#BUT THATS WHAT EXPERIMENTATION IS FOR

[paper-enigma]

Had art block and decided to experiment with highlighters

3 hours later I’ve got THIS

I LOVE IT SO MUCH

Here it is next to my first experiment from yesterday

@potatoeofwisdom the art flow was STRONG with this one!!!

[catboybiologist]

By now, there's lots of people have heard about the internal CDC memos for all newly prepared manuscripts (like future scientific papers waiting to be published):

There's so much to comment on, and I'm seeing it all right now. What the state of science is. What this means for the queer community. All of that.

But fuck, I think I might genuinely start crying over this. As a transgender biologist, this feels like a brutally personal blow. I slowly accepted my gender alongside my biology education. The more misinformation that was spewed about "biological sex" by mainstream media, the more my professors, colleagues, and primary sources would casually drop information that proved they have no idea what they're talking about. I'm not an expert on sex determination, gender, or transgender biology specifically by any means. But my worldview has been crafted by my studies in genetics and molecular biology.

Engaging with this research helped me demystify transition. It helped me optimize my transition. It helped me explain how HRT and other steps of trans healthcare work to other people. And it helped me overcome my own internalized transphobia, and finally start transitioning, despite knowing I wanted to since my preteen years.

Who knows how enforceable internal guidelines like this will be. But its certainly going to scare a lot of researchers away from transgender healthcare and science in the coming years, and that breaks my heart.

There's a lot I can say here, but fuck. I just needed to vent for a moment. Fuck.

[jaggybot3000]

CHONNY'S CHARMING CHAOS COMPENDIUM FAUX ALBUM+BACK COVER!!!!!!!💥💥💥💥

AKA CONCEPT ART OF AN ALBUM COVER FOR A CONCEPT ALBUM OF A COVER ALBUM!!!!

(aka a final for an illustration class:])

some mockups+ illustrations without text:3

[st-hedge]

What was that really beautiful wording used to describe characters I like— ah that’s it, sad sacks of issues. That’s this guy right here

[azelle-intermisson]

imagine eating a burger here ❤️

[notedchampagne]

69th house in my outfits. i only wear two shoes

[al-luviec]

vito

[amaranthdahlia]

...now lives within me.

artist/art this was based from

[marblerose-rue]

greenleaf

[sweetestflow3rs]

OKAY IM GONNA BIG RAMBLE, SO HEADS UP!!!

some small ( maybe big tbh ) changes i've made in regards to depths of depravity vs the og, because i want it to still have its ties with its predecessor but still have it's own uniqueness to stand on, is mostly within it's world-building and setting! cause the base inspirations i'm using for depths of depravity setting is:

which, to explain, is the common theme of "something abnormal is here, but the common mass is unaware over HOW DEEP this abnormality is". the idea of people living in this small, remote town, surrounded by nature for YEARS so as a result, to stay away from anything dangerous they have created folktales & stories to warn against the dangers nature has. but as result of perpetuating these stories through generations, the townspeople have grown DEEPLY unaware of much danger is hidden beneath them and therefore now shun & scoff at any accounts regarding the dangers, treating it as "people taking stories too seriously".

which is why dod looks like, SO CUTE and PINK when taking your first glance. because you KNOW something bad is happening, you're just waiting for that other shoe to drop. and it's also why i changed a bit of the supernatural stuff happening in the town, so rather it being tentacles and a ghost haunting after the pc specifically, it's transformed into well. supernatural things lying in wait for you as the player to discover, rather than specifically HUNTING you down.

cause then, when you have one pc going on mad ramblings regarding the things they are discovering, there is another pc who has no idea what they are spewing about, thinking they are genuinely insane. this dissonance within personal experiences, and how divides are made based on who and who doesn't know. some pcs can genuinely live their life and graduate not knowing a single thing happening within the town, and there are some who well. would.

this is gonna be made ESPECIALLY APPARENT with some of the NPCs in dod, with a division of who knows what. cause some LIs & NPCs only know the base of fucked up levels, which is the trafficking and sexual exploitations that happens in the town. while the other half knows the supernatural and occult that the town is birthed from.

