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She just wants a bath!! (Prestidigitation can only do so much.)

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pink moon.

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A new self-portrait done to submit to a cool project I hope to be part of! About it:

I wanted to submit a self-portrait that encapsulates my feelings about being a trans man. Being trans is an ongoing liminal experience- existing both in masculine and feminine realms, both part of society and standing outside of it. In Arthurian literature, nature is often both seen as a place of magic and adventure but also danger. The castle and its confines by contrast are seen as a place of order, humanity, and Christian fortitude. By standing at the castle wall, this knight exists in both realms. My armor is both signifies traditional masculinity but is also etched with things that matter to me: places, family, and ideas, and I hold guard for those in my community in a world that feels increasingly medieval. This is also about waiting: trans people and fat trans people specifically are often denied life-saving operations because of outdated policies.

[you can support my work and pick up commissioned pieces over on my Ko-Fi]

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A better future is possible if we have the courage to pave the roads to it. Also libraries are punk as fuck, pass it on.

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let's get ✨vulnerable✨

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Gaby Soto is a gift

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I fully understand why "character A is astounded at the sight of character B's penis" is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as "penis awe" is unintentionally very funny. Now I'm picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.

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I love Gromph

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someone talk about the Nona grief with me. Someone talk to me about the grief.

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I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

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dead pixel

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our dearest camilla

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movie howl vs book howl (i like both of them)

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Rewatched the Howl's Moving Castle movie (fantastic animated movie, definitely inspired by more than an adaptation of the book) while doing something else and I was struck this time by the fact that the Prince (Turniphead the Scarecrow) says that he intends to go tell his king to call off the war, but THEN he intends on COMING BACK to Ingary to shoot his shot with Sophie again because (as he says to the flirtatious Witch of the Wastes) "hearts change".

And maybe he will come back to make Sophie an offer of marriage and then leave again when he's turned down, but I imagined for a moment that the Prince (who is possibly the movie's version of Prince Justin, so let's call him Justin) might just... move back into Howl's house without asking and stay there. There are several cases of precedent for this. Also, as Turniphead, he's shown several times helping Sophie with laundry, or playing with Markl, or helping the Witch of the Wastes move around, and Sophie deserves that kind of help around the house! Howl isn't going to reliably do chores.

And you know what? I think Howl would be into that shit. There's something very Wynne-Jonesian about it all still. It's tempting to write a post-canon fic about this situation from the movie with an extra dash of flavoring from the books. Like:

This is the infamous wizard Howl Pendragon/Jenkins, a vain draft-dodging flirt who likes to build moving castles to evade taxes too. The beautifully angry young woman with the silver hair over there is his wife, Sophie Hatter, who may or may not be an extremely powerful witch, but right now she's dusting and do not get in her way. This is Calcifer, the fire demon who used to have Howl's heart and is arguably his other life partner and also might be in love with Sophie, and this is arguably kind of actually his house. The old lady smoking a cigar over there is Howl's ex-girlfriend and former nemesis, the Witch of the Wastes, who now lives in their house. This is Markl, Howl's apprentice, kind of his kid, and there is no explanation of where he comes from or what happened to his parents. The dog used to be(?) the Royal Wizard's spy (Howl used to be her apprentice and potential successor) but now he also just lives here. And that's Prince Justin of Strangia, Sophie's house-boyfriend. Don't listen to the propaganda, he wasn't kidnapped by a heart-eating wizard; he used to be a cursed scarecrow and now he wants to be here to help Sophie do laundry. He's trying to homewreck and Howl thinks it's both funny and hot.

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Calcifer tells Howl about Sophie's situation (and they both feel something to her)