you destroy me perfectly, my enemy, my friend

Basically, the concept for my designs is that they'd have forms reflecting their perception in TLQ's mind, a sort of mental image if you will. This also plays into how I perceive the voices as small personalized aspects of The Shifting Mound letting them be something unique to the others and TLQ themself. That's also why he isn't a crow, I figured he'd be imaged as something more flashy and bright. The form takes inspiration from Swans, Kings of Saxony, and Bleeding Heart Doves (Which I see as like- the pinnacle Smitten bird). Smitten in particular I chose to be a paper puppet. I liked the idea of him being represented by medium often used for shows or stories, a medium that could let him be the center of attention felt fitting. I also liked the connection between Damsel deconstruction and Smitten's single-minded devotion being represented by one-dimensionality (Damsel getting less detailed and "flatter" and Smitten being paper-thin). Additionally, the puppet doubling as a shadow puppet works really well for HEA and, though it isn't pictured, I'd imagine the shadow would be changed and have fiery looking head and tail feathers (I'll probably draw a ref for that soon). When it comes to the function detail, I do imagine I'm going to draw this design digitally more often than not since the irl puppet is a bit hard to maneuver (as you'd expect) but I want to keep the segmented look and the connection points. I do also think I'd want to make the face, neck, and hands/feet changeable just for the sake of expression and pose.

[PT: Happy pride month to varsex and TGD (trans & gender diverse) folks! /End PT]

Happy pride to transfems, gender diverse fems, varsex fems!

Happy pride to transmascs, gender diverse mascs, varsex mascs!

Happy pride to transandrogynes, gender diverse androgynes, varsex androgynes!

Happy pride to transneutrals, cisneutrals, other modality neus, varsex neutrals!

Happy pride to transnulls, cisnulls, other modality nulls, varsex nulls!

Happy pride to transagenrines, cisagenrines, other modality agenrines, varsex agenrines!

Happy pride to transoutherines, cisoutherines, other modality outherines, varsex outherines!

Happy pride to transxenines, cisxenines, other modality xenines, varsex xenines!

Happy pride to transaporines, cisaporines, other modality aporines, varsex aporines!

Happy pride to transmultis, cismultis, other modality multigender & multidirectional folks, varsex multigender & multidirectional folks!

Happy pride to folks with an unlabeled gender!

Happy pride to culturally gendered folks!

Happy pride to dysex, ersex, and altersex folks!

Happy pride to intersex folks with ambiguous genitalia, ambiguous reproductive organs, or "mixed" characteristics!

Happy pride to intersex folks with urethral or penile traits!

Happy pride to intersex folks on the agenital or areproductive spectrum!

Happy pride to intersex folks on the split/duplicated reproductive or genital spectrum!

Happy pride to intersex folks with hormonal variations!

Happy pride to intersex folks with chromosomal variations!

Happy pride to intersex folks who don't know what their variation is!

And as a final note- this pride month, please start encouraging people to:

-Call non-binary people enbies/enben instead of "they/thems." Non-binary people are more than just pronouns, and not all of them use those pronouns anyways!

-Stop misusing AFAB/AMAB language [link]! AFAB/AMAB does not describe anatomy or socially imposed gender! It only describes an event at birth. Let's encourage more inclusive language!

-Stop perpetuating that intersex = third sex. Intersexuality is a wide spectrum!

-Stop using intersexist slurs (the h-slur, the fu-slur) and misusing the term intersex! Use proper terminology, like cosexual, dualsex, duomorphic, altersex, etc! [link]

[PT: And as a final note- this pride month, please start encouraging people to:

-Call non-binary people enbies/enben instead of "they/thems." Non-binary people are more than just pronouns, and not all of them use those pronouns anyways!

-Stop misusing AFAB/AMAB language [link]! AFAB/AMAB does not describe anatomy or socially imposed gender! It only describes an event at birth. Let's encourage more inclusive language!

-Stop perpetuating that intersex = third sex. Intersexuality is a wide spectrum!

I have not managed to find anyone who thinks that in the wild, but it is so damn funny.

"He's right!" A voice echoes from the back of the crowd.

POV: the stupid voice in your head wills a cave-in into existence to kill you and your wife feral beast checks in on you after you escape

+ref image

(context he said “all politicians are sociopaths”)

Proud to say I was able to do this for my mom, albeit for NPD instead of ASPD (I still don't know if she got the memo that it applies to "sociopath" too, but I haven't heard her call anyone that in a while so I hope so)