Hey, Portfolio Day! Happy 2024!
Here’s some of my art from the past 2 years.
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🪷 Commissions are open (illustrations, skeb style/surprise me!, livestream assets, character sheets, commercial work)
Safe in ArmsThe Scarlet Furies
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✩.･*:｡• Painting vibrant & fantastic art •*:｡★ she/her･ﾟ✧
To be clear since a few people aren't getting it, this is an edit referencing an idiom. The idiom says that if you slowly increase the temperature you can boil (and kill) a frog without it noticing.The idea being it acclimates over time. An article about how your body can build up tolerance to heat listed under CLIMATE SOLUTIONS is ridiculous. This is part of an ongoing gaslighting campaign by media overall to make people think climate change (specifically global warming) is not a big deal. No amount of "getting used to it over time" will help disabled people on medications that lower heat tolerance. And if this continues people will die.
ALTA celestial gryphon portrait, done in skeb style over at VGen. She was such a treat to paint!
if parks and rec was still being made they’d do a bit where ron swanson has to wear a pronouns name tag and it’d just be “???/???” And it’d cut to a talking head of him going
“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”
photo by
Laukik Bajpai
[ID: Bluesky post by Kengo (@/rockheadkengo.bsky.social): “PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off.”
Post includes a screenshot of the PayPal privacy statement amendments:
“Amendments to the PayPal Privacy Statement
Effective November 27, 2024:
• We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you'll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we'll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you'll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under "Data and Privacy."
• We are also making other updates to our Privacy Statement including some additional disclosures related to your right, depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, to ask us for a list of the third parties to which we have disclosed personal information, and to provide other clarifying information.”
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: Chapter One
My baby daughter got her adorable puffin-print dress absolutely CAKED in mud crawling around the yard and my first thought was "oh no her beautiful dress"
And my second thought was "oh huh it really WOULD be easy to unconsciously steer her away from playing in the dirt. Unlike my son, whose outfits are usually some kind of solid dark easily washed pants plus a shirt that doesn't trail in the dirt like a dress does."
Anyway something something gender roles start getting shoved on kids from literal birth, but with a little time to think about things, YOU TOO can let your children of any gender absolutely destroy their clothes in the dirt pit they're digging in your garden
Years ago now, when my son was three or so, we were on a bus together, and there was a woman sitting near us with two kids around his age, a boy and a girl. We were in the front of the bus - the bit where some seats face the aisle instead of forwards - and as there weren't many passengers, both her kids were playing around on the seats; not disruptively so, but just in the way of wiggly kids trying to entertain themselves. The mother didn't say much to her son, but was constantly trying to get the daughter to settle - not because she was doing anything different to her brother, but because her dress kept riding up and flashing her underpants, which was a problem her pants-wearing brother didn't have.
And even though I'd already known about the ways in which girls are socialised differently to boys, seeing that scene play out really brought home to me how invisible a lot of those gendered lessons are. Because the mother wasn't trying to enforce a behavioural double standard, or expressing archaic views on ladylike behaviour, or anything like that: she was just teaching her child not to show her underpants in public, which is a necessary thing for kids to learn! But because she hadn't put her son in clothing where active play could lead to accidentally flashing, only her daughter was being coached to be conscious of how she played, how she moved, the relationship between her clothes and the gazes of the people around her, why it was important to sit still. And meanwhile her brother was carrying on uinterrupted, completely unaware of the lesson his sister was getting.
And the thing is, the problem is hardly inevitable. When I've told this story before, I've gotten responses from parents saying, "Oh, that's why we always gave our daughter bike shorts to wear under her skirts!" - and that might seem obvious, but that won't occur to everyone, especially if the option was never available in their own childhood. And so something as simple as a choice of child's clothing and historical ideas about Who Those Clothes Are For ends up dictating socialization in ways we might not consciously intend - and yet the consequences of it remain very, very real.
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