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the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
#this shifts gender so much bc it actually affects everyone#yes it's a gendered phenomenon. i have written a LOT about how different genders experience it. that's for a different post.#writeblr#ps my comments about seeing someone cry -- this is not to shame any person#and on this blog we support workers.#at the same time it's a really hard experience to see someone that looks like you. clearly in agony. and have them forced to keep going.#when you're young it doesn't necessarily look like acting. it looks scary. and that's what this is about - the fact that teens#have likely already been exposed to that definition of things. because the internet exists#and without the context of healthy education. THAT is the image burned into their minds about what it looks like.#it's also just one of those personal nuanced biases -#at 19 i thought it was normal to be in pain. to cry. to not-like-it. that it should be perfunctory.#it was what i had seen.#and it didn't help that my religious upbringing was like . 'yeah that's what you get for premarital. but also for the reference#we do think you should never actually enjoy it lol'#so like the point im making is that ppl get exposed to that stuff without the context of something more tender#and assume .... 'oh. so it's fine i am not enjoying myself'. and i know they do because I DID.#he was my first boyfriend. how was i supposed to know any different#i didn't even have the mental wherewithal to realize im a lesbian . like THAT used to suffering.
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wing stuff!
experimenting with a more cartoon style, idk what i'm doing loll
tagging: @goodomensafterdark <3
#ymight say i'm *winging* it!!#then again you might not#my art#good omens#fanart#crowley#aziraphale#wings#digital art#digital painting#aziracrow#ineffable husbands#wasn't completely without references here esp for the wings#but i got further away than usual#and didn't use screenshots of michael sheen or david tennant's faces to do the characters' faces#i'm all right with how everything turned out except crowley's face#i have a hard time simplifying and leaving things out for drawing small or more cartoony#i end up trying to clumsily cram more detail in than the size or style wants and it looks weird#oh well it is practice it is valuable!!#i did most of this yesterday which was my bday lol present to myself#my days of short captions and a journal in the tags have come to a middle
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nathalie as that mom helping her kids with a difficult super mario level
#did this without looking at references sorry if they’re a little funny haha#i just needed to get it out#as quickly as possible#nathalie sancoeur#adrien agreste#marinette dupain cheng#nino lahiffe#felix fathom#mlb#miraculous ladybug
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theyre soft your honour
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#okkotsu yuuta#inumaki toge#inuokko#inumaki#yuuta#fanart#jjk fanart#timelapse#long time no canon fits !!!#still having the time of my life playing with these brushes#i was just gna do a regular draws to slap on the ask i just got but i decided 2 record it last minute fgdgd#didnt know if an mp4 file would cooperate if i tried to put it under an ask so i played it safe#but know this is fr u anon <3#i ..... cannot believe i am continuing my streak from last night of Forgetting very key and very obvious design elements#last night it was yuuij's sukuna scars.... today it is inumaki's tattoos.......#smh im Slipping fr#breaking news tumblr user hinamie fake jjk fan And fake fanartist :C#its ok tho ! crisis averted!! me forgetting them may be caught in 4k but i Did catch myself before posting th video#that would have been tragic i would have been chased out of this fandom with pitchforks. i wld have been pelted with rocks#anyway i like this piece a lot i like them i like the black/white/blue#VERY happy i got yuuta's hair right without too much hassel#turns out i know how to draw and references r a godsend <3#oh also !!! @ the person who asked about my colouring process this is what i was talking abt re: painting with an underpaint layer#helps everything look cohesive :3
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i take it back this shit is easy
#i feel so bad for poor botw. everyone wore green and no one told him....#done almost entirely without reference btw because i wanted to see if i could do it intuitively. idk why i thought the answer would be no#anyways here they are. the boys#skribbles#loz#twilight princess looks SO greyed out compared to the others omfg#also. i did not intentionally put all the yellow blondes on top. but here we are#oh btw this is every game ive played to completion + minish cap bc i felt like it
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Tfw your [REDACTED] starts dating the guy who tried to rob you (context)
#sans looks away for 5 seconds and suddenly Gaster is nerd flirting with some interdimensional traveller#one who literally just tried to rob them no less#RoyalAuthor#gaster x ford#Gravity Falls#Undertale#fan art#fanart#crossover#Stanford Pines#Ford Pines#Grunkle ford#sans#sans undertale#utdr#meme#its always sunny in Philadelphia - did you fuck my mom santa claus?#artists on tumblr#my art#The blacked out text is a reference to papyrus' concept art where it says he has a brother named sans and a [redacted] named [redacted]#To clarify. As I belatedly realise it could read differently without knowing that lmao
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damn werewolves and their liberal agenda
#digital art#the quarry#Laura and max#laura kearney#max brinly#big gay het couple#absolutely not the shotgun she had in the game my bad guys I was too lazy to get a reference for it#the quarry fanart#art#fanart#procreate#so sad they didn’t let her keep her eyepatch swag#like good for u getting ur eye back and all but#you were way cooler without it Laura#I did not care for max at all at the start but he grew on me fast#dude was so unhelpful and pathetic good 4 him#laura x max#artists on tumblr#supermassive games#played quarry w bestie when he was here it was so silly
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#zu art#comic#studio#zudio#cross!sans#dream!sans#undertale#undertale au#utmv#music break ♪٩( ᐛ )و#(more like a quick progress xp)#song: Dancing in the Moonlight (Toploader's version but both the older & newer ones are good <3)#did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?#insanity is. drawing without references. over and over again. expecting the right angle and pose to appear :'D#but the result is worth it <3#''it's the 3rd time we see him showering while—'' [Cross] does take a shower too but only in the morning unlike [Dream] (he's still zzz xp)#oh wow 7am gotta zzz too—#(btw rock-paper-scissors is the reference to dude & bruh' battle where Cross lost to Epic because of scissors (but not this time xd)
