I'm starting to feel about artistic depictions of trans scars the same way I feel about artistic depictions of blindness: they suck.
At first the art of all the jagged lined scars I saw for trans characters seemed neat. But then I started to remember that I have those scars and they don't look like that. At all. And it's kinda shitty to draw all these trans men and nbs in such a way that they look like someone took an axe to their chests. Mastectomy/top surgery scars don't look like that at all! Even when you have a slash and dash quick surgery like I did, the results are much nicer and most trans guys you can't even tell.
This is like drawing people with white/pale, unfocused eyes as a shorthand for blindness. It's a shitty stereotype and I think in the long run it causes more harm than good. Just like with real trans folks you may have to just say out loud that your guy is trans instead of giving him a design that's kinda shitty to the bros out there who went through some shit to look really good.
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A potentially weird idea has wormed its way into my head, and I have to ask-
My thought is that I'd start from scratch by remaking the character I have now entirely, and maybe if I have someone watching to keep me honest, I won't chicken out of making the "evil" choices, lol.
The very base idea for the character is essentially that he's a male drow who is willing to do anything anyone with authority (especially women, and especially female drow) would ever tell him to do, which would include killing Karlach, raiding the Grove, eventually ascending Astarion and making Shadowheart a Dark Justiciar, and other such delicious choices I've never made yet!
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Just had my first consultation with a tattoo artist ever (the other times I've litterally just shown up x'D) and it was online.
I loved that the first thing that the artist notices is my Cha Cha Cha mixtape and/or Bojere artwork on my wall x'D
(she litterally said: "Is that Käärijä back there!?". Bless her :'D)
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ok so I’m learning that the weekends are actually more fun when you don’t get even a little drunk
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there are many good and even superb and even life-changing scenes in the witcher books, when asked “favorite scene?” we of course hear the classics — the striga fight, the death of essi daven, geralt leaving ciri outside of brokilon, geralt and ciri reuniting in something more, ciri at kaer morhen, shaerrawedd, ciri at ellander, yennefer and geralt at thanedd, the thanedd coup, the mandrake distillate, the horseshoe, the fish soup, the battle of the bridge, the slaughter of the rats, brisingamen, the ice skating on tarn mira, the stay in beauclair, ciri travelling between worlds, the battle of brenna, the assault on stygga castle, rivia…
but there’s also just the scenes you like that are not so grand or epic or even relevant to the main plot…
i have to have played and reread the conversation and philosophizing between regis and the rest of the company in chapter 7 of baptism of fire at least twenty times by now… and more, in my head
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I'd like to imagine in s3, Alerion and Will just have a very nice, very cozy (very very cozy, blankets and pillows and soft things *everywhere*) log cabin somewhere in the woods.
it's the coziest thing in hundreds of thousands of blocks, and rarely do either of them leave the 30 block radius around the house-
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