30s. Male. Not a fascist, I just like fantasy and early medieval stuff (and men. and metal.). Metal and nerd stuff also. job involves reading a lot of shit in latin, liturgiology, patristics, and other parts of medieval studies that don't translate well to tiktoks. number one fan of the journal analecta bollandiana. Fuck cops/the bossman/terfs/radfems etc etc. Former USAmerican, now in Europe. Deutsch/English.
Pro unions, pro workers’ rights, pro bodily autonomy (trans, abortion, etc.), pro secular-only government.
Racism, antisemitism, prejudice, etc. all suck shit.
Had to start stating my politics like this to avoid getting lumped in with a shit crowd. I generally don’t reblog any ‘political’ stuff, though. (Unless it’s linking to coverage of an actual newsworthy event. I will reblog that.)
I don’t reblog pornography or overtly sexual content, but this is still a grown person’s blog and I may share grown people’s jokes. Thus, NO MINORS. I WILL BLOCK YOU IF I EVEN SUSPECT YOU ARE A MINOR.
Stuff you might see here:
Metal music stuff, horror stuff (within reason), old kitschy fantasy and science fantasy stuff, DnD stuff, vintage nerd stuff, medieval history, Latin/classics, tabletop gaming, various internet artists’ art, Warhammer 40k, Elder Scrolls content, gothic architecture, medieval manuscripts, archeological finds, swords, wizards, the occasional gun, etc. Sometimes I reblog furry art or even big titty anime girls if they catch my fancy, but nothing explicitly pornographic.
I dislike AI-generated pictures and try not to reblog them, and I will block and avoid accounts that reblog or post that stuff too frequently.
IMPORTANT: Do not DM me directly to beg me to commission you. I will block and report your blog.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Detail of vault with flowers and birds, Archiepiscopal Palace Chapel (interior), mosaic, c. 494-519, Palazzo arcivescovile di Ravenna (Ravenna, Italy) (JSTOR)
Incredibly violent take of mine but I actually don’t think you need to relate to a story in any way to enjoy it. You can enjoy a story even if you can’t point at a character and insert some aspect of your personality or identity into them. In fact I would argue the need for a character like that to be present in every single story you experience is a sign of stunted growth.
Trump purchased tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock in UFC’s parent company while promoting the event, according to a May financial disclosure. Every president since Ronald Reagan has either put their assets in a blind trust managed by independent trustees or sold off their stocks to eliminate conflicts of interest. Trump did not.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
This guy is actually one of the players from the sword dance picture. He’s really into bladed weapon sports and historical reenactments, in part because of the advantage in hand to hand combat due to his precognitive abilities. Well, at least against opponents that don’t also have them.
Design-wise he started off as a “someone with higher socioeconomic indicators in regards to Stabri” and so he’s got some common themes to previous pictures. And to some I sketches with notes I haven't posted because I would have to organize them better for showing.
He doesn’t hold any particularly important position (evident from all his free time) but can trace his ancestry all the way to at least one person found in a textbook and several people with titles. Through millenia of selective pressure, precognition and similar abilities (such as thought sensing) have become very common among the upper classes (as they're very useful for staying in power). He seems to do everything with effortless grace.
in 2026, remember how GOOD writing feels. remember how satsfying it is to get your characters to the point you have been dying to get to, where they will experience the love, fear, relief or whatever the feeling you want to bring to life may be. let this year be the year of writing, prgress and of satisfactory endings.
Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads
you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride
these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.
final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍
This is how I envisioned Anaris way before the events of Veilguard, when he was the ancient enemy of the Evanuris. Because Anaris was depicted as being arrogant and Mythal claiming that he was "selfish and deviant", I gave him such a look & expression. I based his outfit on a mixture of the in-game graphics, Codex art, & concept art. I know that the antlers are part of Anaris' mask, but they would have gotten in the way of his face, so I decided it would be a cool concept to actually make him have the antlers. Artistic license!
