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Jan. 1st, 2020 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
call me krad.
I'm an old web meatbag that's most known for drawing villains on my main handle and in general being the one usually yelling 'fuck authority' literally, conceptually, and knowingly. I made this DW as a container to separate 'actual self' from 'artist persona' cleanly and have strong feelings on the topic.
also into:
villains. monsters. cathartic art that hits your id like a jackhammer, fellow kinksters + history , mil-hist (psyops, science of interrogation, mercenaries, etc). long-standing interests that aren't manufactured for attention's sake. experiential-ly creative side of fandom with a side of the sordid. zinesters. ships with deliciously fucked up power dynamics, sakuga, hacker shit, catharsis from those who never quite felt human. villains, again.
may or may not roll around increasingly rare fandoms (Hellsing, SW:EU, FE 9/10/16).
other frequent post topics found on here...
various liveblogs of media usually older than 2005, corporate ladder-climbing shit, magpie-ing links from the more interesting corners of the internet, guns. catharsis as a concept. if you need content warnings for anything mentioned here you're probably not going to want to follow.
Anything else you need to know about me...
this journal is selectively public depending on topic / how long I've recognized you, and If we've interacted more than twice positively there's a high chance I'll add you to the general private list. you may have remembered me from tumblr days but I'm not likely to go back to social media at this point.
I'm an old web meatbag that's most known for drawing villains on my main handle and in general being the one usually yelling 'fuck authority' literally, conceptually, and knowingly. I made this DW as a container to separate 'actual self' from 'artist persona' cleanly and have strong feelings on the topic.
also into:
villains. monsters. cathartic art that hits your id like a jackhammer, fellow kinksters + history , mil-hist (psyops, science of interrogation, mercenaries, etc). long-standing interests that aren't manufactured for attention's sake. experiential-ly creative side of fandom with a side of the sordid. zinesters. ships with deliciously fucked up power dynamics, sakuga, hacker shit, catharsis from those who never quite felt human. villains, again.
may or may not roll around increasingly rare fandoms (Hellsing, SW:EU, FE 9/10/16).
other frequent post topics found on here...
various liveblogs of media usually older than 2005, corporate ladder-climbing shit, magpie-ing links from the more interesting corners of the internet, guns. catharsis as a concept. if you need content warnings for anything mentioned here you're probably not going to want to follow.
Anything else you need to know about me...
this journal is selectively public depending on topic / how long I've recognized you, and If we've interacted more than twice positively there's a high chance I'll add you to the general private list. you may have remembered me from tumblr days but I'm not likely to go back to social media at this point.
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Date: 2020-01-02 04:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-01-03 01:23 am (UTC)Honestly, that's half the charm of DW, even in the past two months alone I've learned about so many new fandoms I hadn't even /heard/ about that had some truly delectable fics with favorite tropes like that it's like an all-you-can-eat-buffet. Here's to many more years of that!
(Ahaha - you said it~)
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Date: 2020-01-03 03:21 am (UTC)Thrilled to see someone who does a lot of Quality Hellsing Content, and I adore your stuff with it!! My first ever cosplay was from Hellsing (Jan), and it still has a special place in my heart.
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Date: 2020-01-06 12:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-05 04:09 am (UTC)Also, sick art. Bookmarking Iron Crown to binge later.
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Date: 2020-09-09 09:53 pm (UTC)gave you access - and thanks for the follow and kind words! <3
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Date: 2021-08-21 04:42 pm (UTC)I'm a mortician-turned-tattoo artist who writes a lot about the paranormal, handyman stuff, my boyfriend and dog... I also draw quite a bit (obviously). I do like villain fucking and reading about people's characters and stories, as well as queer history and kink-oriented stuff.
I remember Hellsing ... I loved it in middle school. I had so many (mental) fanfictions about Alucard. Takes me back! I was a pretty big fan of Schrodinger, and Pip as well. I kind of miss that edgy 2000s stuff.
