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[circuitmouse]

Tom Bianchi captures Fire Island Pines in the 70s

[disformer]

ITS BEEN SO LONG!!! Posting what I’ve finished from the Texaid comic I’d been chipping away at in my free time :,)

Atm i’m not sure if id be comfortable finishing this or posting the unfinished pages, and i’ll go into why a bit more under the cut, but for everyone who waited… thank you, you are so patient like the cobra 🥺🫶

Texaid is so beloved and important to me, and i don’t think that’s news to anyone who’s followed me for any length of time. I always come back to them, and even leaving a project like this on hiatus for so long I still felt pretty comfortable leaving this on the burner bc I knew I’d be back.

And with my work sometimes I do have to take fandom hiatus breaks! But I got a slightly confused dm from a friend at one point that said ‘hey man, did you know everyone’s crediting your designs to someone else in the fandom’ and ???? it was true!

And I know how obnoxious it is to see an artist get on their diva shit and claim design elements, but it’s important to know that, at the time, I was one of like three people posting texaid, and the other two were Japanese artists on twitter.

My redesign has my fingerprints all over it; those big circular rotaries on his shoulders? A mistake! I got my references mixed up at one point and just kept rolling with it because it was funny! His pointy teeth and nose and boots and fingers and eyebrows? I’m bad at squares! I was doing everything in my power to avoid drawing squares!

And people have asked if they can use my redesigns in their own au’s in the past, and i’ve always said no (especially in regards to texaid) and that’s because they’re personal to me. My vision of Texaid is something I projected a lot of my own personal romantic past onto, they were my first nsfw art, my first real emotional outlet after getting kicked out of home for being trans and was starving in a flop basement. Vortex’s design was cooked up out of the primordial soup of my brain at a time when I was at my most raw. Texaid doesn’t belong to me, but i redesigned them for a reason, and that was to distinguish the fact I was representing something personal.

So to come back to the fandom and see my boys and the dynamic i drew with the serial numbers filed off, with zero acknowledgement of my influence or even crediting another artist entirely… I feel really bloody hurt. Especially after watching the way this fandom viciously ran off an artist of colour for much less prolific art theft.

It kind of feels like y’all don’t care as long as you like the content. And idk if i want to keep posting in a space like that, where my niche vent art gets repackaged into something more marketable, and I go unacknowledged.

So yeah, might be the last time I post my texaid stuff publicly! If they’re that important to me and I get this upset when theyre cribbed, and if i feel like yall can’t rly be trusted, then Im just gonna keep it in dms with besties. Thanks for hearing me out xoxox

[faithinlouisfuture]

sir yapsalot my beloved <3

[saintaviator]

been doin redraws as warmups w these two dorks ^^ ID in alt text!

[erlandious]

Do yall think Silco gave Jinx that hairstyle or it just kinda happened and he went “oh lmao I did that too”

[babyfilth]

picture for algoooo 💝⭐️

haii honies ‧₊˚☆♡ my name is shadai murrey, i’m a 27 year old trans woman from lancaster, pennsylvania. i’ve decided to start raising funds for bottom surgery and would love to ask for help from my community! this feels really surreal to write, it’s something i’ve anticipated for years and it’s finally my time ~ i feel equal parts excited and anxious but i now feel ready, i’ve been working towards this for a while now. the surgery is planned to happen in oct/nov, and with the current political climate, it really feels like now is the time to go for the goal.

i am looking for help with gaining funds in order to cover expenses during the 8 weeks i’ll need off to recover. this includes necessities such as bills, groceries, supplies i’ll need while heal, as well as laser hair removal prior to surgery to reduce chance of complication.

i am truly grateful for any amount you can contribute, and i want to express my sincere appreciation for your support. even if you are unable to donate, sharing my campaign with others would mean the world to me.

thank you for being part of this important journey!

more information in the link ~

[howgalling]

ambulon and first aid!!! more of a cyber look than my previous designs for them, hehe. first aid is a first responder- and considering its cyberpunk, the body armor is ESSENTIAL lol/

[louisupdates]

Louis Tomlinson pre-game at SOCCER AID 2025 [15.6.2025] 📸 dutsen_28

[transingthoseformers]

Tarnma fic but it's based around Tarn writing fanfiction for a "dead" fandom and Pharma reading fanfiction (long story, blame First Aid)

[drpeppertummy]

i love my JOB but i dont get BENEFITS or a PENSION because im PART TIME and they HATE ME so my mom wants me to apply for a DIFFERENT JOB at some STRANGE FOREIGN SCHOOL [<-15 minute drive] and i dont WANNA apply i dont WANNA make a new resume i wanna WRITE SINISTER TALES about SUNNY eating his weight in DISCO FRIES and MOZZARELLA STICKS and FRIED APPETIZER COMBO

