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hi! i’m reed!

i’m 22 and use he/him pronouns!

this post is mostly here to direct you to places you may want to be directed to.

my art tags are in the tags of this post and featured under the search icon at the top of my blog. #my art for all of my art, #reed’s oc tag for my characters, #reed’s fanart tag for fanart, and #reed’s art tag for original art/anything that doesn’t fit in those first two categories lol

Other blogs:

@evilerplants for shitposting

@reedreadsbooks for book stuff

if you want to find me on other socials, everything is linked here

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amaumauma

Save me butchs....save me...

The cards see all.

This weekend we started a new series on #Paleostream!

Pocket Prehistory is a project in which I draw small extinct critters as museum specimens, life sized, on post card formats.

I only do adults so don't expect a T. rex fetus or something ;)

We plan to sell these as postcards on Dinocon in Birmingham this year.

#art #paleoart

mousidy

"afab only housing" is honestly beautiful. it's #progress to use inclusive language when discrimating against trans women

mousidy

you might as well just say "no men, and yeah I think men includes you trannies (but trans men aren't men you ladies are welcome 🥰)"

butchnandos

^^^

rokosourobouros

It really is one of the best examples of them compounding. Cause when I was in a really bad spot housing wise, a few times I applied to those anyway and made a point about being like "oh I'm afab" and it felt so fucking gross. But I didn't wanna be homeless. So I made myself uncomfortable (and for nothing as it turned out, I would not do the same thing again if I went back in time)

But even then, and even more now, I was so conscious of the fact that, as uncomfortable and gross as it felt.... It was an option. And if I was a trans woman, no matter how desperate I was, it would not BE an option. It's a way of understanding privilege more people need to take on IMO, cause it's not about whether or not I think of it as a privilege. Course I dont. That's not the point.

veryluckyclovers

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

phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts

phineas and ferb heritage post

sunflowersosa

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

sunflowersosa

I'm glad you all like the Nigeria Pride post!

Originally, I went in worried the opposite would happen. Growing up, I've been taught that Nigeria, the country, is homophobic. (I was born in America.) But over time, I learned that there's tons of other queer Nigerians; some are out, and some are in the closet 😭.

I'm also not used to this much attention, lol

Thank you all!

#art

telltaletypist

transphobic music fans be listening to he or she might be giants

telltaletypist

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

tzikeh

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

useyourblinker

This might be my favorite

lotsofcatsandcheapwine

This is mine

stockyardsyndrome

sandersstudies

My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around

sandersstudies

She cheers when the monster is winning.

sandersstudies

DM: *places an ugly, slavering, repugnant, spine-tingling creature on the battle map*

Child who can barely see over the table: ᵗʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ᵐᵉ :)

damndorothea

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

#so far have read a chapter of a book and showered #planning to do some cleaning and laundry next and then go over to my boyfriend’s house for the night

butchfagminotaur

sometimes the world is a crazy small place

i make a linocut and post it online and then someone tells me “hey i wanna make a bunch of stickers with my home depot printer do you mind” and i tell them to go absolutely apeshit and then 2.5 years later one of my close mutuals posts that they’ve put a sticker given to them by an fwb on a hotel room bible and lo and behold it’s my lino cut