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Redraw of one of my inktober sketches

#art #my artwork #sketch art #sketch #cw spider #spider

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This is not a normal human being! This is some kind of fucking trickster god (Loki, Coyote or Anansi) who has disguised themselves as a human. We should all be grateful for the fact that they've decided that making realistic looking chocolate confections are the best way of messing with humanity.

Amaury the chocolate guy has done it again

#there is no other explanation #chocolate guy #amaury guichon #amaury #that fucking chocolate guy #trickster god

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Can I also add that the tango (which is generally considered to be a particularly romantic dance) was originally intended to be danced by 2 men....

WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

#dance #dancers #lgbtqia #film history #lgbt history #we've always been here #maybe not in the way we are now but still there #queer shit #lgbtq community #lgbtqia pride

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Damn this woke mind virus!!!!

I curse this woke mind virus that's infected me! I curse it a thousand times to the depths of hell and beyond!

fI'm trying to write characters who thus far remain an amporphus blob in my head (devoid of even a name) and I can't even bring myself to use gendered pronouns for them!

#instead I'm using they/them as placeholders #damn you wokeness! #oh how awful and terrible my life is! #gender shit #lgbtqia #queer shit #creative writing #writers of tumblr #wokeness #satire obviously #go woke go broke #and that's definitely happened

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If you like these, I'd advise checking out the names puritans gave their kids, (Thou Shalth Not Commit) Adultery Pulsiver is tame by their standards...

Yet another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

#history #dnd character names #historical names #tumblrs emotional support human #niel gaiman #good omens #STP #sir terry pratchett #file this for next time you feel lazy in your worldbuilding #history nerdery

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This can only end well.......

#cursed item #ttrpg ideas #why I'm like this #British weirdness

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what a good day to remember that butch lesbians (ESPECIALLY trans, poc, and/or fat butch lesbians) aren’t fucking predatory 

#begone TERF #terf banishment #reblog #fuck terfs #fred of terf banishment #sigil of terf banishment #queue

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Now, we all know the Grim Squeaker (aka The Death of Rats) doesn't just deal with the souls of rats, but other rodents too (IIRC in Hogfather mice and hamsters are both mentioned as being part of his remit) but where does the line get drawn?

Does he deal with all rodents, or just those biologically close to rats? What about chinchillas, mink and capybaras (or the Discworld equivalent)? They're technically rodents too. Do they get met by the Death of Rats? Or just on the odd occasion? Say when Death takes a holiday.

#discworld #terry pratchett #STP #weird thoughts #discworld musings #gnu #gnu terry pratchett #gnu stp #sir terry pratchett

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You say that, but sometimes it's just going to leave the modim scratching their heads...

i dont know who needs to hear this but as a general PSA for those who pay people online for goods and services: KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE BUYING. While it might seem funny to write a clever note along with your transaction, any sort of hint that you're buying something nsfw or even mildly suggestive poses a huge risk that the person you're paying is getting their method of payment shut down permanently. transaction services are stricter than ever. "thanks for the boobs" is a pipe bomb that only needs one pair of eyes to be noticed. loose lips sink ships

#for instance: 'I'm making an ewok skin rug' #and 'I bet you didn't think you'd encounter “this” type of weirdo #but seriously #stay safe online #weirdness #anti puritanism #I know some strange people... #steampunk

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Bringing this back for today...

#international asexuality day #asexuality #ace pride #ace stuff #ace #lgbtqia #queer tumblr #lgbtqia pride

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Well I'm kinda both. No killing required

God I'd kill to have more asexual artists and writers in my life ,

#but you can if you want to #as a lil treat #asexual #asexuality #ace #ace stuff

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IIRC the egg thing is because in medieval Europe eggs were one of several things that were forbidden to be eaten during the fasting of lent, hence why they've become associated with Easter (because you can eat them again).

