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[fordford]

bhgbjkdljkfghdksjfgiuhgbdkjfg here. wedding outfits i designed months ago

[gooboogy]

BEHOLD: My Malevolent Big Bang pieces!

>>> Read the fic! It's an epic Pacific Rim AU!! <<<<

>>> No seriously go read the fic!!! it rules!! <<<

The big bang was a blast again this year, all the artists and the writer I was paired with were all so lovely to work with and their work is incredible. Also I'm obsessed with this fic it's so good and so tasty I was like "yeah sorry I might be slow reading this" and then I immediately inhaled it well into 2am lmao. Check it out!! Check out the other artists too!!

Writer: @threearmsally

Artist: @xenoglssie

Artist: @shadow0haven

Beta Read: @cappurrccino

@malevolentbigbang

[vulturequills]

pixel cat's end is pretty cool so far

[hiis-theme]

heehee fun gang. :3 i went slightly overboard on kris i think but that's partially just cuz i don't have any real ideas for susie's design and ralsei is already perfect. <3

[chungledown-bimothy]

[42-clocks]

New TransMasc & TransFem Flags

the trans feminine one was designed previously but uncredited and I designed the matching trans masculine one

Purple: relationship to one’s assigned gender or appearance, the mix of masculine and feminine, the trans experience

Blue: masculine gender and/or expression, man/male/boy/guy/masc

Pink: feminine gender and/or expression, woman/female/girl/femme/fem

White: non-binary, third gender, and/or other genders. as well as complex or fluctuating identities

further description under the break

I have a few qualms about the most popular transmasc and transfem flags which have lead to my redesign

for starters the use of 7 stripes distances itself from the base 5 stripe trans flag. in my design I wanted it to look like a version of the trans flag for easy recognition

the common trans masculine* flag shows shades of blue in the center with a contrasting pink stripe on the outermost top and bottom. this placement seemingly represents an internal masculine identity and an outer feminine appearance.

*this all inversely applies to the trans feminine flag as well, for the sake of simplicity I just described one

this framing was appealing to me early in my trans life but since being deeper into my transition, this allegory fails me. I feel more in tune with my outer appearance, rather than it being something of great dissonance. the bold pink stripes feel restrictive — which again, could be appealing to some but I don’t feel it’s as representative as it could be.

I decided to instead have the main color (blue/pink) towards the center to still allude to an internal identity, but have the outermost color be purple. this can represent; a mix of masculinity and femininity (and/or neutrality), transition (internally, socially, or physically), an outer appearance that may not be congruent to one’s gender, and broadly a trans person’s relationship to their past/assigned gender.

the white stripe can also represent many things including: non-binary or abinary genders, a complex or fluctuating identity (like multigender or genderfluid), and other influences to one’s gender like race or spirituality.

(back to crits of the popular flags,,) it’s also not immediately clear which one is trans masc and which one is trans fem, I always have to think about it for a minute to figure it out lol. so for my design I only used the main color for each individual flag (blue for masc, pink for fem) but still nodded to the ‘opposite gender’ in the purple stripe in each.

hopefully these new designs can be more visually inclusive and appealing to more people!

feel free to use!! :D

[the-avaricious-meddler]

Full ref of "Alizaben"! Both normal and in Parabola.

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

Io screenshots send post

[baratrongirl]

Pokémon Klavier and Apollo

Pokémon Violet and Scarlet have been released, and the Beans have been very busy playing. Pokémon Klavier and Apollo

Klavier does "the gay lean" towards a strange purple motorbike Pokémon.

Klavier rides Miraidon like a motorcycle. (For the love of Arceus, don't refer to it as a "hog".)

We caught our favourite derpy Pokémon!

Daryan, is that you?

We fought Team Star for the first time, and Klavier wondered if he might be on the wrong side.

At this point, we've played for 36 hours 15 minutes, caught 151 Pokémon, done 2 gyms, 1 Titan, and 1 Team Star base. Some of my friends are already finished - I have no idea how. The Beans and I play together for 2-4 hours a day and we are nowhere near done!

[juniperhillpatient]

Return to Omashu Re-watch

No thoughts, only mean teenage girls who could & would kill me

This is the episode where we get to see the formation of the Dangerous Ladies™ & it's exactly as iconic as I remember it. (To be fair, this is another episode that I've re-watched pretty frequently on its own.) The Girls Are Fighting & you should be scared!

So, Omashu has been taken by the Fire Nation & the Gaang are horrified. I think it's interesting that Katara & Sokka were basically like "Bumi is probably dead. Oh well, let's move on." Sokka is practical & always focused on moving ahead so it's not a surprising reaction for him but it's a little surprising from Katara. The trend for her character is to try to help everyone who might need it, & that would include a potentially lost or hurt Bumi. I'm theorizing that Katara's lack of interest in this project is a combination of her belief that Bumi is dead (although Katara is often more of an idealist) & her heavy focus on finding a new earth-bending teacher now. Also, this mission is personal to Aang. He's had so much taken from him. All he has left of his old life are Appa & Momo. So, of course, he wants to find the only friend he has left from the life he left behind.

Sokka's plan to fake 'Pentapox' is pretty funny & smart. Also, the Fire Nation guards yelling "PLAGUE!" when the earth kingdom citizens were heading toward them holding their hands out and groaning hit a LITTLE too close to home in light of recent years 😂

Azula's manipulative prowess is targeted at someone other than Zuko & Iroh & it's fascinating to watch. Azula's recruitment of Ty Lee is such a mind game. The audience is getting an ongoing introduction to an entirely new & much more dangerous type of villain than anything we had last season.

