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NEW ARTWORK for 2024 on behalf of the Marvel Art Party Finup Book for The OceanCleanup - my take on an alternate Captain America

MARVEL Art Party is a discord server of many of your fave marvel fanartists, we produce books each year to raise funds for charity, this year is The Ocean Cleanup

BUY THE BOOK full color paperback for $10.40

artists featured: amadness2method, Amberdreams, artgroves, Call-Me-Kayyyyy, descaladumidera, DisturbedButGorgeous, haliaz, karadin, keire-ke, maichan808, PastaPapi, pocketcosmic, resonantpixels, sweatypeaches, sofreakinmanyfandoms, waterme-stories, XrDragonix, zarthhearth and special thanks to our artist/mods Cheermione, Heyboydraws, Rufferto

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Here's my contribution to the @marvelartparty Fin Up book - a Marvel merfolk pin-up zine. It's 38 full-color pages featuring 25 gorgeous works by 21 different artists.

GET YOUR COPY HERE. Proceeds to The Ocean Cleanup.

Featured Artists: Namor (@xpi-x-elx), Rocket (sweatypeaches), Thor (@disturbedbutgorgeous), Steve (@artgroves), Natasha (@amberdreams1960), Hulk (@amadness2method), Drax (pocketcosmic), Nebula (@call-me-kayyyyy), M'Baku (@keire-ke)

GET YOUR COPY HERE. Proceeds to The Ocean Cleanup.

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Here's my contribution to the @marvelartparty Fin Up book - a Marvel merfolk pin-up zine. It's 38 full-color pages featuring 25 gorgeous works by 21 different artists.

GET YOUR COPY HERE. Proceeds to The Ocean Cleanup.

Featured Artists: Namor (@xpi-x-elx), Rocket (sweatypeaches), Thor (@disturbedbutgorgeous), Steve (@artgroves), Natasha (@amberdreams1960), Hulk (@amadness2method), Drax (pocketcosmic), Nebula (@call-me-kayyyyy), M'Baku (@keire-ke)

GET YOUR COPY HERE. Proceeds to The Ocean Cleanup.

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Anyone else think a lot about how at the end of canon, Lan Wangji has had time to mature for 10+ years into a guy in his mid-30s, but Wei Wuxian still has the life experience and general maturity of a war-traumatized early 20-something?

Because like. Wei Wuxian died young and he died tragically, and everyone who was around him then that's still there after he's resurrected has gotten to live their lives. They got to mature. They've had 13/16 years to heal (or not heal -_-) and learn who they are. To become fully realized adults outside of the pressures of war. And Wei Wuxian hasn't had that. If you believe MXTX's interview that circulates on this site sometimes, he spent those 16 years in a suspended state of agony. And even if you don't believe that, he was still dead. Non-existant.

For Wei Wuxian, the war is fresh. The pain is fresh. He has no idea what's doing because he's barely an adult, if admittedly a highly skilled one for his age. The world has moved on around him and he has stayed in place. What does he do with that?

Wei Wuxian had no choice but to pretend that he's moved on, too, because that war that took so much from him was almost two decades ago, now. The Wen Remnants have been dead for over 10 years. What use is it to dig up old hurts? Except, those hurts are still hurting him.

When he died, Wei Wuxian was helping care for Lan Sizhui. Wen Yuan. When he died, Lan Wangji raised A-Yuan with the Lan. If Wei Wuxian was dead for 13/16 years and A-Yuan was 3/4 when he died, then Lan Sizhui is about his age, or very close to it.

This is the child he was raising. This child is now his peer.

Wei Wuxian has memories of war and tragedy, but no one to talk to. The juniors, who are closest to him in relative age, haven't known war, and everyone who has known it has moved on. He's trapped between generations, and that has to be so incredibly isolating.

Jiang Yanli, the Wen Remnants, Wen Qing of particular note, all of them died shortly before he did. Did he ever really get to grieve them? Will he be allowed to now? Especially with his reputation. Especially with the number of people who would really prefer him to simply leave the past in the past. Especially with all the people who think he is the cause of the deaths he wishes to grieve.

Will he be allowed to mourn, if the cultivation world thinks these deaths are his fault? Or that these people don't deserve to be grieved?

Wei Wuxian has the misfortune of being a man who is a decade out of time, and he will have to learn to cope with that, but how does he account for the missing years? When the pain is still fresh for him, how does he find a place in a society that has long since moved on?

