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he/they/it | 24 | firm believer in the liberating potential of being Just Some Guy. art and writing, but mostly reblogs. original creations can be found under #art tag. ko-fi | art blog

[dunkalfredo]

Hi there! This is a pinned post so that people know what's on this blog and how to navigate it and such.

I'm a plural something or other so the name tends to shift around. Don't worry about it. Collective he/they/it pronouns. I'm an artist sometimes and a bit of a nerd more of the time.

This is a personal blog. There's no real theme aside from just having stuff I find interesting, funny, or important. It mostly consists of reblogs, but I'll also post artwork occasionally as well.

Art, writing, and animations can be found under #art tag. See the section below ("Navigation") for other relevant tags and links.

I'm not a believer in the efficacy of DNI lists, but for the record, if you're a bigot or harassing people I will block you.

I'm terrible about tagging things nowadays but some relevant tags and links and things:

Important tags:

art tag: what it says on the tin

asks: what it says on the tin (again)

External links:

ao3

art blog

ko-fi

Misc:

human after all (fanfic, tag): modern/sci-fi in stars and time AU. Isabeau ends up working at Vaugarde's Area 51 as a scientist and finds Siffrin, a shapeshifter of unknown origins, trapped inside.

on tagging for triggers and content warnings: if there's a common trigger I don't tag that you would like me to tag, (politely) send me an ask and I'll tag it. bear in mind I'm inconsistent and kind of terrible about tagging stuff, but I'll do my best to remember

Alright that's all! Go forth and scroll! Or don't I'm not your mom lol

[creatingblackcharacters]

seeing people shouting out channels reminded me of TheStoryteller! He's a Black anarchist from the UK who talks about both Black and leftist issues through media(mostly The Boondocks). He's on a bit of a soft hiatus right now to focus on a community food project and developing a game I'm super looking forward to!https://youtube.com/@thestorytelleraj?si=L2uxVO5KzgCCd9y7

TheStoryteller

Yo, I'm Storyteller. I kinda just do what I want here. Don't expect anything, so you don't expect to be disappointed.

[kiwi]

[sparrowlucero]

tell me more about how steven universe has facade (2005) in its writing im intrigued

facade (which, for anyone who hasn't played it, is about a person walking in on an argument between two married friends and their attempts to mediate their quite broken relationship during a dinner with them) is noted as something that influenced the showrunner in a few interviews and I definitely think you could argue picks at similar things, specifically in how a lot of the drama of steven universe is structured around its main character having to get in between shitty and not necessarily solvable interpersonal arguments between people. it's also often a bit voyeuristic (for lack of a better term) in a similar way; one of SU's most oft criticized choices (and one which I personally like a lot) is that the show never breaks from steven's perspective, and as a result of that the show is peppered with scenes of him overhearing weighty private conversations between the adults around him, not unlike how a lot of facade plays out:

i think you could say one of the main artistic goals of the show is capturing the feeling of becoming cognizant of how your parents are also real people who are just as vindictive and scared and messy as you are and the way that can kind of mess with you; it's, imo, gesturing at similar things facade is going for but for the specific perspective of young teenagers

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sun-cheyne]

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

[snowriddenwolf]

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

[mechanicalriddle]

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

I will NEVER deactivate. and how DARE you

[nightmaretour]

I see a lot of posts around this time of year that talk about getting a mobility aid if you need one and that you aren't "not disabled enough" to get one if it'll help, which is true! But I don't see a lot about making sure you get the right mobility aid. You do need to do some research to make sure it's the correct one for your needs, because using the wrong one long term will hurt you. If you can see a specialist about it that's even better, but that's not accessible to everyone.

One thing I see a lot is people suggesting canes as a catch-all mobility aid for everyone who has mobility issues. Canes are not for weight bearing! If you use a cane for heavy weight bearing long term, you will hurt your wrists and back! Canes are for balance. There are also different types of canes, but someone else can probably explain those better than I can.

A crutch/pair of crutches is better for bearing weight, particularly forearm/support crutches if you're going to be using them a lot and don't want to strain your wrists, or platform crutches if you don't have a lot of arm strength.

Walkers/rollators are good for if you do have arm and hand strength and need a place to sit down or need to carry a lot with you, but very very bad if you can't weight bear well with your arms or pull the brakes easily. You will often need to be able to use your foot to maneuver it over a slight lip, too. If you can't do all of those things you will hurt yourself.

Wheelchairs are a whole lot more complicated and I don't feel qualified to speak on that (I've only ever used improperly fitted chairs, and have suffered permanent damage because of it).

Mobility scooters are great for going outside alone if you don't have the arm strength for a manual chair, as they can handle terrain that an motorised wheelchair often can't, but are harder to maneuver in small spaces (especially bulky class 3 scooters, which aren't designed for indoor use at all) and usually aren't suitable for full time use. If you need more support they most likely won't be suitable either, the seats are usually not designed with support for people who cannot hold themselves upright and generally do not have a seatbelt by default. I'm working on a proper guide for this and will hopefully post it soon!

There's also deconditioning to keep in mind, which is very important to think about if you aren't doing physiotherapy. You also need to consider things like pressure sores, which you will be especially prone to in seated mobility aids if you aren't able to reposition yourself regularly or have loss of sensation in or awareness of any part of your body.

Do your research! Don't just default to a cane!

[tarts-bitter]

[nickmpreg]

you don’t gotta tell me to boycott the Nintendo prices by not buying bc i don’t have the money to get them anyways

[nickmpreg]

‘guys don’t spend 600-700 dollars on the new nintendo products to send a message’ im way ahead of you man

[hadesisqueer]

"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing

[aquatofan]

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[hot-coco]

wholesome Kriselle slop

[copepods]

down, down, down

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

huge fan of kink blogs that highlight key words like this. honestly It always makes me think of ace attorney like. daddy may know what the murder weapon is

[literallymechanical]

I've been too busy to Post lately. I've got like twelve half-sentence drafts and I can feel my posting organ starting to wither. It's real rough.

[literallymechanical]

Check out this huge door, we all love huge doors right??

[cipheramnesia]

[throo]

Google’s removal of its search function is going great btw

(A reminder that if you have Firefox/ublock origin this won’t be a problem if you don’t wanna switch search engines to DuckDuckGo)