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always-coffee · 11 months ago

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**gently grabs your face** Listen to me.

When things are hard, move toward joy. Move toward those who light you up, like little fireflies your heart. Play the music you love. Take a chance. Make plans with people you adore—old and new. Put joy on the calendar like a goddamn holiday. (There is something to be said for making plans. I love plans. I…am a dork.)

When things are hard—and god knows, the news is full of terrible—flirt with someone you care about. Make some art about it—about everything. Bake something or cook something and if there’s too much, bring it to your neighbor. Pet a dog. Pet a cat. Find a reason to be silly. Be silly.

The brightest parts of my life, lately, have been unexpected magick. It’s there if you look, I promise. And, honestly, sometimes even if you’re not looking and you just run headlong into it. It's the connection and the love that will help see us through the hard stuff. It's the affection that feeds our strength.

#move toward joy #I know that the world is a lot #take care of you #let other people help too #advice #not that you asked

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rookschnapps · 4 months ago

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welcome to the world

#crowcraft #dc #kon el #superboy #so many ideas for the tube exit #I KNOW this isn’t how it happened but let me have this. I have things I think about and art is how I get them out before they eat me #this one’s about the moments of dazed confusion. he’d never even felt AIR before do you ever think about that. I think about that all the t #how strange would it be to Know so many things without having experienced them #the few seconds of disconnect here. his brain is firing all his knowledge and a startup ‘hello world’ sequence #but he’s never FELT. ANYTHING before #conner kent #so many strange sensations before it clicks as a ‘huh. so this is air. this is breathing this is thinking this is seeing hearing smelling-‘#ETC. sure babies do this but babies can’t remember shit #IDKK. I JUST THINK AHOUT IT A LOT

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catboybiologist · 3 months ago

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By now, there's lots of people have heard about the internal CDC memos for all newly prepared manuscripts (like future scientific papers waiting to be published):

There's so much to comment on, and I'm seeing it all right now. What the state of science is. What this means for the queer community. All of that.

But fuck, I think I might genuinely start crying over this. As a transgender biologist, this feels like a brutally personal blow. I slowly accepted my gender alongside my biology education. The more misinformation that was spewed about "biological sex" by mainstream media, the more my professors, colleagues, and primary sources would casually drop information that proved they have no idea what they're talking about. I'm not an expert on sex determination, gender, or transgender biology specifically by any means. But my worldview has been crafted by my studies in genetics and molecular biology.

Engaging with this research helped me demystify transition. It helped me optimize my transition. It helped me explain how HRT and other steps of trans healthcare work to other people. And it helped me overcome my own internalized transphobia, and finally start transitioning, despite knowing I wanted to since my preteen years.

Who knows how enforceable internal guidelines like this will be. But its certainly going to scare a lot of researchers away from transgender healthcare and science in the coming years, and that breaks my heart.

There's a lot I can say here, but fuck. I just needed to vent for a moment. Fuck.

#before this election #I had a backburner disillusionment with the current state of research and society #particularly in its impotence #climate scientists collecting data on a dying world and sending it to governments who do nothing #lab biologists generating more and more experimental data thats stifled from becoming real medical development by pharma and insurance #the events of the past couple of weeks have escalated that feeling a lot tbh #add it to the pile of reasons im leaving academia #i feel like i need to do SOMETHING with that feeling #but i dont know what #biology #transgender #trans #us politics

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the-meme-monarch · 6 months ago

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thought ‘what if the vintage skins were more in line with actual 1930’s cartoons design sensibilities’ and promptly went mental. plus a bonus two-tone dandy ! since he’s not playable and all

so some things i learned as i was doing this:

-solo cups were not invented until the 70s, so scraps has a tin can as part of her tail instead

-hoodies WERE invented in the 30s but were generally worn by warehouse workers bc of the cold. they didn’t get worn by the general public until the 70s, so toodles and cosmo are Not wearing them

-leg warmers were invented in the 40s but also didn’t get popular until the 70s so glisten’s legs get to be naked. sad !

-GASHAPONS WEREN’T INVENTED UNTIL THE 60s. GIGI SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST HERE. BUT I DIDN’T FIND THAT OUT UNTIL I WAS DONE DRAWING ALL THIS. OOPS !!!

other than that it was just a lot of ‘put gloves and/or shoes and/or pants on them. sometimes noses’

under the cut is All of them together and then also the sketch :]

