Just a little dovey

I like bugs and Dandadan 🏳️‍⚧️

[gnaw-the-opossum]

I haven't been drawing as much because I've really gotten into writing lately, but here's some art for my Dandadan fanfic A World Without Noise. I turned Reiko Kashima into a crow and gave her body dysmorphia about it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/85539811/chapters/225987961

The fic is set during the Kur invasion. Momo and Okarun suddenly find themselves in a new reality where the supernatural seemingly no longer exists. They have to figure out what happened and how to return to their original reality.

[lordsovorn]

One of my favorite Dandadan gags is when any two of the core gang are reacting in hyperbolized synchrony, like:

1) Momo and Okarun being scared bugs

2) Aira and Okarun synchronously nerding out and/or experiencing autistic lesbianism

3) Jiji and Okarun being gossip bros

Laws of the universe dictate there should be something like that with Jiji and Momo, but I can't remember it from the top of my mind. Feel free to add your own favorites of the genre

[lordsovorn]

@xarciel:

Jiji and Momo looking out the plane at the shark they yeeted

[lordsovorn]

@dove-and-snake:

Every panel Jiji and Vamola are in together

This one really blurres the line of the genre - technically there is a lot of times where Vamola is repeating after him, but few of them have quite the same literal, duplicated quality of presentation. Maybe Jiji is just so authentic like that

Do reblog with your own examples if anything comes to mind!

[dove-and-snake]

Rin and Kouki having a straight up not good time but at least they’re together.

[wheatiewintry]

hey did i really never post this here oops.. my drawing of chrysis angolensis :) with prismacolors:) #mycuckoowasp

[pigeon-butch]

I'D NEVER SEEN A SCALED PIGEON BEFORE. this thing rules so much

[sunderwight]

media: we have an anti-authoritarian story for you!

me: sweet hit me with the good stuff

media: so there's this marginalized underclass of people, right?

me: okay

media: and they're like, stigmatized for something that's mostly an aspect of how they are born, or where they're from, or they're badly misunderstood, right?

me: yup, got it, I'm with ya

media: so these people are rebelling against the current social order, because it's the instrument of their suffering

me: oh good great sure

media: but also they're violent and deranged and need to be stopped

me: ...what

media: yeah they're going too far, they're trying to overthrow the system and assassinate the nice cop trying to help them and also they burned down an orphanage

me: ...why? would they burn down an orphanage??

media: extremism is bad

me: still not seeing what this has to do with their fight though???

media: also now they've shot a dog. oops they shot another dog

me: what?! why? I though their motive was to overthrow oppression??

media: yes but their suffering has also made them evil

me: ...???

media: don't worry though, the good guys will defeat them and restore the status quo

me: the status quo that's been killing people?

media: well it turns out it was only killing the kinds of awful people who burn down orphanages and shoot dogs :)

me: oh. this is actually a pro-authoritarian story, isn't it?

media: nooo of course not don't be sillyyyyyy we're super progressive look one of the cops is a black lady don't be sillyyyyyy

[smugpugchimera]

My first sticker pack is live! Unfortunately, as I mentioned before I am not ready to ship physical copies internationally, but you can get ready to use files for personal print-out use for 5$ All the proceeds will go to develop more fun designs and perhaps allow me to ship these abroad at some point! Thank ya'll very much for being here with me, this would definitely not happen without your support!!! 💜✨

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[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[naamahdarling]

Hey kids, there is a loving trans adulthood waiting for you.

It's never "too late". The people I have met who started late have never regretted starting. They have been joyful about it once they did.

[chimericmacandcheese]

fruit fly needlefelt sculpture made for a professor, nickel for scale

It has a pipecleaner skeleton, allowing it to stand on its own and have a mild degree of posability

The wings were very challenging, as I wanted them to look transparent but couldn’t achieve that look with roving. At the very least it looks like a fly, I suppose…

[dove-and-snake]

Leaf-cutting Cuckoo Bee (Coelioxys chichimecha)

Photo from Sharp-Eatman Nature Photography used as reference.

