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i feel so bad for americans like the more i learn about your electoral system the more im like 😭 thats ass
#i speak#here its very similar we have the tories (ew) the liberals (current party) and the ndp (better. but theyre never getting a majority)#(im still happy with what theyve done federally this term. making a deal with the libs to get everyone with income below 90k free dentalcare#as a minority is. good)#but voting sucks. so i just go for the candidate in my riding i prefer#which is the liberal guy. hes great. so that solves that problem#but americans dont even get that#you have to actually pick between the bad options 😭 and you dont even have any smaller parties. or the rhinoceros party#i have to keep telling myself municipal and provincial elections are the ones that have most impact on my day to day life#so maybe i actually internalize it by the next federal one#anyone wanna take one for the team and assassinate poilievre? 😁
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happy pride to all queer children of immigrants
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#muertodraws#queer art#queer comic#lgbtq#pride#trans artist#qtpoc#trans art#transgender#transmasc#mlm#if youre a queer child of immigrants you deserve free lifelong therapy#this comic was originally going to be a “i feel like a freak” cuz im trans and people dont know what to do with me#and then it turned into like. oh god this experience is compounded by your complicted relationship to uhh well#being mexican and a child of immigrants#i was originally going to add a quote from a jose marti poem but idk i didnt want this to get too long#i think if i did that i would prolly attract the attention of latine purists and nationalists lmfaooo#i already have people who dont even believe im mexican much less a child of immigrants much less a man#the most common hate i get now is that im a confused white woman gringa who isnt latin american#besides the transphobia im just like. have you ever heard of a diaspora#anyway#hope someone enjoys this
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it's SO funny that when asked what he had to do to prepare for his role in IWTV Sam Reid says he had to learn how to play the piano, learn to speak French, Italian, and English with a French accent. Bailey read IWTV religiously and added her own comments, and kept an actual fucking journal she wrote entirely as Claudia. meanwhile Jacob Anderson, when asked the same question, just responds with “oh nothing, i was already emo”. icons and legends only
#I LOVE THEM SO FUCKING MUCH YOU DONT UNDERSTAND#JUST TO BE CLEAR#I don't think Jacob didn't put a lot of effort into his Louis he's an incredibly talented actor and makes Louis everything he shouldve been#he's legit amazing and the way you as a viewer get a very clear sense of who Louis is and what's he like IMMEDIATELY after meeting him#not to mention how fucking HARD it is to play a deeply repressing character without making them feel actually emotionless.#and Jacob fucking nails it#NOT TO MENTION THE AMERICAN ACCENTS????? TWO DISTINCT ACCENTS THAT ARE BOTH SO PLAUSIBLE I WAS SHOCKED TO LEARN HE'S FUCKING BRI'ISH?#I JUST THINK HIS RESPONSE IS FUCKING HILARIOUS#IWTV#Jacob Anderson#Bailey Bass#Sam Reid#interview with the vampire#iwtv cast#amc iwtv#my posting#wow it's been a while#3rd degree failpost#didn't even notice this broke 1k 😭😭😭
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The hellsite is eating my posts again. We'll see what gets through.
Edit: this one made it! You've asked for a house tour, I hope this isn't boring. There's some rooms that I don't include because I'm working on stuff and don't want to show the mess. This is still not that tidy but it's... tolerable mess. The audio is just Clair de Lune, no narration. I can answer questions if you have them; I'm always happy to talk about my million hobbies and the house is...definitely one of them.
I could also do a photo post for anyone who doesn't want to watch the whole thing.
#i dont want this to come across as braggy#i know exactly how lucky i am to have a house to do this kind of nonsense with#but also most of this is just diy after diy and a loooot of facebook marketplace trawling#every few months I get a couple family members in to move an item of furniture I cant get by myself but mostly im just doing things solo.#it's wild how much you can just DO#even if its not done perfectly#i like my house a lot#its not fancy--it is in fact a very simple 1900 american foursquare#and it needs a lot more work still#but im chipping away at it and it pleases me.
