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Purrveyor of Cats (2019)

@enzymedevice / enzymedevice.tumblr.com

he/him. In my 20s. I draw sporadically, irritate constantly.
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Greetings! I’m Enzyme or Q, and I’m an aroace transneutral person who uses he/him pronouns. The primary word I use to describe myself is "goth" and I like comics, robots, weird films, visual kei and fashionable gay people

Other equalities data that may be helpful for some people to know:

I have autism, Tourette's and an intersex variation; I identify as disabled, am mostly white-passing and have a mixed-religion upbringing that has led me to identify as agnostic. I don’t live in the US.

With regards to what you’ll find on this blog, I’m a mental health inclusivity consultant who also works in sex ed and has experience in funeralcare so there’ll be some heavy or sexual content here — often in the form of stupid jokes — that I don’t tag for. I do tag for gore, however, under gore cw. I also tag for racism and ableism because I talk about those marginalised experiences a lot. If you notice me posting things you’re uncomfortable with under a certain tag, please block that tag.

  • My visual art can be found under the tag my art.
  • If you’d like to see only my art relating to my favourite subject matter, I can present you with gay people grimacing, which is exactly what it says on the tin.
  • I also have a tag for appreciating other people's art! Most of my blog is this.

I try to tag fandoms/subjects appropriately! These don’t represent my favourite things in general, but my most oft-used fandom tags are probably for Doctor Who, Star Trek, JoJo, Dracula, Castlevania (games and TV series), the Eternal Champion cycle, Interview with the Vampire (TV series mostly), Cats the musical, DC Comics (more specifically Legion of Super-Heroes) and the Crow franchise. Pokémon sideblog @mareaniewife. Additionally, I like a bunch of horror/gore/weird antiquated media that crops up from time to time. In terms of subject matter, I currently also use the tags goth stuff, trans stuff, undertaker stuff, robots tag and placeholder cannibalism tag, the cannibalism tag I wanted a delicious name for but nothing bit :(

My icon and header are Dracula from the manga #DRCL midnight children by Shin'ichi Sakamoto.

I know that writing a DNI won’t actually act as a preventative measure since anyone can just go on the internet and lie but considering I’m in my 20s I would prefer that anyone under 18 interacting with me proceed with caution since the content I share is not for you. This isn’t a slight on you, merely a personal boundary I choose to set.

Likewise, visible TERFs, trans/homophobes, racists/Islamophobes/antisemites, ableists, people arguing about shipping in a way that annoys me, people with a DNI criterion that resembles me or anyone else that just rubs me the wrong way for no discernible reason will be blocked on sight. It’s no big deal, I just prefer to look at things on here that don’t make me sad.

If I express enjoying some problematic media, please assume that I’m aware of all the things wrong with it and have, offline in my own time, unpacked its nuances, cherrypicking the things I like about it to uplift online.

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Red Dwarf is a really nice fandom but, while not wanting to speak for anyone since I am white, it really gives me the ick that (while I do like him a lot) about 70% of the posts in the fandom are about Rimmer in some way and woobifying him. Tbh its why Ive never really interacted with the fandom much because every time I try to join a group, everyone seems to just want to talk about Rimmer but I wanna talk about Lister

And y’know what sucks? I even considered not responding to this ask because of the risk of alienating followers who like him! I agree with you, though — everyone I’ve interacted with has been genuinely lovely but it’s a painful pattern that repeats in all fandoms and to which Red Dwarf’s, pleasant as it is, is no exception. When there’s a white fave, he takes over every tag, every post about other characters… and more specifically, every conversation about a Black character ultimately shifts to being about the white fave. I have the tags for Rimmer and their ship blocked so I only have to see that stuff if I feel like it, and it’s painful to scroll down Lister’s tag and see blocked post after blocked post (I counted 24 in a row a few days ago!) because it seems like nobody can talk about Lister without taking the overwhelming relevance of his relationship to Rimmer as a given. Referring to every protagonist of colour ever when I say his proximity to the white guy isn’t the only interesting thing about him! At the convention the other week they made everyone do a show of hands for their favourite character and I swear it was like 90% for Rimmer and a smattering for everyone else (that may be an exaggeration but in my defence I already felt like I was at a white pride convention with how I could count the other nonwhite attendees on one hand lol). I really appreciate receiving this ask because I’m used to feeling relatively alone in my aversion to fandoms’ overemphasis on white faves. I will say, though, I’ve definitely found people willing to discuss Lister on his own so I wouldn’t give up on finding your group yet!

