Chakra Designs

Chakra Designs: Designing is the future

[eyesaremosaics]

Curtis Erberhardt

Ectoplasm—spiritualism at the turn of the last century.

[gatalentan]

🗣 WRITERS AREN'T SHUTTING DOWN HOLLYWOOD THE NETWORKS ARE

[sunpdf]

keith haring, oct 14 1978 // here’s something they don’t tell you about flower arranging // ad reinhardt, how to look

[rosalarian]

This first thing I thought when I woke up from surgery was I am so hungry and I need ramen right now! but the second thing I thought was Oh my god, I’m safe.

I was safe.

I thought about having kids someday, but the thought was always divorced from the concept of having to grow them in my body. Whenever I thought about it, I would either start screaming or my mind would shut down. My worst nightmares featured discovering I was pregnant, and realizing I would have to keep it, and go through childbirth. I was terrified.

I got the surgery, and realized I was safe, and I never had those nightmares ever again. It was like finding out I was bulletproof.

Later, I looked at the broken condom, and I didn’t see my life flash before my eyes. I didn’t see my hopes and dreams turn to ash as I pivoted all my energy into a child I didn’t want. I didn’t see a possibility of starvation or homelessness because my already modest income went to a child I couldn’t afford. I didn’t see my disabled body becoming further disabled, or killed, by a pregnancy that I didn’t want.

Read more between the pages commentary: https://www.patreon.com/posts/68216364 (free post, no paywall)

[rosalarian]

This post was flagged as “adult content” but I successfully (and very quickly) got my appeal approved.

To whatever conservative fuckhead who reported this as inappropriate, it didn’t work, and it’s still here, and I’m going to keep posting it forever so I can help people obtain the medical care they need. I hope poison ivy fills your yard, and may all your pets forevermore be maliciously incontinent.

[vaspider]

I had mine done in May 2019 and it is one of the very best decisions I’ve ever made for myself. If you’re certain you don’t want to be pregnant ever again, this is basically a week of your time devoted to never dealing with that again. It’s great.

[riggio037]

MAG-FUCKING-NIFICENT!!!

[hailkingcheeto]

Congratulations to Kentucky state senator Dr. Karen Berg for taking her ignorant Republican colleagues out to the proverbial woodshed and whipping their old white male asses with facts and logic.  Shame on them and more power to her, science, and women’s choice over their own bodies and lives.

[weirdlylyricalnotes]

[VD: A video in a courtroom. Dr. Karen Berg is sitting behind a microphone and talking to the other senators. At the bottom of the screen it says, "Discussion of SB 321 (Sen.Wise) An Act Relating to Abortion". Dr. Berg says:

Explain my no vote. (Another voice says, "Yes m'am.") [Heavy sigh] You know, I'm a diagnostic radiologist. And diagnostic radiologists, historically and in many places in this state, still do all of the first trimester OB ultrasound. So I am extraordinarily, personally familiar with the devopment of a fetus in the womb. And for you to sit here and say that at 15 weeks, a fetus has a functional heart; a four-chamber heart that can survive on its own, is fallacious. That is not true. There is no viability. You know, I look around at my colleagues on this committee. I am the only woman on this podium right now. I am the only physician sitting on this podium. This bill is a medical sham. It does not follow medicine. It does not even purport to listen to medicine. And for each and every one of my colleagues to be so willing to cast an aye vote, when what you are doing is putting your finger; putting your knee; putting your- a gun to women's heads. You are killing women because abortion will continue. Women will continue to have efficacy over their own body, whether or not you make it legal. I vote no and I really, really apologize to the people in Kentucky that we are spending this much time and this much energy when we have families in poverty. We have single women heading households in poverty at a higher rate than any other group in the state. And you all are not addressing that. You all are making it worse. Thank you.

/end VD]

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Unsurprisingly, she’s also the only Jewish member of the Kentucky state senate.

[acti-veg]

https://bookshop.org/

[caniscaballus]

They are making audio and digital books available now too!!

