Sugar Draws

I'm bi, I cry, and I can't draw the other eye. Welcome to the art blog of sugar-jay.

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A compilation of tips ive made per request of others

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Type O Positive

Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games)

Rating/Warnings: Explicit, Graphic Depictions of Violence

Relationships: König/John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish/Simon "Ghost" Riley, König/John "Soap" MacTavish, König/Simon "Ghost" Riley

Tags: Non-Consensual Drug Use, Kidnapping, Medical Torture, Established Relationship, Missions Gone Wrong, Eventual Smut, Non-Canonical Character Death

Noble Service Solutions is a cutting edge medical research company that is holding their annual blood drive gala. However things are not quite what they seem: people tend to disappear each time their name pops up. Three experts are called in to investigate and put a stop to whatever is happening behind the scenes. The mission calls for stealth, expertise, and preferably at least one operative that doesn’t chronically wear a mask to go undercover.

OR 

Yet another fic where Soap gets kidnapped but this time it’s by ppl really obsessed with blood and also he has TWO boyfriends to rescue him.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Nice Family Holiday

Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games)

Rating/Warnings: Not Rated, No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Kate Laswell/Kate Laswell's Wife, Kate Laswell & John Price, Task Force 141 & Los Vaqueros

Tags: Accidental Drug Use, Marijuana, Thanksgiving Dinner, Dysfunctional Family Bonding, Crack

Based on the tiktoks by mjs_guide_to_writing

Kate Laswell invites the 141 and Los Vaqueros over for Thanksgiving dinner to prove to her wife how nice and normal her work family can be. Things go about as well as expected.

AKA the fic where everybody accidentally gets into Ghost’s weed and ruin a perfectly good family moment

[omgthatdress]

83,500 Vintage Sewing Patterns Put Into Online Database From Vogue, McCall’s, Butterick, And Simplicity

Whether you’re an expert costume designer or have ever aspired to sew your own clothes, there is now a website with 85,300 vintage sewing patterns on it, including patterns by McCall’s, ...

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@thischick25

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Direct link: http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[systlin]

WFHAT HOLY SHIIT

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For drawing references 

[@/ALEXbutalsoK on Twitter]

[m-chromatic]

on a whim I made a palette game dedicated to…. UNUSUAL color palettes. feel free to participate in any way you’d like

anyways send me some requests and a palette combo and i’ll try to draw stuff for my own challenge lmao (though i might just draw stuff on my own idk)

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Watching season 2 of Daredevil, aka the Punisher And Daredevil Are BFFs Show. No I will not hear anything saying otherwise.

[bolthound]

time for art fight spam cause I was not good at regular posting just tagging folks that have tumblrs in a random order more deets can be found on my art fight

@popolis @sugar-vs-art @inkedmoth

[bludragongal]

Here’s a little Art Tip about a very specific part of the body. Pop a squat and see how it looks on you.

[posereference]

A few from my book Poses for Artists Volume 6 on https://www.posemuse.com/

[ot3]

i got a bunch of new followers today coinciding with a BIG surge of notes on my initial ‘draw your ot3′ post so here’s another batch of those as a welcome post and also to point out that i actually have a tag for those. enjoy your stay.

[junnie133]

OT4 & OT3 Ship Meme Template.

Sooo a while ago I made this ship templates and since some people liked them, I decided to make polyship templates as well! Couldn’t add the quote to the OT3 one since it didn’t fit u.u. Click for better quality.

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Warning up front: I am not a system. I am speaking from a place of second-hand knowledge. Take what I say with a grain of salt and defer to those who actually have DID for corrections. They are the ones whose voices carry the most weight on this topic. Listen, I’m new here, I came in with the show like a lot of people, but lordt it is a struggle to navigate the Moon Knight fandom—specifically the fan content. Even when Mohamed Diab stated they depicted a fantasy version of DID in the Making of Moon Knight special, it seems like few people put in the effort to even do a cursory google search let alone look for credible sources before talking about or trying to depict DID.

How is it there are people that will note they have Dissociative Identity Disorder and still call Steven/Jake personalities of Marc’s? Refer to them as merely pieces of Marc that fell off or that he decided to chip away at himself? Say that they have a broken or fractured mind when IN THE SHOW Steven himself says they are not?

Also just. The amount of times I read something even mildly engaging only to be disappointed because every time the boys talk with each other it’s solely through mirrors or puddles. It’s one of the things that bugs me the most, because you gotta realize at some point that that is a very Hollywood/visual media trick. They do it in the show because it’s a visual medium and they want to not only visually show who is speaking, but attach facial expressions and body movements that we wouldn’t get if they kept it to dubbed-over inner thoughts. I’m not saying I agree with depicting it that way, but I am saying I understand why it was done. 

