Seven Years Of Literally Nothing But DBZ. I Blame That Phase For My Inability To Draw Anything But Men

Seven years of literally nothing but DBZ. I blame that phase for my inability to draw anything but men with some sort of muscle definition. (Recently somewhat remedied by the likes of OFF, Wakfu, and OK K.O.) Also, I don’t know if DBZ caused it or not, but I have the darnedest time coming up with original characters, and what characters I do have are either lean teen males with spiky hair, or non-humans that accidentally resemble other people’s OCs. (To me, Jenim looks like he could belong to organ/salem from Sudomemo. :/)

theres no point in asking why i draw things any certain way because i guarantee the answer will always be that i started off my art career drawing sonic the hedgehog

Mystery Science Fair 201X Looks like there's some foreshadowing out there we might have missed. Quick, everyone comb through all the episodes!

Yes, it is. It’s a crossover movie.

Heart Of The Crystal Gems

I had a bot do this to my "You're Outnumbered" flipnote on Little J's account (I didn't have a Tumblr when I made the flip, and Little J was nice enough to post it). I thought it was stupid and a little funny, but I didn't realize it could cause this kind of harm. The worst things in the flipnote were implied blood and an equally-implied canon event from season 3 episode 7 of Rick and Morty, neither of which were used in an inappropriate context or manner. It ended up being tagged as lesbian of all things, among others. So yeah, I guess watch out. They'll snag anything.

The New Porn Blogs

Something that i’ve seen happening in my notifications this week is a new kind of porn blog interacting with my posts, and i want to explain WHY its so important to block them.

In the past all that would happen if a porn blog would follow you is just that, they’d follow you. It was all to do with google algorithyms where if a porn blog was shown as ‘linked’ or following a legitimate site/blog then it increased the place they came in the google searches. Great if you are one of those scam websites that gets people to click on links that either plant malware or are just shady as fuck.  Porn blogs were also sometimes shut down without warning so all the scammers hard work was over and gone. Good for us, not good for them. Most of these blogs were just stolen gifs/videos from other porn blogs anyway. If you thought gif stealing was bad/rife in the geek/nerd fandoms, just have a peep at the porn blogs.

Well a lot of the search engines etc caught onto this and built controls into their software, so they found a new way of getting (or at least trying to get) people to click on links to take them off of the tumblr site. This is by finding a random post from a legitimate blogger, which could be about anything, and either deleting the entire content of the post and adding in some ridiculous comment like ‘For more fun follow this link’ with a hyperlink off of tumblr, or if its a photo that in any way is either fun/a meme/or a little nsfw, they keep that in place and just add their link like above. Scroll down their blog and literally every single post will be a reblog and have exactly the same comment on, getting you to click and take you off site.

What does this matter i hear you ask? Well, when it comes to reporting a post, it helps to confuse the tumblr bots/staff as to what’s being reported… the comment or the original post? This means that when a bunch of posts are reported, they are all coming from different originators, this will make tumblr staff’s life even harder, and legitimate blogs are at risk of someone hitting ‘deactivate blog’ in the admin settings, meaning YOU COULD LOOSE YOUR ENTIRE BLOG BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE PORN BOT REBLOGGED FROM YOU.

So don’t ignore this kind of thing, if you see one of these stupid reblogs (the bots very rarely actually follow you anymore), BLOCK THEM RIGHT THERE AND THEN. 

So, the latest Steven Bomb reminded me how much I love Steven Universe (which usually happens any time they dump a few new episodes on us), so I started trying to draw the guys and gals and realized, "Wow, I've never invented a fusion. I should do that." And so Zoisite was born, the fusion of Steven and Peridot. She's as excitable and energetic as either of them, with Steven's optimism and pragmatism as well as Peridot's self-confidence (read: arrogance) and technical prowess. Because Peridot is completely out of her element, her reactions tend to be the most noticeable, so Zoisite often resembles her more than Steven, especially when in a negative mood. Naturally, she possesses both of their Gem abilities, including levitation and ferrokinesis. She can only summon Steven's shield, which she uses either as a shield/weapon or a makeshift hoverboard. She also lacks shapeshifting abilities. I guess her theme is sort of... nerd? Like, that one girl who's really smart and dresses a little funny, but still makes it work somehow. (I've never made a Gem OC before. Help)

I want to apologize to a few of you guys, because I realized that my statement on this post can be easily misconstrued. Part of my sense of humor is pointing out logical flaws and inconsistencies in movies, commercials, cartoons, etc. However, in making such a joke on someone else's post, I realize that it could be taken as me insulting the show or even the original poster. This wasn't my intention, and I'm sorry. From now on, if I feel the need to make such jokes, I will do it in my own posts (or at least try to make it clearer that I'm joking if I do it on someone else's).

KO has come so far!