What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

Anonymous asked: Don't you think it's a little pathetic that all you draw is fanart? Aren't you like 45 or something? All you have to show for all your years of work is a bunch of drawings of Castiel. It's fucking sad dude. You're going to wake up one day and regret that you didn't draw anything of your own that's actually original.

toastiel:

winjennster:

euclase:

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Good thing it’s my life and not yours then, huh? 

Gosh, you don’t even have to worry about what bills I pay. All you see is my hobby. Isn’t that nice of me?

You know what. No. I have more to say.

This pisses me off. The implication that 45 is too old for a woman to have fun is fucking bullshit. 

JJ fucking Abrams is 50, and he’s a fanboy. He’s making AUs, and he’s doing the exact same thing as any fangirl is doing only with a much bigger budget. There are plenty of dudes just like him, too. Comic book artists, writers, directors—all men, all older than me, (I’m 35 by the way, not 45) who are no different. The only difference is that their work is called work and not “being a fangirl.” Their work is respected. Even though fangirl is exactly what they are.

So fuck your jealousy, fuck your misogyny, and most of all fuck you for presuming to know a goddamn thing about my life and what kind of hard work I’ve had to do—not just to draw this well (read: better than you) but to allow myself to be happy about it when the whole entire world has decided I’m not allowed to be. Fuck you for every girl you ever made feel foolish or pathetic for not sacrificing every bit of herself to you.

THIS

You can’t hear it, but I’m clapping for you right now. This. All of this. It’s absolutely perfect. Go you. Fuck them.

Funny how what’s seen as dedication, focus and commitment in a man is written off as time-wasting, frivolity and shortsightedness in a woman.

Unless, of course, the thing to which she’s dedicated herself is the support of a male partner or family member - in which case, it’s loyalty and the natural order of things.(Whereas, by the same token, a man dedicating himself to the support of women is seen as weak and lacking in ambition.)

Gender roles: investing assholes in troglodytic bullshit since forever.

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