Were-Ah's Art Blog

Mostly fanart. Follows from wereah-main. Adult, she/her, 30s

[wereah]

<3 Finished! Another one for the ReiTashi agenda <3

Tell me your One Piece mermaid AU head canons.

Mine is that Reiju is a different kind of mermaid from Tashigi. Reiju is more fish like ( because of her ears ) and Tashigi is more like Ariel from the little mermaid.

This distinction is important to me . . .

Timelapse under the cut!

[skelerangart]

You Know Who You Are

[deathgasmic]

who else is up permanently feeling like they did something Wrong

[dailymanners]

I find it quite strange that even though Tumblr is known as The Neurodivergence Website, a lot of people on here seem to assume that they're the only neurodivergent person on here, and/or that they're the only person on here who understands The Neurodivergent Experience, so they're quite eager to assume that every post on here was written by someone who's neurotypical and needs to be lectured on The Neurodivergent Experience

[wereah]

Stuff from the ReiTashi mermay comic that I've been posting everywhere except here. <3 You get them all in one fell swoop, tumblr instead of in the tiny batches.

[wereah]

Is anyone else getting a giant “App Store” pop-up that will not move? And you have to close and then open tumblr again?

[adorkastock]

*lays this at your feet*

*flopping noises*

[wereah]

Some more WIPS of that ReiTashi comic I'm working on.

[wereah]

Some more WIPS of that ReiTashi comic I'm working on.

[wereah]

I keep being reccomended these queer comics where the whole plot is just that somebody is dissatisfied with their partner and is crushing on another person or whatever.

I dunno, I guess on one hand it’s good that people are comfortable writing those kinds of stories now. But it makes me feel the same way that those kinds of het stories do: why did the main character even get with their partner in the first place???

Maybe my real issue is the writing and execution? Or maybe I’m expecting some nebulous “better” writing and execution than is necessary for these kinds of stories. Goodness knows I read way stupider shit.

( if you’re the folks recommending these comics to me, this isn’t a dig at you. I’m just not the target audience for them and I’m trying to process why I’m not a fan. )

[teethfairyyy]

Thinking about Corazon’s actual name, Rosinante, and the history behind it.

In the story of Don Quixote he rides a tired, somewhat clumsy horse by the name of Rocinante. In the story, Don Quixote envisions himself as a shining knight, thus transforming Rosinante (at least in his mind) into a noble steed.

In the story, Rocinante is Don Quixote’s almost constant companion. He spends four whole days deciding on a name for his horse prior to settling on Rocinante and very clearly cares for him(although he basically makes his name a pun, lol).

First and foremost however, is their dynamic as rider and horse (weird sentence, but stick with me here). In One Piece, Doffy loves his little brother and cherishes him to the point of threatening death should anyone harm him. Despite this, Doffy still sees him as a servant of sorts. He makes Rosinante his second in command but not his equal. He sees his little brother as both that, his little brother, and as a tool to be used to achieve his goals.

(Want to put a lil disclaimer here that I don’t speak Spanish, and the closest thing I have to a second language is some broken German)

What’s important about his actual name however, is what it translates to in Spanish. Rocin means, from what I can tell, a low quality work horse, one usually past its prime and worn out or literally Nag, old nag, or nagging. It’s important to note too, that this (apparently) can also be interpreted to mean a man who is a grunt, or generally poorly educated.

This KILLS me bc this is basically how the entire Donquixote family saw him, and how Rosinante presented himself them as part of his cover. Outside of his cover though, where it’s shown that he is far from the mindless grunt we first think he is, we can see that some of these traits remain. Even as himself, Rosinante is a klutz, tripping over himself and out of his depth as he tries to navigate the moral and political ramifications of what he is doing to save Law, a boy he barely knows.

Idk, maybe I’m just going insane, but this has been haunting me for a while. I mean, Rocinante is literally who Rosinante was named after!

[teethfairyyy]

Moving outside of Rosinante/Rocinante specific territory, the entire family’s relationship with the book and man their name is from is intriguing.

From Donquixote Homing to Doffy, the entire Donquixote family is comprised of visionarys and dreamers. I’m my opinion, Rosinante serves as the middle ground between Doflamingo and their fathers very different forms of trying to bring their dreams into reality.

