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I've been a fan of this certain artist since I was in middle school. I kinda stumbled across her art one day on tumblr, and I found it absolutely gorgeous. It gave me something else to think about besides all the nasty rumors that my classmates spread about me and the usual lesbian-middle-schooler angst. Although I guess it was a tad worse than usual, since my parents would legit kick me out of the house if they knew that I was gay.
I kinda understood her feelings about immigrating to a different country, since my family moved to US when I was nine. I also understood the opposition to censorship, since my family in Russia was dealing with that shit. Special fuck-you to Roskomnadzor here. Also, my ukrainian paternal grandparents are forced to use TOR for everything from family communications (shit like vk is blocked, and guess where they used to message my dad pre-crackdown and still do?) to youtube, so that's been a nice time. A good chunk of my family is technically breaking a couple of laws daily due to VPN service use and whatnot. But they're not anti-gov anarchists, they're just regular people who want to visit the sites that they frequented pre-crackdown. And stream porn, I guess, although no one (besides my paternal grandpa who's far too fucking prone to oversharing) would admit to that.
So, yeah, I guess it's only natural that I'd set a promo art for Fisheye Placebo as a background. It's a favorite webcomic of mine due to its anti-censorship message, and this promo art is rather soothing for whatever reason.
