this post updates from time to time | last update: november 1, 2024
Please read this if you aren’t already familiar with me and my work.
This blog features dark themes, including but not limited to: gore*, toxic relationships, various forms of horror, violence, drug abuse, etc. There’s also the occasional eyestrainy post. Basically, I like to explore angst through my art and lore. I am not my characters, they are not me; I do not condone hurting yourself or other people.
*Gore is drawn and not of real life people.
I am a minor, and aroace, so sex isn’t mentioned (and especially not depicted) to any level here. What I choose to depict may change in the future, though. The general takeaway you should have is this:
This blog overall is a 16+ space. If you’re younger than 16, I won’t block you, but tread carefully. If any of you find any of the above topics to be upsetting, I recommend not following my page.
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
I don’t really have a DNI list. Respect me as I’ll respect you and we’ll be chill. That being said, I’m not afraid to use the block button.
I’d prefer people older than 30 or younger than 13 not trying to befriend me. Keep things art related! If I already know you/we’ve been mutuals for a while then don’t stress about this, though, you’re chill!
Also, if you’re pro generative ai, you’ll be blocked immediately.
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
Or, “block conditions” if you will. If you do any of this stuff repetitively or severely I will block you. Also, this applies to you if you aren’t a friend: https://nohello.net/en/
Do not repost my work without my explicit permission. Reblog instead!
As a general rule, don’t use slurs around me. In certain circumstances I’m chill with it, but don’t push the envelope. (I use “queer” and sometimes “crippled” to describe myself, but don’t refer to me with those terms unless you’re lgbtq+ or disabled, respectively.)
Don’t draw porn of my characters or sona. Don’t send me porn, either. I will block (and possibly report) you.
Don’t draw gore of my sona and don’t send me real life/nonfictional gore.
Don’t ask me invasive questions.
Don’t vent in asks or dms unless I explicitly said you can. I understand needing help and seeking out support, but you don’t know me and I don’t know you. There are better resources to seek out than a random teenager on tumblr. /lh
I’d like to think all of this goes without saying, but yanno. It’s the internet.
Links ➥
Main blog: you are here!
Side blog: @vesuvian-vampire
Other links: see my linktree!
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
Tags ➥
My stuff!
#art: #oc art, #oc ref sheet, #illustration, #doodle, #art fight (and #art fight 2024), #art trade, #art commission, #gift art (for specifics)
#just thoughts: #asks open, #answered asks (for specifics)
#writing; #oc lore, #worldbuilding (for specifics)
Others’ Stuff!
#reblogs: #others’ art, #others’ projects, #campaigns and fundraisers, #misc (for specifics)
Hi! I’m Casey, an artist and worldbuilder with a love for dark fantasy and sci-fi settings. I primarily draw digitally using the program Procreate on my Ipad. In the future, I also want to branch out into programs like Live2D, Aseprite, and Blender. Perhaps I’ll even learn to code for visual novels and other games based on the stories floating around in my head. I dunno. I’m a mixed bag, really, both stylistically and in what I like to depict.
I’m disabled and neurodivergent (AuDHD). I deal with a lot of chronic fatigue and pain in my day to day so my post frequency is very sporadic.
I’m also queer. Aroace, agender, transmasc. I primarily use he/him but don’t really care about pronouns; just don’t use she/her on me.
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
The Arcana (visual novel game)
My awesome friends, mutuals, and artists I follow
Amulet (graphic novel series)
Slay The Spire (roguelike deckbuilder game)
Dead Cells (roguelike metroidvania game)
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
My special interests (generally, art and writing)
Metal and hard rock music
Dogs (the bigger the better)
Baking
Kayaking and rafting
─── ・ 。゚☆: *.☽ .* :☆゚. ───
I post random shit on this account. Lots of art, but really whatever I feel like posting. It’s called “Casey’s Mystery Grab Bag” for a reason!
In the format of a q&a just because it’s fun.
“Who’s that one vampire(?) oc I see so frequently on this page?”
Francis! They use they/them pronouns exclusively and are a main character in one of my storylines, “Cecie’s Lament”. For more about Francis, check out their Toyhouse page!
“What’s your commission/art trade/art collab status?”
My commissions are closed.
Art trades are open (dm me if you’re interested)!
Art collabs are open to friends and mutuals.
If my status changes, I’ll update this post alongside announcing the status change.
“Who are the people whose names are bracketed?”
Those are whichever characters are being featured in a given post! Most are mine but some aren’t; the ones who belong to others are hyperlinked.
media literacy would automatically go up 100% if people knew how to consume stories without self-inserting themselves into the characters' shoes. "if i were him..." you're NOT. you may relate to his story, his past, his traits, his quirks, his identity but the moment you start treating the story accepting what you feel/think as what the character feels/thinks, you're misunderstanding the story.
Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
--
I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
this is adorable. consider my asks OPEN for trick or treating 😁
please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please
HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY
further solidifies the point of posting your work with ai poisoning applied! it isn’t a permanent solution, but it’s the best we have for if you wanna keep posting with your work not getting scraped as easily!
how does it feel knowing tumblr is the only (i think) safe space with no ai
i’ll be real with you: there aren’t any truly ”safe” platforms out there while good, universal regulations aren’t in place. nothing’s stopping ai bros from going to tumblr and manually grabbing images to train their algorithms on. i feel like platforms not doing the same (or at the very least, making it a permanent easy option to opt out) is bare minimum for any platform that wants to respect its users (yes, including the users who don’t post art, since on instagram for example they’re scraping ALL posts, not just art).
i’m happy that to my knowledge tumblr is still a platform that wants to respect the artist community, but either way i’d still be posting. we aren’t gonna win against ai by running away from the platforms that don’t respect us— we’ll win by staying and supporting each other, continuing to use the current ai poisoning methods, and campaigning for our rights as artists and copyright holders of our work!