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I’m very glad that this post and related ones have found people who agree but I want to highlight for a moment how patently comically absurd it is to end up making a positivity post about how we definitely do also care about The Main Character Of The Show lmao.

hey, i haven’t posted in a while! but this was a post that interested me heavily to see! im a poc (wasian), and i love the rep in red dwarf! and how racism isn't something that is joked about within the show. i love it when the characters are diverse and don't follow stereotypes! i love lister as a character, his style is awesome and one i tried to replicate myself! hes so under-appreciated even though hes AMAZING! don't get me wrong i love rimmer and their dynamic, but lister is his own person too!

I appreciate hearing this perspective!! I find it somewhat stressful personally that race goes so completely unmentioned in the show even when jokes rest on the visible Blackness of the characters, so I’m glad to hear that race’s lack of emphasis is something appreciated by others. I’m a very new fan who stuck around (through parts of the show I wasn’t enjoying!) because of Lister’s style being similar to mine already so hell yeah I’m always excited to see he’s been an inspiration.

i guess i see it like how i like to see it in society! i like to think that when i interact with people that the first thing they think about is my race, and i like how that isn't reflected heavily in the show! jokes in tv shows that directly target where i'm from always throw me off somewhat! im british and filipino for example, and sometimes tv shows will mention things in the philippines as if its bad or lesser than the current situation at hand! however, i think it would've been cool for racism to have been brought up at some point during the show, in a mature way, i think it could've been done greatly! like how in s2ep6 they reflect how sexist men like rimmer are!

im curious as to how long you have been a fan for? ive been around for about 3-4 years now! and i havent done a rewatch in a while, but i 100% get what you mean by some of it not being enjoyable. and im glad that lister as a character helped you stick around! hes such a deep character who i wish they explored more sometimes, and gave him a bit more depth!

Yeah that makes sense, and I get it! That’s what sci-fi is for, eh? In a sense I’m glad there isn’t any direct racial targeting of the characters as I’m unsure how maturely a sitcom with a live seemingly very white studio audience would be able to handle that, though one can hope.

Oh, a matter of months!! I just jumped in headfirst immersing myself in fandom discussions as I’ve been around fans my whole life; I can finally participate in what I’ve heard about secondhand for so long. I was very pleasantly surprised by both Lister and the Cat as I… kind of had an image in my head of the cast being all white people… so even though I have my criticisms with how they’re under-written (and want to get them out of there!!) I will stick by nonwhite alternative style representation no matter what lmao.

rapid fire things i learned about my boyfriend this morning.

  • he has never seen disney's the little mermaid
  • he thought the song Poor Unfortunate Souls was from phantom of the opera
  • he has never seen phantom of the opera
  • he thought disney made phantom of the opera
  • he thought phantom of the opera was animated
  • "i couldve sworn i saw an animated hunchback"
  • ...wait do you mean the hunchback of notre dame
  • he thought phantom of the opera was the hunchback of notre dame

i was explaining to a friend how janeway was barred from having a very active sex life by the writers because it was the nineties and they didn't want her to have her competency questioned for it and her response was to say that it's not equality if kirk gets to sow his wild oats across the galaxy but janeway's not allowed to fuck. and she's right. every female captain after janeway is either in a committed relationship or has very few sexual partners. we need a female captain on star trek who fucks hard and often

for further clarification i don't mean that they fuck hard and often with their single monogamous partner. i want them to fuck lots of sexual partners in the way that conservative society would find reprehensible. it's about the Diversity of sexual encounters that kirk and picard get away with having for sheer virtue of being men that i'm trying to go for

hard to leave Tumblr for any period of time because someone could drop a vital piece of personal lore that's essential to unlocking whatever they are vaguely posting about for the next several months/years

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Submission for the Melanin Beam Challenge! I did Noe from CSoV, a character I know you mentioned wanting to see done for this challenge, and a personal fave guy of mine ^^ I redrew the cover of volume 2 of the manga!

