i love you aroallo people i love you pan people i love you bi people i love you nonbinary people i love you lesbians i love you trans women i love you intersex people i love you everyone in every body or identity with discourse surrounding if you should exist or not i love you so much i love you i love you i love you. you are so so loved i promise you
I was doing fine at work, and then a gentleman came in and said he was buying a cinnamon roll to bring back to his husband, and after he left I started crying. I got so used to us celebrating. I got so used to not feeling scared.
I feel a bit silly asking, but with Pride Month happening, I was wondering if any of your characters (Siwa, Snowpea, Nettle, ect.) were LGBT? It's okay if not, but I figured it'd be a neat time to ask and possibly learn a bit more about them.
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thank you for this ask, anon. Getting into detail would take more time and brain energy than I have right now as I lie awake and marvel vaguely at the crumbled ruin of my sleep schedule (as I’m writing this it is 4:30 AM), but rest assured: none of my characters I think about and draw the most are unequivocally straight, and most also have a conception of gender and sexuality that is different from the standard binary, or at least a queer messing-with-gender sort of presentation. Siwa is in gay alien love with a nonbinary quarian. Nettle’s people assign gender by one’s role in society, rather than the other way around, and her identity and pronouns are in flux. Sweet Pea feels very strongly about being female, but her appearance reads as masculine to most non-gnoll strangers. My axolotl people are mostly polyamorous hippies who barely give gender a passing thought. The naked mole rat-like cave-dwelling people (who I really need to draw more) are a eusocial society with two reproductive queens, with biological castes superseding gender. Et cetera! Happy Pride. 🏳️🌈
Noble Heart Horse is a he/him lesbian and married to True Heart Bear. They are middle-aged butch lesbians living their best life after raising their dozen magical Care Creature children together
this set of illustrations had a lot of cameos in it. These two cute parents are actually Yul and Melke from @holystone-comic ! In a real-world AU where they’re not living dangerously and keeping secrets from angry gods, of course.
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these illustrations are part of an ongoing freelance gig. Visit this tag to see the completed set so far!
sketches of some friends’ characters in dumb christmas sweaters. With SWEATER PUNS. These characters are Yenyoji the thaumaturge and Cidriel the warrior and they are Cute Girlfriends.
more holystone fanart I did recently! High Khen Trypho, genderqueer Life shaman and favorite character-not-appearing-in-this-comic. They were mentioned in this update a while back.
part of a Life khen’s job description is to have children, and I love how Al Meran culture (and the wider culture of the whole Holystone world actually) has no problem accepting a genderqueer/gender-neutral person in what some people might see as an inherently gendered role.
