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chandler/candle/talon • he/him

[dulledtalons]

welcome to my blog!!!

disclaimers!

heavier topics such as real-world death, extreme violence, slurs, etc. will be tagged as “tw (topic name)” but i’m no longer using a catch-all tag for such posts.

i tag image descriptions for my own posts only. normally they are tagged with #image description in alt, undescribed images are tagged with #undescribed. if you have critiques on how to write image descriptions, i’d love to hear!

about me!!

i’m chandler or talon, 18yo. i use he/him and consider myself a binary trans man. i’m singaporean and chinese-dayak — if you’re singaporean too, feel free to say hi!!!

you can check here for my more specific orientations and preferred titles.

fandoms and interests!!

interest of the now: silent hill series

my perennial interests are nine sols, maimai, birds, and my OCs (i mostly draw OC art). other fandoms i dip into are pokémon, vocaloid/vocal synths, and mouthwashing.

links you should check out!!

birds in sekai – identifying birds in project sekai cards!

huxley thoughts – list of various rants on the huxley twins from the kindergarten series

my art – all the art i’ve done, both original and fandom art!

oc art – my art of my OCs and my friends’ OCs!!

🚧 tag list – my comprehensive tag list!! still working on this, check back later

other places to find me!!

toyhou.se – read more about my funny characters

artfight – read about my funny characters AND see cool arts!

backloggd – check what games i’ve played and reviewed!

neocities – my website where i will eventually put fun things

thanks for stopping by!!!

[optical-trapping]

[farahhaboub]

Can you donate to save my elderly parents ?

Yes , I can

No , I can’t

Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours

Deadline 12 June

Subject: Collecting the money to buy the medicine to my elderly parents

Current process:

USD 16,145 / $17,065

Vatted by @90-ghost

Vatted by @sar-soor

Vatted by @fairuzfan

Donate to Gaza Family Left With Nothing Help Them Start Again, organized by Rania A

In the heart of Gaza, a family of four clings to survival in the shadow of… Rania A needs your support for Gaza Family Left With Nothing Hel

My heart is breaking. We still need $920 to buy the medications that keep my mother and father alive. They are elderly, sick, and depend on these medicines every day. I try to stay strong in front of them, but inside I am terrified. I cannot bear the thought of watching their health decline simply because we cannot afford the treatment they need.💔

I keep staring at the remaining amount and wondering how I can save them. Yet if only 37 people donated $25 each, we could reach our goal. For many, $25 may be a small expense, but for my parents it could mean receiving the medicine that helps them continue their fight against illness.

Please, I am begging you, do not scroll past our plea. Imagine your mother or father needing medication and you being unable to provide it. Imagine watching them grow weaker while feeling completely helpless. That is the reality I am living every day.😔

Every donation, no matter how small, brings hope to my family. Please help us protect my parents and give them a chance to continue their treatment. We are desperately holding on, praying that compassionate people will hear our cry and stand beside us in this difficult moment.🙏💔😔

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[farah-family2]

Please donate whatever you can and share the post 🙏

[tricky-bastard-pokemon]

ok so

everyone knows about this meme, right?

but does anyone else know the woman who made the food? no? time to educate!

This is “Mother Mary”, the owner of Blackberry’s mother.

She made all the cakes for the restaurant while it was open. Chef Gordon Ramsay tried her red velvet cake, and spoke this meme-able line:

He then called Mary over, complimented her food, and gave her a peck on the cheek.

Look how happy she was to hear that!!!

anyways, I hope she has been able to continue her love for baking since the restaurant closed down.

[tasmanianstripes]

For these who don’t know: The restaurant she worked at closed down but she left before that and opened her own bakery, that’s apparently very successful!

She has a youtube channel where she shares recipes and cooking advice!

[the-based-brit]

[dulledtalons]

my favourite text body font is Roboto. it just seems so sturdy and put-together without being bulky or pretentious. i love Roboto

[dulledtalons]

switch to ddocs.new or ellipsus for your writing now

[smsomah]

Cormorant fishing in Yangshuo near Guilin, Guangxi, China. Christian Vaisse

Cormorant fishing is an old tradition in which fishermen use trained cormorants to catch fish.

