ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL INTRODUCTION.

Imagine you are Jim Gordon. Imagine you have been working with Grim, Spooky, and Serious over there. Imagine he says he has someone to introduce you to and the only thing you can see is a hunched over shape like yet another gargoyle perched on top of the signal.

And then you are introduced to tiny baby who is smiling from ear to ear and making rhymes while he poses in his pantless traffic light colors.

Imagine looking back over at the Dark fucking Knight and realizing he's serious.

WHERE DO YOU EVEN FUCKING START? I am in tears, thoughts and prayers for you, Jim, but that's the kind of nonsense I'm here for, your honor.

not many people know this but the subway boss emmet is litetally nice

Still Here

Warden Emmet and his giant purple cat ദ്ദി ˉ꒳ˉ )✧

Did the sketches for these sometime last year and finally got around to finishing them up a bit today!

how is everyone feeling today

alrighty. lets get this bread

love when a charlie brown adult starts making an announcement over the MTA system and you just sort of have to hope it wasn't that important

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🎶Spidey with a fever! Virus combat!🎵

best typo ive ever made i think

reblog if you feep stupid

spose we're all feeping stupid today

can you imagine 😭😭

Genuinely that's so fucking funny though

for some reason when i listen to american idiot i picture the lucky star dance, so i bring you faggot america friday

“Now everybody do the propaganda” while they make finger guns is WILD

• i am being pursued by a mysterious sphinx
  

ancient roman drag queen named ablative absolute

ancient roman drag queen named mater patriae

cold as fuck out is anyone else experiencing this? [remembers i should be inclusive to my southern hemisphere followers currently experiencing spring-summer weather] hot as fuck out is anyone else experiencing this?

it’s fucking TEMPERATURE out there. TEMPERATURE with a side of WEATHER.

Do you guys remember this, literally what was it for? it feels like a fever dream because there’s no explanation

I vividly remember this because I got an alert on my phone that a clown was spotted close to university campus

someone reported you on your way to class?? 😧

"You dont have to be androgynous! There's no one way to look nonbinary" okay cool but I wanna look androgynous

"But you dont have to!" But I want to, I want help on how to look more androgynous

"Ummm theres no one way to look nonbinary, you dont have to be androgynous :/ you cant ask about how to look androgynous,,, you dont need to be androgynous,,," okay well now it just sounds like you have an issue with androgynous people

how it's done

It feels almost unbelievable that there's an Olympics this year. Not just this year but next month. Like can you please come back another time thanks

At least they're in Italy though

Congratulations Kepler! I think you learned the worst noise.

if i made a sideblog for my original universe would anyone be interested 👉👈

it's very much a wip and some things need to be renamed but it's your classic European medieval fantasy. The general vibe is "a young hunter, a disparaged paladin, and probably someone else go out on an adventure to repair a broken world and defeat the big bad evil guy".

I plan for it to take place over 4-5 "books", each one going up in scale. I'd like to, ultimately, make it a webcomic. But that also requires making a new art style and simplified designs for the characters because im one person who still works a full time job 😅

Sorry, Millennials, but recent paleontologist findings and hyolaryngeal apparatus reconstructions no longer support the hypothesis that "rawr" means "I love you" in dinosaur.

I made you a bibliography but I eated it :(

One of the most frustrating things in the world is loving both dolphins AND sharks when you see fans of either one of them insisting their animal is the embodiment of goodness and the other animal is pure evil and needs to be nuked from orbit when the reality is you're both beautiful, you're both intelligent, you're both wholesome, and you're both not-wholesome because that's just nature for you.

PRAISE THE OMNISIAH! ABOMINABLE INTELLIGENCE IS BANNED!!

just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

in my defense:

and:

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its very hard to tell for someone who only kind-of reads Japanese and just saw the component for "sake flask" (酉) and, rightfully assumed, that the bottle that said sake was probably sake.

No no, you don’t get to hide this in the tags

Summary: no one involved was drinking sake.

youve heard of "hrt should be free for everyone who wants it" now get ready for chromosome testing & ultrasounds should be free for everyone who wants it

this post is about intersex people

Originally posted by redbeardace

#for a second i was confused#“why would op put such a huge flag and text”#“its clear the post is about intersex peoooo-”#and then i saw the tags derailing...#people on this site can be so dense...#intersex care should be an universal right#free and easily available

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At this point I'm not sure if they're just being dense or willfully erasing us as usual. Possibly a mix of that. It's really hard to tell until you get their personal opinions on what intersex even is tbh

Anyways I support this very much, especially since our variations can mean needing significant adjustments in healthcare.

