Just an autistic queer on the internet 🏳️‍🌈

they/them ~ 21 ~ Hi everyone! It's cihlen. Welcome to my profile! :D ... I post pretty inconsistently, so I apologize in advance... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cihlen.bsky.social Pronoun page: https://en.pronouns.page/@cihlen

[chonny-jash]

Picture this:

A title menu in black.

An RGB light in a tunnel.

Loving eyes staring back.

A cathode ray daydream of what you'll be when you're older,

But you're far too young yet to hold the controller.

[inflomora-art]

Knight!Eddie for @novacorpsrecruit 🖤

[bagel-bird-ainsor]

Figured it’d be appropriate for my first post on tumblr to be Them

[bagel-bird-ainsor]

Edgeworth and Gumshoe showing up early to the scene of the crime. Playing through AAI2 rn and wondering if either of them have a normal sleep schedule whatsoever. Probably not.

sneaking naps on company time

[bagel-bird-ainsor]

I don’t usually put oc stuff here but I’m making an exception to share a few pics of my favorite son. His name is Mr. Pretender, he came to me in a dream years ago, and now I just kinda draw him whenever I wanna chill out.

[vihyura]

truly

[snowflakeb0ttles]

[sagethegremlin]

[istealdragons]

I have like a million things in drafts that still haven't been posted and probably still wont be for a while

[maracajesus]

meowmeowmeow :3cccccc

[maracajesus]

he has a equally meowyful friend nyaow!! 🐱🐱

[maracajesus]

only 2 meowies left !! 🐱🐱🐱

[maracajesus]

we got a feisty kitty over here!!

[maracajesus]

all kitties are finished now!!! yayayayyyyy

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[cherrispryte]

Some added 101-level context from someone (me) who’s worked in federal grantmaking for 20 years and is literally certified on this document - this is a document that governs all federal grantmaking. It’s been around for over a decade and is a mega-document that combine multiple previous smaller documents that have been around for ages. It is updated every few years and generally the updates are minor - a notable change in the previous update was raising the small procurement threshold from $10,000 to $15,000 for example. Deeply dry boring minutiae that no one outside of federal grantmakers need concern themselves with. It was also federal GUIDELINES, which means there was flexibility.

This year’s is different. They are now federal REQUIREMENTS, which means there’s no flexibility. As was said previously, the 400 pages are not singularly devoted to being absolute shitheads to trans people. Theres a lot of stuff in there, some of which is the standard dry boring grants stuff, some of which is the horrible ideological warfare outlined above.

This document is issued by the OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, which is currently lead by fucking Russell Vought, the principal architect of Project 2025. This is how they’re going to implement all the horrible shit in there that wasn’t covered by Executive Order. Russell Vought is actively coming for my job, my marriage, and my kid, and most of my friends lost their jobs last year because of him. He is the fucking arch villain behind the heinous shit the current regime is doing.

So yes, please comment. You don’t have to read all 400 pages before doing so, it’s dry and dense as fuck, but I thought this information might be helpful. Also, while there is a public comment period, this isn’t voted on by Congress. The OMB just fucking issues it. Pressuring your elected officials into publicly saying “hey what the fuck are you doing here” is good, though.

[mikkeneko]

Please note the comment period is open through JULY 13th, not JUNE 13th. I saw a lot of relogs yesterday saying "last day!" and I just want to say it is very much not too late.

[grison-in-space]

As of today, 7/8/26, we have five days for public commentary on this to go through. I am begging y'all: if you care about independent science in the country that produces the most global science funding in the world, please leave a comment.

[bagel-bird-ainsor]

I was legally obligated to make at least one piece of art for Narumitsu week (jk I love them and I love drawing them) 💙❤️

[fourleafisland]

artfight attack on seasaltx3! acrylic markers + lined with gel pen

[mowu-fc]

playing around with halfcolor kits for my never-gonna-happen footie game idea and got a slight bit attached to Generic Male Striker Matty Wynn

[mowu-fc]

i'll have him just for today

[kableapple]

Mouthwashing Anya fanart, it’s been a bit!

[mozzy8289]

Soul and Heart artfight refs yay!!! I haven’t finished mind’s yet but I’ll add if I do

[doodledstars]

Unfortunately I haven’t received anything and my bill is due end of today, and I have other bills coming up as well. I haven’t received any new doodles for months, I could really use all the help I can get rn ‘til I get more work. ;-;

I can draw NU:Carnival, Super Smash Bros, Splatoon, Pokemon, etc.!

[doodledstars]

My bill is due very soon and I can’t afford it, I really appreciate it if I can get some boosts, I haven’t had anyone interested for months and it’s been really hard for me the past weeks. ;-;

[yes-thank-you]

Ryu at his most natural: ignoring you.

[cihlen]

AAAAAaaa I need him!! He's so cute!! :D

Man, I really wish I was born 10 years earlier, so I'd be able to get a Ryu keychain... I hope Parade re-releases them for NO, THANK YOU!!!'s anniversary! (I don't think they'll do it this year, maybe the next.)

[silarcta]

Ryu Kurosawa from NO THANK YOU!!!

He is my favourite thing oh god. I haven’t drawn fanart for so long but I needed to do this. Sorry not sorry.

[cihlen]

DAYMMMMN

Ryu is so handsome in your art style!!