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It's about time I talk about another character.

This is Stella, she's an exorcist and one of Adanna's close friends. She shows up pretty frequently in the story and also has some freaky stuff going on with her. Unlike Adanna, Stella actually works for an organisation, one that the local government is trying their hardest to exploit. Stella's boss, Louis (art for him later) is actively pushing against that.

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I’m just saying if Daniel Radcliffe, the literal protagonist of the Harry Potter franchise since the age of ten years old, was able to disavow JK Rowling and move on from the HP universe then actually what the fuck is anyone else’s excuse. There is no one else on the planet who can say their entire childhood was HP more than that guy and he still cared about trans people more than the average tumblr user who says “we’re protesting by making all her characters queer and trans!!” like you can do better. You should do better.

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relevant here too

Terfs get off my page. Don't fill my asks with transmisogynoir just because you think you're safe online.

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I've been drawing whatever

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I've been drawing whatever

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Omnomnom

Full ver at thedemonsdebauchery

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Warm up before i get back too comms

A 20 minute sketch

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Vote pls

Cover wip

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soft trans girls

I shall become a collector of me) I walk through the streets) the sun shining on me especially different) to survive and thrive) to simply be well) you gotta put in the work) My body has a memory of grief while on “American” soil) I know this racism, my bones know this well) What I want is to not be a StrongBlackWoman just because I am a Black Trans Woman who happens to be Strong) I want a chance to be soft) To be tender and act from that tenderness) The safe space from which one expects to be handled as if they are precious) Trust that I have no reason to speak from any place but my fully seated self) All of which were powerful, remained gentle) I want to know what it feels like to be able to remain fully seated in my body) softness is NOT about respectability politics, a certain appearance, widely standardized femininity, money, luxury, or being bougie) Make space for your softness) The opposite of softness is a society that forces Black women to be hard and to only feel safe when being firm, being considered harsh, trusting a lurid disposition, and leaning into the sharpness of life. Being pulled from the seated self to be framed as the aggressor. The opposite of soft is the world’s expectation that we will unseat ourselves to be their expectation of “strength” and that to say something “powerful”, I would have to get out of my spiritual inner seat and my literal seat to speak. You do not have to be a fire for every mountain blocking you. You could be a water and soft river your way to freedom too) being water versus having to burn everything down to get to freedom) the possibility) a chance to be soft) what I deserve is to be able to find safety for myself in ways that don’t require me to sacrifice my ease, calm, sacred seat, or my softness) The “StrongBlackWoman” trope is especially detrimental to Black trans women’s physical and emotional wellbeing) Society places ((this expectation)) on Black trans women to engage in unhealthy, self-sacrificing behavior while ((our needs our ignored, while our lives are exploited, while)) they pretend as if the Black trans woman is not suffering) society expects Black trans women to, in humble compliance, perform and survive grim and arduous tasks with superhuman strength) We are even socialized into describing ourselves as strong) a badge of honor) I wonder who other Black trans girls and Black trans women will get to be if we create soft realities for ourselves) Our softness does not negate our strength whatsoever) Our journey towards that kind of profound, transformative, revolutionary.

- Anonsee Storyweaver

Cento arrangement of the chapter In Pursuit of Softness from All The Black Girls Are Activists by ebonyjanice. This is a Cento, akin to blackout poetry - the primary changes are formatting, tense/possessive changes, if more than a single word is added, it is denoted within double parenthesis. If I feel the message of a full paragraph should be heard in this, the full paragraph has been pulled forward in italics even if format has changed.

The series of Centos from this book are focused on ensuring Black transfemmes recognize themselves within Feminist/Womanist theory and commentary, as many feel implicitly excluded or not thought of/considered when reading theory not written by transfemmes due to the unique effects of transmisogyny and transmisogynoir on our lives.

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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Hellooooo, i wanted to know if you have any specific voices that you envision Adanna and Mo with? :-)

I gave a brief answer last time but this time, I’ll go into more detail.

For Adanna, I imagined a low, mature and feminine voice like Helga Sinclair from Atlantis or Jessica Rabbit or Jessie from the Pokémon anime. She talks in a very professional manner, but also a little sultry! Now if she was playing the femme fatale role her voice would be perfect but I wanted to do something different.

For Mo, they also have a low but youthful and masc but also slightly androgynous voice. Think Ashton Fox, Chilchuck or Ekko (stud Ekko propaganda). Mo is also very soft spoken, sometimes they’re almost whispering. So another example is Thioller from Elden Ring.

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Prettyyy

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Trauma bonded

Old doodle

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My lesbians are up on AF for those that wanna draw them (or just look at them, that's fine too)

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Suitdanna (traditional pen sketch)

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I managed to send this fuck ass sketch to someone before my iPad got damaged tho lmaoooo