That nb kid that got beaten to death in OK looks so much like a long time friend of mine that when I first saw the picture I was like "whoa that's [redacted] as a teenager" and then when I sent it to my friend her reaction was also "whoa that's me as a teenager???"
And that's the problem, isn't it. That kid looked identical to a cis friend of mine who is barely, barely, BARELY any amount of GNC. She's not hyper fem but she's also not particularly masculine any more than a typical rural Alabaman woman with too much shit to do to spend all day dolling herself up would be.
And that kid got beaten to death.
And buried under dead name and pronouns.
And I'm just kinda. Wondering where the safety and privilege is in that.
As I've said many times, I'm perfectly willing to talk about the areas in my life that have become safer as I pass with lore and more regularity. Now when are we going to talk about those who can't, or those whose gender expression isn't in passing, or those who have just begun their journey and haven't yet been able to do anything about it.
This kid looked just like my cis friend. They're dead now. If "looking cis" doesn't save you, what does?
art dump pt 4
from left to right, top to bottom;
purple-ish / white — astralwing myo i need to get fixed
line art — hydroscale wip
crane — cloudwing adopt (sold)
reef — cloudwing adopt (sold)
green — cloudwing adopt (sold)
blue / orange — non-wof custom
red — current wip of cloudwing custom
glory doesn’t support genocide and neither should you
thinking some thoughts
recent doodles .. ap exam season has been kicking my ass
late to the party but villian by fujita (+ the song by teniwoha) has consumed my whole brain. the art in both is literally gorgeous
aphmau art hand appreciation post … if you see this on both accs no you didn’t
some more designs — have a lot to catch up on in terms of wof art
if you like my wof art, consider following me! i’ll always be posting that sort of stuff
all of these designs are sold off now except the first! that’s mine. that one is a fungalwing, the purple/blue and beige sceptres, and the fluffy purple a cloudwing!! oh my god these are so old
didn’t draw much this weekend, so here’s some doodles mainly from the mcd rewrite
@iyo-mcd-rewrite ! go check it out. have to update it later today
the wof doodle i’ve already posted! but i don’t have the wof wip i did this week on hand, so it’s a placeholder for now
gift for @canisalbus !! sorry for the tag, man
they’ve been a massive inspiration for the past few years. i adore their characters, and as a warmup for comms / line art experiment, i decided to draw vasco.
i pulled off of the horse/carousel version for him! but dragons are the one thing i’m good at drawing so. dragon it is
please please PLEASE don’t stay white
been a bit! i had my sat and a bunch of other eventful things the past week or two — but glad to be back!
this is just a random silkwing (i’ve always loved drawing them) but i just realized it could also work for luna! hats off to that.
blog aesthetics by @/kabu_rion on twt!artist by day, professional hater by nightany prns, they / them defaultwof + aphmau main. minor!! @iyo-mcd-rewrite
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