[Image: A photograph of a woman cosplaying as Ursula the Sea-Witch from the Little Mermaid.]
OH MAN I WISH I HAD SEEN THIS! I would totally have given you a high-five.
[Image: A photograph of a woman cosplaying as Ursula the Sea-Witch from the Little Mermaid.]
OH MAN I WISH I HAD SEEN THIS! I would totally have given you a high-five.
[Image: A photo of some of the signs on Alexâs artist alley table that read: âHey you! Do you have a dollar? Do you have a face? Draw your face for a dollar!â]
OHAYOCON.
Come find me in the artist alley.
IâM ALSO DRAWING PONIES, YO.
I HOPE YOUR HAND DIDNâT FALL OFF AFTER DRAWING ALL THOSE FACES. <3
So far, it’s still attached! <3Â Though after Saturday’s marathon of drawing, I did put on my wrist brace for safety’s sake. ^_^;
[Image: a drawing of Alex laying back in an armchair sleep, snuggling a big ear of corn, and an ice pack resting on her other arm. Top text: Back from Ohayocon! Bottom text: Thank you to everyone who stopped by! My hand needs a rest from all the drawing, so proper comics will resume on Friday! –Alex.]
Ohayocon has set a high bar for the rest of my shows this year! It honestly feels good to be getting back into the swing of things. I haven’t had a convention in 4 months, so I was surprised to find how much I’d missed them during the long dark winter. ^_^
Going out with friends for lunch today!
[Image: A photo of some of the signs on Alex’s artist alley table that read: “Hey you! Do you have a dollar? Do you have a face? Draw your face for a dollar!”]
OHAYOCON.
Come find me in the artist alley.
I’M ALSO DRAWING PONIES, YO.
[Image: A photo of model Sonia Rykiel with a mischievous expression wearing a dress made of black fuzzy knit fabric and stripes of a sheer material. Â The neckline of the dress has big knitting needles stuck through it like she is knitting the dress onto herself. Â Sonya has bright orange hair with bangs.]
Sheâs crafty.
I loooove the big knitting needles.
[tw: ableism, rape culture] Common arguments on the “derpy hooves” thing, blah blah blah
- âItâs ableist to say that people with different faces are disabledâ â Um, no, no one ever said this was about ALL people with disabilities, or that people with different faces are somehow automatically disabled. Whatâs ableist is not acknowledging that some people with âderp facesâ do exist.
- âWe should all just stop back off and stop fighting, give peace a chance, blah blahâ â The majority of what Iâve seen has been people spouting off ableist shit. Iâve seen people who criticized Derpy threatened with rape and death, harassed multiple times, etc, but I have yet to see a person who thinks âderpâ is okay call out their fellow Bronies on said behavior. Iâve gotten some shit myself but I havenât posted it. So no. When someone is being a racist dick, and they refuse to acknowledge it, you donât say, âhey letâs be friends!â This is not about moral relativism. Itâs either ableist or itâs not.
- âItâs just a cartoon! Youâre taking this too seriously!â â Cartoon characters can send political and social messages to people as much as real people. Maybe you havenât noticed, but MLP has a lesson about friendship in every episode. If it can do this, why couldnât it also be ableist? And also, this is really funny given how some people have responded with threats, harassment, etc. I guess itâs only serious if the word is some pretty little meme that matters to you, right?
- âThe creators of the show didnât mean for it to be ableist!â â Intent is not magic. The end. If a little kid says X expletive about People of Color, they are still being racist even if they didnât mean to. It is very possible to say or do offensive things without meaning to.
- âPeople will always find something to be offended by, blah blahâ or âitâs just the internet, it wonât change!â â No. Actually, people get offended when they encounter something that demeans their existence or their identity. It is incredibly possible to be funny without hurting people through ableism, sexism, homophobia, etc. Go look up Mitch Hedberg, heâs a standup comedian who is incredibly funny without being offensive. This kind of response reeks of self-interested, self-convenient fatalism. Maybe if you actually took on some responsibility and acknowledged whatâs going on, you could change something.
- âDerp just means âawkwardâ or âsillyââ â Okay, then donât use faces and images that make fun of people with disabilities. And there are plenty of other words that mean âawkwardâ or âsillyâ, without being ableistâŠsuch asâŠâawkwardâ or âsillyâ. Or potatoes. Or jujubes. Itâs not hard.
- âSomeone who is disabled told me it doesnât bother themâ â Okay, and it bothers other people with disabilities. Your point? No one elected some grand representative of all of the disabled people to speak on our behalf. Itâs not some popularity contest. Itâs about actually figuring out if this is a problem or not.
- âItâs not ableist, youâre wrong, youâre being too sensitiveâ â Cool story. I guess the people with disabilities who are telling you itâs a problem donât matter as much, right? Oh wait, thatâs ableist.
if anyone can refute these, Iâd love to see it. I havenât yet.
Read, y’all.
Apparently all I needed to do was update my client.
I busied myself with making a mushroom house, then an adjacent mushroom forest. Since there are only two colors of natural mushrooms, I got a little creative with the colored wool and built my own…. XD
Image -screenshot from Minecraft of three terrace houses Iâve built.
FINISHED! OK WHAT NEXT?
I long for Fancecraft. I would be so fancy.