BUT. It has to be properly confidential and safeguarded or it'll just be abused and used as a way to track us like they're doing with those "ancestry kits".....

my biggest issue with the whole "protect the dolls" slogan is that people keep saying "no we don't need to include transmascs in this movement" and urging separate movements should be made about transmascs. and like. i get what you're saying, maybe that works out logically, but people don't act logically. the real-world impact of excluding transmascs from protective movements towards trans people is that they will be excluded and forgotten. no separate movement will come up alongside it. they will simply be left to die in the cold.

"protect trans youth" and "trans rights are human rights" are inclusive movements that already served the purpose just fine. but now you must insist on some new catchy slogan that will result in people being forgotten, in effect. it doesn't matter if that's not your intention. the impact is that it results in transmasc deaths and erasure. notice how even fewer people are talking about us now that the new slogan deliberately only mentions trans women? because I've certainly noticed that.

any conversations about "transmascs need to make their own movement" need to come face to face with the fact that society, and the trans community at large, does not fucking care about transmascs. and if you leave us out of major movements, it will result in people's lives being lost. it's not a petty semantics word game. it's the tangible impacts of these actions, whether you like it or not. this community is very happy to toss us away and actively tries to forget us at every turn. if you give them an excuse to fully forget us, then they'll do exactly that. no amount of "it's not about you!" or "dolls mean trans women!" matters when the actual impact of that is people being abandoned and left for dead. shut the fuck up with the word games and act like an adult about this, I beg of you.

have there ever actually been transmasc centered movements about protecting us? ever? because I truly can't think of a single one.

Happy birthday majoras mask :3c , old ass game

Stills here ^_^

Zelda Heritage Post

i NEED someone to talk to about The Thing I Enjoy <- says the person who shuts down and says nothing when they get the chance to talk about The Thing They Enjoy

i NEED someone to talk to about The Thing I Enjoy <- says the person who shuts down and says nothing when they get the chance to talk about The Thing They Enjoy

My new revised LEGO Odogaron has instructions available for my supporters HERE!

It's standard with my revision models that I include a an upgrade guide for those who have previously built my older model and wish to upgrade!

Of course, Ebony Odogaron has instructions too!

I attempted Guardian Ebony Odogaron, however it did not work well as a color swap with the pieces used. It just looked messy and ugly.

It does use one illegal building technique for the bottom jaw's fangs, but I don't think it's a big deal.

Thanks for the continued support everyone!

Guess who’s just watched zootopia 2 and been mind-jacked by the furries? It’s me everybody, hi hey how are you.

Every politician is fundamentally just some random guy and every government is fundamentally a sort of intricately complex Bavarian fire drill

Why Bavarian

The Bavarian Fire Drill is a Social Engineering tactic where you get what you need done by acting as if you already have the authority to do it. For example, walking into a secure area and acting like you have the right to be there; in theory, everyone will believe you. This is a favorite tactic of High School Hustlers, Phantom Thieves, and MacGyver-like characters. They enlist others in their Stone Soup or Fence Painting project simply by pretending they're in charge, and everyone else goes with the flow.

In order for a Bavarian Fire Drill to work, the person's claim to authority must go completely unchallenged. Even one dissenter, if not immediately silenced/placated, can set off a chain reaction that causes everyone to realize you're a fraud.

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

Guys I was GIDDY with excitement when I realized the stick is how they figure out the standing-up perspective!!! I always figured people doing this stuff just had magical perspective powers but that makes SO MUCH SENSE what a cool tool!!! Amazing job!

Ah, the things that wood can do

Missed opportunity by not saying hot as hell.

strange comic abt my face

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Some handy tips on how to have the best multiplayer experience in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

re-posting bc reblogs got turned off etc

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

Thank you, Flossie. 💜💜💜

she has since passed away (pneumonia during the height of covid in 2020) and I just want to say what a huge loss this is. she was still actively consulting with scientific research, and if you work in the sciences you know that people in the field keep working, advising, and providing their decades of insight up until their death. her knowledge was invaluable to us. and still she saved millions of lives.

I’m CURIOUS!!! (Drafts not Queue!)

