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Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

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You’re my favorite painting

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actually going back to that post about abs not looking Like That except for when you are flexing. that's an example of how feminists need to loudly and blatantly take on "men's issues" as feminist concerns. everytime a superhero movie comes out and the main actor is dehydrated and starved and edited into vacuum-sealed muscularity, feminists need to make a big deal about how its deeply unhealthy and sends a dangerous message to young boys and reinforced patriarchal (+fatphobic) ideas of manhood. it's a gendered issue and feminism is the most known and effective movement for addressing gendered issues through the lens of patriarchy. it's not enough to passively say "oh yeah, feminism is for men too", we need to make "men's issues" synonymous with anti-patriarchal, feminist voices. if WE do not take up that mantle, then people who have no interest in solidarity with women or identifying patriarchy as the problem will take it up and use it to sell $500 abusive radicalizing "self-help" courses.

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I'm DMing a one-shot for a first timer and my established group. We're going to play In Nomine Satanis, but I was not really vibing with the game system, so I cobbled together something between it and Kids on Broom! I made a custom character sheet and I'm sharing it because I find it very cute and quaint.

The Stats are Fight (Lutte), Flight (Fuite), Brain (Cerveau), Guts (Tripes), Charm (Charme) and Faith (Foi).

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the trolley problem vs. systemic oppression: a comic.

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Man, I liked a random ask answer by someone about racism in feminist circles, and suddenly Tumblr is pushing radfem content in my "recommended blogs". Sigh. What is so hard about accepting that people can define themselves and it's no threat to anyone else to have an identity?

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Ok this is the best one i've seen.

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Middle-aged magical girl.

She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.

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i saw a twitter post and immediately got inspired

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A goblin and an elf have decided to defy tradition and get married. Their ceremony will be held in the magical forest in accordance with elven tradition.

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Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

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four months and a new drawing tablet later ...

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Liv as Kingskin

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Does anyone have the fucking tiktok video of the overly enthusiastic rich bearded guy showing off his new hiking shoes in his Mansion and the Woods, but then another dude duets with it to make it look like he's escaping from being held prisoner please please

edit THANKS @smellslikebot

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Johnny Eck was a performer from the 1930s who was born without any legs:

He's primarily known for appearing in the 1932 cult classic Freaks directed by Tod Browning.

However what I'm mostly obsessed with is this account of a magic trick he did with his non-disabled twin brother (text under the cut)

Like this is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Can you imagine

Wikipedia screenshot:

"In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show. In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs. After seeming to have been sawn off, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing them around the stage, screaming, "Come back!" "I want my legs back!" Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing – people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women – the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause. The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop "his" legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater. Their act was so popular that they played to packed audiences up and down the East Coast."