So a tiny story: on Black Friday a few weeks ago I went to Gamestop to buy my brother a game for Christmas, and I noticed this older man was watching me like a hawk. He was loitering around the front of the store without really buying anything, and every time I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye he was looking at me. I went to look at the PS4 games, and he was looking at something right behind me. I checked out the Nintendo games, and he was looking at them too. I was the only woman in the store, by the way.
By the time I got in line to pay he was loitering at the front of the store again, and I just had that feeling that he was going to try and take the game I just bought, or steal my purse, as soon as I left the store. OR, he was going to try and follow me home. And I know I don’t have to explain that terror to any woman reading this, but all I could think was that I’m in this Gamestop alone with at least twenty other men and something is about to happen. I’m beginning to freak out, to the point where I’ve just pulled my pepper spray out of my purse and into the pocket of my coat.
So there I am, next in line to pay, and there is this GIGANTIC dudebro right behind me, and I say gigantic as a 6 foot tall woman. He says, “Ma’am? Don’t be offended, but would it be alright if I walked you to your car?” and I was like “Are you serious?” and he was like “There are some weird guys in here right now. Have you noticed that guy watching you?” and then I showed the dudebro the pepper spray in my pocket and he was like “Right on. Would you still let me walk you to your car?” and I said yes.
So I paid, and waited while HE paid, and he walked me to my car. And just as I was getting in, the weird guy who’d been loitering came out of the store, saw me and my dudebro, and turned around and walked away in the opposite direction.
In short: men who recognize that women are unsafe in dark alleys, college campuses, grocery stores, gas stations and retail stores and do something about it are the kind of quality men that this world needs more of.
Please for the love of god yes.
The Warrior protects.
He does this through his Prowess, his Ability
to Protect.
His fight Ability, combined with his
Willingness to Protect, earns him Worth in the eyes of his fellow Men.
drawing to satisfy yourself should be your primary goal in any case! when i was in school i had an art teacher who stressed the importance of the five purposes of art (ceremonial, expression, narrative, functional, persuasive) and that the most important of these was ‘expression’ or self-fulfillment and satisfaction. if this isn’t present in the processes of doing art, people will be able to tell.
artists create art to satisfy a need, whether its to get a feeling out, relieve stress, please another person or to feed yourself and my teacher stressed upon me the importance that doing it for yourself should be the number one goal.
ive entered plenty of art contests myself and while i never really won any of them, i was always proud of the work i did because i put a lot of care into it, and i was happy with how it turned out, at the time. if you dont want to enter a contest, for whatever reason, that’s perfectly valid. you do art for YOU. and if anyone else likes it? that’s simply a bonus.
god this took me weeks to finish but im glad that its finally done! i really really pushed for the release date of this comic to be on the 22nd of February and with only a few minutes to spare (in GMT) i have accomplished that at least!
rather than doing a comic set in the hiveswap universe with the hiveswap characters i wanted my piece to be basically an open love letter to the hiveswap team! showing them the impact they’ve helped make on mine and tons of other peoples lives! this game really brought me closer to friends who i thought i had lost and brought me out of a pretty bad rut i had been in so i wanted to let the hiveswap team know how much i appreciate the work they do! thank you for reading! @whatpumpkin
yall ever get physically mad at yourself for how much you love homestuck like you’ll just be sitting somewhere minding your business and your brain busts in like “have you considered that every time anyone visits roxy they have to probably wade through 4,000 cats and jake teases her constantly about getting a dog and dirk stands there statue still while kittens climb his pant legs pretending their claws don’t hurt and dave just walks in and lays on the floor and is immediately sat upon by 6 individual cat breads while karkat scoffs nearby about how earth meowbeasts don’t actually care about anyone and appealing to soft human emotion is just an evolutionary mechanism they’ve developed to great effect while simultaneously sneaking a kitten into his pocket”
and you just have to be like I have work to do you piece of shit shut the fuck up let me live can I not think about homestuck for like one second please but it’s too late because you’re already smiling as you imagine rose lalonde sneaking food from her plate to a multitude of cats under the table with a perfectly straight face while dave dials up terezi to ask how to formally prosecute her for blatant cat bribery and wanton feline corruption
Don’t worry about what other people are posting or doing on social media. Just focus on your own. What are you expressing? What’s your message? What are you passionate about? That’s what matters.
there are so many fucking trolls this is such a tiny sampling i got trolls comin outta my ass over here. its wall to wall trolls. trolls as far as the eye can see. you kill one troll nine more take its place. its like teens say they’re in “homestuck hell” because its like he he i faved a picture of gamtav guess im back on my homestuck bullshit 🙂
Flying through Storytelling 