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Uşak Taşyaran Valley in Türkiye

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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New charms and mini sculpts plus a pair of gold lustre capped ceramic teeth on gold plated 21” and 22” necklaces now available at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery! All work is under $100cad and starting at $25.

Domestic and International shipping available for all work seen after February 8th.

I also have many unsold pieces from my previous video post featuring other mini sculpts/charms available here!

Swing on by sometimes, they’re open every day of the week but Sunday! :-) 🏺🪴

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The US State Department under Donald Trump has been accused of instigating what amounts to a travel ban after they suspended the processing of trans Americans’ passport applications. The suspension follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week, which mandated federal recognition of only two sexes: male and female. The executive order also maintained that “these sexes are not changeable”, leading to government agencies being forced to apply the policy to all government-issued identification. As such, passport applications where the applicant’s gender is different to their biological sex at birth have not been processed, raising concerns about their access to essential services.

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hot transgender woman I literally just met: recites the entire Weird Al Hardware Store verse from memory

me, after immediately falling to my knees and presenting her with an engagement ring I made out of mini Reese’s cup wrappers when she wasn’t looking: “I think I hauve Covid.”

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Democrats are literally doing everything they can to stop Trump or throw wrenches into his madness to slow down

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hey if you’re a federal worker you may want to use a vpn and check to see if the “american accountability foundation” (elon) doxxed you. suggesting a vpn bc there’s an IP logger on the domain.

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I have bottom surgery scheduled in April. I am very excited about it, but I have a lot of thoughts on how the process has been.

My surgeon's clinic calls it a transmasculine surgery. My insurance does the same. Everywhere I look for information about the surgery, it is referred to as masculinizing, as a gender confirmation surgery for men and masculine people.

I am not transmasculine nor a transgender man. I am not masculine or a man at all.

I am an intersex transgender woman with ambiguous genitalia seeking urethral lengthening, a scrotoplasty, and closure of a painful vagina that doesn't go anywhere. I do not consider my wants to be masculine and don't like referring to it that way. I have been gendered a boy, a man, a sir for a lot of my life and I do not wish to be called these things. My surgeon, letters, and insurance are calling my surgery a metoidioplasty, a surgery traditionally offered to transmasculine people and men.

In order to get this surgery, I have had to repeatedly state that I am a man, or at the very least "masculine", with a phallus that needs to be "affirmed" via surgery. It is dysphoric work.

I am appreciative of my ability to access life-saving surgery through transgender medical care, but I do look forward very much to the day in which all can access hormones and surgery without it being so deeply gendered, without all of the hoops and demands to prove you are really enough of a man or a woman to justify medical care.

I look forward to the day in which genitals do not have genders.

The surgeon told me my results will be great, because his first surgeries were done on intersex people. The violence in that sentence hasn't left my mind since he said it.

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For my final project in my film photography class this past semester, I made plural family photos! Each member of the system who wanted to be photographed had their picture taken, then I scanned and combined the film negatives to bring system members together in a way you can't do physically!

Here's what the negatives looked like for one of them

It was very sweet to see how touched the systems I worked with were by the results. It felt good to give back to my community in that way ❤️

You can find more of my work on my portfolio website!

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PLEASE dont forget the incredibly racialised aspect of transmisogynistic murders and violence i am begging yall to not forget the incredibly racialised aspect of transmisogynistic muders and violence. the trans women being murdered are most often black women! they are often sex workers! the murder problem exists at an intersection of yes transphobia and misogyny, but also racism and classism! transmisogynoir is a violent killer! PLEASE im begging yall to not forget the racialised nature of transmisogynistic murders and violence!!!

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The threat is real. If you have the means to, you should at the very least have a plan to flee, and if not, a plan to fight. You must also live, not just survive.

For the past few weeks, we have seen attack after attack on trans rights, as well as other marginalized rights. We have seen attack after attack on the very foundation of the democracy this country was built on. The fact that this foundation has been vulnerable for years is irrelevant, it is happening now.

If you are terrified, that is a reasonable response. If you plan to flee or are in the process of doing so, that is a reasonable response. The republican party has signaled its intent time and time again, we can look at what is published in Project 2025 and see what is written with our own eyes. There is an unelected billionaire attempting to, wittingly or not, cause the complete collapse of our government by stripping the Bureau of Finance and the Treasury Department for parts. Saying "none of this is good" is an understatement, this is literally the worst thing that can possibly be happening and the situation cannot be more dire.

If you intend to stay for some ideological reason rather than any practical reason such as lack of funding, I question your decisions. Your valiant effort to resist is meaningless from within prison, your efforts mean nothing from six feet under. Getting arrested to make a political show is a thing that is done when it does not lead to probable death, let that be the job of white cis guys.

With all that said, you must live your life. You cannot settle for enduring life. Go out to parties. Hang out with friends. Try to make sure they're trans. Definitely make sure they're aware of the situation politically. But most importantly, have fun. If you sit and you let terror seize you, you will break. Your efforts to flee will become more difficult. Your efforts to resist will seem hopeless. You absolutely MUST live. You MUST experience joy in spite of it all. And to offer you my own guiding principle "If I have time to worry, I have time to act". Identify what the worry is, identify what will alleviate that worry, and proceed to do precisely that.

One thing I would like to have is articles, multiple, about what Republican lawmakers are saying and doing around all this. If anyone has these, I welcome them. I am well aware that much of the party is falling in line and praising the actions of this administration and Elon Musk, but if there are just 4 Republican lawmakers who genuinely believe in the principles this country purports to stand for, that is all we need in many cases to at least slow down this process of dismantling the government. I would like to hear what such Republicans may say, and see what they may be doing. Confirmation hearings are one thing. Legislation is another.

Stay safe, stay strong, and stay grounded.

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hey yall, is it like, normal to take meds that work really well and help you, but overtime you start developing a severe allergic reaction such as breathing issues and chest pain and this keeps happening no matter how many different meds they give you for both psychosis and bipolar?

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ok kids repeat after me

vinegar and bleach makes chlorine gas, which is highly toxic

ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, which is highly toxic

rubbing alcohol and bleach makes chloroform, which is highly toxic

hydrogen peroxide and vinegar makes peracetic/peroxyacetic acid, which can be highly corrosive

be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok

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Do you know anything i can donate to for palestine that's not the gofundmes because the idea of having to choose who needs my money more is just. scary to me they all need it 3: maybe there's a thing that splits/distributes money evenly???? idk but help would be appreciated

Gazafunds actually deals with this anxiety and makes a decision for you if you want. Their home page has a spotlighted fundraiser and the code consider things like how close the gfm is to finishing, when the most recent donation is, etc. So it's randomized to help as many people as possible.

There's also @helpgazachildren which if you donate, you can help multiple people at once since it's a whole mutual aid fund, or at least close to it. Hussam distributes money to people who need it when he's asked.