#i had so many captions for this post

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[z4g-reus]

Abracadabra, amor-oo-na-na

Abracadabra, morta-oo-ga-ga

[dandelion-roots]

No matter what you do, you just can't shake him off, can you, Chūya?

[lyrics: Florence + the Machine | id in alt]

EDIT: I made a whole ass janky animatic to this song, enjoy!

[moron-rights]

end cards please, an epilogue, please, I’m begging

[chiropteracupola]

"...and Ardroy was a dragon's favourite if ever he had seen one. But then, Keith could not blame her."

Another illustration of Luzula's excellent Flight of the Heron/Temeraire crossover fic, 'The Flight of Dragons,' this time of Pràiseach and Ewen Cameron.

[tortilla-of-courage]

I'm grateful to have known you.

[fobnsfwdoodlesbackup]

Hi y'all, I just wanted to talk a little about the behind the scenes of what I've been up to, to give y'all a little transparency and to open myself up for any tips or input! 🙏 Thank you for your continued support and for taking the time to look at my art 🫶

First and foremost I wanted to give some transparency about my art capacity.

As og followers may remember, I started this blog when I was doing art full time. Eventually my living expenses grew and I had to go back to work. I find myself in a cycle of "I'll make more art soon, once I get a job!" And "I'll make more art soon, once I am done with this job!" I lost my most recent job suddenly, having had an extension waved over my head until the last day(October 7th). Now I'm excited to have more time for art, but I am also feeling a rush to get a new job ASAP as I've been living paycheck to paycheck. I dream of doing this work full time, I'm just scared it's not quite there yet and I worry that I come off as scammy or dishonest when I anticipate more stability around the corner.

Second, I've been struggling with the Patreon. It's taken me a while to come to terms with this, but from what I've seen Patreon is not intuitive at all from the creator end. It doesn't do a good job of organizing addresses, emails, showing who or who isn't subscribed to me, or organizing and displaying the work I put on there. I've been really shocked by this experience, since lots of big names use Patreon. It's been a great way to streamline support, but it's been unhelpful in every other regard. I would like to continue using it, but I will most likely post more wips or process videos there in the future.

Which brings me to my third point, zines. I love making zines so much, it feels personal and fulfilling and fun! However the Patreon issues make it harder to keep information in order about where to send zines, or even where to message folks about them. In addition to this, the post office has been a big barrier to me, oftentimes only being open at the same time as my dayjob. Making zines can take days, then sending them out is a whole other monster.

This work is so important to me. Drawing peoples fantasies, representing body types, creating work around sexuality and the human experience feels like what I'm meant to do. I've made comics since I was a kid. This is the dream to me. The friends I've been able to make through this work are so important to me, and the conversations have been invaluable. Not to mention fun! I wanna doodle, I wanna draw hot stuff, I wanna thirst over these dudes! I want to play!

But I also just want to be transparent about the barriers I'm working around to share that experience. I'm completely self taught, both in art AND in running shops, building websites, running 8 accounts, etc. I take a lot of time to learn the logistics of these things, and try to make them make sense for my relationship with y'all (I do not want to paywall my art!! I don't want to!!!). This year my desktop broke down (the main one I use for all paintings and digital art). I've paused my Etsy shops and my Patreon to try to catch up with things. Trying to learn to paint in a completely different program. Then lost my job with no savings.

At the end of the day I don't want anything to come between me sharing my art with you. I wish I could doodle a thing, take a picture, and post it here. No third party site, no shop, no subscription. Just sharing my art with you. I promise I'm trying to figure out how to stay as close to that as possible, and I want to thank y'all for sticking with me as I untangle all of that.

So, what can you expect in the near future?

I'm working on a couple of painting commissions right now, which you should be able to see in the next couple of days! I want to catch up on kinktober and get those posted as well. There's a comic commission in progress which I'm very eager to work on, and which I think y'all will be excited for! To ease the weight of the Patreon I think I may do less zines/polls there and more wips and process videos! If possible, I want to do more full colored work too.

Thank you again for enjoying my work, and if you have any input or tips my inbox is always open 🙏🫶💕

[rxttenfish]

sometimes i worry i'm being way too cautious about not ever sharing or wanting to share images of inappropriate contact and abusive situations with animals, but like. at the same time i know how fucking easy it is. i know how easily even awful shit gets normalized because of the briefest oversight. i know how even "this person is a professional and this is a professional setting in which this is appropriate and controlled" gets extrapolated outwards into normalization of settings which are Absolutely Not That. i didn't even want to share that iguana video, despite it being so good and clearly a case where someone is keeping an iguana well and meeting its needs, because they are SO easy to obtain and SO easily mistreated and neglected and abused in a way that can quickly turn dangerous to the people involved as well, that even the appropriate situation can quickly become the latter just because someone saw it online.

[eltheabberation]

I love her <3

[bisexualalienss]

i may not like the idea of reboots but im really willing to give the one tree hill one a try when it comes out. hilarie and sophia are producing it as a way to reclaim their stories from a man that sexually harassed them for years. it's more than just a reboot imo

[scionshtola]

Corisande + romance💘

[officalgeorgestaniel]

i love how tumblr posts are dialogic- like, someone will post something that makes me think of something else and i can just reblog it and it becomes a conversation

[icewindandboringhorror]

Various images of things

[thepunkpanther]

lol ?????

[reyryz]

i wonder if there was or is a blog or smth that documented/posted abt the kurokos basketball stageplay like there is for haikyuu. bc if that shit exists id be doing a crazy amount of redraws

[likedbyuarmyhope]

i’ve really been an army for over six years huh. i’ve been an army for almost a third of my life