Welp, it's been a year since I popped in here, and not much of it has changed. Even from your perspectives, I'm just not seeing how my "world views" should be that annoying when they only come sporadically between the kind of content you ostensibly want more of, and none of my opinions seem to be uncommon, either, not just on tumblr but the internet in general. I still spend less time thinking or talking about any of that stuff than I used to, that's still pretty certain.
Hepativore actually flamed me a few years back over his whole narrative that I became a cruel, corrupt monster of a radical and that he thinks my Wicked Marriage must have perverted me, which is kind of insane, because I definitely had the same politics the whole time he ever knew me, but maybe he missed that because we actually didn't talk that much at all. I don't know why these guys always tell the story like we had an intimate friendship ruined by politics. It's also such a bad cliche to blame someone's relationship for what you don't like about them, let alone when you don't actually know them. Rev only ever encouraged me to judge people less harshly and spend more time on positive things, and that's definitely the reason why I don't just outright ridicule and insult people as knee-jerk as I did most of my life. They got into online fighting/debating for a while mostly because I was doing it, which I feel shitty for especially when people like Hepativore decided to reinterpret the whole timeline into one where they radicalized my opinions. We actually never ever talk "politics" in real life. Our every day together is just looking at cool bugs and old cartoons and sharing ideas, all the stuff you would expect from our interests.
Both of us are also a lot more multifaceted on things some of you seem to think we're so brainwashed about. We're not at all comfortable with how mercilessly people judge a lot of supposedly """"problematic""""" (a stupid word) behaviors and views, but if you actually say that on tumblr, it gets not only attacked by people who assume you're trying to defend actual racists, but it also gets hijacked by the actual racists too. It's safe to say it on just about any other website.
Other complaints from the past year-ish of this thread are much less serious, but some little ones are odd enough and some bigger ones meaningful enough that I really want to round them up and reply, so here you go:
That wasn't me reading into "Smallfoot," but relaying what the director himself said:
https://collider.com/smallfoot-director-karey-kirkpatrick-interview/
He cites migrant/immigrant fear, Brexit and America's border wall as inspiration for where he took the movie. Whether he made that at all clear or totally botched it is a whole other conversation. If this is a weird one for me to bother responding to it's only because I really really like talking cartoons, but it's also kind of a weird one for two whole people to have complained about. A lot of things posted here seem like normal banter people stretch really hard to turn into cringe material.
You're Nitendofan? I guess I missed or forgot that. My entire debate with Kajm was just over him saying that "black lives matter" is the name of a murderous terrorist group and that he doesn't seem to think police brutality is a real thing. When I disagreed with him he vented about how I'm delusional and crazy, so when I see you responding to that like "yeah he sure is delusional and crazy" I think most people would have assumed you were agreeing with his actual side of the discussion.
I vent serious opinions in spurts to let those sentiments out, then I sometimes clean up my blog of anything that depresses me to keep thinking about. "Bootlicker" on tumblr is just jargon used to mock people who make excuses for anything wrong with law or government.
This also includes people who act like Democrats are the benevolent good-guy counterparts to Republicans despite the fact that both parties have the same raging boners for militarized police, drone strikes, and paying themselves enough to collect houses for fun. The difference is that Democrats say they care about minorities and poor people and everything else because it visibly benefits them, and when they get enough seats, they do the barest possible minimum to act on those values so voters who care about those things are just plain stuck with them. Nobody is happy with that.
Reading that many words in that amount of time was kinda killing me. Even when I had help, I still had to read all of it myself sooner or later to make sure I wasn't missing anything when declaring winners. Last year it finally began to feel more arduous than enjoyable and definitely slowed down everything else I was doing, so I had to give it a break until further notice. I'm also not exactly in the ballpark of a globally successful gaming brand, there.
I think you're dramatizing this a little, I think what I said was p. casual and in line with how I've always talked about monsters, I love when they're neutral to outright good regardless of appearance. Even angels and demons are more fun when they're played more grey, one of my favorite recent examples being Bayonetta. I've also admitted a lot that even though I've hyperfocused on D&D monsters since I was little, I only got to play the actual game maybe once in my 20's.
I'm not sure what you're saying here exactly but maybe you're not interpreting the post quiiiite right. There's nothing in there about white men....I'm talking about how there's people who believe in weird conspiracies because they're mentally ill, and then there's people who believe in weird conspiracies because they just plain want to, or even pretend to for fame. The latter includes financially successful youtubers, published authors and figures as big as Alex Jones.
You were saying this last time I was in here, and I still really don't know what you're remembering or when. My old "sheets" of monsters were just 5-6 of them at a time and sometimes months would go in between new additions. Later it was sometimes up to half a year or more before I found motivation to do one big chunk, and then a lot of those wound up being rehashes and redesigns of stuff I was unhappy with for some trivial reasoning.
Actually I AM a whole lot happier! This is the very first year of my life where I live in an area I picked out and adore, rather than just wherever was the most affordable and convenient. I actually live where I can hike and explore nature without having to drive there, and maybe searching for real bugs is something I feel more compelled to do than work on art, but I still think I'm only more productive now, not less.
I have the biggest audience now that I've ever had, enough that I don't even need a "day job" or anyone's help getting by and pay all my bills with art alone, making pins and now making short books. The bug book for kids is still going great, the deep sea one is shipping soon and I just started on a third, so all that also takes a bit more of my time but it's still artwork I'm making and getting something out of.
If you guys are just talking about Mortasheen, I'm more passionate about the setting than ever, but ideas now come with so much more frequency that I spend more time just trying to settle on what designs to finalize next. Sometimes one idea turns into dozens of different interpretations to narrow down, and I now like all my own designs so much that narrowing any down feels almost impossible.
I tend to fill a bunch of pages like this with new concepts every day:
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Some are even just visual "to do lists," where I go through whole notebooks, pick out ones I'd like to further develop, and scribble them down as a thumbnail until I've got one page condensing 20-50 ideas I want for-sure to be canon.
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This one shoots its teeth like bullets. I probably drew 400 different takes on it before I found one I liked, but I'm still not really sure of this version either. One of you said something about the designs looking cartoonier and more like toys lately, but that's because I used to fret over making every single one match exactly the same grody, messy detail I used to do, and I'm just kinda tired of limiting it that way. If I come up with something that looks like it shouldn't even be in the same setting, I don't want to worry about it, I just want to do what I like most.
It's harder to get ideas done the more you care about them, basically.
I'd honestly really enjoy talking a whole lot more about this art stuff with some of the nicer people here but that's not what this forum is about. You can just email me if you want, I'd even like suggestions on improving productivity besides "stop caring about politics," because that's really not one of the things dividing art-time lately.
R excuse only work when you don't contradict yourself 2 second later with you despicable internet behavior;
) When he blocked you because he had enough you, you just didn't stop, you decide to pester every commenter in the journal. Why would you do that? It only make you look like an obsessive bully who can't tolerate other people view point
to understand the basic do and don't in social interaction. And this is even't an insult. For year I told myself he isn't chris chan but in the end, I was wrong he just a kind of different one.