had thoughts on making a vtuber but like the 2D ones and drew this guy but….its just domesticated me…
10, 4 months ago
“Young lovers with their legs tied up in knots
With his long, tall gun, Pop went a-creeping
To blow their hay-loft dead heads straight off”
i spend maybe 20% of my week just reading mirio self inserts. i love him so much. please take this handsome young man being bashful.
OOTD from like 2 days ago. i found the biggest softest marshmallowest coat ever at my local savers and its the fastest way to make any outfit 10000% cuter so i had to draw it!!!
in this house we stan josuke higashikata!!!
honestly i really did not care about jjba at all and refused to watch it for a very long time until i caught a few episodes of pt 4 with my husband and i mean…how could i not fall in love with this funky little sweetheart??
oof drawing is hard nowadays but boy do i love this tired angry greasy man
messing with lighting and drawing my boys jaromir and maurice. a first meeting??
You know what’s funny?
People always like the Black and White. Yeah. When a character is Good™️, he’s Good. He just is. And it doesn’t matter if he makes a mistake, because it’ll probably be just one, maybe a small unremarkable thing. And it will get resolved anyway.
But Villains, that’s the fun part: everyone loves villains. Who doesn’t appreciate a good old fashioned villain? Annoyingly charming, wants to Kill Everyone You Love, maybe a good villain song, maybe a backstory that could even conveniently justify their acts! Maybe edgy and cooool. That’s a Villain, that’s what people like.
But I’m wondering, if people like Villains so much, or Good ones, why do they absolutely hate the grey zone.
Pink Diamond, that, that is not Good, White, that’s not Black, Evil. It’s grey. Pink Diamond is one of the most complex and human characters of the whole series.
Was she abused? Absolutely. Did she abuse Pearl? Spinel? Yes, maybe not with bad intentions, but yes.
Was she selfish? Sometimes. Was she a warm, gentle person, who wanted to fight for others’ freedom? She was. Was she childish? Of course.
People can’t seem to understand how someone could possibly be selfish but also selfless, childish but also mature, to be hurt so badly and to hurt others so badly. That’s what a human is. That’s human, that’s in us.
So I’m sorry. I can’t tolerate all of these “fuck Pink” posts, all of these comments just deciding she must be just that, just Black. Pink was an asshole. But that’s not all she was, and reducing a character to only their good or bad actions underestimates all the work that has gone into creating a tridimentional, complex and beautiful character such as she.
And if I might add, I’m tired of all of this; liking someone “baad” when it’s comfortable, out of our grasp, of our world. When it’s convenient. Because when it’s not anymore, when that “villain” starts to look like us, like people – everyone just despises that. It’s us.
Those characters are us.
The thoughts I have on Pink Diamond that no one asked for. Spoilers for the movie.
So like… Pink Diamond was a casually, thoughtlessly cruel person early on. We been knew. We knew that Pink was an Immature Immortal who took literal millennia to see humans as equals and individuals (like, literally Greg was the one who got her there) and who didn’t really… GET the power she had over other gems, like Bismuth and Garnet and Pearl. In this, she was a child. A feckless teenager who never got the chance to grow and learn and mature in a way that would enable her to have relationships that weren’t, in some way, inherently toxic.
Because she’d never had a relationship that wasn’t inherently toxic before Greg.
Greg was the first person who interacted with her as a woman, as an equal. As someone worthy of respect rather than slavish adoration or open awe, and expected respect in return. He called her out on her bullshit, told her when she was being hurtful or doing something wrong, and I think that’s very much a parallel to Steven being able to call out the Diamonds, and really all of gemkind, on their bullshit.
Before Greg and Steven, nothing about Pink/Rose, or the Crystal Gems, was healthy. It may have been more loving and happy than Homeworld, but it was still based on lies and stunted growth. Every single one of them only knew abuse, and weren’t able to recognize when people who were kinder were still being abusive.
Pink Diamond/Rose Quartz were abusive. Not intentionally. Not violently. But in that casual, thoughtless way that comes from thinking the way they were treated is normal and not realizing it wasn’t until it’s too late.
I don’t think Rose completely forgot about Spinel or just didn’t care. Much like how I don’t think the Diamonds completely forgot or didn’t care about Pink. But as is made very, very clear, they’re all deeply messed up.
Pink had been told for millennia that she was too childish, too foolish and young, to have a colony. She was for playtime, for making the other Diamonds laugh and be entertained when they were done being Real Diamonds. She was their Spinel. So when she finally got the opportunity to be a Real Diamond, she did what the other Diamonds did, because that’s who she learned from.
She left Spinel behind. Because she was a Real Diamond now, and Real Diamonds aren’t childish. They don’t want goofy kids in their moon bases. They are always professional, always perfect and regal and without fault. She was not, under any circumstances, allowed to be herself because herself simply wasn’t good enough.
What she did was cruel, but I don’t think it was intentional. I think it was part of a cycle of abuse, something more or less everyone in this story is caught up in to some extent. I don’t think she forgot about Spinel either; time is different for Gems and especially for Diamonds. I think by the time she was cognizant enough to realize what she’d done, it was too late to do anything about it and she could only hope that someone had gone to get her.
Pink is still my favorite. She did terrible things and wonderful things. She grew in ways Diamonds shouldn’t have been able to. She left a lot of pain in her wake but also a lot of love and a lot of good. She wanted to be better and she didn’t have the chance to fix every mistake she’d ever made but I genuinely think she never intended so many of them to come back and haunt Steven. She wanted Steven to live his own life and be happy and human and I think it would break her heart to see how much pain her mistakes are causing him.
It’s pretty sad that one of the people who would have benefited most from meeting Steven never got to.
i completely agree. i dont appreciate the hate pink diamond/rose quartz is getting as of late. yes, she did awful things to many people but when you grow up without anyone showing you how to be better then how can you be? and when someone finally showed her that ‘yes you are hurting people and need to change’, she did try to change, to be better. no she was not perfect by any means and she left the world before she could right all her wrongs but she tried to learn and grow and that’s important for someone who grew up abused and becomes an abuser from it. growth is a learning curve, it takes time to get it right and you’re going to fuck up a lot along the way. it may not be enough to ammend the hurt you’ve inflicted but if you’re making the effort to be a better person then you’re not evil. pink/rose was very flawed but not evil.
learning how to draw my new big boy maurice!!! i love him already, he works at ophelia’s bakery and is head over heels with the new guy. more to come shortly
communication is only effective when the other person is actually listening