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maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"
sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"
"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it
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the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet
#matthew tkachuk#aleksander barkov#florida panthers#2425#the famous vanha kauppahalli date™#we know how bad he is at pronouncing words not in english he does not want to fuck up his husbands language in front of him#(the nhl stars try to speak german video has entered the chat)#different attitudes here lmao#“he did good” mate he was... eating food... what... what is there to praise here..?#i shivered sweet mary and joseph sasha this is how you praise maffhew? yeah id be an annoying little shit about it too#whatever they have. unexplainable. i wont even bother#im glad to see pie and cake are still very confusing for esol#somehow ive had the conversation with several different people in my lifetime and realised even i dont know what the fuck it is#in the sense that when i translate pastries into english for my american friends i just pause and go#wait... i think this is a pie... but its called a tart in spanish but its also kind of a cake? and- [windows reboot sound]#ive had to do this with pastafrola and im like please just eat it dont make me explain im gonna cry if i do#I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS IN AN ENGLISH CONTEXT BECAUSE IT DOESNT EXIST IN AN ENGLISH CONTEXT TO ME JUST EAT IT#“so whats the difference between a torta and a tarta and isnt a tarta kinda like a pie-” “stop asking questions you dont want answers to”#you have no idea how upset i get trying to explain#im glad sasha at least protrays a little of that frustration by going “i dont know english word” girl SAME
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Heroes of Millennium (HoM) AU
Act 1: What was left behind. - Part 1 (page 1-5) -here- -> Part 2
#heroes of millennium au#hom au#danny phantom#dp#jake long#american dragon jake long#adjl#YEEEEEE BABEY WE GETTING DROPPED RIGHT THE FREACK IN!! NO LONG INTROS JUST STRAIGHT UP MEAT HERE BABIES#CAN YOU TELL IM EXCITED EVEN IF I STIL YET TO ACTUALLY DRAW PART 2??? only rough sketch draft still but fuk it#i have 40 pages of rough comic im allowed to be excited of having that much??? never drew comics for shit before#i feel a need to apologize for my jake's dragon 'redesign' but i actually like it so i wont lol#i would apologize for falsely saying i would post it yesterday haha i overestimated my speed and typography took much longer than i hoped..#still prolonged 48 hours is better than not posting at all ;D#if you are confused and have questions dont worry its by design (sorta) lol. everything will be answered wit time...long time
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Making a poll for the first time ever this is important
Reblog for sample size etc etc I'm loosing my mind.
#Im american born but both parents are from outside the US#and I'm half german and grew up on german sweets and goodies#have been to germany several times etc etc#have family from there who send us stuff#YOU CAN GET MARZIPAN HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE UNITED STATES MIDWEST EVEN#stuff thats not german import tends to be too sweet for me but itS STILL HERE#and still... so many people... dont know what it is... my heart is breaking.. my beloved marzipan... forsaken.#marzipan#poll#polls
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my knight-monk agenda strikes again, but this was less of a 'I read something that made me experience several emotions and a strike of inspiration at once,' and more of a 'wouldn't it be fucked up if the bejeweled skeleton saints came to life and and started. eating people. or something. in revenge. medieval catholic horror, or an older horror of not being buried right. zombies, even. a complete bastardization of holy visuals. zombies.'
it's a far away idea, but I still wanted to play around with font layouts. like, if I DID make it into a full comic: these would be visual vibes, perhaps.
it's also a little bit about the kind of intimacy that these kinds of spaces provide, or in the case of this monk: the heavy trauma of war and the death of your brother, the escape to a secluded monastery, spiritual brotherhood to make up for your dead brother, but your role as a physician keeps pulling you back to this violence you want to escape. physician, heal thyself, only you have a holy calling to serve those in need, so instead: physician, open up your wounds again. saint jude, patron saint of lost causes, give us a fucking hand here, man. amen.
Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression, James M. Saslow
and this one is about earlier history than the medieval period that this comic is set in, but the monk character is sort of an exploration of earlier themes. a little bit. I like overlapping eras with each other, I've done it before and I'll do it again. this character is an exploration of some other stuff too, but mostly this book was interesting to read
From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity, Andrew T Crislip
bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost
#i almost made him a benedictine monk but then we would've been reaching territory i do not feel like suffering through#generic medieval tag#i had more tags but i started talking politics and honestly if im going to talk politics i think its better to just make a post about it#i dont actually talk politics on tumblr even tho a lot of my work is extremely political in its subtext/text#because i think that tumblr is very annoying for that. its so anglo-american-western centric in its political theory#and i am WELL beyond that. i use twitter for politics because i love suffering lmao but also its like. still better for getting stuff done#komiks tag
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As much as people like to shit on Americans for not knowing their history, truly I've never talked to more ignorant folks than the English. What do you MEAN you're JUST learning about how bad the troubles were when you're in your 30s?! GIRL YOU LIVE AMONGST THE PEOPLE THAT DID IT HELLO????? It wasn't even like ancient history either!!!!!!!! It was still happening in your lifetime!!!!!!!! How do you not know your own country is one of the main reasons for the fucking conflict with Israel and Palestine????????? LIKE how can you POSSIBLY be so uninformed about how bad trump is when our news fucking dominates the entire west and then some?! In what world does it seem right that I know more about their politics and political parties of the last few decades than someone born and raised there?? What. How. Is it possible. Not knowing the role the British played for *gestures wildly* ALL OF INDIA????? How do so many Brits live with their head in the sand what the fuck is going on over there I DONT GET IT!!!
