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Sketch of a wild peregrine that landed half a metre from my face at RSPB Bempton Cliffs a few months back.

I’m in the middle of finishing my Masters thesis but aiming to get super back into art once its all done at the end of September :)

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2 of my vampires! Valentino (the blond one is one of my main characters) (no pipi cause thats no good for tumblr)

Fausto is a new one to give Valen a bit more of backstory

also that's me practicing some clothing options for them 😊

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chinese cultural heritage | microscopic carvings on nut shell via 中国设计品牌中心

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“There you are, sweetheart. Sorry I’m late. I was looking everywhere for you.” - Howl Jenkins Pendragon; Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

just something fun for wenzhou

Word of Honor (2021) ↬Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu

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Oracle🔮

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Mindful Magic 🌙✨

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I did it, I colored him! (Mean, handsome bastard)

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paintings.

' I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process '

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Six Fanarts Challenge by CuddlyVeedles

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Sleepy babies! (Croki gets a drinking straw too)

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that one olympic sharpshooter

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um hello :) i happened to find one of your posts about Animorphs and it said that it had queer rep? and i just wanted to ask about that cause that would be incredible (i seem to have overread that as a child) thanks a lot and have a nice day!

Does Animorphs have queer representation? As with a lot of 20th-century media, especially children's media, the short answer is "it's complicated."

What's canon:

In #40, two characters with male pronouns (Mertil and Gafinilan) are described as being devoted to each other to the point of death, and use a gesture when greeting each other that book #38 described as the andalite equivalent of kissing. The romantic nature of the relationship is — by the authors' own admission — as obvious as they could make it in a children's book written in 1999.

There are several instances of queering gender when morphing, most notably with Ax. When creating a human shape, Ax uses 50% girls' DNA and 50% boys' DNA to create a human body often described as "androgynous" or with similar terms. Ax states that he chooses to be male while in that morph because his identity is male (#4). The popular interpretation is thus that human-Ax is an intersex person with male gender.

There is plenty of other gender nonconformity. Tobias describes Rachel as "becoming... more herself" when turning into a male bald eagle (#13) and Rachel states that her male grizzly bear shape (which she chose to be male) is "letting out... a part of me that was always inside" (#7). Visser Three (who is male) stops to admire his own body while in the shape of a human female in a designer sundress (#23). Ax (#11), Tobias (#43), and Marco (#51) all take on the shapes of female primates and deliberately perform femininity at various points in the series. There are hundreds of other examples, but I want to mention Cassie's yeerk morph in #29 because we know that yeerks have at least three sexes and their genders have no human equivalent (#19), which is part of why they tend to use their hosts' pronouns and change pronouns when they change hosts (Visser).

What's Word of God or fanon:

[Quick clarification: "Word of God" are statements from the author(s) about authorial intent that do not appear in canon; "fanon" is a fan reading of canon so widespread that it's assumed as default.]

Marco is bisexual. This became fanon when readers pointed out he flirts heavily with Jake (calling him "hey, handsome" in #21, sending an email about his "big manly shoulders" and "piercing brown eyes" in #16, etc.) and to a lesser extent both Tobias and Ax. It became Word of God when co-ghost-writer Michael Grant tweeted that [sic] "Marco was bi <- Canon." Author K.A. Applegate has since confirmed on Reddit that she likes and supports bisexual Marco.

Tobias is trans, genderqueer, and/or gender dysphoric. This has been fanon since the series was first released. Many trans and enby fans see themselves in Tobias's struggle to find a body that fits who he is, while also being fed up with society's expectations about the type of body he "should" want. It's intensely wish-fulfilling to read about Tobias's ability simply to decide to be male in some situations (e.g. MM3), to decide it's easier to be female in others (e.g. #43), and to have the kind of body with no obvious gender that tends to get "it" pronouns (e.g. #3) the other 99% of the time. It's Word of God because K.A. Applegate has stated repeatedly that she's deeply honored by this fan response, that she wishes she could've made it canon, and that "as the proud mother of a trans daughter," she would love to write the books over with a canonically trans Tobias.

Mertil and Gafinilan are married. This one's a true fanon in that every fan work I've ever seen to contain either character treats them as a couple by default, to the point where any fan work that did interpret them as platonic would have to explain why that decision was made. It was always authorial intent (Applegate and Grant have both stated this) and it's as close to being canon as the authors could make it.

In conclusion? It's complicated.

The very idea of "your identity and your body are fluid" was always going to challenge gender determinism and heterosexism, and K.A. Applegate (and her ghosts) have always embraced that reality. The books are, by the authors' own admission, as queer as they could get away with being, and they do repeatedly raise challenges about the ideas of gender and sexuality being at all fixed. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean there is an explicit statement anywhere in the text that "Marco is bisexual" or "Ax is intersex" spelled out in so many words. I agree with Applegate that, by contemporary standards, the representation falls frustratingly short.

So that's neither a "yes" nor a "no"; make of it what you will.

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Hi tumblr, forgot you existed. Here's one of my newest characters, Kassidy! She is a rat of a woman who has a bionic skeleton which makes her joints hypermobile, and she can lock her joints in place, voluntarily or involuntarily. Aside from that she is human and a mercenary. She lives on a planet with sci-fi cowboy vibes.

She's also a gamer, and when she wins or loses a fight she'll probably say 'gg' out of habit.

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SERVANT OF THE WILDERCOURT

A tenacious girl escapes her past life by accompanying the Wolf Lord Kurkhoran to the Wildercourt. Amidst its twisting corridors and inhuman denizens, Tasyi tries to carve out a new life for herself, but her pursuit of happiness is cut short when a person from her past follows her to the Court.

some visual development for a graphic novel I want to work on. you can see more on my patreon!

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A murder mystery where every character believes themselves to be responsible for the death, and tries their best to cover it up.

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© tera_2002 💚✨

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卖花渔村, huizhou, anhui province by 影像视觉杨