#which sucks a lot

[itoshi-s]

good mornin dash =^_^=

[nightly-ruse]

I uh meant to draw some but stuff is happening and I’m not. Sorry

[chongoblog]

not sure how my boss is gonna feel about me taking the first half of every day off to work on my creative tasks because dolphin but cool concept i guess

[diantheia]

Hey, update on all those overdue library books, that someone hadn't returned yet:

Light's agreed to help us find them, and started making them glow so brightly, it's like bringing the sun itself into the Hotel. It shouldn't be long, now, till someone finds them! But I'm still letting you know, in case you stumble across them first.

By the way, are you and Screech welding in your bedroom? Or are you teaching them to make s'mores at a campfire, again?

Also, you look tired. Did you've a good sleep?

Man, good think I don't have any overdue books, that would be awful. And yes, I have been teaching Screech to cook, just not s'mores. We be making soup. Please don't tell anyone that we've been lighting fires in my bedroom again.

I'm always tired smh. And I think because I'm cutting back energy drinks I'm having a wee bit of caffeine withdrawals which is why I am so damn tired a lot.

[ruins-of-gods]

Genuinely really encouraging how we, as a species, have reclaimed snakes. Like, in the primal human lizard brain, snakes are filed in the same category as spiders - a threat so old and deep and dangerous that seeing one prompts a gut reaction of fear and hatred on sight. And yet...a majority people today don't look at them that way. Many do, of course, but equally many don't. People - a LOT of people - see snakes as cute, as helpful, as cool. Somehow, in our history as a species, we've shifted, and now categorize snakes in the same mental space as most wild animals.

That's encouraging, because if we can do it for snakes, we can do it for spiders, for other animals that humankind is evolutionarily wired to hate, and maybe - maybe - even for other humans.

[sixth-light]

I have had these thoughts bubbling away in my head for like...eighteen months or so now (it will become very obvious why shortly) but the discussion in this post has pushed me to write them down: I think societally we HUGELY underestimate how motherhood for primary caregivers, particularly first-time motherhood, can be a source of vulnerability to radicalisation.

There is obviously huge cultural variance here, but for a lot of cis women becoming primary caregiver to an infant in a capitalist Western society represents a time of immense vulnerability because in general you are:

Incredibly sleep-deprived (which has well-documented knock-on effects for your judgement, mental health, etc)

If you gave birth, recovering from a significant challenge to your physical health (even in the best-case scenario)

Isolated from your previous networks and communities of people in full-time work

Completely separated from the context of your prior career goals and achievements

Under huge amounts of stress to learn how to care for an infant (don't get me started on breastfeeding)

And on top of this, you are also be experiencing a huge amount of messaging about how all this is natural, wonderful, something you're meant to do, something you should love doing, and something that you must do for the welfare of their child. It's a huge amount of pressure and life change even when everything goes right and there's very little cultural space to express negative feelings about it.

Any group of people who offer community, support, and affirmation to cis women in this situation are going to have a really good shot at radicalising them into some very weird and dangerous headspaces and in fact we see this happen all the time - think antivaxxers and TERFs. It flies under the radar because of the hazy positive glow that associates with motherhood and babies and also because we don't take the radicalisation of women seriously I guess because they rarely shoot anybody, but...yeah. It is such a vulnerable time!

[chalkrub]

various art trades from the past month! had FUN as usual

[algumaideia]

Found a Taiwanese (?) band with some songs I enjoy. I'll see if this helps me with my Mandarim pronounciation

[yes-asil]

Going Home

Also I have a Youtube Channel now??? It's just to post Animations and Speedpaints on for now so yeah!!

[benevolenterrancy]

Scholarly peak is catching up on recent literature

[masterwords]

1x08 | 2x02 | 5x15 | 10x05

quiet everyone, hotch is telling us a story. (because the writers never did.)

[crawlingdrawing]

The Cage - Chapter Three

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master post

New pals drags deadbeat moms and discusses video games. That's it you don't need to read past the first two panels, don't worry about it.

[clumsyviolet-rp]

Green frowns looking down at the bedsheets.

"He has some nerve breaking in like that...besides...we've been telling and telling him to just leave us alone."

corruptedblue-link)

Sudden flare of dark magic is felt in the air accompanied with a loud crash with branches from trees breaking then a thud.

There’s silence for the next 10 mins before a pained groan is heard

“Perfect landing......ugh”

Of all people to come greet him it's not Vio like usual, instead it's a slightly confused looking Red holding an umbrella over himself to keep shade from the sun.

"um.... are you okay? that sounded like it hurt"

[royalarchivist]

Slimecicle: Whoever said "yaoi is dead" dude, I think you need to put on your freakin'– your bi-focal lenses. Anything's possible.

💗💜💙

[craske]

a continuation of this idea

being stripped of the power of something like the soul jam might mess with you, both physically and mentally. idk if id call it like some sort of withdrawal but it might be similar

[trans-androgyne]

I feel a lot of belief that “trans women obviously have it worse than trans men” it comes from assuming men & women are opposites & that their experiences must be opposite as well. As in, if trans women experience one thing, trans men must experience the opposite—but that’s not how it works in practice. Trans women being demonized and sexualized doesn’t mean trans men aren’t as well. Trans women feeling less safe after transition doesn’t mean trans men feel more safe. And transmasculinity being considered disgusting mutilation doesn’t translate to the opposite for transfemininity! I just wish we would stop comparing experiences as though they can be quantified & pitted against one another.