you have not begun to see the horrors of love

my art comm info middle eastern artist | 1995 | europe | cis lesbian | no aI 🚫 | multifandom/ocs | 🌻trans rights are human rights | commissions open bluesky

[rhywhitefang]

Hello everyone! You heard me say that I was gonna finally streamline some sort of commission process in the new year... well now that it's March I finally succeeded. You can find all the info you need here!

[monacellipress]

Jellyfish mosaic tile piece, Havana, Cuba. From Great Houses of Havana.

[chichitoitsu]

my pages for @theunwantedguestproject ! it was such a blast seeing everyone come together for this and everyone's interpretations of the characters and story. I feel like I learned a lot from this experience!

please go check out everyone else's work at the official website here!

[midandevil]

Poor cousin Tabitha. 😔 I just want to give her a hug… even though I know she’d hate it.

[wizardjail]

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

[ivytea]

false lanternberry

[rosenkranz-does-things]

@theunwantedguestproject is now live!! a bunch of artists took part in illustrating Tamsyn Muir's play The Unwanted Guest. here's some cover variants I designed just for fun :') you can check out the project here 💜

[aguacerotropical]

what annoys me the most about Robin Hobb (and many other writers) teasing queerness and queer themes but not following through is knowing they know better, and also the fact that their intricate wonderful worlds feel so much poorer for their ultimately not including it. Queerness is everywhere, even the most repressive society is queer because they are zealously afraid of gender and sexual fuckery. A fantasy society without it is just not believable. This is something Ursula k Le Guin understood implicitly, and it’s why her works have stayed so relevant. And that is probably why Robin Hobb has largely faded into obscurity for younger sff fans, and will continue to do so. She didn’t have to make Fitz and the Fool a Thing, but I’m willing to say she missed an opportunity to, for example, contrast them with a bisexual Althea and Wintrow in Liveship Traders. Those two are frustrating because they’ve been set up as queer in relation to patriarchy, only for that queerness start to be watered down as the novels continue. (At least by the first half of the Mad Ship.)

[shimmersroundyourskull]

Fitzloved is queer beyond queer, because they love each other fully, having worked past their own interpersonal barriers and especially everyone else’s need to understand how TF that works.

Hobb fully intended their love story, she wondered what love would look like without revolving around sex or gender. It’s not teasing queerness, it’s so far beyond our norms that it’s extra super queer 💞 They are whole together.

[aguacerotropical]

I wasn’t speaking about the main ROTE series, but Liveship Traders. Liveship Traders pits two of their main leads, Althea and Wintrow, against patriarchy and then makes them straight. She's aware of queerness, she makes several jokes about it, but she doesn't include a single queer relationship. It's queerphobic and thus sloppy in its worldbuilding, which was my point, because the real world has out queer people.

Plus, I specifically said that the Fitz and the Fool didn't have to be a couple, but she missed an opportunity to have queer couples as foils, perhaps. I haven't read the main ROTE series, so I don't want to comment too much, but after several conversations with other fans, the consensus seems to be that they read as queer, but Hobb never seriously admitted or confronted that reality. It's a giant hole in her writing. (And yes I am aware the Fool/Beloved is genderfluid. That, if anything, strengthens my argument that she knew but chose to straight-fy her world.)

And I don't really have any reason to give her the privilege of the doubt. The fact that her track record in Liveship Traders is of erasing queerness makes me very suspicious that she's "exploring love beyond sexuality and gender" rather than refusing to call a spade a spade. And loving someone in the way you mention is not queer, it's merely being human. Even if it was, keeping people closeted and insisting your world is straight is still not being “beyond queerness." It's bad writing within an already sloppily constructed world that ignores Caribbean colonization while clearly basing itself on it, something I've discussed in depth in previous posts.

And just to clarify, there were good writers tackling queerness in the 90s-2000s. She was actively reading and complimenting Lynn Flewelling who crafted pretty much the best queernom world I have ever read, who emphasized throughout her books that Alec and Seregil love each other and fuck dirty and that their love goes beyond the romantic. So no, Hobb knew better. She chose not to do better.

