ALT

ALT

ALT

ALT

[IDs in alt]

more character designs & concept art for my book, + more notes:

• Charlize and Lucas are Billy's friends & roommates from college.
• Charlize and Lucas have been friends since early childhood.
• Lucas' dog tattoo is of a childhood dog.
• the Boys (J, Andy, and John) belong to a different character I haven't talked about yet. John is reactive.
• idk what genre of music NO-DEER makes (at least not yet) but I do know it's gonna have a lot of energy. figuring out the exact genre/style is very important to me so I'll be thinking on it for a while.
• NO-DEER does live shows sometimes, usually at east coast furry/anime conventions.
• Charlize is a big anime fan.
• Charlize is a fine artist. she makes big mixed media pieces, combines cute and macabre themes, does gallery shows downtown, and sells her work online.
• Billy commissioned a fursuit head from Lucas (I still need to design it tho).
• Charlize and Lucas don't know about Billy or Kurt's murdering thing and would not support it if they did. they aren't perfect either tho, they have their own quirks. no one in this story is going to be boring!
• NO-DEER might be my favorite design I've done for this story so far, I don't even have anything else to say about them just look at them. they're a nonbinary deer piñata who makes music. and they're so cool. please clap <3

In the wake of the dual strike I would like to remind everyone that "hollywood elites" is an antisemitic dogwhistle and if you are referring to company executives call them executives

ocd is not fucking destigmatized

please look at this feisty, fluffy child

incredible

There's just this attitude that a lot of weed users have surrounding their drug use (nicotine/tobacco and caffeine addicts also) that irks me because they rely on this idea that they aren't "like those REAL drug users," because weed isn't addictive (untrue) or it's not a "real drug" (untrue) or it's good for them (in some situations, maybe) whereas obviously all those other "REAL drugs" are completely different, don't lump them in with those other addicts, etc etc etc. And it's really frustrating as someone who has used or currently uses those "REAL drugs" or has a history with addiction getting stigmatized even by other drug users/addicts. Like I said, caffeine and nictotine and even a lot of drinkers do this too. Maybe if you have to light up three times a day or if you have to have 12oz of caffeine three times a day or if you go through three cigarettes a day or if you need three glasses of wine a day you have more in common with your fellow addicts and/or users than you want to admit, and maybe the only reason you don't want to admit that is because you see something wrong with "REAL drugs" and the people who use them.

[“By cutting me off from knowledge of my disabled cousins, I had no source of disability knowledge and history in my family. Their lives were treated as extraordinary, disposable, and traumatic—so traumatic that the very fact of them was hidden, erased from the story our family told about itself.

This is typical of how disability is narrated in the family myths passed down from one generation to another. Disability is erased, repressed, covered over. Families de-lineate—destroy the connections between generations of disabled people, their families, and their caretakers.

Our disabled kin are not merely misrepresented. They are written out of the story. By examining the ways families excise disability from their stories, I began to see how disability is fundamentally shaped by this omission. The way we assign meanings to bodies and minds, establish norms, and otherize and stigmatize according to perceptions of ability is inseparable from how we name and claim our kin.

Family is defined and produced by eradicating disability lineage, often making the inevitable appearance of disability within a given family a crisis: a trauma to be erased, effaced. Unwritten. I refer to this process as de-lineation: the separation of disabled people from their lineage. The word “delineate” literally means to mark off with lines, and thus separate. It includes the word “lineate,” derived from “lineage”—family ancestry. The de-lineation I’m examining here is sometimes literal, as with the institutionalization of my cousin XY; it is sometimes rhetorical, as with the suppression of my cousin Rhona and her disability from the family narrative. “Delineate” also means to describe or portray—a form of inclusion. So within the word itself lies the potential to re-lineate: to sew a family member back into the fold. To describe, portray, and, thus, connect.”]

jennifer natalya fink, from all our families: disability lineage and the future of kinship, 2022