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@celineorelse

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designing fabric until drawing dirty comics aint a crime

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@celineorelse
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6 years
Sexual fantasies are, for many, many people, inherently transgressive. That's how the human psyche works: it takes the shit you're afraid of, the shit that hurts you, the shit you're ashamed of wanting, and it mixes it all up into a high octane bonerade.
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@celineorelse
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My work is for adults who can tell the difference between reality and fantasy. I draw what turns me on, what helps me reclaim a tiny bit of the power that's been taken from me. I'm not going to apologize for that, ever.
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@celineorelse
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You didn't care enough to make it urself so why should anyone care enough to engage with it? What process are we supposed to be responding to, what risks + challenges brought you to the finished work? Oh thats right, you risked nothing + endured nothing and now you want attention
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@vetyyr @alecrobbins Just generated this. How would you critique it?
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@celineorelse
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4 years
Unpaid art tests should be illegal. I've done so many and i was LUCKY if i wasn't flat out ghosted if the company decided not to hire me.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
It's only very recently that theres been a backlash within certain fandom communities about "problematic content", as if these are real people being hurt, or as if fanfiction has a moral responsibility to model healthy sexual behaviors (it doesnt).
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@celineorelse
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Here's something I love abt the ancient world. Having to order takeout for most meals because you live in a city where housing is so crowded and shitty a home kitchen would be a serious fire hazard feels like a hyper modern urban concept to me, but pompeiians put up with it too!
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#WorldFoodDay A beautifully preserved thermopolium (cook shop), one of the places in #Pompeii where one could purchase hot and ready-to-eat food. Most Romans resided in insulae and did not have facilities to cook at home and relied on thermopolia to buy their hot meals.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
People watch actors pretend to get murdered in horror films because it's a safe, cathartic way to experience something that terrifies us. Many women fantasize or act out rape fantasies because they dont feel like they can safely disinhibit without being called a whore.
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@celineorelse
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A great example to remember the general principle that in direct sunlight, downward facing planes reflect the color of the ground (usually warm brown) and upward facing planes in the shadows reflect the sky (usually blue)
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@celineorelse
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As a survivor of sexual violence, it galls me when people act like I need to apologize for drawing heavily TW'd, *extremely divorced from reality* non-con of fake people I made up. Dont get mad if you refuse to read my warnings.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
I think that prudishness has spilled out into a general culture that is at odds with itself. Men go on making shitty, problematic art for mass consumption and we take our valid anger about that and turn it into a microscope to scrutinize marginalized erotica creators with
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@celineorelse
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Nancy Friday asked women to send her their fantasies anonymously to her, and she compiled them into a book. People were horrified. It turns out women, their lives lived in a perpetual state of preyhood, think about a lot of deeply uncomfortable shit when they masturbate.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Nancy Friday's book "My Secret Garden" changed the way people thought about women's sexuality. It seems like a sad regression if we were more accepting about it in fucking 1973 than we are in 2018.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Comics are a medium, not a genre Reading images is a separate, equally important skill as reading text, and you need to do both in order to understand a comic. Drawing a comic is a thousand times harder than writing one, and writing one is a distinct skillset from writing prose.
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What‘s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?
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@celineorelse
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I'm sure those women lived with crippling shame, and I think that's a tragedy. Our dumb animal brains dont care if a fantasy is offensive, it just wants to feel safe and in control.
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@celineorelse
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I'm talking about women who survived the holocaust fantasizing about Nazis. It seems shocking and perverse until you realize that the fantasy transforms something utterly terrifying into something safely controlled and pleasurable within the confines of a fantasy.
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@celineorelse
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JSYK, the scary thing straight men are trying to control most often in their fantasies is women's ability to reject them. That's not exactly transgressive; our entire culture for thousands of years is designed to protect men from that pain.
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@celineorelse
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There is so much light, fluffy, feel good erotica out there. If that's the stuff you want to jerk it to, it is there for you.
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@celineorelse
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What's particularly interesting to me is that women have been building safe spaces in fandom to explore their transgressive fantasies since Star Trek aired in the 60s. Have you read those early works of fanfiction? It was kinky as hell.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Straight men don't make very good pornography for this reason (or, often, art of any kind)
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@celineorelse
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In 1973, according to Nancy Friday, nobody wanted to admit that women had ANY sexual fantasies. The subject would come up and men would look at their wives and girlfriends and claim, "my girl doesn't have any fantasies!" And the women would go quiet.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
You, paying to watch aliens destroy Manhattan in The Avengers: everyone involved in making this movie, as well as everyone else in this theater, is glad 9/11 happened.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
BUT, you can't make women responsible for your healing. It's not on them to cope with the fallout of your pain. THEY need therapy for what men have done to them; they can't be your therapist on top of that. It's too much to ask.
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@celineorelse
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Dudes who exhaust you with their pathetic man-baby shit and can't handle this level of boundary setting without throwing a fit are completely expendable and replaceable and never let anyone tell you otherwise.
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@celineorelse
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4 years
Are there any men sewing masks for their community or is this once again the unglamorous, anonymous mutual aid work women do
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Ladies, practice this phrase: "I'm tired of pretending to have fun while you (pout/rules-lawyer me about my preferences/ignore my comfort/etc), I'm going home to watch a movie/read a book/cook a delicious meal for one/enjoy a nice night to myself."
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@celineorelse
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So a popular webcomic creator's fans become *enraged* when she doesn't make their favorite characters fuck, decide to take screenshots of her locked NSFW content and send it to minors, and start a harassment campaign against her to brand her as a pedophile.
