[Announcement: This blog has been resuscitated and temporarily hijacked by IRON LUNG brainworms. Will return to JnD-posting soon!]
I'm Black-Eco-Sage, and I am a Full-time Lightning Mage and Some-times Artist! This 18+ Blog will be mainly dedicated to making fanart & fanfiction for the Jak and Daxter fandom (although others may sneak in, too :) )
First and Foremost: This is a safe space for POC and LGBT+ people. While I do my best to check the users that I reblog, I encourage my watchers to let me know if I miss anyone acting out of pocket. Racism, sexism, transphobia, and homophobia has no place here.
With that being said, this blog will occasionally be used to amplify and bring awareness to human rights issues and issues that affect my life specifically (at least until I can figure out how Tumblr works and make a proper side-blog for it all).
Outside of that, I'm just here to doodle and chill. <3
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About me:
Bi/Ace demigod of Unknown Primordial Origins O_o
They/them
Engineer by day, stealth-doodler by night
Been a fan of Jak and Daxter since my mum picked up Jak2 from a bargain bin back in 2006
Took 10 years to learn how to draw before posting my first JnD piece on DeviantArt in 2016
I own three cats...and yet, am deathly allergic to cats
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Directory (Art-Only):
#Iron Lung - Iron Lung posts and works
#JnD - Jak and Daxter art and writings
#Dark Giant - Dark Giant!Jak art
#(Dot).Sleep Saga - JnD AU Series following my OC, Subject Zero (coming soon)
#Krimzon Skies AU - JnD AU Prequel Series following Torn (coming soon)
For @Sharkfiinn's post about being sick of seeing Bloodymary, but relevant enough for others to need to hear this too:
[CONTEXT]: A post from @Sharkfiinn about being frustrated about Bloodymary taking over the PHM tags - a frustration that is valid and 100% understandable. HOWEVER, in a stunning display of irony, some of the commenters immediately tried to frame the Bloodymary fans as racist and "Anti-black" for not shipping "the only black character" with "the only asian character" (actual words used. They have names, but who cares, right)...and using that as their deflecting argument.
When I, a Black fan, politely expressed my discomfort with this very bad faith approach, I was immediately blocked by the artist.
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It's...a peculiar feeling, being blocked by (white) fans for being Black and having an opinion. Especially by an artist I admired.
Especially when that opinion was essentially "please refrain from using Black People (like me) as an excuse/scapegoat/talking point to win dumb fan arguments that have NOTHING TO DO WITH US." Because it is deeply uncomfortable and robs us of any thought or voice we might have had on the subject.
(And for quick perspective: I don't care about fan drama. Don't come at me with it. I'm too old and too tired to care about which Ninja Turtle is the coolest, or which one is kissing who in fanart. My daily struggles are rooted in "how to survive an administration that wants me dead for being brown in 2026", not "omg I can't believe you ship them, ew." Like...whatever. I'm just here to enjoy seeing people be creative in something I like, and it's one of the few escapes that I have from the horrors I face on the regular. Truly, thank you all for existing and bringing light to my day.
However, I felt the need to put this quick PSA together not just for everybody else, but also for some of my mutuals, as a general heads-up to avoid doing this particular thing by accident. This isn't an angry rant designed to attack anyone - we don't do that here. This is more of a...mildly disappointed but relatively-pensive and informational FYI.)
But if y'all want to talk about Anti-Blackness, and do it seriously, then you need to LISTEN to Black People when they try to tell you what's up. You need to ASK before you speak for someone that you do not know. You need to really THINK before you try to use us to win an argument. And you need to STOP BLOCKING us the minute we make our presence known and/or so much as breathe a huff of disagreement with something you've said.
I'm a person, not a game piece.
We are not a hot take.
We are not a statistic.
We are not a political talking-point.
Anti-blackness in fandom is NOT: seeing a character of color not be present, or drawn correctly, in fan-art. Well, it is a little bit, but that's not the main problem that we're having. That's like, so far down on the list of nonsense we have to deal with that it's not even worth going into here.
Anti-Blackness IS: Black Voices and Creators getting shut down or shut out entirely from the fan-space for being Black. Also, white fans indirectly using us against other white fans, or anyone else they deem as "opposition" to whatever argument they're trying to make, to shut them down, too.
(Literally got blocked on-sight last week the moment I mentioned being non-white in conversation with a white fan. A fan that, btw, tried to say they were speaking "for" me...against another fan they called racist for drawing their favorite characters in a style that they did not like. Black people, unsurprisingly, had nothing to do with this, the art, the artist, or the conversation whatsoever. ...Don't ask me, I still don't get it.)
