#refers to people as HIP

[dewedup]

[aforgottenthing]

This April Fools, I thought it was only fitting that I finally share the greatest powerpoint I ever made while working a mentally and physically draining fulltime retail job at 18. This is my pride and joy. I hope you enjoy <3

(the experience of reading this here will never live up to all of my fun little slide transitions but i included the blank slide to slightly allude to it)

[skyward-floored]

I should try and draw actual scenes from my fics/AUs more, I feel like most of my drawings are just people standing there

[ratcandy]

so i am in discord servers for various groups at my uni, one of which i am the vice president of starting this fall, and every time i make a new status i am painfully Aware that I have to be careful lest anyone in one of those groups sees and goes Huh. What

[towardsmodernism]

nice argument. however i have already portrayed myself as the stately warship being towed to her last berth to be broken up and you as the squat tugboat belching smoke

[le-agent-egg]

ok i know i keep bitching about my sister but. now i think she might be kinda. fetishizing bisexual people

[time-slink]

apologies for infrequent art btw i’ve had stuff going on but here’s a tummy study i was working on the other day :D

[bean-pronounced-bawn]

People should draw fat faces, fat necks, and fat arms more often. I see drawings of fat characters or weight gain sequences and the arms and faces stay inexplicably thin (or like the slightest little double chin on a 500+lbs character). I love thick double chins and big plush arms as much as I love bellies and hips and thighs, and it makes me sad that they're left out of fat art.

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

If someone is prefers their partners be smaller/skinnier than them, and they’re talking about why they’re attracted to someone or what they enjoy about those partners, they’re probably going to talk about picking that person up, or when that person wears their oversized clothes, or how easy it is to put their arms completely around that person. That isn’t inherently fetishizing or dehumanizing, it’s how physical attraction works.

If someone prefers their partners be notably muscular, and they’re talking about why they’re attracted to someone or what they enjoy about those partners, they’re probably going to talk about that person’s physical capability, and bear hugs, and being picked up or moved around. That isn’t inherently fetishizing or dehumanizing, it’s how physical attraction works.

If someone prefers their partners be fat, and they’re talking about why they’re attracted to someone or what they enjoy about those partners, they’re probably going to talk about the fact that that person is fat. They are going to talk about soft tummies and soft thighs. They are going to talk about cuddles, and the soft squishy body, and the characteristics that come from being fat. That isn’t inherently fetishizing or dehumanizing, it’s how physical attraction works.

If we’re talking about some rando leaving graphic comments on stranger’s pictures or whatever, then yeah, that’s weird regardless of body type or appearance, but getting twisted into knots about people expressing attraction to plus-sized bodies in a way that is unique to the attraction to plus-sized bodies is... wild.

Fetishization specifically refers to the reduction of a human being to a selection of assumed characteristics they may or may not possess. It is the act of treating a human being like a trope. Saying that a fat person looks like they give nice hugs isn’t fetishizing, it’s attraction, and it’s normal.

[wizardlyghost]

this fucking course is such bullshit the damn online test thing just tested me for an entirely different topic (that i was unable to access), nitpicked my wording for no reason (i entered "safety/cut resistant gloves". the 'correct' answer? "gloves". ffs.), and marked me as wrong on one question bc whoever built the shitty 3d section of the test made the mistake THAT THE TEST IS SUPPOSED TO BE TEACHING US NOT TO MAKE. IN A 3D MODEL NOT EVEN A REAL BUILDING CHRIST ON A STICK. the human instructor is fucking amazing but this new online-based curriculum is shitty and half-assed as fuck.

[magratpudifoot]

I haven't seen every season of Drag Race, but I have watched most of the US episodes, and most of those I have watched in the past 4 months. So I feel comfortable saying this week's episode was the worst the show has ever had.

[this-doesnt-endd]

I want to see a modern day american bandstand i feel like it would do relatively well i think it maybe could stand a chance if done right

[xcziel]

if someone reading post gets interested in the origins, i also highly recommend flipping through these if you can find a copy

and yeah, it's rap - because hip-hop wasn't the term until later on

where it started

and how it's going, just because i love this book from last year:

As someone who grew up living under a rock in the early 2000s and was completely lost on what hip-hop and rap was good until earlier this year I would absolutely support a crash course playlist

Best listened to on shuffle. Very NSFW, including some lyrics from A Different Time. Tried to focus on the essentials and then a few noteworthy personal favorites. Look below the cut for some commentary on what’s what ⬇️

*this playlist is subject to change, and since it’s original posting has already been edited to add Beastie Boys, Salt N Pepa, and MF DOOM

[manuhigueras]

Couple of bros, they trade their souls for dough and hoes.

Flooded my neck and my teeth with the chillery.

[stargirlrchive]

simon’s work wife

one — two — three — four

people start calling u simon’s work wife and he takes it literally. starts referring to you as the ‘missus’, your cheeks warming as his heavy hand rest on your hips to pull you into him.

he’s snarling at one of the recruits that stared at you a little too long for his liking, caging you in against his big ass frame. that same recruit later coming to you a stuttering mess, apologizing because he didn’t know you were married.

you aren’t, but you’re too shocked to comment on it.

and when you confront simon he just shrugs his shoulders lazily, staring at you with darkened eyes as he mumbles, “ya’ didn’t deny it.”

it ends with you moving in, you aren’t sure how it started—or if you were even in an actual relationship but everywhere and anywhere you go he’s calling you his wife.

[loserrofthecentury]

I think it’s funny because the same people who say this will turn around and go “I love this song about murdering my neighbours so my dead girlfriend can come back to life!” and “I love listening to this album where a man makes a deal with the devil to kill a thousand evil men to bring back his girlfriend!” and “I listen to (genre known for being shocking and talking about dark topics)!” and “I listen to a song that literally talks about committing suicide!” and the favourite “My favourite artist is a raging bigot and I still listen to them Idc if they’re problematic <33” but when Eazy E sings about killing people,hiding bodies and when any rapper talks about the benign fucking, now all of a sudden “Rap is all about sex,money and drugs” “Rap is so bad”.

I relate to so much of this post as a black person on the internet😭

a lot of people are dismissing the "violent" rap music rushing and scrambling to say well not ALL rap is violent here's some rappers who don't rap about violence but like. idk. I think the "violent" rap is important to listen to as well. do you know why gangs exist? do you know why Compton is the way that it is? can you listen to the experiences of black men when you can't personally relate on any level? or will you dismiss an entire genre of music because certain sub genres make you feel a bit uncomfortable as a non-black person?