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Digging through old files and I found this sketchy comic from the spring.

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Corvid Christmas tree. Simple, but beautiful.

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Based on Patience and Sarah (1969) by Alma Routsong and Maurice (~1914) by E.M. Forster.

I drew something similar a couple years ago but have been wanting to revisit it — both are some of the earliest lgbtq books with a happy ending and I cherish that a lot. Also, trying to post a version without the panels with nudity to see if Tumblr will accept it this time

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Being the office transgender is fun sometimes bc the cool coworkers will seek you out to complain about gender norms to you. Apparently my coworker buys clothes for her son from both the girls & boys department bc she wants him to have cute colorful clothes that don't just have dinos on them and she noticed that onesies meant for girls are typically smaller even tho the sizes are supposed to be by height. This is the real gender madness plaguing our societies.

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you idiots need to stop saying versions of "only white people hate a pseudoscience that categorises people based on the position of the stars" how are you unironically assigning whiteness to critiques of astrology. was it whiteness when activist narendra dabholkar opposed superstition to the extent that it got him fucking murdered? do you think he opposed astrology because he was just one of those westernised guys? you think only white people oppose biological determinism? fuck off with the benevolent racism

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you idiots need to stop saying versions of "only white people hate a pseudoscience that categorises people based on the position of the stars" how are you unironically assigning whiteness to critiques of astrology. was it whiteness when activist narendra dabholkar opposed superstition to the extent that it got him fucking murdered? do you think he opposed astrology because he was just one of those westernised guys? you think only white people oppose biological determinism? fuck off with the benevolent racism

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I’m turning into a cartoon wolf and making train whistle noises

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I didn't expect that at all 😺🤣

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Unmute !

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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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I’m a big fan of people finding a spiritual or religious practice that works for them but if you’re required to pay money to a particular person or buy a certain thing regularly from a certain place I don’t think that’s a spiritual practice. You may have been scammed.

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Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

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The little kitten insists upon grooming me when I pet him. He’s like oh you groom me do not worry I groom you too. Big sandpaper tongue on your arm.

Yes baby that tiny amount of licking you’re doing on my thumb is making a world of difference thank you

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Young bull elephant politely stepping over a walkway at a nature preserve 

(Source)

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perhaps one of the most damning things about working with highly policed populations (in my case, unhoused ppl who use drugs) is the simultaneous presence of

1) total involvement of the criminal justice system in these ppl's lives- almost everyone has "caught a case" at some point or at the very least had a direct encounter with a police officer where legal action was threatened

AND

2) a deep well of unsolved, uncared for, continuous traumas + violences which the criminal justice system has done nothing to prevent or address. murders, even serial murders, which have never been solved or even publicized. rapes which go unreported because the last time someone reported Him, everyone remembers what happened (or didn't). myriad acts of casual violence by police (assault, threats, theft, destruction of property, verbal abuse) with no recourse.

in these communities, police do not even accomplish the tasks we like to imagine make them indispensable: addressing + preventing patterns of violence. the police exacerbate patterns of violence + create new ones, blaming the existing ones on the populations they're terrorizing.

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The marvellous floor of Florence Cathedral offers, to those who look at it from above, an optical illusion that gives the impression of a deep abyss. This creation of white, red, black and green marble was carried out over 160 years under the direction of the Italian Renaissance architect and sculptor Baccio d'Agnolo (1462-1543).