#leoraisagi

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Redraw of a piece I did two years ago

I had just started with digital art and had no idea what I was doing, but I’d also just lost my religion and everything I thought I knew about myself, so I stayed up all night every night drawing. The night I drew this one I cried and smiled for the first time in weeks. I couldn’t really put it into words, but it felt like I’d finally discovered something beautiful and worth living long enough to find.

I still love this piece, glaring artistic and anotomical errors and all, it’s still my screensaver these years later and I still look at it and feal that golden warmth. Call me cringe for having ninja turtle fan art be my polyamorous awakening, but my little ex evangelical ass needed something to live for, and this drawing was how I discovered that.

Anyways, I love you polyamory

I love you queer platonic

I love you queersexuality

I love you queer romantic

I love you fan art

I love you fandom

I love you the bravery to try new things

And I love you, all the past versions of me who one way or another found hope and strength and beauty in the dark

[theartofeverything]

[theartofeverything]

Not quite sure what to call them. Leoraisagi?

I went back and forth over putting an Usagi in the story but this idea hit me at around 1am and made me feel genuinely warm inside for the first time in weeks.

I love the idea of the three of them traveling around together in their twenties, living out of a hippy van, off on their own kind of adventure. Best friends? Quest partners? Queer platonic? Whatever it is they are, it’s got the closeness of bffs that share all their most precious secrets, the humor and playfulness of brothers, the trust and commitment of comrads in arms, and the emotional intimacy of a couple that’s been married for years.