#dont get me wrong most of my fellow americans wouldnt know either#BUT we are pretty fucking aware of things WE WERE INVOLVED IN#like DIRECTLY#i wish i could just say it's only like one or two brits ive known but#nah. all of them#the fuck do history classes even teach over there????
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Every single time I draw for an anime I think to myself "never again will I draw for an anime" and then I am proven wrong. So here, take my daughter Lulu.
#brave bang bravern#bbb lulu#how the heck do you tag for this show#i never feel like i do anime characters justice tbh so i get really self conscious about art i do for shows#but honestly whatever shes adorable please enjoy my daughter#i gotta finish watching it - im on ep10#and i am giving updates to two people on discord as i watch and i like hearing#i have no idea whats going on but its a wild trip at least#and im like yeah trust me as the one watching it i also have no idea whats going on and its a fever dream without the fever#an acid trip without the acid#i really have NO idea what the intended audience is for this show but lewis the love of my life#i will never be over the time you said Nani - oh shit#because one of my favorite things to say to someone i know who has a major in japanese is#nani the fuck - BECAUSE IT INFURIATED HIM the first time i said it and he was so upset#now he expects it and is fine with it but the nani oh shit will live rent free ... thank you sir mr american i love you#also not to spoil anything even though i probably dont have the brain capacity to do so correctly#i really liked when someone was saying some weird stuff to him and he just says im sorry? in english#me in japan just saying im sorry feels like it would track thats me thats the american im sorry
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the trend of recent historical girls not coming with dolls of their own makes me sad not just because that was one of my absolute Favorite things that historical girl collections had, but because it feels like theres less of an emphasis of the historical girls being little girls. like im no big fan of courtney but there was something SO refreshing about her pajamas being a care bear nightgown and her coming with a care bear and a little ag doll of her own. a little girl doesnt always wear these stylish matching pjs: hell, i had a care bear nightgown when i was courtney's age!! little kids like toys!! even the characters in more serious stories like addy had toys that they loved and were just as special as anything else in their lives. like please just let these characters be little girls and enjoy things for children
#syd squeaks#I cant even imagine the twins having toys because theyre designed to look like they're 14 they dont seem like kids#will we ever get another sari. an ida bean. a clara??#american girl doll#american girl#ag
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The Same Fucking Bacterial Infection!!! Never went away!!! Just been here. Causing mischief. Since March.
Got IV antibiotics and a prescription for the strong shit since the last round apparently did fuck all.
Anyways I'm turning my chair around like I'm in a health PSA now, Don't drink yucky water or eat the food your beloved family cooks with the yucky water because it's the only water available in your hometown when you go visit for Easter.
#Posting this to let people know im fine. Im home and like all true Americans ive treated myself to meal from burger place#(its a milkshake and some french fries)#(didn't even get a burger dont tell ice)
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hi venture mains im here to tell you personally that their first legendary is going to be ugly as SIN and that is a GOOD thing actually.
queer people have been synonymous with dressing loud and garish and ugly for centuries at this point. its practically a form of communication for us, and its something that we have to continue to embrace to avoid being sanitized as a whole by society bc thats a fate worse than death if you ask me. and sloan "dirt-fucker" cameron is not someone who goes well with the word "sanitized".
its entirely and incredibly in character actually. they geek out at the very mention of anything historical. their default fit is a jacket thats like three sizes too big for them. they have a pet rock with a purple mohawk. they were associated with nothing but rock eating for like six months. they eat ice cream for dinner and call people "doofus". you're telling me someone like that wouldnt voluntarily choose to dress in the goofiest shit you can think when their whole shit is being a goofball?
they've lived in probably at least half a dozen small towns in the province of nova scotia (they are not from the city bc city kids don't grow up playing in the dirt), meaning i can say with every ounce of personal experience that 90% of their shit is thrifted and they consider something "nice" if its cheap and isnt covered in stains when they pull it off the rack. they'd wear a flannel over a hoodie on a windy day and 10 degrees celsius is t-shirt weather. they dont care about how they dress day-to-day bc nobody else they know does either, and that can translate to both casuality and confidence in flawless fashion.
