Why are you as a man combining with other men? :/

Q: Can I use your art for RP/icons/my phone bg (etc)?

A: Yep!!! Provided you are an individual and not planning on selling anything w/ it or using it to be reactionary online, I think that’s really cool and flattering. I also don’t mind tracing of my poses/kisses if you’re trying to recreate something tricky or want to practice, provided you don’t trace an entire piece and pass it off as your own obvs.

Q: What programs do you use?

A: Sai2 for lines and most basic stuff, Clip Studio for heavy duty art and comic composition, Blender for 3D.

Q: You didn’t answer my ask...

A: Yeah... Look I’ll either sit on them because I want to draw something when I’ve got the time or it got deleted. If you sent something nice I SAW IT AND IT MADE ME SMILE!!! I don’t like to spam anon compliments but they’re so nice ;w;

Q: I saw you delete this post-

A: I love to delete posts and I do it all the time. It’s great fun and I will not be stopped.

Q: You said you were going to post essays ⏰

A: OK THIS ONE I’M GENUINELY SORRY ABOUT There’s like 3 in the draft folder rn and I’m driving my beta reader nuts. They’ll come out... soon...

Q: You have adult content?

A: Yup, if you have your age in bio and you’re not sus, feel free to DM me and I can pass along the account name. Worth mentioning but sometimes I talk abt fics I’ve read that are explicit, and I won’t link or name them publicly here if you ask.

Q: Can you tag (x)?

A: I tag the usual sensitive themes like blood, smoking, alcohol etc. The ones that are muscle memory for me. If it’s a niche cw then I’m not going to promise to tag just in case I forget, and you might be better off unfollowing.

If you’re a minor it’s... kind of safe to follow this acct, but for posterity I tag all horny art that’s not technically full hog as ‘suggestive’. 

Q: Redesigns...?

A: Just a fun personal project and something I got addicted to when trying to adapt robots into something easier for me to draw. I’m working on a big PDF masterpost but I’m veeeeeery slow and busy.

Q: Politics...?

A: Demsoc, big fan of trains and city planning.

Q: What’s your bona fides?

Texaid is so beloved and important to me, and i don’t think that’s news to anyone who’s followed me for any length of time. I always come back to them, and even leaving a project like this on hiatus for so long I still felt pretty comfortable leaving this on the burner bc I knew I’d be back.

And with my work sometimes I do have to take fandom hiatus breaks! But I got a slightly confused dm from a friend at one point that said ‘hey man, did you know everyone’s crediting your designs to someone else in the fandom’ and ???? it was true!

And I know how obnoxious it is to see an artist get on their diva shit and claim design elements, but it’s important to know that, at the time, I was one of like three people posting texaid, and the other two were Japanese artists on twitter.

My redesign has my fingerprints all over it; those big circular rotaries on his shoulders? A mistake! I got my references mixed up at one point and just kept rolling with it because it was funny! His pointy teeth and nose and boots and fingers and eyebrows? I’m bad at squares! I was doing everything in my power to avoid drawing squares!

And people have asked if they can use my redesigns in their own au’s in the past, and i’ve always said no (especially in regards to texaid) and that’s because they’re personal to me. My vision of Texaid is something I projected a lot of my own personal romantic past onto, they were my first nsfw art, my first real emotional outlet after getting kicked out of home for being trans and was starving in a flop basement. Vortex’s design was cooked up out of the primordial soup of my brain at a time when I was at my most raw. Texaid doesn’t belong to me, but i redesigned them for a reason, and that was to distinguish the fact I was representing something personal.

So to come back to the fandom and see my boys and the dynamic i drew with the serial numbers filed off, with zero acknowledgement of my influence or even crediting another artist entirely… I feel really bloody hurt. Especially after watching the way this fandom viciously ran off an artist of colour for much less prolific art theft.

It kind of feels like y’all don’t care as long as you like the content. And idk if i want to keep posting in a space like that, where my niche vent art gets repackaged into something more marketable, and I go unacknowledged.