Hi, I'm Ren. (they/them) I am a freelance digital artist. I work in Clip Studio Paint, and I use a Wacom Intuos3 9x12. You are welcome to use (but not edit) my artwork for personal use with visible credit, but please ask for anything else. Do not reupload. Mostly on here and Bluesky.
The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.
I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.
Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!
But let me tell you a story:
I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.
One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.
At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.
I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.
Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.
The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.
And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.
So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.
So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.
By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.
If you’re in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.
You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that’s allowed.
In fact: you SHOULD share it without your thoughts on the US Military. If someone in the military sees this number and is considering it, they already know. Just let them see the resource.
We need to abolish child stars or at least not allow them to be on social media because teenagers do not need to be having their dubious political opinions & questioning their sexualities in front of millions of people. Nobody is happy about this and I don’t need to know
Child stars lately are just like “teenager from a netflix show that went steeply downhill after the first season weighs in on international conflict” or “pop star who’s barely old enough to drink changes her mind about if she’s a lesbian or not; is she the devil?” & honestly I don’t think anyone in the world is benefiting from any of this
They should be on a fully anonymous account and not doing interviews or anything until they’re like. 25. Like the brain development thing has been debunked and all but jesus christ
Teenagers practice Having Opinions like when toddlers start running and immediately smacking their heads full force into coffee tables & this is a necessary part of maturing but it does not need to be done extremely publicly under the scrutiny of think pieces and video essays n shit. Like yeah the child was wrong about something. Fork spotted in kitchen
I’ve made a sheet of quick info and tips on drawing medieval european plate armour. You can view it on a screen or print it as a leaflet to keep in your sketchbook ✌
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