Half a Robot

Well my pancreas is mechanical... My other blog is http://theclarkedev.tumblr.com

[azurele]

*packing my suitcase for a 3 day trip* hm, but what if I need my terracotta warriors..

[bugwars]

girl it’s just a 3 day trip, you do not need to bring your terracotta warriors 🙄

[menherafag]

[creekfiend]

ppl use crab bucket metaphor to describe the lateral social violence of oppressed people, but tbh I think it's more like how sometimes when chickens are kept in such abysmal horrific close quarters conditions with no ability to make decisions or control any aspect of their lives, they just start violently attacking each other, to the point where some factory farms where this is a problem simply cut or trim parts of their beaks off so they can't do as much damage. because this is more cost effective than providing them with more space, species specific enrichment, appropriate lighting, etc, and the system we live under prioritizes cost effectiveness over the well-being of alive creatures.

it would be a mistake to think that this represents the natural behavior of chickens.

it would be a mistake to think that the social displacement harms we do to each other as marginalized people under a great deal of stress, under capitalism, represents the natural behavior of people.

human beings, however, possess the ability to learn to identify when we are engaging in this type of lateral social violence, and the ability to prioritize developing alternate coping mechanisms that cause less harm to the other people in our communities, and leave us with more energy to address the actual causes of our suffering.

[nerdygaymormon]

[dunkthebiscuit]

This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

[goldensunset]

has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author

[pjharvey]

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

[drchucktingle]

and yet one of these does not appear on the guardians 100 best novels of all time list. INTERESTING

[letterful]

[stephenhemmer]

Mermay - Days 1-4 - dunkleosteus, jellyfish, leviathan, gurnard

Finally started doing some of Mermay, this is the first 4 days. I want to do whole spreads for each page this time, which means combining prompts.

I think all the fish are pretty identifiable. I made the leviathan an orca, but longer. And I thought a battle scene would be cool for it. Jellyfish is a mage, while the dunkleosteus and gurnard are tanking.

Listened to Cage The Elephant, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Growlers

[stephenhemmer]

Apriltecture - Day 30 - Industrial

Sorry for the delay again, blegh, but such is life. On the other hand, look! It’s the last piece for Apriltecture. My sister got me a scanner recently, so maybe I’ll try to scan all the pages. We shall see.

This is the American Can Lofts, an apartment complex in Northside Cincinnati (the Paris of America). Obviously built inside a defunct factory. The factory made the machines that make cans, but didn’t make cans itself. Closed in 1978, was occasionally rented out for small stuff and as a warehouse until 2005 when it was bought and then renovated and reopened in 2011 as an apartment complex (I find it rather simple).

Today’s music was pretty much the entire album RAZZMATAZZ by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME. And then we capped it off with Bullet by Saint Motel.

[dykeselfcest]

I fear a lot of people learned to take good care of library books as children and instead of internalizing "leave shared community items as you found them as much as possible, because other people will use them too" they internalized "printing and binding a book imbues it with sacred energy and if you dog-ear a mass-market paperback you're desecrating the entire concept of written language"

[stephenhemmer]

Apriltecture - Day 29 - Retro

Man, could not get the angles to cooperate today, but Kest La Vye as the French say, probably.

This is the Waffle Hut from season 2 of Fargo the Tv Series. Every season of Fargo is actually based on my life, I’m the true story part of it actually. They take some embellishments, obviously. The real story doesn’t involve any actual murder, shockingly. But the rest is largely true. Especially the miracles and magic and aliens and ghosts.

Today’s music started with New Fang by Them Crooked Vultures and ended with You Girls by the archduke himself, Franz Ferdinand.

Yes, I love, I mean I’d love to get to know you.

[quasi-normalcy]

We Are the Daughters of the Microbes Who Could Survive in an Oxygen-rich Atmosphere

[stephenhemmer]

Apriltecture - Day 28 - Waterfront

More markers today. This ended up being larger than I originally intended and the right side stadium started to get cut off lol.

This is Cincinnati, the Paris of America. The bridge here was designed by the same dude who made the Brooklyn Bridge. If you get a close look you can see it extremely clearly.

Today’s music was largely a combination of Panic Shack (Tit School, Lazy, and Personal Best) and Lambrini Girls (Cuntology 101, No Homo, and Cult of Celebrity). Favorite lines are “I didn’t get straight As, I got Double Ds!” and “learning how to let go is cunty/ having cum on my shirt is cunty/ setting boundaries is cunty.”

I’m going to do what’s best for me, I’m cunty