through autism and necromancy everything is possible

i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

here is a little bat to banish your sadness

This nice little bat reminds me of this other nice little bat who was drawn in the 1200s:

This is the only website where I routinely see people say things like “oh this reminds me of something I recently saw from the 1200s”

“I have to use the term AFAB because the word vagina is icky to me :(” firstly not all people with vaginas were assigned female and not all people who were assigned female have vaginas. but also quite honestly if you find referring to body parts with the correct terminology to be “icky”. well that’s a skill issue*

*and an issue that, no doubt, has been at least partially fuelled by misogyny

my parents fucked up a lot (don’t even get me started) but the one thing I’m glad of is that my mum was always very very particular about us using the right terms for our body parts. because euphemistic language kills. being too scared to be clear about anatomy kills. obscuring what you mean when you’re referring to bodies is not a neutral act so I’m sorry (I’m not) but you just need to get over the “those words are so icky”. you need to be able to talk about vaginas and penises and bladders and anuses. “AFAB anatomy” (which is a nonsense phrase anyway) just does not cut it

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

me: cromwell. cromwell this post has got too big and famous and people are starting to misunderstand me on it.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: oh no! you achieved too much fame and status? and now people are misrepresenting you? should we strip your lands and title? have you been beheaded?

me: YES ALRIGHT FINE

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

Still occasionally think about that one post about how americans on the internet push back against anti US military rhetoric in a way they don't do with anti cop rhetoric because, unlike their police, the victims of the US military are mainly foreigners, and then some yank cunt decided to show up to do the standard you don't get it the military is made up of poverty-stricken uneducated kids who were fed propaganda :((((( etc etc shtick but also decided to go with "meanwhile the police can straight up murder you, steal your property and kill your dog with no consequences" like sorry friend what exactly do you think your military does.

Found it

Literally the perfect encapsulation of how americans legitimately don't conceptualize the violence and terror that the US military enacts as a real thing simply because they're used to thinking of the victims as faceless offscreen abstract masses.

Cops kill and steal. Meanwhile soldiers sign up and then the screen fades to black until they come back traumatized and missing a limb. That's all they do. They sign up and then come back broken, and whatever they did imbetween happened offscreen so it doesn't matter.

Also the absolute hilarity of "how often the police union and most rural police forces have been infiltrated by literal nazis" being listed as a difference between the police and the military.

Because as we know, "shooting guns at (mostly brown) foreigners" is not a career path that tends to be disproportionately attractive to a significant number of nazis. Not at all.

Can we bring back ‘if you dont have anything nice to say then dont say anything’. I’m kinda sick of every joke about trans groups on here just being mean. We are in a world that already hates trans people so much so why add more hate to it. Even if it’s just joking. Especially in public places like social media where you are just inviting cis people to joke about how much they think trans people and trans art is ‘cringey’ and ‘lame’.

I hate how there’s so much a thing around being mean online. I don’t see much of this mean joking stuff in trans spaces in person, just online. Can’t be in trans spaces online without seeing 50 “haha fresh out transfems and their bad and ugly Amazon skirts” jokes or “cringy transmasc art! It’s all tacky uwu cowboy love art!! Lmao!!!” Or “lmao nonbinary people have no fashion taste!! They are so ugly!” Why be mean?

Surprising amount of people mad at the opinion of “I think being mean is bad. I think people should be nice :)”

one of my very favorite obscure story tropes is when there’s an episode/plotline/tabletop campaign session where the conceit is ‘each member of the gang gets trapped in a specially tailored dream/nightmare/illusory mindscape and has to break out’

my favorite addition to this trope is when the gang has to pass through everyone’s specially tailored nightmare scape and it’s just one gut punching trauma after the next that their friends help them through

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

ratratratratrat

Thank god this is still circulating because of your wonderful art, Mandy. I needed it tonight

Oh man I can't believe I forgot. You know that post that was like "tell me what clothes you've bought because of a character" or whatever. I searched for ages to find an adequate white cable knit sweater because of Ransom's in knives out.

It's a good sweater

I'm putting this here bc I feel like it's information everyone needs. You can find it here.

I don't knit but that's hilarious because this looks like such a complicated pattern for a beginner

Oh it is. There's at least three different styles of cabling. And more advanced cabling at that. That sweater would take me like a year to finish.

All the cabling is done the same way. You just need to read your knitting and keep track of which row you're on

No, but for real. Knitting is just loops. Cables? Spicy loops. Lace? Spicy loops. Color work? Multicolored spicy loops.

There are no levels in knitting, there are no exams to pass or goals to achieve before you can continue.

The Handsome Chris is a perfect beginner project. It's all one color, it's knit flat, you get to learn lots of new techniques all at once, but most of all it's engaging and you're working towards a goal you really like.

