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TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Claire Keane
Product Placement
Jules of Nature
Show & Tell
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Kiana Khansmith
JBB: An Artblog!
Acquired Stardust
NASA
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Today's Document
tumblr dot com
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Peter Solarz
we're not kids anymore.
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@autisticseapanda
RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.
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Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.
hap prid
its June 2nd because i cannot do anything on time. as a not-straight person and queer ship lover, happy pride month :)
i changed my pfp this month because I just remembered rainbow leaf beetles were real and they're so nice to look at. also, the first scientific study of homosexuality in animals was on male maybeetles in 1896. if you don't believe me here is the first illustration of gay beetles
anyways. remember you are valid even if you don't know what your orientation is, stay strong, go drink some water <3
Happy Pride
Reasons Why Fans of Color Leave/Don’t Interact with Fandom
Casual racism that is brushed off as “an innocent mistake” or “they didn’t mean it” and then everyone pretending like it didn’t happen and moving on with their day (repeat)
Speaking over fans of color about issues that pertain to them specifically
When fans of color speak out about something that makes them uncomfortable or why that don’t interact with it (usually because of the racial/ethnic bias) they are accused of being anti’s or pro-censorship
Characters of color being used as scapegoats/bashed/plot devices
Characters of color never getting happy endings/real development
Backlash against characters of color if they do anything other than be a white character’s side kick/best friend
Actors of characters of color being harassed for something their character did or didn’t do
White characters/actors getting all the attention/credit despite the fact that they are a side character to a POC or on the same level as the POC
Fanfic authors patting themselves on the back for writing a “realistic” character of color and it’s just a bunch of stereotypes
Being told that they should be happy they were even included when they call out the above people
White fans crying about persecution/exclusion because their fav character/trope/kink/ship isn’t loved by all
Fan artists re-imaging characters of color as white/lightening skin tone
Everyone rushing to a white fans defense after a well deserved call out while the fan of color receives hate
Never having a safe fandom space and always having to be on guard with new people/fandoms/chats etc because they’ve been burned before
Feel free to add
- fetishization and depersonalization of characters of color (to serve the white character’s narrative)
- (re)writing characters of color as abusive and/or violent to infantilize white characters
- being asked to explain why ___ is racist when it’s been spoken about at length or could be googled
Reason to Live #13978
Hearing the birds sing in the evening after a nice rain.
Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough, you absolute bloody legend 💖💖💖💖💖
The Scottish Digital Circus
Inspiration and encouragement from @raffa-taff and their Irish tadc. Sadly I don't have the energy to do any peak drawings like they did
Pomni: Fife through and through. Works as an accountant at the Co-op (which makes people think she's middle class and has her shit together - she is not)
Jax: Glaswegian ned who lives in shitty council flat. Acts like he's a hard man but in reality absolute wuss. Wears tracksuits 24/7 no one knows if he's doing it ironically or not.
Kinger: Cairngorms area but travelled to Aberdeen for work, while Queenie studied Caledonian wood ants and Pine hoverflies. Likes his shinty. When he isn't sane he'll say random phrases in Scots or Gaelic.
Ragatha: Stirlingshire. Middle class horse girl who did Highland dancing and choir singing (so she can sometimes understand Kinger). Is very ashamed of this, but loves deep fried mars bar and has tried everything at the chippy.
Gangle: From Shetland originally but moved to Edinburgh for university, then dropped out and didn't want to go back to island life so slaves away at McDonald's so she can afford rent and anime merch. Puts on a weird city centre/American voice, so people don't make fun of her. Can play the fiddle but is only interested in playing anime themes on it.
Zooble: Probably from some shithole like Rothesay or Oban, and knows exactly how to get drugs from said places. No one (including the police) knows if they're actively involved in the Hebridean drug trade or just know a guy. The most anti-English person you will ever meet - learned Gaelic out of spite. Plays rugby so they can smash the shit out of women. Has the most extensive curse list and you aren't sure if some are legit or not.