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BECAUSE NOE IS BLACK, AND I WILL HEAR NOTHING ELSE ABOUT IT!! Noe, my prince, you deserve better 😭 I'm still mad at that damn show. If the author wasn't a coward, Noe would be blowing Vanitas' bac[REDACTED FURTHER]. He's so good!!!! Thanks for thinking of me!

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let's get to know each other + cure the boredom a little

  • hair color:
  • favorite color:
  • favorite drink:
  • one thing you love about yourself:
  • if you could be any animal, what would you be?
  • dream place to visit:
  • what's one thing you're looking forward to right now?
  • your biggest dream:
  • song that's permanently on your repeat:

10 people i'd like to get to know better tag game

hair color — brownish-ish black. still fading from when I died it a deep red

favorite color — pink, light blue, and black !!

favorite drink — passion fruit/mango lemonade is literally my kryptonite

one thing you love about yourself — the way I think about and process things.

if you could be any animal, what would you be ? AN OTTER. they’re so freaking cuteeeee ☹️☹️

dream place to visit — italy or countryside of france

what's one thing you're looking forward to right now? MY MF BDAYYYYYY (which is today 😋)

your biggest dream — to find pure happiness and hold onto it, and be rich asf

song that's permanently on your repeat — too many to say. imma do a top 3 of just this week alone

follow me x rochelle jordan
rent free x sailorrr
I just died x amerie
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Thanks for the tag @thecatcherlntherye !!

  • Hair color: brown 👍
  • Favorite color: I don't really have a *favorite* favorite but if I had to pick it'd be fuschia
  • Favorite drink: pink lemonade 😋
  • One thing you love about yourself: I'm always cooking up some sad gay little story
  • If you could he any animal, what would you be?: WOLF. WOLF WOLF WOLF NO QUESTION
  • Dream place to visit: Vietnam but like specifically Hanoi... I probably would NOTTTT be able to handle the heat though lol
  • What's one thing you're looking forward to right now?: Weezer Gold Album drop 💔💔
  • Your biggest dream: become an established and respected storyteller 😌
  • Song that's permanently on repeat: I switch favorite songs like every other week but at the moment it's the drum by Car Seat Headrest

thanks for the tag :DD

  • hair color: brown
  • Favorite color: i love all the colors, but purple is definitely special
  • favorite drink: milkshake?? I guess?
  • one thing you love about yourself: I love my own drawings, I love my artstyle, and I love (and hate) being myself nowadays
  • if you could be any animal, what would you be? BUNNY, A BUNNY !!!!!
  • dream place to visit; canada, I like canada
  • what's one thing you're looking forward to right now? my birthday.. it's tomorrow..
  • your biggest dream: publish a visual novel of my ocs some day, idk publish anything about my ocs in general
  • song that's permanently on repeat: I always come back to listen to Beach Life in Death by CSH, it's not my favorite song ever because I don't have one, but yeah, is that

Idk who tag here... be free to join this

Hiya!

  • hair color: dark brown
  • Favorite color: purple & green
  • favorite drink: carbonated water
  • one thing you love about yourself: I like how my eyes look
  • if you could be any animal, what would you be?: bnnuy
  • dream place to visit: I really want to go to Ireland one day.....also Seattle..because....car seat headrest.......
  • what's one thing you're looking forward to right now?: I'm going to start going to a new school pretty soon
  • your biggest dream: to have a decent amount of people like my art
  • song that's permanently on repeat: I've been listening to Sleeping With Strangers (CSH) a lot recently

ok yay .! tysm!!

hair color - black with red ends

fave colors - black… silver… also love teal and purple and pink and red and brown um

fave drink - any kind of juice… i LOVE juice…

one thing i love bout myself - my ability to create things

animal i would be - a goat…….

