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if you've been drawing for several hours and the piece doesn't turn into anything, you didn't waste that time. you still drew. art is art, not a product

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Weebil.....

[ID copied from art: A cartoon drawing of a brown weevil wearing a multicolored propeller hat. It looks small compared to the empty space on the rest of the page, and it has watery eyes and shaky legs. The background is pale yellow. End ID.]

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It's a constant work in progress but we're getting there <3

[ID: A self-portrait in a cartoon style. I am a white nonbinary person, and I sit cross-legged with one hand over my heart and the other over my belly, and smile with my eyes closed. Text reads "I can hold all the messy pieces of myself." The art has a simple, calm feeling. End ID.]

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two headed calf filet crochet doily (chart, border) - my work (learn filet crochet)

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In ~these times~ it is important for queer people to be reminded of what "coming out" originally meant. "Coming out" did not mean telling all of your co-workers something super stigmatized and vulnerable about you, wearing your queer status on your sleeve in public, informing the police or government institutions about your sexuality, or even telling your parents. "Coming out" meant venturing out into the queer community; being among other queers as a queer yourself.

Coming out isn't about telling the entire world when doing so is not safe for you, it's not about arming your enemies with information they could use against you. No, coming out is about making a fulfilling queer life possible for yourself through participation in the queer community. It is about escaping the restrictions and dangers of the cisgender heterosexual world by rooting oneself more deeply into the queer one.

And you can always do that. No matter how oppressed we are. No matter how much the culture shifts and policies are enacted to terrorize us. We are always able to be ourselves when we are amongst each other. And living our queerness has always been a collective social project, not just a matter of personal exposure.

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fr. “Sorrow is Not My Name” by Ross Gay

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this is how snacks were meant to be eaten :)

ceramic plate by me! more photos sans snacks under the cut!

[ID: A ceramic plate that has a large green ceramic frog in its center. The rest of the plate around the frog is full of raspberries, cheese, and crackers. End ID.]

he's just a lil guy!

[ID: two more photos of the plate. The base of the plate is made to look like a lilypad, with the frog sitting in the centre. He is short and squat and slightly cartoon in style. End ID.]

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I know that some British people take umbridge at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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bumblebees for @thereisnocorrectanswer!!

[ID: Simple pixel art of four different bumblebees in front of a green background. The bumblebees in order are an earth bumblebee [bombus terrestris (Erdhummel)], a red-tailed bumblebee [bombus lapidarius (Steinhummel)], a carder bee [bombus pascuorum (Ackerhummel)] and a tree bumblebee [bombus hypnorum (Baumhummel)]. End ID]

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happy pride from the smallest leather daddy around!!

hey stud <3 - acrylic on canvas, 4x4" (sold!)

Instagram | Tip Jar & Sticker Shop

[ID copied from alt text: A small canvas painting of a brown frog wearing a black leather daddy hat with studs and a chain on the cap. Text reads "hey stud (heart shape)." The painting stands on a small easel. End ID.]

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Sonya Sklaroff - Rainbow Flag, 2017 - Oil on panel

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chocolate covered strawberries 🍓

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Also going to note that if you take online comms, this is also why using something like paypal invoice rather than giving out info for them to send $ to is helpful - a common scam is to send you too much $, ask for the balance back, and then reverse their own transfer after you've sent them $. The more you can do to protect yourself, the better.

If something feels fishy, or off, don't accept the comm. If it's a really generic art request from someone you don't know and who has never engaged with you, for something you don't usually do, and they're offering a lot of money out of the blue, don't take it. (For example, I once had a scammer ask me to create two identical large portraits of the exact same photo of a dog, in an art medium I didn't use.) Search what you're experiencing, see if there's a common scam that it matches. (I have googled "instagram art scams" before, and found helpful info.)

Protect yourselves from scammers, babes!

Remember kids, if you get requests for art (or writing etc) commissions in replies (or DMs) from people who 1) have never engaged with your artwork in any way shape or form and don't even follow you, 2) have a generic unedited tumblr page, 3) have only a couple days of reblogs, and 4) use something really generic like "I love your artwork, do you take commissions, please DM me" - it is almost always a scam, or a bot, or both. Block em.

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Remember kids, if you get requests for art (or writing etc) commissions in replies (or DMs) from people who 1) have never engaged with your artwork in any way shape or form and don't even follow you, 2) have a generic unedited tumblr page, 3) have only a couple days of reblogs, and 4) use something really generic like "I love your artwork, do you take commissions, please DM me" - it is almost always a scam, or a bot, or both. Block em.

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happy pride from the smallest leather daddy around!!

hey stud <3 - acrylic on canvas, 4x4" (sold!)

Instagram | Tip Jar & Sticker Shop

[ID copied from alt text: A small canvas painting of a brown frog wearing a black leather daddy hat with studs and a chain on the cap. Text reads "hey stud (heart shape)." The painting stands on a small easel. End ID.]

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a few years ago, i made a flowchart for my partner in order to convince them to leave a pathfinder group that was actively making their life worse. today i revised my original chart to convince a friend to leave her d&d group that is actively making her life worse.

here is the chart. i promise its utility is not only with tabletop RPGs but it does have a high hit rate for those