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knappend.bsky.social
knappen
@knappend.bsky.social
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artist of dark and light narratives, but many flavors of dead dove. 25+, he/him. 18+ only!!

primarily active on tumblr and aethy!

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#whumptober2025 final day, alt prompt: "I hate this job."

sometimes kit feels fine enough after, sometimes he feels hollowed out.

#art #illustration #nsfw #oc #whump cw sex work, bruises, rope marks
an illustration in pink, purple, and blue, featuring Kit on a hotel bed. Kit has split-dyed hair (natural blond on his right, black on his left) and is very thin and pale with delicate features, covered in small scars such as cigarette burns and fresh rope marks and bruises. He is wearing a pentagram harness and black panties, and he is smoking a cigarette. surrounding him are used condoms, a stack of bills, a lighter, and a rope. a text bubble in a deep magenta reads "I hate this."
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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#whumptober2025 day 26: relapse, drawn curtains.

"you've got poison in your system; sick eyes don't glisten."

Ryder's no stranger to using for fun. but when he's alone, when the curtains are drawn, it's a different story

#art #comic #oc #whump cw drugs, needles, injection
A silent comic featuring Ryder in a ketamine relapse with the curtains drawn. The background lineart is white on dark values. curtains, walls, and floor pure black with a sliver of white peeking through the curtains. The color grading is a sickly yellow with muted greens and violets, the mundanity and sickness of this cycle. Ryder is a tall, toned man with light brown skin, dark brown eyes, and long, thick straight black hair in a wrecked bun, lots of flyaways and loose hairs. He has multiple facial piercings and is wearing a black t-shirt, black boxer briefs, and gray jeans with ripped knees. His dark circles are pronounced and he has small marks on his face and neck. Panel 1: a low table with a shot glass (remnants of liquid in it), a baggie of white powder, a syringe cap, and a bottle of Percocet. Panel 2: Pure black curtains and wall with light lineart, showing the curtains drawn with light shining between the small opening. Panel 3: Ryder is sitting on the edge of his couch, more of his trashed apartment visible. He is injected himself intramuscularly with ketamine, holding his syringe with one hand and plunging with the other. His expression is relatively flat, but slightly furrowed — the burn of ketamine. Panel 4: a close up of Ryder's thigh, smearing the blood and droplet of fluid with his thumb after removing the needle, simply dropping it to the ground with his other hand as his body appears heavier. Panel 5: Ryder slumped against the front of the couch with his legs out in front of him, leaning back with arms heavy on either side of him. His expression is fading, with a hint of melancholy as the regret hits before the drug. Panel 6: A close up on Ryder's face in a profile view, his head tipped back and his expression gone, lips parted, eyes glazed and dark circles prominent. the background is layered with hatching, distortion, and cloud effects layered into a subtle rough background. in the bottom right corner is the artist's signature, KNAPPEN.
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#whumptober2025, day 16: Permanent Marker

gage at school, before everything went to hell again. it's not worth sharing.

#art #oc #whump #comic cw child abuse, flashbacks, trauma
a one-page comic in a bruise-like color gradient. panel one featuring gage, a thin young man with curly black hair, brown skin, light eyes, and scars, is eating ice cream from a cup. a friend off-screen asks "Hey gage, where'd you get that scar on your lip?" it cuts to white lineart on pure black hatching: panel 2 shows the hands and torso of a large and unhygienic man holding a box cutter directly to the camera, the knife glinting. panel 2 show's gage's eyes as a young boy, crying with a bloody a nose and dark circles. the final panel features gage with a dulled expression, the spoonful of ice cream in his mouth as he responds: "It's a stupid story." the friend off-screen asks "What, you faceplant or something?" Gage responds "Something like that."
October 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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#whumptober2025 day 14: wounded caretaker

after escaping the fire and shootout, Aaron and Gage are separated for the investigation. they made it to safety, but no one is telling Aaron if he's is still in a safe place. but Aaron will hope.

