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Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Iron Lung Fanart

Ballpoint pen on paper

i've compiled several images i've been using for my digital book of shadows, and thought i'd share some of my favorites!

If you genuinely think that CCs don't have the right to tell you what to write, draw, or ship, then you don't have the right to tell them how to react to it when you do.

If you purposefully cross a boundary, you don't get to act surprised if you get blocked or disliked by the CC and their fans. You don't get to bitch and cry because you think you're allowed to make someone uncomfortable but they're not allowed to make you uncomfortable.

Well see, this is super easy to avoid. Just don't do it. Or if you somehow can't help yourself, do it in private groups of like-minded fans. AO3 famously has anonymous options too, and plenty of ways to filter or turn off comments to avoid flack. This boogeyman of harassment is nothing. There are ways to still violate a CCs boundaries with minimal consequences so long as you aren't loudly proclaiming your right to sexually harass a twitch streamer on a public forum.

If you genuinely think that CCs don't have the right to tell you what to write, draw, or ship, then you don't have the right to tell them how to react to it when you do.

If you purposefully cross a boundary, you don't get to act surprised if you get blocked or disliked by the CC and their fans. You don't get to bitch and cry because you think you're allowed to make someone uncomfortable but they're not allowed to make you uncomfortable.

and then thinking about all the people who call her cold or uncaring or clinical about what she has to do to save earth. eva stratt, who had silly t-shirts and vodka and favorite meals stored in the Hail Mary and treated with the same level of importance as the finely tuned equipment and the centrifuge the entire planet relies on for salvation.

and then thinking about eva stratt nodding and saying, “yeah, I’m pretty awful. that’s why i’m in charge” with a neutral expression and even believing it. as if crafting the most beautiful coffin and homage to her soon-to-be dead friends won’t haunt her always.

thinking about eva stratt being the first person on the “eva stratt is a monster” train, welcoming ryland grace aboard and knowing she believed in him more than anyone else.

what iron lung fans see

(i say almost because in my test that still showed people who tagged "phm" and "the project hail mary" but NOT "project hail mary", but nothing is perfect and this will at least get MOST of the wheat from the chaff.)

what iron lung fans see