Normal Guy With Abnormal Stuff To Say

I have art commissions: https://ko-fi.com/elinorafroach I love my beautiful girlfriend

[elinora-froach]

Average normal guy with abnormal stuff to say. I make horror and non horror art. commissions open I do not believe in "good" or "bad" people. I attempt to stay humanitarian in all of my views but feel free to call me out about anything (open to discussion) I'm a proponent of socialist and communist theory and I am currently researching critical psychiatry, any resources or discussions on these would be appreciated. fandoms I am currently in: - Hollow Knight + Silksong - House of Leaves - Silent Hill - the X-files - deltarune - lowkey breaking bad and better call saul - Warrior Cats (kinda sorta) I have commissions on kofi! https://ko-fi.com/elinorafroach or click here you can search "my art" or "artists on tumblr" on my blog to see my art

Seriously Commission Me

please

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[yurucamp]

highway angel

[crabussy]

hi trans kiwis and friends. if you haven't seen the news, they're trying to pass a frankly insidious bill in aotearoa to define the terms 'man' and 'woman' based on biological sex. this unsurprisingly reflects a lot of similar cruel efforts happening overseas at the moment. IT HASN'T PASSED YET, but I figured I should speak up about it because this is happening as we speak.

(screenshot from the linked RNZ article)

it seems very fucking bleak!!!! please don't lose hope! it hasn't passed yet and a lot of the shoddy bills suggested by the coalition have been shot down already. it's still worth knowing about. you don't have to share this post if you don't want to. I just know that a lot of my followers are kiwi. if there are any updates as to what we can do to push back against this, I'll make a relevant addition. kia kaha, okay? love you all.

[crabussy]

UPDATE: you can now very quickly and very easily submit a comment on the bill! these will be counted and considered in parliament.

it took me less than three minutes, and that's only because I wrote a whole paragraphs on why this is a stupid idea. all you really need to put is "don't pass this bill" if you want. it'll only take 30 seconds.

if you're able to and you want to, please consider reblogging! the more reach this gets, the better. thank you all so much [:

[unteriors]

Rankin Street, Branchland, West Virginia.

[elinora-froach]

was so enamoured by this that I drew my sona in it

[creatingblackcharacters]

Genuinely curious: How does one tell the difference between blaccent as paying homage with a stylistic choice vs. Black appropriation? Thanks in advance for any clarification!

Well first, saying "blaccent" is derogatory. I was not being kind when I said they were performing the song in blaccent. Using a blaccent- pretending to speak AAVE or in a "Black" way in a way you usually don't in order to gain popularity and spice in your delivery- is always going to be appropriation.

If you can turn that accent off when it's time to "be respectable" or talk to "normal people", you're just putting on my literal voice as a costume. If you think hearing a Black person speak AAVE is classless, stupid, less intelligent, or somehow tougher, but enjoy it when it's coming out of the mouth of someone nonblack, it will always be appropriation and disrespectful.

The only way you're going to show you're "paying homage" is by the REST of your behavior being respectful. Antiracism is constant behavior, not just one act on a checklist. Are there Black musicians you've openly cited inspiration from? Are there Black people credited in your music or videos? Are there even any Black people of importance in your life or in your circle? Do you even know any Black people? Have you ever featured a Black artist and supported them openly, not just for diversity clicks?

Or are you just benefitting from putting on my voice and my art while distancing yourself from Black people as a whole? Are you benefitting from using the way I speak to make money and fame, while I have to code switch in certain environments because using my dialect is seen as unprofessional?

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[sheherlockholmes]

[inkandguns]

[nerves-nebula]

over hearing kids in the classroom: ... yeah and she's trans and gay

other kid: she's trans and gay?! *briefly jumps out of chair with arms in the air* YAY!

[stillnaomi]

Bolivians are 4 weeks into a general strike which has seen them shut down highways across the country, with union members manning the barricades. And now workers have seized control of an oil field in Santa Cruz, shutting down production. if you're wondering why 24 hour strikes and week long consumer boycotts don't achieve anything, it's because they don't put any actual pressure on capital. the Bolivians are showing us how to inflict sustained losses on business. it's still a long way from taking political control out of the hands of capitalists and putting into the workers, but it's how you actually operate if you want to win concessions. in fact, their state has already offered concessions but the workers and peasants are demanding more

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[elinora-froach]

my biggest question when it comes to this issue is how we change it. I've considered it a lot, would it require women to make the choice to stop shaving entirely to create a push to change societal expectations? Or would it come from shifting the idea of what a shaved person acts like? It's not that this isn't an issue, it obviously is, but it has no follow up, do women who do confirm to beauty standards have a moral obligation to stop doing that to advance the feminist cause? Etc etc

[mousidy]

gender has been severely shrunken down into the domain of language, and I think it's been a serious mistake to prioritize language over all other facets of what gender is and can be

women can have penises and men can have vaginas, and it's great that we understand that, but we've done little in the way of challenging what these body parts mean, what types of people they're attached to, what those people's personalities are like, how dangerous or not dangerous they are, how they think and behave

we may have a little more wiggle room to label ourselves and our bodies now, but in many other ways we are right back where we started, with "amab" and "afab" swapped in for "man" and "woman." saying "women can have penises too!" is really not very progressive at all if you still think her penis makes her dangerous, if you still think it determines her personality and behavior and thoughts

[pupaphase]

gosari_draw

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

Following my own advice and choosing to focus on AI’s police and military applications as well its discriminatory hiring uses.

[person918x]

[unchildhood]

MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI

House of Leaves (2000);

photos by George Ngayu, or @monstertalent