an ex art student’s lament
….i went to the art institute of schaumburg and this is ALL TRUE
an ex art student’s lament
….i went to the art institute of schaumburg and this is ALL TRUE
I’ve drawn a number of NSFW stories for Slipshine, in both the Dumbing of Age and Shortpacked! universes. They were drawn for Slipshine, they belong to Slipshine, and so they aren’t mine to sell. However, Slipshine has decided to gift PDFs of my first two Slipshine stories to all pledgers if we reach $75,000! That’s both the Walky/Dorothy (Dumbing of Age) and Robin/Leslie stories (Shortpacked!) which will be made available for pledgers to download after the end of the Kickstarter pledge period. Whether you pledge $5 or $300, these PDFs can be yours!
There is no other way to get these other than being a Slipshine subscriber (which I recommend, because I have other stuff on there, will continue to have more stuff, and everything else on there is pretty swell). Slipshine was very generous in letting me give these out! Hopefully we reach $75k so their generosity can be made real.
huh sudden influx of $5 pledges, weird
deathpigeon asked:
This is true. I’m flirting with the possibility of maybe someday potentially showing some actual nudity. I want to, but I worry about that whole NSFW thing, and my desire to tackle (ha) this sort of thing is slightly less than my energy available to construct the means of obscuring or prewarning the content somehow for at-work readers.
And then there’s the whole claptrap of advertisers, many of whom consider nudity automatically pornography, and then whoops there goes all my money if attention is paid.
So if I’m smart and don’t get too drunk one night, you’d probably have to find that stuff on my DeviantArt or here on Tumblr instead.
That said, Walky IS the only character I’ve drawn the actual penis of, unobscured, in a web-published comic strip. Though that was in another universe and he was kind of floating in a resurrection chamber, so there may have been shrinkage issues. Not the best of conditions.
tameweevil asked:
Bottom left, first thing below the strip, right above the “Archives” bar. If you’ve gotten to the “NSFW” Slipshine ad, you’ve gone too far.
…OR JUST FAR ENOUGH, AMIRITE????
designedtodominate asked:
You’re not very good at reading.
I in fact supported you having porn on your Tumblr. That’s what “sex positive” means. The idea that sex isn’t automatically bad. It’s why I used the phrase. Before you go toe to toe with me you should learn how to finish a paragraph.
It’s the little naked crying anime preteens that cause me to raise my eyebrow.
Also, I disagree about girlwriteswhat.
I’ve drawn a number of NSFW stories for Slipshine, in both the Dumbing of Age and Shortpacked! universes. They were drawn for Slipshine, they belong to Slipshine, and so they aren’t mine to sell. However, Slipshine has decided to gift PDFs of my first two Slipshine stories to all pledgers if we reach $75,000! That’s both the Walky/Dorothy (Dumbing of Age) and Robin/Leslie stories (Shortpacked!) which will be made available for pledgers to download after the end of the Kickstarter pledge period. Whether you pledge $5 or $300, these PDFs can be yours!
There is no other way to get these other than being a Slipshine subscriber (which I recommend, because I have other stuff on there, will continue to have more stuff, and everything else on there is pretty swell). Slipshine was very generous in letting me give these out! Hopefully we reach $75k so their generosity can be made real.
It’s baffling how much popularity and patreon money has coralus gained by drawing copious amounts of hardcore gay Transformers porn and drama around it. She aspires to become an IDW artist but her career is botched up already.
I want to point out how Rude this is. Considering its not even close to constructive. She gets all this support because shes a skilled artist, spends LOTS of time working on things, not just Transformers. And clearly the person who sent this is a pissbaby who can’t accept the fact they themselves are getting no attention.
Funny how I see “Bootleg” and “Botched” Thrown around so far at 2 very VERY great artist. And a lot more lately. It’s time to get a grip, stop crying about other people and worry about yourselves. You stoop SO LOW to send a post full of tears to a gossip blog, it’s actually so pathetic its funny.
