truth is, the game was rigged from the start.

lu🌼she/they/he🌼16 hey i'm a big nerd + i love star wars a whole lot. read my /about before following, please!icon counterpart- @cortexmarrtin

[island-delver-go]

No words…

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Pray for Antigua & Barbuda

[gayyyluigi-archive-blog]

Y'all creepy motherfuckers who tracked down the author of My Immortal down had better at least buy her books. Y'all owe her that much after hunting her down as if her life is a game to you.

[harpii-deactivated20170907]

here’s a link to a site where you can purchase her books.

[mango-thot-deactivated20190520]

Important side note she left on the Amazon page 

And please, don’t forget to sign the petition at lakotalaw.org! State-run foster care/adoption agencies kidnap 700+ Native American children from their families every year and let strangers adopt them–all for the money. Almost none of these children are being taken out of legitimately harmful homes. (Read: Removal was warranted in less than 3% of the cases.) Trust me, I only wish I were making this up. Native families have been fighting for the return of their children for years now, but if you add your voice to the outcry, the government can’t ignore us forever.

[catgifcentral]

As a display of dominance male kangaroos will present their testicles and fondle them. these displays can go on for several minutes. if both kangaroos are especially aggressive it can last for hours

[ichibankasuga-deactivated202108]

1-800-AREYOUSLAPPIN

[flatw00ds]

something I’ve been thinking about lately in regards to character design is that you can never get 100% aesthetic pleasure in any design and have it be really INTERESTING. Which isn’t to say you can’t make interesting designs beautiful, but…if I refined my aesthetic taste in characters down to a purified ingot of just what I found most attractive, it’d be pretty boring to look at.

With monster designs especially you can get some pretty milquetoast stuff by just including what is most attractive about a beastly character. Usually this manifests in young/inexperienced designers making ‘scary’ designs that are nothing but oooooooo spooky sharp teeth ooooooh empty eye sockets oooooh antlers/tentacles/wings/stitches/strategically placed wounds on an otherwise conventionally attractive person oooooooo

You also see this a lot with that same group of artists translating popular horror or creepypasta characters into their style; the appeal of the characters is drawn to the surface, smoothing out into a bland attractiveness that obliterates the oddities and flaws that drew people to the character in the first place.

None of this is inherently bad (draw what u like), but it is boring. It took me a really long time to realize that I had to flavor my designs with elements that would be unappealing on their own, that didn’t always push my buttons in juuuuust the right way. 100% aesthetic appeal is like eating sugar straight out of the bag: you get tired REAL quickly. It’s not until you add salt, spice, maybe some heat (which are also flavors you probably wouldn’t scarf down on their own) that it actually begins to get tasty.

[psshaw]

A quick remedy to this might be narrative thinking. I don’t mind antlers if you can tell me why the thing has antlers. I can be enraptured by empty eye sockets if you tell me those eyes are gone for a reason. Nothing’s more frustrating from a biological standpoint than a creature with a hundred cool predator features that ignores them all in favor moving slowly and strangling you with human hands.

When you start thinking narratively, you STOP putting ragged ace bandages on a creature that doesn’t have any wounds to cover up, and you START dressing it in blood-stained polos because it’s a lab-grown monster attracted to the synthetic scents of cheap beer and Trojan lube.

[heavyyhearts-blog]

please reblog this

im an 18 year old mentally ill trans girl living in new york and i kinda really need to get out of my house for good but i have no other options other than asking if anyone will take me in so if you or anyone you know possibly could, please contact me or just reblog this because im so scared every day of my life and i cant get on with my life living here thank you

[heavyyhearts-blog]

im literally about to get kciked out and i still havent ound anyone i really need hhelp please

[silverhawk]

they’re gonna be getting rid of microsoft paint / ms paint rly soon and replacing it w/ another program so i just wanna give ms paint a huge shout out for giving every fandom kid a start in drawing fanart and being a reliable and basic program for all these years…..ur truly gonna be missed, comrade

rip ms paint, taken from us at 32 years old u will be missed

[long-ago-1234567890]

i must be following the right ppl cuz i haven’t seen any of that grumps dream dad garbage on my dash besides ppl pointing out how racist and transmisogynist the gg are

[positivelylgbtq]

This post is for all the wlw out there who haven't had their first kiss

Whether it’s because you are saving it for someone special, or because you haven’t had the opportunity yet, or you’ve been kissed in the past but that one doesn’t count.

