#but she's done and i'm happy with her lol

[anniflamma]

This isn't a question, but rather a love letter to your art<3.

Thanks to you, I've started enjoying Greek mythology and the Bible again (I mean from a point of artistic, mythological, historical, and theological analysis; my status with any kind of religion is being agnostic XD).

And I already enjoyed Epic the Musical, but I really love the designs you make, how you empathize with the symbolism and lore of the Gods when designing them, and how you make Odysseus so human with his crude expressions that makes me empathize with him (And he's one of the characters I hated the most from Greek mythology lol)

And then there’s your art about the bible, I have to admit that I tend to avoid the biblical religion because of the weight it still has on our daily lives, the damage it has done from the past to this day, and how they deny it with current hypocrisy (I live in Spain, there the official religion is catholic), but your lgbt drawings have really encouraged me to open the bible and see it from an objective and neutral point of view, and just enjoy it as another book and not as something I’m forced to follow.

Also I didn’t know there was so much LGBT content in the bible XD Seriously, thank you so much, if you had a patreon, I would pay you for the amount of happiness and culture you have given me (^///^)

By the way, reading your posts I found out that you recently experienced an internet drama that has become so popular lately. I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry that both you and that poor artist had to go through this, that human hypocrisy has no limits or shame, and that I agree with everything you say. Just because we like a character or an author doesn't mean we agree with their crimes or ideologies.

I hope you have a nice day<3

Hi! I’m sorry it took me a while to respond! I mean it, I’ve read this over and over, and it makes me so happy. I’ve been thinking about how to respond, but sometimes it's hard to get it out into words.

It makes me so happy that my biggest interests make others interested in it too. Heck, when people ask questions, I get all giddy!

Talking about biblical/christian saints, greek myths, history, different cultural views and changes was kind of the whole point of why I started this tumblr blog. I have so many drafts filled with random info about LGBTQ+ saints..... Now… I post mostly thirsty drawings of greek gods with hairy chests... T.T

And I sympathize a lot when it comes to religious trauma. I consider myself lucky in these matters, my mom is Catholic, and she has her views that I don’t agree with and hurtful. Yet she still supports me in her way and watching my bible retelling animatics, everytime I post a new bible animatic, she writes me: "What have you done to Daniel..."

I also have my hurts and anger towards hypocrisies too, and I guess this is my way of countering that?

LGBT content in the Bible is something that really fascinates me. I think it's important to keep in mind that people from about 2,500 years ago had very different views when it came to gender and sex compared to how we see it today. In a way, the Bible does have strict social gender expectations, and if you didn’t fit in, then you weren’t considered part of that gender. But at the same time, it acknowledges that your sex. I think it’s in the Talmud were it discusses the fact that, throughout the Bible, there were about eight genders:

Zachar: male.

Nekevah: female.

Androgynos: having both male and female characteristics.

Tumtum: lacking sexual characteristics.

Aylonit hamah: identified as female at birth but later naturally developed male characteristics.

Aylonit adam: identified as female at birth but later developed male characteristics through human intervention.

Saris hamah: identified as male at birth but later naturally developed female characteristics.

Saris adam: identified as male at birth but later developed female characteristics through human intervention.

Some scholars even believe that Abraham and Sarah were Tumtum. A Tumtum is not considered to be very distinct but rather flexible between male and female sex/gender—"sometimes he is a man, and sometimes he is a woman." The simple fact that God said Abraham had a womb and from it, he would have children. Some say that this is why he is a Tumtum, while some historical linguists argue that ancient Hebrew didn’t have the vocabulary for male genitalia yet. Both arguments are valid, and I like them both!

There’s tons of stuff I could bring up—Joseph with his princess dress, Naomi and Ruth, David and Jonathan, and the discussions around whether Daniel was a Saris Hamah or a Saris Adam. We know he was called a saris, but we’re just not sure which. And then there's Jael, whose story is filled with a lot of phallic symbolism, and even her name is very gender-neutral.

I think I’m going to end here. I could yap about these things forever! But thank you again taking your time writing to me and I hope you also have a nice day! <3

[heavenfelll]

Lessons in Love clocked in at over 55k words. 🫠

[chroma-imp-draws]

Decided to redesign my own redesigns of the Trix once again, because I support women's wrongs <3

(old version here)

here's also a speedpaint where I talk a but more about them: https://youtu.be/CPxklymWu8I

[tears-of-xion]

Have some Chiyos to make your day a little brighter!!

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Please do not use or re-post my artwork without my permission. Thank you!   (reblogs, however, are welcome and appreciated)

I do not own Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, nor it’s characters. All rights to their owners.

[moonfromearth]

⭐Jewel Brookes for @king-tower's KISS & TELL ⭐

Jewel Brooks knows she's going to be a star, and after playing a supporting role in the successful TV show Dignity & Decorum it seems like she's finally getting the attention she knows she deserves! So, when her agent presented an opportunity to participate in a dating show, Jewel was all in! However, she hasn't fully processed the "Tell" part of the "Kiss & Tell" title, and Jewel's got more than a few secrets locked away...

⭐QUESTIONNAIRE⭐

name: Jewel Brookes

age: 24

pronouns + gender: She/Her, Female

romantic/sexual orientation, if applicable: Bisexual

hometown: Oasis Springs

likes: Acting, Wellness, Media Production, Photography, Blue, Pink, Purple, Pop Music, Summer Strut Music, Egotistical Sims, Pet Enthusiasts, Gossip, Affection, Physical Intimacy

dislikes: Cross-Stitch, Knitting (tried to get into these when they were trending, didn't like them 😆), Homebody Sims, Potty Humor

a "secret" you want to share with the world: She may have gone to private school with a member of the famous Landgraab family (a fact which she hints at at every opportunity for the attention, conveniently leaving out the fact that it was Johnny Zest but no one needs to know it was a disowned Landgraab 😅).

