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IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW

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CR Sign Names

So I was talking to a friend about how we use sign names (BSL) for each of the CR characters, and now I'm curious. Does anyone else have any they use? It would be super interesting to compare 👀

#critical role #british sign language #sign language #I'm in the process of creating gifs of the sign names so I don't have to share videos of myself online #but if anyone is interested I can do my best to describe what I do for each character #For reference I'm hearing and have been learning BSL for the past 5 years #My Deaf friend and I created these signs so we could discuss CR things with more ease

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Kid Bells Hells :)

#critical role #laudna #imogen temult #fcg #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #orym of the air ashari #chetney pock o'pea #my art #digital art

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Kid Mighty Nein :)

#critical role #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #caleb widogast #veth the brave #fjord tusktooth #jester lavorre #caduceus clay #mollymauk tealeaf #digital art #my art

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Vox Machina as Kids :)

#critical role #vox machina #pike trickfoot #grog strongjaw #vexhalia #scanlan shorthalt #vaxildan #percy de rolo #keyleth #my art #digital art #Loose modern au but mostly just because fantasy clothes are a pain to draw

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#its nowhere near as long as it used to be now but ive never done anything with my hair when going to sleep #except for very rare occasions when i was doing something weird like for a crazy hair day #idk no one ever told me i should so i just didnt and it feels weird now to do something #but then i also go to sleep with wet hair which people also think is weird

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“I’m sorry,” Fearne burst out, “I was so scared, and everyone was gone, and I didn’t mean to, Ashton, I swear! I didn’t even know I could, and then I was here, and I didn’t know if you would remember me, but I had to try.”

OR

Fearne and Ashton go back in time. It goes about as smoothly as you'd expect.

#crticial role #ashton greymoore #fearne calloway #callowmoore #my art #digital art #my fanfiction

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social experiment

reblog for bigger sample size:3c

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How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

#Perfect score :)

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Going off that one poll, I'd like to test a theory.

More reblogs = bigger sample size.

Also, I think follow up polls would be a good idea but tbh i might need input from actual disabled people for those ^^"

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HAPPY ARO WEEK!! all aros are good and deserve respect and recognition! we are diverse but we are strong together!

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book to movie adaptations generally suck, but reblog with ur exception in the tags

#Okay so my dissertation reaearch ended up forcing me to compare a lot of kids books with the film adaptions so i have OpinionsTM #There are two ways a film adaption can be good #One being sticking as close to the book as possible (What a lot of people would consider a 'true' adaption) #The other is where they've changed a few things but only because what they've done represents the essence of the book in a better way #Personally I love when they do this especially for older books where the actual text might not make so much sense of screen #Anyway here are my top ones #Wonder #The Book Thief #Charlotte's Web #Anne of Green Gables (Both the series and the older films) #Black Beauty #His Dark Materials (the series not the film) #The Secret Garden (The older film is practically word for word in some places) #Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children (Has a few bigger changes but I actually like them) #Shout out to School for Good and Evil for being an fantastic series of books and possibly the worst film adaption I've seen in years though #screaming crying yelling at the screen as they proceeded to ruin my favourite book as a kid

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Me, three years ago, being called 'Teacher Day' by @eeveelove04 and @would-die-for-fitzsimmons:

"Haha what a fun overexaggerated nickname for what is mostly just me following my mum around her school 😂"

Me now, about to attend an interview for a teaching assistant job at a school:

#personal #interviews are terrifying actually who knew #technically still not a teacher but close enough #this feels very adulty i dont like it

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There is so much more I could say about this, but there is not enough room. Remember to check with reality rather than believing conspiracy theories promoted, supported, and funded by white nationalist hate groups.

Missouri is proposing 20% of the nation’s anti-trans legislation this session. Gender-affirming care for young folks is on the edge of being criminalized (so much love to trans friends in states where that has already happened).

Please keep up with the anti-trans legislation in your state and combat it. There are lives at stake.