[cloudofbutterflies]

Eryka Caldwell is a back trans woman who was murdered by her partner in her apartment last Sunday, and the story is getting a fraction of the attention that the murder of Juniper Blessing did. The police had already been called several times about her partners violence before her murder and did nothing, and she deserves the same outrage and mourning as Juniper got, and every one of our murdered trans siblings deserves. Trans women of color are more likely to be the victims of murder than any other group of queer people, and they need our solidarity, protection and support.

Trans Woman Eryka Caldwell Fatally Stabbed in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Caldwell’s boyfriend, 38-year-old Jonathan Fernandez, has been charged with murder.

[cloudofbutterflies]

Her family has a gofundme, please donate to them if you can so that they can transport her back home for her funeral.

Donate to Bringing Eryka Home for a Loving Farewell, organized by Loretta Worthy

My family is asking for help in the unexpected loss of my cousin, Eryka Caldw… Loretta Worthy needs your support for Bringing Eryka Home for

[meta-commentary]

Oh boy, Glitch's done it again.

so these screenshots of Glassdoor reviews from Glitch employees have been making the rounds on Twitter recently. now i personally cannot confirm or deny the truth of the allegations told in these screenshots, but i do know this: Glassdoor is a website where employees can review the working conditions they face at the company they're employed at. it's a well-known fact that Glassdoor doesn't allow just anyone to post a review there unverified; they have to show ample proof that they actually were employed at the company they say they were. so, we can operate under the assumption that these reviews are, most likely, more or less a legitimate look into Glitch Production's inner workings. however, if i'm wrong, please let me know. tl;dr: these reviews essentially state that Glitch treats its female employees like shit (what a surprise), sets ridiculously unrealistic expectations for its workers, resorts to intimidation and threats on multiple occasions, and even coerces workers to write false good reviews to boost their Glassdoor ratings (among other horrible shit). and Boy, am i not surprised but still somehow disappointed. honestly, i didn't think my respect for glitch could sink any lower, but here we are, i guess. apparently this is the same company that's going to be "paving the way for a new generation of indie artists" or whatever. more like falling back on the very same underpaying, overworking, greedy, toxic abusive bullshit that's been plaguing the animation and entertainment industries for decades now. great work guys, thanks! you're a stain on our history and the future of animation is even deeper in the pits than it ever was. we're one step back from ever redefining and reworking the rampant malpractice, mistreatment and dehumanization going on behind closed doors. link to Glitch's Glassdoor page: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Glitch-Productions-Reviews-E8656356.htm Link to twitter posts with screenshots and summaries: https://x.com/lumirunner/status/2057519161648333178 https://x.com/lumirunner/status/2057800789977174404

[segamascott]

[komsomolka]

and sydney sweeney

[dulledtalons]

someone ask him where do they make the apple phones

[castlevaniadlc]

19-Year-Old Transgender University of Washington Student Fatally Stabbed

The suspect remains at large.

i'm not really seeing anyone on here talking about it unfortunately, but a 19 year old trans woman was recently (may 10th 2026) stabbed to death in seattle. she has not been publicly identified by name yet.

please read the article: anyone with information should call 206-233-5000 & you can tip anonymously.

she was just doing her laundry.

[volfoss]

[ID: Text that reads "Police are asking anyone with information about the University of Washington case to call the Violent Crimes Tip Line at 206-233-5000, emphasizing that anonymous tips are accepted. This story has been updated with comment from the University of Washington. This story is still developing". /End ID]

[castlevaniadlc]

actually hold on i have more info that id really like the people who rbed this to see

the university of washington is inviting a detransitioner from TPUSA (chloe cole) to speak at an event barely even days after this young woman was murdered on campus. walk-outs and protests are planned.

more information can be found here, apologies for the lack of description on the images. (i'd appreciate it if someone with the time & spoons could describe them for me)

Students Call Out UW for Hosting Turning Point USA Event Days After Killing of Trans Student

“A trans student was murdered last night, please cancel this event.”

this was already horrible but the university is very much complicit.