I find Anaris to be a highly fascinating character. He was (still is in Veilguard?) a Forgotten One, so what does that actually mean? I wish that Veilguard expanded more on that...I want to know who they all were. (Maybe a gathering of people who warred against the Evanuris?) Two, he despised the Evanuris and believed them to be cowardly because they used powerful magic & made themselves into "gods". He created the Nadas Dirthalen. Was he truly the "Warlord" that Bellara claimed? (That's when Cyrian had told Bellara that Anaris & the Forgotten Ones were slandered by the Evanuris? Was that true or was it the influcence of Anaris?) What was Anaris afraid of (when Cyrian stated that a fear was consuming Anaris' thoughts). Then there is the story of Anaris coming across Andruil who had been captured by Fen'Harel/Solas & that he wanted to murder Solas because apparently Solas committed crimes against the Forgotten Ones. What is all this history? I want to know!
Also, Anaris has a super awesome, bad-ass character designs! When I recently battled against him, he beat me up & defeated me multiple times since I am playing my 4th run on a super hard mode!
I am thinking of drawing more Evanuris (like I did with Ghilan'nain) and other elven people, how they may have appeared in the past.
Drawn with sepia Sakura Micron Pigma pens, then coloured in with a mixture of Copic Markers, Ohuhu Markers, & Castle Art coloured pencils. White highlights & lines done with a gel pen, and the gold is metallic acrylic paint (which is very shiny in real life...scanners always kills the shine).
What Do You Give a Pope? A Copy of a Medieval Manuscript
During Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Spain, the Spanish Senate presented him with a facsimile of the Facundus Beatus, one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts produced in Iberia during the Middle Ages.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
A new censorship law restricts what Russians were ever allowed to have sung, written, or published.
On March 1, a new Russian law came into effect targeting “propaganda of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors,” and psychoactive plants, particularly all public utterances judged to promote “tolerance toward” or the “attractiveness or necessity” of using these substances. Formally, the bill, which the Russian Duma passed back in 2024, amends existing regulation on narcotics. But hiding in the small print of the new law is an unprecedented attempt to rewrite the entire cultural history of post-Soviet Russia.
The most significant part of the amendment is the widely broadened scope: While the online promotion of drugs was previously restricted, the amendment retroactively subjects all “works of literature and arts” to a review for compliance. In other words, it affects anything in the entire post-Soviet archive of Russian print products, music, and film that could be vaguely interpreted as promoting drugs. Content deemed offensive under the new law must bear a special visible warning. Offenders face large fines and even prison time for repeat offenses.
Disguised as a routine legal measure protecting public health—who would be opposed to making drugs less attractive?—the new law will put an enormous burden on Russian songwriters, film producers, and writers, as well as on record labels, publishing houses, and online streaming platforms.
The new law follows a familiar pattern of Russian censorship, most notably the 2013 ban of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations,” which effectively outlawed any depiction of gay or lesbian life. Famously, a biography of gay Italian writer and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini is sold in Russian bookshops with whole pages blacked out, and much of the character arc of Vito Spatafore in The Sopranos has been altered or edited out on Amediateka, a popular Russian video streaming service.
The new law adds to the already sprawling minefield of restrictions that content creators and publishers in Russia must navigate, including restrictions on anything related to suicide, “childfree lifestyles,” onscreen smoking, criminal subculture, “extremist” content, anything that might be seen as “discrediting the armed forces,” and many other subjects that do not align with the ideological requirements of the Putin regime. What these prohibitions—some enshrined in law, others unwritten—have in common is that they are always vaguely defined, thus leaving creators unsure of what offends and what does not. What’s more, there is no one to tell you in advance: The responsibility for compliance is pushed onto media publications, book publishers, film distributors, and other platforms, creating a widespread culture of preemptive self-censorship. The law tasks the Russian Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Culture with keeping lists of violators, while the Ministry of Internal Affairs can issue takedown orders based on vague criteria. There is no judicial review.
The anti-drug law retroactively applies to all content produced since Aug. 1, 1990. Note the date: That was the day the Soviet Union officially abolished censorship and disbanded Glavlit, the feared communist agency that could decide the fate of every cultural work. With its choice of date, the Putin regime makes an unmistakable statement: Effective immediately, a censorship-free period in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history did not exist. The two eras are now seamlessly joined in the crushing of cultural expression, retroactively legitimizing the Soviet censorship apparatus. The burst of free, uncontrolled artistic expression in the 1990s is being expounded from the Russian cultural memory.
