Voltron/YOI Trash

World Building and Chara Backstories!

So, this is for a lovely on Twitter, anyone who still follows me on this pretty much dead account (i love and appreciate you if you do, you da real mvps lol), so ignore this if you want :) If you still wanna follow me, you can find me, my art, and my ramblings @TheSnarkanist on Twitter <3

So, Dominic and Casimir. Dom and Cas. My precious OC’s. Here’s their story and a bit of the world they live in!

Before I go into detail about them though, let’s start with a bit of world building first so some stuff later makes sense!

WORLD BUILDING!

So, in this Universe, there is a huge plethora of Gods, think Greek or Japanese Mythology style, just tons of gods everywhere! Anyway, there are two overarching categories of Gods. Elemental Gods, and Empathetic Gods. Elemental Gods (pretty self-explanatory, but will elaborate anyway lol) govern over the elements of the universe and the mortal world, such as the basics of Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, etc, as well as the broader elements such as the concepts of Dark and Light, among many others. Most of the elemental Gods tend to be more powerful than Empathetic Gods, so they make up the majority of the upper tiers of the Hierarchy of Gods. Empathetic Gods govern over human emotion. Not to say that they control how people feel, absolutely not, humans have Free Will, the Gods cannot control any humans unless absolutely dire situation requires it to keep the Universe in balance. Empathetic Gods essentially require human emotion to remain in existence, and the more people feel a certain emotion, the stronger the gods of that emotion will become. The major downside of Empathetic Gods that Elemental Gods don’t experience is that they literally rely on mortals to maintain their existence. Empathetic Gods wink into existence when a certain emotion becomes widely felt across many people, and Empathetic Gods fade from existence when a certain emotion is no longer as widely felt by people. For example, if there is war and strife, where fear, anger and hatred are the emotions running wild through the people, then gods of those emotions grow stronger, more gods of those emotions wink into existence, and gods of emotions such as happiness, love, and compassion, will begin to weaken and/or fade from existence, and the reverse is true in times of peace (think of the anime Noragami, if you’ve seen it, to get an idea of how Gods and their powers work). Due to this constant change in power among the Empathetic Gods, most of them make up the majority of the lower tier of the Hierarchy of Gods.

And that wraps up the important aspects of my World Building to explain my OC’s and their story!

DOMINIC AND CASIMIR!

So, I’m gonna start with my problem child, Dominic AKA Dom. Below is his Godly Form!

So, Dom is 20 years old. He grew up in an orphanage after having been found wandering the streets at the estimated age of 8, with no memory of who he was or where he came from. He was an angry, closed off child, and so he bounced from foster home to foster home, nobody willing to keep a child with the issues he had. He ran with a pretty bad crowd, and spent quite a bit of his adolescence in and out of juvie. He picked up the habit of smoking cigs at 14, dropped out of school at 16, and then when he aged out of the system at 18, he began bouncing from crappy min wage job after another just to afford the crappy run down apartment he barely lives in. He developed a habit of dying his hair wild colors, and he is currently sporting purple and green (as shown above), and he has quite a few piercings as well. One thing that has remained a constant for him though, is his passion for photography. Specifically, he loves sneaking into old abandoned places and photographing them. He feels a kinship with these places that have been forsaken by the world and lost to time, just like him. He feels the need to preserve their memory, so at least one person will remember them. Because of his childhood memory loss, he obsesses over photography so that he never forgets anything ever again, it’s one of the things he fears the most. Dom is a good guy though, he has a good heart, he’s just been fucked by society and has a lot of issues to work through. He’s better since he’s grown up a bit, but he’s still pretty angry at the world and has issues with authority, he hates being told what to do. Now, how did he lose his memory exactly? Well, I won’t go into detail about how or why, because I don’t wanna spoil much, but I will give this interesting tid-bit away. Dom is actually a former Minor God of Compassion, and something happened that caused him to flee from the heavens to take refuge on Earth. He reverted his form into that of a child, locked away his powers, and erased his memories, so he would grow up as a human and forget about his Godly troubles.

Now, for some information on Casimir AKA Cas!

