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Reblog account! // Vancouver, BC // art tags under #cibokilley or #beta-20 // 98% powdered cat // got rid of my art tumblrs coz of the selling our data thing so now I just reblog stuff // new art blog being rebuilt right now

[hellallamerican]

absolutely major news out of georgia: the legislative session ended last night at midnight and ALL anti-lgbtq+ bills were defeated

[leitharstjarna]

All anti-LGBTQ+ bills defeated as Georgia legislative session ends

Georgia Equality celebrates the defeat of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including restrictions on gender-affirming care. Advocacy and activism prevaile

[reasonsforhope]

More from the article below.

This matters. We are not going anywhere.

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"Georgia Equality is celebrating the defeat of more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills as state lawmakers wrapped their legislative session in the early hours of April 3.

In a statement posted to social media, the advocacy group said all anti-LGBTQ+ legislation was halted, including House Bill 54, which would have prevented doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to minors and restricted gender-affirming care for transgender people.

“Despite underhanded tactics being employed in these last couple weeks, over 2,500 of us contacted our legislators and nearly 400 came out to the Capitol to make their voices heard in person,” the social media post said.

The bills that were defeated included:

SB 30: a bill to restrict access to medical care for trans youth

SB 39: a bill to deny coverage of medical care for trans people covered by the State Employee Health Benefit Plan

SB 74: a bill to criminalize librarians sharing LGBTQ+ content

SB 497: a forced outing bill for LGBTQ+ students

HB 104 and 267: bills further restricting trans youth from participating in sports

HB 671: a drag ban

HB 1210: a bill to create en exemption for non-affirming parents and caretakers to abuse trans youth"

-via Rough Draft Atlanta, April 3, 2026

[ymutate]

Dolce Paganne aka Ceren Aksungur

Eye Can’t Believe It, 2024.

Colored Pencils, Soft Pastels on Paper

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Drip drip drip… by Benjamin König on Instagram

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Creature illustrations by MsNaught on ArtStation

[dappermouth]

new moon, no light to cross your face.

[herpsandbirds]

Cicada (Tacua speciosa), family Cicadidae, found in SE Asia

photograph by EnnisFei (@ennisanna_fei)

[necessary-disorder]

[weirdlandtv]

[cibokilley]

I'm selling a boatload of cheap horse OCs, plus regularly priced non-horse OCs. Check 'em out here:

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[heartnosekid]

theflowerhat on ig

excerpt from the original post: this is dictamnus albus—commonly called gas plant. on hot days, it emits a citrusy, flammable oil that briefly ignites when exposed to flame. it’s completely harmless to the plant, but incredible to witness.

[froggmoment]

this shit is REAL???

[blignick]

[muntzerism-diggerism]

[joeyclaire]

my mom’s trans allyship is on another level

[joeyclaire]

she once called my friend’s deadname “that stupid thing his mom calls him”

[asideoftrashplease]

I was once talking to my 75 year old Chinese dad in passing about a trans friend of mine not getting along with her family and he asked why and I said err, because she's trans, dad.

He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"

Later on: "Anyway, even if she WAS the only son, that's not her problem, that's THEIR problem. They should have had more sons if they were going to be bothered about it."

[jackdaw-kraai]

Knowing what I know about chinese culture there’s something so beautifully simple about his logic of “no son to carry on family name/look after them in old age/all the other stuff? Skill issue! Should’ve had more sons! Should’ve kept the family unit strong yourself! Blaming your daughter for your own failure of family planning is W E A K!” and then he learns there are more sons and it completely breaks his train of logic because if yes to more sons then why issue?? You have two others and you’re mad you don’t have three?? Whack. Greedy.

I can already envision him as an ancient lord of a powerful house looking down his nose at the latest messenger bringing gossip from the house of his offspring’s friend and going “now they have a daughter to marry into another family for powerful alliances and two sons to take over her former duties and somehow they’re still complaining about their good fortune? They shall not survive the winter.” and then sipping his tea with all the grim satisfaction of someone about to watch an unnecessary soap opera of drama unfold from a safe distance or something

[preserving-tiktok]

[sunderwight]

everybody in the notes like:

[made-in-manetheren]

This is the single best video of a loon I've ever seen. Do you people realize how rare it is to see them that close? How rare it is to see them in that shallow of water? Incredible catch.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Suzuki Carry Little Big Rig, 1990. A modified ST90 series Carry 4WD Cargo Truck (pictured) with lifted suspension and 23x8x12 all terrain tyres

source

[prokopetz]

There's this common thread running through giant robot memes and "wizard war" shitposting and such where folks basically seem to be picturing mass armed conflict as a bunch of guys standing around on a flat, featureless plain pairing off into groups and taking turns throwing shit at each other. It's like our concept of war is informed entirely by jokes about 18th Century rifle infantry standing at opposite ends of a muddy field exchanging alternating volleys until one side or the other falls down.

