Art Of Whatever Intensity And Skill Level Has Value. Scrappy Little Doodles, Basic Linearts, Blocky Colored

Art of whatever intensity and skill level has value. Scrappy little doodles, basic linearts, blocky colored in sketches, half-finished works, ect.

Art does not have to make you bleed effort to have value in its most intrinsic form. If you created it, it has value. If you enjoyed making it, it has value. If you made it for someone else, it has value. If it was worthwhile as practise or for passing the time, it has value.

The opposing view, especially in fandom spaces, is so toxic. Yes, it may not be aesthetic. No it might not get hundreds of thousands of notes. But inherently neither of those things matter. Like, at all.

I can't tell you how many comments I, as an author, have received along the lines of 'I wish I could make fanart for this but I'm not good at drawing' or something similar, and I equally can't tell you how fucking little your skill level, art style or effort matters to me when you're taking the time to create something based off my creation because you found that much enjoyment or inspiration from it.

Do the shitty little doodle in your phone's notes app. Take that half-nubbed pencil you've had for five years and doodle on that stained napkin. Buy that crappy set of $5 acrylic paints and go nuts on a piece of wood or some printer paper.

All of it matters. All of it will be enjoyed by, at the absolute minimum, at least one person. All of it has a place. Kill the idea that only "professional" art has value.

Authors of so-called "bad" characters do not owe you continuous justification, apologies, explanation or written-in denouncing of the character's actions and views. They simply do not.

They likewise do not have to very specifically limit their writing or tailor their writing in order to satisfy your demands of denouncing, "fixing" or understanding of the character's actions and views as "bad."

They don't have to include the specific plot of the character changing or facing consequences or grovelling for forgiveness. They don't have to include paragraphs of author notes saying they don't, in reality, condone the character's actions or views.

They. Just. Don't.

Stop demanding it. Someone can write about horrific serial killer on a murder spree and they don't have to specifically always write the killer getting their comeuppance. They can just actually write about a serial killer killing people. And no, it doesn't mean they enjoy, support or fantasise about said things.

If you can watch movies and read books and understand that it doesn't mean you support aspects of it, then why demand that people who are, in reality, doing no different to what the writers and directors of the movie you just watched have done, apologise or denounce or limit themselves to certain permittable criteria? You yourself don't go watch a murder mystery and announce to the whole movie theatre that you buying this ticket and watching this movie doesn't equate to supporting murder.

Why should authors?

(The answer: they don't. And they never will.)

This is your daily reminder that accessible bathrooms are not just for disabled people, and that disability has no limits and is not often visually obvious.

Accessible bathrooms are also often equipped for parents and for people who need temporary assistance. Single fathers, people who've had surgery, people who are sick and need the support rails and additional space, ect.

Accessible bathrooms are for everyone, and I'm sick of seeing fellow disabled people shaming others when we as a community know better than anyone that disability is not always obvious, and accessibility should be the standard, not the exception.

The real issue is the fact that there's only ever, at most, one accessible bathroom. What we should be campaigning for is the normalisation of having at least two accessible bathrooms, so the people who need it aren't restricted to waiting or subjecting themselves to a non-accessible bathroom.

Actually I do think if you tag a ship in the relationships tag but its only vaguely, minimally implied or is only present for half a line you do deserve to have your WIPs disappear forever without possibility of recovery.

You'll never convince me that it isn't weird and obsessive how the moment a celebrity gets a partner their fans immediately begin to do FBI-level digging into them and every single social media post, family photo or school project they've ever done in the hopes of finding something bad.

Obsessive, jealous excavating of the entire history of their new partners is just a ridiculous example of a harmful parasocial relationship. You're not 'looking out for them' or 'just looking.' Its always painfully obvious when someone's gone digging to try and pull out a 'gotcha' card so they can keep fantasising.

Not to mention that anything that is found is usually years old and is clearly an isolated incident the person has grown from. Someone making a crass or inappropriate joke a decade ago they haven't repeated since doesn't make them a monster undeserving of your fantasy man.

Don't think I've forgotten the way you all tried to call Henry Cavill's girlfriend a rampant racist for taking a traditional mudbath on a tropical holiday as if you don't all have a clay facemask in your bathroom cubbies or like none of you ever tried the charcoal peel masks.

TEEN WOLF MOVIE SPOILERS.

All I'm going to say about the Teen Wolf movie is that it solely speaks volumes about Jeff Davis as a person, writer and creator. The movie is clearly nothing but Jeff Davis desperately clawing back the original intentions he had for the show and kicking every single fan who kept it alive with their own creativity in the teeth.

Endgame Scallison at the expense of everyone else, Derek Hale violently dead in some bullshit 'full circle' self-sacrifice, Stiles Stilinski effectively erased and poorly replaced, Scott once again hailed as the all-time greatest werewolf. Malia weirdly fucking her way through the entire pack. Out of place nudity.

It should've been left alone. This desperate and frankly pathetic grab for control and dominance over the story and what happens with the characters is nothing but an embarrassing revival of what should've been left buried and at rest.

He didn't do this for the fans. He didn't do this to bring justice to the characters and actors. He didn't do this to evolve the show. He did this for himself. For money and control. And it is, frankly, painfully obvious.