Native Bees, Texas Native Bees, Texas Bee ID Guide, Texas Native Bee Identification, Lower Rio Grande Valley bees, abejas nativas, abejas de

[renthony]

I see so many arguments over what is and isn't "good queer representation" that really just boil down to "y'all are actually arguing over matters of taste and genre preference, which is incredibly subjective and personal."

Worldbuilding where being queer is normalized and queerphobia has no impact on the plot? THAT'S FINE. Worldbuilding that includes queerphobia and tackles the effects of it as part of the story? THAT'S ALSO FINE.

Low-stakes queer romcom where the characters are fluffy and cute? THAT'S COOL. Messy queer drama with toxic people who fuck each other over and clash repeatedly? THAT'S ALSO COOL.

Stories that center the characters' queerness, show a trans character's transition, and are about the queerness as much as the rest of the plot? AWESOME. Stories where the characters' queerness isn't treated as a big deal, and have trans characters whose transition happened before the story entirely? ALSO AWESOME.

You may PREFER one thing or another, but it is actually good to have all these things. It's about variety. It's about queer characters being allowed to exist without censorship. It's about queer artists getting to make things without being told we're a "niche issue" or "adult content." It's about having as many goddamn cakes as the bakery can produce.

At the end of the day, I'd prefer a media landscape with fifty pieces of problematic queer representation over a media landscape with one single piece of queer representation that's trying (and usually failing) to be 100% perfect for everything and everyone.

[alcrego]

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[ulan-bator]

[charlataninred]

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

[dove-and-snake]

Chapters: ¼ Fandom: Dandadan (Manga), Dandadan (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ayase Momo/Yukishiro Kouki, Ayase Momo & Miiko & Muuko | Kei Characters: Yukishiro Kouki, Ayase Momo, Miiko (Dandadan), Muuko | Kei (Dandadan) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Bisexual Ayase Momo, Lesbian Yukishiro Kouki, Body Shaming, Harassment, Bullying Summary:

Unbelievable, she’d only been seeing her first boyfriend for two weeks, and it had already fallen through, not like it mattered. Her first relationship was completely wasted on that asshole, and all her friends were doing was ribbing her about how they told her so. She felt ridiculous, too pissed off to sit still, so she was left stomping around the hallways trying to work off her frustrations, but she had to do something to keep from crying. She rounded the corner of the hallway and knocked into something. She stumbled off balance and nearly toppled over, getting knocked out of the sad little, pissed-off world she’d been living in, damn near chipping a tooth too.

[dove-and-snake]

Forgot to put in dividing lines for the pov switches when I was copying it into AO3. It should hopefully be a lot more readable now.

[dove-and-snake]

Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Dandadan (Manga), Dandadan (Anime) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ayase Momo/Yukishiro Kouki, Ayase Momo & Miiko & Muuko | Kei Characters: Yukishiro Kouki, Ayase Momo, Miiko (Dandadan), Muuko | Kei (Dandadan) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Bisexual Ayase Momo, Lesbian Yukishiro Kouki, Body Shaming, Harassment, Bullying Summary:

Unbelievable, she’d only been seeing her first boyfriend for two weeks, and it had already fallen through, not like it mattered. Her first relationship was completely wasted on that asshole, and all her friends were doing was ribbing her about how they told her so. She felt ridiculous, too pissed off to sit still, so she was left stomping around the hallways trying to work off her frustrations, but she had to do something to keep from crying. She rounded the corner of the hallway and knocked into something. She stumbled off balance and nearly toppled over, getting knocked out of the sad little, pissed-off world she’d been living in, damn near chipping a tooth too.

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[lemcean]

just a couple of the ddd commissions i've worked on from the past few months :3 no reposts!!!

in order: for @dragonsaltartales / @rainyfey / @rainyram / @cravingcraze / @dove-and-snake