Now at long last, I have commissions open! It’s been a rough while, and I’m going to need some help to pay for new hearing aids and extras, so if you can help out, that’s wonderful!
Slots available: 3
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/forestfairyunicorn
Comes with a simple bust sketch!
Art tumblr: forestfairyunicorn-art.tumblr.com
Will do: OCs, FanOCs, Fanfic scenes
Will Not Do: NSFW, Animation, Complex backgrounds
Under the cut has full information, including pricing and all.
An earlier #MonsterMonday piece, probably one of my favourites. “Lunar Invitation.”
Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
do goyische english speakers even know how many words they use regularly are yiddish Do they even know
there’s the obvious like mensch and mazel tov and bris and kosher but also chutzpah and klutz and dreck and kvetch and tchotchke and putz and schlock and SCHLONG! DO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT ONE OF THE FAMOUS TERMS FOR DICK IS YIDDISH! what about shmuck or schtick or GLITCH! GLITCH IS YIDDISH! DO YOU GUYS EVEN KNOW THAT BAGEL IS YIDDISH
well, no, they’re loanwords. english does it all the time with all kinds of languages. café (french), bazaar (persian), and kindergarten (german) are all loanwords. it’s not stealing, because languages aren’t really capable of the malice that implies. there’s also nothing wrong with using words from or learning new languages. what really gets my goat though is when gentiles mock the way yiddish sounds while using its words without even realizing it
y'all gave us bagel AND schlong?!?!? omg...thank you jewish people...
Disney is going to stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in Australia and to think of what this means for accessibility, residuals, quality, public libraries here etc and the precedent this will set for other studios and distributors around the world oh it's never been more over
...Not. Good.
Sometimes I think... they're all just speaking tongues...
A little animation for Cass Apocalyptic Series by @somerandomdudelmao!
Thank you for creating such a wonderful story that brings the fandom together!!
And the last piece goes to @fiddlezips with a glorious two-for-one with Column and Archimedes doing the classic Kronk and Yzma rollarcoaster scene~
Third batch! I definitely incorporated new brushes for the nice sparkly touches~
This is good.
The thing about art, right, is that it's fundamentally a form of communication. It's a way for a person to try to express something true for them. What's even the point of art that isn't made by a person
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