leading to ofc, changes made within the church & cult. in which rather than the two exists on the extreme spectrum of no sex to sucking and fucking 24/7, it's on the spectrum of what's considered "vanilla" VS 'someone needs to go to the hospital after this'. and im putting air quotes around vanilla, because in comparison to the cult, it is!! but to the average joe, it's like '...okayyy'. cause i want the church & cult to give the same vibes of healing church vs school of menesis, like both groups that worship similar figures but divided in regards to how they both choose to show worship and ascension. like dod's equivalent of a schism event within the religions. which, due to their inspirations, ifykyk, im subtly saying there is gonna be human experimentation.

me turning to everyone here. there is gonna be human experimentation within dod. the monsters i keep talking about in my tags, that i wanna put in the deep woods and deep fields, they are experimentations that veered off too far from desired product. and you may ask: basil, why is there experimentation in dod? and to that i say: how else am i gonna explain the TFs in the setting 🤨 

now i rambled on long enough i think. i'll reblog this when i have more to ramble on. there's still more stuff to be explained within this topic, regarding the auriga/iw equivalent, luren and the virgo equivalent, caeius, and how their 'hauntings' is not so much hauntings, but rather the actions of simple desires & intentions being read as something inhumane solely because of their now transformed shapes, but that's for another time.

[making-your-fave-in-fr]

Hi, can you make Anders from Dragon Age 2? :3

I made Anders from Dragon Age 2 in Flight Rising!

M Guardian (Unusual Fire eyes) Cream/Iridescent | Sunshine/Saturn | Dirt/Underbelly

Orange Tabby, Brown Wooly Coat, Mage's Walnut Overcoat, Mage's Walnut Socks, Well-to-do Sable Spats, Forest Rogue Vest, Forest Rogue Bracers, Tanned Rogue Trousers

Bonus: The reference image I chose has two different outfits, as you can see. If the original gets two outfits, then the FR version gets em, too!

M Guardian (Unusual Fire eyes) Cream/Iridescent | Sunshine/Saturn | Dirt/Underbelly

Orange Tabby, Black Wooly Coat, Mage's Midnight Overcoat, Mage's Midnight Socks, Well-to-do Sable Spats, Forest Rogue Vest, Forest Rogue Bracers, Tanned Rogue Trousers

[zarvasace]

*shrug*

Cover art || next

[mirioho]

epel has the prettiest hair color hands down

[theprinceandthewitch]

I really do find it incredibly irritating how TOH plays all sides of the shipping board just because they don't want to upset shippers.

It's why you get Evelyn looking more like Luz than Willow - it's also why her face is never shown. Even if Dana didn't want to get into the Caleb/Evelyn and Philip murder drama, there isn't any reason for her face to be obscured UNLESS the goal wasnt to upset shippers

It's why you get Luz's type of of boy being angsty warrior princes like Hunter - it's also why all of Hunter's important moments involve Luz and not Willow.

This is why you get Hunter dying and coming back to life looking like Caleb pleading with Luz to help him fight Belos in TTT, but then his entire arc culminates with him holding pinkies with Willow FTF. This is why all the interesting themes Hunter brought to the table were completely kneecapped by his relationship with Willow.

It's fucking bizarre LMAO.

[love-fireflysong]

Surprise surprise! Turns out that I am also one of the many, many talented artists involved in the @untildawn10thanniversaryzine so here's a little sneak peak of what to expect from my contribution 😉

She wasn't sure how long she’d laid there, sobbing only a few feet from the dead, lifeless body her twin sister. Minutes? Hours? Days? But it’s the sun shining brightly above the cliff she’d tumbled down that managed to get her moving again. Coming to the grim realization that it was the only reason she could make out anything around her, and once that set she'd be blind for all intents and purposes—glasses or no glasses. Gingerly Hannah tried to sit up. Holding back even more tears she can't afford to shed —terrified that she's going to bite right through her bottom lip as she swears every single muscle and joint in her body was screaming in pain from the movement—she somehow managed it, sitting up and finally taking in all that's around her for the first time. Even with the winter sun shining down, there really wasn't all that much to look at. Just rocks, rocks, and more rocks. She could hear what might be running water in the distance so at least she won't die of thirst, but that was the most notable thing down here. To the point that she'd decided her glasses can stay lost or broken or whatever happened to them. It was already depressing enough to see the rough blurs and blobs of rock after rock, she really didn't want to see it better in high definition.

Make sure to follow the zine blog as well to catch all the hints to come of what kind of delicious goodies you can expect to see/read once preorders open up!

[c-orion-o]

“ Who are these shades we wait for and believe will come some evening in limousines from Heaven?”

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