#btw i turned rbs off because i dont want this to spread to the people who r gonna complain about me being overly mean DhJzjKdjLKdj

[biblically-accurate-dca]

overanalyzing (nitpicking) these pins (under the cut)

sun's hanging pin: printing error on the ribbon on sun's right hand (yellow instead of red)

this has since been fixed but it's really funny LMAOOOO how did that happen

moon's hanging pin: the ribbons and the hat are going different directions in the artwork (moon's hat falls down but the ribbons don't, most likely because this is essentially just an edited version of sun's artwork)

this one's a little hard to explain. the colors for The Sun and the stars on sun's hanging pin share the same color palette as sun, but the colors of The Moon and stars on moon's pin don't relate to moon's color palette as easily. the star's are the same color as their teeth, but The Moon itself has it's own unique color. it's actually the clouds surrounding The Moon that share a color with moon (same color as their face)

this makes me think that the clouds were added for the sake of sharing colors from moon's face so it's like sun's? but idk that's just a theory lol. imo it's an odd choice to add clouds to it but it's honestly the prettiest part of the pin so i shouldn't complain too much i guess..

"sun and moon" hanging pin: this is obviously based off of eclipse so why are they calling it "sun and moon"? is it because it's not technically ruin eclipse and therefore they can't call it that? that's odd to me. maybe it's for a legal reason. who knows? i certainly don't

the pants don't have any stars even though the hat has them. and this was a purposeful choice. is it because it'd overcomplicate the design? is it a restriction required to make the pin? it's just an odd choice considering it's such a noticeably empty space now

all the dark parts that are meant to represent moon are a weird grey color now and it looks really odd to me. i'm guessing this is just to differentiate them but it's kind of ugly HFJSJGJD

their button's are blue? even though moon's aren't? why

the crators on The Moon on this pin are positioned slightly differently than the ones on moon's. i thought the design was just copy pasted onto this pin but i guess i was wrong? i'm not sure if this even means anything JDJSJFKDG

the bobble head pins: i think their poses are the same as the other's but they've been flipped and edited to differentiate them. this is probably a really obvious observation. regardless i do think it's fun when they parallel each other so i guess i can't complain about how cheap it feels HFJZJGK

there's a weird space between their arm and their ruffles? for sun it's on the left and for moon it's on the right but i can't really figure out why it's there... my guess is that it might've too hard to cut out since it's enclosed in the design, but it's too large of a space to hide it by coloring it in so they had to leave it like that. there's a space like that on the ribbons too so that's probably it. oh well, nothing's perfect

speaking of the ribbons: they're drawn differently between sun and moon! i thought it was just the hands that were changed but i guess the ribbons were too

moon's bobble pin: according to the art for the pin moon's secondary body color is supposed to be a dark blue, however it's so dark that it just looks black on the pin... it's probably more of an oversight than anything but i honestly think it looks kind of cool. i wanna draw it

i think moon's primary body color on the pin is honestly kind of ugly. the color on the art is ok even if it's a little dark but the cyan tint on the pin combined with how dark it is makes it look ugly to me

sun's bobble pin: sun's colors are... a little too yellow for my tastes but are otherwise fine. the colors on the art itself look nicer but i'm aware that the physical coloring doesn't always line up with digital color codes so you can't be too picky about it i guess

sun's secondary body color is technically incorrect (it should be the same secondary color as the face) but it does look nicer like this so just consider this as an observation rather than a complaint lol

the candy shaker pins: i dont have much to say about these (i think theyre nice but a little boring) but i do like how the designs for the bags match the time of day for each of them. the moondrops have a moon with stars and the sunnydrops have a sun with rays of light. it's charming

overall: they're cute i guess... but the fact that there's an entire collection of dca pins makes it so obvious who they're marketing to lmaooooo

[groundramon]

'i hate the party that doesnt explicitly support trans people as well as it should and the party that explicitly wants to make it legal to be violent towards trans people equally' is absolutely a reasonable, responsible position. yup. nice work. it's not just your life on the line, pal. that holier-than-voting attitude hurts the entire lgbt community.

