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The second image shows Andalite heads in varying levels of detail with prices listed: $10 for a sketch, $15 for line art, $20 for line art with flat colors, and $25 for line art with full coloring and shading.

The third image shows a digital painting of the bust of a blue budgie parrot with the caption: $75 for lineless art.

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Hey! My commissions are open. For a lot of reasons I need more money than I’m currently able to make at my job. I would be incredibly grateful if you commissioned me.

Contact me via private message or ask through @thenixart​ or via my email: [email protected]

Payments through Paypal or kofi (ko-fi.com/nixkat > accepts card payment). Products are digital and will be emailed in .png format unless otherwise specified.

Extras!

-Additional characters are $5 per character. -Simple backgrounds like colored rectangles or circles or polka dots cost nothing. Complex backgrounds are $15. -Saucy/Suggestive art (T&A mostly and some kinks) has an additional charge of $25

I draw:

-Monsters, aliens, fantasy creatures -Animals and Furries/Anthros -Humans

I do not draw:

- Genitals, Body fluids, Sexual Acts - Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual Assault/Sexual harassment

Art examples:

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[ID: A simple drawing of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi as a wolfman-type werewolf with a tail. He's drawn from the hips up and wearing his plate armor. /End ID]

[id: Digital art of the Pokemon, boldore, a deep blue and orange rock monster with three limbs and two yellow lined ears in the middle of its face in the place of eyes laying down on a simple green grass background bordered with grey. /end id]

[id: Digital art of the character Chur from Magi-Nation seated cross-legged in profile with his face turned towards the viewer. He is bald with scaly green skin, dark green facial hair, orange eyes, and a yellow gem embedded onto his forehead. He’s wearing a brown and grey fur bikini with arm and leg guards that have orange spikes on the shoulders and orange claws on the boots. The tail on his fur bikini is pointed curved upwards and is striped. 

Behind him is a red-orange rectangle as a background. /end id]

here’s this world of bigotry, prisoner abuse, tortured children, careless rich assholes, bloodthirsty monsters and cosmic horrors, and here’s this lady who can stroll through all of it with her hands in her pockets and emerge without a scratch. 

her powers aren’t flashy but damn they are effective. 

she’s not super strong or fast. fuck it. she doesn’t need to be. 

she’s not invulnerable or a genius. doesn’t matter. things usually work out for her anyway. 

she’s not an Avenger or an X-man or a member of Shield, but when presented with a room full of tortured children she doesn’t hesitate, doesn’t cry, doesn’t waste time, she has a 2-step plan and it goes 1. get ‘em on a bus 2. murder anyone who tries to stop her getting ‘em on a bus. yeah, there may be other problems, but she’ll work something out. she always does.

growing up at the mansion, those kids will adore gentle giant Colossus, who lets them ride on his shoulders and teaches them about the importance of non-violence. 

Mutants, and by extension others with powers, are expected to become cops, firefighters, superheroes, because the predominating culture states that these and more power-specific jobs like doctor are the only jobs that allows them to be a ‘good’ person. To do otherwise is to be horribly selfish at best, or under suspicion of being actively malicious at worst. And doing so young is encouraged, to prevent ‘going down the wrong path’.

A mutant who goes starts fighting crime as soon as they have full control of their powers? Is good and righteous and an icon

A mutant who keeps their head down and opens a bakery? Is selfish and untrustworthy and a suspect by default

You either become a hero or you’re considered a potential villain.

The fact that this means a sad number of mutants, when faced with health concerns and prejudice and desires to not be any of the things society says they have to be, see the black and white options and say ‘fuck it then’? Only serves to fuel the fire.

You see a bit of this with Alan (as soon as he’s proven not to be a villain the sheriff declares he’ll work with them and nobody bats an eyelash) and Cooper (fourteen, same as Alan, but as soon as he has any contact with Plumber work everyone is all for him to drop everything and join the organization, seeming more entrenched than even the Tennysons by his second UA appearance) especially.

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

Like, damn kid.

Even leaving aside the whole 'violation of human rights' thing, this girl really went through the whole of To Catch a Falling Star and still came out the other end like 'stockholm syndrome, that's an idea-'

Oh! That reminded me of the Invasion! event. Even heroes with no kill codes fully down to kill aliens that didnt even have the excuse of being robots, just largely nonhumanoids. Invading aliens also included Thanagarians and Chameleon Boy's people.

The only invading aliens that folks didnt jump to lethal force with? And the only ones that switched sides to join the side of the Superheroes? The fully human looking Daxamites.

So yes, Superman and Martian Manhunter and Starfire? They get mercy/aren't typically on the chopping block even if they get temporarily turned evil b/c they're 'one of the good ones' and also typically humanoid and made of meat.

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Lois and Clark pursue Batman for both child abuse and idk—everything else, how about that? I think it'd make for a very interesting plot: it goes into how you see things clearly when you're the third party. That it's very easy to say what's right or wrong when you're not the one involved.

But when it's one of your colleagues/friends who has a habit of taking orphans/abusing them or basically being a one man fascist deep state—then what do you do? He works with you. You're supposed to be a hero. When Lex Luthor does it, it's not okay? But if Bruce Wayne does it, it is? Think Clark, think. You saw he kicked Dick out, Clark. You've seen the way he treats the kids, you've seen the way he treats the League. You've seen his attitude towards the poor and marginalised. You're someone who understands him deeply and knows what makes him tick and you know why he is the way he is. But if you let him roam free and abuse everyone around you, what kind of hero do you call yourself? Do you make excuses for him because it's “not that simple?”

So, yeah. Batman vs Superman that actually makes sense.

P.S. the child abuse I'm talking about isn't the “Robin is child endangerment” argument. It's [waves hand] everything else.

P.P.S: I hate that panel of Wally tearing Bruce a new one concerning “children superheroes”. I mean, it makes sense. Wally grew up with Dick, he knows what kind of parent Bruce was. And they have the entire Justice League hissing through their teeth and going all “he did not say that. Lol.” and they think they're revolutionary or cool or any of these things.

But they're not.

What is the Justice League if it condones abuse within its circles. What is the Justice League when it sees a hero mistreating their sidekick and does nothing about it? Because they know him?

pattern recognition

‘constitutional rights’ 

‘the american civil liberties union’

‘laws’

‘prisoner rights’

the acknowledgement that these things exist. 

the implication - subtle or overt - that these things are undesirable, or foolish, or at least ineffective. they’re a joke. they don’t matter. 

what matters, then? control. power. keeping the dangerous monsters that threaten us locked away, through whatever means necessary. and inhumane, torturous means ARE necessary, can always be justified by just how evil and bad and POWERFUL this prisoner is. 

the message, reinforced, over and over and over: prison is for bad people. bad people in prison are powerful. prison must sometimes hurt the bad powerful people to make sure the bad powerful people don’t escape. 

i mean, i’m not saying comic books are solely responsible for the fact that prisoners in America are treated like animals and nobody, nobody on the left or the right or fucking anywhere else gives even the tiniest shit. i’m not saying comic books are solely responsible for the fact that wonder woman’s pants cause a greater uproar than the constant, graphic, gratuitous depictions of prisoner abuse in Suicide Squad. 

but comic books have been publishing shit like this for decades, and i think it is at least fair to say they have not helped.

Fistina's promised reward for doing her time in prison is the opportunity to become a cop, promised after helping save the day.

Kevin- someone abused and groomed by a group of cops- his 'good' future consists of either being a cop running around foiling the plots of the group that abused him and others over and over because the cops decided nothing concrete could actually be done about them, or being a cop running the 2.0 version of the group, depending on how you interpret the line.