#guess I'm slow

[rotationalsymmetry]

If you're trans -- if you have a gender identity that doesn't exactly match the gender you were assigned at birth, regardless of whether you have transitioned or intend to and whether you're nonbinary -- and live in the US, ok and are 16 or older, you are eligible to fill out the 2022 US Trans Survey, crafted by trans people.

This is a big deal, it's the largest national trans survey and the last one was in 2015. The next one won't be for at least another five years.

There's some fairly personal questions and some heavy ones, like ones about harassment and domestic violence. They don't ask for your name or other definitively identifying information, and take steps to keep the rest of the data confidential. You can skip (most) questions you don't want to answer while filling out the rest. Data can be useful for lobbying politicians for things that are good for trans people, especially ones who are basically sympathetic but not sure they should prioritize trans issues. (In their words, "The USTS fills in some of the large gaps in research about transgender people, and it provides critical tools for researchers, policymakers, and advocates seeking to better understand the needs of transgender people and to find ways to improve their lives.") Most questions have set options, but there's also an opportunity at the end to share personal stories in your own words.

There's also a Spanish language version and Spanish speakers, people of color, older people, immigrants, those who live in rural areas, and people who are HIV+ are especially encouraged to fill it out (because when people don't it's harder to advocate for services for those people, even when people providing the services know damn well there's a lot of need.)

#it's supposed to take 30-90 minutes #it took me longer I guess I'm slow

[fiepige]

Compilation of EVERY single time they changed Hobie's filter in the digital version:

Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release

You might have to click on some of them to get a better look at Hobie, sadly I don't have a video editor that allows me to make better edits than these :')

#This took so long to make lol #cause I had to edit every scene with Hobie from both versions so I could watch them right after one another to compare them #I did this with ALL the scenes he's in also the ones where he's on screen as spider-punk #but they only changed his filters in these scenes so it was a waste of time :') #sidenote: no it wasn't it's never a waste of time to look at hobie I just couldn't use it for my GIFset lol #I also made a bouns one but I'm not allowed to post more than 30 GIFs in one post apparently so I guess I just won't add it then... #but Hobie was basically filterless during all these scenes in the theatrical version #I like that they gave him more different filters in the digital version #the only change I don't like is in the first GIFs #cause like that one post pointed out it looks like they removed his lipstick for some reason #also really wish I had a better video editor so we could get a closer look at Hobie but I did my best with what I had #also slowed some of them down to get a better look at them #been having this idea for a while and now I finally finished it! #which means I can go back to working on my fics now #hopefully lol #also lemme know if there are some other scens you guys want me to make comparisons of #cause I have both versions #the theatrical release isn't the highest quality though so if you know where I can get my hands on a better version lemme know ;) #hobie brown #spider punk #miles morales #spider man #peter b parker #jess drew #miguel o'hara #spider man across the spider verse #across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #atsv #theatrical version

[s0fti3w1tch]

scared for us both.

[Image Description: Digital drawing of a slightly smaller Tentative Devotee AU Leo/Trainee sleeping against Casey (Cass), who looks at him with her face obscured. They're sitting in a blacked out void except for two grave holes in the forground. Trainee's scarf leads into one of the graves. /End ID]

#buwan's art #my art #I haven't really drawn in a while #I'm gonna take things slow for now #i know i've already been slow #but i'm being easier on myself i guess #td!au leonardo #td!au cassandra #tentative devotee doodle #rottmnt tentative devotee au #note: trainee is not that small compared to Casey that's just her perspective

[kaiminluu]

visited the louvre a few weeks ago and did some studies anyway baroque warrior mike

#he's a romantic and so am i #he belongs in a tragic kinda painting like this #his beauty was made for it and i'm not taking any disagreement #mike wheeler #mike wheeler fanart #stranger things #st fanart #“jeune homme en armure” de simon vouet est l'oeuvre originelle #ou “jeune saint guerrier” #jsp c'est les deux #byler #byler fanart #cleradin #this is byler bc take a guess at what (who) he's thinking about #also WHY are museums so overwhelming JESUS CHEEZUS i'm too slow to get through rooms that fast #my art

[can-of-slorgs]

*japanese funky nightcore cover music in the background*

#They're making me publish this agaisnt my will #I'm not putting this up in the neoart tag at all #neopets #neotag #dr sloth #i guess?? #I.................. I have no excuse for this..... thing........ #there goes my neoblog #so beautiful until now #oh well JHSDK #it was so stupidly difficult to put headphoens on his head HJSADKF #I managed but.......... yeah #i guess it serves for not leaving this blog abandoned???? im so stupidly slow with both art and writing #vin memes #i refuse to put the vin doods tag in these HJDFJJSD #anyway yeah those are fae wocky headphones what about them #im not even gonna establish context to this just think of it whatever #thats it im out of here