#art #oc #whump #comic medical, eye trauma, burns
a four panel comic in hospital blue. Aaron is a tall, lean trans man with pale skin, short blond hair and light bangs, in a short messy shag. He has one brown eye and one eye enucleated with stitched corners (both sides from knife slash), with healing scars and bruises on his arms and face. He has a bulk bandaged hand (each finger is wrapped for a full surface burn). He has an IV in his right arm, and bandages on his chest and shoulder from minor operations. the first panel is a close up of the left side of Aaron's face, his eye enucleated and his scars and deep bruises on their way to healing, but still present. his expression is flat, solemn. the second panel is a close up of Aaron's left hand limp in his lap, completely bandaged, fingers and all. This is from his burn wounds. the third panel is a close up of the IV in his arm, disconnected from fluids but a constant presence. the final panel is a view of Aaron from overhead, his shoulders and up. He is looking slightly off-camera, his expression flat and and exhausted. the inner monologue is placed over the panels: "It's been a short while since we burned everything down, and I don't know where you are. The pain is unlike anything i've felt in my life, and every day I relive that night. But I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Because if you're safe and being cared for, everything will have been worth it."
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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part 4/4
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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part 3/4
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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#whumptober2025 day 12, cardiac arrest

when gage's heart gives out, Drew can't risk being seen with him. so he drives him to the corner by Hope County Hospital, positioning him on the ground and shouting before fleeing the scene.

#art #illustration #gif #whump #oc flashing lights, glitch

part 1/4
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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#whumptober2025 day 11: laceration

The night Gabriel and Antonio both faced their father's wrath, bleeding as they wait for Santiago to arrive with first aid. continuation of Whumptober 2024

#art #illustration #oc #whump cw blood, injuries, domestic abuse
an illustration of Gabriel and Antonio sitting in the bathroom, severely injured and surrounded by meager first aid supplies after a fight with Luis, their father. Gabriel is a small boy in black shorts with black curly hair and brown skin, covered in cuts and bandages from Antonio's work. Antonio is large and muscular with a mussed black medium taper fade and brown skin, sitting on the toilet, holding a paper towel to his bloody left shoulder shoulder and slumped backward with a half-present expression. His white tank top (one strap sliced open) and gray sweatpants are covered in blood with his left arm hanging limp in his lap. Gabriel is huddled on the bathroom floor, blood stained and bandaged, holding tight to Antonio's calf and curling into himself. Both are crying. The background consists of light colored lineart of a bathroom (rusted and cracked toilet, sink, shower curtain, overflowing trash can, mirror, medical supplies). The medical supplies are filled in white and some are stained red. The bathroom has a diagonal crack through the length of it, and the bathroom floor tiles have a crack that leads to Antonio's foot. The background is black, with lineart in a haunted, sickly yellow-green, white fill on various objects, and the red of blood stands out.
October 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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when rescue registers as trauma.

stan is dead and miel is in an unfamiliar hospital, unable to regulate himself no matter how many hours pass. painless torture is far too much.

#whumptober2025, day 6: medical restraints

#art #illustration #oc #whump cw scars, captivity, stockholm syndrome
an illustration in deep blue, black, red, and whitee, of Miel fully restrained to a hospital bed, viewed from above. Miel is small and emaciated, with long black hair in a ponytail and a loose hospital gown. He's covered in old scars, and he's crying, his expression extremely distressed as he cries for Stan. His restraints include shoulder straps, biceps, wrists, ankle, a lap belt, and mitts. He's visibly struggling against them. Off to the side, nurses speak to him and each other. dialogue: Miel: "He..help! Stan…!" Nurse 1 to Miel: "I understand you're scared, honey… we want to keep you safe." Nurse 2 to Nurse 1: "This breaks my heart. It's like he thinks he's been kidnapped…" Nurse 1 to Nurse 2: "Yeah… restraints really aren't helping. But every time we loosen them he tries to harm himself… so…" Nurse 2: "I just don't know what to do for him… He keeps crying for Kansawa, even with everything they found in their house." Nurse 1: "It sounds like it's all the poor boy knew. Wouldn't be surprised if he was conditioned to feel affection for his captor." Nurse 2: "I just hope he wears himself out soon… Anyway, keep an eye on the bruising, hopefully no breaks. Just try to talk to him." Nurse 1: "Yeah, I've got it from here. Have a good night."
October 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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whumptober day 4: iron rod

flashback to Gekiyaku and Kazehiki AU

when the monster laid his hands on Kazehiki was when Gekiyaku broke. She killed him and packed her brother in a wagon, blood boiling and tears falling as she walked to the church on the outskirts.

