Xeno the Queer

✨minor✨ Very very autistic about horror audio dramas The birds are watching you https://en.pronouns.page/@Xeno15

[valtsv]

[so horny ive forgotten social codes] i'd like to do some butterfly taxidermy shit to them

[valtsv]

[keeperartwork]

Congrats to the Lord of Screens!

[deathflare]

iron lung was cool

[joemerl]

It's interesting that a lot of the complaints people have about Christopher Nolan's Odyssey movie, like the modern diversity and dialogue, are accepted features of Epic the Musical. The thing is, I can understand why they garner different reactions. Nolan promotes his movie as being as realistic as possible, but he actually has weird standards—the background music can't have an orchestra, because they didn't have those in ancient Greece, but for some reason there's going to be a rapping narrator or something. Meanwhile, Epic doesn't claim to be historically accurate, so the only excuse that Jay needs for giving Hermes an 80s Synthwave motif is "it fits him and it slaps."

Anyway, my concern now is that if the Epic animated movie actually happens, people who would have otherwise accepted an anachronistic Odyssey musical will recycle their complaints about a different movie that came out a few years before.

[felipeiv]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay on the suggestion of some folks in the replies I've gone back to finish the video. I don't object to any of the descriptions of animals being mistreated in many current methods of meat production! factory farming is very bad! people should be aware of how their food is produced, and as a meat eater I very much want the animals I eat to be treated humanely and with as much dignity as possible. however. I am also wondering why I was immediately subjected to a direct comparison between animals being killed for food and human women being sexually assaulted.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

damn okay went back to the video and they said that people pointing out that vegan arguments frequently veer into racism are the real racists because some Indigenous people are vegans... they fucking got me

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

necessary disclaimer I guess that 1.) I don't have anything against the practice of veganism and 2.) I don't have anything against these youtubers who I know nothing about save for this video. I think they're thoughtful and passionate and broadly have a lot of interesting things to say but maybe missed the mark with some parts of this essay.

I did watch through the specific refutation that I was advised to check out and I can't say that it really did anything to dispell my initial gripes with the argument that one cannot both care about and eat animals, and the entire section debunking myths about veganism did in fact come across as overly defensive and needlessly adding on to the runtime of a video that's already exceedingly long.

as mentioned in another reblog, I also find the defense of PETA and the claim that its bad reputation comes entirely from shady corporate lobbyists as opposed to their history of racist, misogynistic, and ableist as campaigns.

[xynczachrome]

feeding the cole nation with him being in my fanseason suit

[eggdoorart]

Some extra David doodles 🦇

Done with a Staples red ballpoint pen (my love) and a Uni Posca white paint marker (0.7mm bullet shaped) to clean up mistakes

[ratsquinks]

when your leggies don't work so great anymore gotta commit to sitting silly style

[evilnicegirl]

this would have got 100k notes as a tumblr post in 2018

[pris-cas]

Lesson #22 spit

Full idea credit goes to @the-asexual-winter

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Thank you to my splendid beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@stelosia

[catrabbasso]

THATS OUR MAN!!!!!!!!!

[taumoebros]

something at first sight~

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[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[foxglovedforest]

The kids are aight

[heckyeahponyscans]

one of my coworkers just warned another that if he didn't see Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" right away he'd be "spoiled for sure", which really tickled me considering the story has been around since Ancient Greece

[artist-owl]

So I ofc adore all of the art and fics about Grocky exploring each other’s bodies in the name of science while road tripping to Erid. That said, one thing that’s always in the back of my mind is that Rocky is an engineer, not a scientist. I feel like while he is extremely curious, he’s more likely to want to know just enough to know how something works, and then once he's reached that point he wants to move onto something new. Adrian, however, I do hc as a scientist, specifically a biologist (specifically specifically an ecologist but still).

What I'm saying is that I think Rocky learned exactly enough about Grace’s digestive system to understand how to keep Grace healthy and not a whit more (ew eating gross gross gross) and then one day he walks into Grace’s house in the biodome and Adrian has their claws fully in Grace’s mouth