Clover :) @arts-enthusiast64 - Tumblr Blog

Figured I should make a proper intro post just to pin on my blog.

Hello!! I’m Clover (to all of you at least) (she/her) bisexual socialist. I joined tumblr because of a close friend but from what I’ve seen so far it looks like a pretty cool place.

I love long conversations, rain, my friends and family, poetry, art, musical theatre, music, animals, especially cats and (more recently) pigeons and I also really care about the planet.

I love crafting, going on long walks, talking to people, drawing, reading, singing, listing to music, thrifting and messing around with fashion and makeup

My main fandoms are modern family, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place (which I highly recommend btw), TADC, Percy Jackson and Hero’s Of Olympus, the girl who drank the moon (one of my favourite books, very underrated), Star Wars, Nimona (it’s my comfort movie), an Star Trek (predominantly TNG, DS9 and Voyager) which while always having meant a lot to me have been coming back into my life lately, to my great pleasure I might add.

I’ll probably post my thoughts on some things sometimes (very specific I know) and maybe my art (if I get the courage to).

I don’t really know what else to add so I’m gonna end it there, thank you for reading this far if you did!! (I’ll probably edit this over time)

#intro post

gay …

After pride month???

How scandalous

I see you Bro..I know who u are….

Ummm I have no idea what you’re talking about

🤷🤷

pastelthewritingfox

*reading about two men finally being honest about their feelings and cuddling*

Me: this is the hottest thing I've ever read

New doodle!!!!!

I actually really like this one :)

#doodles #doodle #zentangle

are u perhaps…gay?! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Ummmmmmm why would you ever think that, that’s absolutely preposterous….

WASSUP TWIN

Not much….. totally not working on stuff for your birthday……

Wink wink

Mini art dump!!!!

Been really busy lately but my lunacy persists

Hope you enjoy :)

#zentangle #art #doodles

clover..Art dump When…😞

Soon I promise!!

I just gotta finish the one I’ve been working on is socials and then I’ll post two others with it

It’s almost done I swear

happy pride, u little homosexual :)

You freaking hypocrite…….🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

json-derulo

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

Throws my blueink propaganda at you

I’m pretty sure you’ve sent this to me before lol

One day maybe it’ll work

Ok, mini rant/ramble

I’ve been finding myself increasingly more frustrated with the conventions that we seem to have in place as a society. It bugs me that we’ve felt the need to put everything into this almost black and white system when in reality all of humanity and human nature is so nuanced.

I feel like a good example in in conventional attractiveness in society and how we base all of our beauty standards off of it go the point that if you don’t share the same preferences when it come to physical beauty that people will think you are strange. I also see it in relationships, friendships and family’s where we all seem to think there’s a right and wrong way to do things. I see it in the way we perceive people differently or make assumptions about them or their past based purely off the way they dress or act.

Anyway, it all just bugs me because of how incredibly nuanced every person, every relationship, every situation is that I struggle to understand how we can possibly even attempt to force it into these conventions. Everybody is entirely unique, they have a unique personality, perspective, preferences, physical differences, different styles and so much more. I think this is what makes us so beautiful and so I hate it when we make such blatant generalizations.

I want to be able to dress a certain way and act a certain way and think a certain way and feel a certain way without feeling like they all have to be linked and make sense to everyone around me.

And I want this for everyone because it think it would lead to a more open happy society.

I want the nuance!!!!!!!

Anyway that’s all I got right now. Thank you for reading :)

#mini rant #rambles #don’t know what tags to add

more art when..we starve.. 🙏

(Half joke btw..)

Sorry bro, I haven’t been doing much lately :(