May I Interest You In The Idea Of Chubby Shadow?

oh yes. monster hunter is another thing that i like

anjanath my beloved 🩷🖤🩷🖤🩷🖤🩷🖤

i shipped knuxpio for a moment between jan-feb

i think its a really cute rarepair that is underutilized!

yeah so i ship knuxamy quite a bit. theyre both bisexual about it. very unstraight

"You can't be fat and also strong wehh" I'm shipping wasps to your house

prolly never gonna finish this damn sketch

hnnnnnnngh blue eye samurai .....

"you don't have to say anything - just know that whatever you're going through you don't have to go through it alone."

good ol' reliable uncle knuckles... sometimes when periwinkle is going thru it she goes up to angel island to get away from it all. that pink bracelet i draw knuckles wearing is something that she made for him when she was six

father + mother's day doodles specifically 💙🖤🩷

elon musk has been incredibly innovative when it comes to giving people reasons to stop using twitter.

his latest push: all pictures posted to twitter will have a "recreate in grok" button beneath it, allowing anyone to feed your art straight into an AI with 0 control from you.

also, i presume because of this feature, artists are getting their original works tagged as "created with Grok".

honestly i feel like even if you did ask mizu, i don't i think even SHE/HE/THEY would know how to answer. there has never been a singular point in her life where she's been able to decide for herself what she is. masculinity is a performance, femininity is her secret. she can't perform femininity well so when she IS a girl she's quite tomboy. masculinity seems to come to her by default as it's all she's ever been.

i feel like mizu would be the type to be rather unconcerned with her own gender or pronouns. kind of like apathetic nonbinary-ness, if this makes sense. but then again, this is me projecting as well since i too identify with this as an exhausted nonbinary person constantly getting gendered by other people when i really don't have one at all.

for me, i'm just me. and i'd imagine for mizu, mizu is just mizu. mizu's gender is mizu.

i think that kind of representation in the form of identity being an affliction is in itself very good and it is definitely something i think all of us, queer or otherwise, can relate to to at least some extent.

Alright here's another take on Mizu's gender:

The thing about Mizu is that characters in the show and people in real life project either "man" or "woman," "boy" or "girl" onto them, and Mizu more or less goes along with what they say, but I didn't notice a single moment where they outright communicated "I'm a woman" or "I'm a man." And I'm guilty too, I'm projecting "nonbinary" onto them!

But the thing is nobody has bothered to ask thus far, which is no doubt period accurate. But we're supposed to be more aware and open about gender than these fictional characters. I'm not saying there is a correct interpretation—because nothing has been confirmed, and regardless of what is or isn't confirmed it is to a degree* still up to the individual really—but it does irk me a bit to see so many people assuming and projecting, is all.

*By "to a degree" I mean there's what is or isn't confirmed, which will probably be that they're a woman; and then there's the undeniable validity of what individuals might see in them. Do you see them as a woman being forced to choose between a life of gendered mistreatment and a life of relative freedom, and choosing freedom? Very cool! But don't use what you see, however valid that is, to dictate what others see in Mizu. Same goes for all the other interpretations.

Bottom line is, if Mizu is confirmed to be a woman, which again would be most likely, that doesn't mean what trans people see in them isn't valid. If anything it becomes even more valid, because we will have been denied representation once again because of the politics of our time.