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Midland’s finest 😌💅

I think every passing day my art style becomes more and more like a 90s animated film. So this is kinda like Berserk if it was picked up by DreamWorks lol

Should I add little character portraits like these to the print shop? Would anyone be interested?

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Uhm, I just want to ask... Is there anywhere an English transcription of this live interview?

(I know, 41 min. is no small thing, but come on, I know I'm not the only one who'd be that kind of freaky fan... If only I could speak Japanese ohhhhh).

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Remember when I said I was going to write a two-parter for Pride 2025? Oh, self...

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girl from the north

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not to post even more Villains Discourse on main but it really bugs me how people read giving villains tragic backstories as inherently excusing their actions and/or demonizing trauma survivors.

the actual message of Tragic Villains is (almost) always “people who are never taught or given any healthy, constructive outlets for their emotions will often find unhealthy, destructive outlets.” it’s that people who are traumatized and never learn how to cope with that trauma can become a danger to themselves and others. the message isn’t “trauma makes you evil!!!!” or “genocide is okay if you’ve been sad before!!!!” it’s “people need compassion and help to recover from trauma instead of becoming increasingly angry and harming themselves and others in the process.”

this site takes an alarmingly behaviorist and punitive approach to everything and it’s literally the most annoying thing. y’all have this concept that “if we just punish people hard enough, if we just scare them enough, if we just make them feel guilty enough.” that people just Do Bad Things Because They Do Bad Things, I Guess, and Because We Didn’t Threaten Them And Shame Them Enough. but humans are an innately social species. at our very core, we need compassion and kindness. we need healthy relationships with other humans.

you can keep looking at traumatized villains and being like “haha this dumb pathetic sadboi thinks murder is okay because his parents died” but as a survivor myself, unaddressed/untreated trauma absolutely can make you ragey and destructive. i was lucky enough to have support and eventually get the treatment i needed. but it’s not hard at all for me to imagine how, if that hadn’t been the case, that could’ve been me. obviously not on a movie-villain scale like murder or war crimes, but it’s so irritating as someone whose trauma has always manifested as anger to watch people on this site be like “this is just bad writing!!! real survivors/good survivors don’t end up like that the writers just hate survivors and want the audience to condone murder!”

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In some good news the UK government just voted to completely decriminalise abortion

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"Joke's on you - I'm into that shit!"

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What if abilities changed the appearance of a Pokemon?

A master post of all the ability forms drawings I've done! It's been such a fun series to work on and it makes me so happy that it's brought you all so much joy!

I regret not starting the little additional descriptions earlier and I thought of fixing that but I desperately need a nap so nope.

I did fix the one that ruffled the most feathers though - quite literally! The Skarmory saga is finally complete!

Other Ability Forms posts!

Find me and my art elsewhere!  

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Cyndaquil line

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Screencap redraw ✨️🩷

It was fun seeing these two freaks come to live in my style, but in the original scenery 🥹

(I need ti work on my values and shadows but eh I still like them....)

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Yona 💕

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Seeing the prominence of AI art and content in the Inuyasha community—both in TikTok and Tumblr as well as Ao3—is suffice to say...dissapointing.

Please. COMMISSION an artist. PICK UP A PEN if you have to. REQUEST AN ARTIST FRIEND to draw it for you. Literally, there are numerous alternatives other than AI🤦🏻

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god these two

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Parallels

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"Akatsuki no Yona" manga vol 46 cover by Mizuho Kusanagi

Manga will end soon in the Hana to Yume magazine.

Source

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