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Yay yayy terapagos magical girl liko coughs

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Really passionate about this community, and this interview with the Org President kind of showcases why. If you're tired of "preformative wokeness", if you are drained by online communities who care more about what you do or don't post than what you do in real life, check out your local burn community. If you're in the states on the east coast and want to join this particular community, reach out and let me know. I'll send you some links.

https://youtu.be/X8375RLNWrM?si=6wkzk7lea5CHRurk

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Over 6 months in the making (mostly bc procrastination) but I finally compiled my Kanto Gym Leader Magazine series. I love the idea of an in-universe style fashion publication where they all do interviews about their hobbies and stuff

Want something like this for your own OC? My commissions are open!!

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In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.

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Hey Elissa.

just wanted to let you and Lynn know that I was going to follow Lynn's band on soundcloud when I noticed that their last upload was 4 years ago.

Hope all is well this Thanksgiving!

Hey, thanks for checking them out! They actually just released a new song last month for the first time in a while, and they are working on a whole album, but they don't post to soundcloud anymore. There were some issues recently with music streaming services deleting their songs randomly, so they've downsized what is available on each platform. Happy turkey day to you as well!

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Important addition. Never thought about that before.

PUNK PSA:

Please don’t put anything too political on your back patches— especially about your own marginalized experiences.

This has been a long standing rule in punk communities, passed down for generations. People do get jumped and experience violence as a result of this. You can’t see who is behind you, you can’t tell if they’re far right, and you can’t prepare yourself for sudden violence from behind.

So many people are new to the scene, introduced via social media, and don’t know the weight of walking with something on your back (literally and metaphorically) that immediately outs you as marginalized. If you’re able to defend yourself, or out with friends who can watch your back, by all means go for it and wear whatever you want on your back patches but if you walk alone at all ever, please be safe.

Also this is why punks wear spikes and studs on our shoulders especially. Makes it harder for someone to grab you and works as self defense (but also never wear spikes at a small show or if you plan to mosh— people can get hurt!).

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Thank you, I am actually going to bring these topics up at the next leadership meeting. The only burn I can speak for is my own, and I do not think we are sanctioned by Burning Man, but we are constantly trying to find more ways to reach out to the broader community. Free and reduced scholarship and diversity tickets, as well as offering tiered pricing for volunteer efforts (12 hours reduced price or 24 hours free, and a lot can be done digitally) to try and make the burn more accessible. Monthly digital meetings and bimonthly community and workshop days that are both completely open to the public. Working with our local mutual aid to help our region. Art auctions for good causes. I hear you, and I am not trying to debate you. I want it to be a movement.

What we need is a new social movement. Not a political one. An artistic one.

We need people to make rebellion cool again. To idealize free thinking, free loving, free choices about our bodies.

We need influencers on the opposite side from the Andrew Tates and Manosphere.

We need music and fashion and film glorifying freedoms that oppose right wing authoritarian ideals. That embrace feminism and queerness and being a freak.

And we need a unifying identity for all these things. We need an identity like hippies, punk rock. The right is so good at coming together and the left is far too good at fracturing.

Modern media and social media companies have divided us all up into smaller and smaller social circles. Micro-identities. "Youth" used to be a social group. "Voice of a generation" was a thing. Now everyone is expected to be the voice of like...30 people.

What I'm saying here is just what I keep thinking about. What is the alternative to the tradwives and the Alpha Male podcasters? A bunch of intellectual politics nerds? Yeah, I mean thanks and all, but we need excitement. We need art.

Things are going to get worse and worse. The right is going to be selling limitations and restrictions and we need to be selling the alternative.

So if you're an artist, a writer, a musician, a filmmaker, an internet personality...get together with everyone you know who is also creative. Start talking with each other about how you create rebellious art, and how you create community in that art.

There's so much emotion floating around, so much fear and dread and exhaustion and we need to channel all that into art. It's the only way we win. Art is always how we make progress. But if you're making it alone, it doesn't build steam, it doesn't become a movement. You have to gather together. You don't all have to make the same thing. But you do need to have the same spirit. One determined to uplift what is good and fight what is evil.

Make art, people. Create an identity from it. Welcome everyone who is lost and scared. Lonely, sad, scared people get sucked into right wing circles because there's no alternative. Be the alternative.

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today you, tomorrow me.

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I will not be posting anything about the election or other political news, because I like my Tumblr experience to be as stress free as possible. I would, however, like to share with anyone who needs some resources for dealing with the shift in political climate. Under the cut for more info:

If you live in the US and need community support, I recommend looking up your local Burn community. In the southeast, that's Alchemy/Euphoria. Not all Burn communities are going to be the same, I can not speak for all of them, but they are generally safe places of Radical Inclusion and Radical Consent and Communal Effort. I have never felt more safe than I have with Burners.

If you can't or won't join a community, here are some numbers and links that you may find useful.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): 

National suicide and crisis hotline: 988

1-800-662-4357

The Trevor Project: for LGBT+ youth

1-866-488-7386

The Mental Health Coalition

Reproductive health clinics by state

Afraid one of these sources will call the cops? Try these instead:

Call Blackline: 800-604-5841

Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: 888-407-4515

StrongHearts Native Helpline: 844-762-8483

Thrive Lifeline: 313-662-8209

LGBT National Help Center: 888-843-4564

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just for the record i would have played wolves with you

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Not my usual content, but I made something I wanted to share...

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thank you everyone who came to my doodle stream! here's every warrior cat i managed to draw

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Side facing Solrock

front facing lunatone

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An informational comic I drew last year for my Comics 2 class, reposting it to my new account (had to jump ship from the old one unfortunately) with some minor grammar changes and learned my lesson in adding watermarks! Happy early pride :)

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

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To be fair, I don't think a single person in the world has ever made it to adulthood with their sanity intact, with or without the internet.

I do not think I have seen a minor on Rotomblr that was not traumatized, and that is very scary to think about...........

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Listening to the Warrior Cats audiobooks after years of forgetting about the series that shaped my childhood and there's so many moments that seem so desperate but then you take a step back and go "these are cats". There's a scene where the humans have been trapping cats (probably some kind of catch and release program) so Thunder Clan goes in trying to free their clan mates. Its a really serious and stressful situation but can you imagine. You work for the local animal control. You got assigned this one forest that is over run with a hundred cats. You are just doing your job, trying to get these cats to new loving homes. Suddenly a dozen cats come pouring out of the woods and start mauling you. They manage to get the cages open??? Now there's more cats just shredding you. They all escape except one. You have to go back to the office and try to explain that to your boss.