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Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

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'can we normalize this'

'we need to normalize that'

can you all shut the fuck up for a minute and reconsider how constantly demanding normalization only retrenches the moral position that weird = bad?

like no you're not actually going to be able to normalize a lot of stuff, because it's statistically unusual or aberrant. you can't normalize shit that is not by any definition normal.

what you need to do is fucking stand up for the weirdos, freaks, and deviants, and remind everyone who is normal that their position just makes them normal. not good, not right, not correct, not better, not perfect, not beyond reproach or improvement.

being weird isn't bad. stop normalizing that, already.

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Man, I wanna talk about these two so much and I don't even know where to start. That's the major problem of shipping your own OCs, isn't it? (It's not like I can just throw the 50+ page outline I have written for them up on the internet. I have to actually make it palatable/enjoyable for people who aren't me.)

There wasn't much of an idea behind this one when I began, other than me wanting a full-body piece of Tomi where you could actually see his face. But between when I first sketched this out, and now, it happened that Tomi invited her to a midnight rendezvous under a weeping willow they know (a dryad named Berini.) Lili hopes he's finally broken through the mind altering spell (she believes) he's been under for the past few weeks since their reunion. But even if he hasn't, she has no intention of leaving Thymil without him this time.

I really, really do need to write this all out XD or do more half-assed comics.

Anyway... this is probably be my last big piece of the year. Unless it's not. Guess we have a week to find out.

As always, commission link in the source.

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this will be the year I finally convince everyone to abandon New Year's resolutions in favour of Yule Boasting, the clearly superior tradition

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Man, I wanna talk about these two so much and I don't even know where to start. That's the major problem of shipping your own OCs, isn't it? (It's not like I can just throw the 50+ page outline I have written for them up on the internet. I have to actually make it palatable/enjoyable for people who aren't me.)

There wasn't much of an idea behind this one when I began, other than me wanting a full-body piece of Tomi where you could actually see his face. But between when I first sketched this out, and now, it happened that Tomi invited her to a midnight rendezvous under a weeping willow they know (a dryad named Berini.) Lili hopes he's finally broken through the mind altering spell (she believes) he's been under for the past few weeks since their reunion. But even if he hasn't, she has no intention of leaving Thymil without him this time.

I really, really do need to write this all out XD or do more half-assed comics.

Anyway... this is probably be my last big piece of the year. Unless it's not. Guess we have a week to find out.

As always, commission link in the source.

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Looking for a silly, rules-lite one-shot this winter? Check out Hometown Holiday!

In Hometown Holiday, players are each their own protagonist of a Hallmark-esque romance movie, each with their own tropey quirks (Cool Single Parent, Married To Their Job, Dating a Jerk, etc), and find themselves competing for the affections of a single dopey hunk of love interest played by the GM.

It’s a great on-ramp to RPGs for those new to the genre (or new to games that aren’t DnD), as players can use their knowledge of cheesy holiday tropes to inform their roleplay. It’s also a fun, no-prep one-shot for experienced players!

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"Creaming is essential, it's why we're all here"

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Sailor Pluto and the Garnet Rod holiday gift for @kaleidodreams

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So Rosatyrs on Threads wanted to get a Smartypants meme started with TTRPG characters, and it sounded like a lot of fun. We only released one of these over at Threads, but here's Lili's whole collection. Gonna see if we can't get a few other characters as well.

Smartypants is a @dropoutdottv show y'all should obviously go watch if you haven't. Art by @covenmouse

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"Wow omg you drawwwww? I wish I was a drawer soooo bad omg I suckkkk so bad at arrrt"

me:

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The Bisexual flag is officially 25 years old today 🥳 💗💜💙 (December 5th, 2023)

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Pagan holiday’s are fun cus no one can figure out if they should preface their holiday greatings with “happy” “merry” or “blessed”

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I keep starting other things, and ending up back at them. It's such a problem, lol.

Back when Tomi and Lili used to adventure together, they had a habit of wandering away from the rest of the group to have their own little adventures (not a euphemism.) One of these was coming across a group of ne'er-do-wells harassing a family of goblins. Tomi immediately jumped the guys, despite knowing they outnumbered him and were near his own level. He won, obviously, but they left their marks. (Lili wanted to help, but he told her to stay out of it. Also, she was masquerading as a regular citizen at the time, and revealing her combat training would have blown her cover to smithereens.)

Was this the first time Tomi was ever praised for helping others without "cause"? Possible. Very possible.

Commissions open! Info in the source.

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youtube is pulling this bullshit again

praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...

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I have officially closed the kofi membership, at least for now, so… nothing holding me back from sharing the chibi tutorials (so far, I'm going to be updating it in the future~) 🤗 ENJOY! INTRO

PEA CHIBI

BEAN CHIBI

(tbc...)

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I feel like we need a refresher on Watsonian vs Doylist perspectives in media analysis. When you have a question about a piece of media - about a potential plot hole or error, about a dubious costuming decision, about a character suddenly acting out of character -

A Watsonian answer is one that positions itself within the fictional world.

A Doylist answer is one that positions itself within the real world.

Meaning: if Watson says something that isn't true, one explanation is that Watson made a mistake. Another explanation is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a mistake.

Watsonian explanations are implicitly charitable. You are implicitly buying into the notion that there is a good in-world reason for what you're seeing on screen or on the page. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie all the time because they're from a desert culture!")

Doylist explanations are pragmatic. You are acknowledging that the fiction is shaped by real-world forces, like the creators' personal taste, their biases, the pressures they might be under from managers or editors, or the limits of their expertise. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie because somebody thought they'd sell more units that way.")

Watsonian explanations tend to be imaginative but naive. Seeking a Watsonian explanation for a problem within a narrative is inherently pleasure-seeking: you don't want your suspension of disbelief to be broken, and you're willing to put in the leg work to prevent it. Looking for a Watsonian answer can make for a fun game! But it can quickly stray into making excuses for lazy or biased storytelling, or cynical and greedy executives.

Doylist explanations are very often accurate, but they're not much fun. They should supersede efforts to provide a Watsonian explanation where actual harm is being done: "This character is being depicted in a racist way because the creators have a racist bias.'" Or: "The lore changed because management fired all of the writers from last season because they didn't want to pay then residuals."

Doylism also runs the risk of becoming trite, when applied to lower stakes discrepancies. Yes, it's possible that this character acted strangely in this episode because this episode had a different writer, but that isn't interesting, and it terminates conversation.

I think a lot of conversations about media would go a lot more smoothly, and everyone would have a lot more fun, if people were just clearer about whether they are looking to engage in Watsonian or Doylist analysis. How many arguments could be prevented by just saying, "No, Doylist you're probably right, but it's more fun to imagine there's a Watsonian reason for this, so that's what I'm doing." Or, "From a Watsonian POV that explanation makes sense, but I'm going with the Doylist view here because the creator's intentions leave a bad taste in my mouth that I can't ignore."

Idk, just keep those terms in your pocket? And if you start to get mad at somebody for their analysis, take a second to see if what they're saying makes more sense from the other side of the Watsonian/Doylist divide.