Nothing but hair and pencils

My name is Justis. She/Her. Former animation teacher. 30s. Queer trans anarchist.

[jmascollier]

[sleepgrifter]

Im a year older than gord was in freddy got fingered and i still havent sold my cartoons for a million dollars ive wasted my life its over

[thoodleoo]

been reading cicero's rant about words being given obscene meanings and i don't think i've ever seen a latin sentence that made me burst into such immediate and violent laughter before

[thoodleoo]

had a couple people be like "i have no idea what this means" so to clarify: the word penis in latin originally meant tail and only later got the sense of, uh. penis. so this is cicero complaining that nowadays all these hooligans are using the word "penis" for naughty purposes

[chthonicillness]

i wish i were rich because that way i could comtinue being Insane & Useless and it would be fine like not even a problem

[capacity]

Fan fic writers act like they’re a marginalized class and not tumblr search result terrorists

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[degrommunism]

I really do not think the average person understands how different the training resources and access are for a cis man playing sports vs everyone else. I wrote an article last month about how until 2020 they were given the Swedish women’s national hockey team expired protein bars for tournaments and only five practices leading up to it. More often than not people who aren’t cis able bodied men playing a sport do not have equipment properly fitted to them. Women’s teams do just straight up get less court or field or ice time. Coaches and trainers will refuse to train you on certain things because they just assume you cannot do something.

Idk. We have seen the athletic accomplishments of cis men come very far in the past century as they got more specialized training and the sports industry as a whole grew. Yet People still really think physical advancements and progression can only be done by cis men, and the the upper limit of what’s been recorded by everyone else is this permanent, unmovable thing. For a long time people thought it was impossible for a woman to do a triple axel until it happened.

[pastperfectcontinuous]

I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering The Craft

[hypnoticvamp]

[marciabrady]

“I had been led to believe, like anyone else, that it was simply pretty girls who traced and colored. As I got into it, I learned about the landmark work accomplished by these women. These women were artists in their own right; they were animating and moving color and we don’t talk about that. We focus on men wielding pencils, but there were women wielding pencils as well.” -Mindi Johnson

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up as the protagonist of This Anime. How fucked are you? https://wheelofnames.com/qef-dsg

You have become the protagonist of this anime!

How fucked are you?

this is amazing actually!

This is good!

Eh it's okay

BAD.

SO BAD IM SO FUCKED.

I'm not the one who's getting fucked ;)

Results/other

Voting ended on4h

[kitamars]

lalahposting!!!

[fluoresensitives]

Video was gorgeous by the way. So often westerners look at people outside the white sphere and go, "oh that's barbaric, these things are all unique and horrible evils, we would NEVER do that" but it's like. The women who bind their feet, who elongate their necks, who stretch their ears and wear lip plates, on and on, are no different from the women in modern waist trainers, plastic surgery, high heels and so on. The same desire, to be seen as beautiful, to be seen as deserving of care and protection, to secure themselves some sort position in the world that's forbidden to women who are "ugly", poor, "uncouth", the desire that's fostered by misogynistic notions of what women should and shouldn't be... It's amazing.

I had my own thoughts about foot binding, especially as this particularly malicious and sexist act, and while it was cruel and painful ... Was it any different than a mother pushing her daughter to bleach her skin? Or undereat or diet, or any of the things we do in the west to adhere to strict gendered standards? It's so true that we tend to think of people in the past as being dumber, but are they? I'm sure in the future people will be looking at our malnourished celebrities, the shaved and broken jawbones, the purely plastic faces, and wonder, "why the hell did they do such a thing? Why would they make women suffer like that?" Wow!

[knightofleo]

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Akira Yamaoka | Letter - From The Lost Days from Silent Hill 3 feat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

Hey there, to my future self, if you forget how to smile I have this to tell you; remember it once in a while Ten years ago, your past self prayed for your happiness Please don't lose hope

[the-quasar-hero]

You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.

[catmask]

crazy thang is whenever someone makes a post talkng about how xyz thing annoys them someone will always go 'oh so we're not even allowed to do [thing] anymore??' like no you literally can. that person just will not like you. if that is enough to stop you then its not that youre not allowed its that you are not capable of existing outside of the approval of others

[catmask]

why are you asking for permission. begging? are you a dog or a man

[butch-king-frankenstein]

Project Hail Mary is very representative to me of this exhausting contemporary literary trend where you can tell certain books are written for Boys because they completely eschew things like "character depth" and "complex plotting" and "artful prose" (frivolous, ephemeral, products of the humanities, feminine) in order to place all their focus on having Cohesive Worldbuilding (concrete, logical, product of STEM, masculine). The events are uninteresting and described in the most boilerplate manner imaginable but you sure can Believe Them. This is also how I feel about Brandon Sanderson and Dungeon Crawler Carl btw

[butch-king-frankenstein]

It reminds me of that phenomenon described in a more popular post on here, the Youtube channels run by/geared toward men whose videos are like "The SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN most EFFICIENT way to bake a cake"or whatever. Art is for girls, so men who want to be artists have to shield their masculinity by pretending to be scientists.