Even the nameless mother (who I internally have dubbed Dulcinea, lol) shared her husband’s lofty dreams, and worked to try and bring them to life though they would ultimately come at the cost of her own.

Homing clung to the foolish idea that the act of renouncing his heritage as a celestial dragon would be enough to satisfy any vendettas against him and had dreamed pointlessly of a world were him and his family could live peacefully, doing no harm as much as receiving none. By all means the naive wishes of a man whose entire life was spent out of touch. Undeniably a man of lofty ambitions.

His eldest son however, worked to achieve different dreams. Doflamingo is by nature a schemer- always plotting and spinning lies, always revealing the next step of his grand solution. While as (if not more) ambitious as his father’s dreams, Doflamingo hoped to mold a new world with himself at the top and those who rebelled against his plan crushed at the bottom. Unlike his father, these ambitions and dreams at least had the power of pragmatic thinking behind them, hence their very near fruition.

Rosinante, as I had claimed before, stands as the medium between the two extremes that are his brother and father. Stronger and more cynical than his father, kinder and gentler than his brother, Rosinante held his own ambitions. Whereas his father had dreamed of a world without blame and his brother a world of nothing but that, Rosinante dreamed of a world capable of improvement. He expresses the sentiment fairly often, that he wants to make the world better. That he wants to leave the world a better place than he had found it, no matter how small an improvement. And Rosinante finds this small, strange, incredibly rude little way to make the world better in the form of a dying little boy and takes the action needed.

Now, the only real reason that I’m talking about this -the Donquixote family’s habit of spinning lofty dreams and ambitions into the world, that is- is because of the character they take their family name from. The crux of Don Quixote’s character is that he is a man who has grown disillusioned by the dreary, cynical nature of the modern world, and falls into one of his own, rife with damsels in distress and dashing knights.

Don Quixote holds perhaps the highest ambition of all (its very much a delusion, but so is Homing’s quest for peace and Doffy’s hope of basically burning down the world) which is to return the current world to one of chivalry. He charges about on an old horse (Rip Cora) and calls it his noble steed. He fights windmills which he perceives as giants. He dares to dream.

The whole Donquixote family is defined and bound by their aspirations. Uh. Yeah. Rant over?

[wereah]

Already posted this to bluesky-- BUT!

Sneak peak of the Tashigi x Reiju comic I'm working on for Mermay and also as a gift for @/akwolfgrl! ( she drew me a ReiTashi picture and I went overboard lol)

Anyway, they're mermaids! YAY!! Here's Tashigi~ Do you like the colors? I'm trying to do a limited color palette with this.

There's going to be a "Canon Typical Violence" version and a version where there's some violence <3;;;; Hopefully. If nothing else there will be a canon typical violence version.

Also here's a sneaky peek of what mer! Reiju looks like: <3

( if you can guess where I'm referencing this shark design from, I'll give you a cookie and also let's chatttttt )

[y2kanineee]

Awesome learning experience 😀

[scretladyspider]

demisexuality can be so hard to explain because it’s misconstrued as you just wanting to trust the other person before you have sex with them. and I get why the misconception happens. But demisexuality differs in that there isn’t sexual attraction at all before that bond forms.

I think what people have difficulty with is the idea that there are people out there who aren’t experiencing sexual attraction at all until a certain point, if ever, because we’re taught that sex, libido, and sexual attraction are all the same, both in and out of queer spaces.

And when you’re learning about asexuality and demisexuality, you may learn that people have romantic and aesthetic attraction separately from sexual attraction, and that sexual and romantic attraction aren’t necessarily intertwined, and that may challenge your worldview on sex.

But “I trust you enough to have sex with you” isn’t the same as “I’m not sexually attracted to anyone but you, and the reason I’m sexually attracted to you now after we’ve established this close bond is literally because of the bond of trust we’ve been able to form”.

It’s easy to see how those can get conflated. On the surface, if you’re unfamiliar with asexuality, they may sound the same. But it’s important to acknowledge the difference between “no sex until I trust you” and “no sexual attraction unless I trust you and maybe not even then”.

Demisexuality is housed under the asexuality spectrum. It’s part of the gray area between being allosexual and asexual. It’s part of why the definition for asexuality includes “little to no sexual attraction”. It’s a mostly asexual experience with an asterisk.

