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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.

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Promo shots for Friday's episode. Floragato using its yoyo to yoink Liko over 😂

Also, an underwater world uploaded by the PokeTimes Twitter:

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made these studying cat genetics over the past 2 weeks!

i felt like there weren't enough visual guides of cat genetics so i went ahead and made some simple ones, my main references were Sparrow's Garden the website, Sparrow's Garden the blog, Messybeast, and The Little Carnivore.

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Ohh i agree so much thank you for saying it. Like half (or more) of the Pokémon are Johtoian and aesthetically the arcitecture and fashion feel like they are from Johto as well. Plus the soundtrack takes a lot from those games.

I know everyone associated Kitakami with Sinnoh cause of Perrin and the Bloodmoon Beast, but it always gave off Johto vibes to me.

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Fancied a new phone wallpaper

[ID: a digital drawing that features the four members of the Hyaenidae family, from the top to the bottom: striped hyena, brown hyena, aardwolf and spotted hyena. Only their heads are shown peeping out from the left. They're painted with bright, unnatural colors and their eyes are not detailed. The word Hyaenidae is written vertically at the bottom right. End ID]

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You know all of those "would you rather fight (insert animal) or (insert animal)" things? I'm always gonna pick the snake. No I do not care that it's venom could kill me. All you need to deal with any snake is a hook, a bucket, and a pair of boots, unless its a spitting cobra, in which case you also need goggles. I can predict the snake, I can see the snake, and most of the time, the snake does not want to bite me. You say an anaconda is too big for a bucket? First of all, skill issue. Second, why are you fighting it? That guy is so chill. Leave him alone, feed him your enemies, be friends.