Art by MeddygonThere is a fine line \ Between genius and madness. \ It is called timing.

I felt naked in that room. No one was looking at me like I was naked, but I was certain felt like I physically had no clothes on. It was an art class, and I feared that people would take my nakedness to be an art statement; a “bold” but insignificant comment on the nature of showing art. If was the end of the semester, and everyone was meant to show their body of work. I felt like I had none.

I left. If they weren’t seeing my nudity, then no one else would. As I walked down the city street, no one noticed the flaws I saw in myself. I glanced at my reflection as I passed shop windows and saw that I was dressed. I don’t remember putting on clothes, but I was clothed all along.

I felt pressured in that room. Everyone was looking at me. The instructor said, “If you’re so fast and skilled, draw [description of two things to draw]”. I looked for paper, but none of it was large enough.
“Mr. Ross, can you give me some paper?” I continued to look for paper in my bag, around the room, something.

I looked for tools, but none were the right ones. When I would find one suitable I would start to draw, but then something would break. Or it would go missing as someone else took it.

I’d find black paper, but then be unable to find white pens or pastels. I’d find light paper, and not be able to find pencils or charcoal.

Those around me also were producing art faster, but not at the quality I would want coming from my fingers. They didn’t meet the requirements of the description, but they were happy to just do the work. They were making the art they wanted, not the art that was required.

The deadline approached and the instructor asked why I hadn’t started. “I usually work larger, sir.” He produced a sheet of paper around 8’x5′ and I started to draw. I sketched one figure, and my charcoal was gone. I looked for more but could find none.

I wanted materials. The room was full of scrap paper, cut at odd angles and of a color not suitable for art. I flipped through some stacks of rectangular sheets and found the color paper showed signs of weathering and aging. These materials haven’t even been looked at in years. Who even owned them? I didn’t think I could take any of it anyway.

I walked to the next room, and called in, “Hello?”

Someone responded, “Hello, come in, how can I help you?” I walked in and saw art hanging above the desk where the man was getting up. It was cut from different sheets of paper and displayed in deep square frames to give a three-dimensional look.

“Yes, hello, I’m just looking around and was hoping to find someone who would like to tell me about their art.”

He introduced himself and took me to the art on the wall with the door. He said he spent time living in Japan but he returned because it was too expensive and everyone was too “clean”. His art resembled manga but bore some unfinished qualities like Degas’s ballerina sketches.

“How do you reconcile that the art is unfinished?” I asked.
“The art is finished as soon as your intention is met.”

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…should Twitter explode in the blaze of ignorance reserved for a spaceX 4/20 rocket launch.

Being queer and commenting on something related to Pride draws people out of the woodwork to prop up children as a shield like they’re just another Anita Bryant. To put it simply, she “didn’t hate gays” but needed to “protect the children from the homosexual lifestyle.”

What’s there to protect from? Ah, yes, the “Gay Agenda” – the great strawman of little definition that anyone can apply whatever evils they want to in order to justify their bigotry. Ignore the people actively ruining your life, there’s a queer over yonder!

It’s extremely disheartening to find those of my generation (or any, really) are still espousing the recessive ideals of the past and trying to hide behind a “hate the sin, love the sinner” mentality or “won’t somebody please think of the children!!!” …

… like queer people don’t also have children (or gasp the queer children of non-queers) they’re trying to protect from hateful comments and actions. Call out those hateful comments, and you’re putting the “Gay Agenda” before children’s safety.

Ban this, all because I don’t agree with it, but say it’s for the children. Ban that because I think it’s icky, but say it’s protecting women. Don’t actually protect the children or women, though, because then we’d actually have to do something.

BTW the gay agenda is to exist without being made political or targets of violence, so we’re obviously failing at that every day.

People existing, who have existed for years, decades, and centuries, are “political” because it’s been brought back as another thing to point fingers at for problems. We’re easy targets when we look different from others. We look different when we stop lying about ourselves.

We look happy when we are not lying about ourselves. Yet not lying about who I am is seen as political. I’m existing in my own life with my own goals and not forcing my life on anyone, but I’m told that I’m pushing the “Agenda.” By existing.

I’m “political” for just existing because my existence means that someone out there has to not treat everyone as if everyone thinks the same. And this offends some people to the point that they want to attack the “agenda” I’m pushing by existing.

This has gone on for centuries, through all of human history, with any number of groups being othered for existing. Ignore the man picking your pocket, there are two men kissing IN PUBLIC! There are people of color who are DOCTORS! PRONOUNS! All because they want to blind.

People who can otherwise be intelligent can fall to bias. They want an explanation as to why things are not going their way and someone comes along and says, “That group over there is why.”

Why are women assaulted? They say it’s transwomen and drag shows, though there’s plenty of documentation and studies showing that it’s more likely an AFAB person will be assaulted by someone they know.

Why are children and young adults groomed? They say it’s the “gay agenda”, but it’s always lecherous people who are enabled by those around them or their status, regardless of sexual or romantic orientation.

These crazy people think that anything LGBTQIA+ is sexual because they cannot fathom that deviation from a cishet relationship is anything but sexual. Why do groomers groom? Sexual reason. Why do trans people transition? Must be sexual, too.

My transition is the opposite of sexual. I grew up being told what is masculine and what is feminine and that as AFAB I need to do the feminine things. I never fit the media representation of girl or feminine, so I assumed, for decades, that I was a failure at life.

Exposure to LGBTQIA+ media, literature, communities, etc, introduced me, at 30+ years old, to the vocabulary and understanding needed to find out how to put into thoughts, words, and actions what I truly feel like. I’m neither masc nor femme. I don’t want to be either.

Pride events bring that kind of awareness to everyone, regardless of their identity. Maybe you feel like, after seeing that there’s support out there, you identify with something other than what you’ve been told to be all your life. Maybe you don’t.

Maybe you see it all and just think, “I’m glad they’re happy, but I’m fine how I am,” and that’s great! LGBTQIA+ isn’t a faction that you have to join or fight against. It isn’t even a cohesive group that shares all ideals. There are racist gay people, and anti-trans lesbians.

There are assholes in any group. Identifying as something doesn’t mean you have to adhere to all things related to that. That’s why there’s not actually a “gay agenda” and why it’s so easy for bigots to cherry-pick what they want to attack about LGBTQIA+ people and events.

“Won’t somebody please think of the children” my stawman cries as they plead for everyone else to attack their strawman.

Meddygon (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️
@meddygon

Smashing’s kitty Moe had to make an emergency trip to the vet so I drew the little guy

too lazy to do actual shading but I still like it

A website has come about called Level Impostor that allows non-coders like me make mods using a GUI. Of course, I had to show my age and make one of the first dungeons I ever delved, The (original) Legend of Zelda – Dungeon 1.

Here are some screenshots!!

And now the download link! – Updated 5/29/2021

You should have a legal copy of the PC version of the game in order to use this mod. This will NEVER be available for Mobile or Switch because Level Impostor cannot export for those platforms. The file is compressed in a .rar file – you need WinRAR to open it. Copy the files to your Among Us folder and launch! All users playing must have the mod in order to play the map correctly.

I’ve been asking people in discord what I should draw the Meddygon doing and someone suggested today the spongebob chicken pose.

just a reminder that I do commissions and I should probably put up a commissions pages at some point

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someone typoed my name

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took suggestions / poll again in the discord, this time I was forced to dab.

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after an impromptu poll the discord/twitch emote I had to draw next was poggers

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