#also the characters are so diverse

[kellyscowboy]

i have developed each character in the wild west so much that i want to write multiple separate fics for each character & each relationship

#also the characters are so diverse #i have so many different ideas for each character #i could literally write five different fics for jack and david #if that makes sense #☄. *. ⋆ vienna.exe #wild westies

[dandyleyen]

In honor of the Stardew Valley 1.6 update, here’s some really old (2021) Shane art that I never uploaded !!

#yes I use the diverse stardew valley mod #look guys it’s a lil scary moving into a mostly white small town when you’re not white #sjdjfj it was a comfort thing #anyways the mod is actually rlly cool and also has trans options for some characters #anyways guys my favorites are Seb and Shane so clearly I have a type #old art I know it doesn’t look like my usual stuff #stardew valley #stardew fanart #shane stardew valley #shane stardew #stardew shane #diverse stardew valley #my art #stardew 1.6

[avephelis]

just wanted to say it's really awesome seeing the positive reception to chunky mikey LOVE YOU ALL 🧡🧡

#I WAS A LITTLE WORRIED BUT EVERYONE'S BEEN SUPER COOL he's very important to me #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise mikey #rottmnt mikey #avepharts #number one reason for his design It Is Self-Care To Draw Your Characters Fat and it's fun and i wanted to #but also ! i think it's a really interesting visual contrast to apocalypse mikey (who's very bony) esp bc you'd assume mikey would live a #really hearty lifestyle. like i think f!mikey's figure is so striking to me because it feels so alien for him. #also! mikey does a lot of throwing and lifting heavy shit and in sports like deadlifting and shot-put athletes tend to have more fat muscle #and i think there should be more body diversity in acrobatic fighter characters #AND OF COURSE! he looks like raph <3 #rot20mnt

[ganondoodle]

once you notice how few characters in media have brown eyes it really becomes impossible to not pay attention to it and its been bothering me ever since

#ganondoodles talks #i now its not that there are literally zero #but it almost is #and i get giving fictional characters non natural eye colors is fun #but blue and green is still everywhere evne tho those are also real #like sometimes it feels like brown is actively avoided #going for red or yellow instead #and i know in anime especialyl theres this idea i think that similar to hair color its bcs the majority of japanese people have those #so it feels 'more special' if its anything but that #idk how much of that is true #also its not just anime #feels weird #brown is such a diverse and beautiful color #makes me sad

[ashipiko]

THIS CHALLENGE WAS LIKE WAYYYY TOO FUN. TBH

YOU COULD NEVER GUESS MY TYPE IN FAVES. HAHA. HA. ha 😔

#it’ so obvious #ITS SO OBVIOUS. #please ignore nick wilde. I COULDNT THINK OF ANYONE ELSE AND KY FRIENDS BULLIED ME INTO DOING IT #ALSO FYI I DO NOT HAVE A CRUSH ON A NICK WILDE. ITS COMPLICATED younger me got too attached to him and now 😔 #this was so fun tho I loved drawing them interacting…… SILLIES ALL OF EM #tbh kazu legit could’ve filled up all spaces himself but we want some diversity in here #I LOVE MY BLOND PLAY ESC TYPES W MULLETS!!!! AND MISCHEVIOUS PINK CATTY TEEHEE CHARACTERS!!! AND SLY FOXY GINGERS!!! #this was legit so fun one of my fave things I’ve made recently FR #ashipiko draws ♪ #ensemble stars #enstars #kaoru hakaze #hakaze kaoru #enstars kaoru #proseka #project sekai #prsk #mizuki akiyama #akiyama mizuki #18trip #chihiro natsuyaki #twst #twisted wonderland #twst wonderland #twst ace #ace trappola #a3! #a3! act addict actors #kazunari miyoshi #a3! kazunari

[jacarandaaaas]

I know it’s probably been said before but as an artist I can’t help but praise the character design of encanto

Like look at this whole cast of characters who are all related to eachother and still so distinct! One of my all time favorite facts about this movie is that the family are color coordinated! I love that so much because not only does it make it easier for the audience to tell which character comes from what side of the family but it’s also visually appealing!

Also the fact everyone’s outfit contains symbolism relating to their gift!? genius. and mirabels skirt being her own personal scrapbook where you can see she has everyone’s symbol a clever way to display her genuine pride for her family! Isabelas dress being closer to almas magenta than the other members of julietas family emphasizing shes closer with alma and is seen as her successor! I especially love how after “what else can I do?” She changes her dress colour to a dark blue representing that she’s finally found herself and doesn’t want to be just almas clone! She feels more comfortable with her own family and shows it by representing their color!

