Demonic Cosmic Geek, Artist, Academically researching genocide, intersectionality, and transitional justice.
Trans Lesbian. She/her/they. 27 “I wish it need not have happened in my time, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for [us] to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us” -J.R.R. Tolkien
Commissions open! (I can take one at a time only)
First order of business: Trans (demigirl), Lesbian, She/They. If you're any kind of bigot (racist, LGBT-phobic of any kind, misogynistic, etc.), please kindly fuck off and DNI (I know DNIs don't work, but it's harmless and tells others it's a safe space, which my blog definitely is, so there it is anyway).
ALSO! I draw, and I'm a huge frickin' multifandom nerd, and I'm also a legal scholar doing research on genocide.
So my blog is a mishmash of stuff related to all that: gay, queer in general, nerdy shit, art, and the occasional post about atrocities (though I don't like to always talk about that, because it's work, and I'm just not always in the mood).
I do commissions! For the current status, check my Bio.
I have a Tags page in my blog, that's not visible on mobile. This is a post with all the main tag categories I use for my drawings
All of my original posts (both drawings and text posts) will include #cosmicluci.
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#Digital Art
#Needle Felting
#Commission (both open and completed)
#LGBT+
#Sapphic
#Trans
#Pride (This one for drawings that celebrate queerness, especially the ones I make for Pride Month).
#Personal
#Political
#Monster
#Vampire
#Cosmic Horror
#Demon
#Witch
#Aquatic Creatures
#Ghosts
#Creature Design
#Cosmic
#Fan Art
#Marvel
#DC
#Disney
#Star Wars
#Star Trek
#Doctor Who
#The Dark Crystal
#Lovecraftian
#Disenchantment
#She-Ra
#Revolutionary Girl Utena
#Lord of The Rings
#Addams (for both Addams family, or Wednesday-specific fan art)
I made some Queer Flag Faeries. Originally for Pride Month, but obviously didn't finish then, so here they are now, half a month later.
This one is the Progress Pride Pixie (and for the Rainbow colours, I used the old Gilbert Baker version, so that I could include the Pink for Sex and the light blue for Magic, which seemed appropriate for faeries)
The Lesbian Glaistig. I kinda took the idea of the Glaistig being a herder, and a myth which involved people putting milk in a hole in a rock as an offering. Of course, her rock hole has a bit more of a suggestive shape (Maybe that's why she likes to drink from that particular rock).
Gay Gnome, chosen because I love alliteration, and I have some Gay Bear friends, and I wanted to make him appeal to them specifically, so the fey most known for a nice beard seemed appropriate.
Bi Brownie, because once more alliteration, and also because Brownies are friendly, and so is one of my best friends, who's Bi.
Trans Toadstool (there's a lot of alliteration-based choices here), because I like mushrooms and find them wondrous and magical, just like transitioning.
Genderqueer Goblin, because yet again alliterative. He's also dressed like the genderest of all goblins: Jareth the Goblin King
Intersex Elf, because I think elves ought always very sex-ambiguous (and gender too, of course)
Ace Hob, because I thought it would be neat to have both Bi and Ace as friendly household fey. Also, gave it very chill vibes, because my ace friends are all like that.
Aromantic Leprechaun, for the simple reason that it's usually got green, and so does the Aro flag (look, there are a lot of identities, it's hard to really find good justifications for them all, so some are silly).
Enby Changeling, which I chose because Changelings give the vibe of deep down not being what one's parents and society expect and raise one to be, and having to, eventually, live and become what you truly are. Wasn't sure if I should make this Trans or Non-Binary, but the fact Toadstool alliterated with Trans was the deciding factor.
Pan Puck, because Puck from Midsummer Night's Dream is the type of trickster character that usually read as kinda Pan for me. Also they look like a satyr, or Pan. Oh, and, of course, we're back to alliteration.
Genderfluid Selkie, chosen because I wanted an aquatic fey that wasn't just a mermaid, or something horrifying like a Nucklavee.
Polyamorous Fairy Ring, because one cannot make a Fairy Ring without multiple Faeries. It's a coming together of many, all interconnected.
Finally, I made a Sapphic Spriggan, because my wife wanted a sapphic one, and I picked Spriggans because they are cool, and, of course, provided me an alliterative option.
I fail to see how the Monsters of Inc. were persuaded to care about the welfare of children who to them were no more than an anonymous, alien resource necessary for the convenience of their lives. They weren't even the same species of them. Yet they overhauled their whole energy economy to be more humane toward this hated other, which had no legal rights in their society, and which most of them had never even seen. It really makes no sense, if anything it's sort of a perversion, like if you actually lived with that level of concern and empathy you wouldn't be able to function at all. You would be, just, fucking debilitated. Just psychologically crushed. Idk it's just not that plausible to me. And Randall, the lizard. He isn't that fuckable either.
