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Some old McKirk and Spirk doodles

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ZoLu sketch dump be upon ye part 3

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ZoLu sketch dump be upon ye part 2

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ZoLu sketch dump be upon ye part 1

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been going through my sketchbooks. have some awesome Taruru drawings

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this is fanart of my partner @alfredwegener2’s lil’ ocs that he made for his streams (@GiganticPingu on twitch)

😋 i yaoi’d them !

Lil’ Squirt n Lil’ Fresca !

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this is fanart of my partner @alfredwegener2’s lil’ ocs that he made for his streams (@GiganticPingu on twitch)

😋 i yaoi’d them !

Lil’ Squirt n Lil’ Fresca !

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Here's a speedpaint for that Spider-Man/Deadpool comic I made.

And here's the youtube link for the same video.

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and whither the beast goes, so shall I

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spideypool fans should get very excited. I’m gonna upload something tonight after an age of no spideypool

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24 hour comic!

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I realized I’d never reblogged this one either!!!

which is a crime because these are so WONDERFUL !!!!

I piece I drew of twitch streamer Masuoh as an octoling, plus a drawing of the other 2/3s of Tutti Frutti Gaming, Genaleah and Sariah.

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MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE !!!!

YOUR TALENT KNOWS NO BOUNDS \o/

Timelapse of my recent squid kid @tarufai art. (said art here)

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OH MY GOD THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!! BEAUTIFUL!!! THESE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE FANART!!!! ;O;

I did a series of splatoon versions of the TuttiFruttiGaming siblings, @masuoh/Lili, @tarufai/Sariah, and GenaLeah.

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you’re weird af for that all quiet on the western front art. did you even watch the movie? you realize real soldiers just like paul and kat died horrifically right. it’s totally insensitive and weird

you’re weird af for coming into my inbox and talking to me like that. it’s totally insensitive and weird to assume that love has never existed on the battlefield or that queer relationships have never been a part of any war. But especially the World Wars.

Why do you think gay men were blamed for the loss of the first World War in Germany by the political right? This entire essay by the International Encyclopedia of the First World War is worth reading, but I’m directly referencing this passage;

“In the eyes of many homosexual men the war also proved that homosexual love was entirely natural. Activists argued that the war not only entitled homosexual men to legal emancipation, but also demanded that their emotional and sexual lives be recognized as normal, even ideal in the context of war, by mainstream society. However, in the wake of defeat in 1918 there were widespread accusations, especially from the political right, that “enemies” at home had betrayed the army. Homosexuals were one of the groups targeted as culprits in the “stab-in-the-back” legend. In his pamphlet The Sexual Cruelties of Love-Crazy Men, conservative German journalist H. A. Preiss claimed that veterans had become so selfishly focused on their “abnormal sexual practices” that they were no longer willing to sacrifice for the fatherland.[70] Writers for Die Freundschaft (The Friendship), a newspaper that catered to WhK contributors, sought to combat accusations of a “stab in the back.” One writer, B. Eden, stressed that homosexuals were only exceptional in their goal to emancipate themselves from legal discrimination. Otherwise, they were committed to protecting the nation, as evidenced by their war experience.[71] ”

And why do you think San Francisco had one of the first established queer communities created during and after World War II? Why do you think there were enough gay men discharged from the military during the Second World War to establish what is considered the queer capital of the world?

Homosexuality is not an anomaly in war.

At first I wasn’t even going to reply to this ask, because I do understand the concern with bastardizing war stories for the purpose of fandom shipping, especially since so many war stories are based on real people, but these aren’t real people. The very real lived experience of veterans is not something to speculate about, but this is a fictional story that happens to take place in a real war.

And I felt like this ask was implying that no love has ever formed on any front lines, which is so untrue. 

The part that queer people have played in wars is not only integral to military history, but also queer history. The increased visibility of homosexuality and the subsequent activism after the first world war is a direct result of the queer relationships that were able to form during the war, and to erase or minimize the existence of those relationships is a huge disservice to all queer veterans. What’s more, that increased visibility is part of the reason that homosexuals and transgender people were ever targeted by the nazi party in the first place. Queer activism was only starting to gain real traction when the Second World War was brewing, and that’s part of the reason why the backlash was so severe.

No harm no foul if you see Kat and Paul has having a platonic relationship, most people do and it certainly doesn’t make their friendship any less important or integral to the story of All Quiet on the Western Front, but my frustration with this ask doesn’t really have anything to do with them. I don’t even want to defend myself or anything, but the human relationships formed during war has been one of my special interests since I was a teenager. I’ve read countless books written by veterans, seen the shows, seen the movies, I’m not new to war stories. I know very well how horrific war is. That is part of what made the relationships formed during them so significant and so unique. There’s a desperate sort of tenderness to them that always blurs the line between something romantic and platonic and familial (in a found-family kind of way), and for this fictional story, I figure there’s no harm in exploring the different nuances to a relationship like that. I don’t think that’s insensitive of me. I’m not trying to sterilize life in the trenches, or the inherent trauma of war. I’m not trying to make light of it. But romantic relationships are formed in war. It’s so weird of you to tell me what I can and can’t draw fanart of.

Again, I didn’t want to answer this ask because it’s not going to change my stance either way, but I really felt like the insistence that real soldiers couldn’t have formed meaningful and possibly romantic relationships needed to be addressed.

Also. This is the gay blog where I draw gay art. Don’t tell me the gay art I’ve drawn is weird af. Good god.

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I’ve had an influx of followers recently so just to make one thing clear