#just west of weird

[docwash]

i know the whole “transmascs are ugly nasty stinky rat men” thing is bad and not a way we should let our youth talk about themselves and others but at the same time, i really think there is value in just.... learning to let yourself be “ugly.”

transitioning to me meant accepting i wouldnt be a “beautiful” girl anymore and thinking that that was okay. it was more important to me to be an ugly man than a beautiful woman. but years of testosterone working its magic meant accepting things in me that i previously hated and thought made me undesirable, and letting those be emphasized.

calling myself ugly for a year or two was freeing. it deconstructed how i’d previously seen myself and allowed me to fully deconstruct everything i thought i had to be to allow who i am now to fully grow in the place of my old self.

im 4 years deep now and im handsomer and happier than ever. ive never felt more gorgeous in my life. but i would not be here if i hadnt let myself conquer my fear of being “gross” and accepting it as a reality.

#just west of weird #this is a very personal thing that i cant rlly fit on twitter #this isnt gonna be everyones experience obviously #but for me this was a crucial step of my transition on the emotional side

[network-warrior-01]

Kinda missed the Gravity Falls 10 Year Anniversary so please enjoy this old drawing I did of my own “interpretation” of what a human Bill Cipher looks like.

And by my interpretation I mean I took what everyone else was making him look like and changed a few details to make it my own lol It’s not the best and I definitely want to redo this and give him a more unique design. But until then here ya go!<3

Bonus doodles+me deciphering the coded messages in my journal 3 book:

#gravity falls #bill cipher #human!bill cipher #gravity falls ten year anniversary #gravity falls tenth anniversary #gravity falls 10 years later #My Things #<- (my personal tag) #Just West of Weird #<- my personal GF tag

[arunneronthird]

do u think they look at maps together and laugh like students looking at expensive restaurant menus

#what the fuck is caviar and where the fuck is the west #so anyway this is my ship #is it romantic i dont actually think so i just like luffy being happy and i like zoro being luffys #both of which are canon in weird ways #zolu #one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #my art

[hussyknee]

I know some dickheads have now decided that Judaism is the "bad, violent, terrorist religion" and Islam is the "good, peaceful" one, which is only to be expected of white people, but how much of an issue is it currently? Like I've seen some USAmericans sharing how the Islamic faith shapes Gazans values and perseverance (good) except with that distinct white hippie "I'm about to imprint on this like the world's most racist duck" vibe (bad), but I didn't think they're already turning on Judaism in numbers.

Do they realize that Christianity is also the same kind of comfort to Christian minorities in Asia and Africa? That it was Buddhists that genocided the Rohingyas in Myanmar and Tamils in Sri Lanka? That Hindu fundamentalists are even now trying to ethnically cleanse Muslims in India? How Hindus and Christians are terrorized and persecuted in Pakistan? That Muslims have a history of persecuting and ethnically cleansing Jews too?

Really tired of asking y'all to be normal about people's religions man. There's no religion that's inherently violent or exceptionally peaceful. It's just like any other ideology that becomes a weapon in the hands of ethnic power. Interrogate power, not religion, and respect people's belief systems insofar as they aren't in your business.

Edit: I've amended the "long history" of Muslim persecution of Jews because it might be misleading in the current political climate. Zionism and antisemitic Arab nationalism are twin births resulting directly from Christian colonization, and Islamic empires tended to actually be more tolerant of other religions compared to Christianity, especially Judaism, which was considered a sibling religion. Antisemitism wasn't ideologically entrenched in Islamic tradition. It's simply that ethno-religious power will lead to ethno religious domination and intermittent cleansing of minorities, and Islam is no exception. Humans be humaning always.

