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[secondbeatsongs]

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

oh! oh, my god.

look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality

[ahaura]

Bones and All (2022) dir. Luca Guadagnino

Hélène Cixous, The Love of the Wolf

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Maud Ellmann, The Hunger Artists

Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams, “The Red Girl”

Marty McConnell, The Best American Poetry (2014) ed. David Lehman & Terrance Hayes, “vivisection (you’re going to break my heart)”

Start Web Weaving Text & Image IDs:

[Image ID (1 out of 6): Maren is eating Lee; the shot is focused on Maren. The shot is in black and white. End ID]

Hélène Cixous, The Love of the Wolf

[Text ID: I beg you, eat me up. Want me down to the marrow. End ID]

[Image ID (2 out of 6): Maren is clutching her father's father's coat to her chest on her bed as she cries, shortly after he abandons her. End ID]

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

[Text ID: I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it—to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once. End ID]

[Image ID (3 out of 6): Maren and Lee sit across from each other in a diner; Maren is not looking at Lee and Lee is looking at her as he drinks coffee. End ID]

Maud Ellmann, The Hunger Artists

[Text ID: Since sexuality originates in seating, it is always haunted by the imagery of ingestion, having neither an object nor a territory proper to itself. Yet eating, in its turn, exceeds the biological demand for nourishment, for it expresses the desire to possess the object unconditionally. The infant sees his stomach as a safe in which he hoards his loot, thus learning his first lessons in private property. The genesis of secrecy may also be attributed to eating, for it is well known that the best way to keep a secret is to eat the evidence. {Highlighted} The stomach is a place almost as private as the grave. {End Highlight} End ID]

[Image ID (4 out of 6): In the dark of night outside of their blue pickup truck, Lee holds Maren's face in his hand. His face is bloody; he is shirtless. Maren's face is not visible to the camera. End ID]

Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams, “The Red Girl”

[Text ID: I love you but there are things older and murkier than love. Things that live not in the heart but the entrails. I don’t want you to see me with the wolf. I don’t want you to see what he does to me. I don’t want you to see what I do to him. End ID]

[Image ID (5 out of 6): In daylight, Maren holds Lee; the viewer cannot see Lee's face. End ID]

Marty McConnell, The Best American Poetry (2014) ed. David Lehman & Terrance Hayes, “vivisection (you’re going to break my heart)”

[Text ID:When I say eat me I mean suck the bones clean, leave nothing

for the waiting, nothing for the vultures or the travelers to come. End ID]

[Image ID (6 out of 6): Maren is eating Lee; Maren's face is out of the shot but the viewer can see her hand on Lee's face as he screams. He is holding her hand to her face. The shot is in black and white. End ID]

End Web Weaving post Text & Image IDS.

[animaginaryartblog]

[Image ID:

A digital drawing of a redesigned Chip from Sonic Unleashed and Pretzel, an OC based on Dark Gaia. A semi-transparent image of a redesigned Sonic is set to the side for scale, showing both Chip and Pretzel as barely reaching his hip.

Chip is a short, chubby creature, somewhat resembling an anthropomorphic dog. He is primarily red, with creamy white on his muzzle, inside his ears, on his underbelly, and on his paws and tail. He is very fluffy, especially on his ears and tail. He has a fluffy white crest on top of his head. His eyes are small (for a Sonic character), with perfectly round pupils, like a bird's. He has a ruff of white fur around his neck, with a round green bauble hanging from it like a necklace. He has slender, insect-like wings that are the same color of green.

Pretzel has a similar build to Chip, though she is slightly taller and ganglier, with especially long arms. She looks more like a cat, with a shorter muzzle and small pointed ears. She has a long, thin tail, curled into an almost pretzel-like shape. She is primarily dark purple, with pale blue inside her ears, on her muzzle, on her underbelly, and on her paws. She has bat wings, the same dark purple as the rest of her. She also has fluffy pink tufts on top of her head, on her wrists, and on her ankle. On her forehead is a crescent shaped broken piece of the same orb Chip has on his chest, though Pretzel's piece is a much darker green, matching her eyes.

Sketches on the top of the page show what Chip and Pretzel's heads look like from the side. An additional drawing shows a round green orb with cracks, then the same orb split into two uneven pieces. One side, seen from above, matches Chip's orb. The other, a slim crescent piece, matches the one on Pretzel's forehead, albeit a lighter color.

