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Is it about butchering black girlsโ hair to keep white people comfortable? Is it about a woman visiting the same violence on her daughter as was done to her by her mother a generation prior? Is this girl just tooโฆ โdifferentโ to go into the world unaltered? Does she need to be toned down so she can succeed? Does she need to be defenseless before she is deemed safe by powerful people who would do her harm if given half a reason? Is one of those people holding those scissors?
[I.D. digital art of a young girl medusa sitting in a chair in a kitchen, crying as a woman cuts the heads off of medusaโs snakes. the womanโs head is out of frame, but her blonde hair is visible as she pulls three snakes taught, beginning to chop them with scissors as blood spurts. four snakes have been cut already, their remains lying dead on the floor as the rest of the snakes, all sporting pink bows around their necks, cower in fear. the majority of the illustration has been colored in black and deep saturated yellows and oranges, while medusaโs skin and hair are green. her pinafore has the same color palette as the background. her knees are also scuffed, bruised with orange and one of them bandaged. her cut strands of snake hair are not bandaged and continue to bleed. end I.D.]
Thereโs a sequel!
โBecoming Me.โ by BottlingSunshine
Image ID: A digital illustration of a young Medusa woman braiding her green snakes in front of a mirror and while her eyes are covered with a sleep mask. The mirror is centered in the drawing and surrounded by the orange-pink background. She is wearing a white sleep mask with โclosed eyesโ on it and a black top with white lacey ruffles at the collar and cuffs. Two snake heads are seen in the mirror while the rest are out of view. The front of the vanity holding the mirror is littered with various dolls and stuffed animals with their eyes crossed out, candy, an image of eyes in a round frame that are also crossed out, nail polish in pink and black, ribbons, and a friendship bracelet plus polaroids. The wall above the vanity is pink and near-white striped and covered in small polaroids or photos taped on the wall and various portraits in yellow frames. The yellow frames show the woman as a young girl holding her arms anxiously with her head cut off from view, covering her face, or simply have dark static backgrounds. There is a sharpie on the lower shelf of the vanity. End iD
From the artist, re: the second image.
With all the times youโve been put down it may be hard to look at yourself, but I hope one day you can. Youโre amazing.
Happy to do a little follow up to my most recent illustration. I got a lot of comments hoping that she was gonna be okay and she will be. Healing takes time.
I think one of my favorite things on Tumblr is when we see Art of a Sad character we all immediately want them to be OK, to get better, to be happy.
And if the artist wonโt do it, weโll step in and do it ourselves.
Cannot emphasize this enough, do not sign for a loan with someone you're dating. That shit is already used for so much abuse within marriages but to be financially attached to someone you're not even married to will cause you nothing but problems. Don't do it
Dont co sign for that car your boyfriend of one year wants. Do not take out a joint loan with that person who only just moved on with. And for the love of God do not sign for a mortgage with someone you would not legally attach yourself to in the eyes of the state. That person now can wreck your credit and has unbelievable control over your ability to get loans and housing going forward. Don't fucking do it
aaugh i hate citing sources *excruciatingly loud sounds of tearing metal combined with tortured human screams and fleshy hitting noises* ok that wasn't so bad actually..
[Image description: There are five images, all screenshots of tags and replies on this post. The first is tags in all caps that read, "prev tags?! are you okay?" The second image is the prev tags mentioned, and reads, "me watching two hours worth of cars 3 interviews with brian fee so i can find a concrete source for lightning mcqueens age. btw on that note there's canonically a 20 year age gap between mcqueen and mater. in the first movie mcqueen is 29 and mater is 49. stan materfred its less problematic." The third image is tags in response to the previous image that read, "prev what. what. mater is. 49?? he's what?? he. was older than my dad when i first watched the movie? what??" The fourth image is tags in response again, and it reads, "prev in the credits of cars 2 we see maters passport including his DOB. his birthday is the same as john lasseters. 12 jan 1957. as i write this in 2022 john lasseter is 65. thus. mater is a gilf." The fifth image is a reply that reads, "mater is a gilf." End description]
[Image ID: It is a wojak meme, showing a man, who has the Wojak face, standing in the corner of a party, while smiling couples dance around him. Above the Couples' heads text reads, "Mater's 49????" And "Gilf Mater." Above the Wojak man's head, Text reads, "They don't know Materfred is the ship name for Mater and Manfred Von Karma" END ID]
[Image ID: A screenshot of a google search of "Manfred Von Karma", showing he's a white haired kinda "has fun being evil" looking man, the first result being his Ace Attorney wiki page. Hes a prosecutor. END ID]
Ace Attorney Heritage Post
โIโve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children canโt sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians donโt talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.โ
the more i think about the switch 2 game key cards the angrier i get lmao. it's just really funny that they strategically left out of the video things they knew would be controversial (game prices, game key card) and put that stuff on their website where you had to look for it.
ostensibly, the purpose of the game key card is to prevent rom dumping, but i just truly don't understand the lengths these companies will go to prevent piracy when pretty much every measure has been circumvented in time.