dream place to visit - i wanna go back to italy

one thing i’m looking forward to - graduating high school… but also looking forward to listening to the new tmag and threshold episodes

biggest dream - be able to live comfortably and do what i love.. also go to the goth club and date a goth

song on repeat - none in particular, but i do love garlands by cocteau twins

hmm tags …… @clownfish-casino @decaying-appleseeds @timetravelingcowboy @cup-of-lavender-tea @unknown-smudge and anyone else who wanna play !! i wanna know you too!!!

hair color: black rn, kinda red tinted

fave colors: blue pink and yellow

fave drink: matcha. I fucking love iced matcha.

one thing I love about myself: uhh I guess I like that I’ve been decent about taking care of myself lately?

animal I would be: I think either like. A vulture. Or maybe a sheep

dream place I would want to go to: London, I am a Magnus archives nerd and I need to go there one day.

One thing I’m looking forward to: DnD tmrw since it means friend time I miss my friends

biggest dream: being a therapist! I have been looking into it and what I’d need to do to be able to go to college for that :>

song on repeat: Francis forever

Hair color: brown

Fav color: black/blue/green

Fav drink: idk I’ll say homemade hot chocolate :]

One thing I love abt myself: I’ve been eating better :D. And I managed to sing Dream On by Aerosmith w/o my voice cracking

Animal I’d be: fox or eagle

Dream Place I want to go: Germany (my great grandparents were from there (not from the bad side!) and left quite young I think) or Japan (where my cousin is for now)

One thing I’m looking forward to: the Ren fair or going to see my sister BS and my niece

Biggest dream: honestly idk

Song on repeat: (I have multiple) Villain by Stella Jang, GONE GONE GONE by Autumn Kings, and Here Comes the Cats by Waitress (thanks to that one Pure Vanilla/Shadow milk animatic)

Thanks for the tag @bookworm2011!

Hair color: Black

Favorite color: pink, yellow, red, orange, green, and blue.

Favorite drink: iced tea, half-lemonade and half -iced tea, orange juice, and apple juice.

One thing I love about myself: Hmm.... I'm getting back into drawing

If you could be any animal, what would you be?: Hmm, either a horse or an American Bald Eagle ( what? It's a beautiful bird).

dream place to visit: England or getting to see all fifty states.

what's one thing you're looking forward to right now?: Trying to finish my drawings for Summer of 51's.

your biggest dream: Getting to see all of my friends again.

song that's permanently on your repeat:

Oh boy... Let's see. Any older Imagine Dragons song, Yu-Gi-Oh Shadow Games, If Today Was Your Last Day by Nickelback.

Thanks for the tag @laramieemergencymunchycrew ! 😁🥰

- hair color: black

- favorite color: blue, green, purple

- favorite drink: lately I’ve been craving cherry coke (but I can’t have it because of kidney stones)

- one thing I love about myself: I give really good presents 🎁

- if you could be any animal, what would you be: I would be my own cat because he is spoiled rotten and has a fantastic life

- dream place to visit: Greece

- one thing you’re looking forward to right now: feeling better enough from my depression that I can think of something I’m looking forward to

- your biggest dream: see above

- song that’s permanently on your repeat: honestly there are SO MANY but right off the top of my head I’ll just pick “daddy cool” by boney m

No pressure tags:

Aw, thanks for the tag, @1lostsoul0fishbowl 🥰

- hair color: dark brown but rapidly silvering

- favorite color: Hmmmm… been very into blues and purples lately

- favorite drink: can't beat a good cup of tea!

- one thing I love about myself: if I understand something, I'm good at explaining it

- if you could be any animal, what would you be: a capybara in a yuzu hot spring

- dream place to visit: somewhere cool, with trees and streams and flowers

- one thing you’re looking forward to right now: (stealing this answer from Losty, because I feel this one) feeling better enough from my depression that I can think of something I’m looking forward to

- your biggest dream: see above (yep)

- song that’s permanently on your repeat: The Proclaimers, "I'm Gonna Be" (aka Karveth'a favorite song 😆)

tagging @deadheaddaisy, @finalfrontierpsychiatrist, @shadowinthefire, @phoenixflames12, and anyone else who wants to play!