Now, I believe that a good deal of these fans are genuine and really think that they're helping when they speak for us, and don't mean to drown us out in conversation; but then, there are people like this one, who are just low-key malicious about it. The result is that the Black fans end up never revealing themselves, or just lurk in the shadows forever because we do not feel safe interacting with you all. The more you talk over us, the more you silence us, until no one wants to speak, because it isn't worth the hassle, the drama, risk of being blocked, or the ostracization.
And it is insane to me that you, @Sharkfiinn, and these commenters that proudly purport to be just SO pro-black, and SO inclusive, would immediately shut down the only Black voice in the room for the crime of gently telling you "no".
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tl;dr Non-black fans, please leave Black people out your mouth unless it's relevant or we say it's okay. If you're not sure about something being offensive, just ask. BE RESPECTFUL, obviously, but still ask.
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Tl;dr #2: Never thought I'd ever have to write something like this. Not mad about it. Not surprised. Just disappointed.
Voting on Global Film Academy. The official digital presence of the National Film Academy, celebrating cinemati.
We're Going to Make Hollywood Shit Themselves.
This is your opportunity to make a lot of rich people really mad.
If you loved Iron Lung, it’s time to help Markiplier and his lovely amazing crew do the funniest thing possible: flip the bird to a film industry that said they didn't want them.
This is a little idealist, but there's enough of us. 38.6 million of us, and we could absolutely slam this. So VOTE:
Best Thriller: Iron Lung
Best Actor: Mark Fischbach
Best Actress: Caroline Kaplan
Best Supporting Actress: Elsie Lovelock
Best Director: Mark Fischbach
Best Producer: Jeff Guerrero & Will Hyde
Best Independent Film: Iron Lung
This could be yet another win for small artists, a win for indie filmmaking, and the ultimate "thank you" to Mark for doing it for the love of the game. He and his team went through hell to make something he deemed perfect enough for us; I mean, he basically built a damn jet engine in his bathroom for this movie simply for quality's sake. This feels like the least we can do in return.
Winners will be announced by the Academy on July 1st, 2026, in Central London.
Let’s make sure they’re reading that crew's name ALL NIGHT LONG!!!
the KIDS act passed the house today. 267-117, 47 not voting.
that's not great. but it's not the whole story.
a few things got worse right before the vote too. the language that explicitly protected encryption, saying the bill couldn't be used to force platforms to weaken it, got quietly stripped out on Friday. that safeguard just doesn't exist anymore.
but this isn't over. it heads to the senate next, and the senate is genuinely not on board. blumenthal and cantwell, two of the senators who wrote the original KOSA, are saying they don't want this version near a markup. blackburn, a republican and the other original author, called the missing duty of care provision a red line.
worth being clear here, blackburn isn't on our side. she wants the policy stronger, not gone. but that's still a crack we can use. her opposition means the house version has zero guaranteed path through the senate as written, and a stalled bill is a bill that isn't law yet. use her objection, don't trust her motive.
senate commerce hasn't even scheduled a markup yet. that's the next pressure point. this thing has died or gotten majorly rewritten at this stage before.
contact your senators: find yours here. tell them you don't want the house version anywhere near a vote.
and remember, if you have to, contact your senators scared. anything helps.
the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes
feat. Smol!Simon and his Mom, pre-Rapture, for Mother’s Day. <3
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I wanted to draw something in direct contrast to the canon: something bright and happy for a change, because Simon and his mother deserve bright, happy things. In the darkest of times, I’ve found those bright, happy things, no matter how small, to be worth holding out for. They are worth fighting for. They are worth living for. And I think we ALL could really use some bright, happy things right about now.
It is my sincere hope that they found each other in a bright, happy place beyond the horrors that they endured, too.
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(I included the version without the border because it felt more free and unconstrained. Wasn't sure which one I liked more, so hey, why not both? :) )
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Original WIP: here!
💬 0 🔁 3 ❤️ 26 · Mother's Day · feat. smol!Simon and his Mom, pre-rapture. I would like to imagine that they were happier times. :')
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I've been penning an AU (well, one of many AUs) where not only does Simon survive, but his efforts reunite humanity across the stars...and with his mom, who he was separated from in the QR.
I've been penning an AU (well, one of many AUs) where not only does Simon survive, but his efforts reunite humanity across the stars...and with his mom, who he was separated from in the QR.
My Favorite Nomination for Women’s History Month (2026):
Sun-ok Frank, aka... "Momiplier"!
