Pokédex and Card Games

I'm Dex - 30+, genderfluid, and panromantic asexual [he/they] I am in enough fandoms to drain away all of my time. All of it. I will be posting art, fic, and character analysis pieces Buy me a coffee or order a commission at https://ko-fi.com/cur10uscr0w

[marzipanladyart]

I'd love to see Jinx from Arcane in your style :O!

there!

I LOVE when I sketch out the pose smoothly on first try and then I can just define the lines better, add details and colors and we are done ToT <3 I think she turned out pretty good

[max1461]

Jesus was the first cult leader who claimed to be Jesus. Admittedly, he was right.

[yinza]

Am I illustrating a fanfic scene I haven't posted yet?

Maybe.

[Image Description: Digital artwork of Barret and Wedge, shown from the chest up in identical drab maintenance uniforms. The lighting is dim, and Wedge is leaning into Barret with his head on Barret's shoulder and an arm around him. His eyes are closed, his expression sympathetic. Barret is looking back at him, looking vulnerable. /end ID]

[gyaa-fish]

more ff7 stuff, try to guess who my faves are lol

[magpiesketches]

Reblog to save a life

[zooophagous]

Note from a graphic designer who has to fix this shit all day: rich black is prettier sure but for the love of the gods don’t use it for text if it’s going on newsprint. If its anything other than solid black it will bleed out and become unreadable.

Half my job is fixing this mistake all day from people who really really should know better. And now you know!

[bigmammallama5]

^exactly. Rich black is definitely better for graphics or large hits of black if you want it to be REALLY black and not look washed out. Especially if you’re printing in CMYK only (no spot colors), a rich black can really help tie your art together.

[legomocfodder]

I present: the High Geologist, based off this post

[shirecorn]

THERE HE IS THE SPECIAL BOY

[ao3commentoftheday]

you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

[ao3commentoftheday]

you're not taking your love of something and using it as a tool to hurt yourself are you? loving it so hard that you forget to take care of yourself? telling yourself that people only care about you because of what you make and that they'll stop if you take a break? pushing yourself to work instead of rest so that the thing that used to give you joy and energy is now also burning you out, like everything else?

[walmart-the-official]

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

[bleu-guacamole]

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

[walmart-the-official]

:0

Thank you!

[tinycharmer]

@howdymcg i feel like you might want this.

[howdymcg]

I do!

Also if helpful

Library of Congress Aesop Fables

Heres a nice page that has a bunch of Aesop Fables for free

[walmart-the-official]

ohhh I have a book of Aesop Fables and I love it so much

[sabertoothwalrus]

I don’t care if the world isn’t ready to hear it, but I’m going to say it:

“Sugar We’re Going Down Kung Fu Fighting” is better than either of the original songs that comprise the mashup

[sabertoothwalrus]

for those who need to hear it

[marzipanladyart]

morning | evening

[arowitharrows]

tbh I really dislike how aphobia tends to be discussed whenever there's some kind of incident that makes it visible to general society. The most common response seems to be some variation of "why would anyone hate asexual/aromantic people, they aren't even doing anything" and it just always sits wrong with me. It paints such a passive picture of our existence and feels like a comment influenced by the level of invisibility that aspec people have in society. Why would you be annoyed by someone who is practically invisible? Just go back to ignoring their existence, it's easy!

But despite the invisibility, aspec people are actually doing quite a lot of things that will piss off queerphobic, right-wing and religious people (and hell, even left-wing people). And the most obvious point is that we are actively not performing heterosexuality the way they want us to. People who's entire world view is "cis men and women should be in monogamous, heterosexual marriage and have (white) babies" are not going to lean back and say "oh but those asexuals and aromantics are fine". They will also hate our guts, and they will come up with all sorts of reasons, including insinuating we're all secretly into bestiality, or mentally ill, or not human, or attention seeking children. It's just plain old queerphobia, and like all queerphobia, there's no inherent logic to it which you can worm your way out of by "not doing anything".

And like, there's a lot more that aspec people do which people hate. Raising awareness about amatonormativity? People feel attacked, they hate it. Asexual people having sex? Or not having sex? People hate it! Aromantic people being in (seemingly) romantic relationships? People fucking hate it! Aromantic people having sex? Ohh people hate that!!

I guess the existence of aphobia can be confusing when you haven't spent much time thinking about asexuality and aromanticism, but in the end, these are identities that aren't heteronormative and they will be hit with the same or similar bigotry as any other queer identity. I just get tired of this response after seeing it recycled for 10 years without ever seeming to go any further.

[dreadfulman]

It is genuinely fascinating how many feminist cis women, including those who are on paper openly supportive of trans people, struggle to actually think about trans men as a concept.

A few months ago I ended up having a very long talk with a friend of a friend. She told me that she'd never really spoken to a trans man before, the only trans people she knew were trans women. There was a point, after the third time I reminded her that I was a man, that she just sorta of slotted me into her mental box of "man", and I could tell that happened because after that point she started trying to explain things to me as if I was a cis man.

I categorically do not "pass" and likely never will. I'm very short, my hips are prominent because I'm fat, I keep my hair long, charitably I could be said to have a baby face, I have D-cups and cannot bind due to spinal problems. To the majority of cis people I do not "look like a man".

But for the rest of the conversation I had with this friend of a friend I had to keep reminding her of how other people are going to view me, because there was no room in her mental idea of "man" for a man who is not treated as one. This was not malicious on her part, she was very nice to me, and I believe her when she says she wants to support trans people. I do not think she was lying when she told me how horrified she was to learn about how her trans woman friends were treated.

She said she was envious of me going out alone and how I need to understand that's a facet of male privilege and I asked her to look at me and explain why I'd be any safer. She was shocked to learn that I've been catcalled, been assaulted, that I regularly get spoken down to by cis men, shocked to learn I don't have a single transmasc friend who hasn't. She couldn't understand that I'm going to be treated the same by misogynists as any fat cis woman who doesn't wear makeup. There was no room in her feminism for trans men, because there was no room in her understanding of gender for men who are not cis.

We ended up talking about politics. She told me she was terrified of abortion being banned, and that this would never be a threat if men could get pregnant.

[themakeupbrush]

Elaine Zhong at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

[softwaring]

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was early on in my transition I got in a Lyft, and the driver was this big country guy. I was a little nervous so I just sat quietly in the back.

After a moment he changed the music on his phone to what sounded like a Hatsune Miku song. Curiosity got the better of me, so I finally spoke up and said “is this Hatsune Miku?”

And he said “Yep. You looked uncomfortable, and I know Transgender women like Hatsune Miku, so I thought it might help.”

I think about that interaction a lot.

[supertaliart]

Happy Star Wars Day! I’ve decided to make my Skywalker comic into one easily rebloggable post.

[supertaliart]

Here’s a bonus page in honor of May 4th!

[homocidalpotat]

lets be born with papa