hell, the Sega Dreamcast is one of the greatest systems ever made, but a big part of its downfall (and there were many factors here to be fair) was that it used GD-ROM drives as a means of preventing piracy, and that actually wound up making it the easiest console to pirate games for. they sold the console at a loss hoping to make up for it on game sales, and meanwhile everyone was fucking burning discs instead (myself included, I think only had like three actual game discs)
Nintendo is going to be in a very precarious position in the next few years as the people who made the company a video game powerhouse are set to retire. Shigero Miyamoto is 72 years old. If they can't ensure that the design culture is going to stay the same at the company, then they're not going to be on top for long. People will only put up with so much shit, and they'll put up with even less if the games aren't any good.
physical media is so important to preservation because lost media is only going to become more and more common as digital becomes increasingly our only choice, and the only reason to move towards solely digital media is corporate greed.
but of course, day one patches are becoming such a problem that eventually physical games will be completely unplayable anyway
profit motive is the death of art
Friendly reminder that not comparing yourself to others includes not comparing yourself to other disabled/ill people
Reading rahaeli's bsky feed is an education in itself. I did not realize it was so common for undercover agents to join even harmless social activism groups and try to encourage people to do things they could be arrested for. The song has about a dozen verses, all of them based on incidents that resulted in felony charges o.O
The whole thread is very worth reading, especially since the incoming administration has been been very clear that they want to criminalize being trans or supporting trans rights. (Among other things.)
due to some Family Circumstances, I literally grew up being told "if someone at the meeting says they know where to get dynamite*, that's the fed"
*sometimes 'guns', which is also true.
Like I understand where this is coming from but like also you could just not commit crime. If a fed offered to drive me to a crime I simply would not go because I dont commit crime.
That's the problem though, isn't it? Most activists and protesters _don't_ want to commit crime, they want to call attention to injustice and work to get it fixed. Undercover agents like this are given the job of turning peaceful people into "criminals" so that they can be arrested. And while I'm sure "hur hur, let's actually go blow things up and loot shops" works sometimes, it's not going to convince you or most other people to turn to the dark side. The reason for the song is to remind you that it's usually _not_ so obvious. Maybe you get into the fed's car because he's always volunteered to drive for the last six months and you assume you're going to stop by a place he knows to get donuts. Maybe you've been having conversations in that car for six months and a lot of them have been about whether vigilantism can be ethical. Today the car pulls into a gun shop instead of a donut shop, and now you're under arrest and they have a recording snippet of you saying "look, I understand the desire to do violence against bad people BUT". They don't play the "but" part when they take you to court. How do you protect against that? You have a silly little mnemonic song to remind you that the guy who always brings up the _idea_ of criming, and who always volunteers to drive, is suspicious. The other big problem is that even the most peaceful activities - even your very existence - can be defined as a crime. Giving water to a dehydrated person can be a crime. Saying "trans rights are human rights" or "genocide is bad" can be a crime. If the Black Panthers, who by all accounts were intelligent and well-organized and focused on obviously good things like giving free lunch to schoolchildren, could be redefined in the public eye as dangerous violent criminals who it was okay to shoot in their sleep, I think it's safe to say neither you nor I can be confident in our ability to "just not commit crimes".
Just gonna repeat that last paragraph.
the whole "it's impossible to explain homestuck" thing is just a lingering hangover from the 2013 era 'let me tell you about homestuck' fandom circlejerk. sure it is confusing to explain to someone who hasn't read it why davesprite exists or how lord english was created but. y'know. you just don't have to explain intricate plot details to someone when giving them an overview it's a fully self inflicted problem. it's like if everyone claimed lord of the rings was impossible to explain because every time they tried they led with explaining the difference between quenya and sindarin instead of "so three gay guys and a wizard go on a quest to destroy an evil ring"
oh no notes for me thanks i just wanted my post to be on this ugly ass dashboard next to yours
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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl
Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every โX is Zโ statement will be true for Actual People ๐
Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.
also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck
"ough watching a show uses so much electricity" on road sides there are giant electrified billboards that do nothing but show you ads
Thank you for the perspective check
The misuse of the "insult to life itself" quote from Miyazaki on AI burns my yams so bad bc the original context is being disgusted with how a characters movements are dehumanizing to disabled people specifically bc of his empathy for a disabled friend and it's such a sadly rare sentiment, this cognizance of how we casually inflict indignity upon disabled people and how he finds it disgusting, I hate seeing it obfuscated
In the video he sees character animation where the presenter comments on how the AI can be used to model "grotesque movements humans can't even imagine." And Miyazaki immediately mentions that he thought of his physically disabled friend, who struggles with movement, with the implication being that what's "insulting to life itself" is the degradation of people like him to grotesque monsters. Regardless of my feelings about AI art I don't think it's worth obscuring this humane thought process to have a rhetorical weapon
Kayemba reached out to me. They haven't had much progress with their fundraiser. <3 Here is him speaking about what has led to this situation.
So far...
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This is a community of LGBTQ+ refugees who are suffering. Recently, some of our members have been jailed for fighting back against people stealing their shelters at night, and they were tortured in lock up. Cases involving refugees, especially LGBTQ+ people, are often ignored or met with violence.
They are deep in the desert surviving on tea leaves and hot water, porridge for the kids, breastfeeding mothers and those who are HIV positive.
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do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be
I suppose? You can just replace that with what kind of bender tribe you'd be, or if you're a Jedi or a Sith.
Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,
I'll do you one better, identify with your choice of lightsaber color and form you'd use~!
Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,
Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,
ok but power rangers are dope as hell and also are FREE to watch on youtube so tag yrself im light blue
Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,