To my fellow white people: this is not about it being an annoying way to "censor" the word and that isn't how it caught on or what it was for. Writing "ahh" instead of "ass" became a meme because it's supposed to sound like a "black guy accent."

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

• use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
• use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
• use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.
• get rid of bloatware
• use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
• use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.
• use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.
• use storygraph instead of goodreads.
• use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
• use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.
• use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
• make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
• use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google
• use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
• use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
• find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
• burn your music onto cds
• use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
• use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes
• use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail
• remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
• remove bloatware on samsung X
• use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
• use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

• use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
• use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of firefox) instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
• use mega instead of google drive
• get rid of bloatware
• use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
• get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms
• use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).
• use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).
• use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
• use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
• make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
• use search for a cause, ecosia, or ocean hero to support the environment instead of google
• use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
• use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
• find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
• burn your music onto cds
• use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
• use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta instead of gmail
• remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
• remove bloatware on samsung X
• use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
• use project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks
• use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio
• use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs
• use mastodon instead of twitter
• use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)
• use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop
• use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers
• use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices
• learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)
• use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)
• use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite
• use google takeout to export the data on your google account
• use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library
• remove paywalls with removepaywalls
• install the open-source adblocker ublock origin
• install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos
• use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks
• learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school
• edit photos with photopea
• edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf
• download music with doubledouble
• take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian
• for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)
• change your OS to linux

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GIMP and Kirita are also good alternatives to photoshop and photopea (photopea is just very buggy from my experiance)

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

• use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
• use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of firefox) instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
• use mega instead of google drive
• get rid of bloatware
• use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
• get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms
• use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).
• use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).
• use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
• use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
• make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
• use search for a cause, ecosia, or ocean hero to support the environment instead of google
• use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
• use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
• find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
• burn your music onto cds
• use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
• use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta instead of gmail
• remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
• remove bloatware on samsung X
• use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
• use project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks
• use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio
• use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs
• use mastodon instead of twitter
• use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)
• use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop
• use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers
• use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices
• learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)
• use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)
• use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite
• use google takeout to export the data on your google account
• use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library
• remove paywalls with removepaywalls
• install the open-source adblocker ublock origin
• install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos
• use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks
• learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school
• edit photos with photopea
• edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf
• download music with doubledouble
• take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian
• for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)
• change your OS to linux

Keep reading

do not fucking use firefox its filled with ai and will slow down your computer use vivaldi

Vivaldi is just as bad as chrome, and if you know how to use about:config you can turn off the Firefox AI shit.

i dont mind when people are annoying online bc i remember back when i was 14 and so annoying online and its fun to be young and not know how to act we've all been there. Checks bio. oh theyre older than me

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

• EDIT: THIS IS A CARRD NOW! it's updated and organized!!
• use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.
• use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of firefox) instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).
• use mega instead of google drive
• get rid of bloatware
• use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite
• get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms
• use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).
• use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).
• use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions
• use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp
• make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge
• use search for a cause, ecosia, or ocean hero to support the environment instead of google
• use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)
• use flashpoint to play archived online flash games
• find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books
• burn your music onto cds
• use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe
• use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta instead of gmail
• remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X
• remove bloatware on samsung X
• use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta
• use project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks
• use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio
• use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs
• use mastodon instead of twitter
• use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)
• use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop
• use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers
• use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices
• learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)
• use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)
• use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite
• use google takeout to export the data on your google account
• use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library
• remove paywalls with removepaywalls
• install the open-source adblocker ublock origin
• install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos
• use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks
• learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school
• edit photos with photopea
• edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf
• download music with doubledouble
• take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian
• for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)
• change your OS to linux

Keep reading

HES THIRSTY

rlly embarrassing when ppl act like topping/bottoming has any bearing on anything beyond how you like to fuck. grow up

you’re like, inches away from asking who’s the man and who’s the woman lol

this post is about gay sex in real life but I’m glad you’re all having fun with your tv shows

heres MY take on redesigning enamorus. i really love the concept of a snake scarf so i wanted to keep that going

Hey, in case you didn't know it: Ao3 allows you to make bookmarks private.

And, in case you didn't realize it: if you're going to give the fics you bookmarked a letter grade, you SHOULD make your bookmarks private.

