#thanks)

[bigmsaxon]

Hello. I've been watching your art for over the years. Your art is so perferctly fit for cyberpunk setting. Here some question. I'm playing Shadowrun Dragonfall a week ago. So... which character do you like the most? I like all of them. Especially glory.

Thanks! Who is my favourite Shadowrun Dragonfall character, you ask?

Definitely narcotics entepreneur and 100-percent real elf Zaak Flash.

[brattaire]

Thinking about R kissing Gav's head in abc cafe and then also kissing his head when he's dead at the barricades and I think I'm having a crisis

[vantabats]

There’s 300 of you now who have followed me for my stupid dragons

[mcapriglione-art]

what do you want!!!!!!!!

[opalroots]

THIS

I see this kind of thinking all the time, even from friends and queer people I know. Phrases like "X is problematic because it depicts Y and Z which are inherently bad/harmful things" boil my blood so bad bc they prey on people's desire to be good peers (often being reinforced by social norms that compel you to judge things just cause someone else says it's good) when it's clearly just creating moral outrage

No given literary work is INHERENTLY problematic because of its contents. Yes even that one book/fanfic/series that rubs your the wrong way. Hell even Hitler's Mein Kampf, despite its vile and disgusting message, is an extremely important historical document that has a lot of value when it comes to understanding Nazism and its historical context, which is why it still gets printed today!

OF COURSE we should be free to discuss and criticize elements of any works of literature or otherwise, but blanket statements of "X is bad because it does Y in a way that I think is problematic/personally dislike, and therefore reading X makes you a morally bad person" are at best reductive of the work in question and the people reading it, and at worst a pipeline into fascist ideology.

Please go outside.

Do you think authors sometimes don't realize how their, uh, interests creep into their writing? I'm talking about stuff like Robert Jordan's obvious femdom kink, or Anne Rice's preoccupation with inc*st and p*dophilia. Did their editors ever gently ask them if they've ever actually read what they've written?

Firstly, a reminder: This is not tiktok and we just say the words incest and pedophilia here.

Secondly, I don't know if I would call them 'interests' so much as fixations or even concerns. There are monstrous things that people think about, and I think writing is a place to engage with those monstrous things. It doesn't bother me that people engage with those things. I exist somewhere within the whump scale, and I would hope no one would think less of me just because sooner or later I like to rough a good character up a bit, you know? It's fun to torture characters, as a treat!

But, anyway, assuming this question isn't, "Do writers know they're gross when I think they are gross" which I'm going to take the kind road and assume it isn't, but is instead, "Do you think authors are aware of the things they constantly come back to?"

Sometimes. It can be jarring to read your own writing and realize that there are things you CLEARLY are preoccupied with. (mm, I like that word more than concerns). There are things you think about over and over, your run your mind over them and they keep working their way back in. I think this is true of most authors, when you read enough of them. Where you almost want to ask, "So...what's up with that?" or sometimes I read enough of someone's work that I have a PRETTY good idea what's up with that.

I've never read Robert Jordan and I don't intend to start (I think it would bore me this is not a moral stance) and I've really never read Rice's erotica. In erotica especially I think you have all the right in the world to get fucking weird about it! But so, when I was young I read the whole Vampire Chronicles series. I don't remember it perfectly, but there's plenty in it to reveal VERY plainly that Anne Rice has issues with God but deeply believes in God, and Anne Rice has a preoccupation with the idea of what should stay dead, and what it means to become. So, when i found out her daughter died at the age of six, before Rice wrote all of this, and she grew up very very Catholic' I said, 'yeah, that fucking checks out'.

Was Rice herself aware of how those things formed her writing? I think at a certain point probably yes. The character of Claudia is in every way too on the nose for her not to have SOME idea unless she was REAL REAL dense about her own inner workings. But, sometimes I know where something I write about comes from, that doesn't mean I'm interested in sharing it with the class. I would never ever fucking say, 'The reasons I seem to write so much of x as y is that z happened to me years ago' ahaha FUCK THAT NOISE. NYET. RIDE ON, COWBOY.

But I've known some people in fandom works who clearly have something going on and don't seem to realize it. Or they're very good at hiding it. Based on the people I'm talking about I would say it's more a lack of self-knowledge, and I don't even mean that unkindly. I have, in many ways, taken myself down to the studs and rebuilt it all, so I unfortunately am very aware of why I do and write the things I do most of the time. It's extremely annoying not to be able to blame something. I imagine it must be very freeing. But it ain't me, babe.

Anyway, a lot of words to say: Maybe! But that might not stop them from writing it, it might be a useful thing for them to engage with, and you can always just not read it.

Also, we don't censor words here.

[fairycosmos]

does anyone know what the first step of unlearning shame is. please say it’s substance abuse

[sloanslone]

HERMÉS: Into the Hermes verse- I just drew all my fav designs in my style honestly ( pls scroll for more :)🩵 )

Designs belong to: @sloanslone / @slainsloan (me!), @duvetbox @gigizetz @hymnoeides @solchariot @anniflamma @irunaki @wolfythewitch @xxriamothxx @bambiilooza @elianzis @ximenanatzel @laritamiauu 🫣

DRAWING THESE WERE SOOOOO FUN! :D

[marisatomay]

You all should have this on btw

[lovecherishmm]

"I break you out, chaos, destruction, something something something, we win!"

Thanks, that's such a great summary of his trademark 'flipping things upside down'.

"Does immaturely insulting me make you feel better about your sad single life?"

Beacrox, you can say that after getting a partner. We're single ass bastards in this house.

So I was playing with an incorrect quotes generator and-

This is literally just Cale's inner monologue whenever Ron gave him lemonade with a benign smile

[pussypopstiel]

[catfindr]

[sugarbear2001]

They gave Usopp some of his melanin back!!! I used to pray for times like these. 😌

[flower-of-athens]

okok

so we've narrowed it down to these three!!

which one do you think is the best?

AHHH ANYONE, HELP-

I don't know what to wear tonight!! I'm picking Panda up at 7 and I'm literally not ready at all

someone please come over here

I really need opinions and moral support rn

@motherfuckin-marls @littlelambismybestie @al1-f0rtescue @swearwolf-lupin @blackrosedeity @j-potteringaround @pete-the-thief @welltobefrank @the-real-barty @0-all-is-fair-in-love-and-war-0 @dreaming-and-drugs @followthegossip @sepia-vance @shrineoftheprophetess

[toasttestified]

What if we killed people for money but were also totally gay and into each other? ❤️🧐

[seungs]

MAKE ME CHOOSE – @ttathinker asked: booby minho or writing your bachelor thesis