in search of vampire sire

nina / rhys, 32 year old gay vampire working as a fulltime concept artist over at ea games on the sims 4! married to @sakom75 and @shithowdy

[ninamodaffari]

blog directory!

oops, realized that I didn't have any links to my art or characters, so I'm fixing that now. :)

my art:

#art

my ocs:

#yuri galkin (dnd warlock, my most beloved oc)

#emil 'gillman' (fallout oc)

any asks will be tagged #ocasks, otherwise just #asks

fandoms:

fallout: new vegas, arcane, disco elysium, deadlock, bg3, stardew, sims 4...and many, many more...

asks:

open, and I appreciate every ask, I may be very slow to respond due to working a fulltime art job.

about:

hi, I'm Nina Modaffari but you can call me Rhys! I'm a fulltime concept artist working on The Sims 4, you may have seen my work on Werewolves, Eco Living and many more if you're familiar with the game. I have six cats and a wonderful wife as well as awesome roommate. van helsing (2004) has the best depiction of werewolves.

[ot3]

if i never have to see another zero effort print on demand sticker design about the Importance Of Artists ever again itll still be too soon

[ot3]

hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these and none worth the vinyl they're printed on. at least when people are flooding physical art markets with this kind of junk there's less palpable irony than there is for the ones hosted on fucking redbubble, one of the biggest art-theft-for-profit hubs of the past two decades.

[porterfieldlol]

sa nàı̨hxe łiwe (sunset fish)

by dene artist morgan tsetta

[shithowdy]

society in decline: i cannot even take a peaceful morning walk without ornery little men yelling at me

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

How quickly we forget the dangerous crow boy who’s job it is to destroy plastic

[bophia]

Daily affirmations for tesla owners: your car is ugly as hell and everyone hates you

[sixty-silver-wishes]

happy pride month to the fuck tree I guess

[mushbeast]

happy pride month to my fellow queer birders 🦄

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through this Thai cattery that breeds for white back-stripes

[imfullabeans]

[shithowdy]

the tower

[shithowdy]

it's 1pm at the marsh! come on down, we've got

𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓁𝒶𝒸𝓀𝒷𝒾𝓇𝒹𝓈!!!

[shithowdy]

this is now available as a free downloadable file with transparent .pngs and a grackle recolor on my kofi!

[etchif]

"It's stupid that men are allowed to be shirtless in public while women aren't" yes true✅️ "it's also gross when men do it they should also have to cover up" what. no. no. wrong conclusion❌️

[throwawayforpurposes]

Okay so. I know this is correct. And I agree with you.

But. I know. I promise I know but I don’t like seeing anyone shirtless. And I get it on a beach or sth. Sure. I get it. There. Absolutely go wild. Go nude if you want. It’s a beach. And if you’re in a space like a sauna or somewhere where shirtlessness and even nudity is allowed. Go nuts man. Twerk nude. Idc.

But when I am out in the city in summer. Why are you taking your shirt off. You’re in public. Public indecency. Why. No. Put it back on. No. I know it’s hot outside. But have some decorum please.

I bet this is some puritan bullshit I’ve internalized. I bet this is probably something bad. But I will die on this hill. Public indecency is entirely unwarranted. Men in normal spaces should be fully clothed like everyone else. At least wear a fucking crop top. Thats what they were invented for.

[illmetkismet]

Hey prev, your addition to this post is something I see ppl do all the time, and I'd just like to suggest that if, in response to something you see on tumblr.com (or in real life!), you have a thought that you know and understand comes from some bullshit you've internalized, bullshit that you yourself have an inkling is probably 'bad', your next step should not be to voice the shitty opinion that comes from that thought, but to take a moment to reflect on where that shitty thought came from and perhaps to start to dismantle the shitty scaffolding in your brain that is holding that thought up.

Just publically declaring, "I know this is a shitty thing to say and think," doesn't make it fine and good to then go on and declare the shitty thing. Not to other people, and not to yourself. All you're doing is continuing to live your life unexamined, clinging to ideas you suspect are probably harmful to you and others, instead of trying to do some self reflection and growth.

Don't let learned disgust override that nascent suspicion I see you having - that maybe your feelings about the semi-clothed human body have been shaped by fucked up Christian ideas, and that maybe you need to do some work to overcome them instead of automatically reinforcing them in public because ew, men's chests are indecent!

[throwawayforpurposes]

My problem is. I don’t think my opinion is wrong.

The only reason I keep saying it’s probably wrong is because I know about all that and how christianity did permanent damage to peoples view of human bodies. I know all that. And I know that maybe it would be “better” if I didn’t think the way that I did.

But I don’t feel like my opinion is wrong. I think my opinion is valid. Thats why I voiced my opinion. I feel like I’m okay. I feel okay in my stance. I believe in it.

I know it is probably in many people’s opinions “a bad thing to say and think” I know. I know. But I feel this way. And I don’t think I’m wrong. That doesn’t mean I think my opinion should be the only one. Or that I am universally correct or whatever.

I just wanted to say what I think. I’m sorry I did. I should just shut up I know. I don’t understand why you were so passive aggressive. I apologize.

[illmetkismet]

I wasn't being passive aggressive, I was earnestly pointing out that you might want to rethink saying stuff that you feel you need to qualify with "I bet this is some puritan bullshit I've internalized. I bet this is something bad." Because you're right! It is puritan bullshit you've internalized and it does suck, especially when you say it on a post that's trying to break down some of that puritan bullshit.

I don't know how you rationalize to yourself that you can be right about this and that your opinion is valid, while at the same time understanding it's based on an ideology you don't seem to subscribe to (sorry if you actually are a puritan Christian - if that's the case I don't think my advice to try to unpack your own opinion more critically will be helpful).

You're either a troll, or you're 22 and you need to spend a little more time learning about how biases work before you engage in critical discussion on a public platform. Either way, I didn't mean to pick on you specifically, but the way you phrased your reply is something I've seen a lot of people do - prefacing a shitty opinion with, "I know it's probably some internalized bullshit, but I think [...]" and I wish people would stop doing that. Examine what you're internalizing and either commit to that opinion whole hog, or change your mind based on said examination. Are you a puritan or are you not? I hope you're not, and I hope that being asked to reflect on what you've written makes you rethink your opinion.

[sinisterdaarlingg]

I'm dying...

[rabbitkinglune777]

makes me sad that most YouTube art videos are about "how to make your ocs interesting", "how to grow your account in social media", "how to not make mary sues" like what happened to just drawing for fun and sharing it- oh wait I forgot this is the result of lolcowing people for their technical art skills and or clout related things.

[strflr]

Hi all! I've made a sticker sheet available for order in my ko-fi shop. This one features 6 North American woodpecker species, along with some things they like to eat!

If that sorta thing interests you, check out the item listing here!

[fucktoyfelix]

Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:

-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.

[renumuro]

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