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I'm Alive I Swear {They/Him} {Nonbinary} {Aro/ace} {Art Blog: pebble-pictures} ♿️

[pebble-person]

PINNED POST WIP I'VE NEVER HAD ONE BEFORE

Backup: @goodoldfashionedmothboy

Art: @pebble-pictures

My Cats: @pebble-and-the-gamers

Backup url liable to change soon because it's very old

Content is mostly opinions rambled while on pain meds and gushing about the arts and animation and stories in general aaaaa I just love things made by people !!! I'm some nerd who yaps and loves artsy-fartsy bullshit. I identify with the goth label, I guess, but it's loosey-goosy.

Nonbinary and mostly bedridden from disability. I just block you if you stress me out, I have too much of that in the real world.

^ Egg. Closest to a persona I've got. (If you recognize them from a particular fan game? Yes. I created them. And that candy cane Pink Pearl costume.)

Nonbinary and questioning the transmasc possibilities. Mostly bedridden. I just block you if you stress me out, I have too much of that in the real world.

Adult. 21+. Minors use caution, though I try to keep things safe for all audiences that are chill with swearing.

My only dni list is, like... Terfs, mostly. Anyone who's personally offended by someone just existing. Idk, man, we're probably chill if that doesn't apply to you.

[striders]

the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.

[saleensundria9]

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.

[a-polite-melody]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

It's a lot, for books aimed at eleven year olds who want to read about kids turning into fun animals.

On the podcast, the two (American) hosts happened to get onto the topic of the post-9/11 Iraq War and their reactions to it. They were both children at the time and as such could not be expected to have particularly nuanced views of US military policy. The person who hadn't read Animorphs was unsurprised by the declaration of war; that's what you did. Someone attacks America, America goes to war. That's how a country protects itself, through military revenge. The Animorphs fan, about the same age, had been devastated and against the war from the start. War was a Big Deal and, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort; a lot of people were going to die, and a lot more were going to get hurt, and no matter how the war shook out it was still going to be horrible. They attributed this perspective, of course, to the series that had taught them about the horrors endemic to war in an engaging way at such a young age -- to Animorphs.

That's what kid fiction is for.

[yourgreenpalminmine]

[85 FINAL]

“It doesn’t need to be perfect, it doesn’t need to even be good, I just need to get it done.” Was the spirit of this project. After years of perfectionism, and making little to no art and writing at all, the idea for Your Green Palm in Mine hit me like a freight train and I somehow managed to produce all this. 
I never initially expected to actually finish it- much less make it as long as I did, but yet! Here it stands, completed, 3 times the length of its original draft, 9 months later. 
The community that has grown and flourished from this project has (damn I keep saying this) surpassed my wildest dreams! And so thank you! Thank you. For reading! For your support! For all of your love. I have always wanted to impact people, and I never thought I could, or would be able to, but here we are! Thousands of you! Thousands of people who have resonated with my story and the themes I wanted to express. You have all been amazing. 
This won’t be end of the rocks. I’ll keep posting about them here now and again, and one day, I may come back and make another serialized comic about them again. “Bracelets” is currently in pre production! But for now, I need to let them rest.

To see my other work and comics I’ll be making, go to my main, @thefaeriemerchant ! I also have a Discord Server that I talk and share my work in- I absolutely adore the community we’ve grown there. Come to meet new people! Rant about the shows you like! Share your ocs! Share your pets! Each weekend we do a watchparty- currently, we’re finishing up Steven Universe. I’d love to see you there!

That is all, 
Dantès

Various OCs are from my Lotus Blossom Patrons!

Seaglass is from @ask-whitepearl-and-steven

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[pebble-pictures]

We'll miss you, Karina! Your work with Drawfee will always be so important to me as an artist, and you shaped my sense of humor growing up. Good luck on your future projects!

Y'all, follow her @/dilfosaur, she's an incredible artist and I'm wayyyy too emotional about this news.

[t0byinthesky]

I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.

I also traced Caine answering the phone from episode 4 to demonstrate his phonemes and mouth shapes.

[shoe-mustard]

been rewatching su and forgot how much i love pearl

also is it just me or this this shade of grey weirdly nostalgic? just me?

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[skweebs]

Made this guy from my favorite Gerard Donelan comic

[z1ish]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[bleedthebeat]

[bleedthebeat]

[bleedthebeat]

don’t worry about it

[ninjasmudge]

ive been in here so long........

[calebwittebane]

wait so right after being resurrected jesus went to heaven anyway? then what was the point of all that besides spectacle omg

[calebwittebane]

*a look of realization* just like pjackk...

[emobricosss]

Happy pride month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kabber]

[pompomvi]

I almost gave up but I finished it and I finished this show and so grateful to it for pulling me out of my artblock and giving me the strength to make it I sound lame but I've never spent three days on one artwork before n I have trouble staying focused and finishing things… but here it is!!!!

[bananarpfunky]

[retrogamingblog2]

[digital-magus]

I love you, vintage gay Pikachu. You’ll find the boy for you, I promise.