I Don't Want The World, I Just Want Your Half

Grayson they/them/theirs Your friendly neighborhood sketchster with too many interests.

[onebadnoodle]

drawing practice featuring an assortment of batman characters

[booooooooof-9-originals]

dr. queef and the electric they/them

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[jay-rayart]

The story of Icarus always spoke to me deeply as a Black boy who grew up trying to find his wings. Mixed with the African Folklore I grew up with I found something magic. We launch on Kickstarter in just 13 Days, follow our page on Kickstarter and help us take Flight 🪽💫

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[antleriko]

barely scratched the surface

edit: thanks for all the love for this guys!! if you have instagram and like my art please consider a follow!! it would help me a whole bunch x

[patrochilles-or-bust]

I wanna draw my OCs hanging out with other people's OCs. Particularly Philia hanging out with the girls. All of my friends lady OCs are gorgeous, most of them kick ass and take names. Let's have a doll party 😭 I want our girls to form a warrior unit 😭 or be in a universe traversing group chat

[the-big-mood]

I didn’t realize there were so many people getting destroyed by mattresses 😂

[creatingblackcharacters]

THE LONG-AWAITED WEBSITE!!!!

It's not perfect- Strawpage's design tools are... not great- but I did my best to bring you all a Tumblr-free transcription of all my lessons. This is probably the most labor-intensive thing I've done for this page (next to the character polls). Four months of blood, sweat, and tears... and now, she LIVES!!!!

Some Notes:

I created it with the intent of Desktop use, so Mobile might have some issues. If it's not working on your phone, try desktop.

Out of the multiple browsers tested (Firefox, Google, Edge, Brave, Safari), Firefox had some issues sporadically.

I'm still going to post lessons on here, first. This page is priority to me, and the website is more of an archive.

The fonts are normal past this opening page.

I will be adding a portion to send funds soon, if'n you are feeling kind and generous.

Thank you all for your patience while I worked on this. It was a labor of love and I hope that it shows. 🙏🏾 Happy scrolling!

[creatingblackcharacters]

Reminder that if you get sick of Tumblr but still want to create Black characters, I have a website 👍🏾

[pangur-and-grim]

can I make a confession that might get me in trouble

[pangur-and-grim]

I save scummed through every variation of this guy’s dialogue tree because I really, really wanted him to perform unethical surgery on me. like I’m still so angry about this. WHY have the gross knife hand doctor if he can’t pull out your appendix and laugh about it??? what is the POINT

[pangur-and-grim]

wait hang on I’ll post a pangur photo. don’t unfollow

[jay-rayart]

Black Kids deserve to see themselves in every genre. Follow FLY on Kickstarter to help their stories take flight. Launching June 9th on Kickstarter

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[melgillman]

THE GOBLIN THRONE PART III BEGINS TODAY!

From now til the very end of the book, I'll be updating this site as a page-a-day webcomic. Click the link to follow along and watch the story as it reaches its conclusion!

I also drew a little FAQ:

Read The Goblin Throne Part III here!

And visit the Kickstarter page here if you wanna be notified when it goes live!

[creatingblackcharacters]

I feel bad for everyone that didn't get to see Sinners in theaters. It won Best Cinematography for a reason. Y'all didn't get to catch the communal spirit, didn't get enveloped and lifted, full body immersion, with I Lied To You the way the surround sound woulda done.

If you ever have the opportunity to play it in like, idk a classroom or something in the dark on a large screen, that'll help. You gotta experience it that way at least once.

[seymourworld]

girls are growing hollow fangs and venom glands

[seymourworld]

girls are learning how to unhinge their jaws

[seymourworld]

girls are hissing at me

[seymourworld]

i dont think these are girls ❓

[seymourworld]

ohhh

[graymightbegiants]

@honeyb-23

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

[jantesika]

I mean. this is not surprising. but also what the fuck.

[celestite-caroline]

once more, AU shenanigans result in another CATS OC

[taylortut]

the “sexy lamp test” but for disabled folks: if you can replace your disabled character with a beloved pet dog that needs an expensive surgery to survive then you have to throw out your manuscript 

[taylortut]

reblogging one of my most underrated posts: the dying dog test

[the-last-teabender]

I’m gonna make my medical school advisees do this on their application essays too I think.