*skateboards away from my feelings*

this blog is no longer active. icon by @Magicatherine on twitter! [icon id: digital art of tracker o'shaughnessey with a blue sky in the background. tracker is a small human with light brown skin and short curly brown hair. she is sitting cross legged and wears a purple sleeveless t-shirt with a cresent moon design and jean shorts. she is looking to her left and smiling.]  [header id: the official map of the city of leviathan from d20's sophomore year and pirates of leviathan campaigns.]

[smallestbrown]

yeah they didn’t dress up for prom “in canon” but please consider: “i’m ignoring that”

[ID: portraits of fabian and adaine from fantasy high, dressed in fancier clothes but visibly beaten up. fabian, a black half-elf with a white-haired hi-top, is in profile to the viewer. he wears a white button up and a red tie, loosened at the collar. he hoists his rapier over his shoulder and looks determinedly forward. adaine, a white elf whose blond hair is in a messy bun, scowls over her shoulder. she wears a teal dress with puffed sleeves, and clutches a huge blue orb to her chest.]

[littlebeansproutsworld]

I 100% believe that Kristen Applebees wears socks and sandals

I might post all of my fantasy high art here

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: A digital full-body drawing of Kristen Applebees. Kristen is a pale-skinned human with long and slightly wavy red hair in a ponytail and wavy sections framing her face. She wears a tie dye shirt tucked into jean shorts, a band-aid on one knee, long white socks, and birkenstocks-like sandals. Kristen stands with her weight on one foot as if walking forward and holds up one hand as if in blessing; there’s a halo behind her that looks like the outline of the sun and in one hand she holds a short staff with a curved shepherd’s crook that looks as if its made of wrinkled leaves. All around her, wisps of light purple magic sparkle, resembling streaks of flames coming from the ground at her feet. The backgorund is a darker purple.]

[voltaical-art]

uhh rewatching Unsleeping City rn,,,

Mr. THEE Plug, if ur free hmu 😳😳💕💕

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: A digital drawing of Pete Conlan from the Unsleeping City. Pete is a pale-skinned trans man with short brown hair, dark eyebrows, visible top surgery scars, and knuckle tattoos that say “fant asma.” He ewars a white cowboy hat, a dangly crescent moon earring, an open western shirt with fringe, white pants, a belt with a large star buckle, and black cowboy boots. Pete looks determined and balls his fists as if to punch as he lunges in from the left; all around him are floating bubbles. Pete is colored in shades of purple; the background is a muted teal.]

[little-bee-draws]

Fig Faeth Friday? it's not a thing but we could make it a thing

ID: a bust of a young red-skinned tiefling woman with brown hair and eyes. she is looking serenely to the left. her hair is streaked with purple and styled in a braid that hangs over her left shoulder. she also has bangs. red horns curl up slightly from her forehead. she wears a dark purple sleeveless shirt with the words "Daddy's little Demon" on it in white. "Daddy's" is in cursive and there is a pentagram draw in the space of the "o" in "Demon." end ID/

[miraculousgems]

thinking about Ricky Matsui sending selfies with his newborn daughter to the group chat literally everyday 💕💕

[thisalienartist]

somehow i had never drawn ayda before? well, here she is!

[ID: a digital drawing of Ayda Aguefort from Dimension 20′s Fantasy High. Ayda is a dark skinned black woman with huge, fiery, phoenix wings and digitigrade bird’s feet. She has glowing orange eyes, her hair is an afro mohawk made of fire, and she has glowing, orange, runic tattoos on her arms. She’s wearing a grey pirate’s tunic, flowy white pants, and a red sash around her waist. The background is beige with a circle centered behind Ayda in an hombre from a neutral orange to beige to a muted purple. /END ID]

[crovyne]

Absolutely love Fig and Ayda with all my heart and I WILL DRAW ALL THE BAD KIDS

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: drawings of Fig and Ayda, each from the shoulders up. Ayda is a black half-phoenix with slightly pointed ears. She faces right and turns over her right shoulder to look warily and intensely at the viewer. Ayda has firey eyes and hair, with dark orange sclera and lighter glowing concentric irises and pupils. Her eyebrows are also orange, and her slightly wavy hair looks like an orange and yellow flame behind her. She wears an orange stud earring and a grey high-collar top. Fig faces left and turns over her left shoulder towards the viewer. She is a tiefling with longer pointy ears, brown eyes, medium-brown skin, a wide face, and slightly curved, sharp, smooth horns that emerge from her forehead. Fig has choppy bangs and the rest of her wavy hair in a thick braid; the tips of her hair are subtly fading to purple. She looks up from under her bangs to smile up slightly towards the viewer. Fig is wearing a grey leather jacket and matching earrings with Ayda.]

