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Happy AAPI Heritage month!! PI here, and no one ever remembers us even during our month. so I was really planning on putting together a little masterlist post with all the original whump stories I could think of with Pacific Islander characters.

however, I could only think of one.

If anyone would like to let me know of some more, I will absolutely make the post!! but for now, shoutout to Angel of Death. you should all read it, I love Keola. please please please let me know if any more pacific islander whump characters exist because i want to read them.

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hiiiii im back! here’s a late mermay drawing :]

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here are my cards for the @the-hermit-arcana zine, the magician and the five of swords! go check out the zine :] all of the cards look fantastic, and everyone did a great job :D

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hey dudes! i'm struggling to pay rent this month, so if any of y'all have some spare cash and/or like my art, feel free to check out my inprnt shop! i've put a bunch of my newer work up, so have a look :] if you can't give anything that's okay, all i ask is that you reblog this so we can get more eyes on it. thank you so much, an have an awesome day!

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more art, this time featuring cleo :D

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dead dove do not eat

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another class assignment! i used some toys and household objects as references for this one (i will not be posting said reference because it looks bad)

and yeah the guy in front is link. i have a botw link figurine and i tried to differentiate the character a lil bit but let's be real that's still just link

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not an assignment this time! this was a commission for my friend for her boyfriend's dnd character, selina! i support women's wrongs <3

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this one's a lil bit older; it was for a children's book assignment for 'puss in boots'. i wanted to make it recognizable without just being antonio banderas. i think i succeeded!

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this was an editorial assignment! the article was absolute ass but the drawing was fun at least

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another class assignment, this time a conceptual portrait of sally ride!

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this was another assignment! mostly just a trial run iirc? idk it was fun :] we had to design an alien race

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another class assignment! this is rat poison. i don't have names for any of these dudes, but the possum is like twenty years older than everyone else and the rat and squirrel are dating. rodent yuri <3

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i promise im queueing all of these im at post limit rn or i would rb immediately <3

no worries dog :] i appreciate it !

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birthday gift i made for @dragon-mantis a couple months back :D pirate joe supremacy

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hiiiiiii the semester is over and im no longer dying :D spam incoming

anyway here's the coyote stories album cover i made for an assignment

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so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).

it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!

here are my policy focuses:

upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.

enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.

enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.

accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.