Cas is the Dragon God! The Dragon God is the God of Creation, he rules over everything within the Universe, and is the King of the Gods. He has been the current Dragon God for over a thousand years now. The Dragon God is not all-seeing and all-knowing, however, and can make mistakes just as easily as anybody. The Gods are not perfect beings by any means, though some may try to act like they are (lol). Cas is a kind and benevolent Dragon God, he treats everybody equally, and is stern when he needs to be. He is fiercely protective of those he cares about. He can be stubborn and impulsive though, and doesn’t always realize his own faults, so sometimes he has to get knocked around a bit to realize when he’s being stupid. Anyway, so poor Cas here, just being a good Dragon God, minding his own business, just trying to do his job, suddenly gets taken out by some unknown entity out of nowhere. By taken out, I mean that this strange black entity shows up randomly with no warning, steals Cas’s powers, puts him to sleep, and then basically just fucking YEETS the fucker down to Earth. And it all happens so fast that the other gods around Cas, his Inner Circle mostly, have literally no time to act and stop this entity in time, so they lose their King, but before the Dragon God’s powers can fully manifest within the entity, Cas’s Inner Circle are able to restrain and seal away the entity so that it can’t do anymore damage. Since they have no clue what it is or where it came from though, they can do nothing more but keep it sealed until they can get some information. So, the Inner Circle splits, half researching the entity, the other half trying to find their fallen King.

That wraps up my OC’s! Now….

HOW DID THEY MEET!????

So glad you asked! So, one day, Dom snuck into an old abandoned mansion to check it out and mark some good spots to come back and photograph. So, while he was carefully picking his way through the rickety old building, he gets startled by a damn pigeon of all things! As a result, he accidentally missteps and falls through the floor to the room below. There’s no light in the room except for his dim flashlight and what little light is shining in from the hole he made above him. As the ceiling starts to collapse on him, he suddenly gets yanked out of the way by…… Cas! (Because who else would it be? Lol) Casimir has been asleep in this mansion for the last 12 years, and Dom basically falling on his face is what finally woke him! So, Dom helps Cas get out of the mansion and lets Cas stay with him for a few days while Cas brushes up on the current state of the world today, and tries to communicate someone from his Inner Circle with no success. Once Cas has his bearings, he thanks Dom for taking care of him, and goes on his way. From there, Cas uses his charm and intelligence, as well as a little bit of what small dredges of power he has left to build himself into a successful businessman (because how else are you gonna afford the lifestyle of a GOD and have the power and connections to do questionable Godly things?) and searches for a way to contact his Inner Circle to find out what happened up in the heavens and find a way to get back up there. And that’s how Dom and Cas meet!

WRAPPING UP!

Now, of course Dom and Cas will meet again and all kind of craziness will ensue, but if I talk about all that here, that’ll spoil the fun and then what will be the point of writing my story at all? If you wanna know more about them, you know how to contact me! I’ll be posting more art pieces of them over time as well, and my hope is to eventually turn their story into a comic, so if you want to keep up to date on how that is going, follow me on Twitter~!

Thanks for reading! <3

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Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

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Soup.io - well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
TypePad - Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

bollymusings

Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.

arubbishmedic

It became necessary

mckaytriarchy

WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.

imagine-the-akatsuki

Here’s some beginning options for any of y'all trying to leave.

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arkadycosplay

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.

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A better, more positive Tumblr

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Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio
CEO

space-rangers-on-ice

Man, if I knew how to build and maintain websites, I’d be all over making a site that works the same as Tumblr, but without all of this bullshit, and with improved filtering, staff, and support.

This is absolutely ridiculous. I get what you guys are trying to do, but this is both a case of “too little, too late”, and of going about the situation the entirely wrong way. All y'all are doing is hurting yourselves with this nonsense. Y'all have become greedy, lazy, and short-sighted over the years, not doing a damn thing about the issues when they were brought to y'alls attention YEARS ago, and now you’re trying to find a quick fix to save yourselves that is only gonna end up destroying you in a few short months. Way to go Tumblr, enjoying collecting dust with MySpace and Neopets.

feargender

astrond

Never again.

Never again normalize horror and cruelty.

Never again let people who embrace the darkness get away with it by claiming that they “were only following orders”.

Never again!

jumpingjacktrash

when you dehumanize the enemy, you lose the ability to recognize him. when you decide people who did bad things in history were demons, monsters, then you become blinded by the normality of the real people who do real bad things in real life.

evil is banal. evil is mediocre. evil is that neighbor who says “if they didn’t come here illegally then they wouldn’t lose their children” while throwing a ball for his absolutely adorable dog. evil is that relative who says “i voted for trump because hillary is a crook” while baking a delicious cake for her grandchildren. evil is ordinary people simply not processing the concept that people outside their monkeysphere being killed is the same amount bad as people inside their monkeysphere being killed.

if you can’t accept the fact that the people who do genocide are as human as you are, then you run the risk of becoming just like them. because you know you’re human, so as long as you’re human you’re not a monster, so what you’re doing can’t be that bad, right?