Transphobes do not touch this post.

Image ID: a 10-image cartoon comic featuring Joey, a boy with short hair.

Image 1: Joey, upset, gesticulates towards an open laptop. Text reads: The reality of St. Louis trans kids. Last week, a former (non-medical) employee of Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center was featured in a viral article about how the clinic was “rushing” kids into medical care and “mutilating” us. Every single thing she said was a lie, but the media loves it. Footnote reads: I wouldn’t give any more attention to this, but it is immediately endangering the lives of trans people. Missouri has launched a state investigation and is actively attempting to criminalize gender-affirming care based on conspiracy theories.

Image 2: Joey points to a map of the United States where Missouri is singled out, and a map of Missouri where St. Louis is indicated with a star. The text reads: The Transgender Center, located in St. Louis, Missouri, has been the target of hateful attacks from the far-right state legislature for years. It is part of Washington University Hospital, a branch of a prestigious private university.

Image 3: A younger Joey injects his T shot in his leg while someone takes a photo. Text reads: I can tell you that everything in the article is false because I received care at the Transgender Center beginning at 16 years old. My medical transition has brought me nothing but joy. What a gift it is to be trans!

Image 4: A younger Joey sits on a couch and stims with a tangle fidget toy. Text reads: No one is “rushed”. I sat on many waitlists, had to have 6 months of specialized gender therapy and a diagnosis of gender dysphoria before even being referred to the Center, and I was denied as “not ready enough” by an endocrinologist the first time I finally got an appointment. Footnote reads: If you’re curious about what it looks like to be a trans kid, I did another piece on that! Check out tinyurl.com/transkidscomictumblr.

Image 5: A colorful map of the United States shows how many states have a Negative Gender Identity Policy Tally and how many states have criminalized gender affirming care. Joey holds a credit card. Text reads: St. Louis’ Pediatric Transgender Center is the only one in the region, meaning the waitlists are extremely long. Plus, no one in the only industrialized country without free healthcare is getting medical care for fun. Many American trans folks have to fundraise for our care.

Image 6: Joey, distressed, sits on a couch while talking on the phone. The person on the other end says: “That’s me!” Text reads: This former employee spoke about specific cases, and patients have been able to identify themselves. She shared our private medical info and called us horrifying.

Image 7: This is split into two panels. In the first, Joey holds up a box of condoms and a packet of birth control pills. Texts reads: She especially hated trans men such as myself, saying that trans ideology was destroying “girls”. She lamented about hormones making us “sterile”, which is a complete lie. We trans mascs have to actively prevent pregnancy. In panel two stands a doctor. Text reads: Every time I had an appointment at the Center, doctors reminded me: Remember: testosterone is not a contraceptive! Footnote reads: The wonderful Erin Reed wrote a breakdown debunking all the lies in the article. See tinyurl.com/erinreedmissouri.

Image 8: Joey, masked, sits at a circular table with his brother, an unmasked boy with fluffy short hair. Joey’s brother is showing him his phone. Text reads: Major newspapers continue to platform these complete lies because they bring in engagement and money. The Washington Post tracked down my little brother’s personal cell phone number to try to get in contact with our mom – the president of an organization supporting trans kids in Missouri. Freaky, right?

Image 9: Joey, looking disgusted, leans against a door frame while talking on a cell phone. Text reads: But no one wants to talk with me, the adult who medically transitioned at this clinic as a minor and has not “desisted” in six years. The Washington Post reporter, who didn’t know anything about trans people, talked with me for 20 minutes and used a sentence of mine in an article about “both sides of the debate”. She didn’t mention that this former employee is being legally represented by a recognized anti-LGBT hate group, nor that all of her claims are unsupported by reality or science.

Image 10: Joey looks angry and gesticulates. Beside the drawing are two photos of Joey, one of him happy in front of a trans flag, and the other of him drawing up testosterone to take his first T shot. Text reads: There is no debate. There are trans people, and there are people who want us dead. There is truth and there are conspiracy theories. Where is my viral article in a major paper?

