hey guys- i’m very sad to share the news that i am no longer a part of drawfee going forward. you’ll keep seeing me around as i move on to new things! but please understand the privacy and difficulty around the matter.
thank you everyone for many fun years, and for your continued support going forward 🫶
I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.
The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.
Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.
No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.
"Affordable" should be the lowest fucking bar. Pharmaceutical companies should be tripping over themselves to offer insulin at "affordable". That shit deserves to be fucking free
Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people
Bruce and Vlad freaking hate eachother. Its a known, very public fact. Bruce doesn't even slip into his Brucie persona to deal with Vlad, thats how much they hate eachother.
Danny is Vlad's heir, mostly against his will. Danny only says mostly because he did eventually agree to the situation, but only after Vlad threatened to make Dani his heir, which would tie her down and steal her freedom. So now, Danny has the "fun" job of learning how to run a company, and invest.
Tim is Bruce's CoCEO, and its pretty well known hes more than likely going to take over the company at some point. He already did at one point, he was already a CEO, he had a large quantity of WE's shares, and Damian, as he grew and matured, seemed less and less interested in being CEO once he saw all the paperwork, and morons Tim and his Father had to deal with daily.
Do Danny and Tim share the VladCo vs WE feud? No, its quite the opposite in fact. Everyone with eyes can see how fond the two young men are of eachother. As much fun as the Bruce v Vlad verbal brawls are to watch, watching Danny and Tim dance around eachother like twitterpated sparrows is even more fun to experience.
But, Bruce and Vlad are quick to yank the two young men away from eachother. And its heartbreaking for everyone to witness, and or read as the two young men are kept apart by their stubborn bosses.
Basically, Romeo and Juliet but if it was Corporate, Gay, and the dead guy is only half dead.
Neil is obsessed with Andrew’s wide waist. sitting on the bed, he reaches out almost absentmindedly, fingers catching the hem of Andrew’s t-shirt and holding on. Andrew, who was just passing by, stills. his gaze flicks down to Neil, then, without a word, he steps closer and gives the slightest nod, allowing it. allowing Neil to pull him in, to press his face against his torso, arms wrapping around his waist. Andrew watches the top of Neil’s head, fingers brushing through those messy curls. Neil leans into the touch, lifting his head just enough… the eye contact is devastating—those impossibly blue eyes, as Neil rests his chin against him, tilting his head slightly as he looks up.
his arms tighten just a little around Andrew’s waist, not enough to hurt, just enough to make Andrew’s back arch faintly, pressing closer into the hold. Neil hums quietly, nuzzling in, brushing the tip of his nose along Andrew’s torso. “You should see Abby,” Andrew says flatly. “These fits of tenderness are concerning.” Neil only drags his nose to the side, along his ribs, pressing a quick kiss near his heart. “Calm down,” Andrew adds. but Neil doesn’t even try to stop, because he knows Andrew doesn’t actually mean stop when he says “calm down.” that’s not the word he uses for that. If Andrew really wanted him to stop, he’d give him a short, firm “no” and Neil would pull away immediately. but Andrew also knows Neil won’t do anything he truly doesn’t want. so he takes the liberty.
presses a few more kisses along his side, pauses for just a second—then suddenly bites, light but deliberate. Andrew’s response is immediate: a sharp, but not harsh, smack to the back of Neil’s head. “Junkie.” Neil just laughs quietly, burying his face back into Andrew’s side—his shoulders shaking with it. his hands trail once more over Andrew’s waist, lingering, before he presses one last, soft kiss to his stomach and finally lets him go, releasing him back to wherever he’d pulled him from.
pet peeve is when you look up fashion references from a specific era and you keep getting modern day '[era]-inspired' fashion like NO i want authenticity damn it. i can see your 2020 photo quality and your 2020 hair and your 2020 makeup. youre not fooling me.
hello i'm a historical fashion researcher and i have a lot of experience looking up things! this is a very widely experienced irritation and you're definitely not alone in this, but i am here to share everything i know!
so, ways to get around this:
turn off AI results. they're literally nonsense to us
don't use pinterest because the sources/provenance is often hard to trace
a standard internet search can be okay, but museum collections are the top tier (list of collections below this list)
instead of broad terms like victorian, regency, tudor, renaissance etc. try using the decade you're looking for. if you're not sure of what decade it is but have a vague image in your head, look on the fashion history timeline and just jump around until you find it. but even changing to e.g. 19th century will give better results than victorian
including terms like womenswear/menswear, daywear, formal wear, evening wear, court dress should increase the value of your search too
including "fashion plates" in your search can give you a nice impression of the intended silhouettes of the era. some of these might be a little stylised but will show you what was considered in vogue
for pre-fashion plate eras or things like makeup and styling, you'll have to look at portraiture or manuscripts. these are harder to actually find what you're looking for, but searching museum collections and limiting results to specific date ranges will be your friend
when looking at art, do bear in mind sometimes artists would paint fabric extra flow-y to show off their skills. it might not have been exactly like that in terms of fabric weight or drape. so, a pinch of salt required!