[er-cryptid]

Common Medical Emergencies

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[kindaeccentric]

The subject of the painting is Gauguin's 13-year-old native "wife" Teha'amana (called Tehura in his letters), who one night, according to Gauguin, was lying in fear when he arrived home late: "immobile, naked, lying face downward flat on the bed with the eyes inordinately large with fear [...] Might she not with my frightened face take me for one of the demons and specters, one of the Tupapaus, with which the legends of her race people sleepless nights?" Gauguin was suffering from advanced venereal disease when he came to Tahiti, and he passed it onto Teha'amana, who was his first sexual partner on the island.

'The Adoration of the Shepherds With a Donor.' Palma Vecchio. A contemporary of my maker, Marius De Romanus, also a fine painter, albeit one of lesser skill. In fact, the donor in the title was my maker. The canvas painted in my maker's studio. And in this case, the donation was…What is the modern word for it? In kind. This is Amadeo.

He's 20 years here. He was rescued from a brothel when he was 15, named… named Arun then, I think. I cannot be sure. The abuse in the brothel was such that he cannot be sure that's what his… parents named him. Arun. The parents that sent him to work on a merchant boat in Delhi when in actuality they had sold him…into slavery to the ship's captain. All… fragments. Shackled on the boat. The brothel. My maker's purchase. His renaming me.

His reluctance to share the Dark Gift, knowing what it would do to his beloved Amadeo. I served him with all my heart. Basked in his mercy, his worshipful mercy. Still… Amadeo had a skill. And if a friend wandered into town, I was occasionally… donated.

Meatier in the forearms, but then this was… seven years before I was stricken with illness, before I was turned, and imbued with my powers.

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don't mind me, I'm just thinking aloud about art as a form of colonial violence when artists take part in the sexual exploitation of underage people of color, name changing, orientalism, monstrosity, and blood+sex-transmittable diseases in the context of Armand

[faithinlouisfuture]

LOUIS BEHIND THE SCENES FOR SOCCER AID 2025 (x)

[thebeckster]

Y'all want some more Sig and Jak after shit goes sideways at the Pumping station?

(Trying not to just share the whole thing right now as it's still partially in draft form. but it's only like 3k long, so even when it does get posted you'll have seen most of it already lmao)

💜💜💜💜💜

When he turned back to the kids, Jak was sitting upright again, hunched over in an exhausted slump, but he was upright. Talking with Daxter, if the ottsel’s occasional beats of silence meant anything. They fell silent when he approached. Jak glowered up at him, his muscles tensed to make a break for it. The canteen was empty, sitting sideways on the rock.

Good.

Sig pulled a little pouch from a pocket on his belt and offered it to the kid.

Jak eyed it suspiciously. “What is it?”

“Mostly sugar, vitamins, electrolytes, caffeine, some protein. Bit gooey, but it’ll get you back on your feet.”

“I don’t need it.” Jak turned away from the offering.

Sig scoffed. “Yeah, cuz you’re getting back to the city on your own two feet.”

“I will!” Jak snapped.

“Before dark?”

Jak did not deign to respond with anything more than a scowl.

Daxter took the offered pouch, twisted off the cap, and gave it a cautious sniff and lick. “It’s orange flavor.” He waggled the open pouch temptingly under Jak’s nose.

“Look, cherry, if I wanted to kill you, I wouldn’t use poison.” Sig finished with a shrug. Then he parked himself on the rock, took a cloth from his pocket, and began wiping down his gun.

They sat in silence for a long while. Sig smelled the faint scent of heavily processed orange and smiled slightly. Kid looked like he would have dropped dead before he made it a hundred yards, at least now he’d get back to the city and hopefully into whatever safe bolt hole the two of them returned to.

Jak broke the silence only after Sig had finished cleaning the Peace Maker and had moved on to cleaning his knife. “Why didn’t you?”

“Didn’t see a need to.”

[entens]

looking at that panel of Shiba & Azami again and realizing no one in Kagurabachi has changed their hairstyle at all in like almost 20 years

[wombywoo]

I just wanted to say I LOVE your addition of Johnny having hearing aids in some of your art (I'm guessing it's in the sorta post-marrige timeline ? Still trying to figure out your little timeline out in my head LMAO) but I think it's such a nice little detail+I'm always love a little bit of like. Casual disability rep in art .. :]

Johnny to his haters: I can't hear you 🥰

asdfgh but thank you! I love peppering in little stuff like that~

as for the timeline...hm. I tend to. ah. make it up as I go 😅 one day I'll try to line them all up accordingly...