Are there systems that communicate via reflections? Possibly. Every system is different! I’m not saying nix it entirely or your depiction is bad, either, just that it is not something they would likely do all the time and certainly is not required for them to communicate with each other. 

Consider this: DID is borne of continued trauma as a child, often (and certainly in Marc’s case) abuse. It’s a means of survival. Talking out loud to your reflection is a very noticeable thing, something that puts a target on your back that anybody but especially an abuser might use against you as a means to inflict more abuse. So it would make sense that if the Moon Knight system wanted to talk to each other like that, they would choose to do so only in private moments where they were safe from prying eyes and ears as a security measure.

TL;DR Search deeper and for credible sources when you wanna depict a topic that affects real life people, especially for specific stuff; the answers are out there. Marc, Steven, and Jake are their own individuals with their own memories, thoughts, and feelings. They are not shattered pieces of a broken mind, they are the result of Marc’s child brain trying to protect itself from the horrors of repeated trauma by building multiple pillars to deal with the crushing weight. 

[maemaybe]

Hey. Hi. Actual person with DID. You don’t need to speak for us and over us like this. Please don’t. Let us fight our own battles and just uplift our voices when we do. 

Moon Knight is a fantasy version of DID. It’s what DID might look like in a comic book universe, and of course a lot of things look different in a comic book universe! 

There is nothing wrong with people writing fanfic or creating fanart that is completely cannon compliant in that it continues to use the whole mirror communication thing. If people want to create fanworks that are more cannon divergent so that they are more realistic, that’s cool too. 

Marc, Steven and Jake are not “shattered pieces of a broken mind”, but they are dissociated parts of one whole person. Yes, they are still unique individuals. But alters are also parts of a whole. You don’t need to make it sound all dark and sad by using words like “shattered” and “broken”. We are separate parts of one whole person. Please don’t make that sound like a bad thing. 

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Hi! You are right, I do not need to speak for or over anyone. As I stated up top, it’s not my intention to replace the voices of those that it actually affects at all! I was just shooting a complaint out into the void.

I hadn’t thought about it from the viewpoint of people being canon compliant. That’s a very valid take and I realize that some of my frustration has been misdirected.

I would like to clarify that these are not my words, they are borrowed from the ways I have seen reviewers of Moon Knight and similar chats on YouTube and from irl peers discussing it. In fact I had written this after just having watched a YouTuber use all of them (personalities, broken, etc.) in a way that rubbed me wrong by just how bleak he was making it sound.

But it is not my place to speak up, rather to bring attention to those whose fight it actually is. So I am happy to have received a response from someone with more experience on the matter so I can correct my words and actions going forward. Apologies for any distress this may have caused you.

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Warning up front: I am not a system. I am speaking from a place of second-hand knowledge. Take what I say with a grain of salt and defer to those who actually have DID for corrections. They are the ones whose voices carry the most weight on this topic.

> Revised TL;DR because the whole point I was trying to say got lost. So here is better context and less words.

Me: *consumes fan-made content about Moon Knight*

Me: :D

A noticeable portion of said fan content: *uses outdated terminology and previous ‘Hollywood horror’ characterizations of DID, feeds into stereotypes about mental illness in general, gives misinformation about how even the show’s fantasy DID works let alone the real life version*

Me: D:

Me: Well that’s annoying

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I have this head canon that Jake still has the mustache he does in the comic but they're fake and he secretly buys them in bulk. Only reason Marc and Steven haven't found out is 'cuz he keeps them in the glove compartment of his car(s).

[luxshine]

Oh, this is canon for the comics!

Well, in the comics Marc and Steven known about Jake... but the mustache IS fake and has always been fake :) Since they're co-conscious most of the time in one way or the other, and Steven HAS to be clean-shaved for his millionaire outings? Jake's morning routine starts with "glue my fake mustache on before going to Gena's for some grub", and for a while the comic way of letting us know when Jake had switched to one of the others was him taking the mustache off :D

[lunaresystem]

JDJDFJJFF YEAH the mustache was always fake.

There was specifically a scene in Lemire where the police had bagged the fucking stick-on stache as evidence and were like “why were you wearing a fake mustache????” as part of the interrogation it was a trip.

It’s really fucking funny because Steven is adamant on clean shaven and Jake needs the stache and Marc’s just caught between these two about it. Where’s the sitcom about this.

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EXCUSE ME WHAT

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Rerun where everything's the exact same except Khonshu's head is slightly smaller.

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This is my best fic yet.

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Pspsps. Hey. I actually started writing it. Khonshu gets turned into a bird.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38877969/chapters/97222953

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