I am a little white heartbeat that moves very fast

Nocturne in Black and Gold, The Falling Rocket - James Abbot Whistler (1875)

did you know you can do anythingh with your ocs and no one can stop you.. did you know you can make aus of your ocs. you should make aus of your ocs

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

Nobody:

Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:

I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.

okay, I actually really needed to hear this

If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

This reply deserves to be in its own reblog lmao

I own a shirt that says exactly what the comment above says. And you would not -believe- the number of truly awkward interactions I've had that start with someone saying "so what's the second type?"

I went to an exhibition on the history of migration and colonial rhetoric in Australia and it really helped me to pinpoint my exact issue with the way non-Australians (and. tbh. some aussies) talk about this country

this map is a piece of propaganda from 1921. honestly what shocked me about it was how little of Australia is marked out as “uninhabited”. I have seen maps shared around on this website that basically mark out the entirety of non-coastal Australia as “empty”. fucking colonialists from 1921 were more generous than some of you

the history of colonial Australia is a history of “taming the untameable land”. this has been reinforced through narratives that this country is:

this rhetoric survives in both the way Australia is imagined by non-Australians and in the self-image of Australia. the (white) aussie battler conquers the unconquerable. the outback is imagined as a post-apocalyptic hellscape. our fauna is categorised as uniquely hellish and unwieldy. so when non-Australians make joke after joke about how scared they are of this place. well you can imagine why it fills me with the kind of rage that can only be generated by the understanding that You Are Reinforcing Colonialism

Controversial opinion: Trans women are not "male women".

Hope this helps!

Turbo-nuclear take: "Trans woman" is not a different gender from "cis woman".

Take at which we can achieve nuclear fusion: "woman of color" is also not a different gender from "cis woman".

If women of color are so "masculinized", if we are so Indelibly Associated with Maleness, then why are we hypersexualized and treated as disposable sex objects by a white-hegemonic patriarchal culture? Does our fetishization as "highly submissive" register as particularly male to you? Does the proliferation of beauty industry trends fixated on commodifying our features and making them surgically available to white women seem like we are being distanced from womanhood?

If "trans women face so much pressure to change their bodies", why do clinics stonewall and refuse to prescribe us the treatment we desperately need, and why do doctors UNDER-PRESCRIBE HRT to us, or refuse to cover top surgery for trans women?

Think, Tumblr, think!

I will state, plainly, that this site is so transmisogynistic, even its acceptance of transfemininity is transmisogynistic.

Tumblr hates women. Hates women and womanhood. It views being a woman as boring, un-hip, conformist, regressive, and 'patriarchal' or 'male gaze'.

Every time I see a post that is transfem-positive, it is almost always couched in casting trans women as Male Women, as avatars of gender-ambiguity, as a "masculine womanhood".

Best of both worlds, eh?

You are The Misogyny Site, and even your supposed 'acceptance' of us is poisoned swill.

And you will never unpack or do anything about the rampant transmisogyny on this site for as long as you are dominated by a culture that insists on womanhood as something to abhor and distance yourself from at all costs.

Okay yes we all understand the double-bind, but they're also literally banning trans care to eradicate us, so like

Once you start thinking about humans as a species in a biome, it affects your entire way of looking at normal things.

The other day I referred to female morning joggers as an 'indicator species' in that if you see women jogging in the dark it means that the environment provides migration pathways (sidewalks, clear signs) and doesn't have any known predators of female morning joggers (guy with knife, bear, BigTruck, male morning joggers).

Though, I think that people consider framing humans as animals reacting to their environment as rude.

that's because it is extremely rude to talk about human beings as if they are animals. women are not a 'species' and you are projecting an insane amount of gendered shit onto these women by assuming these things about them

you can talk about things like car traffic as a risk to pedestrians, large predatory animals, and paths/lighting without getting taxonomic and sexist about it

also, why the fuck do you think female joggers would be afraid of male joggers???? or random men with knives? do you think women are fucking stupid and can't make accurate threat assessments? or cant make preparations to defend themselves? or cant just run away?

being out alone at night is perfectly normal behavior for human beings, regardless of gender. i did it yesterday

lotta people are saying the price thing is an overreaction and yeah, for the console price alone, maybe.