#art #illustration #vocaloid
an lineart illustration with a sketch background, featuring young orphans Gekiyaku and Kazehiki. Gekiyaku is pulling Kazehiki in a small child's wagon, holding a bloody iron pipe with an expression of raw rage as she cries and trudges forward. She is small, about 9 years old, and she is walking with bare, dirty feet, bruises and bloody hands, her dress torn and pattered with blood. Kazehiki, about 5, is curled up in the wagon, crying with his hands brought up to his face as they walk. His clothes are ripped and he's missing a baby tooth.
October 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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whumptober day 3: found family

Kit, Ezra, and Ryder hide out, waiting for an opportunity to escape after a deal gone wrong; Ezra was dragged into it, and now, their only option is to call Damien: Kit's pimp and the man who has all of them under his thumb.

#art #illustration #oc #whump
a dark and moody illustration of three men, Kit, Ryder, and Ezra, hiding out in a trashed apartment, littered with debris. Kit sits on the right side of the image, curled into himself on the floor with a backpack and his knife. Kit is small and thin in ripped black jeans, black boots, and a tight black sweater, with split-dyed shag hair, blonde on his right and black on his left. Ezra sits on a cardboard box in the corner of the room, closest to camera center. He is large and soft with a red-brown medium middle-part shag, wearing a black hoodie gray jeans, and sneakers. he is holding a phone, tapping the screen. Ryder is standing by the open window, leaning out slightly and viewed from the back. his thick long black hair is pulled back and messy, and he's wearing a black hoodie, patched black jeans, and nikes. each of them are surrounded by a hatching glow. the coloring is a green-blue-gold gradient map, a haunting grimy, rainy city palette. the dialogue reads as follows: Ryder, out the window and to himself: "can't keep fucking doing this…" Ezra, to both: "I'm calling Damien." "We're on our own getting outta here, but he'll send a ride for Kit." Kit, to Ezra: "Whatever. But I don't wanna hear that asshole's voice."
October 4, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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whumptober 2025, day 2: prophecy

portrait of gage, a self fulfilling prophecy!!

#art #illustration #whumptober2025 #oc cw abuse, scars
a bust portrait of gage with brown skin, light blue eyes, and black hair in grayscale, overlaid with a chaotic blue/red/purple gradient map. Gage appears battered and scarred and exhausted, his expression and posture neutral as he's surrounded by a background of distorted quotes of things he has said, and other things said to him in the past, both traumatic and uplifting. each of these things paints him as a self fulfilling prophecy. the quotes are overlaid on a cracked wall image with alcohol ink texture, and a heavy chromatic aberration and RGB shift.
October 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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whumptober day 1: lamb to the slaughter

gage is in ashes' hands for the next few nights. he knows better than to run

proved to myself i can whump him day of !!

