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Please help! Sharing this would mean a lot. I’m sorry for posting about it so much- I wouldn’t if it weren’t serious. If you want to donate, here’s my Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/zombieparty Even a share helps more than you know. Thank you!!

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Happy very belated birthday to the grunkles!!

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I'm painting my graduation cap this weekend, and I wanted to do something Gravity Falls themed to honor my obsession with the show.

Thus, here’s some thumbnails I made. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for scenes or quotes, or ideas for which design to pick. I wanted to do something colourful and vibrant, and a little more on the visually complicated side, since grad is a big deal, and I won't have the opportunity for something like this for at least several more years. Also, favourite characters are Stan and Ford (and Mabel - sorry Dipper...) Finally, if there's some way to work in references to other fandoms, that would also be swell (current idea is to have quotes and references written in the book of bill and/or Journal 3 code)

Also, any painting tips would be great, I love art but painting is not my strong suit

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Me reading about people on tumblr mad about the Ford hate: Surely it’s not that bad, everyone here’s got such a good grasp of his character, and they’re really great about him. Maybe this was a past thing that I’ve fortunately missed.

Me after I finally cave and download TikTok so I can see the end of that art project screenshot: …I was mistaken, it is indeed that bad. I need to go scream into the void now.

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Happy birthday to the grunkles!!!

A proper art piece to commemorate the occasion tomorrow, after my calc exam (please send help…)

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Made this for an English assignment, and thought I’d use this to wish everyone a belated happy pride :)

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It's finally here. Whoo!

I'm tired, but I like the result.

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I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

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Stunning art!! Go check out the fic, fellow Glass Scientists fans- it’s amazing!!

"There, something as sweet as you~"

Its lying is a love langue redraw, also it's a background study, i also tried to match the style to the comic, did not end up quite the same but hey this is still pretty cute.

Here's the sketch Just because.

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I made this comic bc I’ve been seeing way too many people say bad stuff about amab/afab trans people lately and I hope this helps some of you who didn’t understand understand so we can get back to trying to help eachother and not tear eachother down.

Intersex folks feel free to add onto this however you see fit you all are wonderful people and I love you!

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ban on consensual healthcare openly endorses mutilation of intersex children

H.R. 3492, like every state law banning gender-affirming care, carves out an exception for nonconsensual procedures on intersex children (link). First introduced in 2022, this federal legislation is now reintroduced with new language that explicitly admits that the exception is endorsing “genital mutilation” on intersex children.

They’re not even hiding it anymore: they know they wrote a bill that hurts kids rather than protecting them.

This Act aims to take away trans adolescents’ ability to access healthcare they desperately need. The care transgender adolescents receive is informed, consensual, and proven by research to be vital for their well-being. But Marjorie Taylor Greene would rather force a clitoral reduction on an intersex 6-month-old (link) than allow a trans adolescent to get a prescription for puberty-pausing medication. 

This legislation proves the only concern for lawmakers is forcing trans and intersex kids to obey sex stereotypes, conforming them to narrow perspectives of what “male” and “female” can look like. These lawmakers seek to control children’s bodies at the cost of their health and autonomy.

Trans and intersex youth deserve control over what happens to their own bodies, and this bill takes that control away from both.

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Some Gravity Falls art I made for a school artist alley :)

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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Okay, so I just got into Gravity Falls, and I’m sure plenty of people have already talked about this (probably with much greater depth tbh), but I find it so thematically important that Journal 3 specifies the anomalies of Gravity Falls doesn’t come from some interdimensional leak. This idea that Gravity Falls is simply a magnet for anomalies mostly comes down to what they represent in relation to Ford, whose character has a lot of queer and neurodivergent coding about him. His interest in the place and what it has to offer is directly due to his own inability to fit in, and wanting answers for himself. It would be so easy to say that all the strangeness comes from another dimension, what that says about Ford and where he belongs be damned, but this added detail sets him firmly in this universe. You always belonged here, it says; here’s your answer, no other dimensions needed— strange sure, but there’s a place for you anyways.

This also adds a whole new flavour of messed up to Bill tricking Ford into believing everything came from another dimension, and could say interesting things about how Bill views himself.

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:-)

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Day 30 - Sunset on the Horizon

"Our past may have been filled with callenges, but we'll make better memories together"

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ToApril Day 30— Sunset on the Horizon

Apollo and his family (of course, it's not everyone, but I can only fit so many people on the cabin seven roof) - winged Apollo still not my own idea, still based off Ukelele-boy's design

Final day!!! I'm feeling really proud of myself for holding on this long. This month was probably the most artistically productive I've been in a while- though I didn't make a piece for every prompt. Admittedly, I did overcommit and burn out a little by the end trying to juggle school and this, but I still had a great time, and I really appreciated everyone's support and the lovely things people had to say in the reblogs. I've also pushed myself to draw things I normally wouldn't for this, and I'm super glad to have been able to branch out a little. That being said, I'm super proud of this piece, and glad that I decided to challenge myself with a more complex background and composition than I usualy draw, as well as messing with the lighting.

Ps. I will make something for every prompt in the following months, though not at this intensity because I need a friggin break