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i have a special place in my heart for artists who draw gillion with dead fish eyes

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王捌院子wangbayuanzi, 南宁nanning

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birds eye’s

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is it anatomy practice or is it an excuse to draw caspian with top surgery tattoos

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Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

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extremely fucked up and evil thought about the undersea: so we know there are some laws that, when broken, are punishable by death. gillion has stated before that, as the champion of the undersea, he had a lot of duties and didn't enjoy many of them. do you think, when a crime of enough severity was committed, that the elders made gillion fulfill the role of executioner.

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no cause like gillion is the model child that jay never was, and jay is the free spirit that gillion always longed to be. do you understand??? do you get me???? they are reflections of what their lives could have been if they had gone down a different a road. did you notice how jay has come to shun her jacket and show more of herself, but how gillion has acquired armour to hide himself away. do you!! see!! them!!!!! how are we all not less normal about these two.

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sometimes i remember gillion, despite being considered the party’s tank, in actuality has barely any more health than jay does and the reason he’s considered the “tank” is less bc he has more health than the rest and more bc he shoves himself in the way between everyone else and his friends to protect them and i

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big ol jrwi doodle dump,,, only on episode 73 of riptide,,progress has been greatly hinderd by prime defenders

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gillion tidestrider

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do u have any spare albatrio doodles? like all three of them interacting /very nf

OH YA KNOW ME, I always have some spare >:3c

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i fucking love la alma, he's so chill and layed back and has sick moves and can drop kick people

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A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height will make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane, then the good leg, and THEN the leg that needs help.

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

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Gillion, the chosen one

Loved nonetheless, yet the pressure of their love and expectation weighed heavy on his shoulders. 'If only', he thought, 'there were another to share it'.

A.k.a. I was thinking a lot about him and the deities today, and I thought of how lonely being the chosen one was and how hopeful he seemed at the idea of another :") I am so normal about this

(Also I gave Lunadeyis an outfit that accentuates more of the top half of her body and Astra an outfit that accentuates the lower half bc of the mooning/flashing jokes <3)

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coloured sketches from the past few days that I did in between animating (as a treat)