full of whimsy and staying silly

"May I have this dance?"

I've had my Borderlands AU for a while now, and I've been working on a lot of things dedicated to it.

It's a passion project of mine that combines everything I love and crave in media: an old-fashioned cartoon look, 2D animation, Atlantis- and Sinbad-inspired visuals and storytelling, and characters and dynamics that I personally enjoy. My dream is to create an actual cartoon one day, but for now, that's too much work for one person xD

I started learning animation because I wanted to bring Vaughn, Hedwig and my other characters to life, and I'm slowly getting there 🐸 I haven't posted everything here, and there's a lot more on my Patreon, take a look if you're interested.

I’ve also spent most of this summer struggling with my health after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, which is why I haven't posted in a while. I'm slowly getting better now, though. Working on this project gives me life and helps take my mind off things 💀💅

P.S. The three-eyed mutant frog is supposed to search the ground for truffles and other edible things, like chicken-flavored larvae, lol. That was my idea.

Don't forget to look for more frogs hidden in some of the artwork!

like, right from the get-go Freya is just a certified badass? The way she's been circumventing her nasty husband's advances? AMAZING. In the first few chapters she straight up kills that mans, with an ON FIRE AXE. GOD FIRE AXE, I MIGHT ADD, THAT ISN'T EVEN HERS. AND SHE GETS HIM. I WAS LIKE. HELL YEAH!!!

And THEN I was like hell NO when the other yucky Jarl takes her with him to be her second wife bc she's the ding dang shieldmaiden. Like. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE HER A CHOICE?? PLEASE???

AND LIKE. BETWEEN THESE TWO THINGS SHE MEETS MOTHER FUCKING BJORN AND IS LIKE. IMMEDIATELY ATTRACTED TO HIM. And their banter. Is SO GOOD. I am enjoying it and them IMMENSELY. Like, I'm maybe JUST halfway through and they've FINALLY TALKED and like. HELL YEAH! THE YEARNING! THE TENSION! FINALLY IT'S ABOUT TO BREAK AND HE'S GONNA BETRAY THE SHIT OUT OF HER!! Cause like, Freya, I love you, but he's being MIGHTY SUS right now. He is still 100% my fave character but FREYA! FREYA I THINK HE'S THE ONE PLOTTING WITH THE NORTH! FREYA! FREYA!! FREYA!!!

I will say, idk much about Nordeland, aside from cold and everything the Jarls of Skaland say, but from what I've seen? of BOTH places in the book so far?? I think Skaland is like. INSANELY messed up and the Jarl who THINGS he's going to be king needs to like, die yesterday. He SUCKS. GOD. So, like, i'm kinda excited to see how this goes, ANYWAY!

go to discord support ( https://support.discord.com )

sign in or sign up (you do not, and imo should not, use the name and email you use for discord proper. this is a different account; if you've got Firefox, you can use an email relay mask very easily, and the email will end up in your inbox but the site won't know your email from it)

"Submit a request" (at the top)

fill all the dropdowns (I did "Help & Support" -> "Technical Support" -> "Account Settings" -> "[OS type"). it won't let you proceed until you do

Subject line: something about age verification

description box: keep it civil, but be clear. you don't like this, you're not participating, and you're not giving them your money anymore (whether you had nitro or not is irrelevant, remember that you didn't use your actual discord login to get here and they have no way to verify).

some reasons possibly worth mentioning: the insecurity of databases (Discord's had multiple leaks; databases being hacked isn't possible to prevent afaik, it's a matter of mitigation), the dangers of putting one's govt id on such a database, the technical problems people are already experiencing where it's already been established, how it will disrupt communities

be very clear that this is going to cost them money. "I won't use your service anymore" is a common threat ("I'm never shopping here again!") - you need to make them feel that they are losing money just by considering it, and it will get much worse if it's implemented.

I do it too, I’m not going to pretend I don’t make jokes about the hets, or the down with cis bus, or whatever

But I recently befriended a cis, straight dude and I have watched him be dismissed, degraded, and unambiguously insulted for the perceived “crime” of being straight — all in queer environments where he is allegedly “completely welcome” and surrounded by “friends”

This guy is not a toxic person! But I have seen him be made to feel so small and like his comfort and safety in those spaces are conditional on his silence and acceptance of being treated like a human dunk zone, and I think that some of y’all have had so much shit from straight/cis people that the second you feel like you’ve got an inch, you want to luxuriate in the perceived catharsis of bullying someone who— actually —doesn’t deserve it

And until he very, very carefully mentioned to me in private that it makes him feel bad, I didn’t even clock that I was involved in doing that, that it had become so instinctive for me to make casual jokes like that, and that— well meaning or otherwise —I had been contributing to an environment that made someone I really really like feel like shit

I’m gonna say this point blank— you’re a tar pit if you think this way

Your suffering does not make you special, you are not granted brand new permissions to be belligerent and cruel because you have been treated poorly, straight people aren’t an oppressed class, no, but they’re people who are entitled to the same amount of basic decency that you, yourself, are entitled to