Source: facebook.com

awaari

100proofvodka

bless you

space-rangers-on-ice

Why is this so funny I can’t stop laughing lmaoooooooooo 😂😂😂

exaketededly

crowryn-arts

golbatgender

Ableism is really silly. Like, humans’ whole deal is “we don’t have any specific adaptations in particular, we make prosthetics instead.” Like, cold environments? Skip waiting for an advantageous mutation, let’s make prosthetic fur—clothes. No hooves? Prosthetic hooves—shoes. No claws or beaks? Instead, we make all kinds of knives and tools. Can’t find a natural shelter? Build one. Arid climate? Irrigate it.

Everything that we call civilization is just humans making prosthetic adaptations instead of waiting around for mutations. We get some advantageous mutations too, but we’re so reliant on the artificial ones that all the wetware upgrades are hackish as fuck and often do things like kill you if you get a double dose of the gene. And then humans invent more artificial adaptations so it doesn’t actually have to kill you.

But then somewhere along the way we all decided that only some artificial adaptations were okay, and more unusual ones were bad? Which is kind of ridiculous. Especially with how far stuff has developed. We can make prosthetic insulin and other hormones, even. Prosthetic chemicals, and isn’t that amazing? But for some reason we think that having to rely on those kind is a sign of weakness or lesser worth than just having to rely on houses or shoes, or that it’s too much to make all the things compatible. That people with some kinds of tech dependence should just suck it up while others get what they need to go about their day with a relative lack of pain and hardship. And that just goes against everything our history as a species says we should do. And because it’s “more expensive”? We invented capitalism a lot later than we invented shoes or crutches or quinine, I’ll tell you that.

numinoceur

FREE ART PROGRAMS

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So recently I came across a fellow artist who was struggling to find a free art program, and considering dropping the large amount of money for a Photoshop license. I know not everyone can afford such an expensive program, so I’ve compiled a list of programs with no cost to download and use.

Keep in mind all computers are different, so not all will work for everyone. Also, I’ve only ever used Windows, so for the most part, I’m not sure if everything will work for Mac. if in doubt check the website linked.

Photoshop CS2 - (Windows, not sure about Mac.)

FireAlpaca - (Windows and Mac)

Sketchbook Copic Edition - (Windows and Mac)

GIMP - (Windows) (Mac)

Paint tool SAI [cracked] - (Windows) (Mac)

Paint tool SAI 2 beta - (tumblr post on said program)

iPaint - (Mac)

Paintbrush - (Mac)

Pencil - (Windows, Mac)

Paint.NET - (Windows)

Seashore [still in development, ver 0.5] - (Mac)

ChocoFlop - (Mac)

Inkscape - (Mac and Windows)

ArtRage [Demo] - (Mac and Windows)

OpenCanvas 1.1[must pay for 2.0] - (Windows, not sure about Mac.)

MyPaint - (Windows)

Krita - (Windows)

Vectorian [Supports Animation] - (Windows)

Pixia[Japanese, some English versions] - (Windows)

Asperite - (Windows)

Chasys Draw IES - (Windows)

SmoothDraw - (Windows)

TwistedBrush Open Studio - (Windows)

BOUNS - CTRL+Paint [Great for teaching all kinds of stuff, like how to use digital programs.]

If you know more free programs, please add onto this!

nerdgasrnz

OpenToonz has made many improvements since it’s initial release! (Windows & Mac)

Medibang Paint is a comic drawing software forked from FireAlpaca mentioned earlier in this post, and is available for mobile devices as well! (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android)

a-cynical-optimist

Wow. I’m just sitting here, and it only just occurred to me. I’m a complete loser.

a-cynical-optimist

Seriously. I’m a total loser. I have no life. I just sit here all day and be bored out of my skull. I have pretty much no friends, at least none who actually care to spend any time with me or talk to me much. Nobody texts me or calls me. Nobody leaves me messages in my ask box, and nobody messages me on Facebook. My boyfriend is at work more than he’s home, so he pretty much doesn’t even exist, and my roommates don’t really like me much, and they’re hardly ever home anyway. The only time I ever go out is when I go to work, which is only 3 days a week at most, and that only lasts about 4-6 hours. This sucks. I never realized just how lonely I was until now. But seriously. I’m lonely. And it’s sad, and so I sit here, hoping that someone will decide to make some kind of contact with me, and make me feel like I’m not so alone.

But I’m not holding my breath.

space-rangers-on-ice

Okay, so, let me tell you guys a little story. This story is about a sad, lonely young woman who hadn’t made the greatest choices in her life which put her in her current position at the time. She dated guys who weren’t good for her because she so desperately wanted to feel loved, she made friends who treated her poorly because she didn’t want to feel alone, she had a job she hated that didn’t pay enough for her to survive, she was forced to live with people she didn’t like because she couldn’t afford to live on her own and she had too much pride to move back in with her parents who were two hours away from her, and she was too tired and lazy to try to find a better job that would make at least one aspect of her life just a little bit better, because by then, she just felt like, “Well, what’s the point? The rest of my life sucks, what will changing anything really do?”. She was so caught up in her own misery that she couldn’t see the flaws in her logic. She was depressed, she had given up on everything, she was just living day by day, going with the flow, just following the same motions and patterns she had been for years, heedless of how toxic that cycle had become for her.