if you find something on image search where the provenance is dubious, reverse image search and you might find a source! i've been able to trace random pinterest images to real sources, but this does take a lot of time and effort and is often not worth the headache
some online resources and museum collections:
fashion history timeline is an invaluable resource if you're trying to get a feel for everything and should be your first port of call. it'll also link to good examples
the met has a vast number of extant examples of clothing, as well as fashion plates
costume institute fashion plates is a subcollection of the met for fashion plates (1800s-1922)
v&a also has many extant garments, fashion plates, and incredible articles on clothing and aesthetics. read the details of the objects because they'll often reveal a lot about the piece
lacma is good for C19th-20th pieces
nypl digital collection for photographs
national portrait gallery or similar for portraiture, or literally any museum in your country that has historical art
national museums scotland can be useful situationally but might be oddly specific
stout style history is a great collection for finding image references for fat people wearing historical clothes. survival bias of a lot of museum pieces tends towards smaller clothing that couldn't be repurposed, but this aims to counter that. it's not sortable, but is still a really nice resource
wikimedia commons is surprisingly handy! and the images, if you should need to link/repost them, are public domain
auction websites sound like a funny one to recommend. some won't have mannequins and some will. just look up historical garment auctions and you'll find some!
anyway, i hope this has been a good place to start for anyone interested! there are probably some i've missed because there are so many museums across the world and i don't know about all of them or can't remember them. but these are the ones i've used the most! (my specialisation/jobs i've had to research for have only really been in western fashion, so my resources reflect that)
Wikipedia has a list of fashion museums. Unfortunately, the page itself is only available in German, but the introductory paragraph is very short and after that, it's organised by country, and then it's a simple list. If you click on a museum's article, the website is usually linked in the overview table.
the dynamic between heinz doofenschmirtz and perry the platypus would probably come off as v romantic and gay if they were two people in a similar age range rather than a dude and a platypus. no i dont ship them but think about it. villainous monologues are already a very romantic and gay thing in itself (don’t question me on this you know im right). listening to somebody ramble excitedly about something they’re proud of is even more romantic and cute af. also doofensmirtz is already gay anyway. the only thing preventing this from becoming Peak Gay is the fact that perry is strictly professional and also a platypus. thanks for coming to my ted talk
one of Doofenshmirtz’ dates ditched him for a whale
we are talking about a universe where this is canon
for god’s sake
Look, I’m not that knowledgeable about Phineas and Ferb lore (although I’m very glad that my post resonated with the Gay Scientists Dating Tired Platypuses fandom) but what, pray tell, the fuck is going on? am i having a stroke? im willing to accept the teacher falling in love with her desk because language teachers just are like that but is this nerd about to bang an ice cone?? hello?????
I think there was a scene where Peter and Perry were having dinner together at a fancy restaurant. But that was before Doofenshmirtz stopped being evil.
@deenalloh you have to watch milo murphy’s law season 2 to know what’s going on with Doofenshmirtz life.He stopped being evil to commit to his future self: ‘’Professor Time’’ inventor of time-travel and a public figure.
and he is trying to be a good guy now
also there’s 2 more time lines where he ends up good
1.Science teacher
2. O.W.C.A agent (The OWCA Files)
this universe is big and vast and doesn’t end at Phineas and Ferb
Okay but saying that just because some people in that universe are in love with animals/inanimate objects doesn’t mean it’s normal.
I mean, in our universe, someone wanted to marry the Eiffel Tower.
yeah..but you see..there’s this wonderful thing in cartoons that real life doesn’t have and its animals being actual sentient/anthropomorphic. So,you can’t compare our life with a cartoon ship in this case
Also Perry is arguably one of the smartest characters on both shows when it comes to deductive reasoning, common sense, and social intelligence. He could tell just by looking at a room exactly what happened there a few hours ago. He can problem-solve on the fly, and does so very often. He has basic engineering skills (or at least, “basic” for this universe, which is kinda masterful for our universe), and can communicate complex thoughts to others despite being physically incapable of speaking English (he even knows ASL!) To claim that Perry the Platypus is incapable of providing consent simply because he isn’t human is a disservice to his character. And honestly, if we’re going by the anthropological definition of “human” (bipedal, opposable thumbs, ability to communicate complex thought), then he is by all means “human.” He’s just… A Human Platypus. …?
