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shit man he's downright POSTITNOTE'D

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with something wicked as my muse…here theyare

[mushroom-for-art]

First image transcript: Welcome to my blog! I'm Mush! I'm an adult artist currently hyperfixated on Pokémon (specifically mewtwo) I have Autism & Anxiety & I'm doing my best! He/She/They

Second image transcript: Currently I'm (Slowly) working on:

Art and story for my PKMN blog

Crackship babies (Requests still open)

I.Pokemon (Requests still open)

Inbox invasion asks

Espetwo comic

Free to use bases

Adopts

Au art & stories

& Other side projects & designs

Third image transcript: If you like my stuff please [Heart/like] + [Reblog symbol]! Tags + comments make this all the more worth it! My inbox/Asks are open (with anon on!) But please be nice, rude/out of context remarks are seen and they hurt. Please don't steal or use my designs/ideas or concepts! Cause that really sucks!!

[adraveins]

You will be called liberator.

[livvyofthelake]

just found out about a movie so niche you can only watch it by buying the $65 dvd. big leo dicaprio doesn't want you to know about this...

[thatlittledandere]

Hey guys has anyone seen my wallet it's not in its usual place

[buckets-of-dirt]

Overly pedantic grammar question about gendered language incoming:

(In case this post breaks containment I'd like to preemptively tell terfs to leave this post alone. You are not welcome in this space.)

So in the necessary and admirable quest to divorce gender from sex, there's been a push to stop conflating the gendered terms 'woman' and 'man' with the scientific/biological terms 'female' and 'male', and to only use the latter when specifically relevant. I generally agree with this movement, though I've recently read some helpful intersex critiques of this model that introduce further nuances for us to consider, and am trying to incorporate it into my own vocabulary.

The problem I'm stuck on, though, is that this doesn't always flow naturally in a sentence. Here are two examples to illustrate what I mean:

Example #1: "Where are the male bathrooms?" easily becomes "where are the men's bathrooms?" and may sound more natural to many English speakers.

Example #2: "Dr. Jones is the first female doctor in her family" flows better than "Dr. Jones is the first woman doctor in her family."

I think the root of the problem here is that "female" and "male" are adjectives whereas "woman" and "man" are nouns. In the first example, the speaker uses the possessive noun "men's" to indicate that the bathroom they're looking for is the one for men. But in the second example, attempting to replace an adjective ("female") with a noun ("woman") results in awkward phrasing. The sentence could, of course, be modified to "Dr. Jones is the first woman in her family to become a doctor," but this results in a higher word count.

So my question is, do we already have equivalent gendered adjectives to "male" and "female" or are we resigned to wordy work-arounds when specifically highlighting the gender of a sentence's subject?

Note: this is meant for cases where you're gendering the subject on purpose. I want to live in a world where fewer things are inherently gendered as much as the next guy, but until "nurse" and "male nurse" stop conjuring different mental images for most people we're gonna need a different adjective so that specificity doesn't require cisnormativity.

Thoughts?

[mx-yip-yip-hooary]

i think tumblr is eating your activity notifications. i see you reblog a post on the dash and oh you reblogged it from ME?? but i didnt get a notification??? hmm

anyway i am going through the omori brainrot. cant stop listening to the soundtrack (WORLDS END VALENTINE WORLDS END VALENTINE WORLDS END VALENTINEEEEEE!!!). cant stop thinking about basil. i played part of the last section again and went through one of the neutral endings (the abandon end i think). i also replay some blackspace rooms sometimes bc i made have a save there. im soooo not ok

THE POST OMORI BRAIN ROT YIPPEE!!

i fucking love worlds end valentine its so bouncy and everything i associate with pixel game boss ost. also theres a really cool remix on youtube: https://youtu.be/AZmminJ9pZo?si=CoM7MyEb2NVr-sSq (World end valentine manic ver) (this guy also makes a lot of cool omori songs so. check em out =])

the neutral endings fuck me up. a lot of people say theyre sadder endings then the bad ending, and to a degree i agree. like—at least with the true ending, sunny TRIED to confront his demons. with the neutral endings, he was so close to healing but ultimately. was just unable to.

