Hurricane Kat Strikes Again

kat. she/they. i take commissions for 3D character and props, illustration and graphic design. got a masters in game art. married so dont hit on me. Jewish.

[badkatdesigns]

Commissions are always open but it's been a while since I updated my prices lmao

I also do sequential art (comics, storyboards, etc) and fully animated 3d sequences (link to my showreel here, if you need a 3d animator). I'm hoping to expand my skill repertoire and open 2d animation commissions by this time next year.

[badkatdesigns]

If you'd like to commission me, you can now use this handy dandy form!

[badkatdesigns]

Or if you'd prefer, you can sub to my Patreon! For as little as £3 a month, you'll be helping an independent designer stay afloat :)

[badkatdesigns]

Good news! You can now pick up my custom brushes/3d models/fonts from my online storefronts! Ko-fi has my fonts and brushes while TurboSquid is where my 3d models live! They update once a month when one of my reward sets turns 3 months old, so if you want some of my old rewards and can't afford to pay for monthly access/don't want everything all the time, you can now buy the single items themselves! ☺️✌️

[queerpeers]

me: “yeah I dated a guy in high school who came out as gay. it was before i knew i was a boy so needless to say it didn’t work out”

coworker: “damn dude was preordering”

[queerpeers]

other things this coworker (who is a cis guy) has done/said:

—got confused about why I’d never been a boy scout because he forgot i was trans

—told me he was gonna get top surgery scar tattoos to match me after i get mine

—laughs at all my trans jokes, even if they’re supremely unfunny

—calls me big dog (and him little dog) even though he is about as tall as two of me

— “I can’t believe she would say that transphobic thing to you. In June? Pride month?”

[the-ladyguinevere]

Once I said "My gender is whatever's funniest at the time" and my coworker stops dead in his tracks, turns slowly and says "So are your pronouns honk/honk?" killing me instantly

[doggirlpaws]

I was talking to a friend I knew before I transitioned about my new relationship (my first one ever!) and I said "Yeah, I think I only indentified as aro/ace most of my life because I didn't have lesbian as an option" and he looked me dead in the eye and said "Oh? Why not? ...Ohhh"

Then he said "You know, I completely forgot you weren't always this way. Femininity really suits you" and let me tell you I started tearing up

Of course, not ten minutes later I mentioned that I had to relearn how to sing and he said "oh no, what happened?" so he might just be a little slow

[doggirlpaws]

Update on that friend: a bunch of people sent me "he's a little confused, but he's got the spirit" gifs in response to that story. I can tell you now with certainty that she definitely has the spirit, and she's not confused anymore

[plecopsar]

[the-problematic-trolley]

Transhumanism, acceptance of progress - furry, specifically protogen.

(Furry has a lot of political weight/associations).

Argument for disability rights with the protogen.

Body acceptance - hip dip, pouch, tig ol’ bitties

Sex positivity - furry, toaster/toast placement

Censorship- toaster/toast placement

[Refer to male/female gaze]

LGBT rights - bi logo on headphones

Freedom of speech/expression - sarcastic “‘all art is political’” to try and disprove it.

Artistic intent/audience response

Argument to be made for symbolism of food insecurity - use of toast for censorship instead of some luxurious food.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[nope-the-weeb-deactivated202408]

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the "how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there"

[prof-grace-aspen]

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

[askinfresh]

These tags were too perfect to not include

[kawaii-pigeon]

In case y'all need pictures sorry it aint in crayon 🖍️-

[skymagpie]

Characters are not real so they cannot suffer from anything done by you as much as you in the real world cannot suffer from their fictional actions.

However characters in fiction ARE a stand in for certain things that reflect the real world and as such could carry over negative connotations. I know this post focuses on smut and all kinds of kinky fanfic, but just because you don't hurt a character because of a tentacle kink, doesn't mean you are incapable of reinforcing negative stereotypes related to sexuality.

Sexualizing black characters, east asian characters, characters of color in general (in various different ways specific to racist stereotypes) can carry really uncomfortable connotations for the group of people that feels represented by seeing them and especially for white creatives who do this.

