#mickey rambles

[inked-dnd-doodles]

Update!

I've been very low activity for the past couple of months but good news! I'm still alive but now I have a degree, a new place and I have aged once again.

I'm trying to get a job rn since we've moved to a different state but I may open up commissions to help get some sort of money coming in on my end until I get stable work, I'll update my commission sheet to show off some of my work

See y'all soon!

[fireinanhourglass]

i really regret participating in the “queer survival is revolutionary in its own right” rhetoric when I was younger, i think its led to incredibly self-centered takes on liberation politics. the absolute disappointment and failure of identity politics as a basis for community solidarity over the past three months has been completely unbearable, with queer folks (especially white folks) smugly declaring our apathy towards genocide because we “care more about trans people in this country.” i will never give up on queer liberation, but this is truly making me rethink how i go about participating in local queer organizing.

i don’t think liberals have clocked the fact that the “first they came for…” poem is speaking to them and their politics directly. once you start justifying entire swaths of people as acceptable losses, you’ve secured the noose around your own neck. y’all are so eager to talk about “achievable” and “incremental” changes, not realizing the arrogance in deciding what is “achievable” and “incremental” as you speak over the dead and vulnerable (despite what MLK warned regarding “white moderates” over 50 years ago and their insistence that they define the timeline of other people’s freedom). your deepest, most personal issues will be on the chopping block someday — who will be left to speak for you?

[sunnyperkins]

i want to hold his hand so bad

[fireinanhourglass]

Taking the original post out of context is so fucking disgusting (THIS IS A FRACTION OF A REPLY THAT WAS WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO SOMEONE AND DID NOT CRITICIZE CRIMEW OR ITS WORK BUT INSTEAD THE WHITE, WESTERN REACTION TO IT FOR BEING JUVENILE), and posting that here where you could have just as easily made this worthless post with a generic strawman. Mocking a person of color from the global south expressing frustration and grief over the attitudes of white western leftists is so telling, and it’s frankly disgusting how many so-called leftists who claim international solidarity are reblogging this post uncritically. Even aside from OG context of the original post, what value does this straw-manning add to the discourse? This is a pathetic attempt to “dunk” on someone of lesser popularity (meaning the OG post/context will never have equal reach, and the OG writer will never have immediate community support like OP) to avoid self-reflection about the many, endless ways leftists continue to let the global south to rot while they make jokes about “feds” and “people not having the correct opinions on oppression” (often with the added layer of “oppression that doesn’t affect me personally, but if the people it DOES affect don’t 100% align with my view then I definitely have a right to police and mock their the emotions. Solidarity 🤪”)

YOU are the fuckers not taking crimew’s work seriously. THAT is what the original post is criticizing. YOU are making memes and jokes and not doing a goddamn thing about the no-fly list beyond making it a fucking talking point in your armchair discussions about leftist praxis. And when confronted with this, the OG writer got an endless cascade of self-justification from white US “leftists” arguing that humor was helping them “cope” — because using humor to cope with realities that only broadly affect you is fine, but expressing grief and frustration totally harshes the vibe and therefore worthy of mockery, evidently. The OG writer is not critiquing crimew -- she is criticizing YOU. And you are proving every word of the criticism by using crimew as your shield when all you've contributed to it is bullshit like this post.

To quote a separate post the OG writer made:

"'That’s not my experience of what we did' – we do not care. Your experience of your own actions, of how events unfolded for you and of our hurt and our suffering is utterly irrelevant. You do not get a say on whether you’re hurting us. You don’t get to police our tone and wording and anger. You don’t get to weigh in with your white guilt and white defensiveness and Western and white privilege and pathological need to be the Main Character in every situation. “Why is this so guilt-tripping” that’s your white guilt, Karen. The fact that you only just woke up to all the ways you’ve been asleep is your white privilege. Your inability to boost our voices and center us without any commentary and not speak for us is white supremacy. Your consistent focus on valorizing activists and advocates and centering white saviours is white supremacy. Your making money and fame off “raising awareness” and “educating” other people about our suffering is capitalist exploitation and white supremacy. You are not living through a “major historical event”, we are. Every damn day."