[rhywhitefang]

More colored sketches

[hazemsuhail]

Israel has not honored the ceasefire for a single moment.

It has completely ignored President Trump’s peace plan, operating without restraint and entirely outside the bounds of any law, doing exactly as it pleases.

[hazemsuhail]

Since the supposed "ceasefire" began, more than 900 martyrs have fallen in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the Israeli occupation.

[hazemsuhail]

My brother Samer is racing against time. From a life-threatening coma due to a lack of bipolar medication to severe injuries from a devastating bombing. He is now caught between waiting for urgent medical travel and struggling to survive on limited medications.

Please, we need your help to save his life.🙏

[hazemsuhail]

Please! Help Samer by donating! If you are unable to, at least - like, comment and share this post!

[salcristina]

#75 on GazaVetters verified sheet

[redjennies]

this website will mock tiktok users for their dark empath/"how to spot a sociopath" bullshit and then turn around and accuse people they dont know of having moral OCD to win internet arguments like that's not equally repugnant behavior.

[redjennies]

this was me popping off about something at the end of my break because I'm so fucking tired of seeing this tossed around as a buzzword, but I do want to get into why I find this trend so fucking repugnant.

to be clear, I don't have moral OCD/scrupulousity, but I did have an eating disorder in my late teens and twenties and I can tell you this shit stinks of the same casual cruelty people use when talking about eating disorders online. I can just hear that same smug fuck, pithy little twitter wit of "lol your diet just sounds like an eating disorder." every time I read a post using it, and it's infuriating. at best, the other person doesn't have OCD and your armchair diagnosis of "people I don't like are actually mentally ill" is furthering a stigma against people with OCD, and at worst, you're a fucking bully who's picking on someone with OCD for something that causes them a great deal of pain. it's unhelpful and cruel, and frankly, you should all be ashamed of yourselves for engaging with this.

people with OCD have been begging for compassion and understanding and for people to stop using their disorder as a punchline for decades, and we actually did start to make some progress on that. but for some reason, the last year or so, a bunch of y'all decided this time it was fair game and there's no excuse for that. you're not bringing awareness. you're not being Actually Woke. you're not a lone voice speaking truth to power. you're one step above edgelords in a youtube comment section calling each other the r slur over an argument about a video game. so have some goddamn decorum, and cut it the fuck out. it's that fucking easy.

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko #101, 1961 Oil on canvas 79 x 81 in (200.7 x 205.7 cm) Collection of Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

[hollowinky]

"Maybe we could go to the beach when this week is over?"

[rhywhitefang]

Vittorio, my terrible evil Italian man I’m making for @lumentears

[the-meme-monarch]

⁉️ happy pride month turns out I Saw The TV Glow is free to watch on youtube and has been for at least three months now and i did not know until just now

[the-meme-monarch]

i need to get gender affirming surgery

[lierdumoa]

[joeyclaire]

i stand in front of an audience. okay so there’s this epilogue to a fantasy/sci fi series about the psychological decline of a protagonist who spent his entire life solving everyone else’s problems as fantasy protagonists often do and now he is confronted with the reality that he does not know how to solve his own and this destroys him completely. his mental health spiral is the focus of the story and is just as gradual as it is intense. no one knows what to do when the one that does all the saving needs to be saved and they all go about helping him horribly. incredibly claustrophobic in tone. most episodes end on a sour, open note. everyone is gripped. i say it is steven universe. the audience erupts into fury

[joeyclaire]

there’s a scene about that exact moment in your mid teens when your parent is talking and you realize you’ve spent all your life looking up to a person who knows nothing and is telling you things you definitely don’t need or want to hear and all you can do is zone out because you’ve never been disillusioned like this before. and it’s so good. and it’s steven universe.

[saucefunk]

sinners zine digital pdf is now LIVE and i’m so excited to share my piece for this project! this is my favourite thing i’ve drawn to date