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20something butch dyke. She/her/hers. Message me something funny and we can be besties.

[televisionenjoyer]

Tired of explaining to my college peers that yes, actually art history is essential knowledge for anyone who is ever in charge of designing concept art for pretty much anything.

[televisionenjoyer]

"but I'll work on sci fi and futuristic shit" ALL THE MORE REASON!! TO KNOW YOUR ART HISTORY!!! art history is all about how historical context and background affects the aesthetic trends of the time. Therefore they help you think of how the context of your fictional words affects the aesthetic trends within it. It's really not that hard to comprehend

[televisionenjoyer]

And since I brought forward the word futuristic ☝️🤓 futurism as an art current was a product of fascism. Which is why it's a neat inspiration if you want to stylize violent and oppressive worlds that are seemingly innocently cool to the naked eye. Rococo is also great for stories set up in worlds with economical disparity that center the aristocracy. Art Nouveau works perfect for societies that value nature and center their lifestyles around it, so on.

[televisionenjoyer]

Point is if you want to make concept art that feels fresh, innovative, and coherent to the universe you're representing you gotta at least know why other things in the past have felt fresh, innovative and coherent to their context.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sam Handwich.

[sufficientlylargen]

If Pikiwedia says it it must be true.

[postoctobrist]

What are your opinions on birds as a subject for photography.

hold still you little fucker

[avictoryforupfish]

i have to be strong. I want to be strong. I don't want to keep everything inside, to myself; it'll spill out of I don't. I want to be discerning. I don't want to miss out. I don't want to pick the wrong people and let them get close enough to hurt me. I'm picking nobody but the wrong people so their loss doesn't hurt as much. I want to be seen. I don't want to be seen like this. I'm putting out a whole lot of energy so people don't actually see me. I can't help but be seen anyway.

[avictoryforupfish]

white collar employment is a foreign country with customs, norms, and rituals that are deeply unintuitive to me. I have to put on a face to do it and I'm afraid I can't take it off afterwards

[clementine-kesh]

like literally if i didn’t want to see some weird nonsense i wouldn’t be consuming scifi

[clementine-kesh]

“ohh this episode is about meeting a bunch of dinosaurs who developed space travel and left earth to go live on the other side of the galaxy isn’t that crazy?! isn’t that silly?!” sure yeah maybe a little but by focusing on that but you’re missing the narrative reason for it which is to provide a starting point to explore religious authoritarianism and the production of scientific knowledge

[mylittleredgirl]

just a spoonful of [nonsense] helps the [critical thinking about uncomfortable social and structural problems that are such a fundamental part of the background radiation of our lives that we can't see them] go down

[clementine-kesh]

this is the meanest thing anyone’s ever said to me. apologize to star trek: voyager season 3 episode 23 distant origin right now

[catchaspark]

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

[timefortigers]

sheds a single tear

[catchaspark]

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

[wonderwomemes]

Happy 18th birthday, this meme is legally allowed to go drinking with me tonight

[animentality]

[cutekittenlady]

This is yet another thing I thought Pratchett had made up but turned out to be totally real.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Unrelated but any time someone mentions clown makeup I'm reminded of how highly successful stage magician Penn Jillette almost flunked out of clown college and had to take remedial clown makeup classes.

[cuprohastes]

My father was a magician and a clown. When he died, we cleared out his old clotehs and there was his clown suit.

"Oh I'll take this down to the charity shop" said my mother, missing hte part where no sane person is going to wear a clown suit.

"Nah" said I, "Have them dress him in it when they cremate him."

There was a pause and my throw-away joke started to slowly solidify into 'Yeah let's do that'.

A discussion was had with the mortician who had a bit of a worry that the costume would involve giant clown shoes which would prevent the coffin closing.

Luckily it wasn't that sort of outfit.

I told this to my dear friend who immediately envisaged someone trying to close a coffin onto a dead clown, only to have the big red nose go *Sad honk* every time there was an attempt to close the lid.

The awful hilarity rendered her incapable of standing.

[whumpster-fire]

The poor mortician can't figure out why it still won't close, and has to remove 5 dead clowns from the coffin before it finally shuts.

[ciaran]

i want to read a good history of indira gandhi's time in power/the factors that led to her prominence and that contributed to her fall. anyone have recs?

[huffylemon]

RIP yahoo answers

[the-real-seebs]

honestly, this was vital research. prior to Yahoo! answers, you would regularly encounter people saying "there's no such thing as a stupid question"

[laslloronas]

Its butch appreciation day appreciate ur local butch <3

[laslloronas]

I wasnt kidding btw

THIS POST INCLUDES TRANSFEM BUTCHES AND WAS MADE BY A TRANSMASC BUTCH LESBIAN. TERF LOSERS FUCK OFF

[the-hwaelweg]

Sometimes I have what I call "New Towel Blindness," which is basically where I forget I'm an adult with adult money that I can exchange for goods and services I would like, like say new towels instead of continuing to use my grandparents' hand-me-down towels they gave me when they downsized and I was in college.

And it is definitely one of those things exacerbated by growing up poor and then being a super poor twentysomething, but I think it's something many of us fall into.

Anyway today I bought a bra that doesn't cause my boobs physical pain, a purse in my style instead of continuing to use the poorly sized not-my-style purse I'd been gifted, and joined a gym because I remembered I can just give someone money in exchange for them teaching me how to lift weights instead of thinking "gosh strength training would be good to do as my body ages I wish I knew how."

[avictoryforupfish]

mannnnn I gotta log off. Social media is just making me angry these days.

I can't stop thinking about that post I reblogged a few days ago that said "now we have no expectation of privacy AND no community so nobody to talk to about it" and imo that's completely spot on. It's on me, I know, but I'm so lonely. I need queer feminist friends who I can be real with and who challenge me and who love fiercely and unapologetically! I miss that so so much but being that myself is so so hard now. It's so much easier to stick my head in the sand and just shut up and get back to work and fit in in my white male STEM workplace. It hurts so much to be authentic but I don't know how to find people that will help me be that. I miss my mentors and my friends from the advocacy days. I miss not having to hide half my self all the time to function. I miss being able to acknowledge how much things hurt.

I need community and I need it now, and I'm the only one who's going to help me.

[bigfan1811]

“this meeting could’ve been a email” except its “this esoteric children’s punishment could’ve been a normal conversation with them”

[plaguedocboi]

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

[theboboshow]

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

[plaguedocboi]

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

[plaguedocboi]

Once again. Do you think this is the fault of the ships themselves

[legsloveless]

[stopmyhearts]

they're called human rights because you get them by being human. No ifs no buts. Everyone gets them. Yes even those people

[paranoidgemsbok]

I can't stop thinking about this reddit post on soapmaking dude

I cannot express what an insane recipe that is. No one else could grasp it either

Like beeswax doesn't. It kinda just stays as beeswax in the soap. The lye has nowhere to go with it. That liquid seeping out of the soap? The brown and clear drops?? That's lye. That's straight up lye. This mf made the soap equivalent of the Chernobyl elephants foot.

[timeclonemike]

Quick reminder that if you touch lye with your bare hands, it will react with the fatty oils on and in your skin to create soap molecules.

That means it will give you chemical burns while creating human soap.

OP’s comment about the soap equivalent of a Chernobyl elephant’s foot is on point.

[scififantasystuff]

Lye (aka sodium hydroxide) turns hydrocarbons/fats into soap.

You are a hydrocarbon.

Please be careful when making soap, because You are a thing that could be used to make soap. And nobody wants to bathe in human soap, no matter how much rosemary you put in it.

[kyraneko]

. . . forbidden candle.