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bonkalore · 2 months

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The pics aren't sequential, but they ARE when he was in the magic prison and first looked like a demon and had his horns and tail fully grow in for my AU. Things were not great there and him getting beat up mostly happened from the guards and from him stepping out of line, bc most of the time he was the one beating on the inmates who kept starting fights with him.

Other pic is his first transformation directly after his horn was broken during his prison break attempt. He's jacked up on so much adrenaline and pain and only has a moment of even noticing his physical changes before he REALLY goes ape shit. His transformation is a bit more uneven that first time since his body really isn't used to it. Think that evens out more later on.

#Jayce Chinda #Daniel Spellbound #Bleeding Magic AU #demon #monster #monster transformation #transformation #tw blood #my art #the first one has me a bit 👉👈 lol #sometimes you just wanna have that boy bloodied and beat up a bit~#also his eye is mostly swollen shut in that 2nd pic otherwise it would be more open

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surreal-duck · 4 months

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art summary for this year o7 (template from here!!)

#duck rants about something #i havent drawn too much this year overall tbh hard enough rounding these up wkjwjkjksdghsd #though again i have . drawn mdyz an embarrassing amount dont look at me #sure have been having a kick w pink lately huh #didnt rly improve much and its kind of bumming me out but oh well guess ill just have to keep going next year then #just had the worst week of my life these past five days also my eyes r still a bit swollen and red but well. this too shall pass

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teawan · 8 months

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Nimona and its portrayal of the queer experience: a stream of consciousness "essay"

This is not a reach by any means, and I know countless people have picked up on this and/or discussed it at length many times, but Nimona is undeniably a story of queerness and queer people in a hetero- and cis-normative world. Through the use of the “monster” concept, the movie effectively demonstrates the way that the LGBTQ+ community is ostracized and villainized.

Throughout the movie, Nimona’s experiences as a shapeshifter, Ballister’s reactions and assumptions toward her, and other citizens’ perception of her parallel how queer people are treated in the real world. When Ballister first meets Nimona, she chooses not to reveal her ability to shift to him until it is absolutely necessary—quite literally a situation of life or death. Even then, she is reluctant to do so, because she has learned that this ability of hers, although not inherently dangerous or evil, is viewed as such and enforced by the only society that is explicitly stated to exist in the movie’s universe. The reveal of her abilities can be equated to a queer individual’s coming out, and it lines up nicely in the sense that often, people are afraid to come out, even to close friends and family members they have known since birth because of the political and societal stigma around the LGBTQ+ community that’s almost universal. They also often feel pressured to do so.

Ballister’s reaction to the aforementioned reveal also serves as a parallel between the two experiences. After she demonstrates shifting, Ballister asks Nimona “what” she is, repeatedly requests that she appear “normal” while talking to him, and uses terminology that Nimona clearly finds derogatory and hurtful. Part of this is the way he was raised—people who live in the Nimona universe are implied to live in a society where knowledge of those who can shapeshift—widely referred to as monsters—is commonplace. Not only is the knowledge of their existence commonplace, however—it is also widely accepted that those with shapeshifting abilities are evil and intrinsically against the concepts of peace and stable civilization. There is no real evidence for this idea besides a loosely framed “historical event” that has been passed down for one thousand years (as referenced at the beginning of the movie) and has likely been warped and distorted to fit certain people’s biases along the way. The same goes for queer people. The existence of the LGBTQ+ community is widespread knowledge; however, many people associate the community with concepts of perversion or sacrilege and don’t know much about the individuals who it’s made up of past these prejudices. Children are taught to refer to gay and transgender people by slurs, just like Ballister was taught to refer to Nimona as a monster.

Nimona is treated callously by Ballister, especially at first, as if her differences make her less than worthy of respect and decency, and she owes anyone around her an explanation because of those differences. This parallels the way that queer people often feel pressured to come out and that they owe those around them explanations of their identities—think strangers overtly asking transgender people about their genitals on the internet, or even in person, or gay/bisexual/queer-oriented people being questioned extensively in order to “prove” their queerness.

Now, in terms of Nimona’s character and how she herself is a reference to queerness: as a genderfluid person, I identify heavily with this character. For one, the obvious—I feel that my gender identity is fluid, and, if it were possible, would choose to be able to shift between physically male/female/androgynous to match how I feel. Nimona also describes her need to shift between forms. At one point, she explains that not shifting is like holding in a sneeze—resisting a natural biological process. Yes, she can stay in one form, but that is uncomfortable and undesirable for her. She even tells Ballister that staying in the form he at first coins her “normal” one (the human presenting form) would be like dying, or rather, not really living. This really resonated with me and how I experience my gender identity—in spaces where I cannot express myself as the gender I feel makes me feel like I’m living half a life. It’s living with the saturation turned down to the lowest setting.

