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One more drawing based on a stress-relief doodle from a work meeting. The death of Fingon. This scene is so terrible and emotional(at least makes me emotional) and once again, I couldn't find enough artwork that captures it. So I made one myself. Also here, I wanted to make light that looks like tree-branches ♥

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Legalizing sex work isn't the answer to safer sex work, decriminalization is.

Legalization means corporate interests over workers every time. Legalization means bosses raking in mountains of cash while workers make a dime. Decrim means we can do our work without being legally impacted and without businesses popping up like fucking weed dispos in Albuquerque with set rates that our bosses would choose in the case of legalization

Which, again, the problem isn't sex, the problem is work culture in late stage capitalism.

The real way to "save" sex workers is to save all workers from poverty. All humans. All people forced to work in order to put food in their mouths. Which is most humans. Most people will live treated like animals on the streets if they refuse to work. If you erase sex from the human experience entirely, work still exists. People still starve. People still die in harsh weather from being unhoused. People still die from police violence. The problem was never sex and legal industries kill every day. This will never stop until the system is radically changed. Pretending sex is the problem is a wonderful distraction and the sex work industry makes a great fall guy in a "sex is bad and your body is property that you can't do what you want with" society

The idea that "many whores can never leave" being part of the tragedy of being a whore is a twisted narrative, one that people assume means whores can't stop whoring bc they're forced by another human to whore. In reality, if we've whored, we can't get hired in many "legal" industries because of the narrative set up against us, and many of us find "legal" work much less easy to survive than whoring. It's easier for a lot of us to make $200 in an hour with every risk that comes with that (violence from authorities is a bigger concern than violence from a client) than it is to go legally work for someone tearing our bodies apart for $10/hr to do repetitive nonsexual labor.

Legalization kills. Decriminalization is what we need. And the destruction of the capitalist machine entirely. And for people in customer service to actually realize that they're worse off than most whores, genuinely. The idea of the abused whore is a fun tale but is no more common than any other abused worker. Physical violence as a sex worker isn't worse than having a robotic arm impale you at a factory for $11.50/hr and then have all your bosses threaten to destroy you if you sue. It just fucking isn't.

And if you've never worked a job that was degrading, humiliating, physically abusive, or emotionally ruining without doing sex work, you have immense privilege and need to keep your mouth GLUED SHUT. It is not worse to be stalked as a whore than it is to be stalked as a cashier. It just fucking isn't.

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Varese.25.6.2023- Watercolor illustration

Illustration done at the "It's Alive!Si può fare!" event organized by Neoludica and Eludolab for the #inbiblioteca event at the city of Varese. Inspired by Estensi's garden my favorite place there.

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cave painting capybara

(based off this painting!!🧡🧡)

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party beetle

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art comic

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There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

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marine biology is so scary because it’s such a small field. i was giving a talk on cetaceans and afterward a woman approached me with her husband and she said, “you did very well. [husband’s name] actually pioneered the research and published the first paper on that. We were very impressed by you.”

Which is such a scientific interpretation/public education win I will cherish forever but also for the rest of my life any time I give a talk I will be haunted by the knowledge that the world’s leading expert who literally discovered/invented the topic might be in the room,

which is like, the opposite of what you’re supposed to do for stage fright. In fact I never used to experience stage fright but now I will.

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I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

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I was born at a very young age.  I’ve been alive for as long as i can remember, and I hope to continue living until I die.

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Morticia visit Gomez in his office 😳