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[deimostes]

pair of illustrations i did as part of an assignment for my lgbt lit class, based the short story "the gift" by ryka aoki from meanwhile, elsewhere; a sci-fi/fantasy story collection by trans authors

[skritzmin]

How do you feel about Nelle

Oh I love Nelle! She’s sooooo pretty!! I remember my first play through of Pikmin 4 and seeing her for the first time- I was like, “Roxy’s pink twin?!” lol! I really want to draw more of the castaways and she’s always one of the first characters that comes to mind.

I like to think that Roxanne was initially jealous of how much smarter she was and that Nelle seemed to be getting along a little too well with the rescue corps Doctor for Roxy’s liking. She tends to overthink everything and puts herself down a lot during the storyline of Pikmin 4 but I think the two gals would end up being friends.

[chess-draws]

an idea struck me and. yeah. robots on the mind. shes a post delivery bot and the chest cavity is used to store letters n whatnot

currently named delivery bot, or del for short ig?

the dinosaur tail and claws are basically just foam and there for child safety. i just thought they also looked cute and felt the tail could be used to balance her out when driving around... idk im not a physicist

speedpaint under the cut

oiginal time: 1 hour ; speedpaint time: 1 minute

ignore the switch from medibang to mspaint in the middle of it, i forgot how to use the program and had to switch to ol' reliable lol

[pamela-lntt]

he needs a super graphic ultra modern cubito just like him

shoutout to the poar server for the idea lmao

Like my art? Consider buying me a coffee (kofi) !

[wrennnies]

all ocs, not sure... if i liked how all of them turned out but at least i have an idea of what they look like!! rn. ahahah... relationship charts may be coming soon

[carnage-cathedral]

my partner said something that kinda rocked my world

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[eulers-babe]

for no reason whatsoever here’s a reminder that if you consider yourself a leftist/punk/abolitionist/anarchist/radical in any sort of way and get called into jury duty, you are to become the most square person on earth during the jury questionnaire!!!

don’t be that guy who says fuck the police in the jury questionnaire! that just gets you sent home! if you want to generate change, interact with the case and use your jury vote for good! ESPECIALLY if it’s a high profile case!

[flamboyantly-understated]

maybe this is just me idk

[cafeyote]

me and gang at the haunted house

[rasairui]

Okay I know I posted the first one already but it's a collection now. Anyway don't you ever get so tired of this

[skritzmin]

Do you have any voice claims for Roxanne? (I love her design btw she is so PRETTY)

Ah, thank you! Yes, I do have one particular voice actress who comes to mind and that would be…

Linda Cardellini!

I was thinking about Wendy from Gravity falls and I just really felt like her voice fit well with Roxanne’s personality.

(Also a quick doodle of my gal from work today…)

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[antennatoheaven]

[hansoeii]

A latte with lots of love!

[marfian]

So act 3 huh