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Messing w colours AND spreading my partial heterochromia Chuuya agenda
#the colours here kinda remind me of a goldfish#drew this without reference and forgot the hat but lets pretend i did that for stylistic choice#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd fanart#bsd chuuya
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Guys he lives in there (click for better quality PLEEASS)
#lemon demon#spirit phone#cabinet man#my art#⭐️#I think i did a good job with the hands in this but they definitely look a little off#the composition is kinda weird too but changing it would change the entire drawing and i like this drawing#I see people drawing cabinet man as either just a box with a screen on it or the most detailed shaped thing ever so I went in the middle#it's definitely not perfect because I didn't know perspective stuff AT ALL when I made this.#also on the left one it's way too wide it wouldn't need to be that thick it could fit everything if it were like 3/4 the width#I mean my only real world reference point was a modern one without the crt screen so maybe not but I think it'd be fine#if i draw something like this again (which i won't soon because this is still getting notes) I'd put some dimension in the screen#maybe find a reference image
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I combed through some episodes of earthspark and put together some references for Nightshade bc I'm gonna be real, there's not a lot of references out there and I am not willing to trudge through transphobia to find more through any given search engine so I just made em my damn self lmAO
#maccadam#transformers earthspark#nightshade malto#earthspark nightshade#tf es#tf earthspark#wonderful child#you're welcome to everyone else who just wants some damn references without having to encounter The Bullshit™ I did this for y'all too#I also fiddled with the brightness and contrast on a lot of these images#because god damn does a lot of this show take place at night or in dark areas and I'm trying to get DETAILS here
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there is a beast of some sorts on my canvas (started playing this game w my partner and i feel a hyperfixation coming on)
#mags drew something#art#digital art#left 4 dead#left 4 dead 2#l4d#l4d2#l4d2 hunter#valve games#l4d2 fanart#tw blood#i did this without a reference can you tell
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MDZS x ISAT part 1: In Stars and Necromancy.
(Part 2)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#MDZS AU#In stars and time#ISAT#wei wuxian#lan wangji#Double comic feature for today because they are both small.#I had a hard time coming up with a good crossover for these two series for a while but once the idea hit - Boy did it hit!#I've got a longer comic coming. The angst potential is very...very good.#Ghost YLLZ helping out mxy was painful enough but I can make it so much worse for everyone.#I can't say much without crossing into spoiler territory but I will be back.#Other notes here: LWJ is rock type. WWX/MXY are paper type. Thought it fit well B*)#YLLZ in the starry bath is 100% a reference to Eris in the sinbad movie. Her hair animation still haunts my dreams.#I'll have some 'other side of the crossover' doodles after posting a few more main comic pages. Thanks for the patience this week!#I really needed to just...draw some very self-indulgent art. I'm feeling much better now though!
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quick yoojin phone doodles from memory/without reference... im surprised it turned out so accurate considering i havent drawn him much(this is like the 2nd-3rd time) but ig it's bc im always taking notes in my head when i look at my screencaps of him... 😳
#han yoojin#내가 키운 s급들#the s classes that i raised#my s class hunters#내스급#if i compare w screencaps right now ill prob notice things but im still like#hey it looks like him?! YIPPEE#all those yoojin cheebs from memory paid off ig!!!#also im srs abt the mental notes thing like yj is a new chara i started drawing so im trying to learn how to draw him#and hes similar to charas ive drawn before like yeseo and kdj but i want to make sure to draw him diff so#i want to pick up on all the details#this is all based off his webtoon design tho... as i draw him more ill prob develop more of my own design?!#like how i did for twsb charas#oh also i havent doodled on phone in a while... why does my phone stuff look better than ipad skfjdn#my art#sctir#msch#tsctir#also the reason i did this was actually to practice side profiles without reference#it turned out p decent... i think i rly have been getting better at profiles in recent months
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⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖ Cozy Xiyao ⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖
Drew this for mxtxtober day 14/15: modern and home
#i love drawing them so much#I haven't drawn them together in so long omg#drawing this healed something in me#the little kitty is playing with xichen's tassel heheh#i'm really happy with xichen's face#I did that without I reference might I add#untamedtober#the untamed fanart#the untamed#cql#xiyao#lan xichen#jin guangyao#boraboop
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DO YA THINGKU
for a twitter trend of redrawing miku as album covers!! i wanted to do one of my favorite single from gorillaz. Cover-accurate ver + closeups:
this was definitely the biggest thing ive drawn this year!! and a good chunk of it on stream. thank you everyone who tuned in!! it was loads more fun to make in company :]
#gorillaz#vocaloid#hatsune miku#doyathing#do ya thing#andre3000#andre3k#album miku#miku albums#jamie hewlett#admin draws#fanart#phew alright finally#i finished this late yesterday#it ended up kind of being a style study! i did heavily reference the body lineart for this bc it was gonna take long enough#without reinventing the wheel. but i did colors from scratch#im a very impatient person artwise but this was very satisfying to do and finally finish#i would say my reason for this was that i saw several demon dayz mikus since this trend started#but gorillaz has so much cool art! album and otherwise. so i COULD say that this was made with that in mind#but no. that only came later fkdgslgh. my initial idea came from overlistening to the 13min version#and really wanting to draw miku in a fake muscle shirt. and then it got out of control#hope you enjoy. and maybe not compare the texutures too closely i really had to frankenstein some shit here#phase 3 to 4 is when hewlett really starts going hard on the soft airbrushing in favor of cel and thats a MAJOR weak area of mine#so this was definitely a learning experience
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