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Fandom, art, and things that make me chuckle. Hinges? Haven't heard of 'em. 31/Artist/Scientist/Bisexual

[guildmage-charcoal]

Post 6 mile run. Happy pride, folks.

[toodrawtothink]

Still one of the best animations I've ever done. Took just under a week and was equal parts fun and challenging. So here are some process passes! The full version had too many colors so I had to do some compression T0T

As always, no ai.

[blackwatersinkingship]

When I finish this whale shark lamp all 4 of you are gonna be So I'm pressed

[blackwatersinkingship]

She glows now, just so you know, and she's full of string deliciöusee string

[god-sent-gender-bent]

Are you gonna show us the lamp? 👀

[blackwatersinkingship]

Good news! Whäle shark lämp 🥰

[hollyevolving]

A lot more than 4 of us are impressed

[tawdis]

Sex is good but have you tried / taking off your clothes / in the mirror in the night / when you’re all alone?

[guildmage-charcoal]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better!

Thank you for the tag, @designatedloveinterest !

Reading; I just finished The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemesin. If folks haven’t yet read the Broken Earth Trilogy, please do—it’s one of the best fantasy/sci-fi novels of both the last decade and frankly, all time. Now I’m starting Ruthless Equity by Ken Williams, one of those “how to fix education” books.

Last Song; California Gurls by Katy Perry. It’s for D&D, ok?

Last film; D(e)ad, the film by Izzy Roland. Sadly it didn’t speak to me, but always happy to support indie creators.

Last Series; like video games? Resident Evil 4 remake, as part of the RE series

Sweet or Salty; listen, a boy likes chocolate.

Coffee or Tea; both? Tea if I must live with only one forever. Coffee can give me the jitters if I drink too much.

Working on; a painting of my friend and his wife! A very-belated wedding gift.

Ok, totally optional, but I’ll tag: @gayplasma @mivolasvivi @matty-johnson @justhavetofeelthewaves @brittnodo @crescere-ex-nihilo @prismatic-bell @speculative and @fallingyetfloating !

[hex-yearning]

“You feel that? Thats yours. You did that…” (as I cum inside you)

[monstrouslysexy]

Would you get rawed by an ancient forest spirit?

○ yes

○ hell yes

○ super hell yes

[theehorsepusssy]

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[asunnysatyr]

Living the worst life in the Canary Islands

[thedailyelm]

Nancy Pelosi was an incredible Speaker.

She didn’t let anything go to the floor unless she knew that she had the votes to pass it. It was masterful.

But you don’t really hear people talk about her when she was minority leader, right?

That’s because she didn’t really have much power.

She didn’t get to choose when something came to the floor.

She couldn’t wait till she had enough votes to kill something the majority wanted to pass. That’s not how it worked.

We don’t know what Hakeem Jeffries will be like as a Speaker.

Maybe you’re right. Maybe he will bring things to the floor he doesn’t have the votes for. Maybe he will work with Republicans on things we really don’t need to work with Republicans on.

But, he learned from Pelosi, so I doubt it.

Right now, he is minority leader.

Speaker Mike Johnson chooses what comes to the floor and what doesn’t. And he definitely didn’t learn from the Nancy Pelosi school of speakership.

Jeffries does his best. And that’s all he can do.

There are several Democrats who vote with Republicans between 10 and 20% of the time, it feels like.

Jeffries could make the most compelling argument in history — I’m sure he and several other members, including whip Katherine Clark have — and it wouldn’t matter.

These reps think they know what is best for them, for getting reelected and for their constituents. And that’s that.

Short of taking a page out of the fascist playbook and literally bribing or threatening them, they’re not budging.

Is that on Jeffries? Is that on Democrats at large?

I certainly don’t think so. And I don’t understand why anyone else does either.

Sometimes it feels like social media reads too many science fiction books.

It’s almost like there’s this assumption that we live in an episode of Black Mirror where as leader of the minority party, Jeffries has a switchboard with the name of each member on it.

