#eliot talks

[moral-panick]

Literal. Literal queer erasure, I’m losing my fucking mind, what is wrong with them

EDIT: guys, this isn’t a fan thing, this is an IMAGE IN THE CREDITS.

[eliotbaum]

In regards to the anon in my inbox about my latest cover artwork and having worked with a russian publisher in the past - a statement below the cut.

However, I deeply apologize for having hurt and upset fellow Ukrainian people by reblogging a cover I made for them years ago. I am not working with or ever will work with a russian owned business again.

My family is ukrainian, from Ужгород, though i grew up in Austria. i‘ve lost people in this war. My family is victim to it, some still trapped in now Russian controlled towns will never be the same. i donate to the ukrainian military cause and any humanitarian aids i can, hire ukrainian artists and promote their Kickstarters together with the studio I work with; I’ve turned my back to speaking and reading russian and have been trying to learn ukrainian. Something that was denied to my family during the UDSSR.

This is a cover I finished years ago, for a small russian publisher.

They still publish lgbtqia books even if the government made it a crime. Back then, I felt like a publisher that supports queer, hunted minorities under the russian dictatorship, is someone worth considering. It’s resistance to their government to do something against the law.

I have lgbtqia acquaintances in Russia who are trapped and oppressed in this horrible country. the ones that can‘t flee it. fuck the russian government, fuck the people who support this regime. but i won‘t demonize and punish the few i know who suffer under it and are part of a minority.

I understand. I understand it very well when I don't hear from my uncle in weeks, when I check daily which part of Ukraine has been attacked, how many lives we lose.

I'm not asking you to change your mind about the oppressed russian people at all. I’m asking is to come with a sliver of openmindedness to an artist whose situation you don’t know, rather than making bad faith assumptions. They hurt a lot, as someone who cares more than you’d know about Ukraine and its people.

Art is always political, I agree. I’m against this war, against what Russia has become and has been in the past. I’m doing what I can to fight against them and support Ukraine.

[water-you-doing-bro]

Look, I just think that Percy having mortal Christian or Jewish or Muslim or otherwise monotheistic friends is just a well of untapped potential, okay? Like, obviously Percy just draws in the most eclectic group of friends, right? And idk at lunch or smth they're talking about some assignment they got in history class and it comes up that they all have different beliefs/religions and Percy, being Percy, decides to try and bond with them about it by asking if they have a favorite myth/bible/torah/quran/etc story and at first half of them are like uh dude are you making fun of me? and they're just super confused and ofc Percy is all oh shit no sorry dude I just, y'know, I'm pagan and idk I have a favorite greek myth and stuff and I thought maybe you guys had a favorite story from your faith, idk is that not how it works? was it rude of me to ask? oh gods, I'm so sorry guys

And then they're all like oh okay no that makes sense actually, it's just not smth people ask usually, not cause it's taboo or anything, it's just . . . not smth many people think of, I guess.

And then they go around sharing stories from their respective faiths and percy is ofc respectful and listens intently and sometimes he may ask questions and stuff but he never dismisses them or makes fun of them or their beliefs [bc like, if the greeks, romans, egyptians, and norse are out there, who's to say that there aren't more? who's to say that they're not all out there, yknow?], even if he is a little weird about them sometimes but that's all just because he doesn't understand lmao

I just, idk, I think Sally probably raised Percy mostly atheist yknow? and its not like he's entirely unaware of Christianity and Judaism and Islam and all that, he just doesn't have any clue how those religions are practiced/worshipped and stuff. His only real exposure to that kind of thing is what he's seen on tv and then his own experiences with how they 'worship' and interact with the gods at camp.

So he just thinks of deities as being mostly Just Some Guy who happens to have powers and a superiority complex. He thinks of 'higher powers' as, like, idk if personable is the right word, but I mean, he thinks of gods as just people. He doesn't understand the whole reverent worship and devotion and like, detachment from God attitude that like, Christianity has and stuff like that.

So Percy will just say the wildest shit sometimes, like, 'oh yeah, Zeus is a horny bastard and an absolute asshole, but he's the king of the gods so if we don't give him proper respect or tribute or whatever he gets pissy. What about your God? Does He get grumpy if you don't like, go to church on Sunday or smth?' or 'do you think you could get me in contact with Jesus? because Zeus put Dionysus in sobriety time out and he's all cranky about it bc he can't conjure wine ig but like, if your guy did it for him it might get past thunderbutt's restrictions and then grapehead might be less cranky?'

Idk but like I said, I just think this is an untapped well of hilarious potential!

[invalid-author]

"I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin' like I'm born to be"

"Waited so long to break these walls down, to wake up and feel like me, put these patterns all in the past now, and finally live like the girl they all see"

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"We can't fix it if we never face it"

"Between imposter and this monster, I've been lost inside my head"

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"I can be your sanctuary"

"I'm the only one who'll lovе your sins"

"Listen 'cause I'm preachin' to the choir, can I get the mic' a little higher? Gimme your desire, I can be the star you rely on"

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"I broke into a million pieces, and I can't go back, but now I'm seeing all the beauty in the broken glass"

"The scars are part of me, darkness and harmony, my voice without the lies, this is what it sounds like"

"Why did I cover up the colors stuck inside my head? I should've let the jagged edges meet the light instead! Show me what's underneath, I'll find your harmony"

"We're shattering the silence, we're rising defiant, shouting in the quiet, you're not alone"

"We listened to the demons, we let them get between us, but none of us are out here on our own"

"So, we were cowards, so, we were liars, so, we're not heroes, we're still survivors"

"The dreamers, the fighters, no lying, I'm tired, but dive in the fire and I'll be right here by your side"

"Fearless and undefined, this is what it sounds like"

*basically the entirety of What it Sounds Like*

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WHAT IF I FUCKING DIED HUH

WHAT IF I JUST FUCKING CEASED TO EXIST HUH!?

JUST KISS MY ASS GOODBYE BECAUSE I AM DECEASED

THESE LYRICS GO SO FUCKING HARD IM INSANE

(Also there are banger lines in How It's Done, Strategy, Takedown, and Free and Soda Pop is a catchy ass bop, but this shit just hits different)

[littleeliot]

As of today I am financially stable! After almost 2 years of having to scrap for every bit of money, sometimes not having enough to buy food and other necessitys, I can sit down and relax.

[moral-panick]

Theatrical little fucker

[moral-panick]

I love Tolkien’s elves because a good chunk of the men are straight, but they still serve cunt and break the gender binary, and we need more of that!

Not Legolas, though, he’s a raging faggot

[moral-panick]

This is worse than Merlin and Sherlock and spn combined WHAT THE FUCK

Genuinely if they don’t become canon it’s not only queerbait, but also a fucking awful message to send to queer kids and even queer adults ESPECIALLY WITH THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CLIMATE RIGHT NOW!