spiraling-over-nothing type of day

becoming unscared 101

Today on MLK day let’s continue to celebrate his legacy by choosing love, helping others and standing for equality and justice for all.

a lot of you see trans women as trans people who happen to be women, instead of women who happen to be trans

actually, a lot of people do this for trans men, too

My account is still blocked from searching/tags/etc on my business blog @foundfamilyadventurecrafts so I'm posting this here. There's something very bad happening with Small Business, Tech, and Amazon. What else is new?

Links: Bobo Design Studio for Updates & Submitting Information

Arrows Aim Greenhouse + Chroma Rex are putting together a complaint with WA State Attorney General's Office + Templates for complaints / opt out

Articles:

Amazon's Buy For Me Information Page

Reuters Article

Ars Technica Article

Business Insider Article

Hey, that's us and a bunch of our friends! This whole thing SUCKS so bad and we're pissed. We've intentionally not listed our products on Amazon for the 15 years we've been in business. We're ready to join a class action lawsuit and kick some ass.

This video made me cry so I wanted to put it here

Ow /pos

My “draw the squad” memes so far

Also you can buy my Ref folder here 

Patreon

Updating with some newer ones!

@mexicanesecat @raimeyl references for y'all!

WOW! THE OG POST!

i will let my mind go wild with these knowing i’ll finally be able to credit the original artist

EEEE FINALLY THE ORIGINAL ARTIST

Oh hell yeah, going to use these later!

FINALLY! PINTEREST GO SUCK DICK WE FOUND THE SOURCE!

Pinterest is one of the reasons why I’m broke

Speaking of broke, my newest ref folder’s full of new DTS doodles is out NOW!

Buy it in my Ko-Fi store!

related to my previous post: this is my POV on the eternal "it is/n't that deep" debate always going on with everything, as someone who now just goes "cool okay whatever" and leaves when something disappoints me instead of wasting time raging about what went wrong or waiting around for it to get better. i think it's good to have all those crazy what-if thought experiments, but i also think you need to make sure you're not setting yourself up for heartache! be nice to yourself and be nice to other people (as the moral so often is...)

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

historical silence of an entire demographic should fill you with horror, fear, and dread, wondering "what happened here?", and not blanket assumptions that nothing happened at all. there is no mass demographic of human beings who simply sit around and do nothing, have no history, have no stories. if an entire demographic has its history missing, there is a reason for that. and that reason is damn near always violent.

I was just thinking about this.

From many I see the attitude of "Trans men/mascs are hyper-invisible which means nobody knows you exist which means they don't do anything or very little to you".

Which creates the false idea that trans men/mascs are intentionally putting themselves into harms way by being vocal.

But vitally it creates the idea that, as stated, we're being basically ignored by transphobia and oppressive systems in general.

That's far from the truth. Anyone born or assigned female in a patriarchal society is going to be subjected to misogyny regardless of gender identity (just like how all women are subjected to misogyny regardless of birth/assigned sex).

Those born/assigned female who seek to deviate, even if they're not trans men/masc, are thoroughly punished.

When that transgression against how 'women' should be is the fact that you're not a woman and intend to live your own truth then society will do anything it can to force you to conform again. Harassment, stigmatisation, physical abuse, sexual abuse, forced pregnancy, conversion therapy are just a few things they do and if none of that gets you to be a woman again? Murder. In fact, many jump straight to the murder. Some even go to torture first then murder us.

Trans women/femmes go through most of that too of course, and a fair number will never be known to have gone through it specifically for being trans.

But the level in which a trans man/mascs true gender will be erased is the result of being hyperinvisible.

You don't know we're here, so you don't notice when we're gone.

You don't know we're here, so you don't notice us in pain and need.

We're swept away, either to complete secrecy or down in the statistics as women.

Then people ask us where all the older trans men/mascs are, where are their contributions? Dead. They're dead.

And those who are trying to speak now are still being heavily silenced by many groups who have chosen to see our plight and very existence as a threat.

The more I interact with trans guys, the more I realize that you guys need more love. The amount of gratitude I get for just saying something nice is so sweet. I love you all and I'm so happy that you're part of my community.

Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖

UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.

HTML codes under the cut.

let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day

just made the most beautiful thing i've ever seen

more heads of state should vanish mysteriously into the ocean i miss that

more oligarchs and billionaires should vanish mysteriously into the ocean let's make it happen people 👏

why did my screenshot vanish mysteriously into the ocean

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TRUTH. What you need is imagination, and you don’t need to go anywhere to use it.

Yeah, sure, seeing new things is helpful as a fantasy writer. But. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that exposure to new things is the same as traveling. You know what else exposes you to new things?  The internet. Documentaries. Books. Freaking Youtube. So when you’re bored of cats and cooking tutorials, go on an adventure!

You wanna write create some fantasy creatures but don’t know where to start? Go check out some videos The Weird Creatures Earth has Had.

Want some inspiration for your Super Evil Villain’s Villanous Deeds?

Or maybe you want some weird locations to kick start your Fantasy World Terraforming?

Or maybe you need knowledge of bunches of historical places and cities and cultures?

But maybe you’re basing fantasy on the modern world?

Okay but lets say you want to start from the same inspiration as GRRM? (and part two!)

That’s just the stuff I could quickly grab. Things I’m subscribed to, that I know offhand. There is So. Much. Stuff. Online.

The best thing about the internet is that it means its not just the fortunate sons that get to learn, and explore and imagine and write. We get to see stories from all over the place, from all sorts of people, who bring All Kinds of New Ideas.

I like you.