REZQ

Just another art dump as I don't post here much! Mostly these are pictures of Thom. Thom is a deep space rescue worker for the nightmarishly bad employer REZQ - you can read his story in bitesize illustrated fiction moments by going to http://rezq.space. It’s a hypertext story and you can read the bits in any order, and they’ll build up a picture of Thom’s life. If you like dystopian hypercapitalist science fiction you might like it, even if you’re not a furry. I’m actually an OK writer!

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I gotta say... I really love your sketches and character design of Thom and I'm starting get more into the worldbuilding in your work.

I'm thinking of doing fan art of Thom later on because of how cool it really is. The catch, though, is that I enjoy drawing fat positive characters/redesigns.

Is it alright to do that with your characters? I'm genuinely curious how you would feel about that.

Hello anon! Thanks for your kind words! I am always gratified when people enjoy my stuff, and when they like Thom in particular it makes me real happy. And even happier when they want to draw Thom. In short while it's not my specific area of interest/expertise, I absolutely have no problem if you want to do a fat-positive take on Thom. It's not something I know much about, but I'm cool with it (and, actually, you would not be the first). I am very flattered and grateful you'd be interested enough to do your spin on the character. So please do!

It’s dumb. I’m sorry. I'm fucking this up. I'm being dumb. I'm dumb. I'm sorry

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Thom babbled, getting to his knees and reaching for Branson.

“Wait. Don’t go. I’m sorry, I just. It’s dumb. I fucked up before. I fucked up really bad last time I got together with someone. It got weird. I guess I’m still like. Expecting things to go like that. I’m sorry. Wait. Please.”

Thom looked down at the floor, scared to watch Branson walk out on him. Not wanting that burned into his memory. Not wanting that new final memory to erase the one of the hug.

He repeated.

“It’s dumb. I’m sorry. I'm fucking this up. I'm being dumb. I'm dumb. I'm sorry.”

“Hey. Hey.”

Branson’s voice was close. He had placed his hands on Thom’s cheeks again, and gently tilted his face up to reveal his wide eyes. Another bloom of light from outside made the wetness in them shine brightly.

“Take it easy. Take a breath. I'm not going anywhere. I just had to get a wipe for my hands before I got this stuff in your face fur, alright? And you're not dumb. It's not dumb. You're not fucking anything up. And don’t apologise.”

Branson stroked Thom’s soft cheek fur with his thumbs.

“There's no rush here at all, Thom, alright? Relax. It's gonna be fine. If you want, you can tell me what happened last time. I promise I won’t judge you. I swear. You don’t have to, but if it’s bothering you, maybe it’ll help to share it.”

A long silence from Thom as he sank, this time in a manner with which he was far more familiar. He had fucked this up. It was over. He was not going to be any good to Branson.

Panicking useless little fucking crying pussy bitch, you shut up, I teach you, I teach you be useful–

The low ache of despair was threatening to bloom through him like black mould. In an impulsive flash he imagined Branson’s hands were around his neck, not on his face, and after a pulse of arousal at the thought had passed, he felt even worse. All the rich food and the booze felt like it might return and he was hyperventilating to try and stop it.

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Scene from the last part of my story Manson and Branson. Thom having a mental crisis as he confronts the fact that he may be sexually incompatible with the older man he desperately wants to please.

"It’s dumb, I’m sorry, I'm fucking this up, I'm being dumb, I'm dumb, I'm sorry..."

So uhhh I've been doing tons of writing about Thom and the REZQ setting recently. Unexpectedly a lot of it has been queer adult fiction.

This is a drawing from an upcoming scene in the story Manson and Branson which is set in a period of Thom's life where he's very alone, has come out of a very brutal and toxic situationship with a superior from work, and encounters a kind older wolflike guy who starts to set him on the path to figuring things out.

There are three parts so far and I'm working on the fourth (and final, I think):

Part 1: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y3j6y27xaji0csasziqll/Manson-and-Branson.rtf?rlkey=rgbewhireana3i9cu9f2kceuy&st=6kxqwqwj&dl=0

Part 2: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/836mr48urm0eztw5dszan/Manson-and-Branson-part-2.rtf?rlkey=tyqfdaloxhu7l7feohs8zvfxw&st=6jtiwu7f&dl=0

There's probably very few people here who aren't already following me elsewhere, and posting stuff on tumblr without being attached to some kind of fandom does feel kinda like shouting into the void in 2024, but just in case, here is a dump of sketches and doodles of my character Thom. I've been working hard recently to try to get used to drawing him quickly and also injecting a lot of motion and dynamism into his poses.

Thom is a deep space rescue worker for the nightmarishly bad employer REZQ - you can read his story in bitesize illustrated fiction moments by going to http://rezq.space. It's a hypertext story and you can read the bits in any order, and they'll build up a picture of Thom's life. If you like dystopian hypercapitalist science fiction you might like it, even if you're not a furry. I'm actually an OK writer!