kaiju1 / votojak

LUCA’S VERY COOL COMMISSION POST 2022 prices can vary and I am 100% willing to negotiate if you can’t pay full price and such. (literally no prices are set in stone, they’re just there for posterity and as a stepping stone if you will…) i desperately need as much money as i can get right now so please every little bit helps. for sketches i can also do sketch sheets (2-4 sketches on one page!) i will do: almost anything, nsfw included. (no gross kink stuff, though feel free to ask? **Need proof of age!)

**WILL DO EDITS FOR LIKE 5-15$ DEPENDING ON SPECIFICS!!!!

i WONT do: mecha/robots, really complicated designs. (sorry!)

if you can’t get one yourself, please please share this around.

edit: **Added some recent examples!!! <3 <3 EDIT** 4/16/21 – ADDED MORE RECENT ART! EDIT** 7/19/21 – new art examps (most from artfight!) Edit!*** 4/3/22 – More recent art examps! (And an Edit, if ur into tht! HGGHJ) EDIT!!! 5/21/22 – NEW OPTIONS !!!!!! PLUS FINALLY UPDATED OLD PRICES !!!!!! —- Edit – 1/19/23 –     For additional characters it will be the price of one seperate character. Example; (A commission for a fullbody colored and lined character is roughly 60$ for basic designs. If you wanted another character in the photo you would double it. So two fullbody colored and lined characters would total about 120$.)

Prices are STLL negotiable and I’m very flexible with work!!! 

I don’t know any history surrounding that but kinks and poly are not LGBT+. They deviate from social norms, certainly, but they’re adjectives, not subjects.

When I was growing up, I was told that the kink community was the physical space in which the queer community existed and that non-monogamy/polyamory as the concepts that exist today were born directly out of queer culture and the environments that shaped it.

Basically, back in the early years when most of queer culture was an arrestable offense and people mostly only got to meet their partners in the backrooms of old speakeasies and nightclubs, kink spaces were doing the same thing and were one of the only non-mob owned options for gatherings. Kink communities themselves were almost entirely made up of queer folks already anyways because surprise surprise a community made mostly of abuse survivors is gonna have pretty high rates of queer folks in it. And because of the semi-public nature of the spaces and the limited safe dating options polyamory and related non-monogamous practices became common place.

They became so common place in fact that queerness and queer culture completely and foundationally shaped the discussions around consent, relationship needs, emotional connections, and ethical behavior that became central to kink and polyamory as practices. They became so common place in part because it made sense, in part because the cultures all needed each other, and in part because, as my mother always said, “if society had already damned you just for being queer, what did you have to lose by trying all the other things society was going to damn you for as well?” This, incidentally, is also why there have historically been such high numbers of queer folk in illegal occupations like sex work and why my mom and aunties also used to consider sex work as a culture pretty fucking queer too.

But the years went by and your average, “respectable” white gay and lesbian folks with their picket fence day dreams started making progress. They started kicking people to the curb in an effort to make queerness look less “challenging” and different. Bye bye, bisexuals, bye bye drag and trans culture, bye bye non-monogamy what do you mean you actually think the “slippery slope” to gay marriage also leading to polygamy might be a good thing? Bye bye all you sex freaks, sexuality is something your born with and you can’t help who you love, it’s not like all that disgusting talking-about-sex-and-building-the-entire-network-of-sex-ed-information-we-used-to-desperately-try-and-survive-the-AIDS-crisis-ew-you-perverts-our-sex-is-beautiful-and-pure-like-marriage! And so on and so forth.

See, when it was all about survival, the distinction that Straight people drew between gay, kinky, polyamorous, trans, ace, etc was irrelevant. They’d kill us all the same so we might as well band together and make a world in which the next generation might not just live but thrive. But once it became about gaining access to state acceptance and making room within the legal framework that already existed, those of us who were too scary to Straight society, who still needed the hierarchy destroyed, not just expanded, became dead weight. Our labor, our physical space, our intellectual efforts all became irrelevant and all that mattered was when the Straights looked at White Cis Gays they saw Us instead. So the White Cis Gays fixed that by making it clear they thought we were just as disgusting as the Straights thought we were. They abandoned us and took our history and our language and our fucking lives with them and said we weren’t ~allowed~ to have it. And because those of us who were marginalized in many ways or who were doubly or triply damned were more likely to have suffered massive losses during the AIDS crisis and to still be living in poverty, in crime, and in general destitution of social capital, we’ve been fighting an uphill battle not to be erased ever since.

