heroes and histories

I’m opening up commissions… With the pandemic going on my Fiance is struggling to find work and since I’m physically disabled and a full time student there aren’t a whole lot of jobs I CAN do. I’m looking to tutor art and design again this year but thats not going to be possible until quarantine lifts.  Prices vary from very small sketch portraits for £5-

To full character renderings in a medium of your choice (Pencil, digital and watercolour are my best mediums) for £60:-

To complete background scenes (like the spiderverse picture above) for £120. As long as the pictures are in the order I put them, in the collection top row would be £60, second row £40, third row £20. Payments via paypal or ko-fi.

[image description: text that reads: “The people of Waterdeep are among the greatest of its splendors. Fashion, comportment, love–these things are practiced with an art and a zest in the city uncommon elsewhere. Visit a festhall or festival and see for yourself! And don’t miss the cross-dressing performers who regale audiences with humor and song. Fabulous–that word doesn’t begin to describe it, especially when they enhance the merriment with magic. The city is also a haven for those who define for themselves what it means to be a man or a woman, those who transcend gender as the gods do, and those who redefine entirely who they are. What confidence! I never tire of witnessing it. I have seen folk in Waterdeep whose lives are more magical than the marvels possible with spells.” End description.]

i think a huge barrier to d&d, for me, was that it seemed….made for other people. i don’t think i’m alone in thinking that. (also, the first time i ever tried to play was with an asshole ex-boyfriend who kinda ruined the experience but i digress.) d&d seemed exclusionary in a lot of ways.

but anyway. this passage was in a random module book that i purchased randomly without knowing at all what it contained, and maybe it made me cry on this tuesday morning but you can’t prove it. it’s a small thing, really (like, of course in a fantasy land, gender diversity is acceptable!) but it’s still a big thing to see it published in an Official D&D Resource.

Didn't know I needed to see Dev Patel as Gawain until I watched the Green Knight trailer

Dick being completely done with Bruce and Selina in Batman #3

IF YOU DON’T LIKE SUPERMAN STEP UP UR FUCKIN GAME JUST STEP UP UR FUCKIN GAME CAUSE U GOT NONE

@ my DC followers come get ur juice 

heres my fave DC dads for fathers day! 

Coming soon: A Second Darkness | a fancomic written by @anelderling and illustrated by me.

this is not incest and the creators request you do not tag it as such.

Nicholas J Fury spent one weekend in the 90s hanging out with a cool lesbian and then spent the next twenty years trying and failing to find another superhero with her general degree of competence or emotional maturity

You know he was hoping for Roger’s to be that but then capcicle woke up and poor Fury realized Captain goddamn America was a 20-something yr old disaster bi, who, despite being a literal block if ice for 70 fucking years, doesnt know the definition of “Chill”

                                                                     W a i t   f o r   i t.

dear batfam fans who wish the batkids were more diverse and spent more time appreciating each other as found family and fighting as a team and less time angsting and punching one another,

i’m 100% with you, but i also really hope you are both reading and going to see shazam because it legit has everything you desire

# an icon

Marvel Danvers vs. DC Danvers…

because in this scenario we ALL win. 

PS - This will be available as a print in multiple sizes at @clexacon 2019!

Dick Grayson: Art Critic

Behold, the panel that inspired this fic of mine (Superbat with Dick out on the town for Gallery Night). Dick understands your art. He just thinks it needs some work.

Love his smile

the justice league has the power of friendship and the avengers don’t so by all rights they’d kick the avengers collective asses any day

Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right

Reminder that records of contraception and abortion exist all the way back to 1550 BCE in ancient Egypt!

This was a really fascinating read. Until the early 19th century, abortion was legal until “quickening,” or when the pregnant person first felt the baby kick - anywhere from 14 to 26 weeks into the pregnancy. Society only began to condemn it when people decided white, middle- to upperclass women weren’t having enough children soon enough in their lives, and when male doctors started taking over traditionally female health care fields, like midwifery.

Yep, shockingly enough, it’s never, ever been about the life of the fetus - only about misogyny, racism, and classism (ableism, too, though the article doesn’t discuss it).

its so sad that radfem just means transphobe and not like. this

I have to double-check every blog name with “rad” or “radical”, and I HATE IT, because rad/radical were some of my favorite words! people who don’t respect trans men/women aren’t radical, they’re tragical!!!

YOU ARE SO RIGHT HOMIE we gotta reclaim rad and radical as phrases only trans people can use forever now

FYI Radfem DOESN’T necessarily mean TERF though, so like. Be careful about assuming that? The reason the TE is in that acronym is to describe a certain type of radical feminism.  The term “radical” is to distinguish from “liberal” feminism.

Like Catherine MacKinnon, a supreme of radical feminism if there is one, did an interview with transadvocate (warning that her language is a little outdated) and said that trans people are working against society’s obsession with “the lie that gender is sex-based, meaning biologically-determined.”  She also says, “My basic feeling, with Simone de Beauvoir, is “one is not born, one rather becomes a woman.” How one becomes a woman is not, I think, our job to police, even as everything about that process is worth inquiry and detailed understanding... To be a woman, one does have to live women’s status. Transwomen are living it, and in my experience bring a valuable perspective on it as well.”  In case those quotes aren’t clear enough, she says: “Anybody who identifies as a woman, wants to be a woman, is going around being a woman, as far as I'm concerned, is a woman.”  Andrea Dworkin, another leading radical feminist, has also been trans-inclusive basically her entire career.