Everyone is already pointing out that they made the shift because laughter is more efficient than screams. Some probably also noted how their world was having a bit of an energy crisis at the start of the movie, so laughter solves that, at least temporarily, as its output is much much higher.
That said, I also don’t think they care at all that it’s nicer to the humans.
Like, they probably don’t know about the effects of tickling, and they are culturally terrified of touching children at all, but if they weren’t and did know, they’d be hiring literal tickle monsters to go in and extract laughter as quickly and easily as possible, regardless of the fact that being tickled is deeply unpleasant and kinda scary.
Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!
I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:
Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed
Let’s see…I think we can add transmeds and enby-phobes, and anyone who might get offended with the statement that genocide is bad or that doesn’t age that anyone, including immigrants, deserve due process.
Fun fact: no one’s entitled to know about someone else’s private life. No one has a right to demand someone come out.
If someone, anyone, including famous people, choose to let others know about their private lives, their sexuality or gender, etc., that’s cool. But that’s their choice. Demanding it or forcing them to do it is invasive, and honestly kinda disgusting.
the other day I read a compelling point that many instances described as illiteracy would actually be more aptly described as aliteracy, meaning an individual has the ability to read but simply chooses not to. great example here, awesome work.
I kinda agree with both of them. It’s good to have terms and mottos that incentivize people to be kinder, and also it’s unfortunate to redefine or misuse terms tied to specific communities and histories.
So I propose saying that being kind is “radical” or “disruptive”, or simply “countercultural”. Because while being radical in a political sense cannot and is not limited to kindness, this is something that can integrate one’s radical politics, and it is possible to be radically kind. Also, within these systems that encourage unkindness, detachment, alienation, hatred, and apathy, kindness is disruptive.
As a bit of a tangent, I can’t help but find it funny the person responding used the example of a quilting circle, because it reminded me of THE Hollywood Sewing Circle, and I just imagined what if they had meetings, and some young actress hears about it and decides to join, and whoops, no sewing, just sapphics. And maybe she’s a bit bummed because she really likes sewing, but yeah, of course she’ll still join
Garak was making Upholstery Chic in a society that considered the venerable Polyester Catsuit to be the height of fashion.
Sure, his clothes are fuck ugly, but they are built to last! And they are less romper-forward, which from a practicality standpoint is favorable. To me, personally.
I would also like to submit for evidence of Garak’s fashion sense being a net positive on the station:
There’s one outfit of his, the green one with a sort of reddish T-shaped thing separating the bottom in two and the top part from the bottom (and the shade of green is different on the top), which I absolutely LOVE. I really wish I had that piece, or something like it. Ideally tailored to my body, but hey, guess what? The guy who can do that is also the guy who created it in the first place!!
Garak’s clothes don’t all appeal to me, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t have one of the best styles on that station, surpassed only by SOME Ferengi clothes, and the Bajoran militia uniforms. I love the Starfleet uniforms, but Garak could do a better job with those too, I’m sure of it.
My girlfriend wanted me to draw a wallpaper for her phone, taking inspiration from modern paganism, specifically the Triple Goddess idea.
It was originally going to be a genderbent Horned Goddess X Triple Goddess "Wiccan deity Yuri", but she decided the Horned God archetype isn't exactly necessary at all, and the Triple Goddess with the idea of cycles of nature, life, and society can easily be interpreted in ways that fit any other deity.
So, in line with her views of this (which make perfect sense to me anyway), and doing away with the unnecessary Horned God, I just made a Triple Yuri out of the three aspects of the Goddess, making it still trans (because who's to stop me from making a deity transfem? NO ONE, I tell you!), still sapphic, and now also poly.
The Bind Rune behind them is also one I made, taking the Othala rune for Odin (a deity she likes to work with and which I find very interesting, plus the letters from my name and hers)
it would explain so much about Gotham economics if it turned out the only employers who pay a livable minimum wage are 1) Wayne Enterprises duh, but mainly 2) all of Gotham's assorted villains.
sure henching comes with shitty working conditions, but the benefits package is crazy competitive. they have dental
Gotham's villains are so engrained because supervillainy is the only thing propping up the local economy. henching requires no work experience, provides on-the-job training, and has a diversity hiring program (you're willing to commit crimes in tacky matching uniforms? great you're in, here's your gun and clownsuit)
Batman is constantly throwing money trying to compete but the fact remains that henchpeople are Gotham's largest workforce and will be until minimum wage laws catch up to reality
even educated jobs in environmental science are probably getting laundered money from poison Ivy. and a lab equipment tech might notice three different jobs are tied to pamela Isley and also happened to receive grants from "unrelated" shady shell orgs and the next one is setting up a temperature controled penguin habitat for some eccentric obvious mobster.
we need a new supervillain who gets drawn into villainy specifically to make money for funding grants. they come up with a theme and wacky outfit and loony backstory but at the end of the work day they change back into their alter ego (tired scientist with bags under their eyes and a hotpocket stuck in their labcoat). they're actually very mild mannered irl—the villain persona comes from their background in Theatre Arts
And this is why Bruce Wayne keeps trying to fund scientific research. But he doesn’t have the means to fund everything. So yet again villainy ends up still being the largest source of academic funding in Gotham.