#Edit: please boost the edit #why can't white people just be fuckin normal for once #tbh this site was so weird about Judaism that it felt almost culty #I had several crises about whether I was being antisemitic before I realized no I'm just reacting to the idealization-demonization binary #that seems to be all western leftists know how to do #white queers are the worst about this #and now some of the asks I've been getting gives me the impression that the west thinks ''Islamist'' is some kind of dangerous cryptid #y'all attach insane levels of importance to people's choice of headgear #the only common denominator of all the Muslims I know is their fixation on biriyani idk #a lot of white lefties just want to use religion to distance yourself from your white privilege #same reason as why communism is so attractive to you #y'all want to share in a legacy of oppression because it's easier than self-reflection and unlearning #antisemitism #anti Zionism #Islamphobia #philosemitism #white queers #western leftists #racism #religious fundamentalism #genocide #religious violence #knee of huss

[cosmicisbored]

AAAAAAHHH

#herbert west #reanimator #re animator #reanimator herbert west #reanimator fanart #herbert west fanart #herbert west art #reanimator art #art #fanart #drawing #reanimator 1985 #hp lovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #mad scientist #weird science #he’s just a little guy #a little silly #this took me way too long to make

[a-fast-rebloger]

RIP to Elphaba and her water allergy I know she would've loved to walk barefoot around a creek

#she *woudlve* #just look at her #her weird gremlin energy woudlve been fixed if she had been allowed to go to a stream and walk around in circles in the shallow waters #that is all #wicked #wicked the musical #wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west #elphaba thropp

[kaptainandy]

the best way to contextualize the difference in herbert's and dan's flavor of unhingedness is this: herbert commits outright medical malpractice while dan commits egregious HIPPA violations.

#you KNOW dan would be one of those weird nurses/docs on tiktok giving out intimate patient details #or crying after losing a patient during surgery #the hospital is just like 'dr. cain you cant keep doing this...' #kaptainandy's log #reanimator #re animator #herbert west #daniel cain #dan cain

[pummelingbat]

haven't been drawing much this month, but here is a compilation of stuff from february/march that i never posted lol. first one is a Donelan redraw, and the last one is from a massive sketch pile of a vocaloid song fan PV that i gave up on :'^) Happy Halloween.....

#reanimator #herbert west #dan cain #danbert #the middle ones are just cute lol. was in my 'draw the characters in cute outfits' stage of brain rot still. #its weird looking back on art from the first month of my reani madness. like man i was just going for it. #i need to redraw bunnybert and make a matching dan... my little figmas...... squeaky squeaky............. #anyways. havent really felt like drawing while theres. a genocide going on. everyone stay safe and dont forget to care about other humans. #my art

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

#greece #architecture #interior #worship #jewish #romaniote #old & new #my posts #for all u Westerners 'rom' = constantinople referring to itself as the roman empire #so rome/italy is like 'west roman' constantinople/greece/anatolia is like 'east roman' #in the west its called 'byzantine' from 'byzantium' (proto-constantinople) #also it insinuates w roman empire was the 'real' roman empire (despite east lasting 1000 years longer) #in most mediterranean & w asian languages greece/greek is 'yunan/yawan/yavan' (from ionians) or 'rum/rom' (from roman) #in actual greek it's 'hellas'/'ellas' (from hellenic) #in georgian it's 'saberdzneti' for some reason but they also have their own names for a bunch of places #'greece' comes from the latin name 'graecia' #in a lot of slavic languages it's some variation of 'greece'. weird considering most were never/hardly under latin influence #if you think this is a lot just wait until u hear about the all the names for armenia #but yeah these guys were also in a lot of the balkans. if you're from the balkans and jewish you MAY have romaniote ancestry #(at least more recent romaniote ancestry than all other european jews) #not a guarantee though especially if you're ashkenazi #theres like. other jewish groups in europe that predated ashkenazi migration #most of them just got absorbed into the ashkenazi population

[detectiveforfree]

redrawing some of my favs to battle my sadness caused by yj:t seems to be counterproductive, but fuck it i just want more emotions for wally's funeral TToTT

dick's apperance literally broke my heart, cause it only just fucking hit him full force. his best friend is gone. and all those pent up emotions come flooding out

artemis' made me so sad, because she looks so lost and afraid, and I bet she spent most of her time from Antartica up to funeral in a daze

barry literally can't look at the grave, he seeks comfort in iris and im QnQ

bart doesnt cry, because he is no stranger to loosing people he cares about, but he is sad and so tired of it

perdita's words about kid flash/wally being something of a security blanket grabbed me by a throat and won't let go, because with him gone how scared and vulnerable and sad must she feel???

