“There’s something familiar in the figures i paint. I don’t know what it is. They are so impossible in their shape and yet i feel like they all had names at some point. Like this one, Micheal, I think.”
So uh…I know that today is Trans Day of Visibility and this website’s mods are pretty horrible to trans women but…
Over on Insta and TikTok, Mercury Stardust (also known as The Trans Handy Ma’am) has been trying to raise money for trans kids. Her account has been flagged by trolls and banned 11 times. Shes not giving up, but she could use some support. Please please go check out her accounts and consider donating to the 501c charity she’s supporting. Our trans siblings need us right now.
She does all types of helpful DIY videos for home repair and helps answer questions for renters. Please give her a follow. Send her a nice message. Please let our trans community members know we see them and love them—today and everyday.
needles and the porcupine’s dilemma. cmon. anyone get me? needles is saying “fuck it all, im embracing everyone, i want to connect to them and i want to feel them and their fear.” i love it.
hello, i am the person who has booped you like 200 times now, i would like to let you know this is 1) for all of the lovely art you give us and 2) a compulsion. it's so fun to click the button. i am deeply sorry for your notifications.
Thank u for so many boops I feel so loved 🥺🥹 my notifications have been utterly fucked regardless you’re good
Oh whoops I’ve done scrolled your blog and mass liked/reblogged. Whoops. Oh I’m following you now. Huh how did that happen. Man I guess I’m following this amazing artists with the same brain rot as I do. Oh dang
So apparently KOSA (2024 edition) is getting either thrown out until next year or put into effect in six days. That was a guesstimate based on a different person saying that’s when Congress is back in session and may be false.
It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.
This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the “Kids Online Safety Act” is misleading.
What will it passing do?
Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it’s that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.
Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.
Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won’t be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I’ve already said it: Call your fucking representatives.
Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.
If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.
So, for fuck’s sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.
Andif you can’t do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.
I’ve been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of “how to draw” videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can’t make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here’s a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Literally no one asked but just for the record no I am still not over how Jon’s fatal flaw was that he never knew when to concede and stop asking questions and then his last words in tma were “no [im not sure] but I love you” letting love take precedent over knowledge and logic and giving in bc he loves Martin
Still not over Martin’s entire arc being about his self hatred and isolation and then his last words in tma being “I love you too” not just a statement of love but a statement of reciprocated love
They both fundamentally changed for the better and that mattered—it may not have been perfect and it may not have been enough to save them from the narrative but it still mattered. I am utterly feral. I am so normal.
I know if Needles was in the GerryMichael tattoo/piercer AU, he’d probably also be a piercer.
But, he could also be an acupuncturist, and I think the idea of an acupuncturist being named Needles would be very, very funny if you everwanted to go that route.
That would be a VIBE if he had a little acupuncture room in the studio actually YES
You’re ready for a nice relaxing session, it’s a comfy room with blankets and pillows and incense and crystals (the vibe of the whole shop tbh) and then terrifying guy with 500 piercings and dermal implants walks in like YA READY?! /hj
He definitely DIY’d 90% of his piercings.. he’s only now actually training to be a piercer under Michael under the agreement he helps bring in some more business with his acupuncture
first of all: HELLLO NEW COOL MUTUAL I LOVE YOUR ART YOU'RE SO COOL ASGHAGSF
second of all: you're getting me back into jjba. that's not bad, that's just a fact. I see your reports and I feel the memories from 4 years ago flow back into my brain
HELLO I LOVE UR ART TOO I honestly didn’t realise I never followed you
>:3 It never leaves u, it went on hiatus and now I’m under shared custody of jojo and tma.. been wanting to actually work on a crossover soon
“you’re good at art you should go to college you should start animation you should get a job in the industry you have so much potential” I SHOULD BE IN THE WOODS. EATING POISONOUS BERRIES
I DO NOT DRAW FOR YOU OR FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY I DRAW TO APPEASE MY AUTISM LEST I GROW TOO RESTLESS AND DIE
stranger avatar who embodies the fear of running into someone you never want to see again by adopting the visage of said person (idea from @melandrops)
end avatar based off of the washer at the ford/bean-nighe (a passive omen of death rather than an active bringer of it)
flesh avatar who performs gender-affirming surgeries on people with transphobic families (and uses the “disposed of” materials from said surgeries to build a “child” of sorts)
spiral avatar who turns horrors from people’s nightmares into real things
dark avatar who drags people into caves and mutates them to resemble cave-dwelling creatures (colorless skin, no eyes, etc.) until they are barely human anymore
buried avatar who lives at the bottom of the ocean and sabotages submarines/drowns divers
web avatar matchmaker who pulls people into bad relationships
vast avatar who untethers people from gravity and either lets them float endlessly upward or who makes them fall to their death (it depends on their mood)
hunt avatar who turns prey animals into predators and vice versa
extremophile extinction avatar who leads a doomsday cult
corruption avatar who withers/decays/erodes anything they touch
lonely avatar who disappears lone hikers in deep wilderness
bonus: spiral avatar who is a compulsive liar, but whose lies become true for whoever they tell them to
