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The Ex!
I really like the idea that she initially passes for human, but after spending 30 years on the bottom of the creek sheâs had some damage exposing the more android-y parts of her, which also explains why people after that first episode seem to identify her as an android On Sight⌠It also forces her to adapt to some physical change and in some sense take more control over her body/appearance in her recovery, which I think is great as part of her character arc :)
Anyway, really pleased with how the shading turned out on this one, so have a detail shot
LIBUZAAAA
Wanted to experiment with some different coloring styles, very pleased with how this came out!
Vergeâs plasma gun, new vs now
I want a Mungo

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sometimes something being heterosexual in themes is needed for the story that is being told and i think is important in order to create a proper ecosystem of queer narrative.
by this i mean the problem with straight fiction is often that it doesn't consider itself straight, it simply is. by contrast queer is a choice (the old classic "straight, white, able-bodied, cis, peri, man" is a universal story, whereas anything else is specific to That Demographic).
it's important to read heterosexuality, because it's saying something specific about society. deconstructing universality (again, similar to any other of those above-mentioned so-called "universal" traits) makes heterosexuality and heteronormativity (not the same thing) a thematic choice that interacts with queerness more authentically than if one simply slots man a into man b (as it were).
it's also interesting because a lot of analysis that decouples from heterosexuality on this here webbed site, does so in a way that -- as many have said before and will again -- handily also tends to remove women and people of colour and queer people who aren't gay cis men. it's not really interrogating text, it's merely substituting one form of universality with another without changing the core biases of said text (substituting heteronormativity with homonormativity).
when i read characters and/or themes as heterosexual, it's because those themes have relevance to the text and i want to highlight them (even if said text thinks that they're universal). yes, sometimes a text isn't aware that it's making things queer, but sometimes fans have a tendency to make things gay (not necessarily queer) that aren't doing the text justice.
examples include: an angry straight man isn't necessarily or lbr primarily angry because he's secretly queer, but because straight men are socially raised to make anger a dominant emotion, burying other more healthy expressions and feelings. a storyline about that experience is interesting because he's straight.
a man and a woman being in a relationship isn't necessarily less interesting than two men in a relationship, and in fact the canon version may have way more substance than the one in which he leaves her (and she's angry but then accepts it every time) for a man. a storyline about this relationship is interesting because it may be challenging or modelling or deconstructing or playing with or simply presenting.
a man and a woman who have broken up isn't necessarily more interesting to read from the perspective of him having buried queer feelings that lead to [being a bad partner/being incompatible/outside forces making it the wrong time/etc], but can uncover a lot about heteronormative (AND amatonormative) cultural ideas about what a relationship "should be like" and how one can be more healthy in decoupling (ha) from those norms.
and also, these are interesting because of women. the angry straight man and his inability to emotionally connect with his partner leads them to break up says a lot about her role (and no, the narrative in question may not always be interested in her, but i can be) and how she exists in society and maybe also her flaws (is she someone who always wants to "fix" men? is she also holding onto toxic ideas about what a real man "should be"? does she not believe in better for herself? is she also angry all the time? does she want the relationship to fail? etcetc).
im not immune to "this makes no sense, gay be upon ye (regardless of gender jean harlow and myrna loy in libeled lady pls i believe you can do better)" but sometimes it does actually make sense and it's not sentencing a character to the straight salt mines of disinterest
also also, im always interested in how this interacts with queerness. are there queer characters in the thing? if not, where would they be? are there parts of the story that do read as queerer than intended and how do these clash with heterosexuality and heteronormativity in the text?
(couple of movies off the top of my head that seem cognisant of their heteronormative deconstructions, stepford wives, gone girl, daisies, fight club, american psycho....... (and yes we can discuss how these last two are very popular with a certain guy who thinks they're cool)) (maybe i need another list)
The Sisters
(pink is Teta, white/blue is Kazi, yellow/teal is Jezinka, orange/yellow is Libuza)
david and caspar in the diner!!!
inspired by @weymythical 's fic The Pasadena Chronicles go read it rn if u haven't it's incredible
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Sooooooo I was lucky enough to do the episode art for episode 51 of @midnightburgr , Demon Time :D
I had so much fun doing it, and learned a lot of new things, and Iâm really pleased with how it came out! Iâll post some of the design thoughts/process for the character and the chair later⌠If you include the design process along with the sketch and render, I spent almost 60 hours on this thing, and I Regret None Of It. I donât usually do this much perspective, or background, or,,,, well, a lot of it, and Iâm so very excited about it!