Published Feb 16, 2023. End ID.

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Some of these polls will forever haunt me in my sleep

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Reblog if u vote :)

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Little Art things I'm obsessed with pt 1

Portraits of absent figures:

David Hockney - A Bigger Splash, 1967

Hockney originally visited California in 1963 and was won over by the sunlight and laid-back lifestyle, especially the luxury and ubiquity of the swimming pool. He described it as his "promised land" The splash is about freezing a moment in time, but it is also empty of human presence but implying a human. The male figure is present in some of David's other works from this time period, especially his muse and then-partner Peter Schlesinger. These paintings are about a hedonistic gay lifestyle, and the swimmers, the divers, are often the subject of voyeurism and desire. But in this painting, we just missed the diver, which makes the object of desire more private and personal. Who was the painter looking at, lusting after, etc. I like the contrast of the incredibly sharp and graphic suburban neighborhood, and the chaotic, organic splash. So again, if the divers represent this homosexual desire, we have this contrast of an orderly heterosexual world, and the queerness that joyfully disrupts it.

And then of course, with the absent figure, there is this massive sense of loss and loneliness. And so much of loneliness is about concealment, hiding in shame. This is a private space, but its also an exposed space, enhancing the loneliness. The figure is isolated, alone, invisible. Its a sadness that contrasts with the setting, the activity, and saturated lighting.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Untitled (billboard of an empty bed), 1991

These billboards were exhibited in the streets of Manhattan during the AIDS crisis. This piece was created the same year Felix Gonzalez-Torres's boyfriend Ross died. This portrait is a celebration of love and a memorization of loss and the emotions between intimacy and publicity. In the artist's own words:

“What I’m trying to say is that we cannot give the powers that be what they want, what they are expecting from us. Some homophobic senator is going to have a very hard time trying to explain to his constituency that my work is homoerotic or pornographic, but if I were to do a performance with HIV blood — that’s what he wants, that’s what the rags expect because they can sensationalize that, and that’s what’s disappointing. Some of the work I make is more effective because it’s more dangerous. We both make work that looks like something else but it’s not that. We’re infiltrating that look.“

The work intentionally uses the matching, identical depressions to imply a same-sex couple. The image itself is extremely intimate, but its being displayed in public spaces.

Felix Gonzales-Torres became known for his absent bodies.

And then, a little different, this painting by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (1837) commissioned by Frederick and and Coralie Frey, depicts the three Frey children, with the faint shadow of a figure. There was a legend that there was a fourth figure in this painting. In 2005 a private collector, Jeremy K Simien, purchased the painting and it underwent conservation.

The painting revealed Bélizaire, a fifteen year-old enslaved domestic owned by the children's father. The picture captures the complex relationship between the boy and the children, the family that was keeping him captive. For one thing, the way he is set back from the others. There is this sort of intimacy between them along side the psychological trauma of forced bondage.

Here is a great Tiktok about the painting, to quote "What I'm struck by is what a sensitive portrait this is of this young man who was living in an inhumane society where he, despite being a human being, was bought and sold."

A few years after this painting was created, the three Frey children died, and Bélizaire was the only one who survived into adulthood.

The painting stayed in the Frey family. At some point, likely in the late 19th or 20th century, Bélizaire was intentionally painted over. In 1972, the great-granddaughter of Coralie Frey donated the painting to a Louisiana museum, informing them that a figure was painted over. During the course of the painting's life at the museum, no effort was put into restoring the figure.

Jeremy Simien's, who bought and restored this painting, said on his instagram "Bélizaire, they know your name now. Tell the ancestors to let me sleep for a minute."

And shout out to the picture that make me want to write this, Hyde Park Flowers, London by Tumblr user @kimironside I won't re-post it so check out the link.

#Very interesting