Baby I'm Drawing my Life Away

Liz | they/them | 22 | I draw whatever bullshit has possesed my brain at the moment |

[doubleca5t]

if you want the rewards of giving someone the strap you must submit to the mortifying ordeal of fumbling around with a contraption

[ashenviolets]

Some fashion studies in watercolor that I did today. The first is from the Alexander McQueen fall/winter 2023 collection and the second is from the Georges Hobeika spring/summer 2022 couture collection.

[ashenviolets]

Some figure studies from today

[eviltransnecoarc-deactivated202]

We have GOT to stop being assholes to people with receding and balding hairlines. There's not a single person that it can't affect. It affects trans men, particularly on hormones, it affects trans women, particularly those not on hormones, it affects people with endocrine issues, something that's becoming more prevalent and common, and it can affect people without a particular cause, including cis women. It's a normal part of being human and we NEED to stop dehumanizing and humiliating ppl for it

[androgynuisance-deactivated2024]

My bf started losing his hair in his early 20s and the effect it's had on him is devastating.

He's an actor and he was dropped by his agent after he stopped hiding his hair loss. The roles he was cast in narrowed and shifted from more heroic characters to villains, and eventually he became so miserable about it that he stopped going to auditions altogether.

He used to enjoy dyeing his hair bright colours, and he lost that means of self expression. It alienated him from his own appearance, which knocked him back in coming out and exploring his queerness. The way he talks about it often feels dysmorphic. He says shaving makes him feel like he's "rotting" - like he's "scraping the mold off [his] head".

I've seen drunk people and teenagers yell at him in the street and mock his baldness. I've seen people come up to him and slap his head or touch it without asking for permission. I've witnessed this behaviour from other trans people and women who I know would absolutely kick off if he took such a degrading or entitled attitude towards a part of their body, but seem to think it's OK to do it to him.

Since going bald people perceive him as more masculine. He feels people are more suspicious of him. Women are less likely to approach him. Folks are quicker to put him in a box or misread his behaviour as aggressive or threatening, when the reality is that he's neurodivergent and can't conform to rigid social norms.

Baldness is a heavily gendered characteristic. If someone is conventionally masculine enough and/or is protected by other intersecting powers and privileges (eg wealth) then baldness can reinforce their maleness and the harm to their social standing is minimised. But if their performance of maleness is complicated by something like queerness or disability, it creates a dissonance. They have what is perceived as a hypermasculine trait standing in sharp contrast with their refusal/failure to perform normative, idealised masculinity.

And that's how baldness is typically read - as failure. Especially when it exists outside of wealthy, successful, heterosexual masculinity but tbh even there too - just look at all the jokes about Jeff Bezos' baldness or Elon Musk getting hair plugs. It's similar to insulting Trump over his weight. Like yeah fuck those guys but all you're really doing is revealing to the fat and bald people in your life that you think their bodies are deserving of mockery.

And God help you if you're a bald woman. All women with receding hairlines are at a huge risk from transmisogyny.

Sorry for the essay. Baldness is absolutely a body neutrality issue. It's an ageism issue, and a trans issue, and I WISH there was a broader recognition of this.

[mommyissuesnatural]

like literally just remember if you ever think there is another ship like destiel you’re out of your fucking mind. no other ship has had the cultural impact, the experience of being the most cringe ship on the internet only to go CANON to immediately double bury your gays over 3 episodes after 12 years of painstakingly slow tension build up in a way that although the narrative seemed determined to keep them apart also confirmed by that determination that neither of them would ever be satisfied with any other partner. there are so many layers to destiel. they are the ship of the century

[failfred-bitchcock]

nobody thought aziraphale and crowley would kiss but then a clip leaked where they did. everybody thought john and sherlock would kiss but then an entire episode leaked where sherlock's evil sister lured them to shutter island and put them in a saw trap. in russian

[belovedghast-deactivated2023101]

[papayajuan2019]

part of accepting love for me also requires accepting grief, dissolution. my pets will die, my friends may drift from me, lovers may have a change of heart. none of it makes the love in vain. part of accepting love is accepting movement. but love is mostly letting myself get lost in the moment, i am learning. letting myself be fully alive in the now. i dont always need to think that far ahead all the time. the potential exists now.

[sdqubeley]

TRANS GIRLS ARE HAVING MAD GAY SEX LIKE RIGHT NOW

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW

[unpretty]

the space seed episode of tos where they find khan and the ss botany bay is so funny because right off the bat you have kirk being like "yeah let's get that historian whats-her-name out there, maybe she can be useful for once" and it's like WOAH what's up with the liberal arts hate?? why is kirk being such a bitch to this lady for no reason. then you meet her and she's fucking obsessed with historical strongmen to the point of covering her walls in her own fanart. she lives on a spaceship in a utopian technofuture and she sleeps surrounded by busts of kings on purpose. her vibes are fashy and kirk is right to be a bitch, actually.

then they get to the botany bay and she's immediately driven to distraction by how horny she is for ricardo montalban under a thick layer of extra-dark foundation. sorry i'm gonna compare montalban with and without the makeup because it is SO distracting

also she refers to sikhs in the past tense implying that at some point in the last two hundred years there was a genocide that they're just glossing over. since she also calls them a warrior race it's also possible that she's just racist and somewhere on board the enterprise there are sikh crew members who dislike her as much as kirk does.

anyway you can assume that this is her first actual away mission and she fumbled immediately because she was so hot for khan but it's much funnier if this isn't the first time this has happened. every time they have to interact with a historical earth artifact she gets so horned up thinking about being a tradwife that she's rendered speechless. spock stays polite but kirk can't stand her. by the time kirk found out she was the type of person to paint her own portraits of napoleon and roman emperors to hang in her quarters it was too late to send her back and request literally anyone else. he's supposed to court martial her but offers to let her stay on fashy eugenics planet just so he won't have to keep her on his ship anymore. it's unclear if he lets her take her paintings or jettisons them into space.

[reginaldqueribundus]

this is the funniest analysis of “Space Seed” I've ever seen

[dduane]

... Same. :)

[vintage-foods]

you have a feeling its going to be a long day

[ashenviolets]

Happy 413! Have some sketches!

[alienbabydraws]

A commission of some recreations of Alphonse Mucha’s The Moon and Stars with the beta kids! For @turnipdragon Thanks so much!

[pyaasa]

[pyronautphea]

[ashenviolets]

Some tos sketches from a while back

[picardisms]

hey btw guys would any of you be interested in making. In participating in a tng zine. i don't have any clue how to arrange one but i want to make one with people SOO badly.

like and or reblog and or Comment if you are interested PLEASE PLEASE and give me ideas as to what it should be themed around

[scaryassclowns]