WEIRDLY SPECIFIC BUT HELPFUL CHARACTER BUILDING QUESTIONS

Happy Pride 2022!

I was commissioned by @deviantart this year to do a piece in response to the D*n't Say Gay bill. I was originally unsure how to deal with subject material like this, especially in the month of Pride when we should feel liberated and free to be ourselves. As a member of the Queer community, it felt hard to deal with such a political subject especially when I don't consider myself a very political artist-- my existence is unfortunately political, and it's tiring, really tiring, so I like to keep my art in an idyllic place where I am free to express what I want about gender and love and my interests, like fashion.

This is a serious issue that threatens a lot of us, but I also wanted to keep my chin up and approach it in a way that was morale-boosting. This isn't necessarily a piece to bring attention to the topic, I made it in hopes to create a piece that brought attention to Queer resillience-- it's meant for others who need encouragement.

I wanted to embrace my love of fashion and how it can be a powerful tool of self expression. In a world that tries to limit who we really are, I felt a queerpunk aesthetic really faced that head-on. I wanted the bricolage styles to reflect how I feel surviving this world every day: full of rebellious vigor and pride for who I am.

You can check out the rest of the campaign here: https://bit.ly/DAPride22

heart - shaped scallion found In pho . reblog for good luck & yummy soup 500000 forwver

Any rancher duo for a kind follower? 👉👈

apparently i have a demographic and i must watch their povs Right Now

very much still thinking about time loop Joel

very much thinking about him putting his head down, focusing entirely on Azalea, on building and growing and ignoring everything else around him; the first loop he misses the meeting, it's an accident, because not seeing them at all is, somehow, just as painful

but he still doesn't go the next time, or the time after that, and it's not like it matters, is the thing- everything is the same, every word and bickering second is just a repeat, and Joel is tired. he is tired of hearing Lizzie repeat herself, a broken record scratching out the same two lines, or Jimmy, as pitiful and useless and deserving of so much more, and it's in the middle of digging up trees he barely remembers planting, that he starts to cry

(Joel is tired, he's so tired, and worse than that, more horrifying than this weight settling itself on his shoulders, is the fear in his hands, in the small tremors he cannot shake)

(the demon is real, and he doesn't want it to be)

well now I'M thinking about time loop joel again too. just... yeah he eventually stops bothering to go to the meeting. and he should. he should keep going. maybe he should try to warn them again, except no one will listen to him except lizzie and jimmy at best, and that's not enough, not now, not for this. so he just stops, for a while, and he just... lets himself be miserable for a while, and that's not enough either. for the first time in a long time he knows he should be doing something. for the first time in a long time, worse - he's not sure what he can do.

they are MY STREAMERS <333

Specific things about certain songs I like that make me start frothing at the mouth like a rabid raccoon when I hear them:

The soft violin solo that plays at 1:35 in "The Crooked Kind" by Radical Face, like the heralding of a distant thunderstorm that you can see rolling in the distance.

When Florence starts chanting "Who's a heretic now?" in "Which Witch", which is the best song on the album and it is a CRIME that it was just a demo (don't let Spotify fool you it was listed as a demo until recently).

The way the chunky guitar and drums build before the second chorus of "Double Vision" by Family and Friends, which is sung with some kind of soft anguish that always breaks my heart into pieces.

The pianowork in "Garden" by Cold Weather Company is complimented by a fuckin' pianica of all things and it absolutely should not work but it does and drives me nuts when it hops in like Jesus.

David Le'aupepe's vocal's in "The Man Himself" by Gang of Youths. This man is a horrifically underrated singer and I would pay every ounce of money I have to see him belt this song out live.

Just the subject of "Staring at the Stars" by Passenger. I love songs that revel in the fact that their subjects are complete and utter losers, and there's something kinda hopeful in and of that as well.

The masterful guitarwork on "The Graduate" by the Arcadian Wild but particularly by the mandolinist. It's insane how fast that man can strum those chords out.

I could make an entire list based on The Oh Hellos alone but when the whole band chimes in behind Maggie Heath to sing "--any little Messiah" in "Passerine", it's not only amazing but a literal callback of the "birds of a kind" lyric that comes right before it and Idk I think that's neat.

The chemistry between the two lead singers of "Home to Me" by Devil and the Deep Blue Sea-- it is genuinely a failing of society that they never got big nor released more than 8 songs.

That quiet, warm optimism you can hear in every word and even in that fuckin'...I don't know, panflute synth?...in "Summerland" by half-alive. This song is like watching a sunset on a half-empty beach with all your closest friends, finally reveling in the warmth that you can only find in early June.

The rising, building vitriol of the two singers in "The Descent" by Bastille (the man is Dan Smith, the woman is Lily Moore). I LOVE songs where both singers are just fucking furious with each other it's so sexy, and Moore in particular kills it.

Changing the final line of "No Lullaby" by SIAMES from "Where's the love when you were left on your own?" to "Who said you're on your own?"-- in an album centered around broken homes, it's a nice way to end a song centered around familial abandonment on a hopeful note.

The way the last line of "Leaves in the River" by Sea Wolf is sung-- a soft, hopeful, almost wistful sigh of a man who's just fallen head over heels in love (or at least that's how I interpret it).

i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

Dancing and swinging to the beat

And I’m here to keep you on your feet.

Enjoy