Trans, Gay and Depressed

Yo, it's Vee. He/him pronouns, 22 years old, literally just vibin out here. I draw (sometimes) and write (also sometimes). Reblogs appreciated! Reposts not. Commissions open and ready! If you steal my art, I'll steal your kneecaps.

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decided to try my hand at some tattoo flash designs can you guys tell i like reading stephen king

i am very willing to sell these to anyone who wants to get them, just send me a message (!!disclaimer!! i am not a tattoo artist so i don't know how well these will transfer to skin!)

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Enraptured, 2026

hi sorry i've been gone for five morbillion years, art stopped being fun :( until i remembered my favorite thing: religious symbolism

go my painting :)

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so i finally went into the deep dark (hadn't before this. scary. too scary), and I Have Thoughts specifically about the biology of the warden and sculk, and how they could function together

there will be much biology nerd rambling under the cut

So the closest analog I think we have to sculk is slime mold. It spreads in a similar way, and there are a few species that glow under UV light.

I think their life cycle would function like this: - Sculk spores float through the caves, invisible to the human eye - If they find a suitable surface (porous, damp, dark), they'll start multiplying and eventually grow into a sculk vein (already an in-game item) - The vein continues spreading until it grows into a sculk colony (solid blocks of sculk) - After a colony reaches maturity, it forms a fruiting body known as a sculk catalyst - The sculk catalyst releases more spores, before blooming into either a sculk sensor or sculk shrieker (dependent on many environmental factors)

Sculk sensors detect movement via electrosensitive pores on the tips of their tendrils (similar to the methods that sharks and crocodilians use to sense prey). When they detect movement, they send an electrical signal through the mycelial network to nearby colonies. Sometimes, those signals reach a shrieker. Shriekers send out a pheromone gas (which hisses as it's released, hence the name "shrieker") to signal the sculk's defense mechanism, the warden.

The warden is a reptilian creature that survives off of sculk and occasional prey, such as bats (or players). It's able to subsist off of this lean diet because it spends most of its time brumating. (Brumation is like hibernation+ . Look it up, it's cool.) It has electrosensitive pores on its snout, sculk sensors on its head, a very powerful vomeronasal organ, and large eardrums. These give it an extremely adept sense of smell and very keen hearing. When it detects prey (or a threat), it uses its infrasonic vocalizations to incapacitate them.

Their mutualism is somewhat accidental. The sculk warning pheromone lets the warden know that prey is nearby, and in turn, the warden removes a potential threat to the sculk. The pheromone is meant to scare things away, but in the warden's case, it has had the opposite effect. But the sculk continues to thrive and the warden continues to eat, so I suppose nothing will change any time soon.

(I hope you enjoyed this overly thorough minecraft worldbuilding)

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are you guys tired of me talking about my novel?

too bad >:)

*throws some art at you*

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trying painting again ft. haymitch abernathy

there's a lot of references to sotr ifykyk ;)

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On one hand, I’m glad that more people are waking up to the atrocities ICE is committing and taking action. On the other hand…..it only happened after white people were killed. Like…killing ain’t new to ICE they’ve been doing this for years y’all except their victims were browner

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In addition, more than just the two white people in Minneapolis have been killed (9 people total this year alone), it's just that none of the rest are white. It's interesting that I only see their names spoken by other people of color. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

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Just had the conversation with my dad yesterday that, “it’s interesting the only people who’ve been killed are white, huh?”

No dad, the only people *you’ve heard about who’ve been killed* are white. There’s been more than the two deaths.

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List of deaths in ICE detention - Wikipedia

Trump's DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September. Here's what to know.

Federal agents have shot three people in Minneapolis in recent weeks, killing two U.S. citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Videos contradi

Full list of ICE shootings since Donald Trump took office

There have been several shootings involving ICE agents since Trump's return to office last year.

Are we here to shame people, or to let people know about ICE’s atrocities?

Links for anyone who didn’t know about more than the two recent white people killed

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my heart goes out to Black activists right now having to deal with white people co opting “say her name” while also ignoring the murder of Keith Porter, the name they refuse to say. and my heart goes out to those who are being terrorized, kidnapped, detained, abused, murdered, left to die in ways we will never know with names we will never hear. This is a traumatic fucking time and you need to be there for your friends of color, your neighbors, your community. Do not allow them to be just background noise to the violence on white citizens.

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hey guys watch this *gets invested in a book series a decade after it's popular*

anyways i immediately latched on to the grizzled old mentor character (fork found in kitchen)(haymitch ily)

no spoilers for sunrise on the reaping, i'm not done with it yet

closeups under the cut

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forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

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Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.

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what did y'all name this guy?

i called them Harold because i thought it was funny. which it is

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

semi-annual reminder that i do write fic sometimes, and my username on ao3 is the same as on here

quick Gaius doodle, since this fic is about him

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"They’d run themselves through on a spear just to have a chance of hurting the person holding it." ^(line from my WIP novella)

did someone say repeated motif? i think someone said repeated motif

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moooooooore avatarrrrsssss

oliver's headscarf is based off of the crepe mourning bands from the victorian era

i didnt want to just base annabelle off of "spiders" as a nebulous concept, so i picked a spider that i think encapsulates what a lot of people find scary about spiders (large + spindly) golden silk weaver below the cut (arachnophobia tw, obvs)

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fine, ill draw my avatar designs, if y'all insist (<- guy doing something out of his on volition)

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once again thinking about the tragedy that is tim and sasha

also was looking for an excuse to do the Analog Horror (tm) style

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been in a bit of a slump so I decided to draw something self-indulgent and seasonal

transparent png below the cut

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who's up for my new humanized bug hear me out :P

i decided to style him more after greco-roman royalty than arthurian royalty, it just felt right

the name i decided he has is pronounced GUY-us