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nic | he/she | minor hermitcraft artist and certified slabtek guy my art | tangthubs d&d au | commissions

[ethosiab]

Hi, I'm Nic! Aussie artist and sometimes a writer. Asks are open, but I might not get to them quickly. I still enjoy receiving them!

I am currently studying game art and animation full time, which is exciting! But also tiring. And time consuming. So hermitcraft art may be a lot slower going than normal <3

Other Blogs: @nicprker (main), @slabtek (slabtek archive), @smileytzimisce (ttrpg)

Original Posts: art, writing, animation, wips, talking

Reblogs: art/writing, clips, saved

[ariineii]

to cope with whatever past life session 7 was i redrew the old aspet art

[cocosdailyetho]

265 // Drew the first thing that came to mind after a long day, take this as you will.

[ethosiab]

people irl ask me whats happening on hermitcraft as a way to like, take involvement in my interests and let me yap but since ive basically only been watching tango because ethos lore is insane and bdubs hasn't come back from the war, i know NOTHING about what's happening on that server outside the boundaries of that mountain. you hear about decked out 3 or you get nothing because that's all i have to offer LMAO

[ethosiab]

DnD AU etho + tango break into their academy library totally non-illegally :)

[ethosiab]

If I told u guys I am struggling to watch ethos s11 because of his fuckass base 'lore' would u be made at me...

[duckbunny]

your twenties are not "late" to start hrt. that is a normal time to start hrt. your thirties are also a normal time to start hrt. your seventies are pretty late to start hrt, but not too late. like, statistically, that's at the end of the curve. but if you are not dead, it is not too late for hrt.

[nullpointr]

this pride month remember to love and appreciate aromanticism, aromantic people, aromantic love, aromantic relationships. this pride month get more aromantic

[ethosiab]

I'm helping out @hermitadaymay this year by offering full body commissions as a donation incentive for their Gamer's Outreach fundraiser! If you're interested, read a little more on their info post :D

There's also a raffle for the stickersheets we made, plus other things made by some awesome people in the fandom. If you want to get cool lookin' stuff and support a good cause, this is your chance!

[ethosiab]

The fundraiser is still going, but its ending Saturday, if you wanna get a comm reward get in soon!

[ethosiab]

hashtag happy prideeee

[deedadoodles]

sorry i love him

[jazzyloveswomen]

There's this common conception of gender I see: man and woman are often positioned as 'opposites' on a sliding scale and gender as a gradient, and any kind of transition as transitioning 'away' from one end of the scale and 'toward' the other, with 'transfeminine' people being anybody transitioning 'away' from masculinity (which is inherently toward femininity), and 'transmasculine' people being anybody transitioning 'away' from femininity (which is inherently toward masculinity).

This is an inherently exorsexist and intersexist worldview, in my opinion.

Bigender people are almost always forced to 'pick' which gender they are 'more', or have it automatically assigned for them. Their pronouns may be conditionally respected, but people get very uncomfortable, when a bigender person challenges the concept of man and woman as opposite. Constantly, you see "male spaces" and "female spaces", discourse about which labels are for men (and therefore not for women) or vice versa, and other similar conversations, inherently leave out men who are women, and women who are men. Bigender people are ignored, or spoken over, or pushed to 'pick' a gender so they can be neatly categorized, because man and woman are conceived as two opposite mutually exclusive ends of a spectrum that cannot intersect.

Agender/genderless/transneutral people are similarly erased or forced to pick sides, often sorted into a box either based on what people assume they're 'closer' to based on their physical traits (and i hope i dont need to stress how dysphoria inducing that can be) or told they're transfem/transmasc regardless because, well, "You're still transitioning away/toward something", because people conceptualize agender/genderless individuals as being not truly genderless at all, but as being merely at the center of the man to woman spectrum.

