#and yes it's ok to reblog

[didntaskforfrozenyoghurt]

maybe next time i bare my soul by making a huge tag ramble i'll add a tag that just says '🥺' and i won't feel so alone

[originalartblog]

Apparently much-needed reminder that reposting artists' art (by saving the images or screenshotting them and reuploading them yourself) on other platforms without the artists' expressed permission and without credit is theft and an insult to their passion and craft. You are profiting (in views, in attention, in feedback) from someone else's work and ideas, who do not get that feedback for sharing their creation.

If you are an art reposter, you are a thief and I have no respect for you.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

To any Palestinian folks who have sent me requests for aid: I’m so sorry—there are active scammers going around posing as folks in Gaza, and I don’t know how to figure out which ones are real and which ones are scams.

En lieu of those. I’d like to direct you all towards NGOs which I know are not scams

[weirdmageddon]

some of the responses people give on this site (and on the wider internet in general) are frankly quite meanspirited which is why ive been hesitant to post more on here. i think we should be nicer to each other. im kind of tired of seeing casual bullying that we’ve seemingly decided is socially acceptable. it’s just not cool.

i’m gonna be real i fucking hate casual malice. i don’t like participating in it, it makes me feel icky. it makes me feel unsafe to be myself around anyone without hiding anything i’m self-conscious about (which is what i should be doing is conquering these social fears). it’s draining for me to be around.

it’s the last thing any of us need, for ourselves too. this is where meaningful authentic interactions is killed, and layers of irony erected to appear unaffected by anything that is poison for meaningful communication and connection thrives.

i will keep posting about this as long as it continues to bother me

[iridescentbee]

mega post of pictures of my dog because I love him

[commander-ledi]

dragon age getting the top surgery scar option is at the same time bare minimum achievement, but also a huge thing.

as far as i know, there is like. not a single goddamn triple A roleplaying game where top surgery scars are an option. sims 4 has been so far the only triple A game i have ever seen where i can put top surgery scars on characters.

(edit: i am treating sims 4 separate in this discussion not because i do not think that its a real game or whatever, but because its a game about simulating life. while what they did was huge, transness is something that falls in the core themes and gameplay of the game. trans representation in a game entirely centered around simulating full range of human existence would not be as bold move as it is to include it in a game where player character's gender is irrelevant to the game in it's core)

its so absurd how so many "trans inclusive" games have failed at this, because their inclusivity is extremely surface level. none of them bothered to research this enough to even realize that its something that should be included. ability to even make trans masc characters in these games felt always more of a side effect of them giving ability to mix & match genitalia and body types rather than something they actively wanted to include in their game.

like its baffling that multiple games hailed as trans inclusive have not been able to deliver more than cis man with an average cis woman's pussy png stapled on groin. its always left up to modders to actually make the characters into trans men.

like... i have spent now years dreaming of a roleplaying game where i could at least get the smallest bare minimum crumble of actual representation. game after game has failed to fulfill this regardless of how absurdly simple addition it would be. like its so surreal that game after game has failed to include such a small thing while proudly bragging about how inclusive their character creation is.

and to finally get this dream fulfilled feels amazing. i feel like finally someone cares enough about existence of trans men to realize that this is something that needs to exist in the game.

[skrunksthatwunk]

thinking about how eiji's a pole vaulter and how ash talks about eiji "flying" and how eiji's associated with bird imagery and how eiji's free (unlike ash) and how eiji comes in on a plane and leaves on a plane and how ash cannot fly, ash cannot be free, how nyc is ash's prison, and how ash is the leopard who dies climbing the mountain, unable to live at such elevation, how he was trying to reach the sky and be free but was always stuck to the earth, how he chose to die instead of climbing back down, how he chose to die where he could see the sky and hope and freedom almost like a bird with eiji's letter right in front of him rather than letting everything go wrong and ruin it once again, how eiji's a failed pole vaulter anyway, how a bad fall ruined his career and grounded him (physically and emotionally), how it took flying to america and meeting ash and needing to save him and skip for him to try flying again, how he landed hard and harsh and still the thought of that escape compelled ash to protect eiji at all costs because if he could fly that means something to him, even if he doesn't think he can fly, how eiji is the manifestation of his hope and how when he breaks and asks eiji to stay with him a while he folds himself over his legs and weighs him down and traps him and grounds him, how ash fights like hell to keep eiji alive not because he thinks he can be like him (hopeful, flying, innocent), but because he makes him forget the gravity of his situation, and so he can see eiji fly again. how he wants to see him escape. how eiji is a bird and ash is a wildcat and how ash never once saw eiji as prey. how eiji never saw ash as a predator. how it is eiji's naivete that first endears ash to him, how it is his freedom and flight and removal from darkness and his ability to leave that darkness that really roots eiji in ash's blood as something essential to him keeping on living in this hell of nyc. how it is that distance from the violence and that hope for the future that ash chooses to surround himself in as he dies. how ash dies in a dream because he feels more than anything that he can't fly like eiji, that he can never leave. how his violence is a part of him and will be forever, how it weighs him down. how he wants to enjoy the view from the mountainside rather than looking up from the ground below. as if they can both fly. as if he is with him up there and not grounded. eye-to-eye with what he can't have, seeing eiji's homeland: the sky. how he dies trying to reach the top because he couldn't take retreating and trying again. how ash, tired and tired and tired and convinced it will go on forever if he crawls back down the mountain, chooses to close his life deluged in eiji, in eiji's insistence that they can fly together, in eiji's hope for him and for them, in eiji's beautiful dream. how ash dies without trying to realize that dream. how ash, in dying, destroys it.