[temperedknight]

For a fine point of clarity: UW has not invited Chloe Cole, the UW branch of TPUSA did that, and this event has been planned for a while. UW allowing hate groups like TPUSA to operate on campus is absolutely reprehensible, but it is not unique to UW. I guarantee they will cover their asses with some BS about "freedom of speech" etc. as for why they won't cancel TPUSA's event, that's the loophole the org exploits everywhere. Focus your outcry to the UW admin specifically on addressing why they allow TPUSA to operate as a hate group, and if you're in Seattle tomorrow, attend the protest outside Kane Hall at 6pm tomorrow, 5/13.

[gaster]

Suspect arrested in connection with slaying of transgender University of Washington student

The 31-year-old man surrendered to police in nearby Bellevue before he was transferred to the custody of Seattle homicide detectives.

the suspect turned themself in to police custody

[autogynophelia]

A lot of transphobia has this underlying assumption that people who transition are a random sample from their AGAB. Like, if you imagine a world where you took all the 10-year-old "boys" in your country and randomly selected 1% of them to go on to transition later in life, then that world would be essentially the same as this one.

And that assumption is useful to transphobes because it means they can uncritically extend properties of the AGAB group to the subset who transitions. E.g. they will say AMAB kids are likely to have behaved like X or experienced Y in their youth, therefore trans women are likely to have behaved like X or experienced Y in their youth. And they can say this without ever checking if it's true about trans women, because if everyone knows it's true of cis boys, they will assume that extension to trans women.

But like, if you took down the details of every 30-year-old trans woman right now, then went back in time 20 years, and studied that group of 10-year-olds, you would find they already had properties that differed from the 10-year-old-AMAB average in 2006. Perhaps they would be a little quieter, perhaps they would have a couple more female friends, perhaps they'd have fewer friends in general, perhaps they would have more anxiety, perhaps they would have more depression. Perhaps none of these and something else, idk.

But, the point is, people don't just decide to transition *at random*, there is a whole history of life experience in each trans girl leading up to that realisation "I am trans" and that decision "I should do something about it", and that common history of all these kids would be reflected in some group average differences from the AGAB cohort even long before that realisation took place.

And this is what makes "male socialisation" rhetoric so frustrating. Because the very fact of having all the life history that led up to your realisation that you were trans, the life history that *caused* that realisation, that very history marks you as someone with an atypical social experience compared to your AGAB average.

Literally if you had to select the 1% of AMAB people *least* likely to have had a typical "male socialisation", it would be the ones who come out of that experience thinking "you know what, I'm actually a different gender to all these men". And yet it's trans women who are tarred with the brush of "male socialisation" more than any other group.

[castlevaniadlc]

19-Year-Old Transgender University of Washington Student Fatally Stabbed

The suspect remains at large.

i'm not really seeing anyone on here talking about it unfortunately, but a 19 year old trans woman was recently (may 10th 2026) stabbed to death in seattle. she has not been publicly identified by name yet.

please read the article: anyone with information should call 206-233-5000 & you can tip anonymously.

she was just doing her laundry.

[volfoss]

[ID: Text that reads "Police are asking anyone with information about the University of Washington case to call the Violent Crimes Tip Line at 206-233-5000, emphasizing that anonymous tips are accepted. This story has been updated with comment from the University of Washington. This story is still developing". /End ID]

[castlevaniadlc]

actually hold on i have more info that id really like the people who rbed this to see

the university of washington is inviting a detransitioner from TPUSA (chloe cole) to speak at an event barely even days after this young woman was murdered on campus. walk-outs and protests are planned.

more information can be found here, apologies for the lack of description on the images. (i'd appreciate it if someone with the time & spoons could describe them for me)

Students Call Out UW for Hosting Turning Point USA Event Days After Killing of Trans Student

“A trans student was murdered last night, please cancel this event.”

this was already horrible but the university is very much complicit.

