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Confessions Of A Depressed Geek

@magimerlyn

if you do not oppose the political nation-state of Israel, do not follow me. Never Again means Never, to anyone.

Hey artist friends, I have a challenge for you

I want to know how you would interpret and draw some characters from a story I’m writing. I’ll give their physical descriptions and a description of their clothes, and you show me how you would draw them

Adrian:

Has purple Alexandrite eyes, neck-length black hair swept to one side of his face, and ivory skin. He wears an iron crown, a deep purple stone hanging from one ear, a high-necked black shirt tucked into high-waisted trousers, with an iron corset around his waist. He wears a black cape trimmed in gold and lined in indigo off one shoulder, and high-heeled dragon skin boots and iron bracers. He’s trans, uses magic, and is initially introduced as an antagonist, but he has his own reasons for the way he treats our initial pov character.

Pearl:

Has pale, milky skin and long, cream colored hair, and extremely pale blue eyes. She wears a pink knee-length skirt and a white blouse with lace sleeves. Her pink kitten heels have a small pearl dangling from each buckle. She wears a white pearl headband and carries a small, square white handbag with a light pink rose in the center. She is our initial POV character, and starts out very hesitant and nervous.

Ragnar:

Has tanned skin and chestnut hair pulled back into a low ponytail, choppy bangs framing his face. He has emerald green almond-shaped eyes. He wears a studded leather pauldron over a deep blue shirt, a few belts that would ordinarily hold his sheath and quiver, and dark brown pants tucked into leather boots. The only thing on his belt is Adrian’s Token: an iron dragon curled around a piece of cut alexandrite. He is Adrian’s one confidant and his love interest, and is fully devoted to his king.

Helena:

A dark-skinned girl with onyx eyes and long black braids pulled into a half-ponytail. She wears a yellow sundress paired with a matching flower crown. Her wedge sandals match the woven straw purse slung across her body. She’s one of the most beautiful characters in the story, and she loves to read. She’s also one of Pearl’s best friends.

Cynthia:

Has dark brown hair, tanned skin, and sharp sapphire eyes. She wears wire-rimmed glasses, a smart white blouse, and a deep blue skirt with polished brown shoes. She’s one of the most outspoken characters, and is Pearl’s other best friend, and is very protective of her friends. She carries a matching purse to Pearl, although hers has a blue rose instead of pink.

Victoria:

Long black hair framing a heart-shaped face, with sharp garnet eyes. Her makeup is simple, but harsh, her lips painted with a small blood-red heart. She has blunt bangs cut just above her eyebrows, and wears a high-necked, tight-fitting black shirt, with a red corseted skirt reaching just below her knee. She is Pearl’s newest friend, and has a regal air to her.

Draw them however you want!

This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.

Remember folks, the two types of conspiracy theory are "Things the CIA or FBI has admitted to doing" and "Antisemitism"

i don't care if it's nazis, mormons, or a bunch of misguided autistic people. if anyone ever tries to tell you your soul is from another planet and you're actually part of the class of impressive people that secretly did everything cool in the world but is now extinct and lives on through your broken genome, you RUN. YOU WILL RUN AWAY. YOU WILL SPRINT FULL SPEED AWAY FROM THAT.

grabs you by the shoulders listen. listen to my words. i understand the urge to make fanfiction about yourself and to find a reality in which you're super awesome and great and everyone who hates you is wrong and dumb. i get it. you're better than that. you can love yourself without putting other people down, dehumanizing and generalizing, and retaliating against your oppressors.

there's no NPCs. there's no aliens coming to save us. we're not the next step in human evolution. our hyperconnected nervous systems give us terrible sensory overwhelm more often than they make us geniuses. neurotypical people are sentient, conscious, aware people who are capable of understanding you. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different. we're more the same than we are different.

Also stay away from people who say shit like "sexual attraction and romance addles the mind and makes you crazy and irrational and this is why being aro/ace makes you intellectually superior." I've seen that a couple times times on this hellsite. Stay away from anyone who tries to convince you that your racial identity/cultural identity/gender identity/sexual orientation/neurodivergence/any other intrinsic quality makes you a member of some master race that is inherently superior to the other humans.

You are not immune to exceptionalist propaganda.

i go to the shop and I ask if they have any raspberries. they say no, they used to sell raspberries, but they haven't had any in stock in the last 15 years. I ask if there's somewhere else I can go to buy raspberries. They say no, with confidence and pride, they're the only shop around who has ever sold or will ever sell raspberries. Other shops might sell other fruit, sure, but they have a monopoly on all raspberries forever. I ask if they're possibly planning on them selling them again in future? they say they can't tell me that.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.

someone comes up behind us. It's the shop manager, President of Nintendo Shuntaro Furukawa. he hatefully throws a bob-omb that blows up and kills both of us instantly for stealing 200 trillion dollars worth of potential Raspberry Shop That Doesn't Do Raspberries Anymore profits that they weren't making and then he turns around to the camera with a big thumbs up and says don't do piracy or something ok please

Bad heroes go to the Cheese Dimension.

Danny, one of the Realms ghosts that regularly dips in and out of other dimensions, notices a disturbing trend of other dimension's heroes...being not heroes.

They're, in fact, performing straight up villain acts.

Superman becoming a tyrant, Owlman being...whatever the fuck Owlman is, Gun Batman, etc. etc.

So Danny pitches an idea to the Observants, but only after he's gotten approval from Clockwork, Pandora, Frostbite, Walker, and the ghost of Wisconsin himself, the Dairy King.

The Observants, backed into a corner...begrudgingly agree.

They create a pocket dimension to be completely and totally controlled by the Dairy King. It has nothing but cheese in it.

It is an infinite void of Packers merch and cheese.

Now all Danny has to do is, when he sees a dimension where the heroes are not being hero-ey, tag them with a slice of Cursed American Cheese and they'll pop out of their dimension and into

T H E C H E E S E Z O N E

Drawback; as Danny isn't a native to the dimensions he goes to, sometimes he gets a little confused, and sends normal heroes to

T H E C H E E S E Z O N E

and it takes a few days for the Dairy King to realize the mistake and let them go back.

I’m getting heavy Vulture Dimension vibes!

True story, I haven't really sat down and watched them, and I have no idea what's going on in this gif.

But it looks chaotic so I approve

had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”

what the people want, the people get

you see

my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.

evidence as explained:

  • victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world
  • his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression
  • he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest
  • henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces 
  • afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?
  • Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational 
  • the book does not otherwise have central female characters 

Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.

in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary  Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature 

I was not expecting that last line.

THIS IS THE KIND OF ESSAY WE NEED MORE OF

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