this is Trịnh Thu Vinh, a Vietnamese sport shooter. at her debut appearance in the Olympic Games, she finished fourth in the women's 10 metre air pistol event
and this is her featured cover photo for ELLE, a local fashion magazine, which goes hard as fuck
I wanted to celebrate by continuing Australia's tradition of using (definitely not) furry characters to represent our athletes lol. Wheelchair basketball was my sport back when i was playing, so i have a soft spot for it, and Australia's women's team are The Gliders, so i went with a basketball playing sugar-glider character!
I had plans to do a few more characters for different para-sports before the Paralympics end but things have come up and I'm not sure I'll have the time for more, but I really want to!
On a little side note I thought about while drawing this, having a long tail (movable or not) would be a nightmare in both wheelchair basketball and rugby lol - you aren't supposed to hit people from behind but it does inevitably happen a lot, quite aggressively, and even tucking the tail underneath the frame wouldn't protect all of it in a collision.
ID: A digital, cell-shaded illustration of an anthropomorphic sugar-glider wearing a green and gold Australian basketball singlet, holding an orange basketball in her right hand, as though she is getting ready to throw it. She is sitting in a teal high-pointer's basketball wheelchair, which is a tall with slanted wheels. /End ID
it just occurred to me that some of you might have missed seeing american football player joe burrow’s suit this past june during paris fashion week, and it is my personal opinion that everyone see these images at least once in their lifetime, especially those of us with a shared interest in slutty clothes on men (fictional or otherwise). so here they are.