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🏳️‍🌈 MY PRIDE LIST IS COMPLETE! 🏳️‍🌈

i am so happy i managed to get it all done, thank you guys for your suggestions and words of encouragment, and yay to the creators for their canonically queer characters!

you can view the separate arts by browsing this tag!

and if you wanna support a queer artist and view all of these in their bigger, original size, you can buy them on itch!

💕 happy pride month! 💕

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Quote of the day

baffledtreesquid

I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

memewhore

thesaltofcarthage

no matter what you’re anticipating, it will not be what you think it will be.

aniseandspearmint

Me: a little goat? Why would a little goat be surpi- oh. OH. Yeah okay i wasn’t expecting that.

depsidase

ivan-fyodorovich-k

I know this sounds like the deranged ramblings of a senile old man but I swear it used to be possible to look up information on the internet

lilou-the-world-builder

onemillionwordsofcrap

^^^

tloaak

much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

atalana

this is on my blog at least 5 times already but i had to reblog it again, because i was catching up on local news from this morning (mostly following the hīkoi which i sadly couldn't attend bc disability)

and maipi-clarke (the girl starting the haka) spoke briefly on this going viral

she confirmed that the haka in protest was planned, but it wasn't supposed to be her that started it, it was supposed to be the much older and more experienced rawiri waititi (known perhaps most recently for declaring māori independence in response to the new government)

but instead they handed the bill to her. and this is speculation on my part, but given how our current right wing government has been pulling out a lot of dirty tricks lately to avoid māori protests, i wouldn't be surprised if they gave it to the youngest member of parliament (she's only 22), because they figured she would be the least likely to be brave and step up

so i just wanna congratulate her again for sticking to it, they tried to use her inexperience to shut her up and she just went okay, i'm leading this now, and good for her

alascene

highonlife22-deactivated2026021

I literally have this exact thought multiple times every day when i talk to anyone i know. and theyre always watching a new show im like wtf even is that ive never watched a tv show in my life

regina-bithyniae

alex51324

In a totalitarian state, anything you can find to do that is neither forbidden nor compulsory is an act of liberation.

In a totalitarian state, wasting the authorities time and resources is a positive good.

My fellow Americans, act accordingly.

ehnoshima

really needed to draw this so bad thank you @chongoblog

depsidase

thingstrumperssay

Women are getting rid of their Trump supporting partners while they still legally can since they clearly don't give a shit about them or any other woman.

If you're thinking about getting a divorce, you should do it while you still can.