Then there are perisex nonbinary people who identify closely with their agab, perisex nonbinary women/fems afab and perisex nonbinary men amab. Gender essentialists either try to cut these people out of trans identity entirely, fakeclaiming them, insisting they're basically cisgender, engaging in intense transmedicalist rhetoric dressed up in a slightly more 'acceptable' font now that transmedicalism is somewhat less accepted in the community..or they insist that, despite many not being at all masculine, perisex nonbinary people afab are all transmasc, and vice versa.

I consider all of these things to be misgendering! Forcing any nonbinary person toward any binary or gendered term they do not identify with is misgendering! And it's done constantly by other trans people who would rather be openly and violently exorsexist than rethink their gender essentialist simplistic reductive sliding scale framework for how extremely complex societal structures and personal identities work.

And, as with any genderessentialist/bioessentialist worldview, this type of rhetoric is also incredibly unsafe for intersex people, who, despite what perisex trans people (and the occasional intersexist intersex person they tokenize) like to insist when they scream over us in these discussions, have a much more complicated relationship with agab and sig than perisex people do, and therefore are also frequently hurt and erased by any model that tries to pose things like man/woman, masculine/feminine, androgenized/estrogenized, amab/afab, etc, as opposite and mutually exclusive. "Intersex people are still [insert agab] despite their 'disorders' and therefore fit into my model the same way any [agab] perisex person would!" is a worldview that will always always be intersexist and extremely harmful.

[genderkoolaid]

just a pride month reminder:

if you are making something featuring multiple flags and you put in the asexual flag, you better put in the aromantic flag.

if you put in the aroace flag, you better put in the aroallo flag.

fighting aromantic erasure starts with YOU 🫵

[genderkoolaid]

for reference:

^ the aromantic flag

^ the aroallo (aromantic allosexual) flag

& just btw, aromantic erasure is so bad that on pubmed, many of the very few studies that have looked into aspec people specifically, categorize us as a type of asexuality. from this study:

Our findings highlight that aromantic people wish for aromanticism not to be considered a part of asexuality—a practice that has dominated contemporary literature (Antonsen et al. 2020; Carvalho & Rodrigues, 2022; Clark & Zimmerman, 2022; Hall & Knox, 2022; Zheng & Su, 2018). Many participants clarified the distinction between their sexual identity and romantic identity and highlighted that though they may be connected for some, they should be considered independently as unique contributors to an individual’s identity and experience. This aligns with a previous aromantic community survey that showed 72% of the sample did not identify with asexual terminology (AUREA, 2021a). In combination with our findings, this suggests that a tendency to conflate and describe these identities as the same or linked may be to the disadvantage of a significant portion of the aromantic community.

this is why it is so important to include aromantic people as our own group and to specifically include non-asexual aromantics. i hope y'all can understand how frustrating it is to be erased through a group that is already erased.

asexual representation is sparse? all aromantic rep is asexual and most of the time people don't even bother to remember that "aromantic" is its own thing. i can't count how many times i've seen a character talk about not experiencing romantic attraction, only for people to go "wow asexual rep!" even though sexual attraction was never brought up.

asexual community & resources are sparse? when i try to look up groups for aromantics, i get resources on "ace & aro groups" that are literally all asexual-focused. at best asexual-focused with a mention of aromantic people. which isn't really helpful when you are aroallo and don't really want or need a group that is clearly meant for alloro asexuals and aroaces.

asexual history is sparse? i've literally never seen anything even trying to talk about aromantic history. the most impactful thing on aro history is that one tumblr post talking about a woman at a nursing home who heard the term and realized her best friend was likely aro. see above with the character situation as well.

my point here is not "aros have it worse than aces" because we are both aspec and both get fucked over by the same forces and in fact, a LOT of asexual aromantics are also very frustrated by aromantic erasure! i've even heard some people talk about not identifying as strongly as asexual, even though it fits them, because they feel their aro identity is more important to them but gets constantly erased by their asexuality.