but its the combination of that plus the overpriced games Plus having to pay an online subscription to play half of those games PLUS any potentially needed replacements (we all remember the joycon drift fiasco. its a wonder the court case went the way it did.)

on top of the fact that a solid 50% of the switch's general audience would not be able to afford it with these prices. while there is such a wide audience that uses it, a considerable majority is: children and young adults. folks who arent exactly going to have a nicely paying office job.

also the minimum wage where i live is still $7.25 and i have more important things to pay for, like food, and student loans.

so while it is probably an overreaction, can you exactly blame so many people for being pissed? they deserve a little screaming and whining time, alright?

also why are you jumping to the defense of a corporate entity. you look like a tool.

Like I say my dad was bi bc people will piss their pants if they don’t understand things in plain terms but in reality he was out as gay till mid 20s and then showed up with a girlfriend one day and refused to elaborate and still only liked men other than her and this being the backstory to my parents explains quite literally everything about me honestly also power move

As someone pointed out in the replies im south Asian like I sign on here and watch u flops complain about polyamorous people being icky meanwhile my parents are a woman who dodged arranged marriage and got disowned and a bisexualgay man who both did whatever they wanted at all times. And u expect me to care when you cry about the sanctity of monogamy and commitment

Magnificent gold and enamel plique-à-jour pendant/brooch designed as a “Morning Glory”. It was once part of the collection of Ada Rehan, a popular actress of the late 19th century who starred in several Shakespearean plays.

Work signed Marcus & Co around 1900. Via The Newark Museum of Art collection

it turns out that what has been tormenting me about gender was expressed ages ago by joan nestle better than I could have done it; “gender is both a real, material reality embedded in the histories in all of us and an imagined place where my body can shape-change into hardness, into boyness, into the sheep drover Jim who makes love to his barmaid girlfriend Peg.” we are not defined by not being men, we are not always and forever non-men, we are lesbians who shapechange into men and women and whatever else pleases us, I was right that part of my gender is the queer boy who was beaten out of my father and uncles

The OP's pronouns are she/they

We talk a lot of shit about anime characters not looking their age for a media culture that routinely casts thirty-five-year-old actors to play high schoolers.

I think it's a very similar phenomenon in both cases. In anime, there is a great deal of pressure to make characters teens or at most twenty-somethings but also "cute," which culturally corresponds to young. In western media, high schoolers are portrayed by people who are mature and styled and have their shit together. We are both trying to avoid the same essential problem: teens are not cool. Teens are essentially still in beta. Their bodies are Doing Things unbidden and so are their hormones and their brains (when said brains are even consulted) and as a consequence they spend a certain percentage of their time being utter dork-ass losers. Which is okay—but entertainment is usually not selling What Teens Are Like, it's selling What The Audience Wishes They Were Like As Teens. An entirely different beast from real teenagers.

Also, teen and child actors have protections and restrictions that adult actors don't, so in many cases it's just easier and cheaper to hire an adult.

When describing the setting of your scene, don't neglect any senses. The visuals and sounds are important, but the smell of a setting can be equally significant. How does the air feel on your characters' skin? Maybe the humidity is quite oppressive? These sorts of descriptors can segue beautifully into moments that contribute to your characters and flesh them out. They walk into a bakery and the scent reminds them of visiting their grandmother's home growing up. Or a bitter cold night can bring back bad memories of a character's frigid homeland. Your settings don't have to just be there to set the scene and help the reader visualize, think of ways to harmonize their inclusion with the story itself and your characters. I think narrative flow really clicks in a big way when every element of a story plays off and compliments everything around it. Like Jazz. Or a good meal.

Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

can't keep that in the tags

I bet having ur statue ritually fed felt good as fuck if you were a mesopotamian statue god

I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*

for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist

Not just ‘a’ white supremacist. He was *THE* white supremacist. INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT CONTEXT HERE is that Storm Thurmond’s speech that he broke the record of? It was 24 hours and 18 minutes opposing *the Civil Rights Act of 1957*. He voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He was a segregationist POS who was the blueprint for the Southern Strategy which was designed by Lee Atwater, a former Thurmond aide. Having his record broken by Booker is astounding and I’m so happy.

If hell exists, Strom Thurmond is being flambéed and I’m happy for it.