Another phrase that stuck with me after watching was when Nimona offered Ballister the deal of being his sidekick “forever” if she were to help him clear his name. At first, she offers her hand in her human form but then shifts to the body of a shark. Ballister asks her, exasperatedly, if she can just “be herself—a girl.” Nimona replies, “But I’m not a girl. I’m a shark.” This phrase is important because it communicates that transgender people are not masquerading as something other than themselves—they are being themselves. It is other people who cannot accept the fact that the way they have always seen a person is not necessarily who they really are. In my case, I often worry that people will not see me as myself when I identify as masculine—they might see it as an outfit I put on, or a role I act in. But it is truly me. My masculine identity is just as much of myself as I am when I’m femme presenting, just as shark-Nimona is just as much Nimona as human-Nimona.

This is definitely not all of the examples in the movie, not even all the ones that jumped out at me, but I think this is enough to communicate my thoughts. It was a fantastic movie. WATCH NIMONA.

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not-poignant · 6 months

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Okay so next chapter of Palmarosa is ready but also not going up today because I've had a headache for about 4 days and I think staring at a computer screen is going to make that worse somehow?

Meanwhile I'm just going to put my head in the bin real quick

#i've been catching up with Only Murder in the Building instead #it doesn't help that i need to get an ultrasound for a lymph node that's been swollen / hard for over a month #on the side of my neck where i had radiotherapy to like #two tumours in my head/neck #and that the lymph node is a nice idk 5 cm from those tumours #and i'm trying not to think about it but actually #i might be being a bit irresponsible now and i need to get that ultrasound :/#and i don't want tooooo #so when i think about the headache #i also think about that #but actually the headache is probably just eyestrain + stress

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lemongogo · 1 year

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#INCONSOLABLE #staring intothecamera and my eeys are swollen shut and a #ok #T_____T #lethal use of ww flashback i thnk im going 2 lay down .for a bit<3 #trigun #trigun spoilers #trigun maximum #legato #vash #wolfwood

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monster-noises · 2 months

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Forever thinking about TCAF 2019

Where I Fully sprained my ankles about 2 days before

And proceeded to;

-Not go to a doctor

-Put some ice on it over night then ride the train to Toronto

-Go Immediately to a Furry Dance Party

-Walk on it All Day at TCAF (In heels if i remember correct. Not Tall heels mind, but i was not Flat Footed)

-Be absolutely Mystyfied about why i felt Naseaus all day and proceeded to throw up the next morning before my train home,, for the next Several Years

(the pain, it was the pain, i threw up because of how bad my ankle hurt)

And when i came back I Still didn't take time off work or go to the hospital or anything!! How I still have a perfectly functional ankle is Beyond me!

#monster noises #every Now and Again it gives me a bit of Guff #but really it went right back to normal!#it was so swollen though oh my God #it filled the collar of my little Boots #I sprained it in the first place by stepping off a curb wrong and rolled it #fell right over onto the pavement pretty hard #got right back up and hobbled through the intersection fast as i could manage #when i had determined i wasn't bleeding and wasn't in enough pain to indicate i'd Broken something i just... kept going on my errand #lmao #(i was getting my money for TCAF from the bank)#literally 0 self preservation instincts and really wonky pain tolerance #where /I/ don't feel that much pain #but my Body does #if that makes sense?#hence the Vomitting #my body was in pain but i couldn't really feel how Bad it was

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ridragon · 27 days

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local gremlin that goes outside barefoot learns the consequences of their actions

#something fucking bit me and my toe is swollen qhat rhe fuxk #ri rambles

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the-knife-consumer · 7 months

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Uuugh i need senior year to be over alreadt i need to take care of chickend NOW‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

#uuuuuuughh. got bit by a mosquito on my fucking ear now its swollen and red. if i were not in greenhouse that wouldgnt happen...#chicken solutions... . also moving after school.... scary #tbh i reeealy dont wanna move bc one idk how to drive so as of rn i cant leave. two i cant afford my own house or apartment #three. do i have to work :((((( four where we're going the nearest walmart is like a whole fucking hour away but whatever.#middle of nowhere core. urgh

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caffeinated-beverage · 10 months

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Tolvydas master of disguise!! Except, no, that is not Tolvydas.. That’s uhh.. “Peanuts.” “Peanuts Babaganoosh.” It’s, uhh.. French. Yeah. And you KNOW this cannot possibly be just Tolvydas in sunglasses, a dress, and some makeup!! Because, Tolvydas is allergic to peanuts!! So, why on earth would they call themselves “Peanuts”????