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[queensparklekitten]

[photogracraft]

look at that confident ass tree

[yourbookcouldbegayer]

when is it considered wrong to have a queer person die in the story? most of my characters are a part of the lgbt community, I'm still deciding what's going to happen to them in the story but a lot of people online say that you shouldn't kill off your gay characters. I was wondering if there any exceptions to this though?

We have a tag with a bit of Bury Your Gays stuff here, but honestly, this is a question we get a lot, and--

The problem with killing your characters isn't killing them, per se. It's refrigerating them.

An unfortunately nonzero percentage of stories with gay characters tend to follow a specific trend:

Gay character is introduced.

Protagonists reap the benefits of gay character. (Media creator reaps the benefits of gay character.)

Gay character no longer serves their aesthetic purpose.

Gay character is killed off.

Death of gay character traumatizes main character and pushes them toward an action.

Gay people are more than just plot devices to be introduced and later discarded when no longer useful, and the fact that is happens most often in the form of killing them also just...isn't great. We already face a disproportionate amount of harm in reality--why would any LGBT person who's reading a new character they relate to want to see that person suddenly murdered for seemingly no reason?

This trope is extremely similar to the "Women in Refrigerators" trope, coined by Gail Simone in 1999, a comics author who realized that a lot of the female characters in comics tended to end up dead.

...Violently. Raped, murdered, cut into pieces, sliced and diced and shoved into a refrigerator, these women served as mere plot devices to motivate a (male) protagonist.

Bury Your Gays is very, very similar, in that it treats gay people just as disposably. Worse, it often happens just after the character in question has had their first kiss/come out/other important moments in exploring their own identity, which undermines that development and, frankly, just doesn't fucking feel good to any gay reader.

But none of this is to say that you shouldn't kill your characters, even if they're gay. I've killed off a lot of queer characters in my time. The difference is that those deaths were actually well-written, significant and properly explored, part of the story in a way that a lot of "disposable" gay characters weren't.

My protagonists felt long-term, agonizing grief at losing their friend/girlfriend/etc. It affected the way they thought and acted about relationships for the rest of their lives. More, the death of that character was natural, part of the story in a way that felt reasonable and realistic. It wasn't unnecessary violence for the sake of shock value, or disposing of a no-longer-useful character; these were people who lived lives for as long as they could and affected the world around them.

All of this is basically to say: Kill any character you want. But think about why you're doing it. What narrative purpose does it serve? If they left another way, would it achieve the same effect? Is it a real, true tragedy, or just death for the sake of drama?

(Although death for the sake of drama isn't necessarily a bad thing either, plenty of stories and genres exist that way (COUGH COUGH: SHAKESPEARE) but when it's only the gay characters experiencing that particular phenomenon--well. That's not so fun, is it?)

[rickybaby]

T: Daniel Ricciardo has a history with the team as well and you worked with him 10 years ago when it was Toro Rosso. How has he changed in the time he has been away?

M: You walk in the team, you see Daniel and you see the race winning guy. You see in the car the guy who has been hunting for races and podiums. The Daniel you see in the car is the Daniel who was fighting for the very top position. For whatever reasons, I'm lucky to have in our team right now a race winning guy. The Daniel we have now is the best Daniel we have seen. Of course, he has had a rough patch in the last few years, but ironically, it's probably putting him now in the best mindset, in the best spirit, in the best energy. He has this incredible technical sensitivities. He's buying into the project, he's living Visa CashApp RB with us, he's proud of the colours. He's pushing us with all the positivity we know about him. In the start of a project like that, having a guy like Daniel with us driiving the car is a game-changer.

T: Have you talked to him about the rough patch?

M: It's very difficult from the outside to understand it [...] but i would lie if I was not telling you that this increases the attention level that we have in making sure we have the right condition around him. So we are very careful with him and he is part of that process. He is driving that process in making sure we put him in the right spot, 360* in what define in the car and outside of the car and how we manage this energy.

[4alarmfirecracker]

Woke up to you know which news ... I really had high hopes for a season 4. I mean it's an NCIS Show that did amazing ratings.

But you know lesbians and the cancellation inevitability.

And you know bringing in the guy from the other NCIS show did not do them a favor and we had less time with kacy. Also they ripped us of the royal kacy wedding.