Also let’s talk about how pepas family all wear warm hues as shown to be bright, fun and ultimately happy. Which makes a lot of sense considering how pepas gift requires her to be happy all the time to avoid “bad weather”. Her family also wear warm tones to possibly help her maintain this and also because compared to what we see in the movie pepas children have a little less pressure and are considered more fun to be around! Also the fact green and magenta are opposite colors on the color wheel and Bruno and alma have a strained relationship. genius.

I just want to appreciate the character design because I feel like it’s just so creative and has had so much thought and heart put into it <3

#encanto #encanto disney #disneys encanto #mirabel madrigal #isabela madrigal #bruno madrigal #pepa madrigal #abuela alma madrigal #I love character design #honestly I could make an entire post on each characters design because it’s just THAT GOOD #not to mention the diversity in skintone hair texture and body type #like these designs are so good are u kidding #also how sad they only get to be used once like??? #blue isa comeback when?

[nuka]

I think what makes Our Flag Means Death so remarkable in terms of representation is not just the broadness of it, but the depth.

We have an indigenous lead character, but he's not only that. He's also queer. He's a romantic interest. He's middle-aged. His arc portrays surviving trauma and abuse. It also portrays mental illness. And it portrays breaking free from toxic masculinity. And it never tries to put him in a box when he explores his masculinity and femininity.

We have a non-binary character, played by a Puerto Rican NB actor, but their arc is not about their gender identity and their coming out is simply a case of "Just keep calling me Jim". They have a romantic/sexual relationship with a black character, and never is this relationship or either of their sexual orientations or Olu's sex appeal as a fat person or "who even is the man in this relationship hahaha" questioned. When they get into a poly relationship, it's just accepted, instead of questioned or even defined.

These are just a couple of examples. It's not that Our Flag Means Death is the only or the first show with queer/BIPOC/disabled representation, because it's not. What makes the show remarkable is the unique combination of queerness, ethnicity, age, disabilities, life experiences, etc. that each character carries within themselves, yet none of these characters exist solely to appear as representation of any minority on screen. Their identities are not glued onto them, they're ingrained, but in the end, they're just people. Just like in real life. Identities do not work as plot points. Being queer is not a plot point. Being non-binary is not a plot point. It's just a small part of the whole complex experience of life.

OFMD is a perfect example of telling a queer story that doesn't focus on telling a story directly about the queerness itself. Because we have stories about queerness already. We have so many of them that it just feels like tokenism at this point to see yet another story about coming out or forbidden love or anything like that, even if it's well made.

This show took me by surprise with every new way of representation it offered, because each time it did the total opposite of what I expected. It took all the tired tropes and said, "Yeah, see these? We're not gonna do any of that." It delivered something I never thought I'd see on screen.

It never explains the characters' identities to the audience. It simply shows them exactly the way they are and lets you decide whether you see yourself in them, and I think that also allows the audience to question their own identities, to explore gender and sexuality freely without immediately putting labels on things.

People who never thought they might be trans or non-binary or queer in any way discovered their identities through the show. People who struggle with mental illness or trauma saw someone like themselves portrayed with kindness and respect on screen and were finally able to extend the same kindness to themselves. People who are always left out of romantic stories because of their age or body shape or the color of their skin finally saw themselves portrayed as desirable and worthy of love and romance.

That is why so many of us feel that, in the words of Ruibo Qian: "OFMD woke me up."

#ofmd #our flag means death #long live ofmd #save ofmd #this is also why i wanted to see season 3 so bad #this show has an AMAZING writers' room #the diversity begins in there with having writers who belong to the minorities that the show portrays #and with hiring actors who belong to the minorities that their characters portray and listening to their ideas and feedback about them #there's so much the writers still could've given us in terms of representation #there's so much more left to explore #and this is also why 'just watch another queer show' simply doesn't cut it #there is NOTHING like ofmd

[taxi-boi]

the vees are so funny because you know val would say some aphobic shit like "what do you MEAN someone can form meaningful bonds that transcend sex and even romance but especially sex. what do you MEAN not everyones lives revolve around fucking and sucking or atleast like loving if your into that shit"  (romance nuetral arospec allosexual)

meanwhile his on again off again boytoy fuckpartner vox has never truly been sexually attracted to anyone in his life (high libido sex positive ace demi-aro with a propensity for alterous attraction *cough one-sided radiostatic cough*)

and the both of them are in a commited platonic/business relationship with velvette who has absolutely no sexual or romantic interest in either of them (idk if shes a lesbian or aspec or bi and they're just not her type in that way; but its all the same result)

and yet none of them view their partnership as anything below or lesser than compared to the romantic and sexual relationships they do have. if not outright being more important than those (QPR-cule) 

and ofcourse vox and vel will be standing right alongside valentino as he says this, nodding along without a hint of sarcasm or self awareness because they also genuinely think they believe the same thing.