We would never see Zhao or Zuko subtly threatening someone the way Azula does Ty Lee, having the net set on fire at her show & the animals released then talking about excitement for the "next show." No, the other two main antagonists of the show thus far - Zuko and Zhao - are much more in your face. Azula could have ordered Ty Lee to join her, or she could have outright threatened to set her on fire, but she took a more careful and calculated approach. The only other character I could see taking a more subtle approach like this is Iroh.

In light of later revelations - that Azula believes "fear is the only way" to relate to people & that "trust is for fools" - as well as the knowledge that Azula does view Ty Lee & Mai as friends (I think this is shown clearly in their dynamic, but it's also proven by Azula's hallucination saying "your friends, Mai and Ty Lee") - I think that in a twisted way, Azula wanted this to seem like Ty Lee's choice. She didn't want to order Ty Lee to join her, she wanted this to feel like a friendship. Could she have understood that about herself or articulated it? I highly doubt it, but sometimes we don't understand our own emotions & motives. And of course - a disclaimer that this is my interpretation/theory.

Mai's recruitment is much more straightforward. Mai is miserable in Omashu. Her parents are busy doting on her baby brother, and she's constantly expected to act like a quiet good girl. She's bored, & she doesn't say it but probably lonely. Also - Mai loves violence. Mai's first encounter with the Gaang isn't even with Azula & Ty Lee, it's on her own, & she is excited to fight. Another interesting aspect of Mai's character is that she's 100% onboard right away with abandoning Tom Tom. I could see an argument that Mai was afraid to argue with Azula, but I don't buy it because there is no evidence for it. Ty Lee has clearly been intimidated into joining Azula, but we haven't seen that with Mai. So, I think that Mai just doesn't seem to care about her brother at all. This isn't a moral judgment on her by the way, just an observation.

The Dangerous Ladies Vs. The Gaang has to be one of the most exciting fights we've seen so far. Everyone's different styles are showcased & it's just amazing to watch. I think it's super interesting that Ty Lee almost kicks Sokka & Tom Tom off a building. She was ready to murder a baby & it's only cartoon logic & luck that she didn't!

Speaking of ready-to-murder - I'm fascinated by the different Fire Nation characters' approach to fighting Aang. I can't recall Zuko ever trying to kill Aang. He's been set on the whole "capture" thing. Zhao spells out to Aang that he won't kill him because it would just trigger a new Avatar. But there's no argument I can see that Azula is not trying to kill Aang during their fight in this episode. She is actively shooting fire at him, again & again. So, does she know that if he dies a new Avatar will be born? If Zhao knew, I have to assume Azula does. Of course, she does kill him (sorta) later, but we'll analyze that when we get to it. For now, I'm just saying that this is interesting. Azula is capable of a fighting style that doesn't go for the kill, or Zuko would've died during their last encounter. But, she chooses to go after Aang by shooting him with fire which would kill him if he failed to block or dodge her attacks. Super interesting to me.

Anyway, Aang's conversation with Bumi is very interesting to me. We learn about three of the apparent eighty-five 'jings.' Fighting is positive jing and retreating is a negative jing. Aang knows this, probably from his teachings with Gyatso, but Bumi explains that there's a third jing - neutral. I'm not sure how I feel about the argument that "doing nothing" is sometimes the best call. Bumi is a very interesting morally gray character. I understand what he was trying to say, & what the narrative was getting at, but still, Bumi abandoned his people when they needed him. I have a feeling I'll come back to the quote: "Your teacher will be someone who has mastered neutral jing. You need to find someone who waits and listens before striking." For now, though, those are my thoughts on the episode!

[rainbluealoekitten]

whatever i win

also me rn

[fordford]

so you know how in psychonauts you can use clairvoyance to see how other characters see you

yeah

[tophats-tea]

sliding scale of posts about Jesus being a carpenter who was nailed to a cross

[thinkingabout-girls]

[chungledown-bimothy]

Honestly really proud of these teams.

Currently workshopping trans and the rainbow, but balancing them without relying too heavily on the same handful of pokemon is proving to be harder than anticipated, which is fun ^_^

[cowsabungus]

Make pride accessible for everyone!!!!

I made a post about this last year and the year before, and thought if I did it this way it gives people and orgs something to work towards. Often people forget that disabled people aren't just wheelchair users, and even those who are, need more than just that ramp!

My first ever pride, not only as a wheelchair but my first ever EVER pride, I went in expecting to feel at home.

Obviously I wasn't, I'm disabled, so why should I?

Instead there was just a ridiculous amount of uneven flooring, a steep ramp to the disabled toilet, no sanitary towel bin in the disabled toilet (???) no allowances to be let out of the festival to fetch things from my car, no where quiet and organisers who seemed genuinely surprised to see a wheelchair user!

My next pride, three years later, I was a seller, and while they had sorted their toilet problem (still no sanitary towel bin???), the hill to get in wouod have been genuinely impossible for me to get to if I hadn't been driving to get my stall in anyway, even with someone pushing me, no quiet areas, plenty of kerbs for me to get stuck at and again, genuine surprise.

Why is it so surprising to consider disabled people might be at pride? Not only do queer disabled people exist, but parents and family of queer kids and people, vendors and even entertainers!

Making pride accessible is crucial!

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