So it's kinda unhelpful to make these blanket statements when you are specifically talking about one or two situations in fandom, when there is more nuance over what sexualization and objectification means and how it affects real groups. If positive representation is important because people can see themselves in these characters, then negative representation can also affect them.

You are allowed to like and lust after whatever character, but what you put out there can be hurtful or harmful to people and they will assume it's done out of malice or bigotry.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Your first sentence is the only thing you wrote that is relevant to my post. Nothing else you said addresses my main point.

My post is SOLELY about the characters. Period. End of (this) discussion. Characters cannot experience harm, so I want people to stop calling writers rapists for writing noncon. I want readers to stop feeling guilty because they like whump. You aren’t hurting the character. You can’t. They aren’t real.

If you want to make a post about how the ways we treat characters can sometimes say something about us as writers, or how depictions of characters can cause harm in the real world GREAT!

GO MAKE A NEW POST.

[aaami]

"I like using ai"

[anti-willo-medkit]

I feel like Tumblr should not only have blocklists extend to all side blogs but also if you block someone's main it should block all other blogs associated with it.

mostly because it annoys me how people have our main blocked but not our side blogs so I can't fucking see when they interact with us. and there's also people who we have blocked but still have side blogs that I need to send to hell

[the-quasar-hero]

More game devs need to understand the following concepts:

There is a finite amount of memory on any given device.

No matter how good your game is, players will want memory for other things on their devices.

Not everyone has a stable internet connection so making single player games needing an internet connection is not good.

[definitely-zen-browser]

4. The price of memory has more than quadrupled in the past six months

[normystical]

happy pride month to straight queers!

⭐️ transhets ⭐️

⭐️ strayts/enbyhets ⭐️

⭐️ intersex straights ⭐️

⭐️ aromantic straights ⭐️

⭐️ asexual straights ⭐️

⭐️ aplatonic straights ⭐️

⭐️ afamilial straights ⭐️

⭐️ abro straights ⭐️

⭐️ polyam straights ⭐️

⭐️ homosexual heteroromantics ⭐️

⭐️ heterosexual homoromantics ⭐️

⭐️ bisexual heteroromantics ⭐️

⭐️ heterosexual biromantics ⭐️

⭐️ cupiohex/cullosexuals ⭐️

and many, many more!

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[inthefallofasparrow]

XXI. The World

[taboo-delusion]

This is what world peace looks like

[mobpsycho100]

[byjove]

June is also men’s mental health month so I’d like to drop in and say that mine is not so good. It’s also Pride Month so I’m going to be treating the problem with yaoi.

[creature-adjacent]

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

[questionablepastries]

[giragirameganedan]

dreamt that itch.io released their own special adaptable accessible super thin flexible silicon game controller called the Butterfly you could also fuck (they packaged each one with lube and toy cleaner) but there was no specific obvious way you were supposed to fuck it they encouraged everyone to find their own special unique way to fuck it. and they ran these ads for it that were different people from all walks of life saying what they do with it . sunburned rural dad who folds it hotdog style and jacks off into it. biracial masc lesbian with undercut who tribs with the joystick. young amputee in wheelchair who lets it vibrate on his lap while he works on his novel. etc. beautiful supermodel woman whos like "and me? i just game. hard." it ended with them all triumphantly saying into the camera "and thats how *I* fuck #MyButterfly"

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[silurisanguine]

Linktree will be feeding your images with DALL-E, Open AI from 5th July 2026.

Warning to anyone using Linktree.

From the 5th July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

I deleted my account just now, because there was no way to turn this off or opt out.

[silurisanguine]

Update with some alternatives-

Carrd.co. Free alt with paid features.

Bento.app Currently free, integrated with bluesky

Everlink.tools Closest to Linktree, has some paid features.

Omg.lol Currently $20 a year. If paying for Linktree features this is a great upgrade.

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics

[fairycosmos]

theyre saying you have to go to work again tomorrow even though you just went today