Actually, genuinely though, in case you didn't know it: Ao3 shows authors all the tags and notes you make on any fic you publicly bookmark. Your notes are visible when I scroll through the public bookmarks on my works.

The only way an author has to stop seeing this is to mute you, so it's kind of shitty to use bookmarks to say how you wished the author had killed both parts of the main pairing instead of giving them a happy ending (a real thing that has happened on two of my fics).

Authors can see a count of private bookmarks but not the notes or tags on those bookmarks, so if you have some commentary about hatereading your NOTP or want to make a note that the concept is good but the execution is poor, that's an inside thought and should stay in the private bookmarks.

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it ith the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.

Fascinated by the perceived necessity of an Equivalent Exchange

xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

like I've never heard anyone just say "the simpsons season 7 episode 21" without also saying the episode title but I have heard people say "xkcd 2501" without also saying the title of the xkcd

Yeah, we shouldn't expect everyone to know every comic by heart. The average internet user probably only knows 1053 and 936.

and 2501, of course.

Of course!

sigh

hold on

xkcd 1053:

xkcd 936:

and of course, xkcd 2501:

SANS IS NONBINARY?!

HUH?!

Being the only bi cis guy amongst almost exclusively trans friends and peers is wild because in theory its like im living in a horny manga where all of a dudes friends turn into hot babes, but in reality they are hunting me like the last bison on the prairie. 5 years ago I mentioned bionicle and one of them asked when I was starting estrogen.

Wtf is a grungler

Youre fuxking kidding me Im being punked right??????

for OP's sake (because no one posted it yet), this word is a meme spawned from this tweet

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anticipating an exponential increase in murderbot misgendering so I drew something about it

tl;dr: do not support morshu or morshu content

tw // LO, r0pe, b*mbs

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HE RESPONDED LMAO

He will never recover from this.

I'm so fascinated by people who seem to believe that analyzing media is somehow taking the joy out of it. Like. Do you not enjoy thinking? Does taking stuff apart and figuring out how it works not give you a hit of dopamine? And you get mad when you see people having fun in this way? What a sad, miserable way to engage with the world.

Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane

I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay

“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch

When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?

First President to get bitten by a zombie over here, folks!

I genuinely think he's gonna die on camera.

"Laaadies and geen-tillmen..." Why do they keep letting him talk.

Havin' some fun over on the other blue website.

I think some of you are forgetting about JFK

yeah but jfk was assassinated. trump might just die regular style on tv.

true! his death will be historic no matter what though I think

I...I did forget about JFK...

literally what the fuck do you mean its still january. how is that remotely possible. its been six months minimum

Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????

I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT

i am so so happy to tell you all i found another

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wiwiwi....

Found another one.

No one on bsky understands my tumblr humor so here, have this.

this is genuinely breathtaking lmao

Yeah look the weird smut comments are totally out of pocket but I really can't get over "im more into dr.seus or self help books lol"

#do you think he's actually read dr. seuss or did he just hear "doctor" before an author's name and decide it sounded smart? (Via @shellys-apprentice)

Oh my god

Found the orginal thread and lost it at this

I love the amount of hatred the 2021 car is drawn with. because I agree

Chicks are so funny with how fast they grow you literally look at them in the morning then again later in the day and they are visibly bigger

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

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not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

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The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

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at this point I think anyone trying to fear monger about people assigned female at birth only transitioning because of internalized misogyny is a terf undercover. yes even if they have terfs dni in their bio. some of you seem to have forgotten but that is the NUMBER ONE point of rhetoric terfs use against trans and nonbinary people AFAB. in what fucking world do trans people have social or systematic privilege over cis women? the one where trans men and nonbinary people get paid 70 cents for every 85 cents a cis woman makes? the one where trans people are almost 2x more likely to get raped than cis women? the one where just existing as a trans person is enough to have everybody questioning whether you get to have a political opinion at all? because that's the world we live in

its weird how people can understand being forced into the role of a wife is one of the most dehumanizing and life ruining things that can happen to somebody, until transmascs are worried about conservatives trying to do exactly that to us and all of a sudden its not that big of a deal, why are you mad, conservatives literally like you

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Queen stuff

Can someone translate what she said 

"Oh really? YOU'RE going to teach me Russian? Well you better bring the vodka and caviar, *sweetheart*." -Translation from @cripplepunk-sylveon

Tbh OPLA Robin is giving this energy I'm so so so bisexual holy fuck!!

