weirdest part about being an artist (and, to an extent, a writer too) is feeling like. shameful that you aren’t creating massive pieces of art. how dare i not line and color and shade every drawing. how dare i only draw two poses. how dare i only write 1k words. how dare i not write an entire book. how dare i
(looking at the near 1k pieces of art in my folder and the thousands of words in my notes) you know i just don’t think i do enough actually
i think the most wholesome prank i ever pulled was with a friend who had a polaroid camera and we were out one evening walking around the neighbourhood and this one neighbour had a garden gnome and we kidnapped him for the evening and took a bunch of polaroids of his wild night out: gnome on the swing set, gnome climbing a tree, gnome laying down next to an empty bottle of vodka, gnome just causing an absolute ruckus and then we took all the pictures and put them in a little see-through food storage bag to keep them dry and put them under the gnome who we left on the doorstep of the house we got him from
anyway a few nights later we walked past again and wondered if the photos had been found and what the person must have thought and then we saw the gnome in pride of place balanced on the window ledge, and stuck to the inside of the window behind him were the polaroids with a sign saying “The Boy On Tour”
‘Israeli’ demons have been persecuting Palestinians home and abroad everywhere - they test these horrific weapons on Palestinians in Palestine and then abuse and murder diaspora Palestinians with these same weapons.
THIS is what it means when you say 'Israel has the right to exist’.
ACADEMIC BOYCOTTS OF ZIONISTS NOW. DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAELI UNIVERSITIES NOW.
everytime i see that post comparing redemption arcs to restorative justice and criticizing redemption arcs to being a cop i can’t help but laugh. sweetie these are stories. with different plots and themes and all that. writing a story where the villain doesn’t choose to be a better person in the end can mean a lot of different things in context, “evil people are unable to change and need the death penalty” is literally only one (1) of them. it can mean “trying to force someone to change when they don’t want to is just a waste of time and energy”. it can mean “even when given all the second and third and eleventh chances some people will still choose what benefits them over the wellbeing of others”. it can mean “learn to tell apart a sincere apology from the reconciliation phase in the cycle of abuse”. but you guys aren’t ready for that conversation
??? why are “friends with benefits” now considered a cringe straight people thing???? friends can fuck. it’s literally fine
people on here are like “you CANNOT fuck someone unless you really love them and are in a long term romantic relationship with them!!!!!!! oh but sex workers are valid hehe”
someone on tiktok will be like “i’m not ready/looking for for a romantic relationship but i have a lot of stress so my friend and i consensually bone sometimes and it makes us both feel better” and someone on tumblr will post a screenshot of it and say “ewwww why can’t you just be normal??” while simultaneously claiming to be sex-positive
also aromantic people can have sexual relationships. that doesn’t make them “less pure” or whatever. who cares
god I really wish people weren’t so fucking judgmental and cruel towards diabetic people who still eat a lot of sugar. partially because it’s not their business, and because how much they clearly don’t understand how diabetes works.
In case you didn’t know, diabetes is when, for whatever reason, your body doesn’t have enough insulin. Both types of diabetes can be caused by many things- genetics are the largest deciding factor, but it can also be influenced by things like autoimmune and diseases stress (and things that cause stress, like poverty or being a minority). It is a myth that you can give yourself diabetes by eating sugar, and a myth that you can stop it by dieting.
Type 1 happens when your body can’t make enough/any insulin, and type two happens when your cells become insulin resistant and there isn’t enough going around.
But what is insulin, and what does it do? Insulin is a hormone your body produces to aid in absorbing glucose (sugar) in your blood, allowing it to enter your cells and provide energy needed to live. This means that when there is no insulin, or insulin resistance is high enough, your cells can’t absorb glucose. This is essentially the same as starving, because your cells aren’t getting any energy. This causes not just a blood glucose to rise (which itself can cause damage to your body), but also makes you body slam the hunger button and craving for sugar- because it wants energy as fast as possible. Going through this repeatedly (a constant occurrence for many diabetics) is also super stressful on the body, and prompts it to want to gain weight as a survival strategy against starving.