Yay thanks for tagging me @more-better-words!! these are always fun!!

- hair color: red but slowly turning brown (the ginger version of graying hair)

- favorite color: ORANGE! purple and pink! But really, all of them. Together at once. Rainbows! And sparkles!!

- favorite drink: boba tea (black tea with brown sugar kind). i also love guinness (i'm so glad you can get it NA now!)

- one thing I love about myself: i'd say i'm pretty true to myself

- if you could be any animal, what would you be: you know what? my inner child would say tiger and i'm going to stick with that

- dream place to visit: Iceland! Ethiopia! Türkiye (again)! my hometown (not in the continent I currently live)!

- one thing you’re looking forward to right now: going to see all cycling's greatest duke it out in the world championships soon! also, most excitingly, there is a cafe there that makes homemade oreos the size of your HEAD which will be objective #1 and most important

- your biggest dream: try more new things!! i'd like to take a glass blowing course

- song that’s permanently on your repeat: oooh it changes up a lot but lately I've had "Magic Position" by Patrick Wolf stuck in my head so I'm playing it a lot these days. also if "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera et al comes on, i will never not hit replay.

Thanks for the tag 🙏

Hair colour: brown. It was blond as a kid but definitely brown now

Favourite colour: Either dark red, mid blue or something like sage green. I find it hard to choose

Favourite drink: For hot drinks (earl grey) tea, and for cold it's probably chocolate milkshake

One thing I love about myself: How I've managed to distance myself from my family (mentally, anyway) and learn my own identity. It's taken a good few years but I love being true to myself and not feeling so much guilt for it any more

If you could be any animal, what would you be?: A cat for sure

Dream place to visit: Bangkok, Thailand. Also Finland, South Korea and honestly London again bc ive only been there once despite living in the same country.

One thing you're looking forward to right now: Meeting up with my friend again next week

Your biggest dream: To play piano for a living/professionally

Song that's permanently on your repeat: Life on Mars - David Bowie

cheers for the tag!! ❤️

Hair colour: Black

Fave colour: Yellow or black

Fave drink: Iced coffee

One thing I love about myself: My emotional maturity and how I give advice

If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?: A red panda

Dream place to visit: Tokyo, Prague, New York

One thing you're looking forward to right now: Seeing the new Spiderman film in cinema with my family, and the new Madoka Magica film coming out

Your biggest dream: To create stories or be a professional creative director

Song that's permanently on repeat: Archangel - Burial, or My Own Summer - Deftones

Aw thanks for the tag @holofrankenstein!

hair colour: black but I’ve been dyeing the roots blonde for a while now so… increasingly blonde.

favourite colour: purple! I like it even more in combination with black and green than on its own though.

favourite drink: lemon and ginger tea!!

one thing you love about yourself: I can name so many musicians. Maybe I only know one song by them but I sure do know their names! It’s a good way of striking up conversations with people.

if you could be any animal, what would you be? Either a snow leopard or a little amelanistic corn snake <33

dream place to visit: I’ve always wanted to go to Las Vegas because it looks awful and I’d like to sit there not gambling, brooding pretentiously about capitalism and excess.

what’s one thing you’re looking forward to right now? I have a work residential coming up and I’m excited to stay in a hotel for a few days with colleagues I don’t know very well yet, even though we’ll just be working! I’m especially looking forward to meeting one colleague’s service dog for the first time.

your biggest dream: I’d like to do some nebulous thing that gets me interviewed on a late-night talk show I hate, so I can be in a viral clip where I’m really smug and edgy.

song that’s permanently on your repeat: at the moment I’m looping Crust Party in Findhorn Place by Oi Polloi, Gold Chain Punk by Soul Glo and the Dub War cover of War Inna Babylon :> But most of my all-time most listened songs are by clipping. or Lenny Kravitz.

I never know who to tag so I’ll just say I’d like to get to know any mutual who sees this!