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...and discover the blog of a nerdy artist/writer type named J! Want to buy stuff? Visit my RB shop! Have money, but don't want stuff? Buy me a coffee! Looking for my personal? Shh. Over here.

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someone recently apologized for reblogging a post of mine from 2012 and i just want to make sure everyone knows it is okay. you are free, welcome and encouraged to enjoy and share these drawings no matter how long it has been since they were posted. it is touching to have my work be remembered, no matter how silly the work itself is. that’s my dream as an artist!!

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Baby me and the two most important people.

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rest well momma

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love you marc. i hope it doesn't hurt anymore

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After the first file was lost in a hard drive failure, I redrew it with a better reference and different colors.

If you want to buy it, you can.

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thank you for being so nice about my painting (and my fray). it took a really long time to make and he is very important to me so it means a lot to me!!

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"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

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Listen to my voice.

Listen to our heartbeat.

Listen...

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an eighteen year old boy being devoured from within by regret and self-loathing at his own willingness to resort to butchery chooses to relive a bloody civil war again and again in an attempt to come out of the ordeal having made decisions he can live with, but fails every time

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i know meteion is not Technically a little girl but she is to me and every little girl deserves a best friend so i made her a friend who can understand her... a little sweet potato lovebird familiar of an elpis researcher. she will hitchhike to the distant future in yann's sleeve and become an elezen. through the power of dynamis, and the power of wanting to give meteion a hug at the Dead Ends. and then they will go to school together and eat ice creams

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It's the CBC Black History Month Challenge!!!!!!!!!

sqex recently failed to adapt a winning player hairstyle design, one with coils, into the game. i think all of us were pretty disappointed when they claimed they didn't have the technology to do it right. it's good that they want to try again someday. but until then i think it'd be nice if we allowed ourselves to imagine the characters of ffxiv with Black features even if they can't look that way yet in game.

if you haven't done custom deliveries yet in endwalker, may i suggest you give them a try? it's a great questline and Margrat is a brilliant, nerdy Black woman. without her effort and knowledge (and titanic amounts of coffee, judging from her energy levels) our heroes would never have reached the ends of creation to save the universe. but moreover i think she's just so charming… she is not just an engineer and scientist but an advocate for her fellow workers. and while she's already beautiful, i thought she would be beautiful with natural hair, too.

Now for the important part. To my Black followers: You belong in science, engineering, and professional spaces. You belong in stories. You belong in games!! And you belong just as you are. You are not too dark; your natural hair is not dirty or unprofessional or "too hard" to draw or model. The art you touch is enriched for your presence, and the places you're shut out from are the poorer for your absence. It's a question of effort and a question of Black presence in creative spaces, and I'm angry that we can't make a character who looks like this in FFXIV. So until (and even after!) you can, I hope you let your imagination run wild and invite yourself into every space that lacks your magic. I love you!!

there's not many days left in BHM but i'll still tag my friends @ababblesaurus, @myrfing, @flower-waltz and @saprophilous because i bet they would draw something cool if they had time….

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i took a long break because i was unhappy with it but now im in love with the textures

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SEMANTIC NONSENSE

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several people have bought this old thing this month. how did they find it? i dunno.

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What is your Hogwarts house????

i am begging yall to read another book and stop giving money and space in our culture to one of the worst people alive

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ill be like "i have a neat idea for a drawing :) i will sketch it real fast so i dont forget"

then two hours later the rescue team finds me,

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hey wow im still really depressed about vagrant story

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i am no longer depressed about vagrant story. now i am exultant

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patterns from william jones ish

i wanted to incorporate welsh sartorial tradition into his design but i guess we don't know a whole lot about what welsh men wore historically, huh. i give him lots of wool and a nice comfy coat

this is my rdm guy, yann aespenwalle, before he started wearing masks and helmets all the time. he's from a teeny island out around sharlayan and uses a blend of conjury and geomantic disciplines that his people have passed down mostly to help make sailing and fishing easier. since there's a lot of water, ice, wind and lightning aspected aether at sea that's what he's best at using.

he studied anthropology and aetherology at the studium but he had to leave suddenly for Reasons.

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i have not finished even a short comic like that since high school. i have also never used screentones and i now understand why mangaka need assistants and why so many are dying from heart explosions and brain aneurysms

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Comic about a misunderstanding

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