I'll probably do quotes for shits and giggles later
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility 💗
You WILL prevail. There is always time. You are loved
important personality test: mario kart main, gas station order (candy, drink, chip), animal you were obsessed with when you were 8, lightsaber color, and lastly: vampires, werewolves or dragons?
Making this into a tag game because I’ve never seen such a better way of actually getting an idea of a person’s personality from such seemingly unimportant questions…
For me it’s
-Shy Guy! Specifically the default red shy guy but if I’m feeling more girly for whatever reason I’ll go for pink :3
-Cotton candy (or peanut M&Ms if I feel like chewing a lot lmao), Powerade/gatorade/any electrolyte drink, baked barbecue chips! :3
-Not real, but, unicorns.
-I like the green ones but I haven’t seen Star Wars 😔💔
-VAMPIRESSS…..
No pressure tags!:
@xavier-or-caine @luckyrabbit1927 @monkeyman2020 @zathebooknerd @autisticseapanda @poyopotato-arts and open tags!
Pfft I'll help you spread this. Thanks for the tag
Yoshi all the way. I've always loved that green ambiguously gendered dinosaur
I don't really eat when I'm travelling anymore. But I guess some kind of orange chocolate. Fresh orange juice or just water. And just salty crisps.
Woodlice were my only real friends in school :')
Been a loonnnggg time since I've watched Star Wars sadly. But probably blue. Feel like that's boring but just idk.
And dragons! No question about it. Dragons are sick af.
I tag (no pressure)
@a-chronic-0verthinker @oh-wow-whatever @ups3tti @agenderfrenchfry
a comic about OCD
I don't have OCD but I am reblogging because I love everything about the way this comic was drawn & written!!!!
The last dolphin show in the UK closed 30 years ago. Now we need to end captivity forever.
This is a link to a virtual anti-captivity gallery, that features many powerful and darkly humorous comics around the cruel practice of keeping whales and dolphins in captivity. These comics were displayed in British Parliament by the charity Whale and Dolphin Conservation. In order to officially ban cetacean captivity, and the selling of tickets for dolphin attractions by British holiday providers. If this law gets passed on; it could lead to a ban in Europe, and hopefully then Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Cetaceans are sentient beings, who communicate in sophisticated languages and cultures, and many offspring stay with their mothers for life. But we take that away, when we hunt, capture them, and keep them in tiny pools. Only feeding them when they perform tricks for our amusement. Many dolphins suffer from depression, anxiety and psychosis from the stress of being captured, and losing their ability to swim hundreds of kms a day, dive and forage, and socialise with their own family and friends. Many are drugged to stop self harm, repetitive behaviours, lethargy and aggression. On top of the impact that the confined, chlorinated environment has on their physical health. These whales and dolphins are suffering for human entertainment. And there are rescued and captive born dolphins, but they should be kept in more humane and bigger, deeper enclosures. Where they do not have to perform for people, to "earn their keep".
This charity do a lot for cetaceans worldwide, and even helped create the first beluga whale sea sanctuary! A huge step towards helping captured cetaceans become free once more, and keeping unreleasable and captive born individuals in a large, natural and stimulating environment.
I am not asking you to give them money. Sign the petition if you can. But I know that most people I follow live in the Americas, where this practise is still very legal. Just please never buy a ticket. Spread the word, and expose the huge companies that exploit dolphins for money. Thank you.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid dir. Thor Freudenthal
Posting wasp propaganda because my ass is seething yo!
Update! Edited background to be lighter for better legibility, usually use grey backgrounds for artwork and forgor that it probably wouldn’t be great to read!
I was the one who made that shapes.inc protest post and it got my entire Tumblr account banned
This protest needs to be a fucking riot, Tumblr has officially decided to delete people's entire accounts if they complain about shapes.inc.
This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.
Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!
My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.
And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.
See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?
But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.
This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.
So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..
can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it