The second image is the same drawing as before, but now there are additional details on Chip and Pretzel's designs.

Chip has gained an additional pair of ears, and his tail is longer, with a fluffy gold-and-white tip. The tuft on his head is bigger, golden and flame-shaped. has a golden sun emblem floating above his forehead. Similar golden shapes float around his eyes, wrists, and ankles. His pupils now have light green at their center where previously they were pure gold. His green wings are now edged in gold.

Pretzel now has a third eye on her forehead, pure black with a glowing blue pupil and glowing blue crescent shapes framing it. The fragment on her forehead has shifted down to her neck, matching Whip's orb. Her head tuft, like Whip's has become bigger and more flame-like. Her wings have more clearly defined arms, as well as dragon-like claws at their tips. Glowing blue markings surround her eyes and dot her cheeks, lower limbs, and paws, as well as streaking the undersides of her wings.

/end ID]

[Image ID: A digital drawing of a redesigned Sonic the Hedgehog and Pretzel, the OC from the previous two images.

The redesigned Sonic has a pointier muzzle, larger ears, and long, slender quills clearly defined from his fur. Said fur is light blue, while his quills are a darker shade. He has dark brown fur inside his ears, as a "mask" on his face, on his underbelly, and on the outsides of his legs and arms. He wears white gloves with red cuffs in addition to his classic shoes, which have had the cuffs unrolled to look more like boots.

In the colored drawing on the left, Sonic stands with one hand on his hip, looking at Pretzel with a cheeky grin. Pretzel flies beside him at eye level, arms folded and expression unimpressed.

Two additional black-and-white sketches are on the right side of the page. In the top one Sonic grins proudly, while Pretzel, slung across his shoulders, glares at him with annoyance. In the bottom one Pretzel is lying on top of Sonic's head. They are both looking the same direction with equally tired, unimpressed expressions. /end ID]

[Image ID:

A digital drawing of Pretzel, the OC described previously, and Sonic the Hedgecat, a new form of Sonic similar to the Werehog.

As the Hedgecat, Sonic's already light blue fur has become paler, almost white. His green eyes have become more yellow-tinted, and his quills have turned orange. His body as a whole is slimmer and lankier, and his ears are taller and pointier. His shoes have become heeled boots. He has green wings on his back, like Chip's, and a long, lion-like tail with an orange tuft on its tip.

The hedgecat walks with his hands folded behind his back and wings hanging like a cape. He looks down at Pretzel with a grin that shows his fangs, his eyes bright and devoid of pupils. Pretzel is hunched over, barely reaching to his knees, with her wings raised around her protectively. She looks up at him with anger and fear, ears back and fangs showing. /end ID]

of course I gotta redesign my girl Pretzel too. I've been mentally rotating a Sonic Leashed rewrite in comic form for a while now, but I keep telling myself to wait till the series is finished, then start rewriting.

that said, I have been thinking about doing a comic mock-up of some kind as a sort of test run for these redesigns... we'll see. regular Sonic and Pretzel I'm pretty solid on, but the scene I've got in mind involves the hedgecat, which still needs some work for the new design. we're getting there.

bonus sketches and additional Pretzel and Whip color palettes I was considering below

[Image ID: The same drawing as the very first two images, with Pretzel and Whip, but with different palettes for them both. The first gives Pretzel a darker grey muzzle and underbelly. The second makes her a lighter purple, with darker purple on her muzzle and underbelly. The third leaves Pretzel unchanged from the original version, but gives Whip a dark brown muzzle and underbelly, as well as making the tuft of fur on his head and his tail yellow. The fourth is the same as the third, but with a lighter shade of brown for Whip's markings. /end ID]

[Image ID: several black-and-white sketches of Pretzel in different poses. There is one sketch of Whip in the top left with his wings and arms spread, one leg bent, and a bright smile on his face. To the right of this drawing is one of Pretzel standing awkwardly, looking to the side with a disturbed expression. To the right of this is a larger drawing of Pretzel, flying with one leg curled beneath her and one hand raised as she looks up with an annoyed expression. To the left of this is a sketch of Pretzel on all fours, wings raised as she hisses like a cat. Finally, in the bottom left corner is a sketch of Pretzel sitting like a cat, head tilted to the side and a mistrustful expression on her face. /end ID]

[Image ID: several black-and-white digital sketches of Pretzel in various poses and expressions. In the top left she sits like a cat, glaring upwards. Below that she stands on two legs, arms folded, one leg kicked back, glaring at something behind her. To the right of this is a drawing of her flying, arms folded as she rolls her eyes.