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Posted a second chapter!
Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Midnight Burger (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ava & Caspar (Midnight Burger), Ava Maddox & Caspar Scott Characters: Ava (Midnight Burger), Ava Maddox, Caspar (Midnight Burger), Caspar Scott, Leif (Midnight Burger), Leif Thorvaldson, Effie Mucklewain, Zebulon Mucklewain Additional Tags: Missing Scene, One Shot, (at least for now), Pre-Canon Series: Part 3 of Origin Stories and Missing Scenes Summary:
A continuation of the flashback scene from episode 12, Ted Just Admit It.
In other words, Ava interrogates Caspar about the diner for so long it starts to feel like a hostage situation.

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I was contemplating the way Gloria keeps everyone at armâs length by referring to them as staff when talking to Fiona. And like, sure, Gloria was approaching the conversation from the standpoint of a manager whose literal staff (minus Ava but also not) did in fact help kidnap Fiona. But, I feel like itâs part of a larger emotional pattern. You see it best when Gloria seems to take on this intense burden of care (for the restaurant, for a dispossessed people, for the latest downtrodden soul to eat lunch there). Sheâs capable of asking for help, but to execute a plan that she bears sole responsibility for.
And as I was contemplating all that I realized⌠not only can Gloria not bear the thought of losing the diner, and all that that means, she canât go through losing someone again. Her parents died when she was young and she carries that around every time she cooks because thatâs her history. And on Earth, at a certain point, she was so lonely even with friends that The Diner scooped her up. It gave her a family of crazy people to love and take care of â to cook for and learn from and with. But you can see between her brave faces and swearing sheâll be fine when the diner goes dark that sheâs just so tired of losing. Which, of course, made me cry.
BUT.
Then I was thinking about the conversation Kazi has with Gloria about guilt for not being able to save them all, the way Caspar tries to protect Gloria from bearing the weight of a truly unbearable burden, and specifically what happens this current season.
Kazi asks what kind of person she would be if she didnât take advantage of Gloria being able to steer the diner. But even before Team Sisters and Team MB get split up after the meeting with Krok, Kazi almost backs down from that approach in a way. Because Gloria says, in the freezer after sheâs stolen/liberated some snow leopards, she canât âleave any of them behind.â And Kazi doesnât egg her on, really. She just talks about a blessing denied (the diner and all it can do), is just another burden. Even when Gloria asks how they COULD save everyone, Kazi tells her thatâs for later and to celebrate their most recent victory, symbolic though it may be.
Cut to this season where Kazi is not just gaining control of the colonies her father has made, but freeing people. Freeing them to the point of leading fleets through warp gates at just the right time to escape retaliatory volleys from Krok. To the point of almost DYING because she was doing that! Kazi! Not fucking Tita, KAZIIIII. What kind of general does THAT Kazi?
And it just made me even more emotional because, like, Kazi is yet another person out here falling for Gloriaâs big brown puppy eyes full of life and the desire to save everyone at any cost. And STILL, Gloria is out here being regarded as this solo savior which almost further alienates her from the people she already holds at arms length. OH, Iâm going to be sick, sheâs so verbal and involved that it doesnât seem like sheâs dodging emotions until you look too close and the veneer cracks.
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âX bodily fluid is just filtered blood!â buddy I hate to break it to you but ALL of the fluids in your body are filtered blood. Your circulatory system is how water gets around your body. It all comes out of the blood (or lymph, which is just filtered blood).
âOkay but why is it always so chemically roundabout and unnecessarily complicatedâ well buddy, thatâs because your blood is imitation seawater. See? Itâs very simple.
Blood is what now?
Itâs imitation seawater what part is confusing
#are you telling me#humans are just sentient aquariums?Â
Buddy if anything is living in your blood (except for more parts of you) in detectable amounts then you have a serious microbial infection and need to go to the hospital.
Humans are seawater wastelands kept sterile of all but human cells, with microbial mats coating their surfaces.
