Rotatin' little guys in my hands

Little fish eats his foods 

"Trouble's coming but I still don't know when That's the voice that I can hear in my head I hear it over and over again"

some more sketches of Nico! it's so nice to draw him a lot like I used to😌

Look at this awesome felt I had the pleasure of working on of @kwillow's character Theo!!! ✨ Very proud of all the little details like his glasses, cig, teeth, ... such a cool character wahhh

I'm already booked for felts for a while but I'll drop my commission info anyways (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

Clowns assemble 🤡🫵

did i wait until july 1st to even start my artfight prep this year? you bet!!!

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

An agent is a person with will power, a person who makes choices, a person who acts according to their own desirea. That’s actually the root meaning of the word, “one who acts”. Whereas an object is just a thing with no power to make decisions for itself.

OP’s “the maiden in the tower” has physical or mental-emotional limitations, sure. After all, the maiden is (most directly) a metaphore for being disabled. But the maiden is still respected enough as a person (by others or by the narrative) to be able to makes choices within those limitations. Those choices are then treated (by others or by the narrative) like they matter. That’s the important part.

Compare OP’s “the maiden in the tower” with a stereotypical “the damsel in distress”. The real problem with that trope is that the damsel is not an agent in the story, but merely an object. The damsel is ostensibly a person, yes, yet the narrative and the characters don’t treat her like a person; she might as well be a thing (like an amulet or a really good burrito) for all that she’s allowed to act on her own desires. It’s not a sexist trope just because it’s about a woman needing to be saved, but because the woman herself doesn’t actually matter to a story that is supposed to be about saving her.

and better

Love her but hate her

Her being a cat and Bob being a bird makes their whole thing even stranger........ Bob must be confused as hell

Species info -> Katt

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*cools ur dashboard down*

I'm on Team Comedy this year. As always, I'm looking forward to drawing a bunch of cool oc's :) Here is my profile.

Also, for the first time in my 8 years of joining ArtFight, I finally managed to draw matching profile pictures for all my characters I have up on AF.

Skinnyyyyyyy

my brain is so fried from the heat today

Species lore -> Harpy

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Can I offer you some animal Reynolds, Cotta, Morton and Clarissa Franklin on this frankly way too hot of a day?

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