School Days (Part 2)

This is something I created using those digital paper dolls on Rinmaru Games, a sort of manga creator flash game and made this silly little short up.

Nightcore-Till Summer Comes Around

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Till Summer Comes Around (Keith Urban)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-Then You Looked At Me

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Then You Looked At Me (Celine Dion)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-Right Here Waiting (Cover)

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Right Here Waiting Cover (Monica ft 112)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-Only Time

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Only Time (Enya)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-November Night

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: November Night (Groove Coverage)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-We Own the Night (MV Version)

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: We Own the Night: MV Version (The Wanted)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

The Choice

I decided to make a slideshow based on my fan art comic strip of this

This part of the game always gives me the feels, and for my fem!Shep character, this how I would imagine what might be going through her head before she made the ultimate decision.

Hope you like it.

Nightcore - Alla Nätter

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Alla nätter (Gmx ft. Danish)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore - Why Don't You Love Me

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Why Don't You Love Me (Hot Chelle Rae ft. Demi Lovato)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-Fire and Fury

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Fire and Fury (Skillet)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Clarissa

Hey guys. Long time no post on this blog, but I would like to share something that holds very strongly in my heart since I discovered the link in Tumblr.

This is Clarissa, created by these talented artists in their web comic site, dealing with the issues of living life as a sexually abused child. I will share the one that hit my heart the most, and if you want to read more from the beginning, you can go here.

It's not meant to be funny, or cute, or whatever. It's very heart-wrenching in a way, living in a household that pretends that everything is OK even though they know in their hearts that it is not: A father who rapes her every night, a mother who knows about the rape but is either indifferent or couldn't do anything about it, and two elder brothers who thinks the reason for the family's fake facade and unhappiness is her fault (the eldest brother) and who knows things are not OK but tries to pacify and pretend everything is OK for the sake of the family due to fear (the second brother).

It's really sad and no child should ever go through this.

Disclaimer: I do not own the comics above. It belongs to Jason Yungbluth

The Phone Call

Found this phone call piece somewhere in Tumblr that I can’t remember, and I just HAD to add in the convo that is in my headcanon LOL

Top part is a more innocent romantic movie-esque scenario

Bottom part is more towards a flashback as Opti and Megs have their usual face-off

RIP Leelah Alcorn

Recently Tumblr had exploded when a transgender girl named Leelah Alcorn left a suicide note that was scheduled to post a few hours after her death, and when her death made it into the news, everyone soon knew the gravity of her suicide note as more than just someone who was seeking attention and reacted rather huge.

Here are some links of the issue:

Leelah's Suicide Note
Leelah's Wikipedia page
News about her death:
jezebel.com/mom-on-suicide-of-…
www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/w…
www.independent.co.uk/news/wor…
www.ibtimes.com/leelah-alcorns…

I was completely enraged at how bigoted and radical Leelah's parents were for not accepting her as their daughter, and even during their interview, they still continued to call her as their SON rather than their DAUGHTER, as if to completely not acknowledge her true gender and pretend that her coming out never happened. They are completely dishonouring her life and her death by denying her her true gender, and they don't seem to be sorry about that. Like they rather have a dead son than a living daughter.

I was very, VERY tempted to join all those internet vigilantes out there to exact revenge on Leelah's parents. I even went to her mother's Facebook page and I was tempted to click on the message icon so that I can send her a very explicitly worded message to her about her actions. But in the end, I didn't, because this would not bring Leelah back, and it's not exactly the change Leelah would've wanted us to do. And also I would be giving in to hate and it pretty much stoops me to the parents' level and innocent people might get hurt. So I didn't go through with it.

But that doesn't mean I was willing to let it go and not do something about it.

So I drew this.

Click to see full view

Leelah's plight reminded me of my friend , who was the luckier one in young transgenders' battle to be recognized. We have been friends for quite a long time, I don't even remember for how long, but it's definitely more than 5 years, prolly. He started off as a she, being my greatest fan of my arts and found me through dA, and we were very comfortable with each other. I was surprised at first that he looked almost exactly like me, so I dubbed him "my doppelganger", and even my hubs agree that we were very much alike.

We talked about almost everything, and our thoughts are often in sync with each other. We were the personification of "Great minds think alike" and there was nothing too taboo that we can't discuss. As I got to know him more (when he was still a she), I found out that he has a girlfriend, so my first assumption was that he (she) was a lesbian. I have friends who were bi, and I have friends who were practically asexual, so hearing him saying that he's (she) into girls didn't phase me much. It just made our friendship even more interesting.

Over the years, I watched him change, getting shorter and shorter haircuts and dressing up more and more masculine as the years went by. I didn't think much of it, even celebrated his changes as I assume that since he (she) was the pants in the lesbian relationship, he was just looking the part. It was only until quite recently a few months ago around this year that he decided to come out as a transgender boy. He announced his true gender to me and told me that I am the first of few to know that he is now officially a boy.

I'll admit that I was taken quite by surprise, but it wasn't a negative reaction. I realize that all this time, with his relationship with women while a girl, his haircut, his dress-up, he was slowly but surely transitioning himself to be who he truly is. And the way it looks, it seems that his family and friends are quite accepting of his transition, and I was one of his first online friends to come out to. Of course, I try to help him spread the word to my other chat friends who knows him or is acquainted to him, doing my part to let them know his true gender.

After the Leelah suicide news, I decided to draw this, to express as much context as I could the friendship between and I shared throughout his transitioning, and it was also my way to contribute to the tribute for Leelah's death. Of course, I shared this picture to first as I thought he should be the first to see my art before I post it in dA.

His reaction was beyond my expectation. He was literally moved to tears, and was practically speechless, and he even posted it onto his tumblr here to share it with the world, and if I weren't at the office at the time when he gave me the link to read on his tumblr post, I would've actually cried with him.

I feel kinda awkward, I didn't think it would have that much of an impact. I mean technically while I did not grow up in a super religious family, I was never really raised to accept people other than the norm, but thanks to the internet, I was exposed to quite a number of these issues, and something in me just feels like I need to do my part, saying that even if I don't like something, I should tolerate it and not give in to hate, and I believe everyone deserves love, no matter what or who they are. Also if I am passionate about something, I should show my support, in whatever way I can, regardless the consequences.

At least that's what I believe.

I'm just doing my part for society, is all. It reli is NBD to me, technically, but I can see my gesture is a big deal to many that holds this issue near and dear to their heart. But then again it's prolly my Asian-raised qualities to be modest, so it felt like it's NBD. So when I got such an overwhelming response over my insignificant art from a person, I felt a little awkward. Not a bad awkward, a good awkward.

My death needs to mean something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year. I want someone to look at that number and say “that’s fucked up” and fix it. Fix society.

It will mean something, Leelah. Your death may not be unique, but it is the spark that will ignite the flames of the people to rally against the injustice done to your people and will one day unite us all and change the world.

RIP, Leelah Alcorn. You will be remembered.

Forever.

Nightcore-Immortals

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Immortals (Fall Out Boys)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video

Nightcore-Still I Fly

Been listening to a lot of Nightcore on YouTube these days, and after seeing a tutorial, I thought, "Hey, why not make Nightcores of my own?" Thus this.

Song: Still I Fly (Spencer Lee, Planes 2 OST)

Disclaimer: I do not own whatever was used to make this video