[56853]

This wizard war is fucked man. Enemy Geomancers snuck through our defenses and now our supply lines are non-Euclidean. We’ve been living off of beans from a month in the future cause that’s the only truck that’s made it through so far. We were in the middle of casting obfuscation wards on our FOV when a crow with glowing white eyes flew overhead and then a minute later everyone with an H in their name spontaneously combusted. My company is preparing something called Operation Blood Sacrifice. I gotta get out of here.

[animentality]

[suzukiblu]

Okay but like, unironically I have Theories(tm) about this, as an ace-as-fuck prose writer, and the theories all essentially boil down to: fish don't have a word for water.

Like, the allos just take a look at something and KNOW it's hot, but the aces have to fucking DISSECT the thing to figure out wtf people are even going on about with calling it "hot", and funny story, turns out when you write a whole-ass 10k of PWP explaining what's hot about the thing in a way that makes sense to you personally, you are a whole lot likelier to make that thing read AS hot to people who normally would not think it was even remotely appealing ( and also, like, to take anybody who was already into the thing out at the knee ).

( see: everyone who has ever told me "I HATE this kink/that kink/this pairing/this genre/this trend, but when YOU write it--" )

And especially in prose, the dissection-explanation gets you into the mood of the scene/head of the character a lot better, while if you DON'T have the dissection worked out but also don't have the crutch of any visual aids to point to, well, then people are a lot less likely to instinctively understand what YOU instinctively understand, even if everyone in the conversation is the same sexuality/has the same tastes/etc etc etc.

So basically, if you're an allo, you probably have not actually HAD to spend that much time breaking down "why is this person/behavior/situation hot to me" unless you just felt like doing it; if you don't bother, though, you don't stop being able to look at something and go "that's hot". Because you just KNOW it's hot; it's like an instinct or a talent, and it's just immediately THERE, before you even necessarily fully know what it really is or develop it at all. You KNOW it's hot, and you don't get why anyone else would need that explained to them when it is just so damn OBVIOUS. You're immediately good at understanding it in yourself, but you don't necessarily understand it in a way where you can explain it to someone else; you haven't put in the practice or developed the thoughts, because you didn't need to, they were already just THERE.

But the thing with prose is you can't just point at the thing and be like "SEE?!??"; you've gotta figure out how to actually EXPLAIN the thing to people, and I feel like that can be a longer process for an allosexual person because they don't necessarily get what it is that they have to explain in the same way an asexual who's starting from ground zero does. The ace person already knows they don't know any of this shit, and knows there's other people who won't get it either, both ace AND allo. The natural talent, meanwhile, is just like "but it's so OBVIOUS, why don't you just GET it??" THEY get it, after all; it's OBVIOUS!!

So yeah, I would like to present, again, my hypothesis/thesis: fish don't have a word for water, but you are currently addressing a semi-aquatic mammal, and man, let me tell you about the water CYCLE.

[kiragecko]

[Screenshot of a video with the caption, "Smut so good it could only be written by an asexual." The rest of the video is covered up by a comments tab which informs us there are 525 comments. We see one by galacteddy, saying, "coaches don't play."

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[gallusrostromegalus]

As a rampantly bisexual autist, this actually makes sense because I too have had to create a PowerPoint presentation on the fly EVERY GODDAMN DAY to explain why I like (or dislike) something to my NT and/or Heterosexual (TM) friends, relatives and colleagues. It's almost always perfectly banal things like "yes Jessica, food has texture and to myself and many people, that is just as if not more important than the seasoning." Or "okay Jason, so the thing about workshop lights is that more is not necessarily better. There's very much an upper limit on how much light the human eye can be exposed to before it starts to hurt, and in the case of myself and our colleagues with migraine disorders, that threshold can be very, very low. So no, I don't think the ten billion lumen search and rescue spotlights are a good choice for a props warehouse."

That kind of self-justification is exhausting and shouldn't be necessary to be treated like a human, but alas, I live in a society that demands it, and if there is one marginal silver lining to this, it's that it's made me Very Good At Words.

I think it's yet another shared experience of the ace and bi communities (and every marginalized community tbh) to have to examine our experiences because they don't match the 'default' and come up with a working theory of why those are different and both valid to maintain our place in the world. The farther afield your experience, the more detailed and nuanced that understanding is likely to be.

To continue your fish metaphor, fish might not have a word for water but fish from the ocean don't have as nuanced a vocabulary for salinity as a freshwater fish who is much more vulnerable to changes in salinity does, and God help you if you're from an estuary.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Suzuki Mighty Boy, 1983. A pick-up based on the second generation Cervo kei coupé that is the only example of a 3-box kei-sized pick-up (all other kei pick-ups use a cab over configuration). It was classified as a commercial vehicle in Japan so as to benefit from lower taxes but its utility was retricted by a bed that was 600mm (24 in) in length. It was powered by a 543cc 3 cylinder engine. It remained in production until 1988 but when the third generation Cervo was introduced the Might Boy was dropped and not replaced. In addition to the Japanese market it was exported to Australia and Cyprus between 1985 and 1988.