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Aleksei is a sassy man pretty much all the time, there isnt a moment of his life where hes serious, even when hes being serious. Its just not his language.

His names Aleksei. Hes still not sure what the experiments were meant to do to him but nothing's happened so far besides the endless chronic pain.

He went to Mondstadt bc hed met Diluc during his escapades and figured he was the safest person to seek out -- hed either kill him on sight or help.

Working on a proper piece for one of my Genshin #ocs. Ex-Fatui, Anemo Vision, wields a polearm. He was part of the resistance for years but gave himself up to let others escape. He was experimented on as a form of t*rture, until he finally managed to escape to Mondstadt.

#ocsky

Since I see misinformation spread about Pillowfort often, and I think it’s a great site to join if you don’t want all your social media eggs in one basket, here’s a thread debunking common misconceptions I’ve seen over the years. 🧵

Great! Here's a page of tips that covers things like links to pages with the most active communities, and other resources for getting the best out of the place:

www.pillowfort.social/posts/5485993

Happy to answer questions or offer suggestions whenever needed, here or on PF?

A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

I'm still in a bad way so any donations are appreciated qvq/

pixEXE holds up a Palestinian flag. To his right, the logo Pixels for Palestine is written overtop two flags: an American Flag is joined by a Palestinian Flag. The event will be from November 17 - 21st, raising money for the PCRF, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

🇵🇸Our 3rd annual Pixels for Palestine has a date! 5 Days of Vtuber Collabs and Free Art Giveaways to help children in need!

🇵🇸If you are interested in participating, whether as a Vtuber or as a Raffle Artist (or BOTH!), please DM me here on Bluesky! All skills levels from novice to adept are welcome!

Like, no shit Sherlock, I live in this body, I clothe this body, Im very aware Im not an average size -- painfully sometimes. If you're gonna insult me, you need to try harder.

To all my other plus size peeps, I love you and you deserve it bc youre here and living, no matter your size.

CW fatphobia

Hoooo boy. Just had a kid bike by and yell "fat fuck" at me -- and people wonder why plus size people dont go out and take walks or anything

Im not really bothered, it was more startling than anything as Im busy enjoying the pleasant weather -- but hot *damn* kid, mind your manners

It means so much to hear that! I put a lot of love and care into them, I'm glad to know it shows ❤

Oh, and thank you for the art share!

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

I cannot stop going back to the character with those big fluffy ears!! They look so soft! And I love the white tips, it's a beautiful contrast.

Ink and watercolour illustration of a man with a long black braid wearing a fur-trimmed cloak. A halo-like ornament of stars and crescent moons is depicted around his head. He holds burning flames between his hands and an orange glow, like fire, is emanating from his eye.

Watercolour illustration of a dark-skinned man with long, braided black hair wearing a green striped shirt. He is surrounded by flowering vines and foliage, looking sombre.

Watercolour illustration of a man with long, braided hair face to face with a human-shaped figure that appears to be made of fire.

Bust of a brown-skinned man with long braided hair. Golden threads are creeping up his left arm and towards his neck like tattoos. There are several arrows behind him with a hair ribbon tangled around the shafts.

Thank you for the share! ✨ Highlighting my best boy Hawk for this, a bi/demisexual hunter and soon-to-be prince-consort of his boyfriend, the crown prince. He's from the fictional people known as akheri, vaguely inspired by the Ostrobothnia region of Finland.

Gosh your art is so pretty!! The colours are so soft and ethereal, they're just pleasant to look at. It makes Hawk look almost like a being of myth or folklore.

I love how vibrant his hair is! He looks like he gives good hugs.

I concur with other comments, the underwater piece is gorgeous -- but I love the beach one all but exclusively for the dog.

A photograph of a watercolor sketchbook with an illustration of Nzuzi, wearing a flowing yellow and blue dress, hiked up to one knee, with a colorful scarf on the waistband. Nzuzi has very dark skin and his dreadlocks are tied back into a high ponytail with a few loose ones around his face. He has gold hair, jewelry, and gold eyeshadow, and the background is a lush sunset. There’s a tiny shadow on his chest, where an ICD is implanted.

A watercolor painting of Nsimba and Nzuzi, two thin Congolese male twins, posing in queer club wear under blue and purple lights. Nsimba has turquoise ombre twists that partially cover burn scars and visibily blinded eyes and a bare chest with skin paint on it, and his arm is around Nzuzi, the skinnier twin with a white shirt and long dreadlocks, with eye makeup.

A watercolor painting of Gabriel, a young Filipino adult with masculine features, a lot of freckles, blush, lip gloss, and pink nail polish. He’s sipping bubble tea in a turquoise sweater with a pink background behind him. There’s a star on his cheek and a couple in the background and his curly black hair is highlighted gold at the tips.

I'll start with some of my OCs that are currently consuming my mind:

Nsimba: A polyamorous bisexual intersex Congolese man

Nzuzi: A GNC intersex man and Nsimba's identical twin! He loves dresses~

Gabriel: A genderfluid Filipino who's chaotically bisexual. He's queer and Christian!

Full body sketch, partially coloured. Tan skinned Arabic ban with very long brown and white streaked hair. Dressed in a tight crop top and puffy pants, weilding a greatsword. He looks smug. Text reads: Nadim, Electro Vision, loves Kaveh.