Near the middle is a sketch of just Pretzel's head and shoulders as she looks upwards with an expression of shock. Top center is a drawing of her head and shoulders in profile, a snarl twisting her muzzle. Next to it is a drawing of her resting her chin on her arm, smiling mischievously as she sticks out a snake-like tongue. In the top right is another drawing of Pretzel in profile, glaring. Below that is a drawing of her looking concerned; next to that, one of her looking to the side; below that, another profile shot, and next to that, her glancing to the side. /end ID]

[Image ID: a digital black-and-white sketch of Pretzel and Whip, both flying in the air. Pretzel is on the left, arms folded and legs bent under her as she looks up with a skeptical frown. On the right, Whip has his arms extended, one leg bent under him as he beams up at the sky. Pretzel's irises are large and pure black, while Whip's are small and have no pupils. /end ID]

[Image ID: a digital drawing of Sonic in his werehog form on the left and his hedgecat form on the right. The werehog has large, pure black irises, like Pretzel. He looks perturbed. The hedgecat's quills bush out like a lion's mane, and wings like Whip's hang from his back like a cape. His irises are pupil-less, like Whip's, and he grins broadly. /end ID]

[Image ID: several rough black-and-white sketches of a monstrous form of Light Gaia. The first, in the top left, gives it a bird-like head with a multitude of pointed ears, pointed wings, and bird-like legs. In the top left it retains the bird-like head, but now has a more quadrapedal body, with three pairs of legs and three corresponding pairs of wings. Its fanged mouth runs further up its beak than should be natural, stretching even past its eyes. In the bottom left is a drawing of Light Gaia with its beak parted and additional openings on its cheeks. Finally, the bottom right shows two images of Light Gaia's head in profile. The first shows a smooth, almost statuesque bird head with elegant pointed ears. In the second image, its head has been split by its fanged mouth, with additional mouths on its forehead and neck. /end ID]

[Image ID: a black-and-white digital sketch of Sonic in his hedgecat form. He holds Pretzel up by her throat, looking up at her with a fanged grin as she scowls down at him. His eyes have no pupils. /end ID]

hmmm... might revisit that last one...

[spntoxicfemslashevent]

annamary

ANNAMARY

[id: a screenshot of a tweet. the text reads "malewife this, malewife that, enough! i want girlhusband']

[describe-things]

[ID: A photo of a bottle of Kraft Classic Caesar salad dressing on a table, with a kitchen knife stabbed straight through the back, leaking dressing down the blade. End ID.]

[ahaura]

Elizabeth Magill (Irish, b. 1959), Sleep, 2022, mixed medium on canvas, 58.25 × 50.5 in

Tony Barnstone, "Nightmare Kiss"

[Image ID: A painting depicting a scene of barren, dark trees against a backdrop of dark-red sky. End ID]

[Text ID: The middle of a kiss, and though he opened his jaw up wide and wider, her own small jawbones gave a little crack and stuck, and look what happened: as if she’d fallen in an open grave, he swallowed her at last, and then she wandered in a dark saturated country where the red land throbbed with capillaries under electric stars. A kiss had brought her there, a simple kiss that rained and filled her head with blood, a nightmare kiss, a wrong man kiss; why had she kissed a man with such a mouth, with such thick teeth and jaws, such tongue, instead of kissing someone who would let her out, kissing someone nicer, who ate less. End ID]

[earhartsease]

this is so on the nose

just adding (since it seems to have stirred some people up) that obviously this is not an absolute - it just points to how some oppressive systems (for example) rely on bad faith to cover for their systems doing what they're really intended to do by claiming that they're still in progress - but there are plenty of other less bad faith examples too that are more to do with poorly thought out or poorly implemented plans

[ID: post by The Garantine quoting the start of a wikipedia article

Very tired of hearing about what the intentions are. If a system constantly produces a different outcome than the one it is "intended" for then it's perfectly reasonable to assume the actual intention is the outcome it continues to produce.

beginning of quoted article below reads as follows:

The purpose of a system is what it does

The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." The term is widely used by systems theorists, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behavior is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behavior with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.

