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ave or sam | any pronouns | adult | artist, but only sometimes | multifandom | comms OPEN

[astrangeavenue]

i draw what i want when i want 👍 and sometimes i post it!

art tag is #aves art oc tag is #aves ocs

i have art commissions open! you can find information on them here or on my ko-fi below

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i include image descriptions in the alt text of the images i post (can be found by clicking the 'alt' button in the bottom left corner of an image). i can also include it in a reblog if needed! just ask

my sideblog is @aveterhours, i talk and reblog stuff there more. mostly whatever fandom im into at the moment

i can be found under the same user (AStrangeAvenue) on most other platforms - though i only really post art to insta and twitter, and less than here

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[astrangeavenue]

cant forget these lucky ducks !

main party

[astrangeavenue]

cant forget these lucky ducks !

main party

[astrangeavenue]

un-humanoiding your rhapsody

individuals below the cut

[astrangeavenue]

un-humanoiding your rhapsody

individuals below the cut

[astrangeavenue]

comm for @the-rockers ! yippay

[astrangeavenue]

comm for @the-rockers ! yippay

[actingwithportals]

Would you be willing to elaborate on the ableism in that isat au? I mostly know the au in passing so I’m not super informed, but I’d like to know so I don’t make the same mistakes with my own creations. Genuinely no pressure though

Disabled character who is presented (or at least interpreted as by others) being unable to/incompetent at taking care of themself on their own. Implies that disabled people need to be taken care of instead of knowing how to live with the disabilities they have and experience every day.

Is blind but doesn't use a cane or read braille and is instead given magical explanations for how they can get around these things. Implies that these things are unnecessary or that blind characters would be more interesting/palatable to a (sighted) audience if they are shown to not need those pesky mobility aids/accessibility tools.

Completely blind except for magical exceptions (seeing the stars) (and this helps them to circumvent certain aspects of blindness that are not realistic). Implies that a character must have some kind of workaround to their disability in order to be capable of portraying, because leaving them to experience the full breadth of that disability is "too hard" to attempt.

Is apparently very skilled but is constantly infantalized (example: can't let the disabled person fight despite being fully capable). Implies that no amount of effort a disabled person might put in to being competent at a skill will ever be enough to be treated like an equal.

There's a whole thing about touching other character's faces to see what they look like. Blind people don't do this. This is an extremely common and offensive trope that blind people are sick of. Implies that we give a fuck about what a person looks like when that is completely irrelevant information to someone who is blind.

Portrayed wearing sunglasses, which is another trope that most blind people do not do, and at this point it's so uncommon in reality yet popular in media that I think it really does not need to be on the table anymore. Also cloudy/white eyes. Very few types of blindness cause that. It shows a lack of understanding over how blindness works/a refusal to do research into actual conditions that cause blindness. Implies that the aesthetic preferences of a sighted person is more important than what is truthful to a blind person's reality.

An AU almost entirely done through a visual medium (comics) and yet has no accessibility offered so real blind people could ever engage with it. Implies that we are not expected to exist in this fandom and would want to engage in fanworks, or that our thoughts/input would be desired on a portrayal about us.

I wrote up a post talking about how to write/draw blind characters, because while these issues frustrate me in any work that poorly portrays blindness, I would rather see people learn and improve than to not try at all.

[astrangeavenue]

can i come over and be long and scary and full of strange volatile liquids

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[astrangeavenue]

can i come over and be long and scary and full of strange volatile liquids

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[astrangeavenue]

too damn vertical in here

colored maze very blue so alt bg below

[astrangeavenue]

too damn vertical in here

colored maze very blue so alt bg below

[astrangeavenue]

ouuu auuuu urrrrgrr rauuuuu hrrrrgr and so on

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[astrangeavenue]

ouuu auuuu urrrrgrr rauuuuu hrrrrgr and so on

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[astrangeavenue]

flagtailll flagtaillllll

[astrangeavenue]

flagtailll flagtaillllll

[astrangeavenue]

haha yeah i love enjoying this popular game in a normal and average way. starts to walk away but i trip and all my peak ocs go spilling out of my pockets