Laz

She/Her, 19, Freelance Artist. I also post what I'm passionate about, and I'm passionate about a lot of things. Ask Box and DMS are open and Commissions maybe sometime I have three conventions coming.

[cloudsbrainpopped]

also more unhinged (kinda) ramblings but god there is something so interesting about staring male characters in the face and analysing how their personality and presentation would be affected if they just so happened to be women instead. I think it’s really interesting.

Like… how exactly would their worlds be written, what new bullshit would they go through, how would the pre-existing lore co-incidence with that. How would the narrative shift if it’s about a woman. And what would the People Say. That’s a big one. I honestly have it on authority that all of my favourite characters would be considered complex if they were men whilst they’re shallow now. It’s interesting to me.

[hallowed-axolotl]

thought about tomodachi life too hard and realized that people being shocked by the lack of filters in a single-player game they own with their own money is actually cartoonishly messed up. we've grown so used to everything being filtered and not being able to do anything even remotely un-family-friendly in single-player games that being able to make the miis say fuck is a monumental occasion. insane.

[thulium]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

[cloudsbrainpopped]

okay so. About BloodyMary. I suggest lesbianism. I suggest a butch F!Simon and a middle of the lane F!Ryland who just likes a good, quirky cardigan but otherwise rolls pretty neutrally. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[finalgirldigital]

People love natives in such a superficial way. People wanna stand with natives when we’re talking about the trees, and the land. People wanna stand with natives when we talk about philosophies of love and togetherness. But as soon as it’s time to talk about political side of being native. About dismantling a system built on the genocide of our people. About how we need a new system that isn’t built upon capital gain and benefitting white bodies. About putting up a fight. About how the colonial state we reside in is a disgusting imperial plague on this land. Suddenly y’all don’t wanna talk native.

[neechees]

"They spent hundreds of years trying to assimilate my ancestors, trying to create indians like me, who could blend in, but now they don’t want me either. They can’t make up their minds.

They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.

They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.

But they don’t want me." -Shelby Lisk

[stars-on-my-bedroom-ceiling]

[bakersfield-row]

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

[shaddy-bee]

[cloudsbrainpopped]

my brain needs to shut up wtf do you mean

“Hey sooooo yknow we have a convention in 3 weeks that we are Not Ready For? Instead of working on the things that need to be printed asap and new stickers and bookmarks… how about a properly researched regency AU for your favourite ship Except it Might be the crossover version because the world building works for that one more, alongside the fake dating legal but also modern au that fits all of the headcanons but also the mermaid AU that you Literally Just Started Thinking About”

[cloudsbrainpopped]

More mermaid stuff because I’m thinking about it again (no sketches) but I used to have a list of what kinds of mermaids everyone sans Jade would be (mainly because I feel like she’d be best suited to being the sole human in a situation like this… she could log them, study them, befriend them… you know the drill) and whilst I’ve lost that (we mostly had different river fish and fish that’d be within fishing limits) I do want to touch upon the idea behind Sarah (and Sam by proxy) because I think it’s neat.

Okay so she’s an Abyssal Spiderfish for three reasons; the spider of it all, their hunting instincts (they lie in wait and effectively just stab plankton aggressively with their antenna(?) (it’s been a while since I’ve researched this, forgive me) which is also where they get the name ‘Tripod Fish’ from because… there’s three prongs, they plant themselves into the seabed. Boom. Tripod.

Also because as the name suggests, they’re Abyss level fish, we’ve only ever seen them due to scans (because we physically can’t send people down there… we don’t want to recreate oceangate to study fish and see them physically), and I feel like that also works because the Abyss is pitch black, easy to hide in and stay out of sight. And if there’s anything Sam and Sarah can do pretty easily… it’s that.

I think they’re probably nocturnal here too, depending. I kind of want to iron this out a bit more but the depth and the whole darkness thing works (plus I think that would both isolate them and give them some kind of dangerous reputation to the other merfolk… maybe) hence how dark the art was.

Oh also unrelated to this AU but fun fact, Abyssal Spiderfish are one of the 40 species of fish that are simultaneous hermaphrodites (which means they develop both sex cells at the exact same time) which allows for self fertilisation. A lot of these fish are actually genetic clones of each other. That’s really not relevant here, didn’t take that into account for the art but I probably will for the worldbuilding of it all idk. Would love to do more with this but. Ough. I am so busy.

[northern-punk-lad]

Should we ban the unemployed from voting no

Should rich people that suggest stuff like this face firing squad absolutely

[ayeforscotland]

Genuinely insufferable that the UK has this upper-middle journalist class that get to endlessly pontificate their horrible opinions to the point it seeps into public consciousness.

[feekins]

Has this been done already or

[doglord-oo3]

Yeah, to Heat Serph looks like a very tasty lunch. I love drawing dogs btw

[64mpg]

accusing people of lying for clout on this website is so funny this is literally the most useless platform to be popular on. the only reward is hate mail

[tall]

[cloudsbrainpopped]

Happy Mermay! I dipped to focus on my art course (which aside from some written submissions is done now) and book some events (which is also going pretty well given everything but also fuck I’m running out of time lol)

Anyway. Have this, hope you like the lineless of it all, it shaves so much time off of my art which is really handy actually. Also I miss them so badly (and if i weren’t so busy I’d have a mini comic to drop for my birthday and speaking of birthdays I probably should’ve held this until tomorrow whoops 😭) anyway I’m like, back, but also very, VERY not.

[jaypilled]

are those my only options