ID ends]

[cy-cyborg]

Free Manual Wheelchair Reference Models

ID: A banner with grey 3D models of 5 kinds of manual wheelchairs in a line in front of the disability pride flag and text that reads "Manual Wheelchair References" /End ID

For disability pride month, I decided to release a pack of 3D manual wheelchair models.

The pack includes 5 wheelchairs:

2 Active urban-style chairs (one of which includes a smart drive)

1 off-road active chair

1 children's wheelchair

and 1 standard "hospital" wheelchair).

All the wheelchairs are based off either wheelchairs I or friends of mine have used

Downloadable here!

or on the Clip Studio Paint Asset Store (ID 2097442) (there's been an issue with the CSP version, but the models in the download folder can be imported into clip studio paint until I can fix it)

More info about the download contents below:

The first download link includes the original .Blend file with all 5 chairs, as well as individual .obj or .fbx files the chairs (All but 1 have an .obj file, as they're only meshes. The chair with the smart drive is rigged, which is why it has an .Fbx file instead so it will retain that information) as well as a "read me" file that explains in more depth what kind of disability/character/lifestyle each chair is made for (These are just what I had in mind when I designed them, they are usable by other characters who don't fit the suggestions for the most part!) I wanted to include the Read Me contents in the CSP Asset Store listing, but CS said it was too long lol.

Also, as the title says, these files are free to use! While it's not mandatory, I would appreciate credit if you use them (or even just a tag so I can see the cool art you make with them!!)

I actually made these ages ago, the original plan was to use them in a series of posts then release the pack, but I never got around to making the series and so they've just been sitting here. I took a day off from art fight attacks to clean them all up and get them ready to post. If you experience any issues, let me know and I'll try to fix it up.

I had a couple more that were supposed to be in the pack including a sports (basketball/Tennis) wheelchair and some different styles of wheelchair, but I think the files corrupted so once I fix (or remake) them, I'll probably make a second pack.

If you have any issues, please let me know!

[describe-things]

[Video description: An animation made entirely with needle felt work and the animator's hand, complete with sound effects and music.

First we see a wafflemaker sitting on a crowded counter, with the relatively giant hand of the animator coming over with a tiny butterknife to scoop butter from a dish next to the wafflemaker, then spreading the butter on the hot metal, complete with sizzling noises, and some of the yellow fibers fluffing up behind like steam.

Cheerful, upbeat quiet music begins to play, and the hand then picks up a yellow and white bowl from the background, and pours yellow batter fiber onto the waffle iron until it pools, then puts the bowl back down, and closes the lid of the iron, which emits a hissing noise and a puff of steam from the sides. On the top of the iron are details of a grey display and red and green button.

After a moment, the green light turns on with a ding, and the hand opens the iron to show a cooked needle felted waffle. The camera zooms in on the waffle before it is removed, and we see the detailed grid surface of the waffle iron behind it.

The camera moves to another counter, where more needle felt bowls, dishes, and even hanging knives on a wall are.

The hand picks up an egg and cracks it into a bowl, then the camera zooms in again as they crack another egg. Each time, a detailed, extremely tiny needle felted yolk and egg white fall out and into the bowl.

The camera then lifts up above the bowl as the person picks up a felted whisk and begins to beat the eggs, turning them into solid gold fibers.

Then the bowl is picked up, and poured into a larger orange bowl next to it that is filled part way with sugar, from a bag behind it that has a purple sugar label on it, with the word spelled out clearly despite how small it is.

The camera shifts to another angle, and the hand brings in a box of milk and pours some into the bowl, then picks up a wooden spoon from one of the felt jars in the background, and stirs the new mixture up.

As they remove the wooden spoon from the bowl, one drop of batter escapes and splashes on the counter.

The camera moves again, on the same section of counter but zoomed back more to show the oven behind it, with a bundt cake pan waiting. (The cake pan is rippled like a flower or the lower half of a pumpkin, with a round cut out in the center.)

The stove is decorated with black spiral burners, a small dish cloth hanging from the front, and behind and above it is a rope of garlic, and measuring cups hanging from the bottom of more cabinets.

The hand pours the prepared batter into the bundt pan, and opens the oven, with the squeak of metal, and places the cake pan inside on the tiny wire rack before closing the door again.

