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Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

And this one for PortalZine

Happy 10th Birthday Portal 2 🎉🎂

Female Team Fortress 2 Classes Were Almost Official

Valve artist Drew Wolf has released a new website, which contains a variety of concept artwork from Valve games such as Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2. One of these sets of concept art found on his website were numerous designs for female TF2 classes.

An internal pitch project aimed to bring female characters to the cast of Team Fortress 2.

I was responsible for story, character development and visual design. With the exception of their class function, It was important that each design presented an entirely new character. I wanted to these characters to live on their own and add dimension to the current roster of in-game characters. The goal of the project was to dive deep into possibilities and facilitate creative discussion.

Source: Team Fortress 2: Alternate Characters by Drew Wolf Art 

I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE

Here we have some layouts and paintings I’ve done for an 2D animation workshop in school. Arabian Nights were the main setting here. 

I just found out that today was International Asexuality Day so I had to quickly scribble this down!! Hope all my fellow aces out there are having a lovely day! ~<3

First International Asexuality Day Celebrated Around the World

The inaugural event taking place on April 6, champions four themes; advocacy, celebration, education and solidarity.

Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay! 💜 You can learn more and find local Ace groups internationally at: International Asexuality Day 🌈

If you’re international, you can also join our safe social networking site TrevorSpace to connect with other LGBTQIA young people at: TrevorSpace.org 📲

please read this and educate yourself on asexuality!

happy International Asexuality Day! 🖤🤍💜

Hey!! I love your art so much, and I really like the blue sketches you do- would you mind telling me what types of pen/brushes you use the most? I think it's really cool how you alternate between pencil-like sketches and paint-like drawings. :) Sorry if this question has been asked before, and I hope you have a good year! ((also recaptcha is extremely annoying))

I think you mean these? If so I did this with a blue Pilot push-pencil. I only realized in the last couple years that filling my sketchbook with colourful pencil drawings in stead of the same grey was more enjoyable to me and even encouraged me to draw more! Give it a try, maybe it might work for you too!

Chouette

Air Himbo

Water Himbo

Earth Himbo

Fire Himbo

this is what they mean when they say ‘boys will be boys’

🕯🎃 ℌ𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔶 ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔢𝔫!! 🎃🕯

(also, happy final day of Asexual Awareness week 2020!)

Credit to @rootsketches for this wonderful little ace pumpkin goodness!

Y'know, whenever people want to talk about why aspec people 'count' as an oppressed identity, they tend to go for the big stuff like corrective rape and conversion therapy. And like, we should absolutely talk about that stuff. Obviously those things are terrible and important and we need to raise awareness and deal with them.

But I feel like people often gloss over how… quietly traumatising it is to grow up being told that there is only one way to be happy— and that everybody who doesn't conform to that norm is secretly miserable and just doesn't know it— and then to gradually realise that, for reasons that you cannot help, that is never going to happen for you.

You're not going to find a prince/princess and ride off into the sunset. Or if you do, then it's not going to look exactly the way it does in fairytales. You're not going to get a 'normal' relationship, because you are not 'normal', and everybody and everything around you keeps telling you that that's bad.

You see films where characters are presented as being financially stable, genuinely passionate about their work and surrounded by friends and family, but then spend the rest of the plot realising that the real thing they needed was a (romantic and sexual) partner, to make them 'complete'.

You absorb the idea that any relationships you have with allo people will ultimately be unfulfilling on their side, and that this will be your fault (even if you discussed things with your partner beforehand and they decided that they were a-okay with having those sorts of boundaries in a relationship) unless you deliberately force yourself into situations that you aren't comfortable with, so as to make uo for your 'defects'.

You grow up feeling lowkey gaslighted because all the adults in your life (even in LGBT+ spaces. In fact especially in LGBT+ spaces) are insisting that it's totally normal to not be attracted to anybody at your age, and then you go to school and everybody keeps pressuring you to name somebody you're attracted to because they can't imagine not being attracted to anybody at your age.

And then you get older and realise that one day you're going to be expected to leave home, and that one day all your friends are going to be expected to put aside other relationships and 'settle down' with a primary partner and you don't know what you're going to do after that because you straight up don't have a roadmap for what a 'happy ending' looks like for someone like you.

