#tlu

[gegnabean]

Oh my girls… oh you’re a powerful beautiful force of nature, and then a mortal brought you down to the level of something human…. Oh my girlssss how I think of you

Oh my girls… how your experiences as a mortal has changed you and made you human in a way you can never truly forget, forever nestled into a part of your heart…..…. OhHH MA GORLS HOW I THINK OF YOU-

[macksting]

I've met him in person btw and he's a fucking sweetheart

[ID: Text-intensive Twitter thread from the Shapeshifters chest binders Twitter account in reply to a post by artist and author Ursula Vernon. Vernon says, A non-zero number of you apparently did not know that The Last Unicorn was a book before it was a movie. It is by Peter S. Beagle. It is made of spun glass and fairytales and iron knives and there are individual lines that I would give my lungs to have written. Shapechangers replies, I saw him every year at NYCC for several years straight, bought something at his table, asked him to sign it, and we spoke. He remembered me from year to year, no small feat at that con. He remembered which stories he'd told me. One year I came back with a different gender on. He squinted at me a bit and said thoughtfully, "I've seen you before in this place." All I had to say was, "last year you told me the story about the inoshishi." And his face cleared, and he leaned in with a grin and told me about a German guitarist who he traveled with, twice. Who transitioned between the first and second time, so he'd gotten to meet this person all over again on the second round. It was a wonderfully kind way to let me know that everything was fine. I was fresh out of the closet and I needed that, and maybe he could see it. The Last Unicorn is the best book in the world and I will defend it and its author til I die. the end. /end ID]

I don't usually talk about celebrities; artists, when I do, and I'm keenly aware that one needn't be a good person to be a hell of a heartwrenching artist. But Peter S. Beagle has written a few of my favorite things in the world, he's an excellent singer and filker, and this Twitter thread was dreadfully important to me. I don't want it going away as Twitter becomes Shitter, because it's so often bad news, isn't it? It's important to me to share trans joy.

[divinationdraws]

"What have you done to me?"

"I have done you evil, and I cannot undo it"

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[cityoftheangelllls]

“Then one afternoon the butterfly wobbled out of a breeze and lit on the tip of her horn. He was velvet all over, dark and dusty, with golden spots on his wings, and he was as thin as a flower petal. Dancing along her horn, he saluted her with his curling feelers. “I am a roving gambler. How do you do?” 

[art-sicordial]

Dance of the Last Unicorn

Birthentine's day art for @lizwyrm, in person it shimmers from the iridescent watercolor

[sbeveperke]

i'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams

[albanianpsycho]

favorite movie ever

[liliumaa]

some molly and schmendrick dancing for fun

[shellsnroses]

“I don’t understand. I see nothing at all in the water.”

[swollenbabyfat]

Tattoo comm ✨

[nerdyfoxx]

I've always loved The Last Unicorn. I'm pretty sure I had my mom rent it any time I could from Blockbuster (that and Shadowgate.)

I don't know what inspired me to create this, but I'm rather happy I did. I'm also playing with a version in watercolor...but sometimes painting can be like pulling teeth for me, so...we'll see how that goes.

[aquicat]

[emirrart]

10,09,2024

[faun-buns]

the last unicorn