#dandys world #dandy’s world #the art gallery #NONE OF THIS IS SHIP ART 👍💥💥#admittedly i enjoy glisten/rodger and teagan/rodger and that is why they are in the same image together. toodles is their daughter #but they are Just standing next to each other. and it needs to be more than That to qualify as ship art to me #they are not even looking at each other. ok !#<- i imagine i look insane to people following me who don’t know anything abt dw #this is one of those medias were the fandom ships anyone w/ anyone. so a lot of Just Standing Next To Each Other art gets taken as ship art #ANYWAY. WHATEVER. IM ACTUALLY STILL MAD I DIDNT ACCOUNT FOR GIGI. I COULD HAVE MADE HER SOMETHING ELSE THST COULD RESONABLY BE THE PR #BE THE PRECURSOR OF A CAPSULE TOY. FUCK. WHATEVER

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spookberry · 8 months ago

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boxy got em 😔

#danny phantom #my art #fanart #valerie gray #tucker foley #sam manson #i was thinking of doing jazz too #and maybe phantom #ooooh and danielle???#i was thinking about how i used to see people draw characters stuck in boxes together a lot back in the day #and i havent seen that in a while #and ya know #be the change ya wanna see in the world and all that

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egophiliac · 8 months ago

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buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #lost in the book with nightmare before christmas #hajimari no halloween #(the origin of halloween huh) (oooh)#why yes i did wake up way too early to watch the stream and will have no memory of drawing this later #anyway THE MAGIC BOOK IS BACK TO EAT US ONCE AGAIN!!!!#this does make things make a lot more sense if it doesn't have to. y'know. actually take place in the established world #like how jack and sally are apparently just gonna be THERE as themselves WHY NOT #i'm certainly not complaining mind you #scully looks like he's gonna be super adorable and i love him already #spooky scary skeleman who just goes :O a lot and is excited for halloween #he seems like he might actually be more of a fusion of jack and sally? or maybe i'm just reading too much into it #still getting jazzy vibes off of him though. is not scully j graves an incredible jazz musician name.#does this open up the possibility that the last time we went into the book there was a sexy anime boy stitch just offscreen the whole time #...maybe some things are best left uncontemplated #god everyone in this event looks fantastic i'm so glad i saved up some keys after all #a little sad that there's no lilia but you know what the fact that a halloweentown malleus exists is still pretty dang good #and sebek's hat is SO tall #the biggest hat for the loudest boy #i hope oogie is here too i need him and jamil to meet #i need jamil to be faced with a guy who's just a bunch of bugs standing on each other's shoulders in a trenchcoat #i am not coherent right now i just needed to get this out before i go pass out again

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akanemnon · 8 months ago

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Chara knows something that we don't, methinks...

BONUS COMIC

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

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lazylittledragon · 9 months ago

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dadkarios doods sponsored by my stress migraine

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #galemance #dadkarios #gale dekarios #tav #and ft cyra's fancy cane!!#the only thing that got mabel into the world was cyra knowing she couldn't kill gale until it was over #and of course she's just a smaller version of gale bc life isn't fair #i'm so fucking TIRED bc i had a job interview today and my body has just come down from being in panic mode all week #these were almost done days ago but i was in a Lot of pain and we didn't have any painkillers

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clumsypuppy · 4 days ago

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wait for me

#iiiiii dont know what kind of emotion i was trying to convey with this. i wanted to do a character exploration with my pmd hero and partner #which got away from me a little. i hc the hero has complicated emotions around their past which they dont remember #and i get the sense it leans into growing up without a childhood bc you dedicate your entire life trying to save the world #so now that they finally have a second chance to grow up properly they wanna take their time yk?? and yeah ik evolution =/= maturity #i remember seeing a post about an elderly treecko from pokeani speculating you could grow really old without ever evolving #but in human terms of maturity. even though you cant remember anything about being human it conflicts with what you know #and its probably just a gimmick when partner just tells me what we're supposed to do next every time i talk to them bc it #progresses the story but i also like thinking they want to grow up so badly and do everything all at once #compared to hero who knows what its like to grow up before youre an adult and wants to slow down #im repeating myself a lot here but i swear its smth ive feltmany times over and never found a good answer to. or what i would tell someone #i didnt base neptunes flowers on anything specifically but i looked into flower symbolism and it seems buttercups represent childhood #marmalade's flower crown is meant to be periwinkles which symbolize sincere friendship and unbreakable bonds #i love themb ;__;#my art #myart #comics #doodles #pmd #pokemon mystery dungeon #pmd ocs #pmd2 #neptune #marmalade #team satellite #pokemon #eye contact #scopo #sort of?