So yeah no shit diabetic people often crave sugar and are often fat- their body is desperately trying to make sure they survive ✌️
non diabetics super encouraged to read and rb btw just please don’t derail or be disrespectful
Sorry but in the year of our lord 2024 if your game has elaborate character customization and you can’t be fat WITH tummy jiggle physics in your fucking rtx raytracing photorealism game then you’re a fucking hack
idk. it’s never too late to start drawing. get a wacom intuos for 44 bucks and pirate an art program. use the billions of tools available to make it easier. trace 3d models. redraw existing drawings. make an elf and draw her 3000 times. you can do it. and if you are actually unable to hold a pen, dont go typing in prompts for some ai art, write fanfiction or original stuff. writing is art. it has just as much value it just takes longer than 1 second to appreciate
AI bros don’t understand that a crooked mapaint doodle will always be more delightful than just a shiny photorealistic anime woman
If anyone wants to know where the UK is currently at, disability campaigners have lost a battle over making it a legal requirement for high-rise flats to have an evacuation plan for disabled residents.
does anyone know if we have transmasc and transfem love and friendship today
We do. And tomorrow and the next day and every day forever and ever and ever too. :)
a long time ago i was struggling with being transmasc because i felt like i was betraying womanhood somehow. then one of my best friends came out as a trans woman and i realised “ah… there will always be so many beautiful women in the world, so it’s okay that i’m not one of them”. what i’m trying to say is you need to love each other or there’s no point to any of this
in a reversal of this. when i came out as transfem i was almost dissapointed because i spent so long trying to be a truly good man. i was raised with a lot of shitty guys so i tried to be the most pro-feminist comfortable dude i could be for the women around me. when my egg cracked, i almost felt this feeling of “shit, are the only men who think like this secretly women inside?” and it feels nice to see that proven so utterly and completely wrong by the trans men i know in my life. i love seeing people take on the masculinity i hated and do amazing shit with it, god bless trans dudes
also I love that Grover gets separated from the kids and immediately starts playing mind games with a god. he’s like finally I don’t have to be a good role model for a second. let’s talk brutality.
what’s stopping inklings from shapeshifting into this
ok picture this
You’re in the heat of battle. Your adversary, a blaster main, is firing at you. They run out of ink, and you expect them to retreat. But instead, they throw down their weapon and transform into an unholy abomination, a squid with kid arms. They leap at you, slick hands tightly gripping your neck. They let go once they’re sure you’re dead, and pick up their blaster, dusting it off as if nothing happened.
sometimes you just gotta listen to music at a volume that you know will be part of the cause of your hearing loss at the age of 28
hey yall. im 25 now and i already have tinnitus <3 dont do this. LOL
oh btw for those saying “i already have tinnitus haha it cant get worse” YEAH IT CAN BITCH! if you want to listen to music loud do it on speakers at least. headphones will Beam Pain Waves Directly Into Your Cochlear Hair Cells and a 10kHz Tone Loud Enough Will Give You Psychic Damage Forever
if i have to fucken, translate it to something you’ll understand? Imagine theres a picture of garfield here saying
i wanted to listen to some background noise while writing the presentation of my thesis and landed on @santas-jolly-backhand-of-chaos’ soundgasm and instantly got distracted because I read the words vaporeon copypasta, got distracted and had the best time of my life ajjagsgsgajakak
This reminds me I still owe everyone a read through of the dolphin pussy jelly copypasta
Stop being a coward an copy paste the copy pasta here smh
Dolphin jelly
So female dolphins have vaginal secretions that make a male dolphin just cum over and over and over. From this point on, I will call these secretions Dolphin pussy jelly. Scientists were like “holy shit, dude we gotta test this. You know, for science” So the scientists collected a sample of said dolphin pussy jelly, and had a test primate. They swabbed it on the male primate’s dick, sat back and watched the show. Now you see, it worked. But it worked a little too well. The monkey straight up had a heart attack because it used all of its energy into fucking cumming. I want to live in a world where this is a commercial product. I want to say “you know what, I want to die and i know what to do about it.” I want to live in a world where i can go into my local grocery store, pick up a bottle of Smucker’s Dolphin Pussy Jelly, and just fucking cum myself to death
all demographics and time periods and geography taken fully into consideration, some people were just born to lose
was thinking of this guy when i made this post. invented the two most environmentally damaging chemicals in history and then got polio and immediately killed himself with a contraption
“one-man environmental disaster”
they called that man an organism
as bad as your worst day has ever been, do you have a wikipedia article saying you “possess an instinct for the regrettable that is almost uncanny”
i love trans women so much but things are just so so bad for them right now so please god just do anything you can to be on their side!!!!!!!!
