[ID, from op’s alt text: a lightly textured cool grey background with a bright yellow dandelion plant in the center. the middle flower stands taller, and a flower to the left of it is nestled into the leaves, while a dandelion bud grows in front of both of them. above the dandelions text reads “Under all conditions” and below it more text reads “I will persevere.” /End ID]
My main issue with “activism” through media consumption isn’t primarily that I think the people who talk about it online are always wrong. It’s entirely reasonable, when you realise that an author you liked has done some shit (see: Marion Zimmer Bradley, JKR), to acknowledge that this has soured your admiration for their work to the point where you don’t want to read anything by them anymore. But when people are very vocal in public about literally purging their bookshelf of anything deemed “harmful”, the first question I want to ask is “are you kind to people around you? do you go out of your way to show kindness to the people you meet every day? or is your concern for the wellbeing of others confined to online spaces and your own living room?”
On the flip side I’ve had the privilege of meeting people who certainly didn’t have the Correct Opinions on every social and political matter, who didn’t always use the right words to say the right things about everything, but who were so radically and unexpectedly kind that they literally changed the entire course of my life
so many social justicey arguments really do seem like they were invented in a lab to be a saw trap for people with obsessive compulsive tendencies
one of the examples i was thinking of is the idea you are Morally Obligated to tag any potential triggers, despite that being a category that theoretically includes literally everything. maybe the implication/way most people interpret it is “if you have a decent following, its best practice to tag common ones plus requests from followers” but i dont think it should be difficult to understand why trying to figure out which ones people will get mad at you about is a saw trap. esp on platforms more like twitter where providing content warnings in the first place is a logistical nightmare
A redesign of a Boko Baba, just ‘cause. I wanted to differentiate them from Deku Babas so I leaned heavily into the pitcher plant aesthetic and made them aquatic. I also took inspiration from a couple different whale species. They lunge at Link and swallow him whole if he gets too close while diving.
This is probably the first digital artwork I’ve ever done that wasn’t significantly more difficult than the same thing in traditional. It still took a fair bit longer, but then I’m not usually colouring my pencil sketches. Hope you enjoy!
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