our tiefling wizard went a little berserk this session....

My boio Xoros. Thank you for this amazing art of his little rampage! 😍😍😍

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a legend, and he’s absolutely right.

And I really feel like there are parts of fandom that don’t get or don’t believe this, and I think that’s troubling.  I’ve seen arguments that people shouldn’t have dark fantasies, or that bad impulses in themselves make a bad person.  I’ve seen so much shaming over thoughts.

And if you get to a point where it’s bad to have dark thoughts and it’s bad to wonder what something would be like and it’s bad to put yourself in the shoes of anyone who isn’t “pure”, if fiction is no longer a realm where you can confront and explore, but an ongoing test of moral purity… well, maybe not everyone’s brain works like mine, but I feel like that takes away something incredibly important to being human.

People think "gray morality" in fiction is about Both Sides Are Partly Right Actually but so much more often it's about choices having inescapable negative outcomes that have to be weighed against the benefits, or it's about having to choose between a series of bad options, or it's about making hard decisions about what you are willing to sacrifice to achieve the outcome you believe is good.

So often, I seem to see people angry that a story in a video game didn't present a Good Option with no collateral damage and no negative outcomes whatsoever, and if there are any downsides it's seen as the writers punishing you for the decision, because they see the primary purpose of stories to be moralizing rather than exploring the complexities of human experience. Or they argue that the collateral damage didn't really happen, or that the negative outcomes weren't really that bad actually, and thus miss the point altogether.

And I feel like it's important to remember that a narrative telling you a decision is difficult is not the same thing as the narrative telling you it is wrong.

I am reopening my commissions!

I am doing sketches, lineart, and soft renders of characters in portrait, half-body, and full-body sizes. I am also doing full-body paper doll style commissions if you are looking for a base of your character for future costume design.

DM or email me at everbough@gmail.com

Replies are greatly appreciated! ♥

my brain is useless, so have some drenchen twin doodles !

ps5 brain monday

Oh so THIS is the ps5 post. I can see why you all imprinted on it now that’s hilarious

Heres my first actual post to tumblr! I hope the Dark Crystal fans like this drawing I did of corrupted Deet :]

Let me serenade you…

Kira having some fun with her Mama and her Aunts 💖💖

Damn, Rome really looks great in all four seasons

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

oh my GOD

William Wordsworth, Book VI: The Church-Yard Among the Mountains, from The Excursion (1814)

A shirt for @focsle

@drenchgrotweek Day 7: AU

An excerpt from my Roger Rabbit AU

Shout-out to @the-experimental-writer for helping me with skekLi’s color palette!