TAKO

30+ 💙💜💖 they/she/he 🐕🎨🎙✊🏽🔞 main account ● art&podfic:@TAKONXMZ 🚫DNI:TERFs/antis/zionists!🚫

[calyxcurl]

don't mind me i'm making a pinned post

Hi, I'm Tako.

AKA takonomz, curlofacalyx, or calyxcurl. This is my reblog/main account where I will follow you from.

Other accounts:

@takonxmz - art & podfic

@bardicaarakocra - dnd/ttrpg/bg3/bird(?)( formerly 'tako-plays')

@takonomz - im sorry I keep forgetting it exists but it's for eruri!

Additional things from the top of this page:

I'm old (30+) —genderqueer fil-am —I'm an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-neoliberalism —this is an anti-terf, anti-cop, anti-zionist, anti-genAI, anti-settler-colonial blog —this is a freak-positive blog (not-sorry to the puritans) —I have a podenco —I will overshare things about myself in the tags —This is where I reblog random stuff like shitposts, cute animals, whimsical things, some fandom stuff, etc.

some ships and/or fandom stuff you may see:

—captive prince (lamen! berencel! pallazar!) —hades/hades 2 (charmes!! and also lionflame apparently) —pokemon —legend of zelda —mdzs [mó dào zǔ shī] (especially xiyao!) —svsss [scum villain self-saving system] (i love qijiu, moshang, and bingyuan)... aaand yeah!

Some blog tags:

my attempts at organizing here are not great sorry

#tako vent #tako.txt #tako.img #tmi tako #queue+pie mayo #resources #reference/#references #informative #genderfuck #pilipinas/#UYY PILIPINS #tako's podenco

If you know me from my 2012 Tumblr accounts then uhhhhhhhhhh you don't 😭 OR you are a very old eruri friend! In which case, hi hello I love you!

Other social media you can find me:

ko-fi :

takonxmz

twitter (inactive) :

curlofacalyx ▪ takonxmz ▪ tako_plays

bluesky :

curlofacalyx ▪ takonxmz

instagram :

takonxmz ▪ podenco.para.sayo (my dog!)

tiktok :

takonxmz ▪ podenco.para.sayo (my dog!)

xiaohongshu :

takonomz

uhhhh i think that's all for now ...?

[cassandrapentayaaaaas]

Questions About Creating Your OCs

‘Cause sometimes the stories of how OCs come to be are just as interesting as the OCs, themselves. Tell me how your virtual kids came into the world.

What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)? 

Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind? 

How did you choose their name? 

In developing their backstory, what elements of the world they live in played the most influential parts? 

Is there any significance behind their hair color? 

Is there any significance behind their eye color? 

Is there any significance behind their height? 

What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story? 

Are they based off of you, in some way? 

If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person? 

Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation? 

What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)? 

How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all? 

If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be? 

What is something about your OC can make you laugh? 

What is something about your OC can make you cry? 

Is there some element you regret adding to your OC or their story? 

What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC? 

What is your favorite fact about your OC?

[glumshoe]

what do I have to do to go to events where people are dressed nicely and there are plates of free cheese cubes

[nowlander]

Go to the inaugurations of littlely known artists’ exhibitions.

We are always begging for people to attend, there actually is the “hack” to invite your whole family but tell them to pretend they don’t know you. People with money are more willing to buy your work if they think many people likes it, so your mere presence eating our cheese and canapes will be a great helps. Please bring whoever you want too.

[glumshoe]

Don’t mind if I do!

I will dress like an eccentric weirdo if that helps.

[themightyglamazon]

[modmad]

one time a pal of my pals was having a tough time selling their work in an art exhibit and called us up on the last day, ‘us’ being about 8 students who were Very hungry and also bored. We put on the nicest/artsiest clothes we had available (one dude had a legit fancy suit and put on some shades which were Bright Pink he looked like a movie star I swear) and rolled up to the show in pairs, separately. Fine Art Pal has some nice paintings! but nobody is really paying attention to them, so after getting some fancy cheese cubes in a manner that did not betray that we were actually a ravenous pack of starving students we casually wander around the show and then, fairly individually, drift to a stop by their work. Some of us even walked away, then came back a bit later ‘captivated’ by the art (it was actually really nice but recall we were all poor as shit and this was a help hustle). Our group’s interest naturally caught other folks, and eventually there was a small clump of about 15 people musing over this art, and within ten minutes the biggest piece had been snatched up by a shrewd investor. by the end of the exhibit every single piece was sold. It helped pay off the artist’s student debt and on that success they got into another exhibit! They’ve been doing well ever since.

So yes, please attend new artist shows, you get free cheese, get to look at nice art, and you can really help out people who deserve more attention.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't even bother hardly to orrect my typos anymore. It is just affirmation that these words were typed by the hands of human being and not extruded by a fucnking AI

[headspace-hotel]

one of my professors was like (paraphrasing) "AI makes you sound the same as everybody else. The idea of a single "correct" English is racist and flattens the diversity of people. I don't care about grammar outside of the writing being understandable. I want to hear YOUR voice, Your dialect the unique way you communicate."