Full body sketch. Young Aztec man with shoulder length wavy dark brown hair, bangs held back with goggles and wearing a wide brimmed hat. Hes dressed in layers, long sleeve then short sleeve shirt with a poncho and backpack. Extremely wide legged pants, two panels on the sides with pockets and pouches, and cowboy boots. In one pocket he has a stuffed eel plush. Next to him is a little Dendro Saurian (I dont remember what they're called I'm sorry) Text reads: Pyro, No Vision, Tlanextli "Teala", Loves Ga Ming, Pyro Dragon.

Full body sketch. A bear of a man with dark brown skin. His black hair is quite curly, mostly ringlets, with a full curly beard and mustache. Hes wearing a loose fitting bodysuit with a scarf, and a silk robe sits off his shoulders, all decorated with tight swirling patterns. Most of his exposed skin is covered in thick dark hair. He holds a rough hewn staff in one hand and a woven basket filled with plants in the other. He wears multiple strings of large beads around his neck, waist, and wrists.

Nadim- Bisexual fuck boi. Arabic. Charming and mysterious, but genuinely kind and quite sure he doesnt deserve love

Tlanextli- Greysexual/gay demiboy. Aztec. They find joy in the little things, and never stays put

Jianhong- Ace/Demisexual genderfluid. Kindly lorge fuzzy grandparent to all.

Three headshot sketches. First, latino man with short wavy dark brown hair and a scruffy beard. His ears are pointed but small. He has a streak of red paint across the bridge of his nose. Text: "Odilio 'Odi' Hawke" Second, latino man with shoulder length wavy dark brown hair and stubble. His ears are small and pointed, and the bags under his eyes are more defined. Third, latino woman with her curly black hair back in a long braid. She has a very strong jawline, a scar from her chin over her lips on her right side, and defined crows feet, laugh lines, and bags under her eyes. Her ears are also small and pointed.

Odilio- Bisexual disaster. Lives life heart first and fast

Araceli- Demisexual/gay. Seems to radiate with peace and safety, making anyone feel at home when hes near

Ximena- Giant sword lesbian. Always smiling, her charm is disarming and her skill in combat unmatched

The siblings are Latino.

Elf with dark brown skin, short curly white hair and radioactive green eyes, the colour matching the mark on her hand. Shes posed with both hands under her chin and one leg kicked out, smiling. Bottom right is a small doodle of a lavender coloured elk creature named "Blueberry" Text reads: Kyne Lavellan. "Herald of Andraste". Inquisitor. Squirrel. Snapdragon. Loves Cullen. Friends with, Dorian, Cole, Cassandra, and Iron Bull. Likes, games, sweets, and climbing. Dislikes, shoes, nobles, Chantry.

Headshot sketch. Masculine elf with dark brown skin and long curly black hair. His face is decorated with markings that look like stylized spines and ribcages.

Chest up sketch of a brown elf kissing the cheek of the character Dorian from Dragon Age Inquisition. The elf's hair is done in locs and the top locs are pulled back in a ponytail.

Forgot Alt Text!! SORRY!

Sorry I'm so late!

Kyne- Asexual/biromantic. She holds tight to her hope and joy, a spirit nigh unbreakable.

Akinlana- Gay. Hes quiet, kind, and intelligent, born and raised to lead.

A watercolor painting of two male Congolese twins, one with blue lipstick and long dreadlocks, and the other with turquoise twists, posing for a photo at a gay club, with body paint on them. It also reads “Art Share; Queer POC Characters” and has the POC queer pride flag near it as a heart.

#ArtShare: Queer POC Characters!

To celebrate @taplingzines.bsky.social’s open call for artists, let’s do a share about queer POC #OCs!

🌈 Share a queer POC OC of yours and tell us about them~
🤎 Repost/comment on 3+ others
🌈 Repost this share
🤎 No A/I & please alt text!

#OCSky #OCArt

Help me and bug stay housed 🌿

this year has been… a lot. Shares are so so so appreciated

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One of the worst truths to confront yourself with is that there often really is no reasoning with bigots. They have irrevocably decided that they are entitled to have perfunctory ideas about who they want to other, and its their reality. To change their minds is to change the laws of their world

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

Old man Prince here, I've been around since Deviantart in 2010; running away and seeking alternate options is a non solution. Time and time again, this has been proven.

I am tired as fuck of being uprooted and estranged when my sole goal as an artist is to build community and share creative joy.

I hate asking but Uber this week has been incredibly slow for my partner, which is totally unusual for this time of year. Its left us in a bit of a bind for the last bit of rent we owe for October.
As always, shares and donations equally appreciated. ko-fi.com/linnybobinny...

Rent is due tomorrow by 12pm so any little bit helps. Thank you so much for the shares and donations. 💜 I know these are bad times for so many of us, im just so glad we have this community to help get through it all.

#mutualaid

I found more joy in life this way.

User homoquartz writes: as long as you smile and nod, people are satisfied. it’s just to show that you are nice and there with good intentions. we’re small in a big world and have to rely on other people to be decent to us. so we do our little human dance to each other to say, “i’m not here to hurt you. here’s something we have in common, like the weather or sports or itchy sweaters, so we both know we’re on the same team. we both agree on a basic fact, like that it is rainy or that being itchy is uncomfortable, and this proves we can get along. i’m being light-hearted and non-threatening right now." Small talk isn't to get to know a person. It's just a greeting to affirm you're buddies in the universe. I am motivated by wanting the other person to know I am friendly, so I have gotten pretty decent at small tall when I used to hate it.

This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.