here’s the rundown: i’m kate, 20s, queer freak, she/her
tumblr is my diary! i will treat it as such! that means you may Will see a lot of spam. i post about whatever hyperfixation i’ve got at the present, plus whatever older interests seize me from moment to moment. and anything funny or slightly interesting i see on my dash
(psst…. check out that about me page to see a bunch of my interests if you want an idea of what you’re in for!)
i don’t currently tag any triggers or spoilers, but if we’re mutuals pleaseee lmk if you’d like me to start tagging anything!
minors can follow, but please for everyone’s safety don’t interact with adult content on my blog! i don’t really post anything explicit anyway, but please keep this boundary in mind if i do happen to post/reblog something a bit more mature.
feel free to tag me in posts you think i’d like, send me asks, dm me, anything! i promise i’m not intimidating at all, i’d love to be friends :)
the student said, “i’m reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes.” and the teacher replied, “ah, dogen’s instructions for the cook, written in 1237?” “yeah,” said the student, “it’s saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot”
i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there’s a slug on their plant and so you’re like “Oh haha you’ve got a friend there let me get that for you” and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is “would you like this free slug with your purchase”
@holyknuckled you get it. lterally what are we here on earth for if not to occasionally impose gastropods upon unsuspecting customers. this story is delightful
ethics of making AI images aside, I do find a bit amusing the kinds of sob stories and mental gymnastics people make up to pretend like drawing is this super technical skill with an impossibly high barrier of entry when its like one of the first hobbies toddlers pick up
suddenly a lot of people think they got the next Lord of the Rings in their head but they were never able to turn their stories into anything tangible because the evil elitist artists are hogging all the talent and skill and they need a bajilion years of training or something as if one of the most popular manga and anime of the past decade wasn’t made by a guy that draws like this
Pulling this out of my tags but for real one of the best webcomics(and also best story in general) I have ever read started out looking like this:
You do not have to be Michaelangelo to make art, just make it. Also, obligatory quote from my good man Bob Ross:
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Sorry to pull this out of the tags also but I absolutely agree and wanted to elaborate further, bcs like another reason I genuinely think anyone who is interested in art but feels like they suck too much to make it should really just stay away from AI and actually just give drawing a chance is because AI cannot create new art styles. It can only make copies of what you put into it, so much so that if you want something in a specific style you have to tell it the name of the artist you want it to mimic because it cannot make something that doesn’t already exist. If all you ever fed it were drawings of stick figures that’s all it would ever know how to do.
But humans can make new art styles, every person’s art is unique. And when it comes to ONE(author/artist behind Mob Psycho 100 and One Punch Man) and Rich Berlew(author and artist of Order of the Stick), if these guys never just started making their comics we wouldn’t have ever been able to see these expressive, funny, strange, and just all around captivating pieces of art!
The image I used of Order of the Stick isn’t actually exactly what it looked like at this start, this is:
And THIS is what Order of the Stick looks like now:
And while it does still look similar, it’s clear how much Burlew has improved and grown comfortable in his unique artstyle, how far he’s come in the last 21 years. The lighting, the line art, the panel layout, all of it has improved while still essentially just being stick figures. And I cannot even begin to describe how much I fucking LOVE the way this comic looks.
Switching to ONE, his art started out super rough
And while One Punch Man did get a new artist…I genuinely think the “better” art has lost a lot of the charm the original had. I’m so glad that ONE did Mob Psycho 100 himself and that the anime mimicked his style rather than trying to make it look more standard like OPM did, because my god, this guy’s stuff conveys humor in a way that is as brilliant as it is unique. It’s rough, but the roughness doesn’t take away from the impact or emotions, it honestly adds to them, and overall it’s incredible to see how much ONE has improved, but also how much it still looks like his art:
I do not want to live in a world where ONE and Rich Burlew didn’t make their comics because they were too scared of their art looking bad. I don’t want to live in a world without these stories and these dynamic and original art styles. Burlew’s art legit has given me confidence, I always felt bad that when I finished and colored my art all my lines were so thick and smooth and coloring-book-esque, it’s why most of what I post is like, sketches, colored or not. But after reading Order of the Stick I legit cried a little because for the first time I didn’t feel bad about just doing the kind of line art that feels right to me, which looks like this:
So fr, please if you want to make art just make art. Everyone’s art is unique in one way or another and if you just rely on AI all the time we’ll never get to see styles like ONE and Rich Burlew’s and again, I don’t want to live in a world where we don’t get to see all of these amazing, imperfect works of art. I want to see YOUR art, because it’s yours, and the world is a better place with your art in it.
you’re entitled to make art! you’re just not entitled to make art that’s perfectly beautiful. fortunately, no one else is either.
Not to start discourse but I will be forever mad that every time I go into the Goncharov tag I see people complaining that they watched the movie expecting a soft queer romcom about pure cinnamon rolls and instead they got a complex and violent film about deeply flawed people where everyone dies.
By all means, engage in fandom however you choose. But don’t blame the source material for not being consistent with some random fanon on tumblr. Kinda wild to get mad that the movie about violent, morally dark grey criminals has violence, crime and moral greyness in it. You know? Also, imho given the time this movie was made, the queer coding was daring; this is NOT an example of queerbaiting.
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