and yet!

izzy | 20s | she/her | hobbyist illustrator & writer | eng/fin/fr

[yokolate]

qifrey and brushbuddy

[asthedeathoflight]

My favorite quirk of American English is that since we're constantly exaggerating, sometimes it's more intense to say something slightly less intense. Because like, it means you actually thought about it.

"you look great!" - normal. Anyone could say this. Could be true or could just be lying to be nice. Very normal expected thing to say to someone

"you look good." - gay as hell thing to say to someone.

[inquissien]

ArtFight 2026 #3 - Viggo for mxxnheart

The result of some experimenting in Blender. Also first time using Grease Pencil to animate the strings and bells (didn't turn out perfect, but I'm excited to keep using it and improve)

[critical-objects-deactivated202]

Laura Aguilar is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work mines the intersection between feminism, body image, queer politics, and latinx identity. Her earliest works depicted latina lesbians in intimate portraits, calling to mind the frankness of Catherine Opie, while her best known series features self-portraits of Aguilar posed nude in the California desert landscape. These photographs are instantly striking, finding in the artist’s body formal elements that echo the landscape itself, as in its doubling here with the giant rock that eludes the frame. Aguilar also forces our gaze onto a body that does not conform to stereotypical images of latinx or feminine identity—a body type that is not so much othered as invisible, despite its ubiquity. The artist originally began to produce these photos as a means of grappling with her own issues with weight and self-acceptance, but quickly came to see them as something more. They offer a profound, ambivalent vision of woman and nature. We see Aguilar dissolve into the landscape in search of anonymity, at the same time that she reclaims the pride and beauty in her body far removed from the society that rejects it.

Laura Aguilar, Grounded #111, 1992

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

art by Est Florane

[rexuality]

hikes are very good yes but a deluxe hike is when you are accompanied by a freak with niche nature knowledge. they’re like omg stop there’s a horned valerian varmint beetle here and then you both get to crouch down and look at a bug like :)

[fivestarfaggot]

Still on my utility pole bullshit

[onlytiktoks]

[shinyhappygoth]

Time to FROLIC!

[bobomcfoe-art]

Videos i like so much i painted them

[briccko]

🌸cherry buddy

[figofswords]

wanted to have a more anime-only-friendly print available at the con i'm tabling at this weekend so i cooked this up over three days of nonstop work and not enough sleep. i'm not 100% pleased with how it came out but sometimes a piece is done because you just can't look at it anymore. inspo for this was the vol3 ch15 title illustration with the girls all napping with a bunch of pillows

[lugslogic]

[tetrameryxx]

Fursonas are too hard to decide; it's time for radish plantsona.

[wasp-storm]

anyone that doesn't think envy is a valid character motivation has clearly never been the second best at something before

[hbystuff]

Luminance

[yodaprod]

1983

[leave-her-a-tome]

(source)

Unsplash -  photography, illustration, and art

Pixabay - same as unsplash

Pexels - stock photos and videos

Stockvault.net - stock photos

freepngimg - icons, pictures and clipart

Veceezy - vectors and clipart

Kissclipart and kissPNG - more vectors and clipart (often transparent!)

Getdrawings - simplistic images and drawing tutorials

Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

Library of Congress - historical posters and photos

NASA - you guessed it

Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without infringing copyright! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own. 

Please add on if you know any more sites for free images <3

[thetoastedalmonds]

UNSPLASH IS MY GOAT USE UNSPLASH

[guiltfactory]

BAD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

GOOD NEWS: it will not be the same forever