[fyncherly]

*walks up to mic* Chip never wears socks with shoes *walks off stage right*

#jrwi #jrwi riptide #jrwi ball #jrwi gillion #jrwi chip #jrwi jay #fyncherlyart #made this for the JRWI royal ball prompt and then realized the Google form asks for an OC so uh guess I'm making a riptide OC now lmao #done in two days #which is insane for me #I'm slow #listened to so much riptide and the most recent Suckening ep while doing this #aahhhh

[linterteatime]

I love drawing funky dresses for bugs...well these aren't bugs bugs but rather human bugs but not really human but y'know y'know

#hollow knight #gijinka #humanization #willoh #grubfather #mask maker #hot spring bugs #fanart #my art #I wonder if silksong will come out before I finish all these bugs or after #I'm slow as hell rn making these so I'm guessing silksong will catch up to me eventually #but who knows tbh

[bixels]

I need to shift the balance and build a yaoi following too...

#personal #delete later #drew so much gl yuri that people don't bat an eye when i draw utena outta nowhere... #the labru post is going real slow so i'm guessing i don't have a big enough following for bl stuff... #i need to change that #i've been planning on drawing some phoenix x edgeworth stuff too

[geminison]

When i said get better by alt-j was for Corvo and Jess I wasn’t joking

A bittersweet little story about how the future empress of the isles met her loyal bodyguard (and immediately had a crush)

#dishonored #corvo attano #jessamine kaldwin #art tag #it was 31 hours in Procreate alone #and it took me about a week? to finish it #damn I’m kinda slow haha #nothing like a ​tragic love story am I right #i can't see mistakes rn but I'm 100% sure i will in a couple of days #i don't like how it came out but that's okay i guess. I'll get better

[teejaystumbles]

Against all odds (part 6)

Part 1 // Part 2 // Part 3 // Part 4 // Part 5

@tryan-a-bex

**

I will not let you fall again.

Dream let's Hob gently sink into the deeper, dreamless areas of sleep and watches his dream of the White Horse slowly disperse. What remains are the stains of blood on his fingers and the sweetness of strawberry on his lips. Slowly, Dream lifts his stained fingers to his mouth and tastes his friend's offering. A shiver runs through him when the warm, metallic taste hits his tongue and he clenches his other hand into a fist to contain his emotions.

What a thing to do, to offer him all this and mean it. Foolish, and dangerous.

Dream should not be surprised. After all the things Hob has written and told him his affection for Dream is obvious. Still. To declare his devotion like this, here in Dream's realm where Hob's subconscious might be truthful but still prone to exaggeration… let's just say that Dream is wary of how this offer will hold up in what Hob considers to be the real world. Hob must have read his journal entry by now. The urge to offer Dream food and comfort surely stems from it. Dream will not hold his friend to a pledge made while dreaming, at least not without further acknowledgement in the Waking.

Would it be hasty to assume Hob might have written an answer already? 

Dream is not proud of how abruptly he stopped writing and left Hob with the equivalent of a loaded gun to the heart without even a goodbye, as if he had meant to write more. He had, but hadn’t been able to muster the strength to pick up the pen again after finally voicing his fear about what Hob will think of him once he knows his name. Dream had dropped the book back at Hob’s flat in haste before he succumbed to the urge to rip out the entire entry once more.

Silently Dream steps out of the Dreaming and into Hob’s bedroom. The man lies asleep on his bed, his breathing calm. Nothing short of a very loud noise will wake him now, so Dream should be safe to take a look at the journal. He steps towards the desk where the book lies open. A few lines are indeed newly added underneath Dream’s abruptly ended entry.

Dream’s eyes widen as he reads the words of his friend, hastily scrawled as if he had hurried to put his thoughts to paper in a rush of emotion.

“You are more dear to me than anyone else.” “All I need is you, and our conversations.”

Dream shakes as he reads and rereads Hob’s short few lines. It seems his friend is not finished writing and Dream regrets coming here to read this prematurely. But what if Hob wakes up and decides to rip out this bit, like Dream tore two pages from the book? His first two attempts had not been much different from what he had finally written but his resolve to lay himself bare before his friend had wavered several times in the beginning. After starting to write for the third time Dream had simply forced himself to continue and face Hob’s reaction to such honesty with as much grace as he would be able to muster.