I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.

Disclaimer: Blackness, and Black features are not a monolith. We can look like anything. That being said-

If I told you to walk outside (or get online, I guess), and point out a Black man, who would you spot first? Left or right?

And if the answer is the left (and it IS, in fact, the left) why do so many artists and fans believe that the right is appropriately and acceptably representative of Blackness in art? Let's talk about it! Check my pinned for when the next lesson, "The Ambiguously Brown™ Character", drops!

Much thank you to my friend and avid learner @devilatelier (Angel) for donating these pieces for this lesson! Here are his kofi and donation pages- check him out; even in the midst of hurricane season, he makes it a point to do great, thoughtful work. CBC approved 👍🏾

“The Ambiguously Brown Character™”- The Attachment to Eurocentric Beauty Standards

“maybe im petty but i wish people knew how to draw like different nose shapes. Sometimes I’ll see a character I like but im like that is not what their nose would look like.” @the-eldritch-it-gay

You’ve seen them before. The one character that has brown skin… And everything else about them is… an enigma. They’re not supposed to be white! You know that much… right? You can see what the designated white characters look like, so at least it’s not that. You could claim them as Black, if you want, and sometimes creators even demand that this character is Black. Depending on the quality, you’re either like “no, what the fuck is this” or you’re like “okay they’re cool, we’ll take them”. Representation is important. But… There’s a pit in your stomach that wonders… Are they really? Are they really supposed to be Black, is this really representation, or did the creators just toss a brown person in so all the Brown™ people could “have something”, so that they would look like they cared about “diversity” on their art resume?

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Theseus, in my opinion, looks like a white man with a tan. Dionysus looks a little better with the similar skin tone, due to his purple hair coloration. Apparently people do think that at least Dionysus is a man of color. What’s interesting about both of these characters, is that they’re only about two desaturated browns lighter than Patroclus, a character in the game that we’re supposed to believe is Black (whom, in my opinion, also looks like a brown bucket tool character. I’m still claiming him, he’s my guy. But his design should have been more explicitly Black). Theseus and Patroclus are the two darkest-skinned dead humans in the first game. So… what was I supposed to think about these two? Was I supposed to think they are really dark white people, due to the thin textures of their hair? Are they men of color? Are Theseus and Patroclus supposed to be ashy because they’re dead, is Dionysus ashy because he’s dehydrated from wine? Why don’t the white dead people look off color? Hades was entirely too striking a game in use of color for the browns to look like… this.

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Noe and Hibana are interesting. It was complete coincidence, the purple hair and eyes thing btw. Hibana is interesting because Ogun is an unambiguously Black character in Fire Force, and there are at least three other unambiguously Black characters in Soul Eater as well. So we know the mangaka knows how to draw Black people in their style! So… was this on purpose? Is this another of those ‘tanned anime girls with titties’ meant for shounen fan service? I’ve claimed Noe (Case Study of Vanitas) because Black French people exist and France has stolen so much from us already, but it is never actually specified what Noe is. He’s just the One Singular Brown Guy in this show, with regular, untextured anime hair. Are there more brown people in the manga? Is this explained? Because we know who is supposed to be white! If anyone else wants to claim Noe, they absolutely can, because we have no idea what he’s supposed to be. Hot Chocolate thinks he’s Indian, and I’m not going to argue that because… who knows! He very well could be!

My very first lesson addressed this, albeit lightly! There’s a reason that I said that if you gained nothing else from me, that’s what I want you to walk away with. Now that I’m on stronger footing with this blog, I can really get into the nitty gritty of what that really means.

Obligatory disclaimer: we are not a monolith!* As of 2015, it has been researched that African populations have the highest genetic variation on Earth*, with a lot of that genetic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa alone. This means that YES, there very well can and will be Black people with naturally thinner textures of hair, blonde, light brown, and red hair, straight, narrow noses, monotone lips, and lighter skin that comes more often with white people. There are enough genetic combinations within African peoples and of the African diaspora that I’m sure there are plenty of people that look the way people seem to want Black people in art to look, if those genes so express within them.

*as a scientist, I will say: while these papers seem fairly legit and I looked at many related articles and their sources, take Nature with a grain of salt. Though their vetting process has become much better, you can and should always do further reading on your own!