The camera shifts again to zoom in on a small timer on the back of the stove, which the hand twists with the click of a spring. The tick of a mechanical timer joins the audio as an orange saucepan is placed on the front burner, and some sugar poured in. This is stirred with another wooden spoon, and quickly comes to a golden boil.

The timer goes off, and the hand opens the oven door to remove the cake with a burst of steam while the caramel on the stove continues to bubble away.

The camera now moves to a table, where a cake stand has been set up. The bundt cake is tipped onto the stand, then the orange sauce pan is brought over to pour the caramel over top.

We then see a kitchen sink, where the hand is washing the orange pot and whisk in soapy suds with a tiny blue sponge, with squeaky noises of the sponge on the rim of the pot.

The camera then shows a small wooden cutting board with two lemons, and a tiny knife is used to cut both of them in half with a metalic noise of the knife.

Then we zoom in on a tiny citrus juicer, already with some yellow strands in the bottom. A slice of lemon is picked up and scrubbed

against the top, releasing more juice into the bottom.

The camera zooms out again and shows us a pitcher next to the juicer, and the hand is holding a blue ice cube tray in both thumbs and forefinger, bending it to loosen the ice cubes inside, before pouring them into the jug with a clatter.

The lemon juice from the juicer is added, then three squeezes of honey from a bear-shaped container.

The jug is then brought over to the sink, and water added until it is filled.

We zoom in on the pitcher after it is placed on a counter, and can see some ice cubes floating atop the pale yellow fibers. A wooden spoon is brought over to stir it with a swish.

With a swish and the clatter of ice cubes, some of the lemonade is poured into a small glass next to the jug.

We then zoom in on the side of this glass as a tiny slice of lemon is placed on the edge.

Lastly, a green sprig of mint is added, and credits begin to roll:

Animation by andrea.animates

Music production by Goldstein

Sound design by Richard Gould.

The video ends.

End video description.]

x

[aropride]

i nerfed this post bc of the stupid addition but you can reblog the new version here

going to start saying people "obviously aren't in a romantic relationship, they have something deeper and more intimate going on" to confuse and upset alloromantics

(ID: a banner with an aro pride flag in the background, with small text above and below large text dripping in green goo reading, "this post is about hating the hierarchical system of relationships". the top text reads "idc abt blorbotags go wild but" and the bottom text reads "& if you're mad about it you've probably been poisoned by ace discourse brainworms. and are also proving my point." end ID)

[pixelpastry]

eSIMS are still being requested / gazaesims.com

As of 8 AM 1/22. Nomad and Holafly are most needed to be sent to gazaesims@gmail.com

Instructions for purchasing and sending an eSim can be found here (this zine is featured on the site and can be downloaded to hand out/distribute/etc)

More instructions summarized by gothhabiba can be found on this post as well

(posted by @Mirna_elhelbawi via twitter)

[Image 1: To the left is a list of instructions. The title reads, "Buy an E-sim!!" Under the title, the list goes, "1. Nomad and Holafly most needed (guide linked) 2. Send QR code screenshot to gazaesims@gmail.com (direct email linked) 3. All GB amounts are helpful - the more the better!!" To the right is an artistic design of a Palestinian flag, a dove carrying an olive branch with the words Free Palestine on it's wings and the motif of a keffiyeh.

Image 2: The image contains text that has "Let's Keep Gaza Connected" as a title. Underneath, it reads "Nomad (regional Middle East) Use promotional code NOMADCNG for discount". Below this is written, "Holafly (Israel) and (Egypt) Use promotional code HOLACNG for discount". At the bottom of the image, the message "Send QR code screenshot to: gazaesims@gmail.com" is written.]

id provided by mysteriousbeetle !

[androdragynous]

Please forgive how horrifically this was recorded (the screen reader mutes itself in recordings, which made it entirely useless for this post, which required a second camera) but I wanted to show people what alt text Actually Does for screen readers because I think a lot more people would take the time to add it if they knew why.

This is how the default screen reader function built into my phone "reads" an image, one without alt text and one with.

(I can't add alt text description to videos, it seems, which feels a little ironic given the post.)

When the first image, without alt text, is selected by a screen reader, it just reads out "photo".

When the second image, with alt text, is selected, it reads out the alt text - in this case, "A blurry picture of a gray tabby cat sitting on a white carpeted floor.".

