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Illustrator + Comic Artist || 20+

[add-atelier]

Commission sheet information! if you want a commission from me, please contact me through email or through DMs if you prefer that.

Edit: Updated Tattoo Commission prices

[neanmoins-que]

Commissions!

[c-dra]

Lord Commander 💙

[lokorum]

commission for @void-sky !! more then 2 full months later and i still keep catching myself thinking about emrys's design................................ it's just so damn good ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ )

thank you for giving me a chance to draw this gorgeous baby boy for you!! ♡

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FFXIV Evercold Extended Teaser - Reaper

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i love free stuff

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lokineto comm

[add-atelier]

SHOP UPDATE

Also this is a shop reminder: I'll be closing both my Etsy and Bigcartel for two weeks because I'll be on vacation during that time.

If there was something you wanted to get some my shops (links in bio) you have until July 29th 11:59 pm PST to place an order!

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[theonlysupernova]

At a certain point I genuinely don’t know how to keep going, like there is genuinely NOTHING we can do is there, like how can I see shit like this and just… keep going, every fucking day it’s just more and more shit showing how the Earth is probably never going to recover from humanity, and then nothing will change because the only ones who care can’t do Jack shit.

I just really don’t know to keep going in a world that will end probably before I do

[depsidase]

no no no! there are absolutely things you can do.

everything you do matters! what you do counts! you won't be the only person doing it and you won't be the only person who cares!

there are things you can do big and small but also advocacy and having the conversation is necessary too. something like 89% of people are at least somewhat worried about climate change and want more to be done about it but since people aren't talking about it regularly, they think they are the only ones who care.

and the world is actually doing a lot. so far, we've avoided the worst projections (although current projections are still pretty catastrophic) due to changes that have been taking place.

the united states is the biggest holdout right now but most of the rest of the world is—to varying degrees—trying to transition away from fossil fuels, which is like the main thing we have to do. and actually, even the u.s. is moving towards renewable energy despite the current administration's backwards bloviating idiocy (for example, texas generated more power last year through solar energy than coal for the first time ever. turns out renewable energy is just economically more stable and worth investing in and these constant energy shocks from pointless wars aren't helping the case to continue burning fossil fuels for energy.)

i just really want to hammer home to everybody that the doomerist message that there is nothing we can do is literally how oil and gas companies want everyone to feel. they want you to feel there is no solution, that you are powerless, that the changes are too hard or will interrupt your comfort and convenience, that the changes are too expensive, that your choices don't matter at all, so that the changes that need to happen don't happen. but they are happening! right now.

(btw, this is an area where it really does matter who you vote for, locally and nationally.)

over the next little while, i'm going to try and post more content about what the world is doing and where we are succeeding in this.

because this content is not reaching the people who need it. the mainstream news sucks. social media algorithms suck. nothing viral or popular on any algorithm-driven social media platform is reaching your eyes organically—and its been that way for close to a decade. the entertainment outlets are filling our brains with disaster movies and stories where things go wrong and too much of the time the only solution is some hero or return to the status quo or whatever. we've destroyed the sense of community that helps people feel like what they do matters and realize that other people care about the same things they do and are willing to work towards similar goals. our myths and media are fucked and they've seriously fucked up our brains.

where we are at now: the climate is already changing. we're too late to stop that from happening at all. it's been happening for some time and we knew about it and we had solutions but the world has been stupid drunk on oil and gas and capitalism incentivizes the worst anti-social behaviour and organizing society around private profit turns out to produce terrible and stupid results.

now we have really good efficient solutions and they are (in many cases, still too slowly) being implemented. it is not too late to stop making the climate worse, to move the direction to a habitable future, and to adapt society to the new world we are coming into.

i know it seems hard because there is still a mountain to climb. the military and billionaires are farting out greenhouse gases as if none of this matters. (again, capitalism puts the worst among us at the top.) idiot conservatives who refuse to learn anything new are denying science and bringing idiocracy to life. (didn't even require the eugenics.) but we're already climbing this mountain. we've started climbing it already. so get those fucking boots on and let's fucking gooo!

[docholligay]

I think fandom analysis on the whole would be a lot more fun and interesting if it took the sort of attitude a great many of my lit professors did, and the idea was to look at the text, see what you think it's saying, or even COULD be saying, and let's fuck around with that idea. I got four years of hearing insane takes on stuff and I was extremely fortunate to go a school with small enough class sizes and a dedicated enough faculty that in many respects, wild theorizing was encouraged.

One of my professors was straight up like "I don't want you reading papers about this book until we finish it!" and we had writing things for the first 20 minutes of every class because he wanted to know what WE thought, not what we had become convinced was THE thing to think.

