#not the first and not the last
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I have a similar-ish story
A lot of people with queer family members grew up not knowing that their family member is/was queer because no one told them, but in my case I was the only one of the nieces and nephews who this didn't happen too lol. A story from my aunts, Zoë and Gigi; when I was maybe five I wanted to ask Gigi where Zoë was. I was really bad at names (still am) so I said "Where is your wife?" My family didn't explain to any of the kids what kind of relationship they had, and especially not to me bc I was the youngest. So this made everyone pause for a moment until Zoë came into the room and I hugged her.
They told me this a few years ago well after I found out I was queer and over a decade after they found out as well!
Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?
Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.
All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)
But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.
But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.
I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?
It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.
Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.
Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)
#felix txt.#sorry to intrude on your post#my aunts#lgbt family#our people#not the first and not the last
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I was cooking on twitter today
#this is not the first rich housewife she’s done this to and she won’t be the last#gravity falls#gravity falls oc#priscilla northwest#pacifica northwest#preston northwest
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"You just have to look closely."
#anyway how we're feeling with this last episode folks#my art#tadc#fanart#the amazing digital circus#art#i had been meaning to draw this comic for a while but never had the energy for it#i got a burst of inspiration from the episode#tadc fanart#tadc kinger#tadc queenie#kinger x queenie#tadc episode 3#tadc spoilers#kinger tadc#kinger#btw sorry for any gramatical mistakes english aint my first language my bad#comic#tadc comic#i don't know if kinger and his wife knew each other before the circus but going with the yes option just because
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Arsonist's Lullaby
#atla#zuko#avatar the last airbender#azula#ozai#atla ursa#fire nation royal family#fire hazard siblings#arsonist's lullaby#atla art#atla fanart#atla azula#azula art#azula fanart#zuko fanart#fire lord zuko#zuko alone#prince zuko#atla zuko#zuko art#ponytail zuko#fire lord ozai#atla ursa fanart#princess ursa#atla ursa art#atla ozai#hozier#fire nation#This is the very first ATLA artwork I ever made. It's originally six pages long. These are the only properly finished ones#I've been wanting to share this for so long! I can't believe it's finally time for you guys to see it
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#For me#green or blue#almost always#But I would eat any one of them if they didn’t have those two#Purple will unfortunately be eaten last 😔#That is just the way of the world#What you eatin first#rey rambles#lmao#lol#meme#memes#dumb shit#funny#funny memes#relatable memes#twitter meme#funny meme#tumblr memes#dank memes#best memes#humor#haha#jokes#meme humor#meme page#meme energy#funny post#funny stuff#funny shit
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Happy pride
#this is actually a redraw from a while back#i realized there was the perfect toph joke and i squandered my opportunity so i was morally obligated to try again#also the first time people got mad that i said yaoi so heres hoping a 2024 audience will like it more#atla#avatar the last airbender#avatar#aang#katara#zuko#sokka#ty lee#avatar mai#toph#kataang#zukka#mailee
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DANDADANDADANDADAN 👽👻
#dandadan#dan da dan#ダンダダン#momo ayase#okarun#ken takakura#my art#cat and i watched the first episode last night and wowwww wowowowow. awesome
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ALEX PLEASE! I CAN'T TAKE HANDLE THIS MUCH BABY BILL CONTENT IN ONE YEAR! 😭🥺
"These horrible wretched babies birthed from the pen of Emmy Cicierega."
