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MORE BABIES TO THE COLLECTION!!!

so baby sticks are just hideous chunky blobs with ginormous heads. Disgusting

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painted an old sketch ft. node from aversus :)

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hc that Outernet residents have the same dictionary* as humans and human programs do

...so some of the words just make no goddamn sense

since they're missing the context !

someone will be eating a hamburger and someone else will ask, "what's that?" and someone else will say, as if in a trance, "it's American food," and they'll all have a blank moment where they KNOW that's true and correct . . .

and all groan in frustration bc they don't know what that word MEANS.

what the hell are humans (and why do they have so many parts)? who's god and why is it God sometimes but also you can say gods? why's it called that? where's America?

and that concept creeps into other areas of social life too. everyone remembers the vibes, fragments, of the world going on above, and after a few months are like, "should we... do capitalism?" and the majority shrugs saying, "don't have any better ideas."

it's probably inevitable that a critical mass of them will realize that the status quo sucks and rebuild stuff to make more sense with Outernet reality (post-scarcity with a few forms of infinite** digital supplies), but it might take a while.

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*not exactly a dictionary like you'll find online—or that tdl has—bc most StickFigures can't access their internal processes like that. more like it's an innate vocabulary that the words make intuitive sense, and can be used and understood as correct, but without conscious ...... wisdom. think of words you saw in a book/film/video/etc: they make sense based on the words you know around them, but you may not know their origins or precise meaning. i may have made this harder to understand. forget all that if the first part made more sense to you lol-

the main point is the layman can't access the definitions and follow chains of context that way.

**vic's drawing tools, Insertion Points, and other artifacts from human programs. these tools bypass the OuterPhysEng's laws of thermodynamics by creating matter out of nothing.

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Don't you hate it when you do a character study fic and it unintentionally and inevitably turns into rotting fluff so you have to start all over

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I'll look out for you, as you've always looked out for me.

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Why does no one talk abt the fact the rocket corp made all those wanted yellow posters just for them to find yellow in their front yard like 5 seconds later

What are they gonna do with all those extra posters

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I HAVE TO DO IT

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bro’s gonna be the shrimp king at this point

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FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE LONELY ONES ARE OUT GUYS

The name feast is giving

Also seems like my HC that the kids come from different times is actually right

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Update on the six animation, still a Wip but I love it so far

Song is "as it is, as it is, without change" by kikuo my goat

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tdl gijinkaaaaaa

old tdl and tco gijinka designs under cut that i feel ehhhh about but wanted to post anyways

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new reanimal trailer!

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I knew what must be done. @compressedrage

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Highlights from a magma session with some wonderful friends :)

Purple in the second image by @seaw33p

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another one...

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"all men always hold privilege over women" fun fact! not every man is a peri/cis/het able-bodied rich white guy! marginalization is often more complicated than 'man = privilege' and 'women = oppression'. pretty much all people in general hold some privileges over others, but these privileges get more conditional and harder to grasp if they are marginalized, especially in multiple ways.

i don't know how to tell you that, historically, racist white women used their white privilege over black men to get them labeled as predators and lynched. and there's many more examples of this, because the world will always be more complicated than one singular person's theory textbook. lateral violence is also something that happens within a lot of marginalized communities as people within them try to seek more privileged and thus, beneficial stations.

do you honestly think a black man is going to automatically be given the same standing as a white man? do you think a trans man is going to be treated the same way as a cis man?

let's put it this way: do you think trans women are as accepted within the world as cis women? do you think they can automatically get 'passing privilege' if they transition in just the right way? do you think that trans women, in general, are able to move through the world in the same way as a cis woman; that the transphobia they face is somehow minimal because it's 'just transphobia' or 'just misogyny', or even that they don't face that discrimination at all?

to take it even further, if someone said that a 'non-passing' trans woman could move through the world like a cis man and thus access some form of male privilege from it, would you agree?

these questions are pretty much entirely rhetorical by the way, if the phrasing did not indicate that already. if you want my opinion on it, i would think it's pretty damn ridiculous and entirely contrary to reality to insist that all men are treated the same and that none are discriminated against, and doubly ridiculous to think that any trans person can have a privilege that necessitates cis-ness as one of its requirements. i think it's awful to say that any group of marginalized people cannot have a word to describe their experiences, and to get so hung up on splitting hairs that you, colloquially, miss the forest for the trees. of course marginalized men are going to be discriminated against in a specific way that targets them for being a marginalized man, no separation of identities there. manhood is punished in those that do not perform it in a way that white cis etc etc patriarchy maintains is the 'right way' and 'the only way to be a true man'.

i mean, being completely real right now, do you think abigail schrier ( and terfs/rad-fems in general), who clutches her pearls over grown trans men transitioning, continually infantilizing them and insisting that testosterone is some devil hormone, is somehow completely justified or just doesn't exist or something? do you think that rad-fems, who insist to refer to masculinity as a poison that makes you a monstrous predator, who go on about 'losing lesbians' but get upset when a trans man is a lesbian, who treat pregnant trans men as child abusers and fetishists, and all of these other stale and cruel talking points - do you think that is somehow a 'lesser transphobia' to go through? do you think having to worry about forced detransition if you get pregnant is some fun thing? do you think losing access to reproductive healthcare sources because insurance won't cover someone who has an 'm' marker and, even then, being seen as a threat for 'looking too masculine' is this minor thing?

unless you come from some utopian-esque position, we've all been through some shit - every trans group out there. making a hierarchy does nothing but make it easier for us to be turned against each other. what purpose does a hierarchy of suffering serve other than to stew in misery while ignoring any efforts towards a better future, insisting that anyone outside your tiny, insular group is an enemy that wants to hurt you? if all a theory does is create an 'us vs them' complex while flattening the complexities of real life people, what purpose does it serve? in a lot of the sciences - especially my specialty in the natural sciences - if you make a hypothesis, run thorough experiments with several trials, and find that your hypothesis seems to be wrong? you make a new one. why do we treat sociological theory as if it's on such a higher pedestal than every other science? why do we treat theories as these untouchable scriptures, and not as imperfect explanations of someone's experience in a particular time and place? the tme/tma dichotomy was made decades ago by someone that currently disavows it today. why don't we update our descriptions of the queer community, the world, and its dynamics to fit the considerably wider knowledge base of today? why is any move towards any more accurate theory seen as an inherent threat? what is it threatening?

this post ended up a lot longer than i thought it was going to be, and i would gladly accept any additional thoughts here or things that i missed.

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We talk about how aspects of the hollowheads parallel or contradict each other, but hear me out on thi- *falls into a cartoon leaf trap*

(please tap the image, the quality is much better, I promise you)