Here’s the thing: the possibility is not the issue here!

The first issue: I don’t have to teach anyone how to draw those features on Black people! It is evident, from the professional and fan art I’ve seen, y’all already know how to draw the features deemed highly by Eurocentric beauty standards. Those features are excessively focused on and promoted as part of “good art”.

The second issue here is that the average artist drawing a poorly done Black person is not considering things like genetic diversity when they draw them (and if they are, it’s usually as an excuse post-confrontation. Yes, I have seen it.) These creators are not designing these characters with the intent of them being Black with those features, they are designing “Black” people with features that they deem most aesthetic and are most comfortable with drawing.

And why do they deem those features most aesthetic? We’ve circled back to the point of this lesson!

Eurocentric Beauty Standards

Definition: beauty standards as defined through a white, western cultural lens, including but not limited to: straight, blonde hair, light eyes, pale skin, high cheekbones, narrow noses, thinness. It’s a way that white western people want other white western people to look to be considered classically attractive… and then enforced that on everyone else.

It affects people of color worldwide. Anyone that has ever had to deal with European colonization or imperialism has to deal with the interjection of Eurocentric beauty standards.

Examples

-Black women, standing at the intersection of Blackness and womanhood, especially deal with the constant pressure of Eurocentric beauty standards, being consistently told to hate ourselves due to our own ethnic features. It’s incredibly damaging to your self-esteem growing up; my mom told me that until I went natural at 17, I was determined to look ‘like a white girl’ because I thought it would make me beautiful, and it hurt her. And as for me, it was a stunning realization that at 17 that I had never really seen my own natural curl pattern before. My hair was in ponytails and such as a child, but as a teenager, growing into my identity, I had always wanted straight hair. I was in love with my coily texture, I couldn’t believe that I’d never seen it. An entire part of my own body, gone unknown, because I wanted to fit a beauty standard I would never reach.

-Kenneth and Mamie Clark: The “Doll” Studies: Black children- age 3-7 were shown white and Black doll babies, and were asked a series of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ identification questions. Even by that young an age, most of the Black children associated things like beauty, kindness, and positivity… with the white dolls.

-“The Golden Ratio”: a survey was done in Britain (oh boy, here we go) to determine what people felt was the ‘most beautiful’ face, and apparently it all came down to “symmetry”. “International blueprints of beauty” they claimed, were applied, as humans “naturally seek symmetry”. In 2015, according to ye olde Daily Mail, this was the most beautiful woman. You'll never guess:

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(It’s not even her natural hair color!)

-Another “research study” using E-FIT (Electronic Facial Identification Technique -- a facial recognition software used to create criminal profiles based on eyewitness descriptions; no WAY that THAT could get problematic!!) to determine what 100 people thought was the “most archetypal face of beauty”.

They came up with a figure similar to Kendall Jenner as the female option.

(Guys, we’re never getting out of here at this rate.)

-We’ve spoken about discrimination against Black hair before, and how natural hairstyles will be deemed less professional or appropriate for school, regardless of the brilliant mind that sits underneath it, and even the history of Black women having to cover their hair so as to “not steal the desire of white men” and ruin the status of white women.

Appropriation:

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I try to have nuance on the Kardashians, but I have never liked Kylie, and it’s not because she’s not allowed to do what she wants with her body. I watched the world claim that she was so beautiful, that her kits were why her lips looked “so good”. Everyone wanted to have “full, plump lips” like the ones Kylie BOUGHT. But Black women’s full lips have been treated horrifically since racism was invented. In 2016 I watched racists dogpile and mock Ugandan model Aamito Lagum for her naturally full lips in her MAC campaign, after saying in just 2015 that Kylie’s lips were “top fashion and everyone wants them”. And she lied (not that we didn’t all know that)! She appropriated a look, and she lied about it to move product. And people who had no right to forgive her did so, and everyone moved on to make her a billionaire. Because full lips looked good… as long as they weren’t on a Black woman. I can’t even have my own lips, but she was rewarded with an industry for appropriation. No, I’m not getting over that.

I could go on, but I won’t. So what are some ways to address the existence of Eurocentric beauty standards potentially biasing our creation?

First thing: LET’S TRASH THE IDEA THAT BROWN SKIN AUTOMATICALLY MEANS BLACK.

