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or, "Chic Sells Out"
hi! my name is chic, and i like to draw. i also like to eat and have a house to live in, and stuff. i am currently in between jobs--if you would like to buy some art off of me, that would help me out a lot!
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(just spent $804.00 USD on car repairs voice) would u like to buy a commission? 🥺🥺🥺
Reblogging to spread this absolute blessing to the She-Ra fandom. Thank you, beautiful soul <33
<3 BOOOOOOST <3
Afro goth
white people in this country are so scared of anything māori. it would be funny if it wasn't so deeply sad
a few years ago there was national outrage and an attempt to boycott an entire chocolate company. not for unethical cocoa sourcing (whittakers makes an active effort to source all its cocoa beans 100% ethically). not for anything actually worth boycotting. nope! the outrage was over ONE special edition block of chocolate that was written in te reo māori instead of english. the main complaint from pākehā online? "we don't understand what it says! how are we supposed to know what we're buying!!!" I don't know man. I truly don't know how to help you if you can't understand that this is milk chocolate. no hope for you at all
Can we be a white person in your country? The Maori are rad as fuck and we'd be happy to be told to shut the fuck up about things in exchange for not being in America ever again
I do appreciate the sentiment and I understand you're not trying to be rude but I AM going to have to bring out this banner. very sorry
hey dont cry Autism Creature speculative biology
saw a 'that old man' version and was compelled to make this. the og femslash
Hey you. yeah you with the face. The baby trans girl queer reading this. Get out of your echo chamber. Get out! NOW. Go to an irl gay bar, meet other people in your community. Hang out with normal people irl and not terminally online losers who think forcing someone out is a way to save them. Know what happened to me when I got outted by someone? I nearly died. I was in the hospital for months, and I now walk with a limp and a cane.
Get out of your echo chamber. Go read "Stone Butch Blues". Stop calling butch women men. Stop hating trans men for "abandoning girlhood." Stop tying your trans-ness to your kinks and sexual orientation, or to your furry-hood. You are a girl. You aren't girl+. Get out of your echo chamber no matter how scary it is. The things your "friends" are making you internalize is insanely harmful to you and other trans girls. Those people in your echo chamber aren't your friends.
Girls like ISuggestForceFem are not what you want to end up like or idolize. Don't tie your gender to your kinks, or you'll have a massive destructive break down when you finally start to seperate them. I speak as an older trans girl from experience. Get out of your echo chambers and into the real world. Stop parroting TERF idology back and forth like its progressive and trans positive. "A terf said this but i liked it so I'm stealing it." is still TERF shit. You are not someone's kink. Forcefem is a kink. You are not a kink. You are a girl. Your existance is NOT someone's fap material!
You baby trans girl, I love you and care about you. Please leave your echo chamber and seek a real community. I beg you. Leaving your echo chamber is for your own good.
when you gain a new follower and they spam your notifs with likes and reblogs
Feminism
there are beautiful blond boys only those with the most compassionate hearts can see
Trump's warmongering is so aggressive that he has the pro-NATO Liberal government in Canada talking like they're about to join the Non-Aligned Movement
Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, 20 January 2026:
For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the "rules-based international order." We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.
We knew the story of the "international rules-based order" was partially false— that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And we knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.
This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.
So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied – the WTO, the UN, the COP – the architecture, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat. And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy, in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains.
And this impulse is understandable. A country that can't feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself, has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself.
But let's be clear eyed about where this leads.
A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable. And there is another truth. If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.
Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty...
Collective investments in resilience are cheaper than everyone building their own fortresses. Shared standards reduce fragmentations. Complementarities are positive sum. And the question for middle powers like Canada is not whether to adapt to the new reality – we must. The question is whether we adapt by simply building higher walls, or whether we can do something more ambitious.
Really wouldn't consider myself a fan, but an annoying thing about liking anything that has to do with Warhammer 40k is that there's often cool ideas but the execution sucks, and sometimes there's an additional cooler layer to it but there's still the huge elephant in the room
So I'm at a Ciaphas Cain novel with tyranids and genestealers (the audio books are very good). Tyranids are an entirely biological hivemind swarm that seeks out planets with life and eats all the biomass. No life left. Before doing that they "infect" people in a way that makes them subservient to the hive while also altering their genes to make the whole thing hereditary and let them infect more people. After generations you have an entire "cult" (their words) that's infiltrated society and sabotages it in well-coordinated (because telepathy) strikes to keep their defenses down while the hive fleet is on the way
Sorry, I'm just really into the concept of cool monsters who consider humans food at best and cannot productively be communicated with. Even better when they can actively travel space. It's that abjection of humans aspect I find so fascinating. You have thoughts and feelings and dreams and relationships and plans and everything, but you are also just. Meat.
And monsters like that are obviously not real. Meanwhile the fascist sees this and says they are real, because that's how they think of other humans they wanna have an excuse to kill.
And even if they do think of them as monsters the fun part is the one where they eat the humans, not the one where the humans successfully fight back...
It's just hard to do "there are groups of people who, due to their genes, are naturally evil and infect any "clean" population they reproduce with". It's just inherently fascist.
Maaaaaaybe you could save it by having the genestealer cults not be Rootless Cosmopolitans but instead a bunch of people living in the crappy hive world being told "hey, what if instead of living your life in squalor and misery, you took this serum, became something other than human, and joined our collective? No more toil, no more kneeling before an uncaring, distant god, just the simple beauty of consumption"
Grown twins :)
[companion piece to my young twins art]
