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Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.

If my mutuals can’t rb this then we can’t be mutuals

#tumblr is broken today but imma reblog anyway

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this is the izutsumi of aw shucks guess we got worked up over nothing. reblog to realize things are not as bad as they seem

#dungeon meshi #I should read it

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Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

FT my cat. His name is Mischief

#comic #art #burnout #life advice #I've been there and this is true

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My work in the past.(2022)

#aoyama yuuga #boku no hero academia #MY CHILD #I treasure him #the new season cannot come soon enough

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Enma's Holiday: Chapter 20—Yumiko Sudou (English Translation)

Please enjoy this translation of "Enma's Holiday", chapter 20: Alluring Udon (2)! The full chapter can be read at the imgur link below.

#yo-kai watch #IT'S HERE #Nurari bbm arc is coming to an end #enjoy it while it lasts!

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"QUIET"

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#art #this comic hits hard #I relate to it as an autistic person #it is also a great reminder to be kind to people #I know people who seem to be going through the similar dark experiences I used to have when I was in a much darker place #and I am going to be kind and offer them support regardless of how much we vibe or fit together #I don't have to force myself to like someone I don't feel right with but I can still help them to the best of my abilities because I relate #we all deserve love #if you wanna talk about autistic struggles hit me up #also read this comic it's amazing

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Idk why but I think about these two specific Vash screams all the time

#trigun #masaya onosaka is at it again! #Micchi's VA never disappoints

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Look if there is absolutely nothing else you take away from the nonsense I am posting, it's this: Make Art.

Make art, with whatever you have. Use scrap cardboard and tape and build something; doodle in your notebooks, make a beautiful dinner, grow a plant, write, paint your nails. Learn to whittle, to knit, to cut straight lines, to sew, to cook, to run at a problem and not solve it the first time. Learn to try again.

Make things the wrong way.

If it works, do it again, better. If it doesn't, do it again, different. Draw badly. Look at the way the light hits something and try to figure out the colors it makes. Watch the way strangers walk and how the weight of them shifts in motion.

Creating art--beautiful things, ugly things, silly things--is not something that you should be leaving to people who are better at it or can afford the expensive materials or have a deep message or whatever. Do it anyway. Do it worse, do it cheaply, do it just for the joy of doing it. The work itself has merit. The work itself is rewarding. Make art.

And pet your cat.

#art

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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)

#The Agent from Elfen Lied #my queen

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Toadal dude and Arachnus made new friends! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

#yokai watch #sanrio #I'm on a Sanrio kick rn so this cuteness is just on time!

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#poetry #when people ask why we want to be visible #why we want to post our art #why we strife for community and cannot just “sit quietly and mask” #here's why #this isn't just about being queer and autistic btw #but is definitely about these things too

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gotta be real serious here, promoting media literacy is kind of The Goal as far as trying to get people to stop needlessly absorbing shitty ideas from media. purity culture stuff like judging and shaming them isn't just unhelpful in that it tends to shut people off from becoming more progressive, it's actively harmful because it promotes a LACK of media literacy. the goal shifts from trying to interface with the media and interpret what it's saying and means to just trying to consume the "good" media and only absorb "good" ideas.

id much rather have a friend who's really into cop shows but understands the harm they do than someone who only reads anti-racist literature but absorbs none of it

#media literacy #just what I was talking about yesterday #that as a researcher I will interact with all sorts of relevant media and analyze it accordingly #erasing media from my analysis because it's “bad media” will not benefit my research in the slightest

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A Kiyoshiro and Jellymon from a little while ago!

The inspiration for this one hit me so hard while I was shopping one day idk why

I wanted to use more of their color pallet for the light rays but just couldn't get it to look right 😖 still okay with how it turned out though!

#digimon #ah yes these two are my religion indeed #JELLY #Kiyo my son

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Sometimes I wonder about his impact on localization discourse

#pokemon #I made a powerpoint on censorship in Sailor Moon localisations and mentioned Pokemon onigiri censorship as another example #one guy argued that a non-Asian person “just wouldn't know” what an onigiri is so it was right to localise them #I didn't know how to even

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reblog and put in the tags something you are complimented on most often irl

#my cap when I'm wearing it #if not then some accessory #I wear gothy pendants and stuff and they can catch an eye of a like-minded goth enthusiast #if not appearance-vise then my ability to tell one about obscure stuff and make it interesting

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“i don’t want topless girls or leather daddies at pride” well i don’t want wells fargo or facebook at pride but we don’t always get what we want

#censorship #pride #queer culture

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So p/atreon is amping up its lockdown on nsfw material, gumroads is amping up its nsfw material-

Pornhub is currently not available in texas.

KOSA keeps coming closer to getting actually passed-

Can people please just admit that nsfw is being driven underground? That adult artists are being banned and pushed out of their spaces?

And dont start saying "oh just the yucky stuff." No, this is *ALL* Nsfw.

We are losing spaces left and right...

Not only that, it feels like we creatives are being killed. And that isnt exactly hyperbolic.

Paypal implemented taxes not that long ago, a hit to those who use it. Artists especially. Midjourney and other ai, stealing artworks, having people think less of artists.

Platforms kicking and banning artists left and right.

It feels like being an indie creator is being choked out of possibility. That you have to be born rich and lucky for your creative dreams to come true.

"oh you're just a porn addict its not that bad"

Its not that bad until your stuff is banned.

We had ROE VS FUCKING WADE thrown out the window. You dont think we could have LGBTQA+ rights thrown out too!?

The internet is becoming SO HOSTILE to creatives of all sorts. Its fucking heartbreaking.

Its like we're entering nsfw prohibition of the internet, buy a 160 dollar keychain for a 'free' picture of a dragon fucking a Volkswagen 😭

#signal boost #censorship #art #I am not American either #my country has its own share of Draconian censorship laws that make being an artist impossible #and now the Internet is being taken away too #fuck it