~New and Improved~

They/he/she My Ko-Fi

[drawn-by-shan]

Story Stuff

Character art:

James

Elistrin

Hero

Belinda

Hestia

Detail pages:

James

Elistrin

Hero

Belinda

Hestia

[drawn-by-shan]

There are aliens in heaven.

We’ve spent so long searching the stars for life. We’ve found nothing but bacteria and ideal environments. But that doesn’t mean life isn’t out there. Maybe we will never be able to reach far enough in this world, in this life.

But when we die, we will find endless fields of flowers—our flowers—that give way to stately deserts teeming with foreign plants and structures. We will find soaring mountains—our mountains—that dive into valleys webbed with impossible architecture and dense with unlikely fruit. We will see familiar faces, loved ones and lost ones as they knew themselves best, and beside them we will see aliens. Tall, short, organic, breathing, walking, flying, real.

We always expect paradise to look like our visions, ours, our own. But why wouldn’t heaven house the beloved of every possible world? Maybe paradise will be so foreign we will realize how foolish we were to ever point out the differences between our neighbors on Earth.

[drawn-by-shan]

Hey hot stuff you look trans in both directions 😘

[drawn-by-shan]

I have a new business idea. You give me like 20 bucks and the details of your business/cafe/nonprofit, I spend idk maybe a couple minutes just thinking about it, and then I give you an idea for the name of your business/cafe/nonprofit. No copyright issues, that’s yours now. I just want the 20 bucks. And to use my English degree for something. And to keep you from using AI.

[animentality]

[drawn-by-shan]

Being disabled means chores are a genuine struggle. So my partner and I, being both disabled, will always always be excited when one of us manages to get something done. It’s like “I did some of the dishes today” and the response is *face lights up* “that’s great bb! I’m so proud of you!” Or “I managed to get a load of laundry folded.” “Omg thank you bb that helps so much!” It’s great and I cannot fathom how draining it must be to live in a relationship where your “I washed two pans and a whisk that took me weeks to work myself up to” isn’t rewarded with praise. You deserve hype for every accomplishment, no matter how small!

[drawn-by-shan]

Yeesh, deleting Instagram and moving back to Tumblr is a breath of fresh air. It’s like moving out of your angry conservative parents’ house and in with your lesbian lover and her three queer, autistic roommates.

[hail-dondus]

It looks like they’re dropping a teaser trailer for the new Harry Potter reboot tomorrow

Just a few important and gentle reminders:

🫶🏻 DO NOT WATCH THIS FUCKING SHOW 🫶🏻

If you claim you support human rights - not just trans rights but human rights in general - yet still plan to watch this show, unfollow me. You’re a fucking hypocrite and I don’t want you following me.

Do not watch it even if you’re hate watching it, it still contributes to streaming revenue and views!

The adults in this reboot of the franchise are FULLY accountable for choosing to do this show and accepting a pay cheque over supporting a minority group. Even if they claim they support trans rights, they’re cowards and don’t actually support them at all.

The kids do NOT deserve abuse or hate, whether it’s because you’re comparing them to Dan/Rupert/Emma or because you’re boycotting due to the author’s views. They are literal CHILDREN.

Your nostalgia over a children’s series about kids going to school is NOT more important than trans people being respected and having rights. As long as JKR is still alive, she profits off of this.

[demonicae]

And, just so you know, JKR profiting off of HP has DIRECTLY led to the disintegration of trans rights in the UK.

For example...

Transgender girls told to leave Girlguiding groups by September

It follows an announcement in December that transgender members would be banned from joining.

From yestersday. This follows on from the UK supreme court ruling last year that equalities laws would be based on 'biological sex only.'

That supreme court ruling got through, not because 'everyone believes in it.' But because JKR directly payed MASSIVE amounts of money into right wing thinktanks, politicians, and TERF influencers.

Harry Potter directly funds transphobia and anti-trans laws in the UK.

She pours her money into the J.K Rowling women's fund. Meaning Harry Potter revenue directly pays for right wing transphobic pearl clutchers to take trans people to court and to stamp out the rights of trans people in the UK.

