Theyre All So Cuuuuute!! Thank You So Much, This Just Made My Night :D

They’re all so cuuuuute!!  Thank you so much, this just made my night :D

a compilation of bite-sized requests for @jyushimatsu-falls-in-love (via twitter) and @lunarautumnn based on this meme! sorry for making you both wait so long for such tiny drawings; it was one of those nights where getting my bum in the chair and actually starting was the hardest part

A Civil Discussion: Social Justice and Censorship.

So I’m chatting with a friend and, as we are both gamers at heart, we talk about the fun of Dragon Age (I was wearing my epic DA shirt so it worked haha!), KH3 eventually coming out, and the like.

Then we got to indie games… which tied to Dream Daddy… which landed us in the infested waters of death threats and social justice occurring in the fandom.

While we both live in the grey and refuse to back one side or the other, a thought struck us: Could this be the beginning of artistic censorship?

My friend is not a creative mind. She is very much loves her job and she doesn’t believe to have enough of a creative spirit to be an artist of some kind. However, she knows I am a creative mind (game developer, voice actor, insane woman, etc) and the first words that came out of her mouth were: “Are you getting censored?”

To that, I said no. My fans and followers are mostly intelligent enough to understand that I will never dare censor myself for the sake of another. I will include warnings and heeding in case things get grim or dark, but I will never silence my artistic integrity for the sake of someone’s comfort. I’ve written about rape. I’ve written about brutal murder. I’ve written about torture and I have written about suicide. I’ve experienced the simple time of gender-bending, rule 34ing, and other things that are now somehow viewed as ‘distasteful’ and I’ve lived a time where no one cared to silence an artist just because they didn’t agree with something, so that is the behavior that I use freely and unapologetic-ally. In an artistic world, everything is free-range to use and build your world and stories.

At the same time, I have experienced my own battles. I’ve been called a transphobe, a cis-shet, an enabler, etc for the most menial things. At first, it bothered me to rage: I was crying myself to sleep and my heart-rate was unhealthily high everytime I thought about the claims against me because they were uncalled for and ignorant. Over time, I hope to find myself growing tougher skin. I’ve already seen self-progress and now I no longer care if someone insults me or drags me through dirt. Unless they truly know me, they don’t know anything about me. That includes my art and my writing.

There are some artists, however, both fan and original, who continuously feel the sting of censorship from the people who claim to have moral high-ground over another. They use every opportunity to call something “___Phobic”, “Triggering”, and the like as if the definition were not already written out and generally understood. While many claim these people as SJW’s, I liked to argue against that. 

There are many aspects of Society that need to be fixed in terms of respect and equality. Social Justice Warriors are meant to fight for equality, respect, and have an open place in our lives. Whether it be about religion, way of life, etc; Social Justice is always something we can fix, mend, and make better over time, so people fighting for the causes are in the right. Those people deserve to be Warriors and carry the name Social Justice Warrior; not as a tainted name, but as a badge of honor.

The people they are talking about are, as I call them, “the low-brow scumlords that become the bullies they were traumatized by”. These people feel no shame or sorrow in demanding the end of an artist’s career and their life simply because of a small thing they do not agree with. They could come from the right. They could come from the left. It doesn’t matter.

To send Death Threats to an artist is evil.

To demand the censorship of art is inhumane.

Art is free. Art is open. There are no laws binding it (other than the obviously copyright stuff but not the point) and anyone is allowed to draw what their heart desires. Sometimes an art piece can show the pain of someone’s soul while another can  emulate a deep fantasy on a canvas.

Art is endless.

So when it comes to Social Justice: educate yourself properly (that means don’t believe everything you hear). Listen to all sides and all bits of knowledge and make your own discoveries. Social Justice Warriors do have good things to fight for, but some of them are more… violent than others and shouldn’t even get to claim the title.

If you see something you don’t approve or don’t like, then step away from it. If it hurts you inside and makes you feel some sort of internal discourse, block it and remove it from your sight as much as you can.

But you are NEVER allowed to censor an artist or their art.

And you are NEVER allowed to demand the end of them.

3 ½ years on T, 3 years post top surgery, and turning 55 in July 😳. It’s never too late.

<3

Yesterday’s 30 minute challenge on @oso-san-artchallenge hit me squarely in the gut.  The song, just ... ow.  Ow.  My heart.

So instead of dropping the sadness after 30 minutes like most rational people, I decided to keep that wound open for another six hours and make this!  Because the world can always use more tears!  

The original picture I made for the challenge can be seen on the Osomatsu-san Art Challenge blog, here.  Go check it out, there were a ton of great entries for this prompt!

Welp, I said I would draw Iyami in drag.  So here he is!  Sure the Matsus all got snazzy Drag Queen outfits in Hesokuri Wars recently, but come on we all know who the real queen is!  This bucktoothed beauty was doing it before it was cool.

And no, I’m not actually going to count this as a prompt.  This is just for something to make me laugh and help me forget that no one thinks my art is worth requesting apparently.  Count this as bonus apology art for taking so long between prompts, I guess.

Weeeellll …. 

… I guess they’re not *closed* per say, buuut … 

Oso! If the pachinko parlor and the horse races were both shut down, what other kinds of gambling would you want to try?

O: Who did this? Tell me and no one will get hurt!@lunarautumnn