#miscpost

[appleboxdog]

Falins little dash is my favorite thing

[battlevann]

After playing through chapter 1 of dream bbq I've begun to think that the mannequins we see throughout the game are the mass produced bases of ENA's that either never received their ENA shell or somehow lost it, leading to them no longer recognizing their identity or purpose as an ENA, which is why they are either dead or walking aimlessly

[mtqcomic]

Hey folks! I've been really wanting to post some more Wednesday content... I'm working on updating character sheets, and I have a bunch of ideas for loredocs and such... but most of that is on hold until I finish sorting out a particular element of my worldbuilding that I've been working on for a while now.

...And by "working on", I don't mean "brainstorming", I mean "I need to program a desktop app to help me worldbuild for my webcomic". It's slow going.

So, all quiet on the bonus content front for the time being... but I promise I'm working on stuff! And you can always send asks if you're curious about something, I keep a lot of secrets that don't need to be secrets.

[artvann]

besties please send me art requests,,, dont feel afraid to ask for specific character/a y/n insert or character/character,,, pleaseee

[appleboxdog]

I didn’t know onions actually made you cry. I thought it was an inside joke I wasn’t getting. Monster vegetables.

[battlevann]

Desperately need Sokol in payday 3

[mtqcomic]

So on the last page, I spent a while working on Barian's magic effect, but one thing I had to change last minute was the colour; I went for an orange palette originally, but I didn't want it to look like fire, so I changed it to pink. Here are both versions side-by-side!

I honestly prefer the original, but I think the second version makes more sense—this magic probably came from a spirit with a soul of light, after all!

[battlevann]

@rjavenuru

don’t you ever read a piece of fanfiction so good you just

[j-rye]

[appleboxdog]

I hope to be a (somewhat) popular artist that interacts with people who like my art

[battlevann]

man w hat the fuck.

[battlevann]

shaped.

Finally got a clear shot of noonoo carrying her spring, it's her favourite toy

[mtqcomic]

Ugh, I hate to do this, but I really don't have time to keep making pages right now...

I'm officially going on haitus for the next few weeks. I should be back in late august or early september!

[j-rye]

[battlevann]

Diversity win! this cookie is marrying god!!!

[therex55213]

Ventpost time. I want to remind anyone, anywhere, whoever would listen, that while this sentiment is especially potent when considering the pandemic, it also is true for all time before, and all time after. Any time, any place, a person dies against their wishes otherwise is a time this tragedy is seen. Every non-consenting death is the loss of a whole world, of connections, of actions, of dreams and passions for life, left cut short. Death of the elderly is an issue of bodily autonomy and self-actualization, and it doesn't matter who a person is, how old they are or how much of a life they have already lived, whatever agency can be afforded over such matters can and must be afforded if one cares about these matters.

This above quote is sharper, more home-hitting to those that are surviving the pandemic with connections to those who are not, but the emotions and ageism on display during the pandemic is not exclusive to it. The same sentiments that are used against protecting the elderly from the pandemic are present among arguments against the development of treatments for aging related diseases, and often by people supposedly on the side valuing bodily autonomy, simply because some argument or another has convinced them that the quality of life of the elderly is secondary because they belong to some sort of out-group to the young. Meanwhile, as people glorify the discarding of love of living the elderly have to fatalist arguments of "it'll happen eventually anyway, it happens to everyone", silicon valley and big pharma fuckheads like those currently managing organizations such as Lifespan dot io or the Methusela Foundation, creeps who tout Web 3 as the future and peddle NTFs, swoop in and subsume whatever work is being done to try and counter that fatalist stance, hoarding patents and monopolizing tools that could be used for the physical liberation of the elderly and disabled, warping them into tools for the furthering of their own capital gain.

To any who tolerate or embrace the unwilling death or disability of others, especially the elderly, on the grounds that such is natural or inevitable, I say: no, fuck you, death by venomous bites are also natural and bound to happen in any sufficiently populated area, yet we still understand developing antivenom as a good. Developing tools that allow people to not die when they do not want to is a foundational concept to, well, all of medicine, and to pick and choose some unwilling deaths as being more acceptable than others in not attempting to prevent despite the potential to do so on the grounds of their natural-ness or perceived inevitability is reprehensible.

To any who tolerate or embrace the unwilling death or disability of others, especially in the elderly, on the ground that allowing or facilitating such will be better for society or the younger generations, I say: no, fuck you, the economic and social systems currently at play are your real enemy, fight those. While many of their perpetrators are advanced in age, those same perpetrators are being replaced by younger faces with the same or worse ideals all the time, and hindering all elderly from gaining greater bodily agency to spite a select very few is unambiguously reprehensible.

To anyone who in bad faith will pretend I am ignoring the existence of the elderly who accept their aging and oncoming death with peace and grace: no, fuck you, you know damn well I'm not talking about those individuals, who are actively choosing to accept their current situation and deeming it satisfactory. Those who have decided to embrace aging and die due to it, even if they have options otherwise, are acting well within their right to self-determine. Do not parade the corpses of people who have acted on their right to self-determine as evidence that more tools to facilitate that right should not be made. Nobody who loves living should have to accept having done the things they loved for the last time against their will. Nobody should ever leave a future of undone things, of passions left unacted upon due to inability despite desire to do so. It frustrates me to no end to look in the comments of posts like these and see people saying it's fine or good that the elderly die as a general statement, either because they've deemed some of those elderly to be political opponents, or because they've deemed the right of elderly people to self-determine as a lost cause to some generalized idea of an abstract inevitable end. It also frustrates me to no end to see people respond to breakthroughs made by corporations to potentially extend "working" lifespan of humans by glorifying inaction on the topic to spite those corporations. Those are keys to further physical liberation these corpos are telling you they stole from your medical systems to privatize, and instead of being furious and saying "hey! those belong to us! give those back!" and starting outcry against that theft, you lot would rather say "well I wasn't gonna use that anyway, who wants to work that long, what a waste ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " with some smug sense that you've stuck it to the man? Cornerstones of your communities, artists and creators with visions and skills honed over decades, caretakers and loved ones are constantly being lost despite their wishes, leaving holes that cannot ever be filled by others. I would really appreciate it if people recognized that maybe this is something we could have some influence on, and that whatever influence we could have on it we should.