While being demisexual may have impacts on a persons sexual activity, even demisexuals have a varied relationship to the act of participating in sex. Libido and sexual attraction are not always intertwined either, which can make telling the difference tricky.

I think of sexual attraction as libido that has a compass. Since I rarely ever experience sexual attraction, but do have libido, it’s noticeable for me when that libido actually has a direction to go, rather than being a floating, nebulous, independent thing.

Remember, not everyone is demisexual. There’s a difference between waiting to have sex and not having sexual attraction at all until a certain point. This also inherently ties demisexuality to romantic attraction and relationships, and not all demisexuals are alloromantic.

But if you read what demisexuality is and think “everyone is like that” or “that’s just being a woman”, you either 1) are demisexual 2) don’t understand what it is or 3) both. And it’s okay to not know. Just as long as you’re willing to try to learn.

[hummingirls]

one thing that people get thrown by is when i say that i, being demisexual, do not find any famous people sexually attractive. they can be beautiful, in the same way that art is beautiful but i don’t have any interest in fucking a good painting. and even when i have a crush on someone, i’m uncomfortable with the idea of being intimate with them, and i only start to feel interested in sex with that person if we actually get deep into a relationship. it’s really not just “trust”.

[wereah]

You ever read a fanfic and the first chapter is awesome, everything is formatted perfectly.

And then the second chapter just isn’t formatted at all? Like they stopped putting paragraph breaks and proper formatting which makes it unreadable?

[clicksonawhim]

She is Wildfire Study

So I have a friend who collects references like the way dice goblins collect dice. You can never have too many references. Since there I liked nearly every single piece of clothing on She is Wildfire, I was asked to do reference photos for her.

And I forgot how much fun it was to do this sort of thing, as well as take that chance to just study the outfit. Often the kind of pictures I take means there are certain details that just don't really get seen in these outfits, and I think that goes for most people, so this was a nice change.

It also allows you to see where things might not make sense on the dress if you ever plan to cosplay it. Like this skirt is clearly designed after those skirt holders, which are leather pieces designed to hold the skirt up for easier mobility. However, it's clear from how this skirt is designed, it's not really meant to be doing that.

For example, did you notice the straps on this outfit? On one sense, this is to be expected, because this dress is fashioned after the jumper dresses associated with the lolita style, so they always have a jumper style top, allowing for a shirt to be worn underneath.

However these straps are fashioned to be like a gun hostler, which is very obvious at the back of this. It screams, she has a gun and will use it.

By the way, I changed the hair style on purpose so that more details can be seen. I love Nikki's long hair styles but they hide so much stuff.

Speaking of hiding, the hood is designed specifically to hide part of Nikki's face, a frontal shot like this one, ensures you will never see her face completely unless you angle the camera.

Also, have you noticed that they're using zippers as a trim?

This whole cloak is trimmed with zippers, which makes me giggle really. Who would think of doing such a thing?

And finally the hair, because if you ever run out of ideas of what kind of hair style to put a character in, sometimes looking at Nikki's hair styles is useful.

I am pretty sure this is a normal braid, braided into french pigtails.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

The 1951 ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Animated Movie was basically my first ‘favorite’ Movie, the first movie I remember loving enough to watch it over and over again. And rewatching it now is a little funny, because it does raise a lot of positive nostalgic memories but then there’s also the whole sequence with the flowers… Which is initially so whimsical and friendly and beautiful…

But then just as Alice has really started to enjoy herself, it becomes clear that the Flowers were operating under the misconception that she was One of Them, they were only being so friendly because they assumed Alice was also a Flower and now they’re noticing all the ways she’s Not Good as a Flower and start cruelly judging and criticizing her by those standards. 

And when Alice tries to explain herself, that just makes everything worse, and now almost all of these Flowers see her as something Ugly and Bad and Wrong and turn on her. All of those flowers who were pleasantly singing and chatting up with her when they assumed she was Like Them immediately turned to bullies and then enemies as soon as they realized that she’s something Different.

And I’m just kinda like “Oh…................. that’s literally my Main Form of Anxiety for my Entire Life. That’s literally All Of It."

And I’m legitimately not sure how much of it is simply because the affect and imprint this movie had on me since such a young age, and how much this Growing-Up-Autistic-Anxiety was already fully-formed in my brain when I was four years old and I just loved ‘Alice in Wonderland’ so much because it articulated in the best way my little preschool ass had seen at the time.