My name's Tacoma, welcome to my page! I'm a 24 y/o ace/bi guy generally just kinda doin whatever!
I generally go by Tac online, close friends can call me Taco, but close friends only please.
Icon: Team Mystery Sitka for Art Fight season !! [Full image]
Here, you'll mostly see my art, roller coaster related content, stuff abt the characters and bands I like, and so on! If you wanna see my characters, take a look here or here!
If you want to find me anywhere else, check out my LinkTree! Other than here, I'm most active on Instagram and Toyhouse :]
NOTE: I do not respond to dms that are just "hi" "hey" "how are you" etc. If you need to dm me, and haven't said elsewhere that you're going to do so, include the reason you're messaging me in the first message or two! Otherwise I will delete the message.
More info about tags and stuff I use are below the cut :]
Thanks for popping in to have a look around! Welcome to the Tacoma Nation!
[Pinned last updated June 2 2026]
I have a few specific tags I use relatively regularly if you wanna check em out:
#TacTalks -> Textposts
#TacDraws -> Artwork
#Tac's Photos -> Photography
#Top Tier Tacoma -> A selection of what I feel is my best work
#Toll Booth -> Ask Tag
#Delayed Broadcast -> Queue Tag
As well as my special interest tags!
#coasterposting -> roller coasters/general amusement parks
#Tac Talks Coasters -> A daily thing I did throughout 2025 where I counted down all the coasters I've ridden from worst to best (occasionally gets updated when I ride new coasters)
#weatherbrain -> weather related posts
#spacebrain -> space related posts
#jerseyposting -> anything about/relating to New Jersey (I am from NJ and very proud of that lol)
#PA-posting -> Similar to above, just with Pennsylvania (except I don’t live there lol)
Additionally, if you want to see art of/posts about a specific character of mine, they're all tagged as "# oc: [Name]" ("#oc: Starburst" as an example). OC tags include both post about them, as well as reblogs I think fit/relate to them haha.
Similarly, if you wanna see posts abt my comfort characters, those are #CC: [character name], either Jenny, Bolt, Tamama or Snoopy! ^^
Thinking abt Roadie and how he just seems very pick-upable. Like his baggy clothes would be like the scruff of the neck on a kitten and he'd be perfectly content if someone were to do that to him lol
I managed to get one AF attack done today ! I would have liked to do more but work this morning rlly wiped me out </3
I was debating making a second attack tonight but I think I'm gonna leave it at just one tonight bc A) I was already not rlly in the right Drawing Headspace to make it come easily (though I do like how it came out !) and B) I simply do not want to fight with this site more than I have to rn lmao
I'll post it when I have one or two more to go with it, probably tomorrow ^^
One year. I've had Sitka for a year as of today. That's kind of crazy to me. He still feels like a new character while at the same time feeling like I've had him for years. It's almost impossible to overstate what this tiger means to me <33
I do wish I could've drawn something a bit more, like, grandiose I guess, but I do like how this pose came out after having it in mind to draw for like a year lmao. I wanted to do sort of a spinning pose, almost roundhouse kick type thing, something with a lot of motion that gave me a good excuse to draw his big tail :3
Happy Sitka Day to all in the Tacoma Nation! Thank you for all the love you've shown this guy over the last year, and rest assured he is not going anywhere any time soon <33
More talk abt what he means to me below the cut
God where do I even begin with him? lol. I think Sitka is the most influential character I've made ever since I first created Shep back in March of 2020 as my first fursona. And truthfully, both of them in their own ways have helped me figure out and express new things about myself. I both made them at very transformative points in my life and I think their impacts on my prove that. After I made Sitka last year, I connected to him WAY stronger than I had expected to, even knowing that I was making him as a new sona. Again, I don't think I've ever connected more strongly to an OC, save for maybe Shep. This guy is in my head constantly, I swear.
And over the course of the last year, I think I've (at least partly) figured out why that is. I liked Sitka from the minute I had made him of course, but I think part of what took him to that next level for me, so to speak, was my Unseen drawing from last September. This is probably the angriest drawing I've ever made. At the time, I had felt ignored by the world and passed over. Group chats, my job, irl friends, I felt like no one could see me. I wanted the world to know that I wasn't invisible, and having an OC who's an apex predator was really what I'd needed. That drawing really opened my eyes as to why I connected with Sitka so much.
For so much of the last year or more, I've felt weak, pushed around, not given the time of day or any kind of priority. I don't feel strong, confident in myself, or like I stand out from anyone else in any capacity. Sitka is an idealized version of myself that does have those strengths. He's self-confident, adventurous, ready for anything. He doesn't take shit from anyone, will fight back and isn't afraid to bare his teeth. Because deep down inside of him there's a hope that, one day, things will get better.
Somehow, he's both an idealized version of myself like I said, but also a presence I wish I had in my life. A protector. I wish I had his ability to stand up for himself, his resilience, and honestly sometimes I just wish I had his giant fucking teeth and claws. The world certainly wouldn't ignore me then.
Unsurprisingly, connecting with him so strongly has significantly increased my appreciation of tigers as animals. Huskies might still be my favorite animals if it came down to it, but tigers are a REALLY close second. But on an even deeper level, Sitka has me even thinking some things over identity-wise. I don't think I want to delve into that quite yet since I'm still feeling it out and sort of not sure where to go with it yet, but I can't say I've ever had an OC that's done that for me before. Not bad for a tiger.