blackspace,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, <- spinning it in a microwave

[57sfinest]

You mentioned how the characters being cops is a meaningful narrative choice. Would you elaborate on that?

yeah so like obligatory opening fuck cops and i hope they all die.

but making harry and kim cops allows the game to make criticisms of cop culture & procedure from the perspective of the inside, and allows the player to be on the receiving end of anti-cop hostility from characters like liz and dros. a player's natural response to their character getting criticized might be to go on the defensive, but a smart player will then stop and think: why am i getting defensive, especially if i already hate cops? it's an interesting way of showing how the system gets reinforced from the inside: i'm a cop, they hate me for who i am, i'm only safe with my fellow cops. as in cult recruitment tactics where you isolate the recruit and make them feel persecuted so they'll stay and not question the cult, it makes them feel even more a part of their station and therefore make them less likely to leave.

also, harry only gets the leniency he does because he's a cop, which i've talked about before. kim only really cares about him (at first) because he's a cop. jean only comes to check on him because "dammit, he's one of us." evrart and joyce use him because he's a cop. people *have* to respect and answer to harry despite everything he's done because he's a cop. these two forces, between him getting cut slack and given sympathy because he's a cop and being hated and pushed away by civilians, work together to display how cops stay in a system even if they know it's corrupt and useless. it also shows how useless harry's own weak moments of anti-cop rhetoric are meaningless while he's still on the force. he's aware of the issues, but he won't *leave*. he's comfortable with the power and leniency it affords him.

[fingertipsmp3]

Yesterday I was musing about how I haven’t really had a bad nightmare since I went on SSRIs and then I proceeded to have a full blown night terror

[tchaikovskaya]

being forced into taking psychiatric meds is sometimes (dare i say often?) traumatic, but so is living with/being closely involved with someone who is willfully unmedicated and you have no right to get on twitter and play the victim to your cluster b reply guys when people in your life want absolutely nothing to do with you as a direct result of your horribly managed mental health lmao 🤡

[hopkei]

famous last words: ill just use my drafts to keep organized things that i will post later!

[waywardsalt]

the dilemma of having ideas that would be best expressed as comics but being afraid to draw

[sidhedust]

Hi I saw ur tags on my Itztlacoliuhqui post asking for webcomics inspired by mesomerican mythology!!! I have a webcomic that's about a girl living in a weird city that's inspired by mesomerican myths!!! I also talk about my Mixtec language!! I also recommend the comic codex black! It's about a Zapotec girl looking for her dad in precolumbian Mexico!!!

Oh, NICE, thank you!!!

I've actually seen Codex Black around, but I kept losing the url of the creator and the name of the comic in my head (who is on Tumblr somewhere-now that I have the name of the comic again, I can find them easier) so that's nice!

As for your webcomic, I'll have to add that to my reading list too! I'm always up for more comics (AND other mediums) that aren't European-focused, especially when it comes to indigenous/black/asian history/mythology/magic systems! I have more than enough books and webcomics on my favorite European histories/magic systems/societies.

[whimsycore]

The older I get the more I realize my imposter syndrome comes from my bio parents forcing me to be something they’re not. They simply don’t identify as what they wanted their children to be. I realize the older I get you’re supposed to learn your culture/religion from your family. I learned from being in a mosque/the internet meeting random Muslims for the sole purpose of having Muslim friends and on a lesser level a community.

It’s taken me years to say this because I’ve had this uneasy feeling in me for awhile. It’s hard to say it because if THEY aren’t XYZ what am I?

[offonaherosjourney]

I saw you love red, white, and royal blue and I've just gotta ask you: have you heard of Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins? It's an alternate history novel abt the 1st woman president and her secret sapphic relationship/bearded marriage with her mlm best friend. It also includes a subplot about arson at the White House, ft. An entirely queer main cast and really fleshed out characters, and has a really satisfying ending!

Never heard of it, but thanks for the rec!