#young justice targets spoilers #young justice targets #young justice #dick grayson #artemis crock #barry allen #bart allen #queen perdita #wally west #ITS HIS FUNERAL THEY ARE SAD AT he is there in spirit #while redraw happened because i was battling my sad. it also happened because... well artists did a wonderful job on the comic&funeral scen #and not to criticize. but. some faces confused me very much. like. what is going on with dicks eyebrows?? artemis just looks very scared #rather than sad. bruce time conner and kaldur look very angy which while in character is also very weird #tempted to redraw bruce later. because ffs he knew wally since he was smol and dick's best bud u cant tell me this man didnt care?? #same with kaldur. more sad than angy. army of roys confuses me because their expressions? are just strange #lanterns being too far away from barry made me sad.( but on another note alfred in bg and dr fate made me really happy ;) #many emotions and thoughts about thefuneral

[frogwithfeelings]

A while ago i made a list of 'silly little guys' (real people and fictional characters) on my notes app so I'm posting it here because I don't know what to do with this information

unlike other lists I've made I have no definitive criteria they just have the vibes and that's it, so here goes:

Brian David Gilbert

the johns from they might be giants

Will Wood

Herbert West

Charlie Kelly

Abed Nadir

Bret mckenzie

Jerma

The riddler (specifically the batman, but comics riddler applies too)

Neil Cicierega

Gonzo

Rick Moranis

Weird Al

Martin Short

Michael Cera

The Doctor

Eric Idle

feel free to suggest more :)

#silly little guy #silly #brian david gilbert #they might be giants #weird al #martin short #herbert west #flight of the conchords #bret mckenzie #rick moranis #gonzo the great #the riddler #neil cicierega #jerma985 #will wood #abed nadir #charlie kelly #the only overlap seems to be that most of them wear glasses #idk how to explain it i just think 'silly lil guy' and these guys come to mind #michael cera #doctor who #eric idle #monty python

[milfweirdal]

#hi yankofreaks how we doin #mygif #gif #weird al shitposting #weird al #germsposting #this was inspired by someones tags i saw the other day. cant quite remember who. it may have been west's. credit to him just in case

[astriiformes]

By the way. Happy Gravity Falls Finale-versary, from our home to yours

#f: just west of weird #nerd alert #elf nesting

[pablohunie1993]

I know I poke fun at the john constantine pink triangle incident but jokes aside i'm genuinely curious what other people think about it. imo it's a great blaring example of how incapable dc is at writing john's bisexuality into a story that doesn't surround corporate pride or getting together with a man.

I tried talking about it once on tiktok (idk what i was thinking either) and a few people defended it saying things like "how else would you explain a blond hair blue eyed man being sent to a ww2 ghetto?"

didn't the joker send him there? was that not reason enough? 'the joker' was kidnapping girls and ordering soldiers around, we can't suspend our belief that she had the power to send a british soldier caught undercover as a nazi away? the pink triangle and 'bunny that doesn't breed' comment was necessary to the plot?

#maybe i'm being dramatic or chronically online i'm genuinely curious what other people think #i know there's some big bombshell fans and i'm not gonna act like i didn't read it issue by issue as a kid #also call me crazy but that whole issue was weird #from the pacing to the raven stuff #but make me see a pink triangle stitched into ((the trenchcoat)) again i'm dropping comics bruh #also correct me if it's just a different tone in the west like something you can joke about and it just went over my head or something IDK 😭 #john constantine #dc comics #dcu #dc bombshells #zatanna zatara

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizontober 2023 | 19: float

#horizontober2023 #horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #this was a bit of a challenge to both capture and edit #but it turned out how i envisioned it in the end! #capturing it involved being in shallow enough water that she could stand so i could change poses #and also shallow enough that it didn't go over her face #but ocean-y enough that it looked like she wasn't on land #and editing was just dealing with weird lighting/weirdness where the water intersects aloy #(i also considered taking a pic of one of the quen floats/seyka's buoys haha)

[system-threat-detected]

Horizontober day 9: Cruel

I don’t like the Zeniths, but Erik’s helmet is actually pretty cool.

#horizontober2023 #my art #Erik visser #horizon forbidden west #hfw #I hate their weird nanite suits #tilda’s is nice but I think that’s just because it’s got a cool collar and tailcoats #jumpsuits aren’t my thing #which is what Erik is wearing