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DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

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Do you ever eat popcorn out of the palm of your own hand with such ardent desperation that you feel like both a wild horse and the gentle schoolgirl feeding it treats to gain its affection 

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but we stay squeaky :3c

but we stay squeaky :3c

but we stay squeaky :3c

BUT WE STAY SQUEAKY!!! :3ᴄ

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is op actually preventing you from having fun or are you just a bit too defensive over your interests & habits to the point where a stranger in their own space joking or talking about not liking something comes across as a personal attack

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Crow Time - Statue 1

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oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

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at this point I wish advertising in general was just literally illegal. Word of mouth only. Maybe exceptions beneath a certain net value like if you’re a startup or a family run business but if you’re already making a billion dollars then making even one single commercial or banner campaign should be a crime and I mean a crime like the CEO gets investigated on national television and goes to prison forever and everyone agrees they’re a sick fucked up maniac

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a cool thing about tumblr is that when an absolute dog shit dud of a post shows up in my feed i know it's not because of some nebulous algorithm, it's someone's fault and i can find them immediately

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MOUSE YAOI REAL

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DAY 15

GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15

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I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

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your friends love you, your brain is just mean

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oh the notes bubble is disgusting. get that out of my sight

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This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

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kinda annoys me that criticisms of representation in popular media were intended as a means to point out how people of colour, lgbt people, people with disabilities and other marginilised folks were systemically kept out of creative positions of power in the industry which lead to the creation of media that further marginilised them - but those conversations were mutated and co-opted. now, "representation" is mostly used as a shallow metric by which ppl judge the media itself rather than the system and people that made it. it's insane to me that people say "I won't watch succession because there's no lgbt/poc representation" or they'll say, "you have to watch xyz show because it has xyz representation". Representation and it's mere presence (or supposed absence) is not an indicator of quality in any way. moreover, discussing representation so reductively completely ignores creative intention and disregards real issues of systemic inclusion in favour of using aesthetics as a scapegoat. I need people to stop asking, "is this piece of media diverse?" and start asking, "who is telling this story, why is it being told, and who benefits most from telling it this way?". don't do yourself, art, or the fight the disservice of being reductive.

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to anyone who needs to see this or remind themselves, you are more than your academic success or lack of it. you are worthy simply as you are. and you don’t need to prove it with anything more than your heart and soul.