I fucking love fanart. If you make a fan art from anything I’ve written, I will most likely:
* instantly reblog it
* rave about how wonderful both it and you are
* follow your blog (unless it’s a porn blog)
So art to your hearts content. I will love you. Tag or @ me when you post so I can know it exists, okay?
Warming up my tablet art skillz.
I sketched a Rabbit! Yay!
Once I get a refined style ready, I’ll commence work on that Sleep Evil Sleep storyboard/animatic I’ve been gassing about for ages.
Fandom Policing
I really, really hate fandom policing. I hated it when I was twelve and was so afraid to read slash because OMG DICKS TOUCHING WHAT and I hated it when I was fifteen and was smuggling the yaois under my mattress so I would always have a supply of top notch garbage to read, and I am 24 and I hate it now.
Here is the thing: YOU CONTROL what you take in. I am not responsible for your consumption of Hydra Trash party noncon, I am not responsible for your consumption of pegging smut, and I am not responsible for your consumption of fluffy sickfic. I am not responsible for you consuming anything.
I might be responsible for writing that noncon or pegging or sickfic, but I did not make you read it. I did not hand it to you, I did not give it to you. I created it, and made it available for those who want to enjoy.
If you don’t like it, if you don’t want it, then you don’t have to read it.
That choice made, the choice not to consume a type of fic or art, also means you don’t get to drag the person who wrote it.
That is a damn slippery slope.
Fandom is a “safe space” but not in the way that it protects you from things that you don’t want to see or don’t like or are offended by. Fandom is, and has traditionally been, a space for people to create and explore with out being told “no” by outside media. Fandom is where you can find out if you don’t fit in the boxes society tells you to, or it you just really, really like reading about Bucky getting repeatedly rammed in the ass by Hydra agents sans lube.
And no matter how well-meaning you are, you don’t get to tell other fans what they can and cannot write, or draw, or enjoy.
When you start telling people what they can create or enjoy, you invalidate the purpose of fandom, and create a situation where instead of free exploration, we have something similar to mainstream media in which certain tropes or topics are not allowed. This limits the free expression, exploration and innovation so highly prized in fandom.
Maybe what they draw is illegal in five states, and highly restricted in several countries. Maybe it’s offensive, maybe it’s inaccurate, or just plain bad.
It doesn’t matter.
You don’t get to tell fans how to enjoy fandom. You mind your own path, your write your own fic, you write meta on why x trope is offensive/problematic/bad but you do not tell other fans how to enjoy fandom.
“Fandom is a “safe space” but not in the way that it protects you from things that you don’t want to see or don’t like or are offended by. Fandom is, and has traditionally been, a space for people to create and explore with out being told “no” by outside media.”
THIS!!! THIS is the TRUE definition of fandom as a ‘safe space’. It is a ‘safe space’ for creators.
“You do not tell other fans how to enjoy fandom.”
This needs 99,999,999 notes.
There comes a point where you, not your teachers and not your parents or guardians, are responsible for what media you consume. It’s not for others to censor themselves to protect you from what you don’t want. Heed warnings. If something doesn’t have warnings, either don’t read/watch/listen to it or search out reviews that will tell you if it’s something you would be OK reading/watching/listening to. Descending on a creator or creators and demanding they not create something or shaming them for doing so because you don’t approve is censorship and furthermore, it’s hubris of the highest order.
“Don’t like, don’t read” exists for a reason. Fan artists of all sorts start with pleasing one person - themselves. The fact that they’re brave enough to share means that someone, somewhere will feel that they’re not alone.
It just might not be you.
Creators - it’s our job to tag or otherwise notify appropriately. Warn the casual browser so that they can avoid stuff that is triggering or offensive. It’s no big deal, it costs nothing, and it will save a lot of people grief. Including you.
Basically, it’s “Don’t be a dick” with different phraseology.
(via bonehandledknife)
do you often yell rhythmically into the video camera
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Less than 12 hours. This fandom works FAST.
I love it.
This is very small !
I made them by myself
對不起必須打中文
我英文不太好
之前自己開心而做了一些，放在噗上有人喜歡
便多做了幾個給喜歡它們的人 : )
Hello excuse me I need these
請問有在賣嗎?
File under “Shut up and take my money” and “Too awesome to exist but it does anyway”.
Also, “Holy fuck”.
What the Flying Heck?
I’m new to drawing on a tablet device and my art skills are not the best.
That’s why I chose to fingerpaint some ponies as humans and share the results with you.
Each humanised pony took about two hours for me to get right. And I still hate what happened with the hands and feet. I suck at both.
By the time I was done focussing on the important part, I was all fgsfds when it came to doing the backgrounds.
I had already decided to do cell-style colouring, hence the lack of shading and depth, so abstract backgrounds made a kind of sense.
Each block of text had to be put in one line at a time, owing to the restrictions of the art program I was using. Sometimes, I didn’t get it quite right.
And why did I post them once a day?
So I could plump out my post queue, of course :)
That, and someone has to encourage the less-brave artists out there who aren’t confident about matching some of the eye-popping pony artists out there. If I can share my sack of suck with everyone, you can have a go, can’t you? You may be pleasantly surprised.
“Her eyes are up there, pal.”
I did it. I created humanised pony art.
Why I did this:
I’ve been browsing the internet fan art scene for a while and the humanised portraits are either porn or of little girls. I’ve also been thinking about what they’d really be like if they were people.
Fluttershy is shy for a reason. Amongst other cruelties like not finding her talent until she was expelled from her home, she -ah- ‘developed’ early. And large.
Girls who gain certain attributes early in real life are often singled out for all kinds of wrong attention, and if they develop large attributes, they can forget about having a good reputation. Or being talked to, face-to-face.
Therefore, Fluttershy looks down and covers up. Only her friends have helped her to allow herself to wear something a little revealing, once in a while.
She still has to rely on Angel to help the men realise where her face is, though.
[My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs solely to Hasbro and the cartoon designs are the genius of Lauren Faust. I make no claims on anything but my own work.]
{Edit: Not five minutes after I set this into my queue, mass speculation began about the relative builds of the humanised Mane 6. Oy}