He is the only one with access to the switchboard. And it has several buttons. “AIPAC,” “ICE,” “SAVE Act” and he pulls a lever to determine who should support a given Republican bill.

Luckily we don’t live in that made up episode of the Black Mirror. We live in a world where we still have free will and Democrats are not a cult.

And that means that there are a handful of Reps who do not vote like we want them to. And some of those are frustrating, like Adam Gray, who is about to be in a safe Dem district.

And some of those are like Don Davis, who is in a very Trumpy area probably does need to vote these ways to stay in office — and we NEED him to stay in office. (I mean, we need both of them, but, votes like this will no longer help Gray like it might help Davis.)

We are a big tent party. And until the Republican party sorts its shit out, we’re gonna continue to be.

But that’s not Jeffries’ fault.

Jeffries leads 212 separate humans, not 212 homogenous robots.

And given that, it’s INCREDIBLY impressive what he and Whip Clark have been able to do. That on a lot of really big monumental issues they’ve gotten the Goldens and the Jayapals alike to vote in line with each other.

The amount of discharge petitions that have passed the House (most years there are none) and the incredible task forces he’s put together, choosing the perfect members to chair each one, are pretty remarkable.

It’s easy to shit on Jeffries and Democrats at large. It’s the popular thing to do.

It’s harder to praise him for doing everything he has done as minority leader. It’s hard to accept that we are the minority and his ability is incredibly limited.

It’s hard to accept that because we are in the minority the votes of these more moderate Dems are much more visible and infuriating than if we were in a comfortable majority.

It’s frustrating to have to acknowledge that Jeffries has no say as to what comes to the floor or if we have enough Dems to kill something.

But just cause it’s hard doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it anyway.

We HAVE to win in November. And that means that once the primary is over, the Dem who is left standing MUST get elected (except in certain cases where the Independent is more electable, if that’s your district, you already know.)

That means reelecting Don Davis and Adam Gray and Vicente Gonzalez etc. And for the ones that haven’t had their primary yet, voting for the person you want but accepting that if he doesn’t win, you will have to vote for Marie Glusenkamp Perez again in November too.

And it means not blaming Jeffries for any of it.

Jeffries isn’t a fascist and isn’t a cult leader. He and Whip Clark can’t force these members to do anything they don’t want to do. But what they HAVE been able to do deserves support and praise, cause I really don’t know if a different minority leader would have been equally as successful.

Our voices are our superpower, so let’s use them to change the narrative.

Imagine how popular Democrats could be if the focus was on praising them when they did the right thing, not working overtime to seek out things they may have done wrong.

Just some food for thought.

[fieldexplores]

Never Learned - Gator Days

[nerdy-as-heck]

I saw this and felt like it should be shared here too

[rubaedo]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes

[maeeusougay-deactivated20150323]

[doomtemparts]

one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.

[melbush]

i love finding out what degrees my mutuals have. like what the fuck do you mean you do law? you’re a doctor who blog

[sprinkledsalt]

You know, there are actual centrists who just don't want the Democratic Party to be left-wing, but I think it's dishonest to act like that's the only objection more mainstream Democrats have to DSA types. Even aside from the issue of the whole party getting smeared with attack ads about like 3 House members holding fringe beliefs, it's that a lot of these people hold beliefs that are illiberal, as in, opposed to liberal ideals. Take someone like Chevalier opposing interracial relationships ~but leftistly~. Like yeah man, liberals think it's fine for people of different races to date. It's actually inherently conservative to say otherwise. In addition, DSA types tend to support Putin, support cutting USAID, disparage gay marriage as assimilationist bullshit (and "identity politics" more broadly as a distraction from the Real Issues), present antisemitism as social justice praxis, and say women who have professional (or, god forbid, political) ambition are evil, corporate girlbosses. It doesn't matter what word games you play to pretend these are progressive positions, being an asshole about these things will make liberals dislike your crackpot candidates

It’s the same shit it’s been for years and years now. You can’t say shit like this or enable Republican victories by withholding your vote and relentlessly lying about the Democratic Party or openly say you don’t care about handing the Supreme Court to the far-right in 2016, and then cry that people hate you for being “too left." No, it’s that you’re much too similar to Republicans, not simply in enabling GOP victories, but in your reactionary bullshit.

tl;dr (screenshot from mariacallous, as I try to stay off twitter)

[pagecommando]

Turns out the DSA left are the 'centrists' they decried all along. All they do is refuse to vote and then support the GOP with everything they do.

