And Then the Car Wash Cost Five Dollars

Call me Meg/Cannibal. she/they/fae/gem. Australian-American eldritch horror, #1 Halal Snack Pack stan. Cartoonist, animator, actor and writer on Less is Morgue, showrunner on The Kingmaker Histories, general shitposter. Current hyperfixations are Resident Alien, Fallout, and my own OCs. sidebar art by Oreganocure

[kkorechika]

[weepingwidar]

Gaspard Girard d'Albissin (French, 1987) - Untitled (2023)

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[ludinusdaleth]

Shaun Gilmore (and his georgous bear face. and chest. and belly) in The Legend of Vox Machina Season 1, Episode 12, "The Darkness Within"

[a-state-of-bliss]

Claude Montana Fall/Wint 1992

[cannibalmukbang]

@machetebisexual

[cigardoesart]

RESIDENT EVIL: VILLAGE

[cannibalmukbang]

@artifeast

[laterkiss]

worry about it kitten daddy fucked up

[ape-of-naples]

[specialagentartemis]

also last post made me remember: shoutout to Asta Twelvetrees from Resident Alien, who made me go "they really could have done more thematically with the fact that she's Ute and her best friend is literally an alien invader" at the same time as "you know getting to see modern realistic Native culture being what gets through to Harry is actually really sweet. He likes pizza AND was deeply emotionally moved by the powwow. Both are part of Modern Earth Culture that are worth not destroying."

[2well2water]

no one cares that you shave your legs because of sensory issues shut the fuck up forever

[2well2water]

really galling amount of people misinterpreting this post so i'd like to clarify. i'm saying that when discussions about patriarchal beauty standards and the way women are heavily shamed and coerced into eschewing their own natural state of being (hairy) are occurring, it is unhelpful (AT BEST) to interrupt and say that the reason YOU remove the hair from your body is because of sensory issues. that's not what we're talking about. stop asking for validation for doing something that society at large wants you to do. stop derailing the conversation because you feel uncomfortable about being made aware that you, for whatever reason it is, adhere to harmful, unfair and ridiculous beauty standards. you're stepping into the middle of an important conversation that needs to be had and making it all about you. shut the fuck up forever.

[2well2water]

also quite frankly i think a lot less people would experience sensory issues if they let their hair grow out so that it isn't bristly and rough and irritating. and i cannot help but wonder why these sensory issues aren't as predominant in men. maybe you're uncomfortable with the hair on your body because you've been taught to be uncomfortable with it. just a thought.

[headspace-hotel]

Different strokes for different folks. But sensory issues are a main reason why I DON'T shave.

7 years of hairy leg and counting.

[genderkoolaid]

Primary principles of transfeminism are simple. First, it is our belief that each individual has the right to define her or his own identities and to expect society to respect them. This also includes the right to express our gender without fear of discrimination or violence. Second, we hold that we have the sole right to make decisions regarding our own bodies, and that no political, medical or religious authority shall violate the integrity of our bodies against our will or impede our decisions regarding what we do with them. [...] Transfeminism holds that nobody shall be coerced into or out of personal decisions regarding her or his gender identity or expression in order to be a "real" woman or a “real” man. We also believe that nobody should be coerced into or out of these personal decisions in order to qualify as a "real" feminist.

from The Transfeminist Manifesto (2001) by Emi Koyama. This quote is from the section "Primary Principles"

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[cannibalmukbang]

Learning how to party like it's 2003-ish — I have approximate knowledge of many things.

I’ll start this off by saying- I’m not one for nostalgia, generally. I was 10 in 2003 and I didn’t actually enjoy being 10 very much. In fac

New blog post! Already!

[artifeast]

beautiful sensual demure french car engine

[clarifiedbutterfly]

bitches be like "salad is healthy" and don't even eat it with a source of fat so they can't even digest the vitamin K

[sillywormz]

this world could be so beautiful if people could accept that something can be awesome and helpful for one person but be awful and damaging for another person and that neither of those people are Wrong for feeling the way that they do.

it's like how a person suffering from hypothermia needs to be somewhere warm and dry but conversely being somewhere warm and dry could kill someone suffering from heat stroke or dehydration. different people have different needs. sometimes i see people acting and identifying in ways that make me confused or even angry but i try to remember that they probably just need something that i don't and that that's ok