I'm here, I'm queer and I'm angry

They/them, "old". My genes are just real fucked up. Feel free to ask about tagging politely.

[helenvaughans]

[quasi-normalcy]

No source, but with your help, we can make this true.

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[a-very-cute-snake]

[jeypawlik]

Might I recommend RSS then?~

There's so many readers out there you can try out (I like Feedbro and Ukagaka Ghosts)

I've got a bunch of comics, a video panel and a written version of said panel you can check out:

Art by Jey Pawlik

Ooop, maybe I should reblog my RSS comic again with my talk on RSS addition. Y'know. Just in case. Oops I dropped my art blog that I update

Art by Jey Pawlik

Did you know the wonderful Filthy Figments commissioned me to draw a NEW RSS COMIC?! Go check it out and get an updated look on RSS from me

RSS & You

Back in May for the Cartoonist Coop's Nib and Ink Fest, I did a pretty in-depth talk on RSS. You can still watch the talk here on youtube, b

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[zaibacker]

Hi everyone!

TL;DR: I’d love your thoughts and feedback on a TTRPG tool.

My partner and I have been running a two-player campaign for years. Since having kids, finding time to play has become increasingly difficult; we manage to make progress in stolen moments, like at the kitchen table or between bath time and snack time. We play in the Dragon Age setting but use rules cobbled together from various books. We mostly play theater of the mind style, using dice apps on our phones (otherwise, our youngest tries to eat the physical dice...). We used to manage everything via Google Drive and Chrome’s built-in dice roller, but that setup stopped working for us.

I tried WorldAnvil but found it too clunky and ill-suited to our needs. So, my partner (a developer) built a tool to help me with world-building (I wanted to create a wiki since I’ve completely overhauled the original setting, though that’s a story for another time). I needed a timeline with specific features (I’m dyscalculic), and the tool gradually evolved to meet our needs.

My partner wondered if other players and DMs might be interested in it. Since he's not on tumblr, I suggested posting about it here to see if the tool resonates with anyone else. Please feel free to share your feedback, he’d really appreciate it! :)

https://loreloom.fr/

Have a great day, everyone!

PS: English isn't our first language; if there are any errors, I apologize and will make corrections. :)

[status-quo-hater]

Guys, PSA, Misfits Market recectly added an AI feature that adds random shit to your cart based on your past purchases.

With the way misfits works, once your shopping window has closed it checks out, charges you, and delivers anything that was in your cart.

So this AI update means that the app will effectively just buy shit automatically, without your knowledge, without you ever opening the app!!!!!!!! I do not want AI using my credit card man fuck this

I had this app downloaded for whenever my car was out of commission and I needed stuff from anywhere too far to bike to. I used it once every couple months. And then I noticed it stole 43 fucking dollars from me and bought a bunch of shit I never even put in my cart and got it delivered to a house I don't even live in anymore 🙃 no I can't dispute the charge

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you are now a cat in the warrior cats universe! Spin these wheels for your name!

Do you like it?

YES!!!

yes

eh it's okay

no.

IM MOON MOON

results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 18 hours

note: I (the owner of this blog and maker of wheels) am not into warrior cats! I just thought this would be fun to make

(prefixes and suffixes from @yarrowleef)

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

I DON'T WANNA BE DEAD WOLF

[rowecommaadam]

Howard V. Brown (1878-1945), "The Model Workers"

[70sscifiart]

Brown was a really cool 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine artist. This one isn’t sci-fi, but it still might be my favorite work of his! Which is an odd thing to find myself saying, given that — as longtime readers may have noticed over the 13 years I’ve run this blog — I really like sci-fi art.

[museum-of-artifacts]

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days

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[a-bit-obsessively]

It's in my town!

The whale is opened on election day because election in swedish is val, and whale is ... val.

It's also open on Walpurgis night, because that is called Valborg in swedish...

There is also a persistent rumor that there used to be a café inside of the whale, but there never were.

[bitchfitch]

Finding out Ride Or Die isn't about a woman discovering her wife is an assassin and is instead just about best friends going on the run bc one of them is an assassin is. Like I'm probably going to like it if I ever watch it. But it looked so yuriful in all the trailers..... Why is she kissing that man get him out of here.