Small things you can do:
Go to the store with them
Go to the store FOR them
Go with them to the bathrooms
Help them pay a bill or buy their meds
Give them hugs it might have been awhile since anyone’s hugged them
Do the talking for them if they’re nervous (excuse me she asked for no pickles - not that that would ever happen)
Be so supportive of them and normal about them in mixed company that other people feel self-conscious about being weird about them
Kill their transphobic dads
Buy them pizza
Get to know them so well you can’t help but love and need them deeply and ask them to be your wife and protect and cherish them forever
Correct your friends when they misgender a trans person who’s not around
Give them art supplies or comic books
One more reblog to emphasise how serious i am:
When I first came out, I wasn’t comfortable in public. Tall, muscular, thinning hair, deep voice. I remember one night I spent like 2 hours getting ready so I could go get burgers from a place that didn’t do delivery but when I looked at myself in the mirror, I got so dysphoric I cried my makeup off. I went to Facebook and posted “I wanted to go for burgers at _____ but I guess Dysphoria wins today”
About 20 minutes later, i got a call from a coworker. “Hey I’m pulling up and parking now, what do you want?” And about 15 minutes later she arrived at my door with a bag of food.
She told me my outfit was cute and offered to take me places if I had errands i didn’t feel safe doing alone. I took her up in that twice.
Another cis coworker took me to torrid to buy my first cute underwear. Another cis coworker went with me to the courthouse to get my name change done.
It’s like, 1-2 hours out of your week and something we’ll remember forever.
Before Steven was born Amethyst used to say ‘fuck’ all the time & so when he was a baby Greg had to sit her down and explain that she has to stop swearing around Steven because he’s young & impressionable
So Amethyst is like “but that’s my favourite word, when will be stop being young & impressionable so I can say it again??”
And Greg is like “uhh I don’t know, 15 I guess? 15 is probably old enough”
“Got it”
flash forward to Steven’s fifteenth birthday and he is woken at dawn by Amethyst yelling “wake the FUCK up Steven it’s FUCKING TIME”
& he spends the entire day losing his mind
Steven: w-what’s happening
Garnet: *deadpan* Amethyst just got her favourite word back
Amethyst: *running around the house* FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Greg: what’s going on
Amethyst: you said once Steven was 15 I could say fuck again
Greg, who only hazily recalls the conversation in question: ……i DID?
Amethyst: *runs outside* FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK *distant sounds of spooked birds*
Pearl: Steven the *whispering* F-word is a bad word that Amethyst USED to say before-
Steven: I know what fuck means Pearl
Amethyst: *stopping dead in her tracks* WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT??
Pearl: who taught you that word mister!!
Steven: um… Lars and Sadie… *mumbling* five years ago…
Amethyst: I’ve been denying myself my favourite word for FIVE YEARS for NOTHING??
Greg: uh even if he knows what it means it’s still not really appropriate for you t-
what it feels like to get attached to a character from something and then go into the larger fandom for the piece of media that said character is from only to find out that a bunch of people in the fandom woobify them
what it feels like to genuinely connect to a character from a piece of media because their struggles align with yours in a way that really hits and you go into the larger fandom only to find out that a lot of people are treating them like a child and making jokes about how they don’t know what sex is or that they can’t say fuck etc etc