I have been more appreciative of the rough edges of human communication since chatGPT came to be. The misspellings and turns of phrase that real people produce.

The inherently flawed nature of an alive thing vs. the empty perfection of something that never had life in it at all

[maniculum]

Reblogging because I tell my students exactly the same thing. Good to see other instructors are making that same point.

(At least I hope that’s the case, because the terrifying alternative is that there’s an overlap between “people i follow on tumblr” and “students i’ve taught”.)

[flowerbleedme]

My incredibly bleak philosophy of compassion is that we should all pity each other horribly and practice an according amount of kindness.

[flowerbleedme]

I asked for a pastry at the coffee shop. When I raised my card up to pay, he simply said "you're good." and waved it away. I wondered why. I wondered what made him think I deserved to have my order be free. Sparing me those two dollars.

Sitting down at the table, I remembered the scars on my arm. The universal signifier of "This Kid Needs Help." Maybe his kindness was only out of pity. He saw those and assumed there was some great misery and wanted to offer me some relief. It's generally good to be kind to people who are hurting. But I wasn't hurting that bad.

The thing is, there is some great misery. People generally aren't doing that great. There is a great misery within me and within him and within everyone, and some people notice the pain, some people express it, others don't. But we all suffer from something.

It doesn't matter if someone seems to deserve some relief. Everyone needs it. Everyone is suffering constantly. Some more than others, but still. This Kid Needs Help applies to everyone.

Thirty minutes later, I went to get a second pastry, intending to pay and leave a tip this time. It was the same cashier. As he reached to grab it for me, I saw scars on his arm.

But it doesn't really matter. He'd deserve a tip anyway. Because it's never just us hurting.

[dykextraordinaire]

everyone get more sex positive and resist the rise of conservatism and purity culture NOW!!!! i am so tired of seeing “queer” people shame others for expressing themselves sexually, for looking down on SWers, for insisting that sex is somehow devoid of meaning or emotionless, for implying that desiring sex is somehow dirty or abnormal. respectability politics is bullshit. you’re not morally superior and straight/cis people will not accept you no matter how badly you want them to. and guess what? the most vulnerable populations get hurt by this rhetoric. SWers, trans folks, queer black folks, queer indigenous folks, queer folks of color. please decolonize your mind. queer sexual freedom IS a form of resistance and a form of joy, and if you don’t understand that then you don’t understand your history.

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[wuntrum]

newer stickers in my shop! for the anxious / bad music enjoyers / cursed individuals out there

[ellienamored]

on an amtrak when a buncha cis ppl one seat behind me started gushing about "the harry potter experience" and going to london to see all the potter stuff and the hogwarts express and i turn to my girlfriend and project my voice juuuust enough and say "hey did u hear jk rowling was in the epstein files? :)" and start yammering about her and i hear them all shut up reallll quick. i kept going for some time, loudly but enthusiastically conversing with my girlfriend about a topic of some interest to me no matter how uncomfortable it made them. much like some other ppl on this train

[parkchanwoohoo]

No I think it's really great when a friend group of approximately twenty seven individuals spread out in the sidewalk as they walk so nobody has to walk behind the group. There's nothing better than when I'm trying to get home and I see the tableau of Jesus at the Last Supper gliding towards me like Jamiroquai in the Virtual Insanity music video and I have to decide who has the narrowest frame that I can shoulder-check my way past

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[lesbiansforboromir]

You actually cannot skip to being good at a creative endeavour that you haven't put much practice into. You cannot trick your way out of the 'knows that your work is not what you want it to be but don't know how to improve it' stage by planning or reading or talking about it really really hard. At some point you just have to craft through it until your brain finds it's own unique way back to the 'everything I make slaps' stage and be prepared to start the cycle all over again. You just have to make that project you're excited about slightly less good than you want it to be. (Says this standing in a pool of blood and covered in blood and also coughing up a little blood)

[lesbiansforboromir]

everyone stop reblogging this I hate to be reminded of my own good advice

[andywarnercomics]

In honor of Day of the Dead, here’s a repost of my comic about the San Francisco Columbarium and the man who spent 26 years restoring it.

This comic originally appeared on Medium at The Nib. Go check out my other work there.

[true-me-snafu]

Emmitt and the Columbarium.

[homunculus-argument]

Okay, that's IT. As a bisexual ranch dressing supporter I just can't continue to follow you in good conscience. Why do you industrial carpet shippers all think it's okay to use bland women as a scapegoat for premium disco culture? Maybe if you actually bothered to read the ukranian degeneracy thesis you'd understand batman's suntan technique, but I guess you're just too busy making free insurance consultation posts, so whatever.

Blocked, flambéed and unfollowed.

I want this as a medieval calligraphy manuscript framed on my wall.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

LOOK LOOK EVERYONE I HAVE SEEN YOU ALL @'ING ME THESE TAKE TIME

that being said, @homunculus-argument :

my work tracker app says this'll be $100 bucks Canadian, I take cash, tattoos, uranium glass, or Hot Topic gift cards

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

ah SHIT I MISSED TWO WHOLEASS WORDS

[sexygaywizard]

Things are happening on reddit

[apokalypse-arisen]

[escuerzoresucitado]