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Mark Grantham (Canadian), February on June Street, Halifax, 2015, Acrylic on canvas

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i would cannibalize god's rotting corpse. if the opportunity arose

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i hauve a cold

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free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...

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how january has felt so far

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im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

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What's the process if you're a superhero and you come out as trans

Do you tell your villains?

Do you keep it a secret so no one can connect Spider-Man with your secret identity for a while? Or do you pop a pronouns pin on your costume and the next time you web up Doctor Octopus and he goes "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME SPIDER-MAN" you go "Spider-Girl actually! I've been figuring out some shit"

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This suck in America rn with the return of the Cheeto president. But I found a free zine talking about Solarpunk. It’s on a website made by high schoolers! They make free zines that talk about art! And I plan on sharing these zines around my area.

https://gliese.arceus.day/zines.html#Solarpunk

Omg??? Yes!

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imagine:

its january 19th, 2029. the next president will be taking office tomorrow. youve nearly survived trumps second and last presidential term, no matter the struggles, the fears, the new experiences, the peaceful moments, the ups and the downs. youve almost done it.

you open tumblr, and the newest, most spectacular webbedsite holiday is taking place. and your feed is full of this image

throughout the whole day, this meme is passed around. some are edited with pictures poking fun at the soon-to-not-be president, others with effects of confetti and fireworks. but the most widespread are being continuously made to count down the time live, and one increasingly popular blog has countdown posts scheduled updating to the second.

finally, the next president inauguration comes, and theyre sworn in, and youve done it.

youve made it. no matter how, youve survived. you can breathe. and youre okay.

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Btw you do NOT need to read the news to help people

You can do all of these things without reading the news:

Go to protests

Volunteer

Join a mutual aid network

Write to your representatives

Donate

Clean up trash and pollution

Curate and provide resources for your community

Citizen science/citizen history projects to help the environment/etc.

Much, much more

Reading the news is not a moral obligation. Following people whose posts make you spiral is not a moral obligation.

I am more able to help people when I don't regularly read the news. I volunteer more. I go out early to go weed invasive species at a nature reserve. I have more capacity to support my friends and the people I care about.

I have more energy to work on this blog, for that matter. (Obviously I regularly read a lot of good news. Which I recommend. The rest of this post is about normal news, which highly rewards negative content.)

You cannot pour from an empty vessel.

What matters is doing something to help.

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The amount of shitty news coming out this week made me feel like this needed to be said, so.

For all the boys and young men currently afraid that being male means some kind of moral death sentence: the same world that produced Neil Gaiman and Donald Trump also produced Levar Burton, Steve from Blues Clues, and my (step)dad, who isn't famous but did look at a deeply traumatized child with a bunch of mental health issues and said "is anybody going to support that?" and then didn't wait for an answer. There are good men out there doing good work in ways both big and small. Choose to use your strength to help rather than hurt, your voice to speak for those who must be silent, and you can be one of them.

Be the man Mister Rogers knew you could be. He wasn't wrong very often, and he believed you could do wonderful things. I do too.

(Anyone clowning on here will summarily get their ass kicked and their blog blocked. Pain is pain and I know there are a lot of scared teenagers right now.)

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There's a saying my dad taught me, that I've found is very true in life:

The antidote to anxiety is action.

If you're like me, you're probably anxious right now. And scared. And quite probably angry. About climate change, about the Palestinian genocide, about Donald fucking Trump.

That only makes sense. It hurts to find out that people aren't as good as you thought, or hoped. It hurts to know how much better we could be doing, and then see all the ways in which we aren't doing that. It hurts to know that people are going to die.

This is something I've been grappling with myself since the US election. I had hopes that were higher than this, and I had reasons for those hopes, but in several spheres, those hopes have been disappointed.

That's not a reason to give up, though. It's not a reason to give up on the world, on yourself, on your life, or on hope.

The antidote to anxiety is action.

(Nobody is allowed to interpret this statement as being about/against psych meds btw. Meds are great and help a lot of people. But this isn't about them.)

Fear and anxiety exist for a reason: to warn us when there is a threat. And to motivate us to do something about that threat.

That's why, the more you push anxiety down down down, the worse it tends to get.

Your brain - your self - is telling you that something is wrong, and that you need to do something about it.

So listen. And find something you can do to help. Anything.

It will make you feel better, I promise. Maybe not right away, but it will.

And the more you do to help, the more you'll see the difference it can make. The more you're surrounded by people who are also helping, who also care. The more you'll see more and more ways to help.

Look up organizations near you - especially organizations that help protect the groups that are most vulnerable right now: undocumented people, immigrants, trans people, BIPOC, queer people, Muslims, Jewish people, disabled people, unhoused people.

Find someone who is helping, and find a way to help them.

The more we do to help each other, the more we organize, the more we resist fascism and work to beat climate change and make those fuckers pay for every. last. fucking. inch...

The more we will change. The more people we will protect and save.

We're stronger together. So find something you can do. And do it.

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"The Coyote is Not the Problem" 11"x7"

Printed transfer, acrylic, gel pen, and colored pencil mounted on reclaimed wood

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Just going to start adding this to the end of random posts to see how much chaos can be generated by it

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*Blasts You with the laser beam that makes you cute*

(it has no effect on your appearance because you're already cute)

(you are reduced to a pile of ash)

(cute ash)

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Same deal with the Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh shooters. All were white supremacist/anti-semitic terrorists that were handled as regular murder cases.

It's only "terrorism" when the 1% are targeted