Being able to use alt text is far easier on screen readers because the image is a larger object to select - descriptions in plain text below an image are still helpful, but require enough vision to accurately select, and enough vision to know they're an image description to begin with.

So please, when possible, add alt text to photos, art, and screenshots you're uploading! A lot of phones can copy text from images now, which is how I add image IDs to other people's text heavy posts - there's really no reason to post a bunch of text heavy screencaps and not at least copy and paste the text into the alt text, and it makes a huge difference for accessibility.

Thank you! ^w^

[rjalker]

[ID: Digital art showing two arms tenderly clasping pinkies. One arm is in the colors of the trans pride flag: blue, pink, white, pink, and blue. The other is in the colors of a lesbian pride flag: Dark red, red, pale pink, white, purple, dark purple, and dark red-purple. End ID.]

lesbians love and support our trans sisters 💖💖

*edit 12/20/19: this post is made by a trans-inclusive nonbinary dyke to show that trans women are an important and well loved part of the lesbian community. this is not about “afab solidarity” or solidarity between trans men and lesbians or any other transphobic bs, as many terfs have tried to claim on this post. this is just a cute positive post for trans lesbians. this is also not a truscum/transmed friendly post. there is no transphobic gatekeeping welcome here.

**edit 5/22/22: this was literally made before the orange and pink lesbian flag was even created. check the timestamp it was posted before saying anything about the flag choice. it wasn’t me “choosing” to use the pink flag, it was that the pink flag was the mainstream lesbian flag in use at the time this art was created

[poniesart]

Here is a little comic I made about some thoughts I’ve been having recently. I don’t ID as transmasc, and I have noticed that since I’m nonbinary and AFAB, some people in queer circles (online and irl) label me as transmasc! This has increased since I started T. Much love to my transmasc siblings, but I don’t identify with that term, and it misgenders me.

I figured if there’s not a lot of acknowledgement or discussion about non-transmasc and non-transfem people who physically transition, I can make some myself :)

Thank you to @/rjalker for the ID below!

[ID: A nine panel comic, done is low-saturated colors, mostly featuring soft yellow and shades of blue and purple.

Panel 1 reads, "I am an AFAB trans person on T." showing a surface with a towel, and an open packet that reads, "1% 25mg".

Panel 2 continues: "And I'm not transmasc." and shows a rainbow flag, and a nonbinary flag hanging above some jewelry.

Panel 3 shows a person walking on a hill, the sky pale yellow and the ground in shades of blue. It reads, "My gender isn't woman, or man, or adjacent to either, or neutra/ 'in-between'." The venus and mars symbols float in the air, in red and blue.

Panel's 4, 5, and 6 read, "It's a separate, other, gender." Showing shoes worn under a light blue skirt, a person wearing a shirt, jeans, and vest waving, and a person without clothes floating among stars.

Panel 7 reads, "Queer people who know I'm on T, or even just know that I'm AFAB, often think I'm transmasc." "They label my experiences automatucally." The same person from before is shown between the two sentences, sweating nervously as though being trapped.

Panel 8 reads, "It feels like misgendering. From people who should know better." The person is shown sittign facing away from the camera, head bowed, lifting one arm across zir shoulder, where half a dozen flags have been stabbed into zir back like arrows, all dark blue, and marked with either the blue mars, or pink venus symbol.

Panel 9 reads, "'Masculinizing' HRT doesn't mean I'm transmasc." Next to a small picture of the person smiling away from the camera, wearing blue glasses, with stubble on zir chin. The next small image is of the chemical symbols for testosterone, with text next to it that reads, "It doesn't mean my gender is male, or male-adjacent." Followed by another small picture of the person, smiling with hearts next to zir face, wearing the nonbinary pride flag like a blanket or cape.

The yellow background fades downward into the nonbinary flag, with stripes of yellow, white, purple, and black, here with the purple and black in shades of blue. The text reads, above a final drawing of the person, wearing a pink sweater and a blue skirt, smiling up at the camera and surrounded by small sparkles, "It just means I'm a nonbinary, genderqueer person who is becoming more like zirself. And that just happens to involve HRT!" with a smiley face emoji at the end.

End ID.]