So if you're going to attack people without self-awareness, start screenshotting this post out of context and come after me. Nothing else is going to disappoint me more than this already has.

yeah you’re right i guess maia arson crimew is ‘profiting’ off of being “white and untouchable in Switzerland” if by that you mean “A wanted Interpol criminal who is now trapped in Switzerland for the rest of her life and will incur legal expenditures for as long as she is alive while the U.S. tries to find a way to dispose of her”. she was just a little bit too unserious when leaking the U.S. No Fly List though so i guess that means it’s ontologically evil

[aetheriumcrystals]

I am so good at making bad financial decisions!

[yeah-uh-the-pilot]

My entire neighbourhood was on fire but we were all like ‘ok ✌🏻’

[teddybeartoji]

imagine laying on top of toji while he's watching some lame sports match or show like an old man and rubbing the stubble forming on his jaw with your hand. he got lazy to shave for one day and it's already like this so ofc you'll get curious!! and it's very relaxing to bother him when there's nothing to do...

"have you ever tried growing a beard out?" and then he'll just answer you with a grunt. something special about him being an old grump i'm going to bite him

NONNIEEEE!!!! TOJI THE OLD MAN TOJI THE GRUMP MY BELOVED!!!!!!! btw i loooooove toji and his stupid old man shows – top gear, two and a half men, prison break, the mentalist (???) etc etc. and aside from the various sports matches, he also loves to watch wwe lmao.

toji absolutely adores when you "annoy" him. his one hand is resting under his head while the other holds the tv remote, and he is doing his Best to not look at you. you look like a pup, staring at him with curious eyes. the prickly feeling of his stubble is making your nose scrunch up every so often and thinks you're just so cute like this. he just grumbles at your questions but you don't mind. you refuse to stop pestering him.

you're tracing your fingers over his earlobes asking whether he'd ever get a piercing; you gently pull at his cheeks, so he's making a funny face and it's so entertaining. you're quite literally using him as a stim toy.

you press an open-mouthed kiss to the junction of his neck and he groans at your antics. but. he cannot hide the smirk that's stretching onto his lips. he drops the remote and moves to squish your cheeks instead. "y'r ridiculous."

"yaluvit." your words are coming out all slurred, his hold on you making it hard to speak properly.

he hums and you feel his whole body vibrate. you melt even further into him. the laugh track plays in the background and he takes his hand from your face. you pucker your lips at him, asking for a kiss with a big grin. but you're just met with a palm against your mouth and now it's your turn to grumble at him.

he's already so smug, proud to be pestering you back. but not for long. because when your warm, wet tongue slides against his palm, he's actually Yelping out. and you use the moment to grab his wrist and stop him from pulling away. sinking your teeth into the side of his hand, he stares at you amusedly.

"are ya a dog?"

"maybe."

there are teeth marks in his skin when you finally let him go and he doesn't waste a second to pinch your side. "behave."

"whatever." you mutter back, your attention back on his cactus-like chin. your soft fingers trail over his skin and he kind of hates to admit that he wants to kiss you stupid right now.

[fireinanhourglass]

I have been trying to find a nice way to respond to this post but I'm low on spoons so this is gonna be blunt, sorry

fascists are not goddamn fae creatures bound by precise wording. acting like the language could or would be reasonably interpreted to only mean "fetuses" is just pointless, no court of law would analyze the language of the bill that way. more importantly, this bill was not fucking designed to hurt infertile cis women. don't be obtuse

acting like this will seriously affect cis women is at best downplaying the transmisogyny foundational to the bill's existence. the notion that the state would use this law to prosecute an infertile cis woman for entering a women's bathroom is flat-out bullshit. at most a GNC cis woman may get arrested in a case of mistaken trans identity, but the state won't press charges or throw them into prison even if they also happen to be infertile: that isn't who the law is FOR

y'all need to recognize that laws are not enforced evenly by objective arbiters who can be moved by some clever loophole -- they are enforced with laser-like precision on marginalized communities by pigs and ghouls with vested political interests and agendas. this bill is an attempt to destroy trans women, point blank period. keep the discussion and urgency there

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, how the fuck would you even enforce that?

"Oh want to use the bathroom? I'll just need you to produce an egg real quick".

Reddit thread

[inked-dnd-doodles]

Do you only draw ttrpg characters or are other fandoms okay? Are there any you'd wanna avoid?

I'm okay drawing other characters of different Fandoms! I just tend to advertise drawing ttrpg characters since it's what I've done the most work with for commissions and what I tend to draw for myself when I have downtime between coms.

