#you're in a car with a beautiful boy #and the boy is actually a famous poet who casually and really succinctly explained why problematic ships are actually completely chill #and you feel your heart taking root in your body #like youāve discovered something you didnāt even have a name for (@drunktuesdays)
we were talking about the criminalization of homosexuality in class and my professor (who as far as i know isn't in any way queer) said something i quite enjoyed in that. well the exchange was more or less this: a student asked a question (doesn't really matter what exactly just know that i was rolling my eyes So hard internally) and the prof looked at the student and was like (i'm paraphrasing here this conversation was not in english) Do you have any queer friends? and the student went Uhhhh in a manner that made it clear the answer was probably no and the prof said Actually statistically speaking you most likely do. If I had to divide this room into two groups the way to do it would not be "people with queer friends" and "people without queer friends" it would be "people whose queer friends are out to them" and "people whose queer friends aren't". And if you're in the latter category you should consider why that is--if maybe your behavior is indicating to the queer people around you that you're not safe to come out to. to come back to your question if you really want to know about queerness there's a very simple way of doing that: you make yourself a person queer people feel comfortable talking to about their experiences and then you fucking listen to them when they do (the fuck is not paraphrased) (there was a fuck involved) (frankly king shit)
Fun fact: You are part of keeping a fandom alive. Every interaction, every person in a fandom has their own part to play. If thatās reblogging art, fanfics or making cursed edits, thatās good enough.
giving birth sucks tbh. not only do you and the baby youāre birthing almost die, usually you shit yourself and often you tear your taint. then you have to push an organ out of your body (placenta) and if even a little of that remains in your body, you can hemorrhage to death or develop an infection that essentially rots your body from the inside out. even if you had a relatively āeasy birthā, you bleed for weeks on end. even after that stops, your body and brain is changed for the rest of your life, the pregnancy leeched minerals from your bones, that can cause osteoporosis later. minor urinary incontinence is not uncommon, brain scans of people who gave birth show permanent changes in their brain, youāre never quite the same.
I say all of this not to say giving birth is disgusting but it is a harrowing and visceral experience. society downplays how fucking awful it is and makes it out to be a ~magical~ experience but it isnāt a magical transformative experience for everyone. it can be an extremely traumatic experience for someone who wanted to carry a pregnancy to term, much more so for someone who did not want to be pregnant in the first place or someone who knows their baby wonāt survive the birth. anyway, abortion is a right. pregnancy and birth arenāt just inconvenient, itās fucking awful.
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
Every body I was taught to draw throughout my life was a skinny, young,Ā āhealthyā body.
Every piece of animation I grew up seeing and learning fromĀ
Every reference I found
Every class I took
Every posable drawing figure
Every book of art tips
Every nude model
Every everything was to teach artists how to draw skinny bodies. Even fat people grew up not drawing themselves. Just think about that for a moment.
Fatphobia is so ingrained in our culture that skinny and fat people alike learn to draw skinny, normalized bodies from day one. We learn how to draw animals before we learn how to draw another type of human being, which so many people never do end up learning how or even try to draw. If that isnāt fucked up, then you need to read this post again.
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