So now you have a whole generation or two or three who grew up being told a sanitized history where a “drag queen” threw the first brick at Stonewall, Pride wasn’t started by one of the bisexual Queens of Kink, and non-monogamy hasn’t been the natural progression of so many of our communities for generations. And they tell us we never existed, we’re just secret straighties thinking our gross sex lives make us queer, we could just choose to be respectable and “normal” like everyone else and then we wouldn’t be “bullied” (because god forbid our actual oppression be recognized) and they completely miss the irony.

And as much as I hate that I have to list my credentials in order for there to be a chance in burning hell for this response to be considered legitimate, I am the nonbinary, bisexual, polyamorous, kinky, intersex child of a bisexual, kinky, polyamorous woman who spent all of my life and most of hers in the heart of Queer culture and politics to the point that she put me on the stand in front of the entire school board and a third of the state at age 10 to fight for our right to participate in the Day of Silence without fear of suspension, expulsion, abuse, or injury/death. I was on my mother’s hip at the state capitol protests with police in riot gear ready to do whatever it took to prevent us from entering the building. I am Queer in so many ways, including ones no one can dare fucking argue and so was my mother before me and my aunties before her, and this is THEIR history I am telling and will keep telling until I’m dead because I will rot before I let people erase their memories, blood, and joy from our history by claiming that kink and polyamory don’t belong.

I apologize for that all sounding angry and upset. It is not aimed at anyone in particular. I am just very very tired and it’s almost Passover which means that my auntie’s are a lot more on my brain than usual and I am just so exhausted by the way I have been mocked and belittled for months now over things that were simply Truth when I was growing up. Please understand how much history is denied and how many ancestors are dishonored by this rhetoric of “who REALLY belongs in the community?”

“monogamous heterosexual relationships are patriarchal bullshit.”

I took offense at the time. But when you don’t let people use words like “queer” to describe “everyone who isn’t in this Normative Bubble of heterosexual serial monogamy”, you have to get pretty specific about the fact that STRAIGHT refers to this concept of being “normal” which in this culture has meant for many years “Straight, cis, monogamous (or doing your best to fake all of the above)” 

Quit fucking gatekeeping.

The people who hate us hate all of us. Joining them in their hatred doesn’t solve the problem. 

yall can have one (1) evil ashfur art from me … I haven’t read anything but I have knowledge through osmosis or somethin….

Helena mains unite.... It's scary out here for the blind.

mz enoshima….,,

hello everyone, it’s been a hot minute since i made a commission post but here we are.

prices can vary and I am 100% willing to negotiate if you can’t pay full price and such. (literally no prices are set in stone, they’re just there for posterity and as a stepping stone if you will…)

i desperately need as much money as i can get right now so please every little bit helps.

for sketches i can also do sketch sheets (2-4 sketches on one page!)

i will do: almost anything, nsfw included. (no gross kink stuff, though feel free to ask?)

i WONT do: mecha/robots, really complicated designs. (sorry!)

if you can’t get one yourself, please please share this around.

hello everyone, it’s been a hot minute since i made a commission post but here we are.

prices can vary and I am 100% willing to negotiate if you can’t pay full price and such. (literally no prices are set in stone, they’re just there for posterity and as a stepping stone if you will…)

i desperately need as much money as i can get right now so please every little bit helps.

for sketches i can also do sketch sheets (2-4 sketches on one page!)

i will do: almost anything, nsfw included. (no gross kink stuff, though feel free to ask?)

i WONT do: mecha/robots, really complicated designs. (sorry!)

if you can’t get one yourself, please please share this around.

2015 vs 2020 lol