I was wondering when someone was gonna bring up the ocelot thing
@looney-mooney I agree with this vit there’s one thing, even if Perry has amazing deductive reasoning he has to at least fall to one trap. That’s just the law of nature.
@oceanic-panic-panic bold of you to assume that Perry doesn’t let himself get trapped on purpose at least 2/3 of the time. Perry always escapes the traps. And he always waits for Doofenshmirtz to finish monologuing before escaping from them. It’s part of their routine, something they both expect: Perry bursts in, gets trapped, patiently listens to doof’s rant of the day, escapes the trap, fights his nemesis, and blows up the Inator. Whenever this routine is broken, they work to maintain it anyway - I can think of at least like 3 instances where Perry purposefully, politely traps himself, and several more where Doofenshmirtz gets impatient and sets Perry free from the trap himself so they can fight.
Perry getting trapped isn’t a sign of some intellectual folley - it’s a sign of his incredible problem-solving skills that he can escape them so easily, and a sign of his social intelligence that he knows to politely wait until his nemesis is ready to stop venting and start fighting.
But why does Perry need to be trapped for his nemesis to vent? Easy. Doofenshmirtz is a victim of severe child abuse, and needs to feel as though he’s somewhat in control of the situation before allowing himself to be vulnerable. Perry being trapped makes him feel safe, and Perry catches on to this. It’s an intricate social dance that none of his coworkers have mastered, the ability to communicate with and accomidate for a villain with special needs. And though it takes the whole summer, they eventually don’t even need the traps, because Perry makes Heinz feel safe.
I mean, back on the Peter the Panda line, being a nemesis was always supposed to be analogous to being in a relationship anyway. I think of this way more as an “arranged relationship turns to true love” story than an “enemies to lovers” one.
‘’You probably look at Perry the Platypus and me and think it’s a match made in heaven. But it wasn’t always this way. Back in the day, O.W.C.A. assigned agents willy-nilly, with no regard for personality conflicts or basic compatibility issues … like a bad blind date!
Why, when I first met Perry the Platypus, I didn’t even know what kind of an animal he was. Who’s ever heard of a teal platypus?! And I gotta tell you, he got on my last nerve … always staring at me, judging me. You know how he is.
Well, I was ready to call it quits. I even called Major Monogram to see if I could get another nemesis assigned. Something a little less semiaquatic. But thank goodness, Francis said to give it a little more time to see if things could work themselves out. And you know what? They did!
Now I wouldn’t trade my nemesis for anyone in the world. Oh, sure, he still infuriates me and I try to eliminate him on a daily basis, but that’s just what I do.
So, if your first encounter with your mortal foe isn’t perfect, don’t despair! It gets better … usually.’’
I’d say both are correct
Me knowing almost nothing about Phineas and Ferb but reading this entire post anyway
I apologize I was expecting a day of depressed brooding and silently crying in my room not Perryshmirtz: a deep dive into quite possibly most fascinating and unique relationships in modern media
"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t
pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome.
This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.
tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
Genuinely so nice to see another study like this published!
Especially after the stupid Olympics decision to ban trans and intersex women from competing in women's sports. It's been frustrating me that there's all this bullshit push for transphobia under the guise of "making space for women in sports". That's really not what it's about and at the end of the day, this strict policing hurts cis women too. If any woman is too good at her sport, or too tall, or too built, ah well surely she must be Not A Woman somehow. That's completely absurd! (And notice how the reverse is never scrutinized for men?) Especially for super high level sports that are full of exceptional people, including genetically so. Yet the image of a very specific (cis white) woman keeps grtting pushed instead of reevaluating why we separate sports by sex instead of something more relevant like ability or size.
hey so it’s march now aka the beginning of endometriosis awareness month and i feel obligated to remind you that debilitatingly painful periods are not normal. if you or someone you know is ending up sick or bedridden every month, you are not crazy and deserve medical attention from someone who will take you seriously
Remember ladies and lads if the doctor doesn’t listen to you and tries diverting the issue to something else like weight or stress. You are morally obligated to piss all over their office!
Advocating for yourself means Advocating for everyone. Even if it has to be aggressive or violent.
Fun fact for our international followers: If someone in Australia cuts down a tree on public land to improve the view from their house, the local government will install a sign to block that view again
For the new Nanny Danny AU- does he ever reflect back and regret what Jazz must have dealt with when he was a kid? For example, showing up to get Tim from school and he's nowhere to be found?
Secondary question- Alfred and Bruce's reactions to Tired!Mom Danny and Menace Tim?
I think I'm going to call this au Nanny herding geniuses.
