Good Day To You! I Just Stumbled Upon Your Blog Because Of Your Art (looks Amazing Btw) And Since You

Good day to you! I just stumbled upon your blog because of your art (looks amazing btw) and since you are an original fiction writer, I'm sort of curious about your opinion on something.

People have always reimagined and rewritten characters to be different. Nowadays, they often are changed to not be straight anymore (such as changing same sex friendships to romantic relationships for example). What are your thoughts on this? Would it be better to leave old characters be and write representation in the form of original characters, or is this a legitimate, respectful way of creating more media rep for gay and bisexual characters? And if so, what would you think about someone rewriting your own characters someday, including changing their sexual orientation?

Thank you very much for spending time answering this ask, if you do! If you don't, though, that is understandable, too.

Oh gosh! Thank you, about the art. It gets hard to find motivation to work on OC art when it typically doesn't get any interaction.

As for your question - I mean. When it comes to big media properties, I don't see any particular problem with it. Like, there's this thing big media companies do where they introduce Clearly Queer Coded couples without ever making anything explicit onscreen as a way of trying to have representation without offending bigots. (I'm looking at YOU, Rogue One and The Acolyte!) So if people want to pick out two characters from Star Wars or House of the Dragon or anything like that, go nuts?

As for the stuff I'm writing (obviously very few people have read it yet, hopefully that will change in the near future!) which is queer romance written by a queer person for queer people... The characters I write intentionally reflect mostly invisible aspects of the queer experience: demi pan people, AMAB nbs, bisexual nbs (we exist!), polyamorous people in committed relationships, femme cis men... So, my first impulse is that I'd be miffed if someone changed one of my characters to, like, straight.

But at the same time, sexuality is weird and unpredictable and I think the queer community has gotten WAY TOO FAR into the weeds of nailing down The Exact Specifics of orientation in a way that doesn't allow for growth and self-discovery and that feels pretty at odds with my experience of queerness. So if someone wants to fanon two characters in a way that falls outside of that character's previously "defined" orientation, as long as they're not like "welp, everything about my previous experience was a lie, this is who I am now", then... [shrugs]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

Can I request rivals/frenemies that never got along before and only worked together begrudgingly till now start to become friends?

Dialogue for Rivals who are slowly becoming Friends

-> feel free to edit as you see fit.

"Glad to see that you decided to show up." "I knew you'd be bored without me here."

"Are you okay?"

"When did you stop being so awful?"

"This may not mean much to you, but I have your back."

"I don't like you, but I don't hate you either."

"So, are we friends?" "What do you think?"

"Why did we hate each other so much?"

"I mean it a lot less than I did a month ago, when I say I'm going to kill you."

"Thanks. And I actually mean it this time."

"Wait, what's wrong?"

"Are you here to make fun of me?" "No, I'm actually just here to make sure you're okay."

"I'm glad we're not at each others throats any more."

"You know, you're not so bad." "I never was."

"Aw, did you miss me?" "Absolutely not."

"If I didn't respect your mother, I would have absolutely killed you months ago."

"What happened? Are you hurt?"

shout out to this tweet for RUINING my ability to hear "the time being" without thinking about this

And to think that it takes very little to make a child happy....

Let’s see how Google’s AI is getting on!