It is also hurting cis women in the UK because now we're all fucking paranoid about being 'transvestigated,' being abused in public (for 'not looking cis enough') or being denied services because some snotty billionaire decided she gets to decide who is or is not a 'woman' (based entirely on her weirdo, white, billionaire-class definition of the word.)

[drawn-by-shan]

In case anyone here needs to know how I roll

[drawn-by-shan]

Mao

[drawn-by-shan]

Artist’s Woe: A Haiku

To those who comment

“DM commission details” -

I know you do scam

[drawn-by-shan]

A boy in various lighting. Don’t ask what boy it isn’t relevant. Yet.

[moondane-lovers]

TO ANYONE WHO USES DISCORD- FOUR AI SCRAPING BOTS HAVE BEEN SECRETLY ADDED TO YOUR SERVERS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT

Saw this going around and tested it myself, and I can confirm that this is unfortunately legit. Four hidden bots have been placed in any existing or newly created Discord server that are harvesting data, images, and most concerningly, one seems to be a face swap bot.

Due to them being invisible, banning them from your servers isn't possible without their ID's, which I've typed out for easy access.

1153984868804468756 1288638725869535283 1090660574196674713 1104973139257081909

Banning is done with the /ban command with each string pasted in one at a time. Four ban commands in total.

Image proof below and further information. This was in my PERSONAL server that has existed for +5 years. Discord is harvesting your shit without your consent, fight back.

[unluckyxse7en]

Hey so in case you're like me and wondered: Can you ban members without them being in the server?

The answer is yes, you absolutely can! It'll look like this - the numbers you paste will be what's "banned"

However my sibling tried this in her servers and found that One of them was NOT a string of numbers, like so:

And for clarity it isn't a difference in user or device, this is what she got elsewhere:

So if you ban these numbers and the message shows the actual username? Pretty sure that means they were in there.

Very unpleasant way to check the veracity of this post but hopefully this is a helpful tip for anyone who was concerned - my sib would have No Reason to add these in herself and didn't have any clue it was in there.

Personally, I'd say even if you are still worried about misinfo/fearmongering/etc from this post, think of it this way - worst case scenario is you're banning a bot you'll never use or need. Not a person, a bot. There's no real damage done playing it safe and running the ban commands through, aside from maybe losing some time doing so.

Best of luck everyone.

[drawn-by-shan]

An update for my Ko-Fi people: small scene commissions are now available to non-members! I've also added a couple new membership commission options!

[drawn-by-shan]

Design a character with me based on the word "change"! Any idea what her name should be?

[drawn-by-shan]

What's With the New Name?

Hi folks!

So I've been gone a while. Life gets you in the dumps, and then out of them, and then back in again. A lot has changed in the months since I last promised not to go on hiatus again (ha). But my love for drawing and writing and being creative has never died. My drive just likes to take long naps.

So why the name change--the one from "scesketch" to "drawnbyshan"? Well, because at some point I have to admit that I'm growing up, and in the world of grown-ups, you need to have a more grown-up sounding business name (I've been told). Nothing else is changing--not my content, not my passion, and not my upload schedule, unless I magically get really good ADHD meds. (If you want to help with that, hey, you could always, say it with me, "buy me a coffee!")

So I'm changing, but I'm staying the same. And I'm trying once again to commit to a better lifestyle and schedule. But hey, if I've learned one thing from the past couple years, it's that when you promise your best, you give your best, and your best sometimes looks like trying not to cry as you stare at the iPad you use to draw because all of your stamina is gone. But sometimes it looks like finding new drive in a new vision for my brand! So I'll keep promising my best, because sometimes, my best is pretty good.

Love you all! And if it's my last chance to say it... stay sketchy <3

[drawn-by-shan]

Cyberpunks

My biggest commission yet, and it was for my own Cyberpunk Red party! Thank you @con-viv-ial98 for the commission--this was the kick in the shorts I needed to create again. I have loved drawing these people so much and I hope it's not the last time!

(And if you haven't played the Cyberpunk Red RPG, look it up, it's a fun time!)

[hagiomoto]

This should be a bigger news tbh

[drawn-by-shan]

We are made new