When I was in my second year of college, I spiraled out into this whole "Jane Eyre is a lesbian!" thing, and my professor (not the same guy as above but delightfully insane in her own right) was like, "Wow, I've never heard this from anyone," and instead of being like, "um this is not what has been agreed upon by everyone else" went "Tell me more." Now, as a forty year old woman who has never stopped engaging with stories on both an enjoyment and academic level, the paper I would write with age and distance would be more "Homosociality, desire, and the domesticated male in Jane Eyre" or something like that, nineteen year old me was a little reductive and simple, but same vibes.

But my professor did not think I was right, she thought I was being INTERESTING, and so she encouraged me and championed me to write that paper and I actually presented it at the student division of a conference! The cool thing about that was, that when I was defending it, I was having to think about it, but it was in the spirit of collaboration, it felt like. No one was trying to 'win' the conversation.

Doc, what the fuck are you--I saw a really interesting thing this morning, someone talking about Shrek, of all things, and how they thought it was about how you cannot turn an ogre into a man, but he can make you become an ogre. And I immediately went, "Wow! Okay, interesting, not how I read that at all, TELL ME MORE." It was really jarring for me, then, to see pretty much every comment be like, 'uh you are wrong and also stupid." Sure, maybe that's not the intention of the work, but I don't for one goddamn motherfucking second think Charlie Bronte was sitting down going "I am going to write a woman so gay..." nor do I think the read of her as same sex-attracted is the end all be all of interpretations. It's mine, for sure! But like...talking about stories is supposed to be fun and it's supposed to be about possibility.

That one post got me thinking about how we are, in fandom often all looking at this same text, and there's immense pressure to have a 'right' interpretation--I was at the nexus of so many Sailor Moon fandom wars, and while I got into a few tussles, I was also stupid to do that. This characters are not real, and I was shutting down POSSIBILITY. And even after I was like, 'Wow, I don't think this is actually a very fun way to do stuff" it turns out you can't magically give everyone the same revelation you have simultaneously. Which is upsetting. And I see these same patterns repeat over and over and over again.

In my old age, I'm less interested in he "He would not say that" and more interested in "Cool, tell me why he would say that?"

Don't misunderstand me, there are points of view and ideas on different texts where I'm like, "Hm. I don't care to engage with that." Remember that the window we're looking out of is as important as what we're looking at, and will DOUBTLESS change the appearance. But the whole reason we have each other is to try and find other windows! It's not actually to find someone who is the next pane of glass in your same window. I miss that environment, where you could trust that everyone coming to the table was engaging with the same ground rules and that there was an expectation of, detachment doesn't quite get to the heart of what I'm talking about, but we were expected not to take the text or the analysis of it personally, even when it was hard. And sometimes it was. But I think it led to me having--for example it's crazy to me to have one 'right read' on any given text. I had a SUPER FUCKING ANIMATED conversation with a fellow lit nerd about whether or not GdT's Frankenstein was emotionally faithful to the text (which is not the same as being literally faithful nor the same as being good)and it was so fun, EVEN THOUGH we were coming at it completely opposed. But it was so fucking fun.

I wish I could do that with anime and cartoons, but you can't. People take Shrek personally. So I'll never have that same fun.

ANYWAY SORRY I AM DRINKING COFFEE AND MY DAUGHTER ISN'T HERE I HAVE TOO MUCH FREE TIME.

[tlbodine]

Yesssss, this.

It has been very lonely and alienating to be on the We All Love To Talk About Stories part of the internet with the heart of an English Major when most of the people I encounter are....ah....approaching fandom and media discussion with a very different sort of lens.

[heartofaspen]

while the leon and grace father-daughter thing is cute for fanart, i do think it discredits the unabashed kindness and empathy leon displays for this girl. he finds her completely out of her depth, scared out of her wits, can't be older than 25. he asks no questions and hands off his most powerful weapon so she can protect herself. he's not protecting grace because he's a father figure, he's protecting her because he went through his first day in raccoon city alone.

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[shamebats]

Wild how there are lgbtq+ people on here who hold the same opinions on queer culture as the average homophobic transphobic straight person, just that they've reasoned themselves into them from the opposite way around.

[shamebats]

You don't like drag. You don't like bisexuals. You don't like asexuals. You're suspicious of queer & trans people who you think have too easy. You don't like pride parades. You don't like people with genders you don't understand. You don't like it when people fall outside of the sex binary. You're suspicious of any queer people who are not part of your friend group. You fear-monger about "men invading women's spaces" and people pretending to be queer for clout.

Do you have any views that you don't share with the average cis straight terf? Besides being against whatever happens to negatively affect you personally?