I wonder if there would be laws against discrimination according to daemon in the HDM/Golden Compass world, by the modern era
“Her daemon’s a snake. Pass”
“Why”
“All snakes are liars”
“Suzanne, this is the biggest, yellowest snake I’ve ever seen. Suzanne, there is no way this giant banana has a deceptive bone in his body. Suzanne. Suzanne he has a hat”
I had spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about (in no particular order): what daemons would be selectable in video games with customizable characters (every default scruffy white guy protagonist has a dog or wolf daemon), game controller designs for daemons to control the character’s daemon (probably would be useful in wider availability of electronic controllers for humans with different physical needs as well), separate discord chats for daemons while their humans are on one voice channel, people lying about their daemon’s form online, humans and daemons switching places in non-in-person voice interactions to create a different (and different gender-reading) identity, intra-community drama with people complaining about “not all trans people have clownfish daemons” and whether people with a different-gender daemon post transition are too cis-passing and what if your daemon does identify with their biological sex when the human doesn’t or doesn’t when the human does, locked room murder mysteries with insect/snake/other small daemons, “people with aquatic daemons that fit into fish tanks with wheels vs. "well you could put your daemon in a fish tank and wheel it with you, you don’t really need accommodations like someone with a <i>real</i> aquatic daemon, bedroom layouts so you can go to the bathroom in the middle of the night without your daemon having to leave the bed.
You can’t cast an actor with a parrot daemon to play a historical figure with a wolf daemon! At least find another canid. Racist.
Also, I think a lot about megafauna daemons as an accessibility issue. Can this staircase handle the weight of my moose daemon? How can I find affordable housing that my elephant will fit in. People keep saying my bear and I shouldn’t ride public transit because it’s impossible to avoid touching her. (there’s a horse loose in the hospital!)
My entry for Clip Studio Paint 46th international illustration contest!
Grandma never meet such big kitty before, and is very content of such a meeting.
Are you able to find all the cats? Try to count them before you swipe for close ups and let me know in the comment how much you was able to find!
A little story: This is a milestone when comes to my art. If you’re familiar with my artistic output you very much know that all of my works - I don’t even count isolated exceptations over the course of more than decade - are depiction of individual animals, occassionally pairs or groups, with or without decorative elements.
No scenes - interior or exterior - no environments at all. No history behind the artwork other than history that pet owners has in their hearts related to their relationship with the beloved pet.
As long as it’s nothing wrong with that and I really enjoy drawing pets as well as I’m honored when a owner came to me to make a memorable artwork of their deceased pet, I really wanted to do something more for a very long time. I wanted to tell a story, and I wanted to make a personal art. Because believe it or not, I’m not making personal art for a couple of years already and it’s just insane.
So here’s one.
The ghosty cat is drawn in memory of my beloved Mr. Cat, who passed away back in 2022.
in 2014 my friends and i went on omegle with the search term “furry” and people would ask “a/s/f/o” which is Age, Sex, Fursona (Species), Orientation and every single time we would respond with “I am Job the turtle. I am slow but I will rock you” and every single time they would immediately disconnect
Today I cried a little bit because I remembered that when Beethoven conducted his ninth symphony for the first time he got a standing ovation and one of the sopranos had to turn him around to see the audience.
I have never recovered from this illustration by Scott Cameron for Barbara Nichol’s “Beethoven Lives Upstairs.”
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