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They/Them with a side of He/Him | Early 30's @bluebeads-art : My art blog Welcome to my personal reblog hoard! Mostly safe for work with exceptions tagged appropriately. I chatter in the tags a lot. Hellsite Denizen since September 2011

[bluebead]

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Last Edited: 2025-06-23

🔵About Me

Heya, I'm Blue! I'm a neurodivergent lifelong artist in their early 30's who's also been 3D modeling since 2017. I've been struggling with the whole "making art" part lately, but I'm doing my best! It's getting better!

I'm aro/ace and nonbinary and mostly go by they/them pronouns. He/him is also fine, and I prefer people use masculine-leaning terms for me. "Guy" I resonate a whole lot with. I'm just some guy. :] "Man" is a no though. Enby gender euphoria/dysphoria is weird.

I've been a Hellsite Denizen since September 2011, and this blog is where I hoard posts I like. It's 99.9% reblogs, but I share things I make here as well. I chatter a lot in tags, so you're welcome or sorry about that, depending on how you feel about it.

This blog is mostly Safe For Work, and anything that isn't will be tagged appropriately (#nsfw, #nsfw text, #nsfw implied, etc). However, be warned that I swear like a sailor. I do my best to tag common triggers and phobias, but let me know if there’s anything else I should tag. Posts that are just plain bummers to read are tagged with #negative.

❌ Do not repost or edit my art without permission.

❌ Do not use my art for AI training or NFTs.

⛔Things That'll Get Ya Blocked

If you're anti-queer, a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist), racist, sexist, ableist, or similarly bigoted. Or are just a dick to people quite frankly.

USA Republicans in particular because of enabling direct harm to folks like me. (On top of the overlapping venn diagram with most of the above.)

If you condone pe/dophilia, in/cest, bes/tiality, or other similarly harmful pa/raphilia.

🧾Frequently Used Tags

Note: Links don't work on mobile last I checked. Let me know if any links break or route to the wrong place.

— My Posts

#BlueBead's Art — Art reblogged over from my art blog @bluebeads-art

#Original Characters — General tag for all my original characters. For more specific character tags, check out my art blog's tag list [here]

#BlueBead Rambles — Talking to the void (if you're reading this, congratulations, you're the void!)

#BlueBead Plays Games — I share my video game experiences sometimes. It's mostly Crypt of the NecroDancer at this point

— Other People's Posts

#Other's Art #Other's Writing #Other's Music #Performance Art

#Art Resources — Art tutorials, references, etc

#Adorable Animals — Critter tag, because all animals are adorable

#Favorite — Personal favorite tag that I give out sparingly

[doltishstuff]

Hell yeah bladerunner references

[bluebead]

Why is titling fan fiction like 5x harder than writing the fan fiction? The Cost of Staying Silent and Objective Complete both had a working title and the titles they ended up with. My current to-be-posted fic that I banged out in a day has neither.

Well... it has a shitpost title, but that's an absolute last resort. The fic starts way too serious for it.

[pangur-and-grim]

two “cats” interacting

[fausphorus]

Got possessed in the middle of my work shift.

[insanitysilver]

AO3 Tagging Inspiration.

Mainly a reference for me bc I always blank when it comes to tags. Sharing in case it helps anyone else, but not intended to be prescriptive. Further references:

Ao3’s Rating System Explanation

Difference Between "A/B" and "A&B"

Fanwork Ao3 Accepts Beyond Fanfic

How tagging a pairing in the “Relationship” field vs in “Additional Tags” changes search results

List of Writing Genres

Trope Examples

Most Popular Tags on Ao3

My humble plea for people to cross-post their meta & other fannish nonfiction to ao3, and tag it with “meta analysis” so I can find it and adore it

[bluebeads-art]

2026 May 26th

Really enjoyed the game REPLACED, so mandatory fan art time! This is the protagonist, Reach. I love squinting at sprites and heavily stylized art to try and piece together character designs, it's one of the greatest joys of indie game fan art. Chose to interpret some of the shading on the promotional art as a scar because scars are cool and I like drawing them.

Also, you give me a story about an artificial intelligence that somehow finds itself in a human body and I give them the quintessential human experience: a stomach ache.

2026 May 30th

Big fan of the idea of a nigh-super soldier getting taken out by stomach issues of all things. Food poisoning spares no man.

Been a long time since I've been in a fandom so heckin small that I can keep refreshing the Tumblr and AO3 tags and barely find anything. This friggin game is going to make me write again isn't it. I'm a visual artist, not a writer, I'm not built for this!! I have a 3D modeling project I should be working on!!

I love the tiny fandom experience of recognizing usernames cross-site though. It's like recognizing strangers from your daily commute. Hello fellow tag-crawlers.

Time taken on the portrait was 8 hours 7 minutes. Tummy hurty was 7 hours 10 minutes. Kinda surprised the 2nd one was so fast or that the portrait was so slow. I guess the portrait did pave the way for me figuring out how to draw this dude. I don't have much experience drawing older folks.

Brushes used, from the Clip Studio Asset browser:

Line art (although I’ve edited it so much it’s becoming its own brush): 楽描き質感ペン (ID: 2199256)

Shading (current fave rendering brush): ざらニュルな水彩+ギザっとしたブラシ (ID: 2246932)

Texture on beard & scars: Messy Brush Set (ID: 2221797)

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)

how long

< 3:00

3:00–3:59

4:00–4:59

5:00–5:59

6:00–6:59

7:00–7:59

8:00–11:59

12:00–15:59

16:00–20:59

21:00–24:59

25:00–30:00

≥ 30:00

Voting ended onJun 1

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i would like to clarify it has to be music and it can't just be a short song that's been looped a bunch. that still counts as several songs in one file, it's just several of the same song in one file. no audiobooks no podcasts no plants vs zombies theme 2 hour loop

[doltishstuff]

Some quick sketches

Wish i had more free time((

Got a bit carried away with a card drafts. The idea with tarot was hunting me for a while. The thing is fitting with Veronica's character pretty good by me. I think she could have an incomplete deck (nobody knows that it's not full), but she would have used it more pragmatically. Like not in a usual magic-prediction way, but more like in giving-people-hope way. And that's why there would be no cards with negative meaning in it.

Also Rich's habit of striking that scared kitten ahhh pose every time the bad guys show up makes me giggle

[airlocksandaviariesarchive]

2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST 

[ckret2]

#you put the sad guy in #you take the sad guy out #you put the sad guy in and you shake him all about

[bluebead]

REPLACED has been rattling in my brain ever since I finished it, and one plot hole(?) that has been especially maraca-like is the gun biolock.

Reach thinks it malfunctioned, but Yo-Yo emphasizes that the biolock IS still functioning and will explode in anyone's hands but his— I assume implying that Warren's bio-signature had permissions from working with the corporation?

But then... Tempest fires the gun at the end. So was it actually malfunctioning, or is that cut-to-black a little more spicy than him simply firing the gun into the air dramatically lmfao?

[poppy-tarts-stuff]

I love this game

[thkpk]

aww

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[zero-the-whimsical]

gotta keep my miis healthy with a well rounded diet of Silica gel packets and AAA Batteries 🥰

[zero-the-whimsical]

Y'know, a limited amount of options can get pretty repetitive and bland after a while, so I thought I'd add a bit of variety to my selection of tasty treats with some thumbtacks, an expo marker, and an entire bottle of chloroform.

[acolytics]

never let it be said i dont treat my miis right

[foopsie-daisy]

I think its funny when they do this

[everyday-cutephoto]