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First Post || Intro, Socials and Project Links!

Hey everyone! I'm Raphy (She/Her) and I'm a artist and writer from the UK!

I began my journey as a fanfic / original writer when I was younger before shifting to become a webcomic artist, I have since shifted back to doing illustated writing and have been having lots of fun with it!

I primarily focus on the genres that were hot when I was a teen such as dystopia, sci-fi and urban fantasy due to my hankering for nostalgia. I've built a world that I'd love to have a range of my writing projects center around which allows for me to explore loads of different genres!

Here's a rundown of what I'm up to and where else you can find me!

Citizen Five: City of Shadowers

Format: Long-term illustrated novel for the web.

Genres: Dystopia, Action, Superhero, Sci-fi, Urban Fantasy, LGBTQ+

Trigger warnings: Strong language, cartoon violence, blood and minor injuries, instances of emotional trauma, innuendo and mild sexual content.

A new and advanced form of mind-control is plaguing the city of Novus and between the mindless zombies, the free thinkers and the ominous forces that oversee it all, Cassian is stuck firmly in the middle. So when young prodigy Ali Creeds and his new team, known as the Citizens, ask Cassian to join them in disrupting the status quo for good, all sides of her life begin to cave in. So what’s it gonna be? Order or chaos? Status quo or Citizen Five?

Links:

| Webtoon | Tapas | Globalcomix |

Here I'll add any relevant links you can find me on as I go!

SOCIALS!

Twitter | Instagram | DeviantArt

DONATIONS

Ko-Fi | Patreon

I can't wait to share more art and writing with you soon <3

|| Fake Screenshot Illustrations ||

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I gave him a tongue piercing bc I feel like it's something he'd have gotten himself then regret doing but continue to wear bc he went through so much pain for it

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The Chem Baroness Renata Glasc by 齐齐喜欢看美漫

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awash in longing

Queen of Hearts || Karalee from Citizen Five

Talons || Darius McConnell, Arc 1 villain from Citizen Five

Don't talk to me, I'm tired || Cassian [Citizen Five] in her hangover couture™

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star-anise

When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork. In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

shieldmaidenofsherwood

#it’s so so important to remember that representation is not one-size-fits-all#what is empowering to one person might be exhausting and oppressive to someone else#some people need stories about having the strength to save themselves#some people need stories about being considered worthy of being saved#some people need inspiration for their independence while others need validation that they don’t have to be able to do everything themselves#before you lash out against something PLEASE stop to consider:#is this inadequate and/or damaging representation?#or is it just something I don’t personally relate to? [X]

star-anise

It’s been half a decade and I still haven’t found an articulation of the complexity of “representation” as concisely and precisely mindblowing as @hungrylikethewolfie’s here.