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AROCUPIOFLUX

combines the cupioromantic flag and the aroflux flag; for when you are cupioromantic, but the level of romance you feel fluctuates (aroflux).

ACECUPIOFLUX

combines the cupiosexual flag and the aceflux flag; for when you are cupiosexual, but the level of sexual attraction you feel fluctuates (aceflux).

(AROACE)CUPIOFLUX

combines the cupioaroace flag and the aroaceflux flag; for when you are cupioaroace, but the level of romantic and/or sexual attraction you feel fluctuates (aroaceflux).

hope anyone who sees this likes the flags! ive been trying to figure out my orientation on the arospec for a while now and made the (aro)cupioflux flag, then figured id make two more for anyone who wanted them :)

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2024 : Getting carried away by the latest fad :: 2025 : Getting carried away by the latest fae

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It’s him!! The sunshine! ☀️☀️☀️

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꒰ ⋆° 𐙚 favoromantic ᡣ𐭩 favosexual !!

ೀ favoromantic; when one feels little to no romantic attraction towards others besides their favorite person(s)

ೀ favosexual; when one feels little to no sexual attraction to others besides their favorite person(s)

exclusive to those with BPD !

coined by me / morutefawnn on twitter / X, 4/13/24

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☆ AROFUCKED/AROWEIRD

(Plain text : Arofucked/aroweird. End plain text.)

(ID : Two rectangular flags made up of six equally-sized stripes. The colors, from top to bottom, are : purple, light blue, cream, light green, forest green and dark grey. The flag on the right has a symbol in its center representing two dark grey intersecting arrows with a cream border.)

Arofucked/Aroweird : A term for when someone's aromantic identity and/or their relation to it is inherently so complex and transient that it feels unable to explain or comprehend. It can have ties to neurodivergency.

happy aro week ! here is my personal contribution, this has been spinning around in my head for weeks and it describes me perfectly. what if i was aro but what if i wasn't if you see me identify as aro yes i did because no i didn't

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Here's a big project I've been working on for a few weeks: a phylogenetic tree of everything in Minecraft! It would take ages to explain everything here, so if you want an explaination of any inclusions, exclusions, categorisations or Latin names PLEASE PLEASE PUHLEASE ask me I would love to answer any questions :3

Here's the slides I used to make it since i'm aware the text on the image there is pretty much unreadable.

Reblogs appreciated!

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this reminds me of the time in 2025 when someone pushed down the leaning tower of pisa and spacex donated $1.6 billion to fix it

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that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

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we usually think of mood as a scale from 1-5, but there's actually a negative scale too, where the frown turns back into a smile, but just a little insane !

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my 2024 art summary :3 below the cut is things ive noticed and wanna get better with

link to last year's post

things ive gotten better with:

POSING: ive definitely gotten better with posing the characters! some pieces are a little stiff still but i think overall ive gotten better :)

EXPERIMENTING: ive experimented a lot with my art, especially during the last few months of the year ^^

PERSPECTIVE: there has definitely been some improvement with my perspective! i think that may tie in with my posing but i still think there's been improvement

what i want to work on:

BACKGROUNDS: i didn't get to work too much on backgrounds this year, save for two pieces not shown. while i have had some practice and my backgrounds are okay, they're still not perfect, so hopefully i can do more with them :3

POSTING MY ART: re last years post, but i make a lot of art im proud of that i do not post. i think i posted a bit more this year, but i want to be able to post even more !

DRAWING MORE OFTEN: i did notttt draw as much as i wanted to this year :( i think ill set the goal to at least once a week this year! i think it would be good to have a dedicated day to draw once a week :)

thank you to anyone who read this! hopefully i will be more active in 2025 :D

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Hiiiiii

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NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.

reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.

luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.

news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.

multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.

and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.

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I still think the funniest description of Jon is "the fact that he's an orphan is the least important part of his tragic backstory"

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tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

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never let anyone stop you from being cozy

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honestly adding a paper background to your digital canvas is a game changer and i suggest you do it if you want to feel like you're actually drawing on paper with real pencils, or at least an approximation of it. i could share some if anyone's interested

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hello? hello? can anyone hear m