⭐DOWNLOAD [Google Drive]⭐

[sskk-manifesto]

Ep 5!!!

[meanscarletdeceiver]

Canon ships in Bird you say? I’d love to know more… 

(Before I learned Nobby is aro, I wondered about him and that Queen Mab)

Queen Mab's stint on on the Furness was during the Bad Old Days when Management was not merely indifferent to engines in love but actively hostile. They did think it was cute for engines to play court with coaches but nothing besides that.

Only 'lately' - 1910s - do winds of rebellious change begin to blow. You already saw Mary and 'Sharpie' 15. (Whom you'll catch another glimpse of in the next installment, too! Although… brace yourselves… as usual with me, the ratio of fluff-to-angst is bottom-heavy lol) 

I don’t really have many romances in mind, but Mary and 15 opened the door so that possibility is always on the table in this universe. If characters are throwin' up sparks, showin' the right chemistry, yeah I'm going to go for it.

I expect we’ll see more of it in the L.M.S. and Nobby's post-Barrow days, though. It would be a shame if Poppet never had a fling... ;) 

[considerad]

💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗 you know that post about creating community if that's what you crave?

I made an enormous pile of choc chip cookies and I batched it out for our upstairs and downstairs neighbours, my ma and my great-uncle across town, and my granddad's old pal and his family, and I just got done delivering them and I feel like 🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽🪽

so alight and alive with it all!!!! I love people! I love them!!! I am so full of fruit and phone numbers I probably won't ever call!

Life can be so unbearably sweet ❤️

[letters-to-rosie]

so now that my fic for the secret santa is done, I've been getting back to working on chapter 35 of revolution (it's coming!!! I got busy with the second half of the semester hskhfdkshkfjfk), and to get myself back in that headspace, I was going through some older chapters and reading, and I forgot about this part:

Powder rolls her eyes as she feels her phone vibrate in her pocket. She’s not really sure what is left to say about the pizza place and its shady parking lot. They’ve gone by and scoped out the place twice and found it pretty inconspicuous. Powder is sure they could hit it if they had to; the usual precautions would need to be taken, but the tip seems good. Good isn’t enough, Scar says. Blah, Powder says back. They’re at an impasse.

from chapter 18: p/ea/ce by p/ie/ce

[nny11writes]

WiP Wednesday - Hunt Showdown AU because no one stopped me :)

Shadow Weaver was there, knelt in the turned soil. Various blooms surrounded her and a small sack of seeds lay by her side. Of course it was a bit hard to concentrate on that considering the man who was wrapped in barbed wire and half buried looked up at her and began to scream through his gag. Weaver cuffed his ear the way she’d hit Catra a thousand times as she stood and wiped her hands off on her dress.

“You hush while the living are speaking. Your chance was had.”

“Torturing for fun or profit these days?” Catra asked, mildly curious as she stepped over the man to follow her master into the shade of a large willow.

Shadow Weaver sighed heavily, shooting her a side eye as she pulled a canteen off a low branch and handed it to her. The water was blessedly cool as she spoke, “You always think the worst of me. That one there died and rose, not a grunt but not quite human either. Strange tides these days, not that you’d know having been lazing about.”

Catra snorted at that. 

“Oh yeah, nothing to do in hell all damned eternity but kick my feet up.” She screwed the cap back on and gave the canteen back. “Fine, what’s with all this nonsense then? Your hold?”

Weaver glared at her, eyes like ice. “No. But I know the mark, they call themselves infernals. I believe you had some dealings with them before you got sloppy. The Prodigal Daughter no doubt.”

Catra bit her tongue hard enough to taste blood. 

She had not been sloppy the day she died, she had been betrayed.

[sysig]

She’s only a little thing! (Patreon)

[interludebloom]

nothing like an interview with your boss to deeply feel the dehumanisation in the workplace 🥰

[acerikus]

Kinda go2 spoilers but I'm not tagging bc I don't want aphobic assholes to find it so that's your warning: ngl as an arospec ace, Crowley in season 2 means so much to me. One of my absolute favourite things this season was his complete lack of understanding of how to try getting Nina and Maggie together and just how surface-level and forced his attempt was. The awning plan was never gonna work and just kinda feels like a halfhearted 'well this is how people do romance, right?' kinda thing which I found. Super relatable tbh.

Every time I play the sims and am trying to depict a romantic couple in any way I'm just kinda like 'uhh. okay so they should kiss. and fulfil every romantic whim they get. oops they're not really going out much but that'd take from the relationship right? that's what people do?' and it always feels so stiff and awkward, but as someone who can't relate to those kinda relationships that's just what happens. Same when I write fanfic too - if I'm trying to depict a pair I like I don't really end up depicting kisses or confessions or talk of relationship status or whatever but then I'm like 'oh shit will people actually get they love each other if I don't?' and it's. The most unnatural and awkward thing that just kinda gets shoehorned in despite it not coming naturally to me.

Idk, I was smiling the whole time he was trying to figure out how to set them up based on what he's seen bc it felt so familiar on a personal level. He's extremely arospec ace to me.

[unnecessarilygrandiose]

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[c6jpg]

okay i've been messing around with a bunch of teams trying to fit candace in somewhere and i think i like how this one feels. i'm gonna make this fucking work or die trying

[kuiinncedes]

bro