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idontmindifuforgetme · 1 year ago

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friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

#It’s just so different #even though it’s public it still feels secret and safe. i feel comfy sharing a lot more on here than I do in my actual day to day life lol #in my head I’m also just speaking to myself 90% of the time which helps #if a friend off tumblr saw my thoughts I’d feel so weird ab it #esp bc they might get the vagueposting about certain situations and tell mutual friends #no thank u. this is for me. I’m not about to start censoring my thoughts bc someone I know knows my tumblr #u guys literally saw me have LIVE BREAKDOWNS #meanwhile I’ll have the worst fucking day in history and tell no one about it. I’m already cripplingly private but way more so in real life #this is basically a low stress journaling outlet for me. it’s so important for me to maintain the separation #like this is actually my diary & has been so handy for letting out emotions / articulating thoughts / staying on track !!#& I’ve met so many kind people on here who actually get me. which is so hard to find irl bc I’m surrounded by pre-med gunners/overachievers #who are by standard not very good w emotion & can be competitive/judgmental. or at least it’s hard for me to be vulnerable in front of them #and I’m part of that crowd so I reserve my emotions only to a handful of very close friends #it’s nice to hop on here and express negative emotions!! or positive emotions!! just whatever I want and it’s low stress and people get me #I don’t have to worry about judgment or competitiveness etc etc #like everyone on here is so kind & nice & understanding. & just a breath of fresh air from the types I run w. it’s just nice to have this #so idk that’s why I think I’ll always be strict about keeping the worlds separate. it just works #p

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sixth-light · 10 months ago

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I have had these thoughts bubbling away in my head for like...eighteen months or so now (it will become very obvious why shortly) but the discussion in this post has pushed me to write them down: I think societally we HUGELY underestimate how motherhood for primary caregivers, particularly first-time motherhood, can be a source of vulnerability to radicalisation.

There is obviously huge cultural variance here, but for a lot of cis women becoming primary caregiver to an infant in a capitalist Western society represents a time of immense vulnerability because in general you are:

Incredibly sleep-deprived (which has well-documented knock-on effects for your judgement, mental health, etc)

If you gave birth, recovering from a significant challenge to your physical health (even in the best-case scenario)

Isolated from your previous networks and communities of people in full-time work

Completely separated from the context of your prior career goals and achievements

Under huge amounts of stress to learn how to care for an infant (don't get me started on breastfeeding)

And on top of this, you are also be experiencing a huge amount of messaging about how all this is natural, wonderful, something you're meant to do, something you should love doing, and something that you must do for the welfare of their child. It's a huge amount of pressure and life change even when everything goes right and there's very little cultural space to express negative feelings about it.

Any group of people who offer community, support, and affirmation to cis women in this situation are going to have a really good shot at radicalising them into some very weird and dangerous headspaces and in fact we see this happen all the time - think antivaxxers and TERFs. It flies under the radar because of the hazy positive glow that associates with motherhood and babies and also because we don't take the radicalisation of women seriously I guess because they rarely shoot anybody, but...yeah. It is such a vulnerable time!

#people who do not see themselves in the cishetero stereotype #are obviously going to have some separation from this & therefore protection #full confession: obviously in the last year and a half I have done a LOT of midnight Googling about Baby Things #and you know what. very often the top hits are Mumsnet forum threads #which...often contain useful and sympathetic advice #I can so easily see how people get sucked into that #they're not getting people with TERFy shit they're getting them with 'tips for getting your four month old to nap better'#which is the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD when your kid is four months old #and then the TERFy nonsense presumably comes later #because that's how radicalisation works

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aniseandspearmint · 2 years ago

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I am curious, bc I just ran across one of those, 'everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened!' things so-

This isn't meant to be a commentary on the event, just whether or not you remember where you were/what you were doing when the news hit.

As an example, I was home sick, doing dishes, when mom yelled for me to get in the living room RIGHT NOW.

#it was a Big Event #it was the taking off point to a LOT of bs the world over #i have heard MANY people say that EVERYONE surely remembers where they were and what they were doing #but even though i happen to remember I don't know if its accurate to say the majority do?#i am curious #tumblr #polls

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yippee-optimistically · 3 months ago

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messed up on bobettes size in comparisson 2 the rest of the holidays.. ive literally never played dandys world but that comic on tiktok by poilubsu (whatever this is) was so peak i couldnt stop myself from going deeper in2 the fandom. somehow a few of these designs r already slightly outdated to how i draw them ?? mostly the commons (SHRIMPO.) but it was still sooo much fun. due to rarity i only drew commons thru rares as post-twisting

misc doodles. i have such bad favoritism for shrimpo. and the number of drawing im holding from u bc its a rarepair is heartbreaking. maybe later !!!

ALSO. been really wanting to actually get into the game. but i do NOT play roblox EVER so if anyone has like. good dw server recs for beginners/first timers.. preferably not toooo big.. or just dm me !! also open to just making some fun fandom buddies :0)

EDITING TO SAY i have found a server !!! but you are still free to dm if you wanna be friends lol

had to come back and edit in some ms paint doodles