(And the LGBT+ community is little help, because so many people in there are more than happy to tell you that you're not oppressed at all. That you're like this because you don't want to have sex, and/or you don't want to have any relationships, that your orientation is some sort of choice you made— like not eating bananas— rather than an intrinsic part of you that a lot of us have at some point tried to wish away.)

Even if you're grey or demi, and do experience those feelings, you still have to deal with the fact that you're not experiencing them the 'normal' way and that that's going to effect your relationships and your ability to find one in the first place.

If you're aiming for lifelong singlehood (which is valid af) or looking for a qpp, then you're going to have to spend the rest of your life either letting people make wrong assumptions about your situation (at best that your relationship is of a different nature than it actually is, at worst that the life you've chosen is really just a consolation prize because you 'failed' at finding a romantic/sexual partner) or pulling out a powerpoint and several webpages every time you want to explain it.

This what being aspec looks like for most people, and it is constantly minimised as being unimportant and not worth fighting against— even in aspec spaces— because we've all on some level absorbed the idea that oppression is only worth fighting against if it's big, and dramatic, and immediately obvious. That all the little incidents of suffering that we experience on a daily basis are not enough to be worth bothering about.

I mean, who gives a shit if you feel broken, inherently toxic as a partner, and like you're going to be denied happiness because of your orientation? Shouldn't we all just shut up and thank our lucky stars we don't have to deal with all the stuff some of the other letters in the acronym have to put up with (leaving aside the fact that there are many aspec people who identify with more than one letter)?

So you know what? If you're aspec and you relate to anything I've said above (or can think of other things relating your your aspec-ness that I haven't mentioned) then this is me telling you now that it's enough. Even if we got rid of all the big stuff (which we're unlikely to do any time soon because— Shock! Horror!— the big stuff is actually connected to all the small stuff) we would still be unable to consider our fight 'over' because what you are experiencing is not 'basically okay' and something we should just be expected to 'put up with'.

No matter what anybody tells you, we have the right to demand more from life than this.

(Image description: 10 images with a white background and floral borders in the colors of the asexual pride flag along the top and bottom, every image has a paragraph of text in the center and the words "Ace Week" below.

1) "October 25th - 31st, 2020 is the 10th annual Asexual Awareness Week, also called Ace Week"

2) "Asexuality is a sexual orientation where a person experiences little or no sexual attraction. An asexual person may experience no sexual attraction, rarely experience sexual attraction, or only experience sexual attraction under certain circumstances."

3) "Asexuality is a spectrum and every asexual spectrum person is different. Some asexual spectrum people may identify as gray asexual or graysexual. A gray asexual person is someone who identifies with asexuality but may also experience sexual attraction very rarely."

4) "Demisexuality is another sexual orientation and asexual spectrum identity. A demisexual person is someone who will only experience sexual attraction to a person after a close emotional bond has been formed."

5) "Some asexual spectrum people also identify as aceflux. An aceflux person is someone whose asexual identity feels more fluid over time. Some aceflux people "flux" between asexual spectrum identities, while others feel asexual at certain points during their lives and and allosexual at other times."

6) "Acevague is an asexual spectrum identity where a neurodivergent person experiences their asexuality as influenced by their neurology. An acevague person may have difficulty determining whether or not they experience sexual attraction due to their neurodivergence."

7) "Many other terms have been created within the asexual community to describe asexual experiences. There are as many ways to be asexual as there are asexual people. Respect asexual people, our lived experiences, and our right to define our own identities."

8) "While some asexual people are also aromantic, many asexual people do experience forms of attraction other than sexual attraction--for example, romantic, platonic, or alterous attraction. Asexual people can also identify with other labels, such as panromantic, bi, or lesbian."

9) "Asexuality is not a choice and asexuality is not celibacy. Asexual people can have relationships, be polyamorous, get married, have sex, and be parents. And some asexual people don't want relationships, are sex-replused, are childfree, and never want to marry. All asexual people are valid."