So I got back from watching “Iron Lung” and decided to hop back into the Markiplier fan space for the first time in nearly a decade, just to see what else he’s made. And one of the things that I can't believe I missed was that he made a Documentary in 2022... about his Mom’s escape from North Korea. And this was based off a book that his Mom wrote about both him and their family’s experience.
So I dropped everything to go and watch it, and holy shit, if you haven’t, you NEED to. My takeaways:
1) (Obviously) Mark’s mama is a f*cking g. That’s all.
2) It's a story about hope, courage, love, and perseverance. The importance of knowing where you came from and to understand the things that make you who you are now is something that, in my opinion, a lot of POC really need to hear right now. Ms. Frank is a smart, funny, and resilient woman with a backbone of solid steel, and her story is one that needs to be shared.
But to me the best thing that stands out is the truly heartwarming relationship between her and her son. It's really a story about them, and how they succeeded through tragedy and hardship to become who they are today. They lift each other up and make each other stronger. <3
You can watch their documentary here: "Markiplier: From North Korea (2022)"
Note: I haven’t found an official place to purchase the documentary or support it monetarily at this time, and if anyone has that information, please let me know ASAP. Likewise, Momiplier’s Book is currently sold out at https://markiplierfromnorthkorea.com/. However, she does have her own YouTube channel, so go Subscribe to her there to show your support and for her wonderful cooking tutorials!
(On a humorous note, this was how I found out that MY mother was already a fan of Momiplier, but had no idea who Markiplier was. I got back from the theater with my head exploding all over my sketchpad and talking her ear off about Iron Lung theories the whole weekend, and then showed her the documentary I found, and she just casually goes “Oh I know her, I follow her recipes”. ...Apparently she just has a whole host of food-tubers that she casually follows, and she’d been subscribed to “Momiplier’s Kitchen” for a hot minute and somehow never put together that her son is the same dude that I’d been raving about.
She just saw cool recipes, cute doggos, and a Queen getting ready to stab her grown-ass son for eating the ingredients and getting in the way and was like “I can relate to this”.)
3) Bonus: these absolutely stunning photos Ms. Frank shared with her fans from her Insta: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBcf-K6TaNa/
My Favorite Nomination for Women’s History Month (2026):
Sun-ok Frank, aka... "Momiplier"!
So I got back from watching “Iron Lung” and decided to hop back into the Markiplier fan space for the first time in nearly a decade, just to see what else he’s made. And one of the things that I can't believe I missed was that he made a Documentary in 2022... about his Mom’s escape from North Korea. And this was based off a book that his Mom wrote about both him and their family’s experience.
So I dropped everything to go and watch it, and holy shit, if you haven’t, you NEED to. My takeaways:
1) (Obviously) Mark’s mama is a f*cking g. That’s all.
2) It's a story about hope, courage, love, and perseverance. The importance of knowing where you came from and to understand the things that make you who you are now is something that, in my opinion, a lot of POC really need to hear right now. Ms. Frank is a smart, funny, and resilient woman with a backbone of solid steel, and her story is one that needs to be shared.
But to me the best thing that stands out is the truly heartwarming relationship between her and her son. It's really a story about them, and how they succeeded through tragedy and hardship to become who they are today. They lift each other up and make each other stronger. <3
You can watch their documentary here: "Markiplier: From North Korea (2022)"
Note: I haven’t found an official place to purchase the documentary or support it monetarily at this time, and if anyone has that information, please let me know ASAP. Likewise, Momiplier’s Book is currently sold out at https://markiplierfromnorthkorea.com/. However, she does have her own YouTube channel, so go Subscribe to her there to show your support and for her wonderful cooking tutorials!
(On a humorous note, this was how I found out that MY mother was already a fan of Momiplier, but had no idea who Markiplier was. I got back from the theater with my head exploding all over my sketchpad and talking her ear off about Iron Lung theories the whole weekend, and then showed her the documentary I found, and she just casually goes “Oh I know her, I follow her recipes”. ...Apparently she just has a whole host of food-tubers that she casually follows, and she’d been subscribed to “Momiplier’s Kitchen” for a hot minute and somehow never put together that her son is the same dude that I’d been raving about.
She just saw cool recipes, cute doggos, and a Queen getting ready to stab her grown-ass son for eating the ingredients and getting in the way and was like “I can relate to this”.)
3) Bonus: these absolutely stunning photos Ms. Frank shared with her fans from her Insta: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBcf-K6TaNa/