Most of my stuff is public if you'd like to fancy a look around my journal to see what I'm about.
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Date: 2021-08-21 05:51 pm (UTC)Isn't hellsing timeless? heh - warms me so much to hear that on your side. One of those rare series where even the protagonists are as zany/edgy and nearly as fucked up as the villains. imo it's been a great refuge of a fandom that's not about to get the edges sawed off, in these days of more "palatable" media.
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Date: 2021-08-21 06:26 pm (UTC)Hellsing is just FUN. I agree with that -- The sanitization of media, especially on social media where it must be without flaws, where it must be as PC as possible, et cetera. The first thing that comes to mind is Tumblr's death grip on Steven Universe. And when they remade the Grinch movie, and he was no longer shitty and mean but misunderstood. Not everyone needs a redemption arc imo... Can't we just have nuanced people?! Can't people just be slimy or have questionable morals?
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Date: 2021-08-25 02:31 am (UTC)(totally feel you with the not-your-own-hobbies ... it's one of the huge ways dreamwidth feels so richly different than social media sites - much harder to get isolated in a verrrrry narrowly specific bubble; feel like you get to see the 'human' in people a lot more.)
and god, right with the sanitation of media? it's very hard to feel like there's villains out there that aren't a caricature or have all of their claws removed - imoe the Major (and his squad) in hellsing was so successful *as* a villain because he was such a charismatic evil motherfucker at the same time. pretty sure a good half of the anime in the 00's wouldn't be able to get made or not-canceled these days, honestly.
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Date: 2021-08-25 03:12 am (UTC)True! I don't think Hellsing could ever be remade for a variety of reasons, but mostly... ppl would get pissed because there are Nazi characters who are faceted. Like the Major! He has charm! He has wit! He is also a nazi, unfortunately!
I remember Jojo Rabbit, I saw it when it came out and it had sympathetic nazis (like a gay ish one) and when people talked about it they HAD to yell that "First of all, I don't like nazis, I do not condone them, BUT i like X about Y character"... Like JFC people we know Nazis are bad, there's no need to virtue signal before you discuss a character. Like I like Schrodinger, does that make me a Nazi sympathizer? Woof.
I get kinda heated about that stuff admittedly. I'm anti-censorship like you, pro-leave-people-alone, so that kind of sanitation of media in an attempt to make it palatable grinds my gears. Thinking about it ... I can't think of any older anime that wouldn't get cancelled, actually...
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Date: 2021-08-27 03:03 am (UTC)No worries about being heated, you're preachin' to the choir here. :D It's genuinely lovely to hear. Anti-censorship is kind of the one big issue I focus on these days (if only for limited energy but also being in a good position to be informed as a taboo art creator). GOD yes to the tendency to disclaimer the shit out of a villain being a "norm" these days. it's almost like there's an absolute incapability to start from the assumption that ethics =/= personal taste in fiction. love villains (ditto with the major and similar characters. even unironically callin' myself a villainfucker) - and yet it's just.. bah. it sucks the fun out of being in a fandom, ngl.
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Date: 2021-08-27 03:49 am (UTC)I have some characters I draw (you might have seen them on my page, I have most of my art under access only shit), one of which is unhealthily obsessed with the other and they smack each other around a lot and it's not a good relationship. That doesn't mean I support abusive relationships -- But on Twitter or Tumblr or WUTEVA that means I am an abuse sympathizer T_T Can't people just be bad sometimes?! Does everything have to be a paragon of virtue?
Haha. I'm obviously venting. I think things are too sanitized and in this puritanical shit we have lost a lot of grit and flavor in media. Grumble grumble! Anyways! I really look forward to your posts and any art you post up! I love the hellsing stuff you did, it really captures how slimy Alucard is haha
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Date: 2022-03-09 10:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-10 12:55 am (UTC)(I'm pretty sure DW is RSS-compatible, so it should catch all the public posts for you ~ looking forward to seeing you around too. )