look. i’m sick and fucking tired of seeing such horrible and inhumane responses to the global strike for palestine happening this week. it’s not just some “tumblr phenomenon”. nobody is forcing you to take off work. nobody is forcing you to take off school. use your brains and figure out that the strike is for justice in palestine. the point is to DO WHAT YOU CAN. even if that just means reblogging posts, telling a friend who might be able to do more, participate in the boycotts, make informative posts yourselves. i know that is all do-able to the majority of you. have a heart. this is not supposed to be comfortable. this is not supposed to be nice. innocent lives in Gaza are being killed by the second and the strike is to keep up the pressure for a ceasefire. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA. 🇵🇸
there’s truly nothing as crazymaking as the dynamic between a person paralysed by their own grief and the person who takes it upon themselves to break them free of that by taking their hurt onto themselves. it’s inarguably not a healthy form of intimacy but it’s such a unique and compelling bond. not to mention the fascinatingly irrational emotionally-driven psychological machinations that could drive someone to override their sense of self-preservation to martyr themselves in order to relieve someone else’s pain in such a manner. you can destroy my possessions. hit me. say whatever cruel, unfair things are raging inside you. you need to let it out, so take it out on me. i can take it. i can’t stand to see you hurting, beyond my reach, and not share in what you’re feeling. so help me to understand. let me share the burden. i’ll take whatever you give me. and when you’re done, and you collapse in on yourself, the fire that’s been eating away at you entirely spent, weeping with such shuddering sobs that they wrack your whole body on the way out, unable to stand unsupported, i will gather you in my arms and hold you tight, unable to resist placing myself between you and the rest of the world for just a little longer, and tell you i know. i know. i know. and it will be the truth.
i just wanna say i am in LOVe with your art style, it fuels me on a level too deep to understand
your doorkeay and jarthur content is just fucking beautiful ive reblogged so much of your art its incredible
you dont have to, but if you feel like it, could you do another of the michael spiralling doorkeay comics? if not, any doorkeay in general is greatly appreciated!!!
The fact that Gerry in 111 and Eric in 154 dont just have the same dry slightly dark sense of humor but the same cadence and super similar speech patterns is so so so so important to me. I am so incredibly emotional about the Delano boys i will love them till the day i die
Guys I’m trying to get a proper Needles design out but I cannot get them to look how he does in my head😭 I did this one in like an hour bcs i wasn’t sure if my design could strike a balance of “trying to hard” and “could genuinely be unsettling” but like the other two sketches I’ve done look like this so:
I’m sorry Needles I’ll try to do you better next time😔😔😔
characters whose philosophy is “if i cannot be wanted, i will be needed and if i cannot be needed, let me be used until there’s nothing left of me.” thank you for everyone’s attention. falls off stage and dies
Nothing hurts me more than thinking about mag 101, about how the distortion tells its history, about how it became michael. What exactly hurts me is that Michael not once mock michael shelley
It could. It would be very in character to the combination of the guy that died by leting himself be fooled and the thing that will aways be marked by this mistake to be a little bitter about his naivety, but no.
Whoever invented “open in app” links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair
friendly reminder that characters don’t need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it’s literally true:
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You’re correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator’s secret, violent desires.
I love doorkeay/gerrymichael sm they’re just awkward lil freaky guys that like eachother bc they’re awkward lil freaky guys and they both love old ppl and struggle making friends with people their age and i love them.
My first take on Needles, some guy with an unhealthy obsession for body modification to have spikes needles all over.
It’s not faithful enough to their name tho so i might just go with the idea of them being a bag of skin full of needles that looks humanoid enough to be the victim of a mugging, but that’s a bit difficult to convey in my traditional art without spending 20 thousand years on a drawing. I also need to make them crustier and nastier ‼
one day I’ll finally write that ridiculously elaborate fanfiction that I’ve been carefully constructing in my daydreams for months and then you’ll be sorry. you’ll all be sorry.
I think tmagp should take the vague character descriptions from tma one step further. “Looks like he hasn’t slept for a week” “Looks like his dad (who we don’t know what he looks like either)” I think that for no reason at all beyond it being funny they should just throw out smth like. Idk needles shows up and someone just goes “what the fuck are you wearing” with no further elaboration. and that’s all we have to work with. Or like “x has a very punchable face we all agree on this”, “y looks like if asparagus was a person”, “z has such hair. hair of all time for real” Any hint of specificity gone, only vibes.
some of yall need to understand that “my body, my choice” also applies to:
addicts in active addiction with no intention of quitting
phys disabled people who deny medical treatment
neurodivergent people who deny psychiatric treatment (yes, including schizophrenic people and people with personality disorders)
trans people who want or don’t want to medically transition (yes, including trans masc lesbians with top surgery and trans women without bottom surgery, yall are so weird to them wtf)
and if you can’t understand that, then you don’t get to use the phrase
hi im muting my notifications on this post cause i cant deal anymore but first i need a last angry rant
where in it do you see “my body my choice means im exempt from consequences”? NOWHERE, because that’s obviously not the case
yes, people with PDs can be abusive without their meds
yes, being raised in an addictive household can be bad for a child
yes, refusing treatment for medical conditions can make you a “burden” for your family (im actually way more mad at this one than the rest, im just choosing my battles)
as much as it is my choice whether or not to medicate my personality disorder, it is also yours to be involved with me or not
i have gone AWOL for months due to this, i’ve canceled plans last minute, i’ve hurt people’s feelings
some of these people accept that that’s the way i am and are still my friends and some don’t and we don’t talk anymore. i broke up with my ex over this because i was a very bad romantic partner. we’re still friends, but they usually lean on others for emotional support cause i can’t understand it. i am mad about none of these things, because i know them to be true. i also know strong meds make me want to kill myself. they make me not feel like a person. i refuse to take meds to be more palatable to you.
ALL OF THESE THINGS CAN COEXIST
people can do shit that is harmful to you, but that doesn’t give you the right to deprive them of their basic human rights
(shoutout to the person who called me a white american liberal, i’m latine and an agressive socialist but it did make me take the rest of their post less seriously, otherwise i would’ve cried)
also also, just because this is the last time i’m speaking on this:
every one of you who starts your post with “i agree with the transition part but” is a hypocrite
not too long ago - not to mention to this day - transmasc lesbians and trans men who didn’t medically transition were kicked out of every single queer circle, trans spaces, lesbian spaces, gay spaces. because of closed mentality
if you can open your mind to one of these things, you can open it to all. deconstruct yourself or whatever the fuck
Listen if Martin K blackwood ever got his hands on Mitski it would be so over for him he would speed run his Peter Lukas arc Jon would find him on the floor in a puddle of tears bro would only talk in metaphors of girlhood
I’ve been struggling to draw but just know I’m thinking very very hard rn about Eiffel loving so gently and putting Jacobi back together when he’s so broken after everything
They would both get back and be faced with life without a purpose they once had, I think there’s a lot of common ground for them to be vulnerable together while they figure it all out
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