and if you try to point this out to any of them (and somehow convince them that what they have going on is queer platonic and aspec in nature) they'll just be like "yeah but we're The Vees, we're overlords, we can just do whatever the Fuck (or lack there of) we want" and you know what they're right

#and vox wonders why alastor rejected his -business- proposal #alastor also doesn't really know hes aroace but he knows enough not to show up in val-centric episodes #i need to write fics for those fr fr #ok so tags.... #hazbin hotel #the vees #polyvees #valentino #vox #hazbin vox #hazbin velvette #hazbin valentino #velvette #staticmoth #voxval #wont tag individual velvette ships since its explicitly platonic #onewaybroadcast #asexual vox #i sidnt mention it in the post so i wont tag it but broker doll is part of this in my soul #mythinks #aromantic #asexual #aroace #aphobia #god what a combination of tags #suggestive #this is honestly my least deranged take / headcanon for hazbin #not my fault every character is aspec thats just a coincidence #diversity win the worst people you know etc etc

[insomniphic]

Posting these here to just tell you guys that I am still very much alive ^-^

They’re for an upcoming illustration (maybe plural if I feel like it)

Oh and of course here’s some very messily drawn Narry Brothers content because I can’t function without thinking about them every once and a while…..

(Ft. @braisedhoney’s and @beartitled’s Narrys [as usual 😅])

#I like to think that all three of them have GREAT taste in fashion #but because their preferences are so diverse they can never agree on anything when one is asking for help XDD #This is also just a little practice for me in designing clothes #or just designing in general #I hope I’m doing good ;-; #tsp stanley #narratorverse #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tsp fandom #the stanley parable fanart #the stanley parable narrator #tsp narrator #paraverse #sketch #character designs #clothing designs #InSomniphic’s Art #InSomniphic’s Art for Others

[punkitt-is-here]

What does ur art look like when ur not making horse doodles?

Haha, it's kind of wild that that's a genuine question now, but hell yeah that means I get to introduce more of my art to folks. :)

(tumblr will probably compress the hell out of this but whatev)

This is all stuff from about the last year and a half! I love switching up my techniques and trying new things and I'm basically always drawing 24/7 because I love art so much. The horsecomix look that way because I think they're a great avenue for me to let loose and be silly/unprofessional for a while with my drawings. :)

#astral guard #justice frontier #kingdom hearts #saur #itsmemordred #cloven valley #dramaturge #my posts #my art #punkitt #not gonna tag every character because that would take fucking forever #also astroeden's fish whisperer art is the reason my art got so diverse over the summer #i can like. directly credit discovering her work with that hgjsdfgh

[prince-liest]

I’m reading Witch King by Martha Wells, and now that I have read more than one (1) series by this author, I have been suddenly brained with a two-by-four sharpied over with “realizing that I really enjoy novels by Martha Wells because they live in the specific niche created by the intersection of casually and thoroughly queer casts and non-romance storylines”

I am as ever a sucker for non-human main characters struggling with their very human feelings, which is why I jumped on Witch King the moment I saw “the author of Murderbot wrote another book with a main character that’s non-human,” but I live in this dichotomy where I can really enjoy reading queer romances but I don’t really identify with non-ace characters (which is not actually something I figured out how to differentiate until I was Last Week Years Old). so there are lots of books out there that I enjoy reading but it’s comparatively rare for me to read something that feels like it was written For Me and Martha Wells does that very well

anyway, give me more ace it-pronouns human-spliced robot main characters and people-eating demons who consider rank over gender when finding new bodies to inhabit

#text posts #martha wells #witch king #personal #her castes and universes are also very culturally and ethnically diverse but I've had ace-ness on the mind lately #so it was relevant to my ongoing thoughts #I never really read books that are advertised as specific types of diversity representation #especially with queer books what I like to read is books that are very queer but aren't ABOUT being queer #so I tend to steer clear when people are like read this the mc is a nonbinary lesbian witch without even really saying what the plot is #but martha wells writes books that are queer and brown and INFLUENCED by being queer and brown but #the characters still get to have their stories be ABOUT whatever fun sci fi fantasy shenanigans are ongoing #((inb4: this is my preference not an overal value judgment)) #((I just want to read the same books I read when I was a little kid and have them just ALSO be lovingly diverse)) #((and I only really read SFF)) #in other news I was trying to figure out how to name my flavor of ace #and then I looked up the difference between demi and gray #and I realized gray is what I am looking for #very very dark gray