[sewickedthread]

ID: Poster with upper right corner TPUSA with a W under it "Pick up the Mic Initiative with Chloe Cole" & picture of dark-haired white woman Hosted at the University of Washington, 5/13 6-8 pm, Kane 210 *No bag policy* RSVP via QR code /end ID

Poster: Seattle Central Walkout (building is seen behind text) Wednesday May 13 @ 11 am UW is allowing an anti trans event on campus The day after a 19 transgender woman was murdered in a hate crime tell a friend, show student solidarity /end ID

Poster: May 13 Protest against TPUSA University of Washington Kane Hall from 6-8 pm Bring Flags, drums, noisemakers, kazoos! (with Palestine flag) /end ID

[boyscoundrel]

-Turning Point has successfully been deterred. They have cancelled their event. Ofc, they are making themselves the victims of the situation, lamenting about “their safety.”

-The suspect, a cis man, is still at large and his identity is still unknown

[the-broken-pen]

This isn’t my normal content, but this is my school and my classmate, and she deserved better. I’m really, really happy that student protesting was able to cancel the TPUSA speakers. Most importantly, though: they’ve released photos of the suspect, and it would be so, so helpful if you could pass them along in hopes of identifying him, and bringing her justice. I’ll put them below the read more, and you can find them on spdblotter.seattle.gov as well.

[hyenaswine]

Horror Around the World (with watch links!)

I'm trying to watch a horror film from every country that's made one. I've broken down the countries by continent to make things easier for

this has been my Special Project for the past few months & i've decided to turn it into a letterboxd list to help other people who might want to attempt a similar challenge. one thing that's been really frustrating when trying to find more obscure movies is when people leave reviews but don't offer any leads on how to track down the film. so i made sure to include as many watch links as possible for movies i found on free non-subscription sites like youtube, vimeo, tubi, plex, etc. i'm going to keep updating this list & prioritize switching out unavailable movies for films that are accessible to stream for free, whenever possible. if a country isn't included on this list, it simply hasn't made a horror movie yet (according to letterboxd's data which is sourced from tmdb).

[hyenaswine]

here are some highlights from my journey so far that i recommend! all of these have less than 1,000 member views on letterboxd. the titles link to where you can watch the films for free.

Imajuik (2022), 18min, Greenland - after the apocalypse, the last person in nuuk finds out she's not alone. very spooky, made me tense!!

Asema (2023), 35min, Suriname - while visiting his grandma for the summer, deon & his friend jimmy try to catch a vampire. fun & light-hearted but spooky at the right moments. the kids had great comedic timing.

Kindil (2016), 40min, Algeria - during a trip to the beach without her husband, a young mother is drowned by a group of men - but the violence of her death transforms her into something else. i wish this one was feature length, but it's beautiful & haunting as it is.

Guilt (2014), 29min, Faroe Islands - a nurse caring for an elderly woman finds herself haunted by ghosts from her past. really atmospheric little short that's both classic & just a bit fucked up at the same time.

The Witch with Flying Head (1982), 92min, Taiwan - it's about a witch with flying head. what else do you want from me.

[rui-cifer]

I don't even like Uma Musume. I just hate that any time an East Asian mobile game with microtransaction gets big, so many people are suddenly gambling awareness experts when the same standards aren't applied to Overwatch or Team Fortress 2 or whatever, especially coming from a country with an unexamined gambling normalization that had nothing to do with gachagaming.

[rui-cifer]

People who have no problem referencing Halo or Overwatch without making a thousand disclaimers about how the military-industrial complex or lootboxes are evil suddenly rise up to remind everyone that lootboxes are gambling! Did you know that? Well should I be doing this every time people make Winston or Junkrat or the Blizzard Wheel of Diversity joke or whatever? Every time someone talks about MTG, should I remind them that even buying singles supports a manipulative pack-opening economy? There's an absolute double standard here on what's acceptable for getting big here when it comes to Eastern vs Western titles without someone deciding to do a moral crusade about it, and pointing this out and telling people to fix their own homes first absolutely needs to be said.

[dulledtalons]

people are also starting to use “lowkey” like nobody’s business, the way people started using “literally” so wrongly and so often that suddenly it became dictionary-approved that something that “literally” happened did not actually, factually, tangibly happen. like “lowkey” is turning into an auxiliary crutch word where the thing being described is not even lowkey anymore, it’s simply there and you are using lowkey because you are insecure about your own words and unconfident in your own assertions