You’re still valid in your identity. You don’t have to rush. Or panic. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are.

And I’m sending you positive kissing vibes. I hope that, when you’re ready for it, your first kiss is perfect.

[postcardsfromspace]

Stop HB2796

HB2796 is an absolutely blatant attempt to strip away the civil rights of transgender people; and it’s absolutely fucking terrifying.

Quoting the official summary of HB2796:

This bill prohibits the word “sex” or “gender” from being interpreted to mean “gender identity,” and requires “man” or “woman” to be interpreted to refer exclusively to a person’s genetic sex, for purposes determining the meaning of federal civil rights laws or related federal administrative agency regulations or guidance. No federal civil rights law shall be interpreted to treat gender identity or transgender status as a protected class, unless it expressly designates “gender identity” or “transgender status” as a protected class.

HB2796 is currently with the Republican-majority House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Please, PLEASE–especially if you’re cisgender, and doubly if you’re one of their constituents–call the Representatives on the committee and explain just how much damage this will do, how many lives it will destroy, and how many legislative careers (hopefully) hinge on its passage or failure.

Committee members are:

Chairman Steve King (R-IA-04; King is also one of HB2796′s sponsors) - [phone]

Vice Chairman Ron DeSantis (R-FL-06) - [phone]

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ-08; Franks is also one of HB2796’s sponsors) - [phone]

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX-01) - [phone]

Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA-06) - [phone]

Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) - [phone]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) - [phone]

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10) - [phone]

(Note - Listed phone numbers are for DC offices only, but links go to pages with both district and federal office information, as well as additional avenues of contact.)

[johndarnielle]

This bill is unfathomably mean-spirited and cruel. I don’t do a lot of “call your representatives” posts but the posts I’m reblogging states the case succinctly. are you a person who considers yourself a compassionate person who cares about doing the right thing? Then please call your reps about this bill, whose only purpose is to shame, harass, bother, and disenfranchise people who are just trying to live their lives as they see fit. 

Thanks. 

[cosmog]

tag yourself im extra sun, pink moon

[foxfieldbear]

Chechnya: Dozens of men slaughtered and buried in one night as gay purge continues

The names of 27 people slaughtered in a single night by Chechen authorities have been published.

[unified-multiversal-theory]

11 July 2017

[biff-donderglutes]

They can’t afford our silence. Talk about this to everyone.

[married2themoon]

The oldest person killed was born in 1984….the oldest. These people were basically children. Here is a petition: http://petitions.pinknews.co.uk/russian-authorities-stop-the-persecution-of-gay-men-in-chechnya

[jillvawentine]

https://lgbtnet.org/en

https://help.lgbtnet.org/en

https://help.lgbtnet.org/chechnya-en

donate if you can

[1512131490812-deactivated]

you should not believe the lies

finn is a fucking jedi

[robotmango]

me, crouched down in front of my tomato plants, examining a pattern of insect bites on their lower leaves: i’m going to fucking kill whoever did this. i’m going to kill them for you. don’t worry, babies. I’m going to murder every single son of a bitch who ever got a mouthful of you. they’ll die screaming

my neighbor, who i did not realize was also outside, standing behind the fence: oh! okay. you’re talking to the plants. okay.

[asajjventress-moved-deactivated]

my LESDBIAN face when i walk in a HARDWARE STORE

[chlrrutlmwe]

@riverlesbian

[thorodinson]

Black Panther images from EW’s Comic-Con issue

[chlrrutlmwe]

"I hate country music.": eh

"I hate new country music because the genre has shifted from being retelling of folk tales and tales of the underprivileged working class of the American south and has now boiled down to bragging about your truck.": absolutely

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

How Lesbians Cared For And Fought For Gay Men During the AIDS Crisis

"These women walked directly into the fire and through it, and they did not have to."

An incredibly important, and often forgotten, part of lgbt history. 

[gendertrenders-deactivated20180]

lgbt history? you mean lg history lmao, god

[ignis-divine-eleison]

good point

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

Imagine thinking bi and trans people didn’t also die or were otherwise effected in the epidemic. Jfc.

[hivliving]

brief history of bi people with regards to HIV/AIDS

some articles about trans people with regards to HIV/AIDS