I know weird, people who do great work get popular and followers. And funny how they also get cowards as well.
‘I can’t believe this talented and adored artist gets /money/ for drawing the things she and her friends like, how fucking dare’
Anon is clearly salty b/c no one gives a shit about them/their existence/their art
cry me a fucking river
Oh anon…..are you REALLY assuming that certain comic book artists in the professional field don’t have NSFW content?
Oh boy do I have a surprise for you.
Cry me a fucking river anon, you so salty.
ha ha ha ha ha ha
So you’re young and queer and everything you know about sex has come from porn because nobody’s teaching it to you at school and frankly some of what you’ve witnessed is terrifying. You’re intrigued by sex and your hormones are raging and you want to have sex but you don’t want to get fisted while someone beats you with a cheese grater. You’re young and your baseline state of being is *uncomfortable* and *powerless* and you just want some semblance of control and something resembling comfort and you want to find people who don’t make you feel so weird all the time. You see queer people reveling in being weird, and you’re panicking that people think you’re like that because the last thing you want is to be seen as weird. You’re gay but you’re not gay-gay, you’re normal if you can just ignore this one small difference.
And then here comes a group of people who commiserate with you, but only on the surface. They, too, hate how weird Pride is, how weird queer culture is, how terrifying queer sexuality is, how awful kink is. They tell you that your discomfort is actually a form of harm, that nobody should ever make you think about the things you don’t want to think about, that you should be protected from it. They use the language of social justice and it feels like social justice to you. People are doing things to you! Without your consent! It’s psychic rape! How dare they?
But then you get older and you scratch beneath the surface and remove the masks and find that underneath, those people who told you that you were being harmed were intense homophobes, who found queer sexuality terrifying because they found queer people terrifying. They don’t “consent” to queers being sexy or kinky because they don’t “consent” to queers existing. They consider all sex bad, and queer people as inherently sexual, so queer people are inherently bad unless they go out of their way to desexualize themselves as much as possible. And you find that they’re transphobes and terfs and they consider trans identities to be fetishes and this is why they want to hide fetish. As soon as they’re done driving all the sexy, kinky, trans queers into hiding with your help, they can move onto the less outrageous queers. They’re moving onto you, even though you’d never call yourself queer because you’re young and uncomfortable and afraid of being weird. They’re uncomfortable and they learned that their discomfort was harm and they never sat down to examine those feelings. They’re the Karens of the world calling the cops on black folks for just existing in their vicinity. They think children should be completely sheltered from all that liberal nonsense.
And the queer elders try to speak up, try to tell the young ones about our history, but it’s so hard when we keep getting entire generations wiped out in the holocaust and the AIDS crisis. Our books burned and our people left for dead. Half of those left only survived through assimilation and internalizing that they needed to shed all of their queerness and become plastic Barbies and Kens, perfect and sexless, and this worked for them, in a way, in that they survived, so they think that this is a reasonable solution. Just cover up and get married and live quietly. Disown the loud queers, the ones still demanding more, the ones still pushing boundaries, the ones who don’t want to hide, who question the rules. They rewrite history to say gay rights were won when marriage was won and now the fight is over and anyone who is still complaining should shut up, lest our overlords hear and take away what little we were allowed to have.
The truth of the matter is that people are more naked at the beach than at Pride. Kink harnesses are normalized in fashion everywhere. Overt displays of heterosexual sexuality are everywhere. Children are not harmed by this. They will not be harmed by all of this in a queer context. No one will be harmed by this because discomfort is not harm and it was never about that. It was about hijacking discomfort for an anti-queer agenda. It’s being driven largely by sheltered teens and homophobes taking advantage of them. But the internet is a big stew where those people have the same platform and reach as queer historians and activists and hot takes spread faster than research and knowledge. We don’t have to engage. It’s settled. It’s done. Wear your gimp mask to Pride. The kids are alright.