Thank you thatâsâŚvery disturbing
Itâs not my fault youâre human.
Ok but âItâs not my fault youâre human.â Is the best comeback ever.
You can use it against anyone except children that you biologically helped to create.
#/blood is imitation seawater/ is the part thatâs confusingÂ
Picture this: you are a Thing That Lives In The Ocean. Some kind of small multicellular animal a long time ago, before proper circulatory systems existed. âWow,â you think, metaphorically, âit sure is difficult to diffuse chemicals across my whole body. Kinda puts a hard limit on the size and distance of what specialised organs I can have. Good thing I have all this water around me thatâs the same salinity as my cells (they have to be that way so I donât explode or shrivel up) so I can diffuse and filter chemicals with that.â
âWait a minute,â you say a couple of generations later, because youâre not actually a small animal but an evolutionary process personified and simplified to the point of dangerous inaccuracy for the purposes of a Tumblr post, âinstead of losing all these important chemicals to the water around me, how about I put it in tubes? I can keep MY water separate from the rest of the worldâs water! Anything I want to keep goes in my water! Anything I donât, I dump back into the outside water! Iâm a genius! An unthinking natural trial-and-error process thatâs a GENIUS!â
âWow,â you think a great many generations later, âbeing able to have such control over such high concentrations of important chemicals is so great. Look how big Iâm getting. I even have a special pump to move my seawater around, and these cool filter systems to keep the chemicals in it right, and that control and chemical concentration has let me grow so many energy-intensive, highly specialised organs! Being big is so hard. I need special cells just to carry my oxygen around now, to make sure my enormous, constantly-operating body has enough of it.â
At this point you are embodying a fish, and eventually, fish start straying into water with different pressures and salinity levels. (I mean, they do that since befor ehtyâer fish, but⌠look, Iâm trying to keep things simple here.) âWhat the FUCK,â you think. âMy inside water is at a different salinity and pressure to the outside water?? How am I supposed to deal with that? I canât have freshwater inside my seawater tubes! My cells have a set salinity and they would explode! I need to start beefing up my regulatory and filter systems so that my inside seawater STAYS SEAWATER OF THE CORRECT SALINITY even if the outside water is different! Fortunately, adding salt to my seawater is a lot easier than removing it, and I want to be saltier than this weird outside water.â At this point you beef up your liver and urinary systems to compensate for different salinities. (Note: the majority of fish, freshwater and saltwater, have a fairly narrow band of salinities they can live in. Every fish doesnât get to deal with every level of salinity; they are evolved to regulate within specific bands.)
You also, at some point, go out on land. This is new and weird because you have to carry all of your water inside. âItâs a good thing I turned myself into a giant bag of seawater,â you think. âIf I wasnât carrying my seawater inside, how would I transport all these important chemicals between my organs and the environment?â As you specialise to live entirely outside of the water, you realise (once again) that itâs a lot easier to add salt to water than to remove it in great quantities. Drinking seawater in large amounts becomes toxic; your body isnât specialised for removing that amount of salt. Instead, you drink freshwater, and add salts to that. The majority of your organs are, at this point, specialised for moving your seawater around, protecting it, adding stuff to it, or taking stuff out. You have turned yourself into an intelligent bag for carrying and regulating a small amount of imitation seawater, and its salinity (and your commitment to maintaining that salinity) is based entirely on the seawater that some early animals started to build tubes around a long time ago.
And thatâs what a human is!
Well, thereâs another few steps, of course.
Because at some point, operating along lines of logic that worked out perfectly so far, you did decide to be a mammal.