What if Hob wakes up and is afraid he’s gone too far, that Dream will react unfavourably to his ardent declaration of friendship? He cannot allow that.

He picks up the pen and writes.

My dear Hob,

I thank you, for your reassurance, and your offer of comfort and help. I do not feel deserving of such a good friend as you are.

Dream falters, unsure of what to write. He opts for putting down exactly that. He feels like by now this is what writing these entries is about, to simply let his thoughts flow to the page as if he were talking to Hob. Except that this is somehow easier than talking.

I confess I do not know what to say. I feel like I have run out of words to put down, after my last entry. Perhaps it is no wonder, I am interrupting your unfinished answer, after all. Please forgive my hastiness, I simply wanted to make sure you did not feel your last entry was not appreciated. On the contrary, you have taken a weight off my chest with your words.

I miss the quiet comfort of your company, my friend, and therefore I beg your forgiveness if I stay at your side for a few minutes, while you sleep and are unaware. I promise to never harm you in any way that I can control, not on purpose, but I will of course not bother you in the future if this breach of your privacy is uncomfortable to you. 

I would like to meet you soon, when you are awake. I will let you know when I am ready. May I rely on your experience to choose a suitable place? Preferably not indoors. Thank you.

He hesitates for a moment but then signs, With affection, your friend.

Dream puts down the pen and then slowly sits down on the edge of Hob’s bed, the mattress not moving under him at all as he has decided to not distribute any weight to his form so he won’t disturb his friend. He indulges himself and lets his gaze linger on Hob’s familiar features, face slack in sleep. Hob’s hair is about the same length it was in 1889. It forms a tangled dark halo under his head, still slightly sticky with some kind of oil or cream Hob seems to have put in it. Dream preferred his friend’s hair loose and longer, thinking back on their last few meetings. He remembers longing to brush his friend’s hair in 1689, when he looked so terribly unkempt. Dream also remembers seeing his friend’s lush chest hair for the first time that night. It had been something he had been quite fascinated with, a morsel of personal information he had stored away for later perusal. Now Dream eyes his friend’s sleeping form curiously, taking his time to commit what he can see to memory - Hob’s strong nose and beard shadow, the length of his dark lashes, the dark hairs peeking out of his shirt collar and covering his naked forearms, curling around his slender wrists-

Hob shifts and sighs in his sleep and Dream startles. Quietly he gets up and steps away from the bed. What is he doing, watching his friend sleep? Surely Hob will answer that he finds that kind of behaviour weird, unseemly even. Dream shouldn’t have done it. He shakes his head, annoyed with himself, and goes back to his realm. There is always work to be done.

**

Hob wakes up with the unsettling feeling that he dreamed of something very important, but he can’t remember what it was. He groans and buries his face in the pillows. His head, and weirdly his tongue, hurts. He moves it around a bit in his mouth. Yeah, he definitely bit himself in his sleep. What the fuck?

He sits up and his eyes fall on the open journal. He left it like that last night, but the pen… the pen has been moved to lie neatly above the journal. Hob knows he left it on the side, or in the middle of the pages even. He’s not that tidy.

Hob scrambles out of bed and picks up the book. There are new words in his stranger’s cursive, small handwriting. He reads it two times, then once more for good measure. His stranger has been here? He has been watching Hob sleep?

“My dear Hob.”

“I miss the quiet comfort of your company.”

“I would like to meet you soon.”

“With affection, your friend.”

Hob feels himself shiver and his skin break out in goosebumps. Then he feels heat rush through him and hurriedly he puts down the journal and goes to take a long and relieving shower. 

His mind is all over the place for the rest of the day. Hob cannot stop thinking about what this change in tone might mean for him and his friend. He won’t deny that he has been yearning for this, this gentleness, the quiet understanding and open show of affection Hob never dared let himself hope for too much. His friend likes him! Even if it’s meant in a strictly platonic way, there is no doubt any longer that his stranger cares for Hob. That he likes being with him. Every time the realisation hits him he has to swallow back tears of joy and one time even excuse himself from a meeting to punch the air and grin stupidly at himself in the bathroom mirror. This century is finally turning out for the better, he thinks.

