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“HE PRESSES THE TRIGGERS. AND LIKE ROSES IN HIS HANDS, DEATH BLOOMS.”

— happy (late) birthday em @kadygrants !

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An updated, more complete version of the Illuminae Files crew! Kady, Ezra, Rhys, Asha, Hanna, and Nik.

These were dust jackets recently made for @foxandwit!

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— THE ILLUMINAE FILES: THE EIGHT SEVEN    “Good luck, everyone. Good luck to us all.     And may we meet again on distant shores.     Some place fine and far from here.” 

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Juke moments that live in my head rent free (part one).

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Julie and the Phantoms → Gif Meme 4 Characters: 2. Alex

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julie and the phantoms + random ao3 tags (part 5)

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JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS + text posts

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Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo | Chapter 27, pgs 374-376

So here is Kaz fighting like a whole gang by himself like an idiot. Or at least part of it- I did not have the stamina to draw him fighting the first six dudes and I really needed to draw the iconic bloody smile at the end (and bloodthirsty Inej). It probably shouldn’t have taken like three months but picked a bad time to start it, with family and holidays and getting laid off and job hunting so it was hard to find the time and motivation. Also I picked like the most painful scene in the book to try and draw honestly. I’m never going to try and draw a fight scene ever again. Or stairs. Or anything. Also for the millionth time i goddamn hate how tumblr shrinks images.

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Glarefully.

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You know what Good Omens does NOT get enough credit for? How it never, not once, makes gender presentation the butt of a joke.

Crowley presenting as female to be Warlock’s Nanny? The way this was filmed, acted, and written wasn’t made to be funny whatsoever. She was stunning, I loved the hat!

Pollution using they/them pronouns while the postman used the gender neutral honorific of sir for them? What’s there to make fun of? They’re royalty.

Archangel Michael, who has a traditionally male name, played by a female actress? Never questioned.

Lord Beelzebub’s androgyny? Only respect for the Lord of Hell.

Aziraphale sharing Madame Tracy’s body? Crowley recognized his angel and accepted it no problem. He was right about the dress too, it did suit him!

Crowley’s pure, unfiltered non-binary/gender-fluid energy in general? Fucking fabulous. Who could seriously make fun of this demon’s style? As someone once pointed out to me, you could swap him with Tilda Swinton and I’d see no difference. What an icon.

Good Omens is the first big show I’ve seen to basically avoid transphobia all together when the opportunity presented itself, and even say fuck you to the gender binary as a bonus. If the biggest binary in all the universe, Heaven and Hell, don’t give a damn about it then why should you? 

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I’m super sick so I literally don’t know how this looks but anyway blue “Jane” Sargent from the raven cycle

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Ronan, to Adam: I want you to come back because I love you… I think. No, I’m pretty sure. Yeah, I love you. Ugh, that’s embarrassing. I feel so itchy? Sorry. Don’t say anything, I just needed to get that off my chest. Okay, I’m gonna go. Catch you later, silly billy. Ugh, love has made me a nerd. Bye.

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okay i’m desperately trying to remember what this book/artist was called but did anyone ever read a book when you were younger that was basically just a collection of kind of surreal, dream-like illustrations with maybe sentence long caption at the bottom of the page?

the one that i remember the most clearly was a picture of someone who fell asleep reading in bed and there were vines and trees growing out of the book and covering their room. does anyone know what i’m talking about?

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Me, asking a favor of Glendower: Please make the TRC TV show much more ‘Netflix original series’ and less ‘CW teen drama’ thank you and good night. 

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That’s all it is, Miles… a leap of faith. [insp]

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anne: we're birds of a feather, you and I

miss stacy: I hate clichés

anne: clichés are the worst

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Reasons why I need the A in LGBTIAQ to stand for Asexual, not Ally

Because my mother told me that all I needed to do was get drunk and lie back and let my husband have his fun. Because if I was drunk, I’d be more relaxed and it’d be over sooner

Because my sister told me that I was trapping my husband in an abusive marriage, and that one day he was going to leave me

Because both of them looked at me in disgust

Because my asexuality is considered to be as great a crime against my husband as a woman who has affairs and cheats on her husband

Because my cousin didn’t even try to understand, and just kept asking ‘but what about in five years? how will you feel then?’

Because I was so afraid of my body and so afraid of sex that I didn’t seek medical help for a legitimate question for over a year for fear of being labelled a deviant or something broken

Because I still ask myself at least once every day if my husband wouldn’t be better off without me

Because I still ask myself at least once every day if I’m broken

Because I still tell myself at least once every day that I’m pathetic and useless and an abnormality

Because I love my husband with every fiber of my being, but everywhere I turn I’m told I really don’t, because love = sex

I need A to stand for Asexual because nobody ever talked to me about asexuality even when I was an outpatient at the women’s hospital for 18 months, and everyone told me desire would come in time

I need A to stand for Asexual because we are literally invisible, and so unimportant that people assume we don’t even need representation, because everyone assumes our lives must be bland and unimportant and lacking in challenges or bigotry

For every asexual that wants a relationship, for every asexual that does not want a relationship, for every asexual who has not yet come to terms with their identity, for every asexual who was told we were abnormalities, for every asexual who was told we just weren’t doing sex right, that we needed a good fucking, that we needed to be drunk, that we needed to relax, that we needed to be raped

We need representation, and we need visibility

That is why the A needs to stand for Asexual, and never for Ally