The problem with this idea of 'oppropriation of paganism by Christianity' is:

1. You're talking about 5 or 6 different versions of Christianity, and

2. The early church continued the Roman practice of combining local traditions and ideas with their own in order to encourage assimilation and a lot of what were localised traditions/practices have spread in the last 200 years

Not everything the Christians do is stolen from some anonymous pagan culture. I'm sorry y'all but the Christians did actually come up with a bunch of shit on their own.

#history nerdery #history nerd #religious history

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Because scumbags like you will harass and abuse anyone who doesn't conform to social expectations of their ASAB and insist that they're perverts in the name of "protecting" spaces that are segregated by sex...

“protect trans kids”

wait what about we abolish idea of gender and actually make society to be inclusive of all sorts of self expression without telling people they need to change themselves.. especially children.???

#fuck transphobes #transphobic bullshit #transphobia #trans rights #trans rights are human rights #fuck terfs #screw terfs #begone TERF!

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A lesson a fair few people need to hear..

#a useful lesson #feminism #this is what a feminist looks like #fuck radfems #radfem bullshit

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For some reason (possibly because I had a weird dream last night about an idea for fantasy novel) I've been thinking about a suggestion I saw a while back about inverting the "Vampires are upper class snobs" and "Werewolves are butish peasants" stereotypes and I've been wondering why no-one has tried using Vampires/vampirism as a metaphor/allegory for privilege/multi generational wealth? A la STP's Vimes Boots Theory.

I mean, if you got turned as an aristocrat (or even a skilled tradesperson) in more or less any pre-industrial society, you're gonna have no trouble amassing wealth and avoiding suspicions about your true nature since you've not only got the means of making money, you can make sure it stays with you. Even without corrupt officials/forging documents, it'd be easy enough to create a new fake identity every 70ish years or so by faking your death before turning up a few months/years later to pose as your own offspring/ younger relative (hence why you look EXACTLY like the portrait of your centuries dead ancestor) worst case scenario, you'd need someone "respectable" to vouch for you. And if anyone does get too suspicious, you can just move somewhere else until they've died of old age. The hardest part would be explaining your absence from every religious festival in the local church/equivalent.

Whereas if you're some poor schlub working in a factory somewhere who gets turned, it's going to be a damn sight harder to maintain the facade. Even if you can save up your meagre pay, how the hell are you meant to move regularly enough that your neighbours/workmates don't notice that you don't seem to age? You can't just suddenly turn up claiming to be your own estranged kid if you're living amongst people who've known you their entire lives. And how do you maintain a legal presence? What about all the documents you need in the modern world (like birth certificate, driving licence, passport, etc.), and how do you keep them valid? Sooner or later, you can't use your own as they're too old to be plausible, and as technology advances, they're going to be increasingly interconnected and there's going to be more traces of you you'd have to contend with.

#fantasy worldbuilding #the minutae of worldbuilding #fantasy #vampires #vampire #fantasy tropes #vimes boots theory #I've spent too long thinking about this #long post

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Moments I should have realised I'm Ace

Back before I realised I was asexual I was on tindr and a couple of dating sites (because anxiety and I default to being a social hermit). And I ended up chatting to a woman I'd matched with on tindr who sent me a message saying in essence "Here's my address of you want to come round and shag me." And I was like WTF?!

When I expressed my surprise to some friends online their response was: you do know people use tindr to arrange casual sex right? Why would you be surprised by an offer of casual sex?

#ace stuff #ace shit #ace experiences #asexuality #lgbtqia #queer shit #asexual

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For a similar experience for peeps in the UK I heartily recommend Kims Bookshop in Chichester and or Arundel.....

Twitter thread by Melissa Caruso about a labyrinthine magical bookstore in Syracuse, NY. Link to the first tweet in the thread; most pictures have image descriptions! Now here are the screenshots of that thread:

And then a hero of the labyrinthine magical bookstores of the world put all the bookstores that people listed in the replies on a map! (Google Maps link)

#L space is real! #a well stocked bookshop is just a well read black hole #books #books and reading #book nerdery #gnu terry pratchett #GNU STP #bookshop