[razzafrazzle]

okie miku!! or more specifically texoma miku bc I have no clue what happens up near the panhandle </3 she's chahta also. more like hatsune maka

[image description: a page of drawings of a oklahoma-themed design for hatsune miku, where she is darker-skinned, wears beaded earrings, and has visible tan lines. on the right is a full-body drawing of her wearing a university of oklahoma shirt and boots, where she is carrying a braum's bag and shake with a thought bubble reading "damn texas drivers". on the left are a drawing of her in an okc thunder shirt, where she is holding a beer in one hand and doing a downwards longhorns gesture with the other. below that is a scene of miku sleeping in a lawn chair in a field with a tornado occurring in the distance. end id]

[fishsfailureson]

"What is to come"

(image id is both in the alt text and below the read more- I put it under one because it's incredibly long)

And so there we have it, the 200+ followers artpiece that I have been working on for several days, if I had to guess I'd say it took 25 or so hours over eleven days. Honestly it's so surreal to me that I'm here with over 200 followers (260 as of typing this- yes, I procrastinated on this), especially when I only hit 100 followers in February. It's genuinely really nice to know that people are actually interested in my art (before anyone brings up spam bots- I know there are a few of them amongst my followers but I've checked most of them and I am 100% confident that over 200 of them are real). I don't really have much else to say really- I'm just grateful to have the support. Thanks y'all :).

[Image id: a large, lineless digital drawing of several dinosaurs. It is nighttime. At the bottom of the piece, a lone Eoraptor lunensis is walking across the floodplains- both the ground and the Eoraptor are just silhouettes, the early dinosaur has been given protofeathers. The full moon is shining, it's size is exaggerated for artistic affect. Behind the moon, the heads of sixteen different dinosaurs can be seen (listed left to right, bottom to top) Row 1- Thecodontosaurus antiquus (small sauropodomorph with light brown protofeathers, near-white undersides, straight stripes that are moderately darker than the base colour and vibrant green eyes), Coelophysis bauri (small early theropod with a long and narrow skull, its protofeathers are golden and black. A soft orange stripe runs across the back of its head, it has warm brown eyes. Row 2- Plateosaurus trossingensis (long-necked sauropodomorph, it has reddish-brown scales, light undersides, triangular stripes running down it's spine that get bigger the further down they get and pale yellow eyes), Heterodontosaurus tuckii (small ornithopod with a hooked grey beak. It has spiky green feathers, a lighter chest and a darker stripe running along its head and back, there are three small spots on its face, two behind the eye and one infront of it, it's eyes are bright yellow). Row 3- Megalosaurus bucklandii (medium-sized theropod with warm brown feathers, lighter undersides, dark spots and bright yellow eyes, there are several scars on its face), Brachiosaurus altithorax (greenish-grey true sauropod with lighter undersides, a dark pink patch on its throat, dark desaturated brown eyes and a few small scars on its neck), Archaeopteryx (early toothed bird with a black head, white neck and bright yellow eyes). Row 4- Hylaeosaurus armatus (pale brown ankylosaur with lighter undersides and vibrant green eyes), Velociraptor mongoliensis (dromaeosaur with light brown feathers, a lighter chest, a black stripe near its eye and light green eyes), Sinosauropteryx prima (small compsognathid theropod with ginger protofeathers, an off white mask and undersides and pale yellow eyes), Iguanodon bernissartensis (large greenish-grey ornithopod with a slightly darker back, pale undersides, a grey beak, and yellow eyes). Row 5- Matuku otagoense (heron with medium grey feathers and a small crest. A red stripe runs from just behind its nostrils to about a third of the way down its neck. Its undersides are white, its beak is grey and its eyes are brown), Triceratops prorsus (three-horned ceratopsian with grey-brown scales, lighter undersides, two triangular stripes between it's brow and nasal horns, reddish-orange diamond-like stripes on its frill, a hooked grey beak and golden eyes. Its brow horns curve forward at the base. Row 6- North Island brown kiwi (plump brown bird with a long pale beak, whiskers and black eyes, its nostrils are at the tip of its bill, and unlike the other dinosaurs in the sky part of its body below the neck is visible), male house sparrow (small redish-brown and grey bird with a black bib below it's bill), it has brown eyes and a dark grey bill. Row 7- rock dove (grey bird with iridescent green feathers scattered across its neck, a dark grey beak, and warm brown eyes). end id]