As for avoiding anything, I don't have anything that comes to mind outright fandom-wise that I would avoid besides what I already have stated in my commission sheet. Like drawing overly explicit stuff (though honestly I may change that one in the future) or overly detailed mecha.

[fireinanhourglass]

“hedwig and the angry inch” fucks me up everytime i watch it, which is amazing because there is not a single good song on that soundtrack

[sunnyperkins]

good luck ted lasso mutuals i hope you have a lovely time tonight!! see you on the other side!!!

[fireinanhourglass]

To cling to voting as a difficult but ‘effective’ strategy is so pathetically disconnected from reality at this point it is frankly offensive to see this on my dashboard. When I have watched our president — that one that liberals screamed at us to vote for, shouting LATER, LATER, WE CAN TALK ABOUT HIS PROBLEMS LATER - slaughter children in our name, to tell anyone to simply abstract those issues away and give him or his party another four years of power? To already admit that you will vote for genociders when the bodies in Gaza are not even cold?

I do think about the most vulnerable people in my life. I think of my Palestinian friends. I think of my Jewish friends. I think how they are both blood on the alter of The American Dream. How one of the great myths of this dream is the illusion of democracy and that your life can be saved through the ballot box alone. As if any rights withheld in this country, or in any country we terrorize, were ever granted by anything other than direct community action, solidarity, and resistance. By forcing the charade of democracy beneath the will of the people.

I heard many times that we vote Democrats in to hold them “accountable,” but these last several weeks have proven how permissive that rhetoric is. How so few of you have changed your stance as we collectively participate in ethnic cleansing, with our White House urging Israel to complete the slaughter ‘within weeks’ before public support runs out. With your mindset, there is no deadline for the White House to fear; you’ll vote them back in anyway. There’s no line they can cross that you cannot justify as a mercy against some vague Republican threat; a fear they know to exploit, as Democrats continue to empower more extreme right-wing candidates and slide further into conservatism themselves. Youngkin was their latest miscalculation in my home state; who was it in yours?

At some point you will have to imagine a solution that prioritizes things other than voting, because relying on your method alone has landed us here. Vote if you want, but don’t lie to yourself about the results. No one will thank you when those teeth you’ve polished so nicely bite into their throat next.

On Voting in America

So one of the most profound comments on routine chores that I've ever encountered was, hilariously, the Pickle Rick episode of "Rick & Morty," where (after a lot of shenanigans have already ensued) this therapist absolutely lays Rick out:

"I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is some people are okay going to work and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."

I think about this at least once a week — usually while I'm doing my laundry or sweeping or some other task that needs doing and won't get me anything more than clean clothing or a dog-hair-free floor. There's no Pulitzer for wiping down your microwave or scrubbing your toilet; no one's awarding you for getting all the dishes out of the sink. At best you have the satisfaction of crossing it off your list.

Voting is very much the same (and I'm talking about the US here, as an American). Sure, you sometimes get a sticker; but nobody's going to cheer for you. There's no adventure here, no potential for anything more than crossing something off of a list. It's a chore, something that needs doing in order to repair, maintain, and yes even clean. So I get why people don't like doing it.

And I've decided I don't give a shit.

Do it anyway. Your country takes astonishingly little from you — taxes, the once-in-a-blue-moon jury duty, and a theoretical draft that hasn't been used in over half a century and likely will never be again — but it asks you (asks! not requires! not demands!) to vote once a year. It's not always easy; especially in conservative states, the impediments to vote can be ridiculous. But it is once a year and unlike in our nation's all-too-recent past, you will not die if you do it.

In fact, the worst outcome from voting these days is that the person or issue that you vote for loses — but you won't know if they lose until after the election. Polls are less accurate now, for a whole host of reasons; you cannot know until after the election who or what will win. This makes your vote more valuable than possibly ever before.

Use that power. Not because it's exciting or even rewarding, but because your vote is what keeps our country's metaphorical teeth from falling out and our metaphorical ass from stinking.

Brush, wipe, vote.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

In The Call of Cthulhu the titular character is defeated by a steamboat. The story is in the public domain.

The Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse is also public domain.

Therefore it is legally possible and canon compliant for Mickey Mouse to defeat Cthulhu.