[littlebeansproutsworld]

I finally too the time to watch the unsleeping city and wow. Im not finished yet but im so in love with the characters

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: A digitally drawn and rendered Pete Conlan from The Unsleeping City’s season one. Pete is a pale-skinned man with reddish brown hair, green eyes, a wide grin, and top surgery scars on his chest. He wears a mostly unbuttoned black collared shirt, brown pants with rips at the knees and yellow-tinted sunglasses hanging from the pocket, and multiple piercings and bracelets. Pete stands confidently and reaches up on e hand to take off his cowboy hat, letting his hair billow. With his other hand, he summons a swirling blue and gold sparkling cloud of energy that is also letting off flamelike wisps that light him up blue. In the air around him hover many yellow spectral eye shapes. The background is a New York skyline, done in shades of dark blue, with white stars and the skyscrapers lit up with yellow light from windows.]

[swagyatta]

peak t4t romance hell yeah

[swarmkeepers]

[ID: A digital drawing of Maddie Park and Pete Conlan from the waist up, done in a sketchy style and colored entirely in shades of pink. It’s framed like a mirror selfie, with Maddie standing and holding up her phone with one hand. Behind her, Pete has both his hands on her shoulder and winks as they both smile at each other, neither looking at the phone. A pink heart appears over their heads.]

[smallestbrown]

i love tuc 2 because it’s literally “i’m gonna give sofia lee everything she wants”

[ID: two half-body drawings of sofia lee from the unsleeping city. sofia is an italian woman with curly dark hair, full lips, and an hourglass figure. in one, she stands with a hand on her hip, the other raised. she wears a pink top with a tight red skirt, and looks to the side, disgruntled. in the second drawing, she has one hand on her hip, the other raised but bent at the wrist. her hair is in a high ponytail, and she smiles dashingly to the side, wearing an orange cardigan and brown skirt.]

[jadeandquartzes]

literally begging this new season to have ALL the murder mystery tropes, including but not limited to: grizzled detective, femme fatale, sneaky butler, fancy clothes, dinner parties, power outages, convenient thunderstorms, and clues read by candlelight.

[kindlespark]

i could stare at your back all day 

[ID: A three panel full-colour comic of Amanda Maillard and Caramelinda Rocks from A Crown of Candy. The first panel is a front close up of Amanda’s eyes in shadow, looking to the right. The second panel is looking at Caramelinda from an angle behind her, looking regal in the light from the chest up. The third panel is of Amanda from the bottom half of her face down to her legs, standing at attention as light falls from the right to highlight her hand not quite reaching out. The comic has an orange and pink colour scheme. End ID.]

[dimension20official]

A new season of Dimension 20 is coming.

Full trailer next week.

Season premiering April 7th on dropout.tv

[greenteabtch]

Asian Americans have always occupied a unique place in the American racial sphere. We are never considered white by white Americans and often our position as marginalized is contested by other people of color. A lot of this is due to our ‘invisibility’ as a group which has both helped and harmed our community and given rise to the ‘model minority myth’ that stereotypes the entire asian community (which accounts for East, South East, and Pacific Islander groups) based on the success of the relative few.

It’s crucial that in this time we recognize how this myth has gone on to divide us as a community from other minority groups and realize that the root of these injustices comes from nothing else except the continuing value of white supremacy.

In the wake of these attacks on the AAPI community, please donate to any anti AAPI Racism groups, but if you cannot, it is just as important that you educate yourselves on AAPI racism and bias because for so long our problems have been written off as “trivial,” “not enough,” or simply unseen. Hating Asians and spitting slurs and objectifying comments is too commonplace and is laughed off as a part of media culture. It needs to be taken seriously.

The reality is we are all victims of the racial hierarchy and the unchecked fetishization, violence, and ignorance to Asian American issues has culminated into what we see today.

Here are some articles I strongly recommend reading through as a very brief start to your education. If you can’t read them all, that’s fine but please at least read one! (15 min read) National Geographic: “America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens.” Emphasizes how different Asian communities have been impacted by America’s history of Anti-Asian scapegoating, blaming, and how we have never been accepted by White America. (note: it says u gotta put an email to subscribe, i literally just mispelled something random and the pop up went away so please don’t let that dissuade you): (link) (5 min read) PBS: “The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S.” Goes into the history of the model minority myth and how Asian immigrants have been weaponized against the Black community and even other Asians by White Americans even while being continuously discriminated against: (link) (3 min read) Women’s Media Center: “How The Fetishization of Asian Women Leads to Violence.” I cannot emphasize enough how sick I am of Asian women’s fetishization being written off as a preference without impact when googling them literally just links me to hundreds of violent porn sites: (link) (5 min read) The Cool Bears: “’Yellow Fever’: The Fetishization of Asian Women.” Similar to the previous articles but it identifies how this fetishization manifests in day to day humor and conversation: (link) (7 min read) CNN: “The History of Attacks against Asian Americans is Complicated. Addressing it will be too.” Not my favored news source but a good overview of the Asian American community’s generational attitude change towards discussing racism: (link) If anyone has any other resources to add, or if any of these sources contain misinformation I have not caught, other asians please feel free to add on and correct.

note: for those looking for donation links, this post has an extensive google doc containing AAPI organizations for many different states as well as caards and funds.