Part 7

#I've sat on this for weeks now sorry #I guess I hoped I'd be able to finish it and post it to AO3 but I'm slow #1989 au #the sandman fanfiction #dreamling #teejay writes

[4lph4kidz]

i was thinking about your dirk and hal poll and i want to mention that i think your concept for ink and iron where dirk creates hal from his reflection by enchanting a mirror is so cool 😌

thank you! hal's predicament and purpose within the canon narrative is so fascinating and i felt it was really important to find a way to explore what i find most interesting with him. i can't take full credit for the concept though i took inspiration from a few placees (one of my friends pitched the idea of the mirror accidentally dumping him onto jake's doorstop for example) but overall i think the idea is very fun and i'm really excited to write more hal stuff!!! also i'm going to take the opportunity to share this oldish doodle i found:

the mispelling of angel as angle was NOT intentional (<- dyslexia haver) but it probably explains a lot. he's pointy

#obviously an AU is going to be different from canon #but i like AUs specifically *because* i have a lot of fun trying to translate canon ideas into another setting or genre in general #in this case its a riff on the fairy tale magic mirror #hal is still an experiment gone wrong/artificial being created to serve a purpose trapped in a non-physical form and denied personhood #as well as being an extension of dirk's selfhood and very literal expression of his self image #this time with extra gender problems as per my original intentions for the fic. which now feel more than a bit heavy handed but whatever #point is hal gets to play up the trapped demon/spirit/almost genie-esque angle isntead of the artificial intelligence schtick in canon #which i am having a lot of fun writing! #he is also a very important plot device. multitalented 💕 #for anyone wondering i&i is NOT an abandoned project its just huge and whipping it into shape is slow going #i've taken breaks to work on other stuff too #ink and iron #i guess that's a tag i should start using #even though i'm not too happy with the title still. lmao

[mspaint-flower]

yaaay requests are back :DD could you do flower (or len) from kyuutenchokka automation?

why so mad

#vflower #v4 flower #v4flower #vocaloid #vocaloid flower #my art #ms paint #i can hardly type that name i don't think i'm going to tag it #my only guess of this song's meaning is len does stupid things at school and flower is angry #like my sister said.... #(i did read the lyrics but i believe in aroace flower supremacy) #btw i know this request is like a month old at this point GOD I'M SO SLOW 😭😭

[solradguy]

Finally overhauled and updated the Japanese resources page on my Neocities. Added a lot of new things and also reorganized it so that it's a little easier for absolute beginners to get into

#neocities #linkpost #Alllmoooosttt have all the pages updated to the new layout code... Only a couple left... #The JP study page was the most complicated one since I wanted to update the information too #The others just need copy-pasted over but I'm lazy lol #Debated if I should put a warning on the JP study page about how time consuming it is to learn for- #-Germanic and Romance language native speakers especially #But Japanese already has an annoying reputation for being insanely difficult #It really really isn't haha Just very slow learning because of the 300 billion million kanji argh #Ok alright I guess having 4 writing systems is a LITTLE tricky

[extra-love]

Happy New Year, @spear-gsun , I was your @touhousecretsanta for this year- I have one fresh miss Mizuchi for you!

Apologies for how late it is! (Thank you for waiting warmly ^^;) I hope the new year treats you well!

#FIRST THINGS FIRST I'm very sorry for the long long warm wait ;; #there's actually a second side to this with reimu → (cool epic showdown style) but it has been a LONG time since I've drawn anything #i way underestimated how slow i work AND i sort of had to re-learn my own art style which was awkward :// #BUT I'd like to come back to this possibly maybe #(which is also why I'm posting it on this blog instead dbvdgssg) #i had a hard time thinking about HOW to draw her (newhu peoblems) but i think in the end i went for Pretty Similar to Reimu- #but with some added whispiness to her hair (kind of like how Harukawa drew Shion) bc .. spirit i guess XD #ANYWAY for now I wish you a happy and healthy new year! #to the mods and everyone who participated thank you for this year as always! #touhou #Miyadeguchi Mizuchi #uhh this is the first time I've ever posted an image from mobile so if it ends up severely broken I'm sorry LMAO

[bardic-perdita]

Some more of my recent sketches that I actually like. Compared to previous drawings, these are marked improvements.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #bg3 tav #Tav! Zeke #Tav! Breoch #I guess this is a positivity post for myself #and perhaps for any other artist going through the same #I'm completely self-taught so the process is SLOW #but I'm enjoying it #bg3 kar'niss

[indiiglow]

Apparently it's called Obliteration Route in this game? So here we fuckin go bby

I FUCKING KILLED NAPSTABLOOK??? This is already so fucked up and I'm just doing it with Frisk

How much worse is the Kris route >_>

#deltatraveler #deltatraveler spoilers #indi's night talk #yo I don't even want to do this but I need. more. gameplay. hhhh #I'm guessing Susie's gonna turn on me cause ain't no way she's gonna go along with that #side note is that a fuckin slowed down REMIX of ruins that is fuckin awesome