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Ram Arts

@rambrandt-the-painter / rambrandt-the-painter.tumblr.com

This is rambrandts art blog. I’ll be posting more finished art and comics here. my pronouns are she/it. comms closed.

Jolene being an alligator is actually meant to be allegorical. In a lot of ways she embodies transfeminity. Her body is treated as a thing of violence and fetishized. She has sexual trauma after her ex pressured her into a dominant role during sex.

her being trans is also allegorical for being trans.

picking up on subtle visual symbolism feel so good. I know that's referencing isle of the dead you can't get past me.

I think the one thing that's hard about writing is the vulnerability. More than illustration I think my writing says a lot about me. What kind of things I have experience with and what I don't and what kind of blind spots I might have. I think it ends up with me feeling kind of embarrassed by my writing and how I present it. I always feel so naked when I have to look through my writing. Editing feels like deciding what to wear when I go out; do I wear the top that I think I look cute in or will people be disgusted by the fact they can see my cleavage (sounds silly but I'm sure a lot of you can understand how intimidating expressing yourself as a trans person can be.) I think it's genuinely been kind of a road stop for me. It's hard to feel motivated and to get to work with this feeling of shame. I think it really helps to see how meaningful the first MLLWL is to people. I can fuck up and maybe bore some people and make other people uncomfortable (in a bad way) but it's worth it in pursuit of a work that's meaningful.

The minotaurs labyrinth is literally so easy you just got to take 2 rights than a left and if you see the minotaur you just gotta bend over for 5 seconds becuase he finishes really fast

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I really like The Anatomy Lessons of Dr Nicolas Tulp. Very good painting. Cool to see you on tumblr, congrats on being like 400 years old or whatever. And being a girl!

thank you, I've always loved kind of chubby women so it's cool that I can be one.

Something about me with my bisexuality is that I feel like a lot of people I've known placed a lot of importance on them being queer despite being with the opposite sex but I really don't like the idea of me having sex with a man being gay since I'd rather be affirmed in my womanhood over my queerness as a transfem (and honestly if a man insisted that sex with me was gay I'd think it was a red flag)

That being said every time I think about this that one Taylor swift parody song about having straight sex at a gay pride parade starts playing in my head.

Also since I know the lesbians are going to see this post I know that being a lesbian is an easy solution to this. I just think guys have cute hips I can't help it

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