the thing is that being fat - much like being transgender and being autistic - is awesome right up until the moment you have to exist in a society that doesn't particularly want you to be there

[ID: A simple, graph-like diagram on a blank page. It starts with a low, flat line, which suddenly increases sharply, hits a peak, and then decreases almost vertically back to the baseline. The first part is labeled “no create, only vibes”. The peak is labeled “creating something in a sudden burst of inspired hyper-fixated creativity”. The final flat segment is labeled “wondering how I’ll ever create something again”. /.End ID]

emergency commission post

my good friend Joe is out of work for the time being due to chronic illness, but because we live in a hell world he still needs to make money, so he has emergency commissions opened on twitter and bsky.

joe does excellent furry and human art and has a really good eye for uncanny valley/unsettling horror.

you can find him on TWITTER, BLUESKY and LINKTREE for more information like prices and how to contact him. if you can't commission him at this time, please share the post!

being a man or being masculine is inherently neutral

being a woman or being feminine is inherently neutral

dont play into any narrative that frames men/masculinity as inherently bad and women/femininity as inherently good, this is radfem rhetoric

dont play into any narrative that frames men/masculinity as inherently good and women/femininity as inherently bad, this is religious extremism

honestly being friends with fictives is so fun. i see a character and i dont just think "oh that's blorbo from shows :D" i also get to think "that's friend from discord servers :D" or in the case of multiple people having fictives from the same character "thats MANY FRIENDS from discord servers :D"

i love you guys <>

"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.

"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation

Okay, this might be an unpopular opinion, but if you want to combat the spread of misinformation then you have to let go of any belief that people not talking about an issue means that they don’t care. The only way to reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation is to research claims before you spread them, and there is so much information constantly being thrown at people through social media and the 24 hour news cycle that it’s impossible to fact check every claim. The same can be said about AI generated images, if you look closely then you can notice certain tells that something is AI generated but no one really has the time to analyze every single image that crosses their path.

If we expect people to talk about and spread information on every social/political/economic issue that occurs then the result will be that people will spread misinformation/disinformation because they will not have the time or mental capacity to research every single thing that happens on Earth just to make sure that they aren’t being fed incorrect information.

Only researching claims that set off a red flag or seem incorrect doesn’t actually do much to prevent misinformation, because there are plenty of claims that will seem correct on the surface or that will align with your view of the world that you won’t think to research. You have to research every claim if you want to avoid misinformation, and you can’t research every claim made by someone online.

The only solution is to accept that some people aren’t going to talk about certain issues, not because they don’t care, but because they have chosen to focus on other issues for the time being and don’t want to talk about an issue that they don’t know much about. And we really need to stop treating that like a bad thing. If you spread yourself too thin then you’re not going to accomplish anything. It’s actually good to have people devoting themselves to learning about and fighting a specific issue, that’s how progress is made.

people have got to learn the difference between I didnt like it and It was bad

+ a secret, third thing

Eepy

(I’m trying to learn how to draw humanoid anatomy I swear 😭 just bear with me)

I see the vision and it's full of light and beautiful colors

Skittles <3

bugs is…. shrimp????