A mammal is a machine for adapting to Circumstances. A mammal is a tremendously resilient all-terrain life-support system, with built-in heating, cooling, respiration, and incubators for reproduction. Mammals internalise everything (grudges, eggs) and furthermore are excessively, flamboyantly wet internally. Sure, everyoneâs a bag of chemicals; but mammals slosh. Mammals took the concept of an internal ocean and took it in an unnecessarily splashy direction, added aftermarket mods and a climate-control system,
and just to show off, you leaned across the metaphorical gambling table and said: âmy internal ocean is so good-â
âBullshit,â said the shark, keeping it salty (ha)
âMy internal ocean is so brilliantly resilient, more so than any of YOURS,â you said, holding their attention with a digit held aloft, âthat for my next trick, I shall artistically recreate the ballad of evolution as a performance. I shall craft a complex chemical ballet depicting the origin of multicellular life - using some of my own material, of course-â
âOh, ANYONE can lay an egg,â yodel the fish, and the ray adds: âontogeny does NOT recapitulate phylogeny!!â
And youâre like, âyeah no, itâs an artistic rendition, not a literal thing. Basically Iâm going to take some cells and brew them up-â
âLike an egg.â
âLike an egg. An egg but internally.â
âYeah,â said the viviparous reptile, âyeah, like, that can work really well. Iâve always said itâs the highest test of oneâs chemical know-how. Itâs a lot of work. And forget about support from your family - forget about support from your PHYLUM - all you get is criticism.â
âIâm gonna do it on purpose forever,â you said. âThe highest chemical, thermoregulatory, immunological, everything-logical challenge. Itâs gonna be my thing.â
âIâm with you,â said a viviparous fish, stoutly. âRepresentation.â
You kindly donât point out, once again, that youâre planning to do this outside the ocean, in a range of temperatures; carrying the dividing cells in a perfect 37.5⢠solution of saline broth in all terrains, breathing oxygen in a complicated matter, you know, bit more difficult; but you need your allies.
âItâs solid,â says the coelacanth.
âBut is it metal?â says the deep-vent organism.
âOh, itâs metal. I will feed the young,â you say, magnificently, âon an echo of the mother ocean. The first rich feast of cellular matter, the first hunt for sustenance, the first bite they sip of our liquid planet-â
Everyone waits.
âWill be a blood byproduct. My own blood byproduct.â
Everyone looks uncomfortable.
âBut,â a hagfish says carefully, âdonât you outdoorsy guys still need your blood?â
You cough and explain that if you stay wet enough internally and hydrate frequently, you should be able to produce enough blood byproduct to sustain your hellish new invention until they can eat your peers.
The outrage that follows includes questions like âis this some furry shit?â And: âmilk has WATER in it?â
And you won the bet. âMy inner ocean is such a perfect homage to the primordial soup that I can personally cook up an entire live hairy mammal in it. And then generate excess blood byproduct from my body and give it to the small mammal until it gets big.â
That is an absolutely bonkers pitch, by the way, and everyone thought you were a showoff, even before the opposable thumbs. When the winter came, and the winter of winters, and the rain was acid and the air was poison on the tender shells of their eggs and choked the children in the shells; when the plants turned to poison, and the ocean turned against you all; when the climate changed, and the worldâs children fell to shadow; your internal ocean was it that held true. A bet laid against the changing fates, a bet laid by a small beast against climate and geography and the forces of outer space, that you won. The dinosaurs fell and the pterosaurs fell and the marine reptiles dwindled, and you, furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship, held hope internally at 37.5 degrees. Which is another thing that humans do, sometimes.
It has been MONTHS, @elodieunderglass, and I am still mumbling âfurthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceshipâ under my breath as a comfort phrase, and the FUCKING INDIGNITY that it came from this godforsaken post about THE HORRIBLE WETNESS OF MAMMALS!
âThe horrible wetness of mammalsâ would make a great band name.
âhold hope, internally, at 37.5 degreesâ and âMammals internalize everything (eggs, grudges)â Now live permanently in my vocabulary
you should care about kids because theyâre people, btw. not because theyâre âfuture adultsâ but because they are people right now and they deserve to be treated like people.
Mungo! with human friend for scale. I have thought a Lot about my mungo design, and when I have time Iâll make a post explaining all the details Iâve been thinking about, but for now:
- Six Legs
- Flexible spines on the head and back that it uses for both expression and thermoregulation (similar to fennec fox ears and I think rabbit ears)
- Color is impacted by the vegetation it eats (which means fall colored mungo! flashes of color for spring flowers mungo!)
- I Love Them. Big Friend. :)

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Bit from Ted Just Admit It, which is still one of my Favorite episodes! Iâve been working on this one for Ages, Iâm really pleased with it :)
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(And some zoomed in shots because I think tumblr makes them harder to see,,,)
Bit from Ted Just Admit It, which is still one of my Favorite episodes! Iâve been working on this one for Ages, Iâm really pleased with it :)
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