[cardenvondraken]

I found a hardback printing of the Voynich Manuscript on here. This place fucking rocks.

[tengubride-deactivated20241201]

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[thexduchess]

On the wings of a butterfly

[witchcommunity]

source: mistyawe

source: m.ok.ru source:weheartit

[thechekhov]

[dlm4]

@blackkatmagic

[releasethebees-husband]

@rayshippouuchiha

[study-of-happiness]

"There's fifty senetors right now who refuse to vote on HR-8, which is a background check rule that the house passed a couple of years ago, it's been sitting there for two years. And there is a reason they won't vote on it:

To hold onto power."

Steve Kerr speech following school shooting in Uvalde, Texas leaving 19 children and 2 teachers dead.

[renthony]

If in five years tumblr decides that The Owl House was A Bad Show, Actually because of problems that were directly caused by a homophobic studio cutting them off at the knees, I'm going to scream.

Legend of Korra got attacked because Korra and Asami "only held hands in the last shot," despite the uphill battle the writers waged against Nickelodeon to give us even that much.

Steven Universe's final season gets remembered in the most bad-faith way possible because the crew risked everything to get the first-ever queer wedding in a kids' show, and got penalized by the network because of it.

Adventure Time gets panned for "waiting until the very end" to make Bubblegum and Marceline canon, despite the fact that they couldn't get the network to allow it until after the wedding in Steven Universe (hey! look at that! STEVEN UNIVERSE BEING IMPORTANT TO OTHER SAPPHIC SHIPS GOING CANON, fancy that!).

She-Ra gets accused constantly of being "toxic representation" despite the sheer number of queer people who fought tooth and fucking nail to get it to happen at all and put their entire soul into representing themselves honestly.

The Owl House crew has directly cited Steven Universe and She-Ra for paving the way. Lumity would have never fucking happened without the milestones made by others who came before.

I am begging people to learn about the history of queer representation in television, and I am begging people to stop holding queer media to infinitely higher standards than any other type of media.

[renthony]

#yes but also you guys know that there is other queer media besides cartoons for third graders right

Yes, I do, and I engage with plenty of it, and if people could stop fucking assuming I don't just because I'm talking about the cartoons right now, that'd be fucking great.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Jesus Christ the fact that these are cartoons for third graders is the entire fucking point. Queer children and their peers have been starved of representation by a culture determined to paint queerness as not only sexual but predatory and that accuses any queer person existing of preying on their kids. We know there’s other queer media, but it doesn’t fill the role that the cartoons for third graders do. This is a specific niche of queer media that needs tending and celebration, not to be strangled in the cradle or demonized.

[addigni]

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

[odinsblog]

[accessibleaesthetics]

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[watches-and-windchimes]

Happy Everything

[omgsomeonesomewhereonearth]

It was also Bengali new year yesterday!

[witches-ofcolor]

Happy Holiday’s yall! 

[darkestcinema]

renaissance in the 21st century

[blogitalianissimo]

[tinyphantomsalad]

some more

[kitsunebattleboxer]

the WHAT??

[personification-of-anxiety]

okay, found her

[whenstarsfall]

[whenstarsfall]

some more good replies from the notes

[whenstarsfall]

[camellianswer]

i didnt expect these to hit so hard but then they kept going and going....my god

[proba-cseresznye]

@totorointhetardis

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Some amazing book dedications: 

[doodled93]

PEOPLE WOULD HAVE DIED

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

The enemies and siblings ones lmao

[lemonsharks]

PEOPLE WOULD HAVE DIED

[neo-catharsis]

Nancy Sheung’s Portraits of Hong Kong Women in the 1960s

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[swirling-orbs-of-disorder]

From ancient to abstract, this one sure got around.

Japanese one made no sense to me until I finally saw the “sale sale/sasa lele” version. セール　セール。 But then it’s a meme so it has to be misspelled?  🤷‍♂️

[everyone-loves-purple]

tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS

[fromsiberia]

Ohhhhhhh…. Chinese and greek are my favourite, but there is more!

[kittynannygaming]

Awesome