my point is that it is so fucking disheartening to be aro even in queer spaces that are trying to be asexual-inclusive, even in supposedly aspec spaces, because it swiftly becomes apparent that people see your entire identity as just a footnote for asexuality. so many people never even realize they are aro because they aren't asexual and don't realize that you can be aro but not ace. i dealt with some really intense arophobia as a teen after realizing i was aro, feeling broken and alone. it hit much harder than any internalized homophobia or transphobia did for me at the time. i did not meet another person who identified as aromantic irl until this year. any resources and community that i had as a queer teen, as a trans teen, did not exist for me as an aro teen and does not exist for me as an aro adult, really.

and big problem is that, because people think of aromanticism as just a footnote of asexuality, they implicitly assume that more asexual rep, more asexual resources, more asexual visibility will automatically serve aromantics too. and when it doesn't work like that, aro people continue to suffer as a result.

things have improved over the years and i hope will continue to! but i really need every queer person to become more aware of aromanticism & arophobia & how the queer community contributes to it & hurts aro people. hence why i am so testy about when people will include the ace flag but not the aro one. YOU 🫵 will care about your aromantic siblings and consider us this pride month!!!!!

[ethosiab]

[ethosiab]

Alt vers

[ethosiab]

Im never making anything better than this

[gregtom]

[k-simplex-deactivated20241001]

Happy Pride

[redjennies]

really don't know how to explain to people Azune is horse-coded not dog-coded.

[redjennies]

a non-comprehensive list of things Azune has in common with a horse

symbolically associated with both labor and freedom

strong work ethic

he almost definitely took Draconic sorcerer subclass and everyone who's been in middle school knows dragon girls are just horse girls but weirder.

usefullness is necessary to survive

big eyes that will show you the face of a dead god

long beautiful braided hair

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Something fun I noticed this episode is that while Occtis has reached a point where while he openly acknowledges that Primus is dangerous and actively malignant, he's still thinking about this as purely a Primus problem, rather than noting Primus to be a symptom of a broader systemic issue with the Sundered Houses. When the whole table is discussing the possibility of the Sundered Houses colluding to do something during the opening of KoTher'ai, he's the one who offers the theory that it might just be Primus going off book and behind the backs of the other Houses. And he does have reason to think this! His sisters in their letter to his uncle pretty plainly complain that Primus is doing things without consulting other people and neglecting political concerns to focus on working whatever great work of magic he's cooking up this week. But it stands in stark contrast to the perspective that some of the other PCs such as Murray bring to the table which is that the Sundered Houses as a whole are a problem and that even if it's only House Tachonis that's plotting something, the others are still complicit.

Occtis not seeing the Sundered Houses themselves as an issue is something that's been borne out by what we've seen from him in the whole campaign so far. He is, even of the noble PCs, the one who is the most comfortable with throwing his family name around in order to try and get what he wants, as seen during the fight on Hacvallen Brücke. His request that Julien let go of Thimble's wings back when the three met outside Hal's house was framed as an order. When talking to the other PCs he, in spite of his family outcasting and murdering him, still refers to Seremai as one of his vassal houses. There's an assuredness he has about his place in the general social order that makes it clear he's never really thought to question it, this power and station is simply his birthright and he's going to use it. There's also the broader concept of the fact that people are less likely to question the legitimacy of systems they benefit from, and Occtis has benefited a great deal from the social order of the Sundered Houses being what it is, as the power and wealth they hoard is something he as a member of the in-group has access to. And he clearly sees the fact that he does have access to it as simply the natural order of things, it's always been this way and much like the people-cages he's never thought to question it because it's always been that way. Compare that to characters like Murray and Azune who've known poverty and long felt the boot of the Sundered Houses on the collective necks of the common people, and thus are far more aware of where the entire system is unjust.

And the result is Occtis having a much different angle of approach towards the problem of what his family has been up to than a lot of the other characters. Rather than seeing what House Tachonis is up to as the workings of a corrupt and harmful institution trying to uphold and gain more power by any means necessary, he's purely seeing it as an issue of: "My dad sucks." And while that isn't an inaccurate assessment of Primus as a person and a parent, it does lose a lot of the nuance of how he's able to be as much of a problem as he is, which is that he's being enabled by an institution that strengthens itself on exploiting others, and Primus has just taken that to the logical extreme.