[aetheriumcrystals]

Bruh how the hell do people get so poetic in fics I'm dying here

[starry-nights-17]

As much as I get that the other Gallaghers have their own shit going on and the writers wanted to stay true to them being chaotic or whatever this whole scene and the following one still annoys me. Like Ians just got out of prison and they're all absent and disinterested...when Ian sits down in the house and realise he's alone (apart from a bunch of Mexican strangers) I get so sad (and mad). But I guess that's Ian all over, the forgotten middle child who they mostly ignored whenever he dissapeared or got sick. And then I think about if Ian was coming out of prison to a free Mickey, how different his experience would have been. His welcome home party was left up to Liam to organise, the youngest in a house full of adults. No way Mickey would have left Ian to come home to a house like that, he would have been planning his return for days, weeks, months. Just like he planned that anniversary party 😭❤😍

[fireinanhourglass]

@an-apple-devs-terrible-blog

Apologies for writing this as a rb -- seems tumblr wont let me properly comment this out in the notes, but i think consumerism may be the wrong term here. it sounds like you're assuming that alienation from commerce is equivalent to the alienation from community, and that is a whole separate discussion.

i’m not in the furry fandom, but when i was first breaking into my local punk scene i felt like a poser because i didn’t have the $$$, health, or social safety net to adopt a lot of the fashion/performative signifiers associated with the subculture. i saw folks with these gorgeous leather jackets, spending insane amounts to follow bands on tour, throwing themselves recklessly into mosh pits while i was on the sidelines in my shitty flannel shirts and secondhand jeans, waving ppl off if they tried to pull me into the pit bc getting rocked in the wrong spot could actually cripple me (not to mention the fucking medical debt).

but after i got over my new kid syndrome I realized a lot of the things i was envious of were just proxies for what i actually wanted. I thought owning/participating in signifiers of being punk would grant deeper access to the punk community: i thought i needed to “look” the part before people in the scene would see me as legitimate and worthy of building relationships with. Capitalism teaches us that money = access = community, but fan spaces (aside from corporate fan spaces, like Disney theme parks) don’t run on that logic. i made friends with people because we liked our music angry and hard and fast and that gave us something to talk about, not because i fit the group aesthetic and spent $$$ on classic vinyls.

this also ties back to your comments regarding mutual aid. if, again, you presuppose that alienation from commerce is equivalent to the alienation from community, then I can see the logic of framing this as a mutual aid problem. but the underlying assumption that money is a gateway to community is not true, despite what capitalism insists. mutual aid is not a workaround to resolve the capitalist lie that money = access = community by providing the requisite money. mutual aid is a tool to fight back against socio-economic threats to the sanctity of community relationships: if you need support, the first step is to find your people. you always can meet people and celebrate art and participate in fan culture while spending $0.**

there will always be shitheads who gatekeep communities based on ownership of commodities or adherence to certain social performances: they are worth your pity, not your time. but if you are feeling alienated from fandom community i want to reassure you that commerce as a gateway to meaningful connection is an illusion and a lie. your contribution, even just showing up, is enough. i hope being a furry is joyous for you

**i can empathize with feeling left out of events/activities/etc for being fucking broke. i can imagine wanting to see this as just a facet of a pre-established community: fundraisers for folks to get discounted tickets/lodging to conventions or sliding-scale prices for commissions based on income. i get it.

but when it comes to (non-corporate) fan spaces, the relationship between creator’s content and their livelihood is much more complex than the scope of this post, and therefore so are logistics of a fan community setting expectations of discounts/“aid.” again, can’t speak for the furries, but i will say i have seen plenty of fan spaces make a point to reduce financial barriers to paid content when possible -- itch.io even has that whole “discounted copy/community copy” feature where creators can upload content for fans otherwise unable to afford full-price. it’s in everyone’s best interest for fandom to be accessible, and i’m certain furry artists want you to be able to enjoy their work

Does the furry fandom have a consumerist problem? Like it can feel like I need to spend money to be apart of the fandom, otherwise I’d just be considered “a fan of furries”.

It is absolutely absurd to describe a community of artisans making money on their normal work as "consumerist", or rather, in any way that the world at large isn't already consumerist. Someone making bank off custom fursuit commissions isn't a member of the owning class, not any more than the lady doing your nails at the salon is. Maybe it's expensive and out of reach for a lot of people but that's not their problem, right? What do you propose be done about this