Then, one day, something happened.

She made a choice.

She made a choice to finally break that cycle. It started with a decision that would change her life for the better. She told her crappy roommate that she wouldn’t let herself be walked on anymore. Her crappy roommate made life hell for her after that, but she wasn’t phased. After all, what more could her roommate do to her that she hadn’t already done to herself? She swallowed her pride, left her shitty job, and moved back in with her parents. It hurt her to do that. She felt like a failure. She felt that moving back in with her parents was proof that she didn’t have what it takes to be a proper adult, and everything she had done up until then had been a waste of her efforts. She felt like she had hit rock bottom.

Then, she realized it.

She hadn’t hit rock bottom at all. In fact, what she had done was something much better.

She had hit the reset button on her entire life.

Her supportive parents had given her a stable place to live where she could be properly taken care of and given the support she needed to work her way back up and make a better life for herself. Moving in with her parents had moved her away from the toxic life she had built for herself, and away from the toxic people she had let into her life. With that reset, she found the will to work towards making a better life than the one she had chosen before.

She found another job, and though it wasn’t much better than the one she had before, she was making steps to improve it, little by little. She found the love she had been looking for in a man who had been by her side for years and was finally in a happy relationship with someone who treated her with all of the love and care in the world. She found friends who supported her and loved her, who would stick by her side no matter what and would always be there for her in her times of need. When she was ready, she moved back out of her parents, and lived in an apartment with roommates who actually treated her well, roommates she could also call friends.

Her life was far from perfect, but she could finally say she was truly happy for the first time in her life.

That sad little post above this story was a post I made during one of the lowest points in my life, where I was feeling at my worst, embroiled in the toxic shitty life I had made for myself. Now, a year and a half after I hit the reset button, I’m writing this from the comfort of my apartment where I live with my cat, two great friends, and their cat. My parents are only a short drive away, and I know that they will always be right there if I ever need anything. I’m not afraid to ask for help anymore from the people who have always taken care of me and truly want the best for me. I just celebrated my one year anniversary with my boyfriend who is also my best friend in the whole world. I’ve never been with anyone long enough to celebrate a one year anniversary, so this was a big deal to me, and I’ve never been happier. I have a group of friends I spend time with several times a month between our busy schedules, and I love each and every one of them with all of my heart. My job still sucks, but it’s a work in progress, and not something I’m going to let beat me down anymore. I’m currently in the process of finding a better job, and thoughts of going back to school have popped up occasionally, so that may be in my future eventually, as well.

The point I’m making here with all of this is, life is going to be shitty, it’s not always going to be sunshine and rainbows. You’re going to make bad choices in your life, we’re only human after all, nobody is perfect. What’s important is that, no matter how bad life gets, there is always a way out, and it’s never too late to hit that reset button and start over. It’s scary to start over, and it sucks. You may feel like starting over is pointless, or a waste, or that maybe starting over is throwing away all of your hard work, but I promise it’s not. Starting over is the best thing you can do for yourself. It’s not something that necessarily happens overnight, it takes time, and effort. But, that reset button will give you the chance to reinvent yourself, and become someone you can be proud of, and rebuild a life that will actually make you happy. You can learn to love yourself again, and love the world around you.

Do I regret the choices I made in my past? Maybe a little bit, but for the most part, not really. Why? Because those bad choices I made in my past taught me a lot of valuable lessons, and are a large part of the person I am now. I wouldn’t be living the life I am now without having made those choices back then. I wouldn’t be happy now without those choices. I wouldn’t love myself the way I do now, if I hadn’t made those choices which made me hate myself so much back then. I take pride in my bad choices, because they taught me to make the better choices for myself, so I can keep living each and every day, better than the last.

Hit that reset button, it’ll be the best choice you ever make.

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World Building and Chara Backstories!

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A better, more positive Tumblr

So what is changing?

Why are we doing this?

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Wow. I’m just sitting here, and it only just occurred to me. I’m a complete loser.

Voltron/YOI Trash

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

World Building and Chara Backstories!

Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

A better, more positive Tumblr

So what is changing?

Why are we doing this?

So what’s next?

THIS IS THE CUTEST SHIT I’VE EVER SEEN! DO MORE DO MORE DO MORE!!

HOW DO I SHIP THIS

FREE ART PROGRAMS

Wow. I’m just sitting here, and it only just occurred to me. I’m a complete loser.