#oc #art #illustration #whumptober2025 cw implied abuse, captivity, scars
whumptober day 1: led to slaughter. an illustration of gage and a masked captor from Ashes walking towards camera right, into the main building after gage has been captive. gage is small and extremely thin with scarred brown skin, light blue eyes, and black curly hair, his lip scar prominent. he is wearing a dirty tank top and black underwearing, barefoot and nude otherwise. he has a black rope tied around his neck, led by a leash. His face is forward, his expression tired, not reacting. he's used to this. the Ashes captor is in a black hoodie, jeans, gloves, and a balaclava, holding the black rope and leading Gage off screen. his posture is stark and strong but not urgent. they all know gage knows better by now. the characters are illustrated over a cc0 photo background of the wall of an abandoned warehouse, with wide boarded windows/loading bays and overground vegetation. the color palette is a gradient mapped muted complementary blue/yellow/orange.
October 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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lineart version as well
a one panel comic featuring multiple emotional registers, depicting Ryder giving a half-conscious Kit a sternal rub. they are sitting in a dark bedroom against the side of a bed. this is lineart of the first image with some grayscale details. the text bubbles are in separate values, noting differences betwen Ryder and Kit's dialogue bubbles. Kit's two-toned blond and black hair is mussed and sweaty, eyes half-open in a thousand yard stare. His pale white skin is sweaty, lips smeared with cum. His lips are parted in slow, shaky breaths as he wakes up from having his drink spiked with GHB. His body language is simultaneously limp yet rigid, his legs delicately draped over Ryder's thigh while his thin arms lay limp in his lap Ryder is broader and more muscular in comparison to Kit, cradling him with his bruised knucked pressed into Kit's breastbone. Ryder is crying, his expression wide and fearful, almost looking up at the boy in his arms. His long thick black hair is pulled into a messy ponytail and sweat is running down his brown skin, his black tank and dark jeans dirtied. dialogue: RYDER: "Kit… Don't fucking do this—" "This sucks, I know… Just… Open your god damn eyes…." "Please. Please Kit… Stay with me, babe…" "WAKE THE FUCK UP!" KIT: "KH—!" "Fuck…" "Ryder" RYDER: "KIT! Holyshit…" "That's it, Kitty. Talk to me. Stay with me." "I've got you. You're safe. You're gonna be alright.
August 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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kit gets dosed at a party; ryder is the one to find him.
also wrote a whump fic based on this, OC Kit and Ryder from my developing webcomic featuring the boys of Fairbridge. archiveofourown.org/works/69832826 cw noncon implied, drugs

#art #illustration #ocart #comics
a one panel comic featuring multiple emotional registers, depicting Ryder giving a half-conscious Kit a sternal rub. they are sitting in a dark bedroom against the side of a bed. the color scheme leans heavily on nightlife and house party tones, deep blues, pale lights and streaks of magentas and reds. the text bubbles are in separate colors, noting differences betwen Ryder and Kit's dialogue bubbles. Kit's two-toned blond and black hair is mussed and sweaty, eyes half-open in a thousand yard stare. His pale white skin is sweaty, lips smeared with cum. His lips are parted in slow, shaky breaths as he wakes up from having his drink spiked with GHB. His body language is simultaneously limp yet rigid, his legs delicately draped over Ryder's thigh while his thin arms lay limp in his lap Ryder is broader and more muscular in comparison to Kit, cradling him with his bruised knucked pressed into Kit's breastbone. Ryder is crying, his expression wide and fearful, almost looking up at the boy in his arms. His long thick black hair is pulled into a messy ponytail and sweat is running down his brown skin, his black tank and dark jeans dirtied. dialogue: RYDER: "Kit… Don't fucking do this—" "This sucks, I know… Just… Open your god damn eyes…." "Please. Please Kit… Stay with me, babe…" "WAKE THE FUCK UP!" KIT: "KH—!" "Fuck…" "Ryder" RYDER: "KIT! Holyshit…" "That's it, Kitty. Talk to me. Stay with me." "I've got you. You're safe. You're gonna be alright.
August 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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🖕🖕FUCK CENSORSHIP🖕🖕
QUOTE YOUR NSFW
July 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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🖕🖕FUCK CENSORSHIP🖕🖕
QUOTE YOUR NSFW
July 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Miel cradling Nugget after a forced implant harvest by their captors, choking out a lullaby for his best friend.