Black people are not stupid, and we do have expectations. Splashing brown paint on your otherwise white character does not mean I’ll automatically think they’re Black. I’m going to look. When I see brown people in real life, I can usually tell when they don’t look like me. I don’t look at a South Asian similar to or darker than my shade and say “they’re Black”. Blackness is not just skin color, it’s an entire identity and sociological construct. Yes, you can tell us apart.

Acknowledge when you’re holding a bias:

For example: “Tall, dark, and handsome.” What did you picture? You must understand that different people had different ideas of what this meant, versus who it was actually meant to be. Because on its surface, that description includes tall Black men with dark brown eyes and dark hair! We’ve talked about this in lesson 3! Whoever came up with this phrase didn’t mean skin though, they meant hair and eyes- they meant white brunettes. Even in this, it was only meant to include whiteness. And we were all supposed to assume that, be damned anything else.

Part of that is knowing what things do and don’t fall under the category. They were listed off earlier: straight and wavy hair, blonde hair, colorful eyes, thin noses, high cheekbones, double eyelid with round eyes that “show youth and innocence”. People have been going the “aquiline nose” route lately to claim more diversity in nose shape but like… even that isn’t always going to be the case. Every Black person is not going to have an aquiline nose. It is not the “middle ground” of diversity. Draw us with some round noses. We look fine.

Often ignored (in depictions of Black people): afro/coily hair and natural styles, large, round noses, full faces, brown eyes, full figures that aren’t oversexualized, body fat. One of the characters from Craig of the Creek that makes me so happy is Nicole, Craig’s mother. When I look at her design, I see my own mother. I see a Black woman that… actually looks like Black mothers I know. It made me happy and comfortable.

White folk, you even do it to yourselves! I mentioned to a friend once that a good chunk of stories in our fandom with the blonde/brunette white character dynamic read like an Aryan fantasy: the blonde character will be treated like a god on high, the most beautiful of humanity, and then you’ll get to the brunette and it’s “my meek, mousy brown hair, my dull, brown eyes like dirt, and my tanned skin with freckles; no one would ever notice someone plain, nerdy, and unimportant like me until him” lmao like excuse me? Author, you okay there pal? Do you need a hug, lmao? I can’t take it seriously anymore. If y'all are being this mean to each OTHER about not hitting Eurocentric beauty standards, y'all are certainly not being nice or respectful about people of color- who never can- in your content! (and no, exoticizing Blackness is not respectful.) You should look out for how often this happens, and catch yourself when you’re doing it.

Creating with Intent (and the lack thereof!)

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You have to actually consider and reference REAL Black people when you’re drawing Black people. That seems like such an obvious thing, and yet it must not be, because these sorts of arts/the techniques used in them still happen.

For example:

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credit to my friend @devilatelier; I asked for the worst Black art ever and he heeded the call!

I abhor art like this, and art that does varying versions of this. To the pit of my soul, hatred. I will not share your work if I catch even a whiff of it. Why? Because people know that this isn’t what we look like! If you get on the computer and type in “Black man with short hair”, option A is not even remotely on the first page. You’ll get nonblack men that show up, thanks to Google’s algorithm (another conversation), but the Black men don’t look like A. If you get on the computer and type “Black man with long hair”, you’ll even get Black men with all textures and styles of hair, including straight! And they still don’t look like B. Go ahead, I’ll pause- go type it in and see what you get. Have you ever seen a Black person that looks like these images? Be honest with yourself. Why do you let them slide, if you haven’t?

Why This Matters

So it’s not about the actual Black people in their lives that they’ve seen, that makes artists draw characters like this, nor a dedication to accuracy. Because if you were looking at us at all, you wouldn’t draw this. And yet, people draw it, and post it proudly. So there must not be any shame behind it, or they at least are comfortable enough with their target audience to think it’s presentable! That begs the question- who is your target audience, and do you include Black people in it?

It’s how people like Jen Zee can have a successful career at Supergiant despite drawing dark skinned people the way she does. It’s because studios recognize when their target audiences are not perturbed by, and therefore will still buy, their product. If poorly drawn Black people does not perturb audiences enough to affect the almighty dollar- or, in fanart situations, the value of popularity- then there’s no motivation to stop doing it! Who cares about the value and the demeaning of Black fans, right?