When you request funding, if it’s from Wayne enterprises you need to include a bit about how it’ll benefit society. But depending on the shadow org you’re getting it from, every professor knows you need to include stuff about how it might progress or benefit efforts to potentially cure incurable diseases, or progress our understanding of extreme emotions like fear, or protect the environment, etc. There is one company where you merely need to mention penguins at some point, so there’s an academic paper out there about the effects of poverty on the LGBTQ+ community that happens to use a fictional community of penguins as example all the time. Two different organizations only give grants if there are enough puns in the request. And there’s one that seems to only give grants to researchers who want to solve some difficult scientific quandary, some big mathematical or linguistic puzzle or paradox that no one has figured out yet.
Trump Is Making Federal Prison Even More Dangerous for Transgender Inmates
New directives from the Bureau of Prisons amount to government-mandated conversion therapy.
In February, the Trump Justice Department issued a program statement titled “Management of Inmates with Gender Dysphoria,” its new internal directives regarding transgender people in federal prison. The policy classifies being transgender itself as a “mental health disorder” and outlines a “treatment plan” to ensure those afflicted “progress toward recovery.” What “recovery” means, in the eyes of the administration, is made obvious by the mandates of the plan: confiscation of trans inmates’ gender-affirming clothes, makeup and other personal items; denial of hormones and any other gender-affirming medication; and program of forced psychotherapy and psychotropic drugs. “It is, in every meaningful sense, a blueprint for a government-run conversion therapy program,” Shannon Minter, legal head of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, writes in the Advocate, “one targeting thousands of incarcerated people who have nowhere to turn.”
New directives from the Bureau of Prisons amount to government-mandated conversion therapy.
But I just need to point out, as a point of duty, that this is genocide.
Pure and simple. Genocide is defined as acts taken with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a group as such. The protected groups can be understood as including any stable or permanent groups.
They’ve now put trans inmates in a place they’re likely to be abused and killed. They’ve also now established a policy where trans inmates should be tortured (and just to highlight, conversion therapy is not therapy, it’s recognized as torture. Here’s a link in case you wanna look into it more).
Pair this with the fact they’ve started effectively marking trans people as such in their IDs (not overtly, like in Rwanda where Tutsis and Hutus were identified as such in ID, but subtly. A woman with a marker that says she’s a man).
On top of that, they’re refusing documentation of all sorts to trans people. From passports to driver’s licenses. This in a scenario where undocumented people are being hunted down by what is essentially a secret police, imprisoned, and being denied due process.
Oh, and of course denying passports also makes it hard to travel. So they’re preventing trans people from leaving, but also do not want trans people in the country. What do you think that means?! Because whenever that shit happens, it always means the same: you’ve decided upon a policy of death, as that’s the only way to have a group not be there but also not have them leave.
Mark my words, the next step will be to establish policy that anyone whose gender marker on ID does not match their appearance, and anyone whose appearance doesn’t match gender expectations, can be rounded up as suspected criminals of some sort. Thus putting more trans people in those prisons where they’re likely to be abused, and are certain to be tortured.
The US is doing genocide, pure and simple. And it’s so obvious and predictable. This regime needs to fall, or else more and more people will suffer and die.
“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”
At the very least, politicians should be obligated to use only public systems.
Like, ok, I get why it might be unsafe for an extremely public figure that a lot of people hate to be riding the trains and buses. But at least their kids should be obligated to attend public schools, if they or their immediate family get sick they should have to use public hospitals.
But here’s one I’ve very rarely heard, and I think it’s the most important. Every single politician in government, as well as all judges especially in supreme/high/constitutional courts, should ONLY MAKE MINIMUM WAGE.
Reblogging this again because some people hate it when you include transgender women in International Women's Day and I've had to block a few wretches.
Unfollow me if you feel that way, return to your fetid warren.
A bit late because I didn’t see this until now, but this is just very worth reblogging. Especially if it might scare off bigots.
So I’ll add, because it might scare off more bigots: women’s day is also about disabled women, neurodivergent women, women of color, immigrant women, non-binary people who aren’t quite women but still get targeted by misogyny (very much including transmisogyny), intersex women, and any others that failed to come to mind.
