Celtic Pyro

KINDNESS IS PUNK ROCK

MAKING MISTAKES IS WHAT MAKES YOU HUMAN

YOUR LIFE IS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE

YOU BELONG

ALSO KILL EVIL PEOPLE

Supergirl:

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE NICE TO BE GOOD

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO FEEL ANGER AT SHITTY THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU

BREAKING CYCLES OF VIOLENCE

HOME IS WHERE YOUR PEOPLE ARE

Oh god this blog turned a year old when I wasn't looking. HI GUYS!

I am so sorry I haven't been around; I've been so busy BUT I do really want to come back and work on Tethered again.

To celebrate, I have redrawn our Chain!

I have also decided that I want to rename at least 2 of our Links: Sky and Wind. They shall be known as Heron and Tide from now on!

Anyways, here's our returning redraws! I have noticed my artstyle has shifted so much in the past year:

I’d read the articles that young people have no privacy and have become so accustomed to it that they enact on themselves. Abstractly I knew this and had accepted it, but it’s only now that I’m seeing it become a major issues.

Obviously part of the problem is I need to become a trusted member of my new fandom. But fandom in general is becoming far more hostile to privacy than even just 5 years ago.

I’ve had to leave 3 servers that want to do age verification. And this is new. Not even 5 years ago when I started zines ppl just turning 18-20 were far more receptive to the ideas espoused by us older folks about not being surveilled. But now it almost feels like they *want* to be surveilled.

They’ve become so used to it from tiktok and their government that they crave it. I’d write a dystopia about it but unfortunately what even is there to say that hasn’t already been said?

If you’re 18-22 now and you’re reading this and willing to listen without immediately calling me suspicious: this is not normal. Age verification will not keep you safe and will not keep minors safe either. It will only lead to the normalization of further surveillance and erosion of your privacy.

I know it can be an unwieldy text especially if you’re not used to reading academic sources, but go read The Panopticon. Watch V for Vendetta or read the comic, read 1984. Watch The Lives of Others and understand the ways this modern era is not so different from the Stasi in the film.

Please.

fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes

gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org

mermaids - supports trans youth

akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity

loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england

Trans Aid Cymru - supporting trans people in wales

Queer Emporium - hub of queer businesses and events

And ones who operate in Wales but also across the UK

TIN Wadrobe - supplying clothes for trans and gnc people

Scottish Trans - Trans advocacy, information and social events. Run by the Equality Network, a broader Scottish LGBTQI advocacy group.

LEAP Sports Scotland - Sports charity that advocates for queer inclusion in sports, runs trans sports groups (Trans Active) in at least Glasgow and Edinburgh that I can absolutely recommend.

LGBT Health & Wellbeing - Not trans specific but includes trans specific, trans led and trans inclusive support and social events, and supports a variety of smaller community-run subgroups.

And another couple UK-wide:

Gender Identity Research & Education Society - Trans led charity supporting research on trans matters and education/training on trans inclusion. Does consultancy for public and private sector organisations.

The four hours of sleep and two packs of crackers that consist of all I've eaten of today:

this and also if you’re going to have people commission you for fics, if you’re going to link your ko-fi or ways for people to donate or give you money in any way, shape or form, make sure you talk about it outside of ao3. you can’t mention anything about money or donations on ao3, as it is against the site’s terms of service and yes, you absolutely can get reported for it.

It’s really that simple.

morpho books

figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)

framed ink

will eisner comics and sequential art

will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative

understanding comics (+ making comics)

folder of various animation production art

burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands

perspective for comic book artists

michael mattesi force drawing

the animator's survival kit

color and light james gurney