That’s not what I fucking said.  If it was that simple then duh.

I hate the party that abuses minorities to fit their political agenda and wants to shape the country in a way i believe is harmful for my future (as in, collapsing the economy so bad that I die) as much as the party that believes freedom of speech is more important than my inalienable rights and safety as a human being.

Big democrats don’t give a fuck about me any more than big republicans.  They just want to keep themselves in power by going after the people who were shunned by the other side.  A lot of republicans don’t want us dead either, they just want us to conform to their side.  Quite frankly, the democrats aren’t any different than that.  Dare I point out how Hillary Clinton’s husband used the whitehouse to assault women, and how she defended them, and I’ll be called a nazi apologist.  I always want to be careful with any potential racism or antisemitism that I may have internalized, but I’m also not going to shut up about how the Clintons are NOT good people.

And im not holier than thou!! god bless the people who go out and vote!!! but i for one do not have the mental stability to exercise that right at the moment because of blatant political lies from both sides and the fact that tumblr likes to fearmonger and spread rumors.

I reblog things without fact checking but unlike on tumblr, IRL me ACTUALLY CARES about fact checking, and fact checking thoroughly.  And sometimes I factcheck things on tumblr and they’re a load of crap.  Other times they’re very real.  But it’s exhausting to have to do thorough research on everything, especially when even mainstream media (and i dont mean in a “CNN and New York Times are Liberal Scum but Fox News is an objective source” way btw, fox news sucks absolute ass and most other news sources just depend on the author) isn’t reliable.

I can’t handle the stress of participating in democracy when I’m being manipulated at every angle and will never get my facts straight until I’m able to read Complex Shit That I Don’t Understand (like actual statistics).

I’m not allowing you to emotionally manipulate me into voting your way when I can’t make an informed decision.  I’ll do things my way and I’m not going to let you make me feel bad about myself for taking care of myself.

And do you think I was fucking having a panic attack over MY life?  I could care less about my own life.  It’s my friends lives that I’m worried about.  All the kind trans people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting throughout my life.  I’d live the rest of my life in the closet if it meant they could all be respected for who they are for the rest of their lives.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe republicans or democrats will give that to us.  Or rather, I don’t believe the people I would be able to vote for at these midterms would affect it.

I’ve actually done legitimate research into the house representatives running for this election in my area and I’ve had a very hard time finding their stances on issues I care about.  The republican candidate’s policies on government spending make the most sense to me, however her votes for LGBT rights are all over the place.  The democratic candidate’s policies on government are exactly the problem with California, and I want no part of that spreading to the federal government, thanks.

Keep in mind that the richest fucks in the USA live primarily in California.  All those hollywood abusers?  California!  They’re friends with politicians and shit-whatnot and California hasn’t done hell about it.

California is such a different state than most of the USA.  Part of the reason I put a “don’t RB” on my original post (but not the primary reason) is because it’s something that only a select few individuals in the USA can relate to.  A lot of places have a VERY different culture than California, and I know this.  I’m not voting between someone who wants gay people dead and someone who wants gay people alive - there’s much more to them than that and furthermore, there aren’t a lot of republicans in southern california that are on that extremist side.  Homophobic republicans, yes of course.  But my parents are shocked whenever I bring up violent homophobes despite being VERY homophobic themselves.

In my case, I’m voting between someone who has had a very wish-washy stance on LGBT people (re-elected) and someone who wants to reform healthcare and government budgets in a way I don’t agree with.

I just turned 18 less than a month ago.  In the future, I plan to exercise my right - in particular I will for the next presidential election (altho lets face it, unless an independent candidate makes it, California will go blue anyways and all its votes will go to the democratic candidate).  But I am not going to make an uninformed vote when I know I’ve been fed propaganda from both sides.

(I’m saying both sides not because I’m equating democrats to rebublicans btw, I’m saying it because I’ve been fed conservative propaganda all my life, and I’m still working to unlearn it.  And the lies that float around the leftist internet don’t help me unlearn my biases at all.)

So fuck off, anon.