Think about it like this. You remember how everyone bullied the Sonic studio and they scrapped their entire reel? People do not get that much up in arms in solidarity about the antiblack treatment and depiction of Black characters. It’s how you end up with Wyll Ravengard on the drop of BG3. Because Larian could have stood on business, had some integrity, and said “this is a character we are going to develop, because there will be fans that look like Wyll, and deserve to receive our best efforts at inclusion.”

But instead, Larian said “this is what our majority fanbase wants, and apparently it is not a well-developed Black character” and released that game as it was. To rousing success. That was a choice. The antiblackness of both the fans and the studio, via their lack of concern about Black gamers, was involved in making that decision. We have to let go of the idea that antiblack racism is incidental, and not a part of the process- and that includes in character design.

I cannot tell you how much it shrivels my heart inside when I see a “Black” character with wavy hair. One, because I know the artist’s first thought was not to have a Black character with wavy hair, but because they draw white people with that hair and thought it was transferrable. Two, because if you wanted the aesthetic of hair down to the back… Locs could have worked! The same shape would be there! You can style locs in any way, and it would be fine! Even if you wanted them to have thinner hair, fine, but… I can see where the intent (and the lack thereof) is. We can see when you aren’t even trying for us!

I asked Angel how he felt about creating the “white man with the brown bucket” images, curious about how he felt given that he is more than capable of drawing Black people. His response was noteworthy, and consistent with my hypothesis:

“Thinking about it, these two drawings have been the most difficult thing I’ve had to draw, period. And it’s the first time I’ve actually felt nauseous during the drawing process from start to finish. I constantly felt like I was fighting off the part of myself that knew better, telling me that this is wrong. It felt like a betrayal, knowing what Black people actually look like and still choosing to be disrespectful. Especially because I worked on the first two and immersed myself in references and also Black youtubers, researching Black hairstyles. It felt like a betrayal to all of that to call these two (deliberately poorly drawn) characters Black, because they’re not. None of the Black people I found during my research (both photo references and videos) looked like these. at all. It felt cheap, it felt lazy. Creatively lazy in the way that you just take a white person and paint-bucket them brown and call it a day. In the way it makes you feel no pull to change what you do, or learn something new. Kinda like a thought terminating cliche. Unlike the first two, I used no references for them, but I mostly based them off of actual designs I’ve seen in fandoms, both fanmade and not.”

Conclusion

So what I want us to consider for now is: if we know that’s not what Black people look like, but so many people are willing to do and/or accept it without any mental dissonance… how much do they care? Why is this allowed to ‘pass’, if we recognize that it is not accurate, unless we think what we are being presented with is acceptable? Or at least, not worth fighting over? Why not? Why do you not think that this Black character deserves to be unambiguously Black? And why does that ‘better’ way to exist always come back to whiteness?

We’re going to get into this, as well as more into the other, more overt and equally harmful manifestation of these beliefs in the next lesson on Whitewashing! But I want you to simmer on this part, first.

When you draw a character that you want to be Black, not only should you keep in mind your intent of how you’re going to draw them, but it also means putting in the work to make sure you’re doing so. You do not put pen to paper and “accidentally” draw a white man lol, it came from somewhere- let’s shatter that connection that views white features as superior, as 'ideal for attention grabbing', so we can create better. Because remember, it is the thought that counts, but the action that delivers!

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may expand on this later but i headcanon the mercs to have quasi-college dorm living that all of the mercs live at on base. except soldier who didn’t know the was an option and nobody’s gonna tell him and sniper who prefers his van and just uses his room for storage

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The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement HERE

Attached image is their logo, no credit (artists asked to not be credited).

Reblogging the article from the co-op, where our letter is hosted, to let folks know that the 'isa' mentioned above is the same person who does the 'crow time' comics under the name Secondlina.
Please take the time to read the article, and please be cautious if she ever approaches you, she is not to be trusted.

thank you to everyone who has supported us, this was a really intense day for us at the hive guild!

one day im gonna grow wings

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if i made a sideblog for my original universe would anyone be interested 👉👈

it's very much a wip and some things need to be renamed but it's your classic European medieval fantasy. The general vibe is "a young hunter, a disparaged paladin, and probably someone else go out on an adventure to repair a broken world and defeat the big bad evil guy".

I plan for it to take place over 4-5 "books", each one going up in scale. I'd like to, ultimately, make it a webcomic. But that also requires making a new art style and simplified designs for the characters because im one person who still works a full time job 😅