[thevulturesquadron]

Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #4 - Magneto dropping in just to say the most divorced-from-his-character line to Pietro, the one child that has been by his side at his worst, goes straight into the pile of ‘shit that actually never happened in marvel comics’ right next to Rogue calling Magneto a monster for killing a nazi.

It’s ok to skip issues and runs that make no sense. Don’t let them hurt you. �� Marvel characters being consistent are at the mercy of who’s writing them at any given time.

[god-has-entered-my-body]

𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨 // 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚕 𝚝𝚘 𝙼𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙳 ☁︎ 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝙴𝚂𝙿𝙴𝙲𝙸𝙰𝙻𝙻𝚈 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚜, 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚘𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝

☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒘𝒐 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒙 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒆 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒏 ☁︎ 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏

[witchqueen]

Does anyone have any tips to help stop yourself from comparing your artwork to others, or equating your value as an artist with likes and reblogs?

I've struggled with this for a while and it's getting old, I don't know how to just shrug it off. Any genuine advice would be nice

[dreamytfw]

Hey guys? Why do we not talk about how queerphobic it is that the canonically queer angel was told by God himself that he "came off the assembly line wrong?"

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

okay for anyone who's getting into rift of the necrodancer who may not really know anything about the original lore of the game, in crypt's DLC, Amplified, there's a character in it named nocturna

as far as characters go she's pretty sweet, a cutlass wielding vampire who can turn into a bat for extra evasive maneuvers?? literally what's not to love abt her? and better yet, as a human, she was brown

admittedly from looking at images of her as a vampire its kind of hard to tell. and i'll be honest, her transition from human to vampire could have been much better in my personal opinion. especially in reference to the hair texture. but like okay. the majority of the details are the same. in closer up images she still has freckles, her nose and head shape is similar, her eyes are the same color. she's blue, obviously, but there can still be a case made that she's brown, if you know what i'm saying here?

BUT WITH THAT IN MIND SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED WITH HER REDESIGN FOR RIFT??

THIS IS NOT FUCKING NOCTURNA?? like. inarguably the design SLAPS i'm not even arguing that she doesn't look good she's just like. WHITE now. i mean she's BLUE but she's WHITE.

they changed her head shape, they changed her NOSE shape (which really fucking gets me), they gave her BLUE eyes instead of green, and even desaturated her skin tone?? and while a case could be made for the old nocturna's hair still being somewhat similar to her human variant, that argument can not be made for this one. that hair has never been coiled in its fucking life. who the hell is this. that is NOT nocturna.

it's so sad because i'm 90% sure that lots of people forget that nocturna wasn't white as a human to begin with, and i feel like with all the characters getting massive, modern day design overhauls this would literally be a perfect low stakes opportunity to actually fix the design to... better portray a brown human who turned into a (still brown) vampire

but instead, they made it worse to a degree that i couldn't even COMPREHEND until i saw it for the first time??

[nymph1e]

listen. venom 3 was a bad movie but eddie waking up at the end straight away trying to talk to the symbiote and it being gone. and him realising it was gone and he was alone? Thatt had me crying

[dreamings-free]

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[photogracraft]

Last year's Christmas build (WIP... never finished) from my solo world

[littlesiren79]

*pops out of my break grave* Hello my little lovelies and I'm not just quite fully back but this is only a post about the bug army so I'll be quick about this and here we go BUG ARMY QUESTION

1. How did your bug react to see Vincent with her new baby sister Via who are both holding hands together since Via is still learning how to walk and talk and to not bite things due to her growing her teeth meaning she's going through the stage of teething which is a normal cycle for babies when growing their first two rows of baby teeth and here is a image of her holding hands with Vincent for those who aren't in the bug army discord and want to know what she looks like

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[nonbinary-morro]

a slight Penny redesign because while I like her vol 8 look the early volumes Penny will always have a special place in my heart.

((no reposts please but reblogs are greatly appreciated :DD ))

I added the two tones in her dress and the wide sleeves from her v8 look but mainly keep everything the same since there is little need to fix perfection XP. Though I did lean a bit into a more vocaloid-ish look with the circles and green stripes, I also added her v8 robot legs since I personally prefer robot characters that visually look robotic, or at least off/inhuman.

I also got rid of the ahoge since I just couldn't make it work after I added the big Roxy Lalonde swirl in her hair since there would be too much going on :((.

She kinda reminds me utatane piko. Thb

vaguely,,, a little bit,,, 👌

[pelagisio-algos]

valentine's day animalia