[starrysharks]

savor-edesign thoughts

#zeno's art #ocs #reassassination #dr savory #the reason i have to redesign him is because reassass' style has become more refined and diverse in face shape/size #that the adult characters look distinct next to the teens #but savory still looks like a teen in the style #and he js supposed to be 32 years old so i guess thats not good #really i just gotta stretch out his face a bit #also i have some oc sheets done and ready tp post but i want to finish them all first.... #or fuck it ill post it now actually

[teamsieben]

why am i playing this game. why is it suddenly fun again

#animal jam #context for non jammers: the character the statue depicts uses they/them. diversity win #they're also dead though so diversity loss

[baldurs-gay-three]

Whenever people talk about hydrating the characters or making them fatter, Karlach is always left out. It’s always “Karlach is the only one it makes sense for to be buff” or “Yeah everyone needs some meat on their bones, except Karlach of course” like what?? Why not her too? Fat and midsize people can be strong and hot and cool too ok. Why is she always the exception here?

#vyne posts #it’s sad that we were robbed of a chubby queen #or even dare I say a fat queen #also throwback to our baal zebul should be fatter post from our main #I hope this one does as well if not better because honestly. so many characters should’ve been fat/fatter but fatphobia took that from us #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 karlach #baldurs gate karlach #karlach #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #body posititivity #body diversity

[littlehatmouse]

i finished this in the last 20 minutes of lesbian visibility week after not drawing at all LETS GO

#lila art #genshin #genshin impact #genshin fanart #arlecchino #arlecchino genshin #navia #navia genshin #arlevia #navicchino #i dont think thats a ship name that anyone uses but im tagging it just in case #arlecchino x navia #this took me SO FUCKING LONG you would not believe #to be fair it was because i kept getting distracted by youtube or twitter or the thoughts inside my head #but STILL #i am very proud of this though this is one of like. two kisses ive ever drawn that look Good and the other one i didn't finish lmao #i was kind of impartial to arlevia until like. Yesterday #and now they are very important to me #arlecchino has a big polycule full of all his lesbian girlfriends and one bisexual woman (clorinde) #im also lowk obsessed with drawing sideprofiles because i am fascinated with drawing different noses #and giving characters different nose and face shapes #it is so beautiful how humans are so diverse in even the shapes that our bodies make #i went on a rant with my friend about this a few weeks ago #ANYWAY i was going to say this earlier but i forgot #i am Sorry for those two panels being so rushed and bullshitted #i had been working on this for like 8 hours and i wanted to be done SO BAD #but i needed to finish before lesbian visibility week ended!!!! #ok going to farm for father before i pass out good bye

[deus-and-the-machina]

the dunmeshi yuri discourse feels wild to me because it just feels like the wrong series to be doing this with. yes farcille is a juggernaut ship but like. the series is still made up of a mostly male cast and the more important side characters are also male. for a while its just marcille until izutsumi gets added and she's a teenager so no shipping with most characters for her. if we're being honest this is not a series where its a shock or an upset for there to be more m/m.

not to mention that farcille is still the most overall popular dunmeshi ship on ao3 by far, the m/m to f/f ratio seems to me that there are several m/m ships being rotated around where with f/f its mostly farcille with a couple of minor ships. the only other f/f ship ive seen any consistent content for in the fandom is namari/kiki, a little bit of izutsumi/tade, and some canary ladies.

While dunmeshi is a great series that resists a lot of anime tropes about portraying women and body types I feel like we still owe it to ourselves to be honest in that most of the central character are men who, with the exception of senshi, are pretty slim, women included (falin is fat in my HEART-). I dont really say this to critique ryoko kui, but just because I think its best to temper our expectations about what the story actually includes. you cant hang everything on "but look how well farcille is written" when, while I do love them, falin admittedly spends a good chunk of the series as a plot device more then a person. the glimpses of her self we get are really fascinating to me, and I would confidently say she's a character in her own right, but it would be disingenuous to claim she couldn't have used more screen time or depth into how she feels during all this crazy shit that's happened to her.

#basically what im getting at just beyond this subject matter is dunmeshi isnt the end all be all of diversity. I love how kui draws fat #people and I hope whatever she goes on to do she keeps drawing more of them but I also dont wanna be disingenuous and claim that it has the #greatest fat rep of all time because in the story proper its really just a couple of minor characters #and im so sick of people misrepresenting the numbers. farcille is the top ao3 ship by FAR only one other ship has over 100 fics and farcill #has 242 as of today #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #siren says #do not be rude on this post I will just block you