Cozy Crew

(They/Them - enby) Our (slightly) more social blog for us to reblog and interact with our friends! Hiii!!

[acozycrew]

Made a new Tumblr to actually maybe make posts and interact, mainly just with friends because shy. This post will probably be updated with stuff later, but for now, hellooo!!

Have a fogspore! :3

[i-suggest-aro]

the reason why i think so many alloromantic people outright refuse the idea of "aromantic subtext" being a legitimate thing is that people view aromanticism as inherently shallow. to a lot of queer fandomites, "aromantic" is what they make the side character they don't really care about, so they don't have to bother coming up with actual analysis of their interpersonal relationships. it sucks, because aromantic narratives in fiction, intentional or otherwise, are worth exploring, analysing, and appreciating.

[charmallows]

something about odile lovingly comparing siffrin to multiple animals and very notably only mimicking animal noises around siffrin. and also loop saying that odile has always been someone they've wanted to emulate. odile and siffrin emulating each other out of admiration and love Idk idk

[charmallows]

genuinely i come back to odile mimicking the sheep and birds when with siffrin a lot and it's because it's such a great expression of love from her. like. the security and comfort you have to feel with someone to surprise them, to do something unexpected around them, to be Weird. the way she has to love siffrin to be able to indulge in her silliness. and siffrin probably doesn't think of it that way but the fact that he doesn't say anything about it aloud speaks volumes too. it's an understanding and a type of love on both ends. can anyone hear me like actually

[sunflowersosa]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[sunflowersosa]

I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

Thank you all!

[denizenhardwick]

sex-repulsed people are fully within our rights to be cranky and blunt about not liking sex and how it's fucking everywhere btw. we shouldn't have to tiptoe around and make sure our phrasing is perfectly squeaky clean because people interpret any criticism of sex and sexualization as puritanism. venting about compulsory sexuality is not purity culture. maybe you could stand to learn a thing or two from us.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Proper Brown Skin Lighting: ft my arm

In da club, in da dark parking lot, in da grass at sunrise, in da direct morning sunlight 👍🏾

What didn't happen: Ice changed skin colors!!! 😱😱😱 Nope. I'm the same exact shade of brown in every single one of these images, taken throughout this weekend.

What did happen: lighting and color reflected off my arm! I am The Constant, I am The Work of Art- the lighting must work with ME and MY skin color. Same as you, a respectful artist, ought to be doing with your Black characters!!

[My Lesson on Lighting]

[dietranch]

happy trans visibility day!

now with alts!

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[super-autism-death-ray]

reblogging for personal use

[theunsureartist]

ART REFERENCE NOT FULL OF AI?! YESSS

[fangirling-and-making-stuff]

THANK YOU

[vitiligo-is-not-a-trend]

hey! apologies if this has been asked already or if it's a question you're not well equipped to answer, but do you have any advice on how to depict vitiligo in art (< not regarding patterns, but how to stylize the pale spots themselves? if that makes sense at all). thank you and have a great day/night :]

It’ll depend on your art style so here’s a very simple “cheat sheet” that should hopefully help regardless! I’ll also be reblogging this post with examples of my own art!

Text in image under cut:

Hair doesn’t always lose pigmentation!

Color reflects undertone of skin

can vary in lightness

blood pooling can make it more sat[urated] or look darker

edges of patch are crisp/solid &/OR dappled.

edges can bleed into dapple

does NOT blur!

[shirecorn]

THIS is the comic that has been banned

It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

And yet, we will CONTINUE to exist, and grow, and find each other. We will be visible up to and beyond our own deaths. Because we stand for love. We love ourselves and each other and that just makes us stronger.

[shirecorn]

Happy pride!

The original post was pardoned, but the shadowban still persisted and every reblog was hidden from the dash and flagged explicit. I'm not sure if it recovered by now, or if it's always going to be at risk of banning.

So whatever staff reviewed my complaint agreed that it wasn't explicit. So thank you for that, moderator. This highlights that the problem starts with bad actors reporting anything they don't like, and that it's a tossup if your appeal is seen by a bot, a normal human, or a bigot.

I'm grateful I can still touch people and spread positivity. Many of my queer siblings, brothers, and sisters - especially trans sisters - can't say the same.

But no matter what happens, we will always have each other. Every letter in our alphabet is a pillar holding up a beautiful world that only stands if we're all in it together. The world may call you a monster, but it calls me one too. Maybe you won't hear it from the rest of them, but listen and you will hear it from me.

I love you.

I always will.

[fricklefracklefloof]

a comic about tattoos

[curseworm]

the secret cheat code for women is realizing you dont have to date men

[curseworm]

this doesnt just go for lesbians it goes for bi women and straight women too. i cant even count how many times straight women have told me “i wish i was a lesbian so i didnt have to date men” but guess what … u Dont have to date men 

[curseworm]

to be clear this also isnt necessarily saying ‘go date women instead!!’ its just saying…. u dont have to date men. u dont have to be dating women in order to not date men! in fact if ur not attracted to women at all please dont date women just as a substitute for men. but if dating men isnt making u happy… u dont have to do that. u dont have to make a space in ur life for men

[curseworm]

im singlehandedly destroying every mans mental health by telling women its ok to not date them

[crispinkiss]

i forgive the director all their wrongs. your honor they're literally cute??

👀 also hi @askoverkill thank you for the kind words on my other posts 👀 im honored

[drtravsrarecandy]

awa. wa wa wa

[threeheadedsewerrat]

[pinkbowsandstripedsocks]

[edwardspoonhands]

Honestly, Tvyek is pretty miraculous. It’s permeable to water vapor but not to water, it’s nearly impossible to tear, but can be easily cut. It’s cheap and made entirely without binding chemicals. In addition to being used for wristbands, it’s used to wrap construction sites to keep out water during construction, for tear-resistant envelopes at Fed-Ex, coveralls for mechanics, and my wallet, actually.

Fun tip, though it looks like paper, Tyvek is plastic, and cannot be recycled with paper.

[fairypsychicarchive]

[andromedafalls]

holy fuc

[piisbetterthanpie]

I didn’t even know it had a name

[frostedshadow]

WHAT

[parti-poppers]

I haven’t been able to make a finished drawing in a while but this song made me feel alive

[hexpatient]

if you ever interact with someone who is mentally ill/mad/pathologised or disabled in some way, assume they are trying hard enough. act as if they are trying hard enough. dont even consider it an option that they arent trying hard enough. if they are failing to meet some goal or expectation, it is despite trying hard enough.

[hexpatient]

version for when that person is you: you are trying hard enough. if it's not working, its because of some other barrier unrelated to how hard you are trying.