Just another Adriana Rodrigues

Autora, quadrinista, professora de Química, funcionária pública nas horas vagas. Não sou eu naquele retrato do século XVIII. - Author, comic artist, chemistry teacher, public worker in my free time. It's not me in that 18th century portrait. Autora de Noturno em Sol Maior (o livro de vampiros, não a música), Bram & Vlad e A Crisopeia de Victoria Harvey Se você veio pelo blog antigo de autores com touca de raposa, pode ver todos eles aqui: Autores de Touquinha

[adrianastrix]

My stuff

The Chrysopoeia of Victoria Harvey: My current work-in-progress. It's a comic following a few mage apprentice children growing up in hard times, getting tangled in the messes of the adults around them, without giving up the joys of being fascinated by weird stuff and making friends. Mirror. PT-BR Version.

Noturno em Sol Maior (my published novel - BR Portuguese only, sorry): Grumpy sickly teenage girl is investigating a death and a disappearance. Talkative vampire teenager can't stop teasing her instead of just handing over information. Things get serious when you least expect.

Bram & Vlad: Comic strip meant to make fun of vampire tropes, starring the descendants of the characters in the book Dracula. It's run is already finished, but there's plenty of extra material.

Bram's Vampire Hunter Handbook: About 30 chapters of DETAILED descriptions of vampire anatomy, powers, hunting behaviour, dating habits, as well as the best hunting weapons, tactics and team formations (and more!).

The Green Star: The first draft of a book that I'm now working to divide and two and expand. It's a collection of episodes in two very different timelines: 1) the first few decades of the life of Auguste Lavert, legendary vampire Encyclopaedist of the 18th century and 2) how Auguste and Cidinha das Mercês, a young and poor aspiring artist, met in the 80's and their ace sex-repulsed butts finally found someone they feel comfortable around.

It happens in the same universe as Noturno em Sol Maior. Auguste's daughter Helena is a secondary character in Noturno, and Diego's vampire mother is Alexander van Allen's wet nurse. You could say that Noturno in Sol Major and adjacent stories are the Next Gen spin-off/sequel of the main storyline with the Van Allens, Auguste and Charlie.

(Somewhen in the next few years, The Green Star will be expanded to portray more of Auguste's adventures while collecting data, being framed by an interview done by Cidinha, and the romance part [which was supposed to be the framing, but grew out of control] will become Sanguine and Ink, also featuring some extra scenes.)

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

[loveridden1999]

[luntfontanne]

damn he really is an all-time poster

[kymeira]

[jinjeriffic]

Lets hear it for Malicious Compliance

[elkian]

*filming literal mold* “There is a bit of a damp problem…” The signs saying “DON’T BUY THIS” are a beautiful touch.

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign(s)

[tall]

[zoestorm]

The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

[evil-wild-lesbian-wizard]

I needed to see this today

[thishasalwaysbeenmyname]

@this-is-trans-joy

[this-is-trans-joy]

This is trans joy!!!

[senatortedcruz]

This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves

[ninadove]

Companion piece because I'm re-reading And Then There Were None and damn. DAMN. Agatha Christie sure could write

[adrianastrix]

When I was growing up, being separated from most of my immediate relatives by long distances + short money, Agatha Christie was Aunt Agatha to me, and I will defend her honour as a character writer with the intensity of someone ddfending the honour of their own family.

[senatortedcruz]

This is how it feels to read a classic that everyone in the world has already read and loves

[ninadove]

Companion piece because I'm re-reading And Then There Were None and damn. DAMN. Agatha Christie sure could write

[freesiadotcom]

*trying not to doxx myself* shoutout to that one thing in a place somewhere

[gondorrevealparty]

baseball interviewers will ask "how do you throw the ball so good" and Mariners players will casually drop that they have a headmate who plays the game for them

[the-goddamn-robot]

Damn, Rome really looks great in all four seasons

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

[ba7raltawil]

oh my GOD

[yomikoreadsbooks]

As long as I’ve been on this site, I honestly should have seen this coming a mile away and yet…

[cute-catts]

Cats logic 🤷🐱🐈

[purplesaline]

It's not that kitty is saying she can't make the wheel go. Kitty is saying she wants to do the wheel WITH her person. Much the same way many cats won't wat unless their person is eating at the same time.

This is a request for social togetherness and it's incredibly sweet

[dogmotif-deactivated20240505]

the main problem i have with america is that nothings old as hell there. i cant be so far away from a castle it damages my aura

[chillyfeetsteak]

man people really just say stuff on here huh

[lame-kid-on-couch]

Noooo haha don't spread racist ideals and colonizer propaganda by idolizing white european aesthetics above all else and denying the life and accomplishments of native peoples on their own lands

[brehaaorgana]

People have been living in the downtown area of Tucson, Arizona for at least 4,500 years. The greater Santa Cruz river valley has been occupied by humans for 12,000 years.

You see this?

That's not a river. That's the South Canal in Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix metro area).

This is a view of the East and South canals. At least half of all the Phoenix metro canals were originally built by the Hohokam (from roughly 200-1400 CE), and are still in use (restored) today.

Phoenix, Arizona actually has more miles (kilometers) of Canals total than both Venice and Amsterdam. No, really. Phoenix has about 180 miles of canals, many of which are built on ancient canal foundations.

below is an aerial view photo taken in the late 1930's of one branch of Phoenix's canal systems:

Also have the "Montezuma Castle," if you need a castle:

I don't need to look at some 12th century European castle to see age.

[runawaymun]

Don’t forget the continuously inhabited pueblos!!

The Taos Pueblo, Orayvi, and Sky City (Acoma) were all founded sometime before 1150AD and have been continuously inhabited since then.

There’s the Medicine Wheel in Wyoming - called Annáshisee by the Apsáalooke, who also say that it was there before they arrived. We don’t know how old it is. Oral history from several different indigenous tribes say it was built by ancient ancestors who lived without iron.

And then there’s the Serpent Mound in Ohio, which, by the way, is the largest serpent effigy in the world.

Radiocarbon dates it back to at least 300 BCE. (2300 years ago), so, you know — the time of Ptolemy and the Punic Wars, and was later repaired by indigenous people about 900 years ago.

This just scratches the surface. So, yeah, we have a lot of old as shit stuff here built by indigenous people. Don’t even get me started on South America.

[do-not-u-dare]

”Explain yourself” followed by “stop making excuses” has always baffled me because the fuck you think explaining myself is????

[imjunebitch]

[grootficguy]

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.