you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍
quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
This time it’s Suffering. Because nothing is real and Kuafu is a delusional yearner.
You cannot convince me that Kuafu didn’t toy with Ruyi’s sensitivity settings to see what a kinder version of Yi would feel like only for him to realise it feels off because it’s not him. I state my case.
Silly little doodle and then some not so silly thoughts about siblings continued under the cut. It gets sad. Be warned!!
Yi is three years old when his parents give him another gift he doesn't like: a "sister". Heng is bald, wrinkly, and quite frankly not much to look at. But when he pokes her tiny little hand it curls soft and warm against his finger, so he decide sshe might be alright after all. She seems smarter than most babies, so maybe she can help with your experiments when she's a little bigger. Maybe.
First impressions are lasting impressions. Yi know she's growing quickly- he's the one who tracks her height on the wall, after all- but even if it looks like she might grow taller than him, he'll always be three years older than her. When he's young, he thinks this means he knows what's best on just about everything.
The explosion recalibrates his world.
The thought that haunts him isn't "I died." It's "I almost killed her."
So he moves away to learn more, ignoring her watery smile as she sends him off. If Yi doesn't know everything and can't figure it out on his own, then he just has to go somewhere that will teach him what he's missing. Easy.
At Kunlun, he realizes half the things he thought he knew were flat out wrong, and the other half were rudimentary truths at best. Lesser students drop out, slinking back home in shame. Yi devours everything they teach him and more, and still finds time to pick out souvenirs to send back home. He's an older brother, after all. It wouldn't do for him to set a bad example.
As the years fly by, he sees Heng grow up through letters and video messages. It's lonely sometimes, but his work on the Eternal Cauldron project is a matter of civilizational life or death, so he throws himself into his projects. After so many years away, his lab is more of a comfort than his childhood home will ever be. Still, he makes an effort to go back and visit when he can.
All his thoughts grind to a halt when she refuses to come with him. It goes against the fundamental truth of his world: she's his baby sister, so he needs to protect her and tell her what's right and wrong. He has all the answers. He's spent years working on them. She just needs to listen.
Why won't she listen?
A three-year gap stretches over a lifetime. For the very first time, he looks at Heng and sees a stranger. He says as much.
If he could go back- if he could change that conversation- if he could have said anything else—
He wakes up in a world without that three-year gap.
An impossible, five hundred year expanse severs his past from his present. This is the new truth of his life- sharper and surer than even the executioner's blade. For a time, he tries to re-calaculate the gap.
Five hundred and three. A little less, depending on rounding error. Conversely, she might even have been a little older than his memories are now when she—
The thought refuses to go away.
It doesn't seem like it should be possible for little sisters to die. For there to be a world afterwards.
When he was younger, he'd confidently asked Heng "What would you do without me?"
He finds he doesn't have an answer, faced with the other side of the question.
“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”
i cannot begin to explain the emotions i feel every day knowing that this post i made in the middle of playing tf2 when i was 16 is going to be the one thing of mine that has made the largest impact on the world by a fucking mile
i talk about transitioning and all anyone ever says is "I hope you don't regret it" what if instead we said I hope you love it. I hope it's everything you ever wanted. I hope you live the rest of your life in utter bliss. etc etc.
I hope you transition and I hope it's the best thing you ever did and I hope you never look back and I hope you finally feel comfortable in your own skin
Use the Walgreens Brand which is pretty cheap and it does wonders and doesn’t leave me with a white cast. And I’m dark as hell so I hate looking ashy but not all sunscreens are made equally and it’s one of the better ones I’ve used.
Yea fam. All that “we don’t need sunscreen” shit is a myth. Combine that with the fact that most dermatologists don’t know how to spot skin cancer in Black people and it’s a nasty combination.
“While incidence of melanoma is higher in the Caucasian population, a July 2016 study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology showed it is more deadly in people of color. African American patients were most likely to be diagnosed with melanoma in its later stages than any other group in the study, and they also had the worst prognosis and the lowest overall survival rate.”
Sorry about the link, I’m on mobile. But this is from August 2016, which I know isn’t the most recent but it’s still SUPER IMPORTANT. Y’all please wear sunscreen. With Google it’s even easy to find smaller, Black-owned brands.
you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
Hey y’all I have an announcement! My web app that I’ve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!
Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨
A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming,
structured filtering, and curated reference images.
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