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It's an Olivia! For the Olivia!

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Last post is so true. If I were not one of the statistically rare autists who can a) hold down a typical job and b) socialize with people and have fun with it, I’d HAVE to do something like podcasting or cartooning or sex work

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"Snakes" aren't real. It's a camera artifact that happens when one of these extremely fast, tiny lizards runs past while the shutter is open.

The long, legless animal is nothing more than a myth perpetuated through culture and media. It's time to wake up and see the truth.

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because most of us can't. the majority of subsistence artists, like sex workers, are in this line of work because we can't do other work. there is also a huge amount of overlap between sex work and subsistence artists and always has been. i have no clue why I continue to see it being discussed as something every artist is simply choosing to do out out some combination of stupidity and narcissism. i would cut off one of my toes to magically have the ability to show up to a normal job every day.

there is a huge blind spot about artists in Marxism and leftist discussion of labor generally because Marx literally didn't talk about them and they don't fit into the "owning the means of production = bourgeois" model unless you're dumb enough to call the guy doing tourist caricatures on the boardwalk "bourgeois", and no joke I have actually seen people try to argue this, but everyone normal understands they are stupid so it doesn't matter. we agree that the guy on the boardwalk with the easel or the bucket drums or the harp is not actually bourgeois.

if you have actually worked in the "creative industry" without support while paying your own rent and groceries and not being supported by parents or friends or a spouse, and you know a bunch of other people who have been doing the same thing for a long time, you are similarly confused by discussions along the lines of "why do artists simply not get other jobs if they hate being slowly fed into the social media meat grinder 🤔"

i can tell you exactly why. it's because I spend 25 days out of every month having to Lie Down, and when I tried saying the words "Americans with Disabilities Act" to various employers and school administrators like you're supposed to, I got shitcanned and failed so many times it was like a vaudeville routine. you will find that this is true of a great many working artists (not hobbyists and not students living at home, adult working artists), perhaps most, and I genuinely continue to be baffled by the fact that nobody seems to be aware that drawing things for cash (or dancing or writing articles or editing manuscripts or taking wedding photos or whatever) and other jobs without set schedules (like stripping, camming, etc) are careers a lot of people, certainly the ones without any starting capital, end up in when they can't get paid more for fewer hours. and you get paid more for fewer hours in basically any other job than these, including working at fast food or walmart.

surely you can hear how this sounds? "if you don't like it, why don't you just get a job that pays more?" where have we heard that before? stop. think.

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i know it's hard. but i so firmly believe the strongest antidote to loneliness is reaching out first. and continuing to reach out. again and again and again. excise any scrap of shame you hold about being the person who texts first or pitches the plan or asks to get lunch. everyone is tired and busy and struggling. and afraid of feeling unwanted and unimportant. don't let the people you love feel that way. reach out first. don't be a ghost in your own life.

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Nooo i just saw a TikTok of someone calling their mom a hoarder cause she has a CD collection and going "i can play these faster on an app" and telling her to throw them away BITE BITE BITE BITE KILL KILL KILL KILL if someone said that to me i would rip them apart with my teeth i would burn them alive the violence that would take place would be unimaginable i would be an unleashed demon hungry for blood and meat. unimaginable horrors. death and destruction. killing. maiming. no one could survive that. it would be a nuclear apocalypse. leave the fucking CDs alone

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if reclaiming slurs is simply a matter of having ever been called it, rather than being the actual intended target of it, then congratulations to every single middle schooler in a CoD lobby for being the vanguard of progressive reclamation

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if you spend enough time in spaces that love and celebrate trans and intersex bodies,

the tendency of everyone (even in “progressive” or “Left” or “body positive” spaces) to invoke the small penis as supposedly self-evidently signifying poor morals, incompetence, and undesirability

will start to stand out more and more as the fashy talking point it is.

a small penis? like hard fat tdick? like soft feminine estrogenized girl dick? like a clit/penis that doesn’t penetrate and so is easiest to pleasure in ways outside the specific kind of sex enforced on the world by the church?

like a shaft that’s a size eugenicist doctors are so invested in hiding the existence of (because heaven forbid people realize sex is a social construct) that they forcibly operate on infants?

that’s the body part you’re invoking as a negative symbol? what are your politics again?

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Hey folks, we're in a bit of a situation.

They pipes under my room (and others) need to get replaced, so we need to get out of the house for a few weeks.

If anyone's willing to throw a dollar or two our way to help cover expenses, it'd mean a whole bunch!

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this photo of Munchy from some collector website is extremely funny to me so I redrew it

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“trans friendly radfem” ohhh ok so you fully have worms for brains

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Happy Nonbinary People’s Day ✨

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No hate because I would never expect someone without a biodick to know this but its really funny whenever I read someone's fantasy post about like using cum for lube or like milking someone for a really long time and it's clear they have never seen or smelled cum past like, an hour