[nerathul]

So much of the DSA has been the proof that if someone doesn't have any actual ethical or moral framework underpinning their belief systems then you can easily get them to support anything so long as you couch it in the right vibes and vocabulary

Suddenly Russian imperialism is "Land Back," stomping on small businesses, artists and academia is "fighting the petite bourgeoisie" advocating for Islamic theocracy is "defending traditional indigenous sovereignty," lynching Jews is "combating white supremacy" and stopping terror groups from buying weapons is "neo-colonial imperialism"

[fittingoutjane]

Personally, I'm exhausted by their arguments about how Democrats not doing XYZ yet means that they didn't really want to, while demonstrating that they do not understand either the Constitution (there's very little a party that controls zero branches of government can accomplish) or the practical realities of pulling it off. Or, in some cases, recent history. "Why didn't Biden do [thing that he actually literally did do.]"

Government is a group project, and I don't want to be working with people who are apparently unable to share credit.

[prismatic-bell]

They also don't understand the long game.

Like. Fun fact. Wanna know why Bill Clinton signed DOMA and DADT?

Because Republicans were pushing for a constitutional amendment and a law that would have made being gay in the military punishable with prison time. Clinton knew neither law would stand up to constitutional review. He also knew public support wasn't yet great enough to get protections passed.

So he chose a shitty option that could be negated over a shittier option that would have been harder to negate. "It can be overturned" was the entire point.

They can't see past the next five minutes, much less to fifteen years from now.

[guildmage-charcoal]

I have some time now, so, thoughts!

First, I want to highlight the points that I think were made well above. Sprinkledsalt makes the case, with specific examples, of DSA members espousing illiberal positions (some activists’ support of Putin, Chevalier and interracial marriage, etc). They also rightly bring up radical “leftists” withholding votes in elections and effectively giving positions to GOP politicians. Fittingoutjane also makes a great point about Democrats not being able to bring about change without being in control of government, and finally, I really like prismatic’s argument about “the long game,” although I wish I knew more about Clinton era politics (I was 1-9 years old).

A nuance I think I need to bring up:

Like any movement, the DSA folks are not a monolith and some are more reasonable than others. Some genuinely believe in “reform the police system such that mental health incidents are handled by trained professionals” while others are fully on the “literally tear down all prisons” train. As someone who knows Chevalier personally, as well as other DSA-aligned folks, I can say they’re not all like her.

Of course, one must ask, “how should DSA handle their crazy folk?” (I personally think every political movement has some number of crazy folk and the health of any movement depends on how the leadership handle them—the Black Lives Matter, the March for Science, and the March for Our Lives protests come to mind.) So far, my read of DSA’s answer is “let ‘em run hog wild.”

So, I’m skeptical of DSA’s long-term success. Which is a shame; I think we really do need stronger workers’ rights, queer rights, etc.

[prismatic-bell]

The problem is that for much of the DSA, the crazy is a feature, not a bug. I honestly believe no small part of what we're seeing right now is that a lot of Democrats, faced with whiny both-sides-are-the-same types (I will never forget, nor stop being angry at, the leftist who wailed that oh no she was going to die under Trump but in the meantime she was going to keep drawing fat trans fetish art because it was the most important protest she could make), refused to let them off the hook.

So now it's "oh, you want to say we handed the Republicans victory? We'll HAND the Republicans victory."

[guildmage-charcoal]

Fat…trans fetish art? As protest? Oh boy. Hahaha.