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It was her third birthday on May 27, so I wanted to draw something.

Still probably my favorite design I’ve ever made, even if I don’t draw her very much anymore.

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#luna #Luna's birthday #my art #my character #furry #fursona

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I haven’t really digitized most of the art that I’ve been working on in the past few months, but here are a few stickers that I made + a sketch

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#furry #sfw furry #sfw furry art #ciel #mine #my art #stickers #flat color

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lil nas x finding out he’s an industry plant

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nobody:

not a soul:

google results recommending endless lines of Lolita dresses when I’m trying to research Victorian fashion and the Lolita fashion era did not start until 1970:

#not art #status update #I eventually found what I was looking for but jesus H christ I was REALLY getting frustrated #I mean hey maybe 1800s england was somehow influenced by 1970s japan #time is a suggestion #thank god I own actual books bc the internet has become almost entirely useless for doing research

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Soooo I wanted to address a situation I’ve been noticing in queer advice forums

A lot of advice in online forums is not only completely made up, but also pointlessly detrimental to your self esteem. I’m really tired of this culture of spreading self-loathing and calling it advice. I think that it really hurts young queer people, and it teaches them new things to be self conscious about for no reason. For those of you who have had your self esteem negatively impacted by things like this, I would advise you to keep reading.

See, I’m active in a lot of queer forums as well as in groups irl, and like... If I had half a euro for every time I’ve seen online advice gurus try to share gay dating advice / trans passing advice while rattling off stereotypes, I’d be wealthy enough to buy a small island to which I could flee in order to avoid all of this nonsense.

Although stereotypes do exist, the vast majority of them do not matter to most people irl. They just don’t. I might be slightly more attractive than your average guy, but I’m definitely not an LA 10, so it’s not like I’m just magically an exception to the laws of stereotypes due to being so overwhelmingly gorgeous or smth.

People are not machines. Many of them can understand nuance. As such, most people aren’t going to look at you, immediately snap to a wikipedia list of negative stereotypes, and run down the list of every one that you are. Heck, most people aren’t going to look at you and think anything at all.

All of the “x type of person would NEVER be with y type of person” or “if you’re a y, you need to do x y and z” stuff is complete nonsense. I wasn’t even aware of these stereotypes until I became more active in online queer spaces about a year ago, and you better believe they didn’t cause any problems for my social life irl before I knew about them.

I know that this was vague, mostly because I prefer not to have in-depth discussions about my personal life due to a scare that I had with a particularly-fixated ex-boyfriend a few years back, but if you spend most of your time in online queer spaces, you will have been taught a lot of insecurities about yourself that (almost) nobody who touches grass on a regular basis actually cares about. Please just be aware that it’s basically a circle of chronically online people repackaging their own insecurities and selling them as advice to others in order to make themselves feel better, and try not to let it negatively impact your self esteem.

Tldr; People will like you exactly as you are. Other people will dislike you no matter what you do. Do not change for anyone other than yourself, because your opinion of yourself is the only one that really matters. If you present yourself as you want to be (not how anybody else says you should be), then others will like you.

#long post #not art #this applies to passing tips too #some are useful but you don't need to get rid of everything that you like about yourself #in order to become a caricature #bc people don't buy that #and they definitely don't scrutinize you as much as you scrutinize yourself #q slur

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pkmn request for @cerealjam ! Thanks for the request!

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#pokemon #pokemon fanart #request #salazzle #pokemon oc #my art

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Strange roadside buildings where you shouldn’t ever go.

#not mine #oh my god I love this so much #fav #insp #spooky #unreality #cw unreality

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It is... SO weird to be on break from school now that I’ve transitioned.

I mean I had to go back to school immediately after having surgery this summer, so this is the first time in maybe 11 years that I’ve had a break where like... I’m not using the spare time to desperately claw myself out of hell?

It feels so weird. This must be what relaxation is.

#not art #status update #life milestone #ftm #I mean my transition is not complete #but the worst of it is over #top dysphoria and bottom dysphoria feel different to me #where like I was being suffocated by top dysphoria and there was a timer #but bottom dysphoria just makes me deeply and profoundly sad #so I will be having bottom surgery #but it doesn't feel like I'm fighting for my life anymore #and even with bottom dysphoria #I can relax #and just kinda exist #and do things that I enjoy without the experiences being colored by the fact that I was dying #and I haven't been able to do that since puberty hit #holy cow

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I just had my first full-odds shiny encounter ever!!

I did shiny hunt in previous games, however I always used amulets / chains / w/e in order to do that- this is the first full-odds random encounter.

#not art #status update #it was a shiny lokix #level 50 with no shiny hunting pokemon on my team so I had to catch it at full health #thank goodness I'd seen other ones in the overworld before #I did a doubletake #and was like 'surely not'

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Request for @jessica199616

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#pokemon #pokemon fanart #request #meowscarada #my art #realized I left the shading layer invisible in the version I sent you D: my bad

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New sona :0

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#furry #sfw furry #sfw furry art #fursona #furry sfw #sona #ciel

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Request for @we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono of their trainer and their skitty

thanks for the request!

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#pokemon #pokemon fanart #request #my art

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Can we request pokemon trainer oc?

Yes those kinds of requests are welcome as long as the refs and requests submitted are SFW, as I am a strictly SFW artist. Keep in mind that all requests will take a few days to complete since I am in college right now

#not art #status update #asked and answered

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Pkmn request for @cerealjam :> thanks for the request!

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#pokemon #pkmn #pokemonfanart #pokemon fanart #my art #request

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cw: discussion of potentially-triggering subjects

I was watching a livestream yesterday where a guy ended up talking about receiving unwanted advances, and the chat blew up with people going “god I wish that were me” and “oh so I only have to do ____ for that to happen to me?”

I wish I’d said something but I was actually stunned into silence, I mean I was genuinely speechless. I’ve never seen seemingly ordinary people be that disgusting about this specific issue in real time before, I kinda thought that they were extinct.

#not art #cw unwanted advances #how could you talk that way about the experiences #of someone that you like??? #how could you be so conceited #like I do consider myself to be a selfish person but holy shit that's an entirely new level of selfishness and delusion

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guysss omgggg I got my first crushhhh

why did nobody tell me how DEBILITATING it is

#not art #status update #give me a chance to BREATHE gosh darn #I had no idea that I was doing THIS to people #I would have been kinder to them if I knew that it felt like this #W O O F I was not prepared #it makes no sense #I'm a confident little shit literally everywhere #and then I see this person #and suddenly I can't speak english (which is my first language)

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Do requests happen to be open I would like something please (pokemon related)

Requests are open! I just may not get to them for a few days, and I will not click links that are submitted to my inbox as references due to the possibility of them being malicious.

#requests open #asked and answered