I think Danny doesn't look back on his childhood and feel bad for Jazz. He just sighs because it wasn't Danny who would randomly vanish from school, it was Jazz. She was convinced she was already mentally above her classmates and would leave the school grounds for "enlightenment". Danny would be waiting in the principal's office, sipping juice, while his parents, the school staff, and the police tried to figure out where she had gone, and Jazz was walking through the history museum on a recorded self-guided tour.
She's high-functioning autistic in this Au, and it took much longer for her to be diagnosed (for those not aware, it's a common thing for girls to have to fight for their autism diagnoses because people believed "girls can't have it"), so until she identified it herself at seventeen, Jazz was just a little silly as a kid.
Tim reminds Danny a lot of his sister, so he's able to handle him beter then most, but it's still a humbling experince espically when Tim bluntly tells him things like "I hacked the Pentagon. If the FBI shows up, don't answer the door" in the same breath as "I saw a frog today. It was swimming in the pond in the backyard."
He can only reply with "Did you touch the frog?"
Now for the Waynes' reaction:
Dick and Bruce are in the middle of a heated argument that had them screaming until they turned red. Bruce tried to walk away from it, but Dick followed him, and somehow they found themselves in the backyard.
"-I fight the same fight! Take the same risks!" Dick sneers, "Why can't you give me the same respect!"
"It's different!"
"How!?"
"I don't have time for this, Dick."
"You never do! You- is that the Drakes' nanny with a net?" Dick squints over Bruce's shoulder, his face smoothing into confusion, the wind knocked out of his sails. Bruce turns to find that yes, Danny Fenton is at the edge of their property, tiptoeing towards a bush with a net in his hands.
Before their eyes, they watch the man slowly creep closer, utterly concentrated on the biggest bush, sitting on the invisible line that separates the Waynes from the Drakes. He held still for a moment, as if he was afraid of whatever he was attempting to catch, one foot raised in the air for the final step. His blue eyes were fixed on the ground, and Dick barely made a noise of confusion before the man launched forward, throwing the net in one smooth motion.
A series of growls is heard as a small boy stumbles out of the bush, struggling in the net. He flips and flops like a fish caught, while the Nanny watches him, hands on his hips. Eventually, the boy stops, lying flat on his back and staring upwards at the nanny with a hiss.
"Young man, what did I say? No taking photos until after you get all your updated shots."
"But that takes too long!" The boy whined, "I want to collect them now!"
"I know, but it's important you have your shots before running around in the bushes. What if you catch something? Then you'll spend days in bed and take no photos."
The boy considers this, then flops about a little more, obviously trying to get loose. Danny watches him struggle for a moment until the boy tires out. He reached down and swung the net over his shoulder, the boy going with it like a sack, and he ignored the demon-like screech that little Tim made as the pair tracked back to the Drake manor.
Dick is utterly horrified. "What was that!?"
"Hm? Oh, just guardian netting their child." Bruce replies, looking relaxed despite having just watched a child dragged back like a wild animal. "You know how it is."
'Ugh, no, I do not know how it is. Who does that?"
Bruce twists to look at Dick, seemingly lost on why Dick was reacting this way. "Alfred did that to me."
"What?!"
"I see Danny is taking my net throwing tips to heart," Alfred comments. He's carrying a tray of tea, beaming at the retreating man like a proud teacher whose student had surpassed them. "It's all in the wrist, you see."
"Alfred, you used to net Bruce up?!"
"Yes." The butler put the tray down on a nearby outdoor table. "Before Master Bruce decided on a bat, he had considered the idea of being Mole-Man."
"Mole-Man?"
"I was going to use the cave system in Gotham to leap up and drag people down," Bruce admits sheepishly, rubbing a cheek. "I tried to practice by running the moment Alfred got distracted and leaping into the holes."
Dick's jaw drops even as Alfred sighs, staring into the distance like he is experiencing war flashbacks. "He always somehow got into the sewers. It takes days of tracking to get Master Bruce out of there."
Bruce smiles. "Ah memories."
"I can't believe it." Dick gasps, "Batman was the saner option....."
Alfred laughs. "It was a relief after all the other ideas Master Bruce considered. Have I ever told you about Beaver Man?"
"No?"
"Pull up a chair. This one is a dozy."
And for the first time in a long while, Wanye Manor wasn't choking on tension. It was filled with evening laughter as Dick listened raptly to tales of Bruce's childhood and teenage years. Across the yard, in Drake Manor, Tim was watching Danny carefully develop the photos he took of Dick yelling. He liked how silly Dick looked, since the pictures paused his movements at the best of times.
His favorite was the one where Dick was midturn, mouth wide open, and the skin of his cheeks rippling like someone had used a leaf blower on his face. It was when Dick yelled the f-word so loudly that Danny made him put a penny in the swear jar just in case.
I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.
the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal