Rat Hag

She/They, 30↑ Main art account.Art Tag: #Drawing the Things [ Genshin UID: 622046698 ] USING MY ART (READ FIRST)

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Demon OC of mine ♥

Her name is Wynghonna

bonus doodles under the cut

She's a fucking menace

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My Take on what Gargauth should wear.

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My machine was absolutely singing it's swansong on this one but I managed to finish a baby blanket for my coworker uwu

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I took an insanely looong drawing hiatus and haven't been doing much other than work. I'm really hoping to drop some other stuff to make time to draw again QQ (But yeah I'm doing ok, still alive etc)

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

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IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:

Adult literacy is low.

Child literacy is low.

Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.

We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.

It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.

So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.

You're correct:

Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.

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New icon

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" I-is this okay?..." [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

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Eh, I was gonna color this but maybe not

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Using my Art (Read First!)

Please read before you use any of my artwork for anything.

Things that are ok:

-Personal use: Avatars/icons/PC or Mobile wallpapers etc are all fine without credit. No worries there. -Personal use: Forum signatures/faceclaims/blog themes etc are fine as long as you offer credit somewhere on your account. (Either in the desc or on a page, whatever is fine) -Reposting to other sites is alright as long as you post an obvious link to my account to credit me. If you can't bother offering specific credit, don't save and repost my stuff at all.

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Things that are NOT ok:

-I do not allow commercial use of any of my work (with the exception of commissions) -I PROHIBIT ANY USE OF MY WORKS INVOLVING AI. I intimately despise AI 'art' and I had better not catch you training bots to copy my shit istg. I will block anyone at any time if I find them using that shit.

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Wriothesley genshin impact new character hyperfixation

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Feirthon'gane, my Eladrin Monk, and all her seasons ♥

Feirthon'gane is a wandering (far traveller) Eladrin from the Fey Wild. She doesn't have a destination in mind, just looks for whatever excitement she can dip her toes in until she gets bored. Chaotic good.

Her emotions are intense and go both ways. She can either adore or detest people based off the most insignificant interaction.

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Commission for Twitter @Zeroes_King

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Commission for Twitter @Treaos_Serrare

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if you transition it doesn't have to be forever. if you detransition it doesn't have to be forever. if you come out as a specific label you don't have to keep it forever. if you change your mind to something new, you don't have to keep that forever, either. we are ever-changing beings and it is okay to change your mind, and it is okay to have complicated feelings, and it is okay to be unsure about all of these things, too.

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Rabbit shifter druid ♥

Altered an NPC from my game a bit to make as a playable character for something else.

Baunney is a rabbit shifter who was swept away into Barovia at the age of 4. She was taken in by bear, who she named 'Nana'. She traded meat, furs, and herbs to travelers and nearby settlements for other goods. Nana the bear passed of old age. Baunney, now 14, decides to set off in search of a new tribe.

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Dimitar Pavlov, the 20 year old aasimar wizard & his beloved tressym familiar, Laszlo.

bonus Laszlo

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Every single time I see a take that amounts to "if you write about X happening, or like fiction where X happens, you like X" I'm reminded of this one time I was at a casual friends house as a young kid. We were in her room, pretending to "be orphans" escaping from an evil orphanage and having to take care of each other and fend for ourselves. It was all very Little Orphan Annie/All Dogs Go to Heaven and based on the 80s pop media.

And this girl's mom comes in, hears what we're playing and gets all MAD and UPSET. She says that if we play act something, it's because we want it to happen. So her daughter must WANT HER TO DIE.

First off lady, we were 6 year year olds, so take it down several notches. We barely had a concept of mortality for fucks sake. She made us feel so guilty and ashamed, because she was taking our game personally.

Now I have a 5 year old. And sometimes she looks at me and says "pretend you're dead, and I have to -" Whatever it is. Some adult task she's assigned herself.

And it's just so transparently obvious that she's practicing the idea of having to do things on her own. Which is exactly what 5 year olds are supposed to do. I actually find it very flattering that the only way she can envision me not being available to help her is to be literally deceased. Otherwise, obviously, she wouldn't have to do scary hard things alone.

It's a natural coping mechanism. She's self-soothing about what would happen if I wasn't there by play-acting independence in a perfectly safe environment. She's also practicing skills she needs, and making up excuses for practicing them on her own, without taking on the responsibility of being able to do them by herself all the time yet.

Humans mentally rehearse bad this in their brains all the time. We can do that by ruminating- going over worries over and over again, which tends to lead to anxiety and helplessness and depression. Or we can do it with a sense of play- by recognizing that the fiction is fiction and we can dip our toe into these experiences and expose ourselves to bad things without actually being injured.

My daughter does not want me dead. And I don't want bad things to happen in real life. But fiction and pretend help me face the horrors of the world and think about them without collapsing or messing myself up mentally.

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Exactly this.

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fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.