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Comics have always been political

#pandaredd

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I’ve made more bugs. They’re friends

#fiber crafts

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I’m way behind on Tumblr. Barely keeping up on tiktok with Butch positivity.

#queer #cracking up

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flynn_and_mabel on ig

#fiber crafts

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@lgbtqcreators​ creator meme: [5/8] lgbtq+ celebs "I had to free my own mind of what, at that time, what I felt like masculine adrogynous energy looks like. I was living in my own binary, and I was like there's no way that I can be androgynous with bigger boobs now. How I feel inside is the thing that I needed to work through." — JANELLE MONÁE

#janelle monae #queer

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don't you love it when your gender nonconforming protagonist rages against the capitalist machine for the few people in the vast universe worth saving and caring for

#passive aggressive kevin r free murdered me dead

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"We call it vff," said the alien. "It's - it's hard to describe to a species without vffsense. Imagine trying to describe light to a species that never evolved eyes. But there are forms of life that are only perceptible with vffsense, and they've visited Earth and fed on life as long as it's existed here."

There was a pause.

Then the human said, "That's the worst thing you've ever said."

"Don't worry about it."

"I think I have to, now."

"No, because - well - you have a species of spider which pretends to be an ant, correct? It's not capable of understanding the fact that it's mimicking an ant, but it instinctually mimics an ant in order to deter predators."

"Sure?"

"Humans produce a vff to mimic varths, predators only perceptible through vffsense. The organisms that would like to feed on you are terrified of varths, and so they leave you alone. You aren't aware you do it, you don't have the capacity to understand you're doing it, but you evolved to instinctually do it to deter predators you can't see."

There was a pause.

Then the human said in a very soft and thoughtful voice, "And are there varths on Earth?"

"Yes," said the alien. "Everywhere. But don't worry about it."

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zero excuses

#locked tomb #fanart

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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#revolutionary girl utena

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it really is just scaled up look at the fur

capybara

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this system sure is collapsing, am i right?

anyway meet procedure module <3 it has like..... chill older brother energy. its design is not creative lmao

#murderbot #fanart

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in the hellish alternate universe where tlt is a shitty cishet ya series, the first book is called “a house of bones and blood”. gideon is a cis man and harrow is marketed as a “feminist prince zuko redemption arc”. griddlehark make out during the pool scene but harrow still can’t get over her feelings for palamedes, who explodes later on in the book to save harrow from cytherea. camilla, the Strong Woman Character, breaks down and cries and loses her sense of purpose. in book 2, “a house of spirits and secrets”, cis man ianthe manages to capture harrow’s heart, to the ire of palamedes and gideon’s ghosts, until the end of the book when jod breaks ianthe’s evil spell on harrow. camilla returns to bring harrow to blood of eden, the evil terrorist rebel group that all of jod’s lyctors joined. jodybeth is the only canon queer pairing but it’s not confirmed until after they both die in the final book, “a house of love and loyalty”. harrow escapes blood of eden and fights off the villainous camilla (who hates harrow out of jealousy for palamedes being in love with harrow and not her), who then tries to kill gideon, who has come back to life completely intact for no reason. jod fights off camilla and then dies to save his son gideon, who then becomes emperor and seamlessly unites the nine houses and blood of eden. the series ends with gideon and harrow’s marriage and the birth of their infant son who is set to inherit the entire universe and can already form a perfect kidney. imperialism is never discussed or even recognized by the author. all of the characters are white except judith and camilla. the series is a number one new york times bestseller for three years in a row. it immediately gets greenlit for a netflix series.

#locked tomb #fanart? fanfic? fandistortion?

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The way people treat you, is a statement about who they are as a human being. It is not a statement about you.

#communication

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ultimately i went with a suggestion from @niqaeli: "stop telling people your birth date on the internet, it’s a terrible security practice"

like no they're not too young to be reading my teen-rated fic, but as the SOLE idiot comment they made on it, well.

what is the appropriate response to an apparent 14 yo commenting "help this was posted the day I was born" on your fic on the ao3

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Art reflects life...

I'm knitting a cowl (Dovetail by Melanie Rice) to match the tool box I built over the last few months at my dayjob! The tulip poplar I used was from some boards in VERY different colors- the more typical pale grey/beige and a very olive green. I wanted to remember it with a commemorative knit since I painted the box and then gave it to its new owner.

#fiber crafts