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Lak by FamiliarAlien
- Name:
- Lak
- Age:
- 16
- Gender:
- female
- Height:
- 5'1"
- Species:
- tenaliam
Finally the last tenaliam that needed a new ref got one! I actually drew her side profile (or a sketch at least) at the same time as Prac and Lok but I decided to put off finishing her until now. You can read her entire new profile at toyhouse.
She had the biggest revamp from the old design I think. Not only because the style is... more more angular now to match the rest of my characters but also a few general changes. Her colour scheme is different now (much tanner skin and her brown parts of her fur are much more reddish) and she now sports a little white goatee. To explain female northern tenaliam do to have facial hair but I originally didn't give her any because she's a mix of the northern and southern variety of this alien species. There's a couple of reason I changed it, one is I didn't want to fall too hard into "girls look X boys look Y" shit (Rennasho already pushes it with her presence) and the other was because I want people that want that nonsense catered to stay as far the fuck away from my story as possible.
Characters will not be "obvious" with their gender most of the time so more characters I can establish that have secondary/tertiary sexual characteristics associate with a different gender more I can cement that's a thing. I don't want to have to deal with angry fanboys getting offended a character of mine didn't appeal to their status quo. That happened once already I haven't even started the comic yet!
SO YEAH that rant aside enjoy.
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- Comments:
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- Rating:
- General
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Yeah glad you feel the same way. Like as a trans person it kinda makes me... vaguely annoyed when people actually criticize design for not "looking like [insert gender]" because surprise people in real life don't always comfort to that and not even just people in my position xP. It makes even less sense to criticize aliens because like girl goats have a beard the whole facial hair=male thing is almost exclusively a human trait.
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I've perceived the Internet to be easier to express self-restraint, especially considering that I look like a guy; Judgment is tough to deal with in the human world. On the web communities I tend to visit, people seem to understand that others can improve.
At least the native animals of Earth don't judge each other for stupid reasons, right?
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I'm not sure about that animals are less likely to mate with individuals that deviate from what they consider an "ideal" mate but that's mating, its not like peafowl go out of their way to murder say a peacock that has dull feathers. That puts them a step above humans where a woman wearing dude clothing can be harassed and threatened and that's clothing, that's something that she has to choice to remove unlike say a trans woman or a intersex woman that may have masculine physical traits that literally make her more likely to die at a young age.
I do enjoy that about the internet, only a small number of people on social media actually know what I look like irl so they are less likely to push like weird beliefs onto me based on what I look. I guess the only downside is when it comes to illness. Hearing about people taking seizures from flashing gifs or videos is a very different experience from actually seeing it happen for example. In generation folks alter behaviour a lot faster when they see the product of their actions and realize they fucked up.-
*in general folks...
Typo!
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Humans are still backwards in many areas, especially when people I've witnessed in the real world have a hard time accepting one another's opinions.
The only times I've revealed my appearance on social media were on Facebook, but I deleted my account about two years ago. I've been happier on the Internet ever since.
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Good job! I have a facebook but I don't post photos of myself to it ^^; I mean not many people on it aren't people that haven't seen me irl but since a couple haven't I rather they don't have an excuse to misgender me/cause drama related to that.
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I'm glad to know you aren't giving them an excuse to do such a thing.
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well this whole species so weird I don't think that's a problem.
Gender assumptions are something I'd love to someday just demolish with sci-fi. I was just thinking the other day how narrowly defined our idea of male and female are. It wouldn't take much to have a biologically conservative race that rubs humans the wrong way, say, reverse the sexual dimorphism and now the females are biologically bigger, stronger, and deep-voiced. the location and type of hair is another - lots of places it could go that make evolutionary sense but wouldn't jibe with the way humans like it. Just two low-hanging fruit, nothing actually different from other terrestrial mammals even. ...and we wonder why aliens don't wanna pop the sociological can of worms that this place is, lol!
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yeah hopefully not. It was a ferron that literally made someone mad because you know how dare I make a male alien more colourful than the female. Its not like that's usually how it works with actual birds!
Yeah :c sadly a lot of writers that do sci fi are well... not that socially progressive as weird as that sounds? Not that that's a bad thing necessarily (as long as they aren't writing vaguely xenophobic/racist stories... some of them definitely pull that >_>; ) but it does lead to some lead to stories being creatively stale in a lot of areas. I feel bad for hypothetical aliens that would come here given the pretty basic things humans in general don't understand about certain human populations. I'm 100% sure if ginaga or my version of grey aliens really existed and came to Earth humans would constantly be asking if they're a boy or a girl in which they would respond "????What is that???" . Its amazing the concepts that simply don't get explored because it doesn't occur to a lot of folks that certain concepts we think of being absolutes are specifically humans ideas /ramble.
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whaaa?
Blah, OMG I've got a (anthro) bird pair on my desktop that is exactly that, colorful, girlish male, female with wild west pistols, for the sheer worldbuilding aspect of it!
Yesh, I stumbled right into that one with especially some of the older writers. Heinlein (Starship Troopers) is SO social darwinist holy shit it is hard to believe he lived and wrote in the same decade as say, Arthur C. Clarke. And a lot of other writers are shades of that... blah. I think they're in the wrong genre or something, compare to say, William Gibson (Neuromancer) with its glorification of people who make something for themselves despite being in "the slums" it's night and day!
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Well, when I say "Neuromancer" it's because it's the only book of his people really know, but Gibson's applaud the poor people who survive being at rock bottom POV really is only nascent there, it comes to the fore in his later writings, the 'Bridge' Trilogy in particular.
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D: Yeah Its ridiculous that happened, it was a couple years back now but it was ridiculous to say the least.
Also I see :< Yeah some writers are kinda.... really gross. There's definitely something to be said between writing about something terrible and glorifying it as a good thing in your writing, tone is often that indicator. I mean sure plenty of stories have rapists but only some of them seem to portray forcing yourself sexually on a others or peer pressuring sex as a "romantic act". Yeah author... you're a fucking creeper and I don't trust you around other human beings.
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Ahh it's nice to see Lak again! I rather like the new look - I think the new colour scheme works better, and I really like how her hair looks - including that stylish goatee. =)
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Thank you :D yeah her colours may not have changed drastically but I made things way less pale + more desaturated + more uniformed by giving the fur a hint of red instead of having it basically be poop brown lmao! Yeah as much as it can be a little bit more tedious to do her hair than other characters I do event the end result. As someone that irl has wavy frizzy hair it was fun designing a character which has that. She looks good with it unlike me that usually keeps my hair cut super short ._.;
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I really like the idea of avoiding assumptions of a character's gender, especially based on their looks. It's not what you see; it's what you don't see.