when boy bands sing a love song addressed to the listener does that imply all 5-10 of them are in love with you at once. that seems like a lot of pressure i don't know if i want to be the nucleus of the boyband polycule.

planning my fic in a normal way. 1) what incredibly indulgent scene do I want to write next? 2) what connective tissue do I have to set up between indulgent scenes to get us there?

dork snek

Accepting being a trans woman now is realizing the danger of being harassed, physically assaulted, or ostracized from my family and society never pushed me as far into the closet as the people who pushed me to be a "uwu cute trans girl" did.

I was a feminine man for a LONG time, and forced down a ton of my trans feelings since high school, but I showed many signs of being an egg- until my mid 20s, when I finally cracked.

A lot of the queer and trans friends I did have used to say things as blatant as: "so when are you starting E?" "have you picked a name out yet kitten?" Or my favorite: "you'd look great as a girl… are you sure you're not trans?"

The only reason I was able to finally accept being trans was by figuring things out MYSELF and by having a partner who was both supportive and respectful of my autonomy. They never pushed me to consider myself as a girl instead of just a feminine man, and that gave me the room I needed to breathe.

Don't push that awkward egg to crack. And it's shitty to assume someone must be trans just because YOU think they might be. Don't tell them, "oh you act like this, so stop denying yourself!" Just ask them, "how do you feel about yourself?" It's not your life journey. Let them walk it themself.

So fr I feel like I'm screaming in an empty room saying making egg jokes about cis people or people who otherwise don't id as trans sucks. It's not because being trans is bad or an insult, it's because it is RUDE to assume you just "know" someone's inner feelings. Especially when it's people on the internet who don't know each other it pisses me off so much. Like congrats you either made a cis person dysphoric or an egg feel like shit

Our trans elders had the people skills to know that you can help lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. That's why the egg prime directive exists — and it's not old-fashioned. It's younger trans people who think they know better that are letting their own egos get in the way.

hey it’s ok if you lost your ai virginity back when you were uneducated. a lot of posts go like “reblog if you have never ever used generative ai and never ever will!!!” but it’s ok if you have used gen ai before and it’s even ok if you used to think it was cool, back before you understood what it really was and how it worked, either because no one had taught you about it and you discovered it on your own or because the only education you had received about it was from the tech bros. you’re not a burger with a bite out of it for having used ai. ok

It is 100 percent okay to stop using it today and join the "boo AI" club.

This isn't a purity thing. This is a "everyone stand with us against destroying the environment and giving asthma to poor people" thing.

Did you know that when one community says no to an AI data center, they specifically search out communities with fewer resources? Communities that can't defend themselves? And the pollution 100 percent affects their health and wellbeing, in addition to burning through our already scarce drinking water.

You can stop using character.ai today. You can say "I listened to the facts and stopped." And another thing: don't you think it's a bit more impactful to have used it, stopped, and then you're in a position to say how little it helped? How doing things for yourself improved your life?

also posts in the spirit of "if you've used AI even ONCE your soul is tainted!!!!" can't be great to those with OCD

A bunch of Vox faces I drew for my laptop background. Feel free to use them for yourselves

i’ll literally never have enough of that dylan b hollis dude cause like. hes a college student who just.,.blew up on tiktok. he has the soul of a man who has lived for 60 years in the body of a twink. he cooks and is surprised every single time. he goes CINAMIN everytime he uses cinnamon. he has the kitchen of a 60s house wife and cooks like hes going to kill someone

other favorites include

- “moo juice!”

- E G G - G I E

- BUTTER GO BRRRRRRRR

- Floof powder

F I R E

Other highlights:

“It doesn’t tell ya how to eat it, so I don’t know if I need a knife and fork or if I need to tie my hair back” (about the very phallic looking candle salad)

“This pie is referred to as a chiffon. Now what does that mean? It means it was written by a white person.”

“We take our can of Spam and we cry :)”

“This doesn’t need salt it needs help!”

“I’m going to assume we have the same size package, although the last time I assumed that I wound up stunned and quite self-conscious.”

“DEMON BABY!!”

(x)

“Nothing says the holidays like AMBIGUOUS MEAT!”

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”

the princess and the duchess (alt designs i guess. knight and victorian???)

Curly and fluffy ✨❤️

( Inspired by how @cathartes-immundus draws Alastor )

The big wet puppy eyes my grandpa just gave me when I said I was making naan and he said “garlic naan ??” With barely concealed excitement . Needless to say I added so much garlic to the naan