A few of the postcards I've done for my Patreon in the last few months!
If you sign up, I'll send you a card like these each month! The designs are unique and only printed once, so consider supporting if you like my work and want something cool in exchange! :)
Hello everyone! My first post with the posters reached 70k notes, which is way more than I ever thought, so for that reason and one other I thought I'd do a little bit of a celebration!
I'm releasing a new version of my posters, these cleaner, more "modern" ones in black and white WITH a 25% sale on all posters until midnight on the 15th with this link! The files used here in the post are not full size, just FYI.
They're available on my shop, just go to the poster you'd like and select the "modern" option, or let me know in a ko-fi message if you buy the bundle. The price is the same as the other posters. They won't have a preview option yet, I'll update that as I get these printed. The designs are also available as stickers! Use the same method.
Additionally, I do have the files ready for the missing button styles, just haven't put them up yet - if you'd like to order a poster as a button, either purchase a random one and send me a message on ko-fi or purchase the button pack and do the same. I'll get them up soon! the button/sticker prices haven't been raised yet.
One more thing - I'm attempting to raise some money to get to a big expo in my city, so please spread the link to my shop if possible!
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In the 1950s, the US National Park Service acquired M27 recoilless rifles from the military.
Their stated use was to trigger controlled avalanches, but a recent analysis of ammunition purchases shows they used many times more rounds than necessary.
Part of what I love about Control is how many mysteries are left at the end of the game.
Like okay, sure, the Hiss is a sonic/psychic mind virus, and Hedron is an opposing frequency-entity that came from the same world/plane/picture. Sure. The Oldest House is a dimensionally-transcendent brutalist maze that shifts around like a hibernating bear, and in places touches (or is touched by) thresholds, other dimensions with a tendency towards the deadly. Fine.
But like...what is Former? If it's a former member of the Board, as you might think from the name and their bad-break-up energy, why is it so much worse at communicating with the Director? Why is it binding itself to Altered Items, does it have some sort of a plan? Does the Board? What about Polaris, is she a bud/seed/copy of Hedron or just something Hedron did to Jesse? Is that where Jesse's powers came from - and if so, what's the source of Northmoor's?
And that's without even getting into the more obscure stuff, like the baddies who are out there trying to make more AWEs happen. It just leaves so much room for guessing and speculation, and I love it!
Reading about how intersex athletes have been treated is so fucking horrible. The countless lies and human rights violations. The discrimination and how it's ruined the lives of so many people is so awful. There has been no apologies from any athletics comptetions or organizations. They have blood on their hands. Just a tw for intersexism and mental health issues and suicide in the next paragraph because it can get pretty heavy.
Annet Negesa, who was a middle distance runner. She was suddenly barred from competing due to her hormones. No one told her why. She was then told she needed to take medication to lower her testosterone, then what she was told was switched. She was lied to about a surgery that she was told was like an injection and would let her compete again. She woke up with scars and had had a gonadectomy. That violation of basic human rights and medical ethics combined with inadequate postsurgical care basically ended her career. She deserves justice. She deserves apologies from the Olympics and everyone single doctor who was involved in it, and compensation and the promise that it should never have happened and will never happen again. She. Needs. Justice.
Pratima Gaonkar needs justice. She was a rising track and field star. After forced sex verificatiom she killed herself. The way media and news treated her after her death was disgusting. She deserves and needs justice. Her family deserves justice.
Santhi Soundarajan had her medals stripped and was treated as an outcast after forced sex verification showed she had androgen insensitivity syndrome. She was treated as an outcast, her gender was mocked. She's spoken out about how much discrimination she's faced, and how badly she's been treated. She now works as a coach, but was barred from competing. She deserves justice.
Caster Semenya deserves justice. Francine Niyonsaba deserves justice. Margaret Wambui deserves justice. Barbra Banda deserves justice. Beatrice Masilingi and Christine Mboma deserve justice.
The racism and intersexism and horrible human rights violations and medical abuse these women have faced for the supposed crime of being intersex and good at a sport is horrible. They deserve justice, but the organizations that perpetuate these atrocities don't seem to care. It's so fucking horrible.
when the power went out i heard an explosion and my boyfriend was like “a transformer probably busted” and i deadass thought he meant Optimus Prime was out there nutting