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my final piece for @hkhallowzine :D

this project was so much fun and involved so many incredibly talented people, please check it out if you haven't already! its a free pdf :3

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Holding up snarky signs doesn't seem to be working.

For me, it isn't about whether this action is appropriate or not. It's about how this kind of action is inevitable.

I'm going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.

"It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?"

If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.

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The transition a large swathe of people have made from "this cause is righteous therefore it is would just of me to support it" to what we have now which is "I am just therefore any cause I support is righteous " has done irreparable damage to online discourse, and frankly it's dones irreparable damage to people's ability to critically think or discuss literally anything

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day 3! celeste🍓

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wha t if oregon trail was called wagon age: oregons

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“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

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Meant to do this years ago but didn’t get to it until recently lol

Honestly hoping something like this happens now that Jasper’s back!!!

For my other Steven Universe comics, you can check out my #su comic tag ^^

(Since this was brought to my attention a while back, if you wanna search my art tag, go to the search bar on my blog and type in: wicked-ghoul does art! with the exclamation point, apparently just clicking on the tag doesn’t work ^^; )

Steven Universe © Rebecca Sugar

Art © @wicked-ghoul

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Took awhile to get there but I was finally able to obtain a chance to watch I Saw The TV Glow, it's taken forever, but you know. In some ways I feel almost obliged to post my thoughts purely for being a self-styled horror queer.

I don't believe there's anything I can add to the queer and trans reading that hasn't been articulated. I particularly agree with reading it as hopeful, that the sorrow and bleakness and lonliness of the ending functions both as a call to action and a recognition that, for someone, maybe the protagonist, definitely you the viewer, there is still time, as it says.

What it got me thinking about is how often the strongest emotional statements about anything queer are composed in ways that speak from a personal place into a wider experience. It had me thinking about the same way things in the songs of ghostdaughter hit me completely differently from why she wrote them that way, and I Saw The TV Glow reached things in me that weren't completely connected to being trans (insofar as I can disentangle anything about my life from being trans).

I found myself most drawn to the repeated metaphor, I'll call it for burial, but that's not quite accurate. But the movie continuously presents the idea of an emptiness filled without meaning and meaningfulness being buried (Owen speaks about an emptiness inside and being terrified to look, Maddy has to escape working a build a bear and filling empty toys with fluffy, Maddy has to be buried alive and claw free from the grave, Owen is afraid to be buried, Owen looking inside and not being empty). That resonates a great deal with my experience being depressed, having severe anxiety, and the occasional bouts of suicidal ambitions. These feelings exist as a part of me, side by side with being trans, but in many ways have been part of me longer and are closer to what shapes my life. All of those burial metaphors which apply to feeling unable to exist as a trans person are also experiences I've had through my life with mental illness, and have a stronger connection to that for me. It's no less effective that I connect to it more through mental health than being trans.

Perhaps what may connect with more people is the rush of time, how life can seem measured out in weekly increments by syndicates shows until before you realize it months have sped by, gone in a blur of Friday night blocks and Saturday morning cartoons, grocery day, Monday morning, garbage day, almost a day off, almost a holiday, thousands of "almosts" and routines that swallow up years. And those years, we all know could have been more. We could have been trans or writing or running away to somewhere better or taking a chance instead of putting it off another day to see next week's episode. There is still time, and the burning past, are about transition but can speak for anything. I have lost so much of my life to a house fire, it's still drowning me and us and my family. I don't know if we'll ever be made whole from it. It's permanently scarred my body, left me physically debilitated, unhappy about myself right when I had just begun to be myself, and that might never change. The year I started transition was 2016 and I near killed myself in November. Now it's 2025 and it feels like even more years are gettting stolen away. I can easily see things in that way. But there is still time, there's time to make as much of right now as I can, and to make as much of the future. It hurts and I always think about how I'm in the long slow decline towards dying but I have got a light inside so I can go on. It should be better and easier and hurt less, but I can still make things as good as I can now.

There's more, I'd rather have taken a bit to watch it again. Something in the title as well, seeing that glow of the TV and how it can mean either the horror of your family rejection or the welcoming warmth of home. But I have waited long enough as it is.

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Additional Scrapnik Illustrations

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Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

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Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

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The Empire is strong because it recognizes the value in all our people. Including you, Dinios Kol. And when the Empire is weak, it is often because a powerful few have denied us the abundance of our people.

The Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett

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Greenpath

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sailor moon | endless favorite manga moments

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four