[mesmeraculous-deactivated202111]

The specific intersection of gender, class, and immigrant status needs to be addressed in the #StopAsianHate movement. It is beyond disingenuous to aggregate “anti-Asian” hate that does not account for these statues because it erases the most marginalized Asian women who are dark-skinned, impoverished, immigrants, elders, trans, and sex workers. Don’t overlook the fact that a majority of the attacks have been against Asian women.

What happened in Atlanta happens daily to Asian & migrant women who work in massage parlors (which can sometimes front as sex work). Massage therapists face a combined assault of hypersexualization, abuse, racism, and misogyny. 

Please consider boosting smaller mutual aid funds and grassroots organizations over the big #AAPI organizations. These large organizations are usually too broad and often don’t use the money as well. 

Here is an ongoing thread of anti-carceral, migrant, sex worker, reproductive justice and other Asian organizations to support instead.

[mesmeraculous-deactivated202111]

Red Canary Song: grassroots collective that supports Asian & migrant sex workers, organizing transnationally

Butterfly: provides support, education and information to Asian & migrant sex workers

Swan Vancouver: supports Asian migrant women workers fleeing violence & exploitation

National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum: advocates & supports immigrant Asian women worker and reproductive rights in GA

[kindlespark]

playing with colour jitter and thinking about pete’s subtle spell <3

[ID: Two images. The first is a waist-up digital painting of Pete Conlan from The Unsleeping City against a dark red background. He’s facing the camera, one hand holding a finger to his lips in a ‘shh’ gesture, while his other hand is held up to face-level and wreathed with red, pink, and orange flames. His eyes flash and spark white, and he’s smirking with a smug look on his face. He’s wearing his green jacket and mesh shirt. The second image is the black and white version of the same painting, except the flames of Pete’s hand are the only thing in colour. End ID.]

[punkbarbarian]

[image id: a digital drawing of (left to right) langston brown, al matsui, and cat lee from the unsleeping city as teenagers, separated into three panels. the background is white.

langston is a black hispanic human with tan skin. he is standing facing forward with his left hand in the pocket of his jeans. he has curly brown hair with shaved sides and brown eyes. he is wearing a blue shirt with the new york islanders logo on it and light blue jeans. he has a backpack on. the right side of his body is shaded with black. the background of his panel is gold with a white screen tone. there are three gold coins next to his head.

al is a black japanese human with tan skin. she is standing facing left and holding out her right hand. she has curly split-dyed hair, the ride half is blue and the left half is black. her hair is up in two poofs on top of her head. she has brown eyes and is wearing round glasses. she has a septum ring and multiple piercings in her right ear. she is wearing a black choker and a grey gramercy occult society tshirt on top of a fishnet shirt. on the center of her shirt is a gold ring of the zodiac. she has blue ripped jeans on with fishnet leggings underneath. in her right hand there is a glowing blue flame. the right side of her body is shaded with black. the background of her panel is purple with a white screen tone.

cat is a half chinese human with light skin. she is standing facing right, looking up and holding up her fists. she has long wavy black hair and heterochromia. her left eye is green and her right eye is blue. she has freckles and a gold hoop earring in her left ear. she is wearing a lavender jacket over a grey order of the concrete fist shirt. the shirt has a purple and gold yin and yang symbol in the center. she has black jeans on. there is a gold halo over her head. the right side of her body is shaded with black. the background of her panel is pink with a white screentone.

“DREAM TEENS” is written in a bold font over the panels. ‘dream’ is purple ‘teens’ is gold, both words are outlined in black. under each of the panels it says the character’s name in the same font. ‘langston’, ‘al’, and ‘cat’ are in gold; ‘brown’, ‘matsui’, and ‘lee’ are in purple. ‘RIZGUKS’ is written as a watermark in the top left corner in gold and in the bottom right corner in purple. end id]

absolutely obsessed with the idea of the dream team’s kids becoming heroes of the unsleeping city like their parents, so i drew what that might look like! i was inspired by comics like young avengers and runaways for their designs. 

(class headcanons below the cut!)

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