Miel (long hair, tranmasc he/him) is my OC, Nugget (gas mask, quad amputee, cis he/him) belongs to @arkabit317.bsky.social !

cw surgery, torture, captivity

#art #nsfw #illustration
miel, a scarred and battered transmasc captive, and nugget, a quadputee skitarii prisoner, are on the floor in their enclosure. miel is cradling nugget after nugget underwent an implant harvest, a bandaged and taped wound visible on his stomach. miel is looking down at nugget and rasping a broken lullaby in french: "dodo, dodo... mon... p'tit Nug-get... le mar...chand... d'sable... passera..." scratched into the wall are their names.
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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10 years of gage this year! working on Hands part 2, and also something for Gage's 10th anniversary, along with his birthday on July 8,, 🖌️
WIP lineart of gage doing street art with spraypaint
July 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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nsfw miel sketch i will not finish,,​ my lil trans masochist changing his own bandages some time after his experimental cesarean 🔪

#art #ocart #oc #sketch cw: surgery, scars, implied abuse/captivity, light gore
lineart of miel, an emaciated and scarred trans boy, with a close-up 3/4 of him preparing to bandage his own stitches across his stomach, and a front view of him standing before a doorway.
July 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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QRP with couple art!

gage and aaron! gage is an OC from 2015 while Aaron was conceived in 2023. aaron is a caretaker and gage is a whumpee, but their love shines through!!

need to make more spicy art with them.......

#arttrain #ocsky #art #webcomic #illustration
June 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Hands, part 1/2
after celebrating pride month, gage and aaron compare the sizes of their hands and have a heartfelt conversation about their pasts as a feminine cis boy and a masculine AFAB person.

my fav gay boy and trans man OCs in a warm comic 💙

#oc #ocart #comic #webcomic #art #pride2025 #mlm
A comic in sunset purple tones, featuring gage sitting between aaron’s legs on a bed with hands pressed together, comparing the sizes. PART 1/2 Panel 1: HANDS, pride 2025. Slight distance shot of aaron and gage on aaron’s bed, hands extended to compare them, palm to palm. Panel 2: a shot of the window with intense summer light. Panel 3: a shot of the clutter on the side table, including two polaroids from a pride festival, a gay pride and trans pride flag, aaron’s glasses, and a mug. Panel 4: close up of gage observing their hands, scars visible but slowly fading. Panel 1: Bird’s eye shot of their hands, the side difference noticeable. Gage: “Damn…” Aaron: “Huh?” Gage: “you’ve got big hands, aaron.” Panel 2: ¾ shot of aaron and gage, same position. Gage: “i’m kinda jealous.” Panel 3: close up of aaron, surprised and inquisitive. “Really?” Panel 4: side shot of aaron and gage on the bed, their size difference visible. Gage: “My hands have always been small, and people always brought it up. I got really insecure about it as a kid…” Panel 5: close up of aaron’s hand resting on gage’s front as they cuddle. Gage, cont: “... But i tried to kinda embrace it, you know? Guys thought i was cute. Being small and fem made me good at what i did. … But i could never shake the fact that it made me less of a man to them.” Panel 1: close up of aaron, a flatly concerned expression on his face. “You’re a real man, gage.” Panel 2: close up of Gage looking up at aaron as he speaks. Aaron: “Small hands don’t change that about you.” Panel 3: wide overhead shot of their hands with the bed and floor in the background, faces just slightly in frame. Gage: “So are you, big bug.” Panel 4: Aaron looks at the side table. Panel 5: close up of the polaroids, featuring gage glowing and the couple kissing at the pride festival. Panel 6: side view of aaron, looking flatly pensive. “I get the struggle, though.” CONTINUED IN PART 2.
June 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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i finished the background,,, camboy Kit engaging in some faggotry for gay moth💜
OC Kit, a femboy with two-tone hair in fishnets and a silk robe, sitting on a hotel bed in a neon purple/pink room. behind him are two neon heart lights, with miscellaneous sexual items around him (lube, condom, anal toy, panties, discarded clothes). he's posing legs spread and dick out in his fishnets, a peace sign and a smile as he looks at the camera, prepping for a performance.
June 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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after being freed from Drew and Ashes, scars slowly fading, Gage and Aaron go to their first pride festival as a couple. Gage has never felt more at home as a gay man; Aaron is finally open about being trans. A moment in the aftermath where gage feels truly alive. #art #illustration #BL #oc #ocart
June 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM