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Off the grid

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I am going to [remembers that jokes about suicide are detrimental to myself and others] Scarborough Fair.

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end of january affirmations

im not doing anything wrong and no one is mad at me

there must be a place for me in this world because here i am

my art doesnt suck

instagram is nothing to me

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I would love to see art of a post season 2 Vi with more light in her eyes and/or a costume change? Clothes that actually belong to her? I know costume design probably is a lot to ask if it’s not your thing so please no pressure with that. I just love Vi and want to see her happy <3

oh anon you've asked the perfect person cuz i've literally been thinking about doing exactly this for WEEKS, and furiously making pinterest boards for it all this time, sooo, here we go, no more procrastinating. here's a sneak peek, im gonna make many of them so look out for the posts💗

this is incredibly fun, so thank you sm!! our girl is gonna thrive like she deserves

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Idk about y'all but I personally think anyone referring to scars, vitiligo, and cellulite as a fetish thing is saying more about themselves than they realize they are.

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shoutout to the color red

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you have more in common with the average citizen in china than any us politician

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Mobility assistance

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this isn't a project I work on super regularly but I was pleased with how the character acting turned out here and wanted to share

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James Rhodes - Is that not worth exploring?

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im not that into vampires but u have successfully made really interested in vampirism as a metaphor for addiction like thats such a good concept

while I completely understand why some people Don't Like it as an angle it makes me soooo crazyinsane.

1. it's so aesthetically sexy.

2. it's really well suited for exploring addiction as a direct manifestation of trauma. "something violent and violating happened to me, it scrambled my brain and body right up, I am fundamentally forever changed, and all of a sudden I now need something else to keep me going lest the full consequences of that violent event finally catch up with me."

3. I think stories about addict-vampires often have easy opportunities to elegantly build in understanding about addiction that mundane stories sometimes have a hard time doing. a lot of fiction about addictive substance use frames it as a bad decision that doesn't make sense, it's an obviously and wholly destructive activity that a given addict character is having trouble Just Saying No To for inscrutable irrational reasons, but with addict-vampires it's like. well of course they want this. it's not a dumb choice made for no reason, drinking blood is the most natural thing for vampires, They're Vampires. depending on the media, going without it can either result in constantly feeling like you're abstaining from the thing that's meant to complete you and make you the strongest version of yourself, or it may even simply be impossible. while these things are (for the most part) not literally true of irl substance addictions, it very much feels like that a lot of the time, and I think these kinds of fantasy mechanics lend themselves very well to sympathetically exploring scenarios like, for example, self-medication that serves a vital purpose even as it's unhealthy at the same time, or the fear of the very real dangers of potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms.

not really sure why I made this a numbered list. it's 1:47am. yknow what let's add a fourth point just to really distill it all.

4. hungry and guilty about it <3

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I was gonna make a post about "what if humans went through neoteny like axolotls and we stayed in the body of teenagers for our whole lives"

but then I looked up Neoteny to make sure I understood it correctly and...

What the fuck?

So humans are just baby monkeys for our whole lives???

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