[bitchfitch]

like. A mutual was on a gif reblog spree and I was so excited bc I hadn't realized the show was already out ok.. And im seeing these gifs of these two ladies being sweet with each other in between ones of the assassin being awesome and hot and badass.... and then there's some with this Guy and I go "Neat! LGBT solidarity - why is she macking on him. Is this a plot about her and her wife's relationship faultering or something let me google this - it's not. That's not her wife."

[bitchfitch]

Literally Look At This. This should be a lesbian romcom.

I know they say best friends but then there's a 20 year cut to them drinking wine, dancing in their home, and attending book club together. Like. Am I Insane

[drchucktingle]

i am often asked 'chuck how did you write POUNDED IN THE BUTT BY MY HUGO AWARD LOSS so quickly?' after ten years i am finally ready to reveal the secret of my speed: you write both

[plaguedocboi]

Since that post has already somehow been misinterpreted as me just not liking intricate worldbuilding, let me clarify that what makes writing good always comes down to intent. If your intent is just to do worldbuilding and explore a fictional setting, you can 100% do that! That is a genre that exists, and I really like it! Wayne Barlow’s Expedition is a prime example. You can even blend this type of book with more traditional linear narratives if you want. You can make whatever kind of story you please.

But if you’re only doing extensive worldbuilding because you’re worried people on the internet will criticize your fantasy world’s map for having unrealistic geography, or because you feel the need to justify why your Medieval peasant character can afford to go on a quest, you don’t have to do that. Just accept that you can’t please everyone and tell the story you wanted to tell.

[physiqueandfantasy]

Congratulations card

made by me!

soon to be available as a greeting card

[nkogneatho]

telecom service providers in india are getting orders from government to shutdown our internet. they might also mass delete the posts and videos online. i know this is not the content you followed me for but please raise voice for the people in india if you can. if you find any posts about the brutality that the police inflicted upon protesters, people seeking legal or medical attention, people needing donation for sanitary pads, food, water, masks, etc. on twitter or instagram, please share it. it's my humble request. this is our last day. they're applying emergency alerts and new rules from tomorrow but today we are standing here in rain raising our voices and we will continue to do so.

[sickest-saddest-worldliest]

Censorship Tracker: Live list after New Delhi protests

Indian authorities block and restrict online content documenting police violence at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar protests.

[dduane]

Meanwhile, via Bluesky...

[rogue-ai-cat]

And here is the resulting image. There is at least Someone in the U.K. government who is actually doing their job, and it is Chief Mouser to the Cabinet, Larry the Cat.

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[foxglovedforest]

The kids are aight

[genderkoolaid]

was in goodwill men's clothing section earlier today and reflecting on how i feel like i flunked out of Normal Trans Guy School as a teenager in that i never wanted to use the boy's bathroom or locker room because the idea of being a very small very GNC very obviously trans guy after already being weird amongst girls seemed like hell, and while i had some men's clothing in general i found a lot of my options in that section extremely boring and didn't feel right on multiple levels.

it was just a kind of strange experience. having been out as queer since i was in 5th grade i had the experience of growing up as an out queer/trans kid, but not in a congruent "i was a girl but now i'm a boy!" kinda way. i did not do Being A Girl Well at all, not even in the aspects (like makeup) where i did genuinely try. it was very clear i would also not do Being A Boy well either. at the same time i did want gender recognition, as an androgyne (even though i was really struggling with my gender because of all the exorsexist shit i was seeing in online queer spaces around "contradictory" and "MOGAI hell" identities, which were the only ones that actually captured what its like being an androgyne) i did feel like a boy and a girl in certain ways. but not ones that were reflected back to me as socially meaningful or real.

this is just some rambling to share this experience with others, but i guess the core of this is that being nonbinary/genderqueer/gnc is a very strange experience and even within trans contexts it felt like i was doing something wrong you know? like you are a jagged piece of glass that fucks up the whole mosaic no matter where you try to squeeze yourself. there's a reason i consider myself transmasc and transfem & i feel like a lot of people who defend afab transfems/amab transmascs focus exclusively on being intersex as a reason people can feel that way, but people always seem to underestimate the experience of being nb/gq/gnc and truly being like. well i can't be the gender people expect me to be right because i can't be cis about it, i can't be the "opposite" gender" right because i can't be binary about, but also even in "accepting" spaces there is no real non-binary existence, and especially not for those of us who are actively both and not just neither. its such an experience that is hard to describe to people. anyways i actually did find some pretty clothes in the goodwill men's section by the grace of transgender god