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So I started working on this for @solarpunkaestheticweek six months ago. And although I have been able to work on it a bit since then, I'm still fairly limited by some of my health stuff. So here is hoping that I can finish it by this coming winter solstice? Or maybe just keep working on it each solstice for the foreseeable future lol.

The concept is a community common room for meals with solar panel windows and bioluminescent pillars of water that refract sunlight from the roof.

We'll get there. Happy Solarpunk Aesthetic Week!

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Years ago I made a series of bookmarks for someone for their queen's thief books. They lost the one associated with the first book, The Thief. They asked me to remake it again this year. I obliged, and am actually really happy with how it turned out.

I never did take a picture of the first set, but I did post the preliminary sketches: https://www.tumblr.com/selkieskies/178579909061/i-did-these-in-preparation-for-a-bookmark-i-made

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Years ago I made a series of bookmarks for someone for their queen's thief books. They lost the one associated with the first book, The Thief. They asked me to remake it again this year. I obliged, and am actually really happy with how it turned out.

I never did take a picture of the first set, but I did post the preliminary sketches: https://www.tumblr.com/selkieskies/178579909061/i-did-these-in-preparation-for-a-bookmark-i-made

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I was hoping to finish this for solarpunk aesthetic week, but I haven't been able to handle looking at screens much lately. So please accept my WIP of a community dining room.

The pillars' concept is both a light refraction from above and bioluminescent algae.

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There is something so fitting about a drag queen for the associations usually attributed to the queen of swords.

I initially developed this concept because of some vague ideas I had that I can't even articulate anymore. But the more I started to explore this specific concept, the more it felt right. Which is always cool!

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Inspired by Naomi Osaka's tennis outfit, because I found it so whimsical.

It has been so long since I've wanted to make art, I had to take advantage while my health was okay enough to let me and the muse was still present.

I wonder if I can again find that meditative way I used to engage with art. Where the act of creation was almost separate from the outcome. I need that meditative aspect more in my life I think. But that is extremely challenging to do.

Of course, that meditative state is a lot easier to get to when I'm not under the constant duress of living in an abelist end-stage capitalist society. Just in case anyone wants to pull that bull about starving artists and how we should just make art for love of art and not actually want a comfortable living.

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Two more sketches from my tarot card concepts. This time from the cups suite. Figured it would be appropriate to post them for mermay.

I've made peace with the fact it might take me awhile to get inspired to come back to work on these. The ADHD interest cycle is just a fact of life that I don't have the energy to fight when it comes to hobbies.

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Another one of the concepts for the tarot deck I talked about ages ago. I actually have a lot in various stages of sketches. I just don't have the energy to finish them. When in a captialist hellscape without the proper support for disabilities and all that. Thank you for your comments and tags. I love them even if I don't have the energy rn to respond <3

This one is a trans woman with grecian/roman symbology. I wish I remember which. If I dig through my refs I'm sure its there.

I decided to go with more of a furry/were situation for the lion because of the representation of inner strength and inner control, especially in reverse.

Image Description:

The Strength Tarot card depicting a fat trans woman with darker grecian coloring. She is wearing a toga-like outfit (fuck if I remember what it actually is) and sandals. She is half-kneeling with one hand braced against a spear-like weapon and her other hand dipped into water. In the water her reflection is a were-lion. In the background is a mountain-scape from rome (I think). She is surrounded by half garalands of flowers. Upright, the flower garland is Gladiolus. Reverse, it is Borage and Garlic.

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I've had this concept for tarot cards niggling the back of my mind for awhile. So I've started putting together some rough lines and colors for the more concrete ideas I have. Anyway, wanted to share this one with you.

Image description:

A black woman in a light sheath dress kneels with two jugs resting on her shoulders. The jugs are spilling water onto the ground where a pond is forming with blue lily flowers. It also appears as though stars are falling from the jugs with the water. She is surrounded by papyrus plants and the background is a nighttime scene with an ibis flying overhead. Drawn in just lines are ibis wings surrounding the woman and a crown of stars over her head.

Thanks to @fugitiverabbit for the fatphotoref.com pose reference!

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Don't Ask Me No Questions

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A white mid-fat trans-masc person dressed as a punk-inspired witch. Their witch hat has various patches and buttons like a battle jacket. They are wearing various necklaces and a spiked bracelet. They have purple hair with brown roots showing. They have a five o clock shadow including a neck beard. Their cut off shirt says 'My Sign is Your Mom'. They also have tattoos on their upper arms including a centipede and wolfsbane.

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"Phresine," the queen said without turning her head to look at her attendant, "I can read your mind."

Phresine moved her hands, stilled during her thoughts, back to their tasks. "Then you know there's no harm in old Phresine," she said.

-Queen of Attolia

Finished this gift for @lechatelierite for donating during @fandomtrumpshate They requested Phresine from the above scene and I, glutton for punishment that I am, decided to not only include Attolia, but a mirror too.

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Another story idea that is mostly vibes and a premise.

Basically, it is a zombie story where the only way to prevent being turned into a zombie is to amputate the limb that the zombie bit. After the first scare, the zombies are quarantined fairly easily. However, some people in power want to quarantine those who were bit as well, even if they didn't turn.

So everyone who was bitten or 'looked like they could have been bitten' (and doesn't have the privilege to buy their way out of it) are quarantined near or with the zombies.

I vacillate between wanting there to be zombie chase scenes (hence Angel's prosthetic type) and focusing on them creating a isolated solarpunk society.

This concept has been in my head for like ten years and has morphed a lot. But right now the main trio is

Angel (he/him lesbian with a below the knee amputation - I'm thinking from an infected dog)

Trinity (MC and ex-cheerleader with a below the elbow amputation, she/her)

Jacob (punk with a SCI from a car crash but public fervor didn't care and shoved him in with the rest of the bite-survivors)

I think about them a lot. Hopefully one day I can write their story.

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Sunny and Phoebe are from a story idea of mine that is the quintessential 'no plot only vibes'. They are long distance friends until Sunny moves to help Phoebe with her occult shop. They are both witches in a severely under-powered urban-fantasy way, if that makes sense.

I'm thinking of writing them as a QPR or something. As I said, all I've got are ~vibes~

And the vibes I'm sending out rn are happy summer to all you fat queers 💚

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Final week of Draw Everything June!

If thinking about drawing a pose makes me cry then it means it is a really good reference because I would be doing a lot more than crying if I tried to draw it without a reference.

So... thanks for all the poses that made me cry this week XD

Seriously, big thanks to everyone at @adorkastock for being such a big support of the art community! Thank you for being willing to jump around in leotards for us :)

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Week 4 of Draw Everything June

Kudos to the models for more fun poses this week!