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The tragedy of my life is that I keep acquiring and displaying fetish art and having to be corrected by my friends.

Most recently, a friend came over my house and saw my computer background and went, "Wow, um, I didn't know you were into that." To which I look at the picture of the well drawn muscular female minotaur in historically accurate Greek clothing and I start geeking out about how I love the detail the artist did with the clothing and I point out the period appropriate folds and pins, how the artist even inserted the native plant that was used to dye the clothing this particular shade in the background, and even how the belt has technology AND historically accurate weaving patterns on it.

Then I start explaining how I love the muscular choices of the minotaur, that I was so impressed with the artist's anatomically correct depiction of the muscles converging into the neck. That many people get an upright cow's neck wrong because cow's don't have collarbones, so it can be very difficult to merge the upper arms and a chest of a human with a cow's body. I draw her attention to the beautiful way they've merged the pectoralis major so smoothly while also staying true to how muscular they've depicted the rest of the body.

I finish up with my thoughts on the artist's bold choice to depict the minotaur as a female, and despite the underlying themes of a minotaur being violence, child murder, strength, and muscles. I segue into how unlike bulls, cow are perceived as mothers. That they are the major source of milk in human culture, and that idyllic depictions of them in a field usually depict calves frolicking nearby, yet the minotaur kills and eats children.

I finish and there is a long pause.

"Urban, this is fetish art." and she takes me to the artist's twitter and god dammit it's fetish art, not a bold statement on cultural perceptions of women and violence throughout history. I have been tricked again.

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take the bait

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How it feels watching this show sometimes

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PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

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TIL that there is journalism equivalent to the Bechdel Test. An article about a female scientist fails the “Finkbeiner Test” if it mentions one of seven topics regarding her womanhood

via reddit.com

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Good news! The new Covid-19 vacines are scheduled to be approved soon and could be available by Labor Day (or soon after). The CDC recommends updated shots for everyone 6 months and older.

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general post with some fundraisers i have been promoting. these are all verified and ive included links to more info.

Fahed Shehab's family @fahedshehab-new €33.4k / €55k. Link to their Gofundme / Link to post about campaign.

Ahmed Alanqar's family @yaminfamily €50.2k / €59k. Link to their Gofundme / Link to post about campaign.

Amal Ashour's family @amalashuor €25.9k / €30k. Link to their Gofundme / Link to post about the campaign.

Fidaa Resh's family @fidaa-family2 $10.5k / $30k. Link to their Gofundme / Link to post about the campaign.

the Jad al-Haq family, seven sisters who are trying to raise money for each of their families. Link to post with information and links to all of their Gofundmes.

Abdul al-Shanti's family. ig:shantiabd $1.2k / 60k. Link to their Gofundme / Link to post about their campaign.

i'll keep updating this post regularly. many of these campaigns are close to their goal, please consider regularly donating to them or sharing them. your donation could go a long way

to anyone reaching out to me about campaigns, please directly message me instead of sending an ask. im getting a lot of asks right now and its easier for me to keep track of direct messages

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That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

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Designated Weeping Area, a community art project from Cora Lee (coraleecreates, 2021)

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Trump won in 2016 by a super slim margin. Are you prepared to play a part in that happening again?

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🌟🐇 happy year of the rabbit!

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howdy

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gonna start talking about skinny characters the way some of yall talk about fat characters