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The Grey (Hawk) Potter

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · Sep 12

Getting my socials in order for a pinned post

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Writer and sometimes drawperson

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Elli @ellipsis.bsky.social · 18h

For those who don't want to take the trip to my website, here's the page itself. #Ai

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Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzan, the greatest artist to ever create movie posters

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The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition poster

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 1d

Affiliate! Affiliate! Affiliate!

Doktor Dresdenstein @docdresden.bsky.social · 1d

Heya folks! Late schedule for the week, look forward to next fest tomorrow and a birthday party for @thegreypotter.bsky.social on Friday, lets get zer to affiliate!

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 1d

I was really hoping I could focus all my time on art for a bit longer, but I guess that's not happening.

Definitely going to keep writing and drawing. I couldn't stop me even if i wanted to stop me.

But I definitely need to be more careful *what* i spend my time on.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 1d

#art diary 22/?

Money woke up one day and slapped me in the face.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 4d

They need to be assigned 100 shojo mangas to read like the Dandadan creator

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 4d

#art diary 21/?

KC Green, I forever bow to your absurdist yet relatable humor.

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 5d

Annoyed i missed a couple days of the art journal, but they been hectic days.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 6d

So here's Hazel, learning nothing from her toxic "I can fix her" relationship with Lilly, immediately goes into her toxic "I can fix him" relationship with Aurelius.

The book is only three chapters from ending, but I really, really, *really* hope I can keep chewing on this for Fraying on Spirit.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 6d

I was really hoping Lilly's scene would be a final blow against the "fixer" heroine. Or as I called her back in the original Steadfast Sky well over ten years ago, the "Martyr." The girl who is so good she thinks she can bear the whole world.

And when the Martyr does break, she breaks *hard*.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 6d

Lilly is everything that Hazel feared she'd become. Lilly is everything Hazel hopes to fix. Lilly is the angry voice in Hazel's mind, the abuser and the abused, the relationship between these two women *delightfully* fuckled up.

The *most* toxic of yuris. And not in a "haha cute" way

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 6d

Then I go to write this chapter.

And I'm writing a guy hitting on Hazel, as you do.

And motherfucking film three Hermione comes stomping up and stabs her wand into the table (her wand is also a knife)

And I'm like

"OH! Huh. Actually. That makes a lot more sense."

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 6d

Man

So Woven in Blood Updated, as it do.

But this is where we *finally* meet Lilly.

And i specifically remember

The entire book, I pictured Lilly as this sweet, pastel, sugar spun baby lesbian. The sweetest little sugarplum fairy and it was so sad she died.

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 7d

The Vinland Saga artist seems as cool as you'd hope he'd be.

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 7d

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 8d

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 7d

#art diary 20/?

This is what the Union breaks are for.

Listen to yourself most when you're like : Rager bangs on zer keyboard repeatedly, on the edge of zer seat as ze shouts "SO COOL" a million billion times.

Listen to yourself least when you're like : Reason stands up from zer seat. Zer hand hovers above the keyboard, zer other hand on zer heart. Zer face twisted in a complex emotion, ze intones, "I am the burning heart of a garbage star. All that my light dost touch, I turn into a stinking heap of trash."

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 9d

#art diary 19/?

Life's dull without a few thunderstorms.

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 9d

Gonna try and beat Yume Nikki!! Try being the key word!!

www.twitch.tv/greyslabyrinth

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 9d

Literally about all media all humans consume. We constantly crave novelty with the familiarity of genre. We things we already have but with a fresh coat of paint on them.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 9d

You can't keep calling the human race out like this, we can't take any more!

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 9d

Might stream Yume Nikki today. On the one hand, perfect lazy day. On the other hand, I know what to do now and i wanna beat it.

The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 9d

#art diary 18/?

I'd hate to break a streak at 18, so, little break doodle.

a little sleepy Reason is tucked away in comfy blankets sound asleep, the words "UNION MANDATED BREAK" over zer head.

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Lori! @sqkrushfuture.bsky.social · 11d

how i feel supporting my local library by repeatedly checking out books that I don't read

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 11d

So clearly goty right?

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The Grey (Hawk) Potter @thegreypotter.bsky.social · 11d

Even four panels feel like a gross oversimplification. Which, it is twenty whole ass years.

Sometimes I have to make lists of all the things I've done these past twenty years, just to see the absolute *piles* of things I've accomplished, creatively, on myself, and my son as well.