[pwhl-mybeloved]

The first thing Maybelle said to me when I saw her today was, “We did it Kels, we made it, we’re here.” We sure did Maybelle ❤️

[amberautumnfaebrooke]

has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

[sociallyawkwardrevolution]

times like these really make you appreciate pouring river water in your socks

[catbritta]

i love listening to song on repeat!!!!! reblog if you love listening to song on repeat!!!!!!!!!

[baddywronglegs]

Are lace-makers ever struck by the realisation that all the holes were already there before they started?

[ladytemeraire]

The Yarn Harlot, in one of her older blog posts musing on negative space in art in general, described knitting lace as "putting yarn around important and select parts of air".

I think about that every time I work on a lace project.

[silvaurum]

basketball dracula isn't real dude he can't-- *sudden squeaking noises from the shadows*

[silvaurum]

*two pool toys having sex tumble by in the wind* oh thank god

[silvaurum]

*thunderous slam dunk noise*

[fallout-lou-begas]

Visit Original Link

[snoleopard7]

[partingglances1986]

If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

the single most popular comic artist on tumblr decided to make one about a grotesque stereotype of... women who play an online video game despite constant sexual harassment. a hobby that can't possibly be construed as harming anyone.

except the grotesque stereotype then commits the cardinal sin of trying to talk with another woman about her experience. its played as a joke, that she's just crazy and obsessive and spiteful, unable to act like a normal person due to her obsession with hating men.

and im just taken aback by the unthinkable level of hatred it would take to draw a comic like that.

[grovyle]

shen gives me the creeps. i feel like his female characters are weirdly fetishistic now…….in like, a very online pervert sort of way.

i also looked sideways at the comic you’re referencing. it’s another one of those “maladjusted man-hater is FIXED by a good man!” stories i guess. such stories are not really as benevolent and wholesome as men like to think.

it’s interesting that shen’s gamer girl is so chronically online that she is executively and socially dysfunctional, while his male lead, by comparison, comes across as healthfully & sensibly offline—even though femboy culture is steeped in the internet. (it’s steeped in some uniquely toxic parts of the internet, too.)

personally, i have never known a femboy to have a healthy web/life balance. they are all very “logged in,” so to speak. conversely, it’s pretty uncommon for a woman to be caricature levels of chronically online. female game-addicts and self-identified femcels exist, but they do not mirror male game-addicts and incels.

[hugewomanwatches]

It’s actually even worse than him being just straightforwardly a tra and going after radfems, because what he’s actually doing is openly pandering to a trans audience to exploit them financially, and they know it and don’t care

A month ago he posted a comic facetiously suggesting that he’d get more patreon traffic if he drew himself female, and it clearly worked for him

He made basically zero effort to hide what he was doing, even joked about it and confirmed it

And now almost exactly a month later he’s posting a multipart comic about a “femcel radfem gamer” who gets harassed online and hates men

The depiction is clearly supposed to be someone who is an absolute nightmare, chronically online, openly cruel and ignorant

The character encounters someone at her local cornerstore who looks like a cute girl but when she tries to connect with her about men making our lives worse, the person claims to be a man

Our radfem character expresses exaggerated disgust and leaves without her things, and continues to spiral about it and grapple with confused attraction

It’s offensive and stupid on almost every conceivable level, but parts of her dialogue do sound like it could have almost been lifted from a real black pill, and it makes me wonder how much research the artist did to portray such a caricature. He had a month to spin this up, if he knew it was going to be wildly profitable for him i wouldn’t be surprised if he put in the work to familiarize himself with some actual talking points.

Also the ambiguity of the cashier character was clearly deliberate on the artist’s part, as the notes are chockablock full of readers gleefully debating whether the cashier character is supposed to be a “gnc trans man” or a “femboy”, all wondering what the subtitle “the boy from venus” might be referring to

I think the saddest part of this is how excited trans and tra audiences are for it and how at the bottom of each comic he’s got an entire panel with an advertisement for his patreon enticing them to pay a few dollars to get bonus panels and access the next installment faster. This is so obviously an opportunistic cash grab, and it’s insulting enough to see women so thoroughly dismissed and vilified, but to know it’s not even bc he believes it is such a slap in the face.

He made the most incendiary, controversial, hateful thing he could think of, knowing they would eat it up and pay him for it. It’s so slimy and greedy. What an absolute pig

[cocainesocialist]

lilith here making the iron clad case for free public transport

[what-even-is-thiss]

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

[what-even-is-thiss]

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

[what-even-is-thiss]

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

[kcggggg]

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.

[kcggggg]

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.

[opisaradfembtw]

if trans women are entitled to transfeminism and only caring about trans issues, than i will proudly prioritize females and female issues

[genzgeriatric]

privileged groups don't need special movements centring them because you are already the default in every movement

[tearsofmen2]

>privileged groups

>females, female issues

antifeminist in trans community, never before yet again

[genzgeriatric]

CIS privilege. Google it

[hyeenalady]

im googling as much as i can boss and yet where is this ‘cis privilege’ benefitting women in any other movement :( does it protect black women from misogynoir from both white and black men (also white women)? does it protect lesbians from corrective rape? does it protect asian women from fetishistic men and anti-asian hatecrimes and sex trafficking? does it protect somali and afghani girls from gender apartheid and FGM? does it protect chinese infant girls from being dumped at birth by their families in favor of sons? does it protect women in saudi arabia from the taliban? does it protect south korean women from violent misogynistic hatecrimes in their country? does it protect women of all races in the US and women in ireland from being criminalized for having an abortion? does it protect women from rape, domestic abuse, medical misogyny, workplace harassment, the wage gap, the growing coalition in the US to strip them of their right to bodily autonomy and to vote and control their own finances?

whats the privilege? what does it gain us high and mighty cis women, and why do we need to acknowledge it when we have our own struggles?

[transgenderer]

every spelunker should go in with a cyanide tooth capsule so if they get stuck they can take the gentle way out instead of being tortured by the earth for 72 hours and then dying anyway

[transgenderer]

@kropotkindersurprise said:

it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there

beautiful vision. i love the idea of a minecraft-style world where if you explode underground it just clears a radius

[27thfirefly]

nurse: doctor... the patient is flatlining... we dont have nearly enough yuri to sustain them!

doctor: tch... i guess theres no choice...!!

*doctor pulls in nurse for a tender embrace and a beat passes before they kiss passionately*

*pulse starts again*

nurse: i cant believe it...! doctor youve saved yet another patient through your unorthodox methods!

doctor, looking out the window to avoid the nurse's adoring gaze: suppose i have...

doctor, thinking: sigh... will i ever get to approach her not out of obligation but out of ...love...;!

nurse, thinking: i hope she doesnt realize ive been manufacturing the yuri shortage to engineer these kinds of scenarios

moral of the story: the doctor was a woman

[bruzum]

[otthonzulles]

i'd rather slit my own throat with a scissor

[mothcrumbs]

i cant stop saying "grisp it"

[mothcrumbs]

[ashfae]

I'm reading a short story set in ancient Rome and one of the characters just said "Discord gnaw your entrails." That was an interesting mental image until my brain caught up and reminded me that no, those Romans did not have access to modern social media.

[mostlyjustgoose]

To turn off this feature in Discord, go to the Settings Menu, then select Advanced Setttings, then My Entrails, where you can adjust the Gnaw setting to your personal preference.