"ugly" isn't an option we should be immediately disparaging of anyways. there is no separating "good" ugly from "bad" ugly in design, as any form of ugly can be made good looking despite what the adjective's conotations might have you believe. you look at the roadhog skin in the s13 battle pass and tell me its not so ugly that it wraps back around into being adorable. ugly should be approached with an open mind rather than being shunned bc its not what you wanted
tldr venture's first legendary deserves to be adorably and atrociously ugly for all the right and most in-character reasons you can think of and thats exactly what its going to be! i cant wait to see it <3
#if the american venture mains get to yammer about being slighted every time we get an announcement for literally anything#then a canadian venture main (esp one from the same province) is allowed to ramble in equal quantities with zero consequence /hj#overwatch#overwatch 2#venture#sloan cameron#madison speaks#i didnt mention it but i also want it to actually feel transformative and imaginative instead of just being an outfit change#like yeah some of the concepts i see are good but at the end of the day they feel like palette swaps instead of#something that takes their initial character and runs with the concept of repainting them in a different lightscape#which is what the best skins do (or at least most of the best ones)#this is a character whose attitude and boundless enthusiasm are the perfect device for framing them as a number of#different fantastical archetypes and pursuits. inserting them into worlds where they can fit as a new version of themselves rather than#just feeling like their regular personality and occupation were copy-pasted to fit in only the visual department#with the biggest hurdle being their unconventional weapon but that can be worked around if youre crafty enough#and yet most concepts i see dont even bother to change their hairstyle... oh well!
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london stationery haul for my stationery freaks !!! i went a little crazy with stationery on this trip but to my defense, it was all funded by my state tax return hehe... these are the various things i got, which i linked:
yellow hard shell charger case from London Graphic Centre
special edition totebag from London Review of Books
gallimard journal from Choosing Keeping
brass hand clip from Choosing Keeping (honestly my fave purchase on this trip !!)
vintage bus blind journal from Choosing Keeping
kaweco perkeo fountain pen and inks from Present & Correct
grid flatlay book from Present & Correct
the epicurean notebook from Magma London
i also visited Smythson of Bond Street and Mount Street Printers but they were out of my budget. beautiful places to get luxury stationery goods!
#i dont even want to calculate how much i spent don't do it for me#im an adult in my late 20s!!!#i also got another lrb tote bag for my mom for mother's day#except american mother's day is in 2 months and i didn't realize bc i was just following what the brits were doing#she told me to get her another gift then lolol#mine#studyblr#studyspo#study inspiration#tea-tuesday#study motivation#journals#pens#stationery#stationery freaks#london#london review of books#london graphic center#present & correct#choosing keeping
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im so glad we all agree avery has white hairs
#my art#dol#avery the businessperson#ugh the EVERYTHING is so hard to design#i HATE designing. cant even make my own ocs BEE TEE DUBS#i hate colors too#hope this is OKAY#maybe ill change it later im not sure#i wanted to make their hair more Gray but uwwaaaaagghhhh#tried a lot of things#but this seemed to work fine#oh but all white does look kind of awesome#but i dont know#if any of you have any suggestions ill be glad to get them#OH MY GOD. it was so hard not to draw The American Psycho or Hannibal. you dont understand#i dont know how to color the suit so :(
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A subtle way you can tell lestat is very selfish and ignorant about race, especially in ep 6 is that he said that they'd go to Argentina, a country which at the time was explicitly looking for white Europeans (including n*zis) to move there after spending decades pushing their black and Indigenous populations to the fringes of society to whiten up the country
#amc iwtv#iwtv#interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#like i dont think hes doing it on purpose#i think he saw somewhere that takes Europeans and he sees claudia and louis as extensions of himself so if he'll be welcomed they'll be too#like i genuinely dont think he thought of moving somewhere that wasnt as segregated for the sake of louis or claudia#and to give the barest of credit. there wereny many places they could both go#lestat isnt allowed in europe cus of armand and them and louis and claudia cant move unencumbered through most of the us bc of segregation#like the only place they could go in the us at the time as an interracial family is ohio (only state with intteraccial marriage in 1940)#and they couldnt even be out there#so i understand leaving the country but picking a place that is already pushing its black population further into the fringes#is just another way to control the movements of louis and claudia. even if lestat doesnt realise or have that intent#like if they decide to leave him when theyre in Argentina theyre literally boned. especially in the 40s when all the n*zis are coming#and tou can see this in other parts of their relationship. like lestat is ok taking louis' to operas where louis has to be a valet to get in#he says that their money had protected them from legal backlash for being gay but not really for louis being black#lestat not getting the multiple microagressions from the lawyer#hell lestat even says “if he had offended you i would have killed him”. implying he doesn't believe that louis had a right to be offended#like lestat is ignorant to race especially in the american context and especially especially in other countries#hes white and french. they invented racism like there is a non 0 chance he saw saarah baartman displayed in a traveling circus in france#like i dont think he is outwardly racist like the alderman or tom but hes ignorant as hell.#he probably didnt see his first black person until he was 25
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