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Reblog to save a life

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worm MAP (multiple artist project) call is up!! if you think you might be interested in participating, or even just hanging out with the folks who are, please dont hesitate to join the discord! parts do not need to be animated!

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truly

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There's an image that appears a lot in my mind when I'm thinking about the Dallon Sisters. Mostly when I'm thinking about a hypothetical animatic or such.

Victoria towering over Amelia, golden and strong, absolutely able to tear her to shreds. Looking down at her with utter disgust, tinged with horror and fear she desperately tries to hide.

Fragile One standing behind her in solidarity with their Host. Shield and arms ready to protect, golden light shining with awe.

Ameila cowers before her, hunched over with fear, looking up at her with burning fever of obsession. Even as Victoria looks down at her like she's the scum on her boot, she can't stop the sickly sweet rot in her heart.

The Queen Shaper looms dark behind Amelia, utterly dwarfing all of them. A true eldritch creature of constantly shifting flesh. Biology personified. Not caring what their Host does, like a scientist looking at bacteria.

Amy cowers before Vicky.

Fragile One cowers before The Queen Shaper.

What a fun dynamic.

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sees art with thick smooth line art: ah yes i want my art to look like that

sees art with sketchy thin line art: ah yes i want my art to look like that

sees lineless art: ah yes i want my art to

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The body as a temple.

I, like many North American children, was raised in a very Protestant household. I don't know how things have changed in the church since the late 90s/early 2000s, but when I was a child things like tattoos and piercings (especially on AMAB kids) was anathema.

Naturally, as teenagers do, I rebelled. I drew patterns like this on paper since middle school. In high school I started drawing it on my body. The belly of my arm was the number one canvas. I drew on it almost daily. I used every colour of pen I could get my hands on, every spare moment of class time or free time to make my arm a work of art. For that I was punished. A teacher gave me detention for doing this instead of reading, the air cadets thought it was a tattoo and forbade it, even my mother was shocked by it and had my pastor give me a talking to about the evils of ink. What did that result in? At age 18 I got my first real tattoo, then another, then two more. I stopped because of money, but if that were no object I would be covered head to toe.

So what's the point of this story of teenage drama? The way I was raised, the body was an ideal, Protestant temple. For those that have never been inside a Protestant church (at least NA ones around me), they are bereft of things like icons. There are no paintings of the saints, certainly none of Christ. And our bodies should reflect that and be "clean" for God. I deeply disagree with this notion. If our bodies are indeed temples, they ought to be like the Sistine Chapel, or Saint Basil's Cathedral: decorated with works of art.

Of course that art doesn't have to be religious in origin and I don't intend this to be a message solely for Christians. This is simply the perspective of someone that was neck deep in the church from childhood onwards. I don't hold any grudges for that, it simply was my experience.

In conclusion: if the body is a temple let the skin be a canvas to decorate it.

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for the good of human (animal) kind

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@daemoniclover

<3

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having feelings atm

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Leviathan @ Brockton Bay

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i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

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tozozozo

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The cover art for Solos: Prelude is finally done! This took a long time but I learned so much doing it and really upped my game. I'm not wholly satisfied but what a great thing to finally accomplish!

I hope everyone who's been reading has been enjoying it as much as I've been writing it!

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The cover art for Solos: Prelude is finally done! This took a long time but I learned so much doing it and really upped my game. I'm not wholly satisfied but what a great thing to finally accomplish!

I hope everyone who's been reading has been enjoying it as much as I've been writing it!

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first time I've had a flare up from drawing. Damn, I may be an actual artist

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Stream is over (for now). Behold the final line work for the cover of "Solos: Prelude", my original work. Very excited to get colouring and rendering on this!!

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Streamin'