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|| Fake Screenshot Illustrations ||

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I gave him a tongue piercing bc I feel like it's something he'd have gotten himself then regret doing but continue to wear bc he went through so much pain for it

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The Chem Baroness Renata Glasc by 齐齐喜欢看美漫

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awash in longing

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Queen of Hearts || Karalee from Citizen Five

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Talons || Darius McConnell, Arc 1 villain from Citizen Five

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Don't talk to me, I'm tired || Cassian [Citizen Five] in her hangover couture™

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When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

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Have a Tomb Raider! I think it'd be cool to do a game in this style.

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"At least you're safe in my dreams."

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The Villainess is a Gunslinger || A pisstake on the obsession with villainess comics ft. my characters Cassian and Ali.

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Yana hanging out with Maru Kiru doing hot grrl stuff 🌒🌕🌘

Yana is from my comic Celestis, and you can read it here for free https://globalcomix.com/c/celestis/chapters/en/1/1

And Maru Kiru belongs to @moondestructionenthusiast creator of the badass comic, Maru Kiru Destroy The Moon

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A master of time || New Citizen Five end-card featuring Sylvester.

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forgot to post this stupid disco elysium animatic i made here 

music is by the northern boys 

enjoy

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Birfday.

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Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.