@avasdemon
Michelle Fus
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I've decided to post this publicly because the anxiety from it is making me sick, and I want to clear my name once and for all so that I can move on with my life and work. Thank you:
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@celineorelse
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if you think I care about the difference between a nazi, a white supremacist, a white ethno-nationalist, and a centrist who cannot tell how bad these things are, you need to get the fuck out of my mentions.
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@celineorelse
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If you're just six months out of art school and you're already trying to get cartoonists banned from indie comic cons literally just for making deeply personal work you find icky, just remember: this community is tiny and it has a long memory.
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@celineorelse
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Ok, to the dudes out there who feel irreparably harmed by toxic masculinity or childhood abuse or emotional neglect, and who feel alienated from their own ability to love: you are not broken beyond repair. You are capable of so much good.
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@celineorelse
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"Wow, that sounds like something to bring up with a trained therapist. I hope you can find help for that! In the meantime though, I need you to stop doing x and tell me how you will respond differently in the future when y happens."
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@celineorelse
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Having what you want starts with spending some time digging real deep until you can remember the corniest, most embarrassing fantasies you had about love as a kid and then deciding that those fantasies are valid and that you deserve nothing less.
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@celineorelse
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5 years
You are wrong
@JustinLehmiller
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When it comes to sex fantasies about mythical creatures, women (esp. straight women) are pretty much just into vampires, whereas men are into a much wider range of creatures. Here's a look at #Halloween themed sex fantasies and the psychology behind them:
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@celineorelse
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something i think about is how my generation was allowed to look like a freshly slapped ass cheek as we figured out makeup and personal style, since social media didn't exist to document it forever and none of us faced the pressure of becoming 15 year old influencers
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@celineorelse
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I am begging young/entry level artist: don't rip off someone's ENTIRE style, like down to character designs, color palette, etc, and then try to monetize a webcomic on Patreon. Especially when the artist you're ripping off has a massive, niche following. You WILL regret it.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Recognize that no matter the root cause, harming others and draining their resources is ALWAYS a choice you are making, not something that just happens. You have the power to make different choices. Like the choice to see professional help, or join a support group.
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@celineorelse
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@chase__burke @LizRummy God, imagine the first time you decide to kill for money you're paid in fucking limited edition furbies
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@celineorelse
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6 years
My friend's jaw hit the floor when I told her that if a man I'm with behaves inappropriately while we're out together, the date ENDS. I go home. That is still my policy after 8 years of co-habitating with my partner, too.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Men can sniff that shit out you know. Maintaining the lowest possible standard allows them to make you feel like a huge bitch for wanting better, and constantly keep you on your toes in fear that he'll leave if you push back a little; if you fail to stay "chill".
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@celineorelse
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3 years
"Why do all nfts look like dogshit" Bc the art itself is incidental!! Its just a placeholder, no one actually values the thing because all it represents is a transaction. All this talk about "the nft space" inspiring interesting work is poseur shit. You're trading commodities.
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@celineorelse
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6 years
Or, if you're with a group of friends and your date is choosing to respond to stress in a way that is ruining your day, you can absolutely say "I want you to go for a walk and come back in an hour when you're ready to join us again." Repeat like a broken record until they go.
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@celineorelse
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Don't threaten me with a good time
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Newsweek
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Laura Ingraham guest says trans people will "destroy" gender norms to create "new species"—"Human and part machine"
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@celineorelse
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A lot of people think being a woman in your thirties drawing porn is an inherently embarrassing thing to be, while taking for granted that men's fantasies are so highly valued in our culture that catering to them extends beyond porn into practically every aspect of media.
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@celineorelse
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It's scary to compare what you've got to an ideal that exists in the most vulnerable part of your psyche, but you can't value your time until you do. After that, spending time with men who refuse to do the bare minimum emotional labor feels like the huge ripoff it was all along.
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@celineorelse
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All Day I Dream About Sargent's alligators
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John Singer Sargent
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Muddy Alligators, 1917 #sargent #realism
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@celineorelse
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Suddenly all the self-serving excuses men come up with to justify their behavior ("that's just how men are" "at least I'm not as bad as my dad" "science says it's actually good that I'm a huge piece of shit") sound like a choice they're making.
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@celineorelse
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Rape and incest fantasies in the gen pop are common, harmless and uncontroversial amongst licensed mental healthcare professionals
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“what’s your most insane opinion?” “what’s your most conservative belief?” fuck that. what’s your most normal take
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@celineorelse
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You can't ethically be someone's mentor and their lover at the same time.
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@celineorelse
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4 years
Some ppl in the replies are saying that rating everone on a scale of attractiveness is normal behavior that we all participate in and I *cannot* stress enough that it isn't and you only think it is because you are trapped in an arrested stage of development with your friends
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My [F19] boyfriend [M23] is an active 4chan member and created a rating scale for women
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@celineorelse
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Ladies, if you call him out on his shit and he responds with his three part essay on the ravages of emotionally distant fathers, please feel free to interrupt him with:
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@celineorelse
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The fact that Disney, with more capital than some countries, doesn't invest in artists to create game changing aesthetic work like this anymore and simply exists to milk money from an audience bred and fed on their brand is repulsive to me.
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@celineorelse
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Lrt: transgressive sexual fantasies allow you to safely experience your deepest fears in a pleasurable way the same way bungee jumping off a cliff does. Its the same fuckin thing, humans are just LIKE THIS
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@celineorelse
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people complain about the whisper networks we set up to warn each other about abusers, but when we talk openly about them you come into our mentions demanding details, proof, witnesses, corroboration, as if your belief is something we are obligated to seek. It isn't.
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