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in the spirit of trying to post more, here's the progress on a redraw of my guardian (the original was done in 2020). i think i've gotten better at drawing crow too

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reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

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i am 3-ish years into my transition and i want to thank you for saying something that i think about and draw on constantly, something that was a huge comfort to me when i was in the earliest days. it was along the lines of "transition won't fix all of your problems, but good luck trying to fix anything else in your life without it." every now and again i encounter a simple phrase that leads to a paradigmatic shift in my thinking, always for the better. thank you for the gift of one such phrase. you have helped me make my life happier and fuller than i could ever have imagined

I’m really glad

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Having a boyfriend is literally free

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i taught a baking class for 12 year olds today and we made your garden variety chocolate chip cookies, but i’m a big believer in Questioning Everything and the who/what/where/why/when/how behind things, so the first part of the class was purposely letting the kids do things the wrong way, to show and explain why we do things the way we do.

“why do we bake cookies at 180 for 9 minutes when we could do 400 for 2 minutes?” -enter the godawful lump of coal with a still gross wet and uncooked inside

“why do we have to scoop out little cookies instead of doing the whole tray?” -ok well that one you can technically do if the spread is even. you just end up with one giant, structurally unsound cookie. “PLEASE CAN WE MAKE GIANT COOKIES” (we did make 1 giant tray cookie)

we talked a lot about why consistency is important, but i don’t think it really hammered home until i said “okay everyone gets ONE cookie, that’s fair, right?” and then handed out cookies of hugely varying sizes. + baked one fat lump of a cookie that still wasn’t done at the 9 minutes, vs the regular one i put in that came out charred by the time the first was actually done.

we also made a row of cookies where each one had one single differing ingredient omitted, like a cookie with no flour, or a cookie with no butter, and laid them all out on a single tray to bake together to see how each ingredient affects the outcome.

two of the little girls added cocoa to their cookie doughs until it matched the colour of each others skin to make best friend cookies, and that almost made me tear up a bit 🥺

got briefly distracted (…for over half an hour…) talking about how eggs form when someone cracked an egg and it had 2 yolks

expertly tolerated being asked how old i am (just turned 31 the other day) which was immediately followed by asking if i watched the moon landing live on tv

was so focused on keeping track of all the kids that in the end i forgot to make a cookie for myself, but it’s ok because one of the girls gave me this

tiny……….

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worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

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Hey anon. I'm 6'1, fairly broad shouldered and still pre-everything. Hell, I'm still scared to be myself in public. But seriously - just try it out, and please, *please* forgive yourself if you don't look perfect the first time you put on makeup or a dress. I don't know your financial situation but if you can, just order some stuff to try, you can always send back clothes that don't fit. But please try. The first time I saw myself with long hair and eyeliner was a game changer.

Yes it's going to be hard to find clothes you like in your size, I know it is for me already. But *try*. Don't categorically dismiss a version of yourself you've never seen before.

Don't do the bigots' rotten work for them. Allow yourself to breathe.

Kinda wanna be a girl but I'm 6'4" and built like a linebacker. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can be a girl you can always be a girl there’s no kind of body that unable to be a girl you need to become a girl

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"trans women are pressured to undergo surgery to get anything close to the same amount of respect as their cisgender counterparts (already not much)" and "trans women deserve to feel comfortable in their bodies and this often includes surgery" are two things that coexist. they are both true things. you do not need to demonize surgery while making a point

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I finally got to the Skyrim game. As a result, I got a new character. Meet Ma-Shel – she is an albino orc

Her main weakness is gentle ladies 🌸

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"Rationalism" is up there with "Objectivism" in terms of "definitionally funny things to call your own belief system".

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I vote that your writing continues to be:

self indulgent

cringe

weird

bizarre

long

short

sappy

only for your eyes

obnoxious

You're allowed to have your own voice. You're allowed to write something only you want to read. Seize the freedom you were never given in your 8th grade English class!

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"Why does Group A deserve human rights if Group B doesn't have them?"

Both groups deserve human rights. That's how human rights work.

Anyone who convinces you to barter one group's rights against another is not interested in giving them to either group.

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US authorities have turned to Europe for help with the country's severe egg shortage. The shortfall is due to bird flu, which has plagued the United States for several years.

The Finnish Poultry Association says it has been contacted about exporting eggs to the US. The organisation's executive director, Veera Lehtilä, told Yle on Saturday that exporting eggs does not seem to be possible at the moment because no market access negotiations have been held with US authorities. This can be a drawn-out process involving extensive inspections and studies.

According to the Danish magazine AgriWatch, the US has also requested eggs from Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

One of Sweden’s biggest egg producers, Kronägg, told the daily Aftonbladet that it is unlikely to export eggs to the US, saying it would be difficult due to various export restrictions. Meanwhile, there is also an egg shortage in Europe.

(full article)

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Oh yeah I'm deeply scared of the buggers too. It's the combination of the erratic movement and the fear of being stung, because I'm already pretty damn allergic to mosquito bites.

I know they just want to exist and find something to eat, and I'm a big scary hairless ape that threatens them, but that doesn't make the gut reaction go away

I don't hate wasps, but I do have a phobia of them. Just now when I left my bedroom, a BIGASS wauce flew up right to my face, prompting to scream "FUCK" and dive back into the bedroom. Waited a couple minutes for my heart rate to stabilize before leaving again, planning to grab a mason jar, but it seems like the wasp has left the apartment. Polite bug

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hope this explains it

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Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.