10) "Support asexual people and respect the asexual community. Amplify the voices of marginalized people within the asexual community. Listen to asexual people of color, disabled asexual people, and transgender asexual people. Asexual communities matter. Asexual visibility matters.")

You Are Not an Imposter

Lazy sunset

I want to share a little animation that James made as an anniversary gift. It’s what we wish we could do in Animal Crossing New Horizons when we play together.💕

To create the unique look of Paperman, the animation was rendered with a base lighting pass that produced a simplified graphic image. Then, facial features, hair, and cloth animation were hand-drawn over using a process called “Final Line.”

unkillable link

kids shouldn’t be fighting your wars

First off, congrats on finding asexuality!

Everyone finds where they belong in their orientation in their own time. I was 25 when I discovered I was asexual.

On the topic of virginity, don’t ever feel like you need to force yourself to meet a deadline. Virginity certainly doesn’t have a time limit. There are plenty of asexuals who have never had sex and don’t ever intend to do so. Asexuality exists on a spectrum, from sex positive aces to sex repulsed aces. Everyone is going to experience that part of a relationship differently. The key is to clearly communicate with your partner or partners exactly what you are comfortable with.

I wish I could say that the ‘x year old virgin’ stigma goes away. The majority of people in the world identify with a sex positive orientation (even some aces). Unfortunately that puts a lot of weight on the subject. Movies, music, and literature are full of it. Not a lot of media is made with the Aces in mind. However, sex isn’t a life goal or hurdle everyone has to cross if they don’t want to. Love can and does exist without sex.

This goes without saying but don’t ever let someone manipulate or force you to have sex if you don’t want to. If even the conversation regarding virginity and sex makes you uncomfortable, say so. Good friends/family should understand and respect that. Sex and virginity are a very personal subject, you never have to discuss it if you don’t want to.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🌈🖤🤍💜

Asexuals!

I’ve been wanting to post this for a while to see if anyone else has had the same experience.

I’ve been unsure if my sexuality for a while.

When I was at school all of my friends joked that they thought I was asexual, even though I didn’t know what that meant, because I couldn’t never see anyone as “sexually” attractive, when they asked my opinion on boys or girls.I never dated anyone in highscool, or even flirted or kissed anyone while I was in highschool because it just didn’t come naturally to me.

I’m 21 now and I have been in 1 relationship that lasted for about a year. The time in that relationship had to be one of the hardest times of my life. While I liked the person my boyfriend was, I hated when my boyfriend tried to touch me or kiss me or do anything romantic with me, like celebrate Valentine’s Day or hold hands. He once tried to put his hands on my waist when we was kissing and I remember how tense and uncomfortable it felt for me. The best times of that relationship was just doing the platonic activities like shopping together or seeing a film. I never wanted to have sex with him and I never did. But I told myself that I couldn’t break up with him because I had “no good enough reason” to. Because I thought that me having this internal struggle wouldn’t justify.

Eventually I think he realised how I felt and he broke up with me. And I was surprised at what a huge relief it felt to me.

While I’ve begun to see myself as asexual and I feel happy being on my own now, with a great group of friends that I love so much, I still feel like I have this constant pressure to have sex and lose my virginity. I feel like 21 is “too old” to be a virgin and I feel embarrassed to tell people this when they try to talk about sex with me. I wanted to know if anyone has felt this too and what did they do? I haven’t told anyone about this, not even my family or best friend because I’m not sure if they’ll understand.

happy pride months!

Happy Pride Month

happy Ace Day to all of the amazing ace-spec people out there!!

🖤♠️⚪💜

So gooood!!

My wizard tiefling Dante. He’s a bit of scammer and loves to mess with people. Super flamboyant and goofy. Watch your boyfriends ladies cause they are not safe from this man’s charms, a simple wink will get him what he wants. His brother, a tiefling monk named Vertus who belongs to @kris10freeman, puts up with his shit. 

I wanted to upload this in March but with the quarantine and with me getting pleurisy it didn’t make it until now…2 months later. I also wanna do portraits for all my D&D characters. So far I only have three up but I shall paint all of them. 

DO NOT REUSE OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES!!!!!!

Fantastic Mr.Fox | Director: Wes Anderson | Studio: American Empirical | United States, 2009