O Shit. A Draggo.

I've never reblogged something on this site ever before, but this is worth it. Despite the fact that I'm on a bit of a Batim obsession, and that this will only reach a few more people who may not really be into MLP, the point still counts. In fact this especially counts when dabbling in AUs which it seems I've accidentaly might have made. And nothing makes me scared and fearful I've putting art I've made on the internet other then being, not hated on for it, but rejected by said fandom for what I drew. This is an EXTREMELY excellent point, and it makes me rethink quite a few things I judge characters on, mine and others. Your character is whomst-ever the fuck you want them to be. And if it's an official canon character you can defunk their backstories and write their future in crayon as long as you give proper credit to the VERY original creator. MAKE EM FUHKIN GEY. Your not stealing it? Cool. Crossover the shit outta like 9 fandoms. Not makin money DIRECTLY of their face? Perfect. Some creators, as in like Fnaf and stuff, don't even care if you do. Fuckin AU, Mary Sue, Gary Stew, and whatever the fuck is genderfluid equivalent away, who gives a shit, if your well within the rules, you can do whatever you gotdamn dream of.

I dunno if you guessed it, but I like drawing cute little ponies….fanart of a children’s cartoon. And every so often, someone feels the need to tell me that my personal interest is stupid, childish, cancerous…..“cringe-y”. Boy howdy, do I hear that word tossed around a lot. Cringe, cringe, cringe. We’re all afraid of making something cringe-worthy. Something that could end up in those lovely “Bad OC” cringe compilations. I see other artists, especially young creators, getting policed and attacked for creating something that could-gasp!- be interpreted as the dreaded Mary Sue. So artists stifle themselves. Can’t make your OC too colorful. Don’t you dare make them related to a canon character! Better watch that backstory, lest somebody decry your character as an edgelord. You can have a nerdy interest, but you better not be too fucking passionate about it. Watch yourself. Don’t be too different. Don’t be cringe-y.

So here’s my question to ye gatekeepers of content, ye knowers of all things cringe-worthy, ye adamant enforcers of creative conformity………..Who cares? Really. Why. Why is “cringe” an issue? So what if someone makes an edgy black-and-red OC, or a sparkly mary sue alicorn princess? So what if somebody makes up an over-powered self-insert and ships them with a canon character? So what if somebody dares to be unironically passionate about a fandom or interest considered less-than-cool? Who cares if people have imperfect, cliche-riddled characters they love? Cringe culture is mean-spirited. It demands creators conform. It’s perpetuated by people who, quite oddly, get really bent out of shape at the sight of people unironically enjoying harmless things. I say forget it. Trample it. Let people have fun. Especially don’t be cruel to young creators- nobody learns to be a skilled artist or writer overnight. And this is by no means a statement against criticism…..but there’s a big, big difference between giving constructive criticism, vs choosing to crap on somebody for having a “cringe-y” interest. Idk. I’m a teacher with an Art Education degree, and I believe one of the most important things is to encourage people’s interest in the arts, not push them away (out of a mean-spirited attempt to seem cooler by proxy). My favorite Mister Rogers quote (applies to artists of all ages):

“Do you like to draw with crayons? I’m not very good at it. But it doesn’t matter. It’s the fun of doing it that’s important. Now, I wouldn’t have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is….It feels good to have made something.”

Infested Valkyr.

As serious as this is.. "do not pass go, do not collect a hundred dollars." priceless.

TO ANYONE CHATTING TO SOMEONE ONLINE

If you are considering meeting up with someone online use this trick identify who really are who they claim to be:

1. Ask them to Skype 2. If they refuse or can’t for some reason ask for a current selfie 3. If they also refuse or can’t do not meet up with them 4. If they provide one ask them to send another with them holding 3 fingers up 5. If they refuse read step 3 6. If they provide a selfie where they show 3 fingers they are probably for real

(If you’re still unconvinced try again with them drawing something in their hand)

I SAY THIS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY please spread this message as more and more young people are lured out into situations where they get kidnapped because they weren’t 100% sure the person they were talking to was real.

   A’ight, so depending on whether anyone cares or not, I’m gonna need you guys who are good at this whole Tumblr thing to teach me how exactly this will work. I got some adoptables on DA and I’m deciding to put them over here too just to see if It’ll help.

   They do cost money via PayPal though, and I need a few pointers on how exactly this’ll be workin’. If anyone would spare a patient minute or two to throw some knowledge my way I’d greatly appreciate it.

   This boyo ‘er girlo ‘er somethino right here be the first of ‘em. They’ve been sitting on DA for almost a month and I don’t know what to do with ‘em. They’re $2.00.

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Little Bendy-Beans isn’t as intentionally mischievous as you’d think. At least not yet. He’s extremely curious, “If I do this, and this happens, then what happens if I do this? Will I get yelled at? Will someone come and see? Will I get food? I might get food..”. He’s constantly concidering every single option and way something can go, and this means he would shove that ink-can-thing off the shelf, multiple times a day, and night, when people are in the room, or across the house, just to see what will happen.

He will cling to Boris’s tail and ride along to see how far he can get before Boris gets tired of him, or if he’ll ever even notice.

He is very interested in the screaming head on Henry’s desk, asking it questions it can’t answer and poking it in places it didn’t know it could feel in and please stop it that’s very annoying and that kind of tickles but also hurts stop, which directly translates to, “aaaAAAAAHHHHH.”

AND SAMMY. Sammy gets yelled at almost more than Bendy-Beans does, which is dissapointing Sammy, that’s not how you earn brownie points. He can’t seem to grasp that his Yandere-ness is actually quite rapey like and please stop borderline molesting the smol Ink Baby. Can you not feel the claws digging into your scalp? Do you not know the signals cats give when the say “Put me the hell down please?” especially when they’re saying it out loud and everything?

Ark: Survival Evolved

My boyfriend runs an ARK:SE server off of Xbox 1. We’re trying to get it repopulated with people so if anyone cares to join, the account that runs it is called “Necromunging” with a white wolf head gamer picture. For anyone who would like to join. PLEASE feel free. The Admins are Me “Dragonarch3″ and my BF “Noxcibus”.

Behold. My latest obsession.

His design couldn’t be more off-cannon, I know, I’m a disgrace. Just something about the idea of him being a CAT demon, with ear-like horns and a big ol’ tail with just a SMIDGE of floof seems so appealing. Also given my lackluster ability to draw human-like legs, shoes, and hands, giving him smol cat legs and paws and more claw-like hands is the easiest and most comfortable way of drawing him. I CAN draw him normally, I know I can. But how can I resist the lil’ Bendy beans?

Also if y’all thought I was just a warframe doodler, behold, am not. I told yall I’m obsessed with too many fandoms. Like all of them, save most animes. Just sayin’ bois and gorls.

049 is displeased.