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dva: none of us are like..straight, right?
mccree, dusting his dolly parton album collection, adjusting his “Boys Are My Favorite” BAMF belt: how did you know?
hey
let kids have alicorn princess mlp ocs
let kids have rainbow-blood fantrolls
let kids have neon kawaii sparkledogs
let kids have emo edgelord creepypasta ocs
let kids have canon/oc ships
let kids express themselves
fuck your “lol cringe XD” mindset
ok i just wanted to add onto this post and say, when i was about 8 i drew with my mouse and i made edgy warriors ocs, i drew “gore” which was just a cat bleeding from its eyes, i put unrealistic colors on cats blah blah.
people started finding my art and reposting it, to bad art blogs and forums. one of my friends said “i have bad news about your art” and linked me to a bad warriors art blog that had posted my drawing of scourge and i could see all the notes of people making fun of it.
i tried to brush it off, i asked for it to be removed, but it kept happening, and people started leaving comments on my deviations. they started adding my art to bad art folders on da. i was being harassed as a very young child.
at this point i had been drawing every single day, i spent hours drawing my bad warriors art. it was the thing i loved the most at the time. and now? i still draw everyday, but it’s so, so hard for me to post or share it, and i went through a long period of time refusing to draw because i remembered all the things people said about my art.
it didn’t help me. it made me wanna improve my art sure, but on the level that now everything i draw looks bad to me, every idea i have seems cringy to me. i’m terrified of people seeing my work because i am scared everyone will make fun of it again.
making fun of kids does have real consequences. not for you, of course, you get to laugh. but the kid doesn’t.
if ur gonna laaugh at that shit at least dont fuckin post it or share it around
I had a self insert fanfic when I was 12-13 ish. It was submitted to a blog on LJ that literally existed to make fun of “Mary Sue” fics. My story was basically a stereotypical kid’s “I wish I had a digimon” fic.
I got told the post was there, and got my whole gang of friends to go in there and rag on them for posting my work up just to rip into it. I wasn’t going to do anything but pout at first, but my ~17 year old friends were smart enough to go, hey, this isn’t cool, they’re picking on you and you’re just a kid.
They eventually took it down, but it was under threat from them to report me on FFN for being underage.
For several years of my life, from about 15 on, I viewed my reaction as really cringy. I regretted laying into them because suddenly I realized how young and dumb I’d looked, how stupid my fic was, how awful I was for going in when they were just having fun, etc.
It wasn’t until a few months ago, when I first saw a post like this circulating Tumblr, that I finally stopped regretting it and viewed it as what it was: bullies picking on kids.
It doesn’t matter that their excuse was “We didn’t know you were a kid”; even if I hadn’t been, it’d be easy for a kid to see work that looked like theirs being insulted and decide it’s not worth even trying.
Not to mention, I was 20 before I even tried to write something with original characters again (a single RPG I’d already started getting into nonwithstanding), and I still live in constant fear people will look at a character I make and go “ew, it’s a self-insert”.
Just let people have their fun. They’re not hurting anyone by creating. You’re no better than making of someone for not knowing how to ride a bike yet, whether they’re 3 or 30.
send me “if i were dating you” anons
DO THIS!
?????????
Do it I love attention???
honestly if you dont think like, the tumblr feminist scene, with all the occasionalyl cheesy kawaii-aesthetic misandry art, hasn’t had an impact on anyone at all like
you dont remember what the average teen girl in a fandom was like before this. you don’t remember how we used to make hate-sites about female characters who “got in the way”, games where you could beat them up, how much we hate our gender and bragged about not being like other girls, used to completely reject everything girly. a lot of us just wanted to be one of the guys. there was a lot of internalised misogyny there
now you get these 15 year old girls loving other girls and loving themselves fiercely, even at the total cost of male approval and just. god. if like 14-year-old me could see this shit now.
and like if you dont think teen girls learning to love themselves and their body and each other isnt important than i do not know what to say to you