A Story About Taking in a Strange Creature by Ishida Umi
tfw you look outside😱😱😱
So angry rn >:(
one of THE FIRST things i thought of when watching the mimic defense video from vita carnis was "oh my god, someone can draw the mimic in drip" BECAUSE THE WAY THEY BLEND IN IS DRESSING UP IN CLOTHES. BUT NO! NO ONE DREW THE MIMIC IN SICK AS CLOTHING
WHERE IS THE MIMIC IN A ADIDAS JUMPSUIT?? WHERE IS THE MIMIC WITH A ROLEX?? WHERE IS THE MIMIC WITH JORDANS???
HECK, WHERE IS THE MIMIC IN THE STRAWBERRY DRESS??? WHY NO ONE DRAWN A MIMIC HAVING A SILLY AND CUTE PHOTOSHOOT!?
THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!
(/lh)
Wh-whats going on??????
A little joke before and after my previous drawing.@pati-patter gave me the idea.
Really can't go wrong in fantasy with a giant skeleton being part of the environment. I'm talking colossal, part of the scenery bones.
Oh yes, let me wonder what the hell it is, how it died, how long it has been there. Let me walk on its ribs pathways, climb inside an eyesocket, look at where it fused with the nature around it.
Everyone always talks about The Flesh and its potential to relate to the transgender experience (and, well, as of the latest episodes of TMAGP, that's been canonly explored) but also: what about the experience of growing up fat?
Sucking in your stomach in pictures. Pinching the skin under your chin because you don't want to have a double chin. Noticing another stretch mark during puberty and ignoring it, storing in the farthest corner of your mind. The way your legs look in pictures. The way your tights look when you sit down. Keeping an arm constantly on your stomach. Noticing that you're slumping and straightening your back so the rolls are less noticeable.
Oh, and the nasty part. The comments other kids make. The comments your parents make. The awareness of not being curvy, just being fat. Plain fat. Wanting so bad to be desirable, by someone, anyone, but you're not skinny. You're not curvaceous, voluptuous, really your body is just...unflattering. The self-esteem issues. Thinking that every single picture of you is ugly, wretched, as you see others taking pictures of themselves so...casually. Fixating on the most miniscule parts of it all, the way your fingers aren't as slim as others', the way you look when you smile, the softness in you that you so deeply despise because it's not appealing. Not attractive. And it's all you want to be.
And don't even get me started on the intersection of being fat and trasmasc, that's a whole other can of worms.
My friend finally finished the first chapter of his story, go check it out!!
Mind the archive warnings!
this includes a lot of homophobic and transphobic harassment btw.