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From Jelena Woehr on bluesky

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Lan Wangji: “he’s too close! And too naked! Quick! ACT NORMAL”

*bites

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some of u should have an OnlyClowns account

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ao3 turns 15 today

reblog if youre older than ao3

(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)

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So honestly, I don't know how to handle my book promotion anymore. Long story short, I waited my entire life to get published. My dream came true in September! I had about a month and a half of joy and hope, and then overnight, my country went from being a democracy to being a dictatorship, with the ruling party controlling every branch of government, and already setting up concentration camps and gearing up to dismantle the constitution.

I talked to my publisher about how to move forward in this horrifying new world, and they reminded me that my book is actually about a small group of oppressed modern vampires fighting for socialized healthcare, and finally overthrowing a long-standing dictatorship.

And also, that art and personal accomplishments still matter.

I really so badly want my dark, weird, and sometimes funny little book to be successful. But I also want it to be meaningful in this awful, hateful time.

I would like to donate some of my royalties to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

Wanna check it out? Carnelian, by Jules Devito:

https://a.co/d/avCZlT3

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When @thisonesatellite asked me if I wanted to collab again, I jumped at the opportunity. However, I vastly overestimated my own tattoo-designing abilities, so Bucky's ink is based on this lovely design.

paint me in all my mistakes by RecoveringTheSatellites (Stucky, M) Brooklyn, NY.

Seven years after HYDRA has usurped freedom and democracy, there are rules about personal liberty.

Rules about how to conduct yourself in public, and who to be, who to love, who not to love, and so on and so forth, down to which tattoos you can get. Bucky navigates this world like a sleepwalker, mostly detached from all inklings of emotion and reality, until he decides to get a tattoo.

And meets Steve.

And then emotion and reality come crashing back, because you can only sleepwalk through your life for so long, and also because quite possibly there’s more to Steve, and more to life in general, and more to Bucky’s life in particular, than anyone could have predicted.

A story about the power of love in uncertain times, and the strength you find inside yourself, sometimes in places where you least expect it.

read on AO3

[maichan808]

When @thisonesatellite asked me if I wanted to collab again, I jumped at the opportunity. However, I vastly overestimated my own tattoo-designing abilities, so Bucky's ink is based on this lovely design.

paint me in all my mistakes by RecoveringTheSatellites (Stucky, M) Brooklyn, NY.

Seven years after HYDRA has usurped freedom and democracy, there are rules about personal liberty.

Rules about how to conduct yourself in public, and who to be, who to love, who not to love, and so on and so forth, down to which tattoos you can get. Bucky navigates this world like a sleepwalker, mostly detached from all inklings of emotion and reality, until he decides to get a tattoo.

And meets Steve.

And then emotion and reality come crashing back, because you can only sleepwalk through your life for so long, and also because quite possibly there’s more to Steve, and more to life in general, and more to Bucky’s life in particular, than anyone could have predicted.

A story about the power of love in uncertain times, and the strength you find inside yourself, sometimes in places where you least expect it.

read on AO3

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anyway the actual point of fandom is to inspire each other. reading each other's fics and admiring each other's art and saying wow i love this and i feel something and i want to invoke this in other people, i want to write a sentence that feels like a meteor shower, i want to paint a kiss with such tenderness it makes you ache, i want to create something that someone else somewhere will see it and think oh, i need to do that too, right now. i am embracing being a corny cunt on main to say inspiring each other is one of the things humanity is best at and one of the things fandom is built for and i think that's beautiful

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I think it’s so funny how we have to speak to men like preschoolers when it comes to having empathy for women. like hey buddy… I know you think girls are icky :( but remember your mommy? your mommy is a girl! and then they’re like ohhhh… mommy IS a girl.. and I do like mommy… this is starting to come together

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The "if you voted for Trump unfollow me" posts are returning, but given then general makeup of your average tumblr user I think there's a different message I'd like to give.

If you didn't vote because "both parties are the same" or "it won't make a difference" or because Kamala wasn't the pure and perfect leader that you wanted or you "didn't want blood on your hands", honestly whether or not you follow me doesn't make a damned bit of difference. But I want you to look. Take a good look at the despair around you right now. And every godforsaken thing that follows I want you to fucking look. Look and know that you could have helped prevent it. We still haven't recovered from his last four years, the world hasn't fucking recovered, and now we're staring down the barrel of god knows how many more years and a river of fucking blood to come along with it.

But your pride and your principles were more important to you than the actual real fucking world we live in.

I hope, if nothing else, that you can take this in. I hope you learn. I hope you grow. I hope you find it in you to realize that in this country they soak our hands in blood the second we take our first breath and the only thing that matters then is what you fucking do with them. What you fight for. Who you fight for. Who you defend.

I hope you wake up. And you step up. And you fucking fight.

But until then. Don't you fucking dare look away.

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@diankn

Hua Cheng is over the moon, of course!