[trans-androgyne]

Being transfem does not exempt you from being transmisogynistic any more than being transmasc exempts you from being transandrophobic. If you believe in male socialization you are transmisogynistic for it, no matter what your identity is. I've said it before and I'll say it a million times more: there is no one male/female socialization and if you think you can cleanly assume someone's life experiences from their assigned sex, you are a transphobe and a bioessentialist (parts -> specific personality traits? really?).

[whyamihererlly]

my fav kinds of ships r two ppl who have history together and were once probably the closest ppl to eachother but shit went down and now theyre estranged.

not rivals, just strangers.

(bonus points if the shit is the fault of one of the two's personality flaws)

[qiekzart]

day 102 drawing len until my preorder arrives

its winter rn so i decided to put them in the rain ^_^

requests open! ☆ 5 in inbox

so.. i really like how the background turned out so heres just the bg

[magz]

This one of many way to help disabled people. Can "donate" voice through Vocal ID so that those not able reliably speak can have more variety Text-To-Speech voice in their AAC devices (Alternative Augmentative Communication). Can also "donate" to preserve own voice for future.

Recording can take 2 to 3 hours total, which can be done bit at a time. If done outside a voice donation clinic or recording booth - what needed is a headset with microphone, a quiet environment, and google chrome.

Can make Voice Contributor account or if want to make voice charity drive so more people donate voice, can visit VoiceDrive Ambassador page for more info how to do it.

Quote:

Rapel Patel speech scientist and founder of VocaliD says, “Millions of people rely on synthetic speech to communicate everyday. Yet, they’re given a limited set of generic, robotic sounding voices. Voices that don’t fit their body or personality.” Voices are a part of our identity. If you never met me but spoke to me on the phone, in just a few words you would likely deduce that I am a young woman from New York. Our voice showcases our age group, region we come from, our physical size, our gender identity etc. and our vocal output expresses our emotion, thoughts and ideas. If you donate your voice, vocaliD can mix your vocal recordings with the vocal recordings of an AAC user to create a custom voice for the AAC user.

Of other side, instead of donating...

For using Vocal ID for yourself, there are two main options.

"Vocal ID Legacy" where you preserve the voice for yourself - which end up cost $1499 u.s. dollars (if insurance not cover it).

And "Bespoke Voice" where you choose a voice from recordings, with option to 'blend' the voice with your own if still have some ability to - with varied cost.

[themosthatedbeingg]

Lucifer and Lilith’s wedding cake topper ~

[frascospecimen]

furries are fucking awesome man reblog this post if you think furries are awesome

[yanderemommabean]

You’re just a garden who’s barely had time to grow, yet you convince yourself that every little bud growing and blooming is really just a weed.

But I beg you to stop tearing them out, for they are flowers in you, dear garden, and they’re begging for just a chance to bloom and show how beautiful you truly are.

But you’re so scared no one will like what’s blooming that you rip them instead, rather a withering garden than an unpleasant one. Rather a garden who will never grow than one who blooms flowers some may not favor.

You’ve convinced yourself that even in being abstract, you have to be perfect or not be seen at all.

(-Mommabean)

[lyril]

if i see one more take about how falin and laios are the exact same person except different genders... if i see one more post talking about falin like a prize to be won or who "loves" her more... if i see one more take talking about how shuro is hypocritical for liking falin but not liking laios because he "likes traits in one that he hates in the other" despite that being a complete oversimplification of what we're told and completely devoid of all the nuance of the situation... if i see one more take downplaying falin's individuality and agency when the ending of her arc is literally about that and being/finding herself outside of her brother and marcille, i will actually Lose™️ my mind