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I'm Ben (or Dumbass). Among other things, I write and post it on the internet. I usually post fanworks, but I do plan on posting original works at some point. I like comics of varying quality.

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#intro post

classic-jamie

Oh also! Both for pride and because I want to post more of my original stuff here, here's a zine I made for my recent screenprinting class! :p It's called Masculine Women and it's about being masculine and a woman! Fun fact, also, when you unfold the real thing, there's a big poster on the back! It looks like this:

#seconding the 'why is it normal to change so much of yourself to be seen as a woman?'#before coming out i got praised for 'not conforming' to society by... not shaving my body and not wearing makeup #genuinely pisses me off that the bar for 'being gnc' is not changing your natural appearance

charaznablescanontoyota

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening

ryannorth

much to consider

hthrrloooo

Catastrophize Benedictine

#Scared cake

hydrattan

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

Schocking: friend whose twitter account got banned is now active on tumblr

#ben.txt #hiii marshall #I see your reblogging shit for the first time in forever

thedouble

“Freedom always has a price.”

― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

pinkarsonist0

The Delaneys!!

They're meant to be a play on the trope of a mean girl group who all have the same name (ex. The Debbies, the Heathers) All their names are Delaney, the names above are their last names.

Run down on their characters:

Barlow: Barlow is the leader of the Delaneys and was the one to form the group. She adores the other Delaneys (but don't adore her.) She's considered popular and at the top of the social hierarchy. But no one actually likes her, they just know if you upset her then she'll make your life a living hell. She has a boyfriend whose an athele (haven't described what sport) but he doesn't actually like her, he cheats on her with various girls. So he's only with her because of popularity and stuff. This is an open secret within the school, no one has told her because they think Barlow deserves to be cheated on.

Fun fact: Barlow isn't a real blonde, her hair is bleached blonde. Her real hair color is either red or light brown.

Winter: A star rugby player at her secondary school and the second member of the Delaneys. She's doesn't actually hate or dislike Barlow, but isn't very close to her. She prefers Rabbit waayyyy more anyways (she may have a crush on her.) Winter is also the classic mean girl, but unlike Barlow, Winter knows she's mean but doesn't care to change. People consider her the "prettiest" Delaney and prefer her (pretty privilege) over Barlow despite her meanness towards people.

Fun fact: She is bisexual with a female preference.

Rabbit: shoutout to my friend @dumbass-404 for gifting me her. Rabbit is the most recent Delaney, having joined the group a few days after joining the secondary school they attend now because her name is Delaney as well. Rabbit only agreed to join the Delaneys because she wanted a shortcut to the top of the social hierarchy. Rabbit feels great apathy towards Barlow and finds her annoying. She's often called "Bunny Rabbit" by Barlow, Rabbit find it demeaning.The only thing that's making Rabbit stick around is how much Barlow benefits her and Delaney Winter (whose she may have a crush on)Rabbit dreams of becoming a famous kalimba player, and if she thinks you might get in the way of that, she was will not just greatly dislike you but use Barlow and Winter to sabotage you.

Fun fact: Rabbit is omnisexual and may be genderqueer.

cuunos

have you ever had lice?

yes, several times

yes, only once

no

nuance

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

#I have stupid thick hair so when I got lice my mom had to use a lice comb to get it out #It was fun because I could play Minecraft on my iPad while she did it (on a weekday!)#Peak childhood memory

footlongdingledong

thing thats good: yay

thing thats bad: aww

thing that has both genuinely amazing pieces of storytelling and abysmal dogshit slop both happening like entirely interchangably:

indeedgoodman

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent