Soulmates are not your ~other half~, that’s just nonsense. You are a whole person already, not half a person. A soulmate isn’t even inherently romantic. A soulmate is just the other sock in a matched set. You’re still a whole, complete sock on your own, you are perfectly functional paired with any other sock, it’s just that it’s even better when you match. A soulmate is literally just the person who makes your soul go “!!! Same hat!!!” and wave excitedly.
i love this
this is literally the only interpretation of “soulmate” that I can tolerate or accept
I am a little goat that likes to draw colorful illustrations
from a small town in Russia.
I love creating obscure and pretty stuff to express my
feelings and love for something. Or maybe tell a story! I had a pretty boring
and isolated life as a child and teenager so I loved watching cartoons like W.I.T.C.H. and Sailor Moon or read books and comics that were available to me,
such as Homestuck or Ava’s demon! My two absolute favorite.~
I spent a lot of time drawing and imagining myself having great adventures just
like characters in these stories and eventually got inspired to create
something similar. I wanted to be a comic artist or an animator, but we didn’t
have a lot of options for me here so I was pretty lost until the last days of
high school. Then I got lucky and found a college that was accepting kids to
teach them animation!
I spent 4 years in an art school as a teen and 3 years in a college learning to
be an animator thinking I’m gonna work in a studio after that. But it didn’t
really work out for me so I got back home and was just drawing for myself and
then taking commissions for a whole year not really knowing where I will end
up. Fortunately, my love for Ava’s demon saved me. This comic inspired me for
years and I made a lot of fanart for it so I was very happy when I got a job as
a colorist on it. And here I am! C: Doing what I love and having a great time.
Slowly healing from all the damage that college and school gave me.
I am although slowly working on my own comic that is pretty
much inspired by Homestuck and Ava’s Demon. It’s weird and super experimental.
But I do enjoy drawing it! Hopefully, I will be able to make more comics and
maybe even a game in the future! And more fanart! I don’t have a lot of energy
and time for everything, but I do love to occasionally draw something fun and
silly to show my love for Homestuck and other great stories.~
From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:
– don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.
– archive everything on your blog you want to keep
– tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.
– tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.
– go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.
– support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.
Also, go read the source policies and official Tumblr statements in addition to user analyses and reactions. It’s important to keep abreast of developments over time; staying informed is your power in this situation. Memes and reaction posts are funny and are a useful way to vent / provide commentary, but some of them create an inaccurate picture of what’s happening and should not be taken as evidence on their own of what developments have happened.
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