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perfect headline. no notes

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a woman being feminine is right-wing coded which is masculine coded. a woman being masculine is left-wing coded which is feminine coded. this disproves the existence of women

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The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

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I kinda feel like if people regularly consider games to be obscure that you don't, what's more likely? Is it that everyone else is wrong and has a "warped notion" of game obscurity while you're the only one who's right? Or is it that you personally just have way higher standards for game obscurity, something that could be considered a "warped notion" as well?

Especially since there's no official definition or cutoff of "obscure" and the closest you can get is the societal convention of "what most people consider to be obscure". If you routinely think people are too lenient about the definition of obscurity, that's probably a sign that you're the one out of step. Perhaps not for this 4,650 one, sure, that is actually a lot of reviews, but like... "being on Steam means a game is already almost not obscure" is definitely a far stricter definition than most (if not all) people I know use.

I mean this with as little judgment as possible, but I think some of y'all have a warped notion of what "obscure" looks like when it comes to video games. I routinely get comments on my game rec posts to the effect of "wow, I can't believe @prokopetz knows about my obscure fave", and when I look up the game in question on Steam to make sure I'm not missing something here, it's like

Y'all, these are not "obscure" numbers. These are "very slightly off the mainstream" numbers. If you're going to call anything on Steam obscure (and that's a stretch right from the jump), at least let it be something that's been on the platform for a decade and still hasn't racked up enough user reviews to generate a rating!

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cursed emojis that no one asked for but I don’t care

free to use!

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if you think your trans friend is going to be a fan of drag by default you really need to think about why you think that

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when she says she doesn’t send nudes

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it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of "I'm a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS" girl no it doesn't. that's meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation

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trick or treat!

Treat!

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All of my "Coldest night" Sequence!

I'm pretty proud of the ways i tried new styles of coloring for these pieces, and these two definitely deserved a highlight this haloween. Thank you to those that are fans of my work and characters! -v- Also made a timelapse!

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reblob to boob your mutuals

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shoutout to the Egg Dragoon, Eggman's most frequently reused battle mech. it has now appeared in both versions of Sonic Unleashed, both versions of Sonic Generations, Sonic Forces, the Archie comics (left), AND a flashback in the IDW comics (right)

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Johnny Eck was a performer from the 1930s who was born without any legs:

He's primarily known for appearing in the 1932 cult classic Freaks directed by Tod Browning.

However what I'm mostly obsessed with is this account of a magic trick he did with his non-disabled twin brother (text under the cut)

Like this is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Can you imagine

Wikipedia screenshot:

"In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show. In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs. After seeming to have been sawn off, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing them around the stage, screaming, "Come back!" "I want my legs back!" Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing – people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women – the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause. The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop "his" legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater. Their act was so popular that they played to packed audiences up and down the East Coast."