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All love and respect to yuri visual novels but I am a meathead who likes to shoot and kill things in games, too, and I wish we lived in my ideal fantasyland where there was simply a healthy appetite for games of any type but with a lesbionic coat of paint and an ecosystem to support them. A squad shooter/tactics game, but the squad is dykes .. some sorta mecha game where you actually get to fly the damn thing around and choose between your copilot, your loyal mechanic, or your emotionally charged rival.. crime chillers, spine thrillers, swashbuckling adventures, dork ass RPGs and immersive sims and braindead co-op campaign shooters but with two gay broads… a better world is possible.

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i can't take any pride/queer org seriously. yeah sure I'll join, oh wait, there's no trans women? It's mostly theyfabs? You're all shitlib Heckin Possums? Fuck you

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this was supposed to be for make a terrible comic day and then i spent all day progressively making it more complicated

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man i havent even felt in the mood for pride in the slightest i barely even remembered its pride month until it was over half over and still keep forgetting

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new year wishes

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[girl who would like to take a break from being a person voice] yeah no I'm just a little tired today

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💙💿📖🎮

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Even if a pure-hearted soul who 'just wanted free college' joins the military, the function of basic training is to turn him into a machine that can withstand unimaginable stress and still kill for the government. It's just hazing. And the purpose of hazing is to bully you into committing unmentionable acts with your 'buddies' as a bonding exercise that leaves you trapped with the knowledge that if you ever betray them, they will use the hazing ritual as evidence against you. Same with cops.

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every trans woman, no matter how dominant or sadistic or brave or stone, has a self that, if you make her feel both safe and desired enough to be so vulnerable as to become that self, melts at your touch and cries in your arms and holds you like you're the most important thing in the world and if you receive such blatant and raw trust from a woman in your life you better treasure it like an oceanbound castaway stumbling upon a freshly dead turtle and if you hurt her in this state you deserve to have every droplet of joy and value you see in your life drained from you by the hot and vengeful sun.

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"XVI (The Tower)" 8x16", Watercolor. 2025

On view now at Vakarie Gallery, for "Arcana: Painting the Fates," a Tarot themed group show

Original Artwork available for purchase

Prints

The Tower is a notoriously negative card, but the more I learn about tarot the less I believe in starkly positive or negative meanings. The Tower symbolizes challenges, difficult ones, like....the kind of challenges that leave you back at square one. But challenges in my mind mean change. Getting knocked down means you have to do something different when you try again, whether that is putting more care and effort into the techniques used before, or trying something new entirely.

Some of you know by now that I've been having an issue with my spine/sacrum for a few years now - while I'm able to carry out my days normally-ish now it has left me with chronic pain that I'm still hoping will heal. It's affected the way I work, the way I relax, the type of exercise that I can do...Pretty much everything part of a routine that I worked hard to build has had to be altered in some way. It's a journey I'm still on and frustrated by. I'm not fully convinced that the diagnosis I received is the entirety of the issue. I also think a part of it isn't a diagnosis thing at all, I'm just getting older.

The spine is the center. It connects the brain to the body, and serves as the conduit for every message between them. It's the foundation for our anatomical hardware and software.

So, is this a personal piece?....Who's to say.

Full painting process documentation of this piece is included in this month's Artist's Notebook PDF, over on patreon.

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farcille! happy pride month <3

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robotic tgirl with all her status lights flashing bright red but insists that she's fine, she's just kinda tired, no that's a normal grinding sound for her to make, she's fine, it's fine, really you shouldn't worry about her, she's fine

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it's so epic that transmisogyny on this site has 0 long-term social consequences so like every single day i have to see somebody's unfunny 80k nothingpost reblogged onto my dash and go "oh hey i remember that guy from baselessly accusing someone i care about of being a rapist pedophile because he thought she was annoying and netting her months of death threats"

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captive creature, nettle

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continually astounded to learn that someone around me is actually for real christian. like. aren't you supposed to grow out of that