This makes the law a much more ambitious project than censorship. It is the construction of a Russian past that has been brought into compliance with the Russian present. One of the most prominent victims of the new law is “Opium for Nobody,” a 1995 song by the post-punk rock band Agata Kristi that remains a staple of Russian popular music today, with 25 million plays on YouTube. On Yandex Music, Russia’s flagship streaming service, the title has been changed to “For Nobody,” and the song’s references to drugs (such as “Music is an opium for nobody, only for us”) have all been edited out. For anyone behind Russia’s new digital Iron Curtain without access to the original recording, the song has always sounded like that. Russian hip-hop is among the worst offenders in terms of retroactively offensive language: Legal experts predict that up to 80 percent of tracks in some streaming catalogues will have to be changed, removed, or otherwise censored.
A record label asking a musician to delete the lyrics of a song they wrote in 1995—because a 2024 law criminalizes words that broke no law when they were written and that have been sung by millions of Russians for 30 years—is something qualitatively different from what censors normally do. Artists now need to accept that their country’s cultural archive is not a record of what Russians have created, sung, and written over the decades, but rather a provisional document that can be revised at any time at the state’s discretion.
The sweep has moved well beyond music. The Russian Book Union’s compliance list already flags offensive works by Stephen King, Sergei Lukyanenko, Haruki Murakami, Chuck Palahniuk, and Viktor Pelevin, as well as post-1990 translations of John Steinbeck and Erich Maria Remarque. Biographies of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov and singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky—two Soviet-era artists whose drug addictions are important biographical facts—now require warning labels. Online bookstores have scoured the 19th century for offensive content, placing narcotic-content warnings on the writings of Alexander Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol. The head of Eksmo, Russia’s largest publishing group, said the law technically affects more than 3 million titles. Books marked under the new rules are automatically classified as 18+, wrapped in sealed packaging, and taxed at 22 percent VAT rather than the standard 10 percent rate for literary works. That makes the law, among other things, a revenue mechanism for the state.
The monitoring mechanism to cleanse online streaming catalogs of heresy is artificial intelligence, which has not gone well. Eksmo’s internal AI compliance system flagged writer Denis Dragunskiy as a drug propaganda offender—because its algorithm identified the first syllable of his surname as sounding like the English word “drug.” Some authors have refused to censor their own texts. Publishers, caught between recalcitrant writers and million-ruble fines, are left negotiating compromises that no one can define, under rules that even the Ministry of Digital Development has failed to clarify. The editor of the literary magazine Yunost, Sergei Shargunov, described the situation in simple terms: “What I see can only be described as a witch hunt.”
The result, as one journalist told Forbes, is that “there will be two realities”: one version of every song, every book, every film that exists on legal Russian platforms and another version that will be preserved as pirated downloads or in private archives. The piracy that the Russian publishing industry spent two decades trying to suppress has become the only mechanism for Russians to maintain access to their own cultural history in its original form. The artifacts being preserved and shielded from government suppression include much of the popular culture long enjoyed by the Russian middle class, just as the Soviet samizdat (the underground publication network to evade the official censors) included not only highbrow forbidden literature like Gulag Archipelago but also smuggled yoga manuals, sewing patterns, and erotica.
Thirty-two years after the release of “Opium for Nobody,” band member Vadim Samoylov—who has spoken in favor of the Ukraine war and anti-LGBT laws, rationalized the song’s removal to a radio interviewer: “We will soon make some changes. Just cross out some words.” He said it without apparent distress, even adding that the law struck him as sensible. This must be how Soviet self-censorship worked too: Don’t offend the powers that be, just make sure you can get back to work. Meanwhile, the band’s audience is stocking up on old MP3 players and firing up Torrent clients to assemble a samizdat archive at the point in time when contemporary Russian culture splits in two: the raw and intact version that existed before March 1 and the sanitized version approved by the Kremlin.