#gravity falls#alex hirsch#The Book of Bill#bill cipher#baby bill cipher#baby bill#gravity falls fandom#LaLaLaLaLa#Halloween#Cipherween#Book of Bill#alex why are you doing this to me#He look so wholesome yet also punchable#ALSO THERE'S A CODE ON HIS HAT#OMG#The cuteness it's too much#dipper and mabel#mabel#dipper pines#mabel pines#grunkle stan#Ford Pines#Stanford Pines#Grunkle Ford#That last Bill is him on his first Halloween after destroying Euclydia#He learned why his parents wouldn't let him eat all the candy the hard way
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patrol is fun :DD
#akpsdj this took so long#NOT SHIP ART !!!!!#stephanie brown#steph brown#spoiler#jason todd#red hood#dick grayson#nightwing#yes nightwing is supposed to be in that peter griffin death pose#damian wayne#robin#dc fanart#illustration#batfamily#batfam#batman#dc comics#ash's doodlings#tw food#u can see the progression of my tiredness lmao#the first one panel is so detailed compared to the last one
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thought that one Alastor scene would look cool in comic lettering, so i drew this
#i almost can't believe it's only my first time drawing adam#despite him being one of my fav character#he's such an asshole i love him your honor#the last panel is really a 2 seconds before disaster kinda thing aiugzhekjiu#hazbin hotel spoilers#hazbin hotel#alastor#adam#hazbin hotel alastor#hazbin hotel adam#comic#myart
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Live Mel reaction
#no one in this damn city can last two seconds without her smh#I can’t believe this is my first ever arcane fanart lmao#look the finale airs tomorrow and this joke won’t make sense anymore after that point so it’s gotta be done now#I don’t have TIME a to study the the art style and create a meaningful homage to one of the greatest animiated series ever made#this is what you get instead#it’s funny cause her canon response will be ‘’:( I’m sorry jayce. he was a good friend and a great man’’ at BEST#cause even tho she canonically likes him they’ve had like no direct interactions so nothing more would make sense#but an enby can dream#arcane#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2#arcane season 2 spoilers#mel medarda#jayce talis#viktor arcane#art#my art#digital art#fanart#doodle#drawing#sketch#shitpost#meljay#jayvik#meljayvik
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to moving forward
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk art#yuji itadori#gojo satoru#fushiguro megumi#nobara kugisaki#itadori yuuji#megumi fushiguro#jjk spoilers#satoru gojo#jjk manga spoilers#hina.comic#before any1 says anything i KNOw his birthday is in december ik ik ik this is just 2 show some post-battle bonding after the trauma#its winter in canon n megumi's birthday has passed and he spent it being piloted like a mech so they need to celebrate Now!!#also this was technically a request lmao anon wanted megumi birthday angst hehehehhe i hope u like it <3 bc it KILLED ME DEAD#im going to collapse remember when i said this wasnt harder than the hydrangeas im having second thoughts#page 8 made me want to bash my head in#could have stuck with one flashback image could have left them monochrome could have done literally anything 2 ease the workload#but noooo the chronic overachiever in me would not allow it#rule of threes i had to include all of them and they Had to be in colour it wouldn't have hit the same if i had kept it monochrome#i needed it to look how childhood memories look i needed it to look oversaturated and hazy and fond but unmistakably Gone#it may have killed me but im so proud of this rn like from an art style perspective these megumis and yuujis r top tier by my standards#personal favourites r the first and last panel of crying megumi like not 2 pat myself on th back but expression?????? hello??????#enjoy your cake megumi you've earned it <333 sorry fr hurting ur feelings it will happen again#oh my god i can sleep tonight bless <333 and i met my 3 day deadline NICE im so good at what i do
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let me crawl inside your ribcage and 😴 snork mimimimi
#alecto the first#alecto the ninth#harrowhark nonagesimus#harrow the ninth#nona the ninth#the locked tomb#suuuper last minute print for a couple cons i got coming up 💃#it's gonna print different bc cmyk loves sapping away colours but here's the eyesore version
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do you think it'll let up soon?
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#good omens#good omens fanart#good omens 2#crowley#aziracrow#ineffable husbands#aziraphale#first rain etc etc#oooo I completely forgot this in my drafts anyways#I literally would keep going back to this canvas whenever i was drawing because i liked looking at the rain#y'all last time I posted something with rain it stormed for like 3 days straight. it's HOT pleaseeee let me control the weather again
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Okay I KNOW this poll has been done before but after conversing with friends....
#polls#if you are answering either the first or the last one you scare me so much#WHY DO MY FRIENDS USE SO MANY LAYERS MOM COME PICK ME UP IM SCARED#1k#5k
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