it.

We cheered for it in our actions, or lack thereof.

And if there is anyone to blame, it is us.

It is our fault for not taking our power back.

It is our fault for choosing to value material items over the welfare of our fellow humans.

It is our fault for not demanding more.

“Why only Palestine?”, they ask.

“Why don’t you focus on problems in your own backyard?”

Palestine is our backyard.

Palestine is the litmus test, for if we didn’t fund the fascism in Palestine, we ourselves would be free.

If we didn’t find Israel, we ourselves would have basic human rights.

If we didn’t elect the corrupt, the world would not be the military industrial complex’s playground.

If we reclaimed our power, our elected officials would work for us, and not their next lobby check.

We chose this.

We choose it with every dollar we spend, every piece of media we consume, and with every scream we ignore.

I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you're unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you've put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I'm not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.

but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.

telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they're safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it's safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you've never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.

many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.

please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.

Israel wipes out entire families, this is not self defense. This is genocide of the highest degree.

here’s to a liberated palestine and an end to the occupation in 2024، إن شاء الله

Listen guys, I’m just saying, if we’re gonna break into this arcade for spare change the best night to do it would be Christmas Eve. No ones gonna be there

Procreate doodles

Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)

Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!

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Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans

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