#The 7 of us

[jadescortaurius1]

intro post

Hey there! The name s' jade :D

pronouns are they/them/theirs

Remember to keep your head down, there's 7 of us in here now. (Nerd way of saying we're a 7 man crew/system)

This is a blog where you may find; our ooc's!, stories!, art! (both traditional and digital), our friends who pop up from time to time, our poetry (on the rare chance), and us just generally putting what we want out there! Along with mini comics/doodles about us 7 and how we fare through life!

We also take free art requests!, So feel free to make a request through our inbox or messages! :D the inbox is always open! And anon is permitted, but remember; be good Lil ghosts, this place is a safe house.

We hope you enjoy your stay!

Sincerely yours,

Jade, James, Conner, Crimson, April, Bal, and Hope

(We're Pictured below :D 👇)

[lisbongrantss]

[castorice]

THE SILLIES !!!!!!!!!!!!

[janederscore]

girls will get on here and make posts about how the alienating and isolating effects of transmisogyny make them timid and scared and hesitant to share any part of themselves no matter how small out of fear that they'll be immediately interpreted as predators and then the notes will be full of people saying shit like "i love this though??? it makes me feel so safe how scared they are to even receive hugs <3"

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[platoapproved]

armand & louis playing out echoes of his relationship with marius

[geminisee]

this is a renaissance painting to me x

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[elf-callum-human-rayla]

~ Leola's last wish ~

Alt text:

Leola’s last wish

I wish that even in the dark

Sad

Afraid

Alone

that every child should know…

You are loved

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[jadescortaurius1]

What’s everyone’s favorite food/drink/snack?

we like Dr. Pepper, BBQ chips, and a fav comfort food is sweet oatmeal :D

For a long while April REALLY had us going for anything minty. We've dialed it back tho lol

[un-ionizetheradlab]

It makes me so uncomfortable to see people post blatantly anti-Jewish content and then turn right around and stan Jewish historical figures. Like, do they hate us or love us?

[hiccupshypotheticalleftsock]

our babies grew up

[castielsprostate]

💀

[egophiliac]

crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