I would have impaled myself on my needles if I'd been forced to complete a Sophie scarf before I got to advance to something more "challenging" like a washcloth, or God forbid a ribbed hat.

My very first project was a self-drafted 11-strand intarsia double sided cable scarf, because I didn't know I wasn't allowed and that was what I wanted to make.

This attitude of mystifying certain fabrics as advanced really twists my stitches. I cannot do simple stockinette colorwork to save my life, but I can 3-color brioche without looking.

There are no levels in knitting.

Make that fucking Handsome Chris if you want to, it's a great sweater. Or start with the Sophie scarf if that's more your vibe. But don't ever think that knitting is hard.

You sound like me telling a beginner crocheter "nah the alligator stitch is easy for a beginner, it's all just double crochets!" (a real thing I have said to people picking up a crochet hook for the first time). I'm not saying you can't start with a complicated stitch I'm saying it's very funny when people do.

#I mean. knitting and crochet both just build onto very basic stitches#once you know the basics it’s short work to do those ‘harder’ stitches#you just gotta practice them!

"Once you know the basics" is my point. Beginners do not know the basics. I am a beginner knitter and let me tell you we're doing shit like "trying to remember how to cast on", "not dropping too many stitches and going on without noticing if you can help it", "trying to figure out how to keep consistent tension so the width of the project doesn't keep changing", and "trying to remember the difference between a knit and a purl because at least a quarter of these stitches are definitely backwards".

Please enjoy the ends of the first (and only) scarf I knitted

One of those is very very beginner, because I was very very beginner. I was learning. The other is much better, still rough of course but straight and even enough

By all means encourage people to take on a project they're excited about! But perhaps be a bit kind with your advice and set them up for success by suggesting they knock out something simple first to get a feel of the medium. Cos otherwise they're gonna finish their huge year long project and the first bit they did which isn't up to even a beginner's standard is gonna frustrate and upset them

Don't set people up to fail. And! Don't undervalue the skill and knowledge you as an expert have

fake dating trope but they don't become a real couple at the end. character is just like "wow thanks so much buddy that was a really nice and helpful thing of you to do for me and i really feel like our friendship has grown through this experience" and thats the end of it. godbless

Remember how Peter Dutton called the Biloela family children "anchor babies" to smear them, then their three year old daughter nearly DIED because the Coalition refused her medical care for days until she was emergency evacuated from detention with pneumonia and blood poisoning?

Dutton is a fucking monster. He has REPEATEDLY withheld medical care to children in detention until FORCED by the courts.

This man is a sociopath. His policies literally endanger lives and if it weren't for court intervention he would've killed several children, let alone adults on Manus and Nauru.

While many boomers are anti-refugee and anti-immigration, I genuinely think reminding people of this is useful for turning people off Dutton. Because while many Australians are racist - they aren't so racist as to look at a crying three year old girl who nearly fucking died because the Liberals fought to refuse her medical care and be so devoid of humanity as to not find that off putting. That's objectively horrible. That will get through to some people.

Even the worst people have a line, and "medical neglect to the point of endangering children's lives" is probably crossing most people's line. So talk to people about it. Talk to Liberal voters and ask them how they could trust Dutton after that.

Regardless of what views one may have on the motivations of refugees to come to Australia, once they're here they are the responsibility of the government and it is very clear that Dutton, when he was in charge of immigration, repeatedly fought against his duty of care and endangered the lives of CHILDREN by refusing them medical care MORE THAN A DOZEN TIMES until forced to by the courts.

If this is the standard that he treats children in need then how can we trust him to care about the needs of anyone else?

This is why you vote Greens.

Because it pulls other parties to the left and we get good policy as a result.

I’m aware I’m doing analysis on a YA book series that a) began 6 years ago b) concluded 3 years ago c) wasn’t really intended to be a series at all originally and d) I haven’t shared a conversation with anyone about since I was 17, BUT!! none of that matters because the brain demons have got me and now I can’t stop thinking about the coin-flip, inverse way the “cliff jump” as a storytelling element functions in Monty’s arc during The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky versus how it functions in Adrian’s narrative throughout The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks.

I am all the more compelled by this for the fact that TGGtGL is so on-the-surface distant from TNGtSaS. But—what if you were Monty, and jumping off a cliff represented your growth, represented how you began to believe yourself worthy of love. What if you were Adrian, and jumping off a cliff represented your death, represented how you might believe yourself to be unlovable. What if you were brothers.

And what if you were Caroline, and you stepped off a cliff knowing it meant your death and hoping your oldest son—who had already transformed “jumping off a cliff” from something destructive into something joyous in his story—would be enough to save your younger son from trying to jump off that same cliff after you. What if. What the hell man.

anyways if you grew up as a fat little girl and ended up as a fat trans man, you should get 10000$ in emotional compensation because holy fuck people are cruel

i’m obsessed with this quote from vivian wilson (elon musk’s daughter)