Video is a drawing of me and my boyfriend's idols, with some music from one of the side shops you can't enter in Splatoon; we think the track fits them :)
Second is a ref of Ebony that is more toony, made it for someone who is attempting to make a 3D model from it
Third and fourth image is of a new OC I made, he's a villainous engineer in the memverse and all that, Idk I'll probably never explain him if nobody ever asks
Silly lineless drawing of @toothpaste-for-the-skin 's silly inkling!! Go follow them, they're pretty rad
This drawing of Shockwave is not the best imo? It's good but it could be tweaked a little bit; it was a test reference for his more realistic features
Redesign of one of my personas from a couple months ago, I indeed favor this one the most out of the rest
Last two images are some Sonic OCS I've cooked up, but that first one is more of an inside joke between friends, nonetheless still a very serious character :)
Adam Lambert defends Harry Styles - and describes the ostracism the music industry gave him for kissing his male bandmate in 2009...just about when 1D was being formed.
He thought his success on American Idol gave him freedom and protection but it didn't. He prepared for backlash from the public but instead -
“But what surprised me is the industry got mad... because truthfully, I wasn't doing anything offensive [by kissing a man onstage].
But it was a miscalculation.
I was put in the corner. I didn’t get, like, dropped or anything, but they weren’t gonna listen to my ideas at that point. My credibility was shot. I was a liability."
on godddd some of yall annoy the fuck out of me irt idols and their sexualities like im so tired of hearing about how idols are Definitely Straight because they mention the opposite sex/gender. like what the fuck do you think theyre gonna do? say theyre gay and throw their career out? put their whole ass livelihood at risk? cishets i am throwing up in your shoes.
Back at if with the new art style testing lineless with a Splatoon brush (first two images) and using my on artstyle with the Splatoon brush!! (Last image)
Two band guys are from a Splat band I'm making that's a play on Deftones (The splatband is called Depthtones see what I did there) anyway yeah
it’s really funny to me how at this point kibum has implied in every way humanly possible that he’s gay EXCEPT for outright saying the word itself. like good god the unspoken forbiddance of saying The G Word in kpop is so absurd at this point what are we doing here
every single tony scott movie is queer coded. i don't think every action 80s movie is, and i actually don't think rambo is that gay. commando is pretty gay, that is not a new take. as far as queer coded villains go, mark l. lester, who directed it, has spoken openly on it. the lethal weapons movies were written by shane black, who some people (me, for the first time right now) have described as "only ever making homoerotic christmas movies". beverly hills cop 2 was directed by tony scott. the issue isn't top gun having a normie amount of male gaze mistakenable for gay longing, it's people not drawing gay erotic beverly hills cop fanart. so we agree on that.
In today's example of industry closeting and harassment of lgbtq artists:
David Archuleta - a formerly-closeted singing show contestant who came out in 2021, after considering suicide - says his manager received an angry email from the concert booker because he mentioned his LGBTQ identity in his 11.29.22 concert -
"We have some very upset patrons that I will [be] dealing with today. I would hope that in the remaining concerts that [Archuleta mentioning his private life and lgbtq identity] would not be allowed."
Would not be allowed?! How, exactly, do they want his manager to enforce this? Would the usual simple intimidation suffice, or is extortion in play now, or perhaps physical force the answer?
Please clarify, entertainment booking agent. And fuck all the way off.
If a nobody booking agent feels free to do this so openly - can you just IMAGINE the pressure that members of, say, the biggest band in the world at the time, would hsvr been/are under to stay closeted?