Procrastinating Author

Because what else is the internet good for?

[hartsnkises]

I don't want to be blocked and I'm tired of worrying about it. Yes I'm above 18.

[homoidiotic]

Trans activist Jamison Green's passport photos before and after HRT. Left he's age 32 (1980) Right age 41 (1989) after being on testosterone for one year (x)

(read his autobiography here for free)

[homoidiotic]

updated the link to his autobiography because it was broken! here's some more pictures of him (first is mid 90s, second 2013 and last 2024)

there's an interview with him from 2017 along with some information about his life and activism. and he was interviewed on a podcast here. he's not super well known but has been a really important trans activist for decades

[maimonideznuts]

I just saw a short where this comedian Red Richardson (don't know anything about his comedy or politics otherwise, I've never seen him before) touched on something I have said many times...

"in the age of no body shaming, there is still one thing you're allowed to body shame apparently, and that is men with small dicks. Greta Thunberg was arguing on Twitter with a guy called Andrew Tate, who is on house arrest in Romania, for sex trafficking. Do you know what she said? 'you have small dick energy'. She could have said 'Andrew, you're on house arrest, in Romania, for sex trafficking' but apparently on the list of crimes that rates below having a small dick."

Small dick jokes have always been body shaming, sexist and intersexist. They shouldn't be tolerated

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I know it's because they censor anything with "sex" in it but some of the facebook repost censorings really crack me up

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#Faggot#Surely

The censored word is "asexual".

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#what!?#asexual is whay they censored#why??????

It has "sex" in it so they're worried that the facebook bots will autodelete or hide their post if it detects the word "sex". They always censor homosexual and heterosexual too.

[power-handmaiden]

when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.

[charlesoberonn]

Avatar Yumi and her Yunit!

Art by the wonderful @ube-kun!

Avatar Yumi is the Avatar OC that I've been spinning around in my head for the last 9 years. My original concept for the Earthbending Avatar after Korra.

I call her story Avatar: The Broken Earth

The story goes like this:

75 years after Kuvira's defeat, the Earth Continent is divided between a number of states, most of which are ruled by authoritarian governments. And the most despotic of them all is Shield Island, an isolationist military dictatorship off the eastern coast of the continent.

15 years old Yumi has been a patriotic citizen of Shield Island ever since she joined the training academy to become a bodyguard to the island's Supreme Commander. But the course of her life changes when she finds out she is the Avatar, the sworn enemy of the state, the person she was indoctrinated since birth to hate.

Now she must flee the only home she's ever known and drift from place to place as a refugee, looking for safety. Along the way she meets new friends who will help her on her journey.

Andon is a carefree guy. A firebender from the lower ring of Ba Sing Se who's practiced in the ways of the road. He offers to become Yumi's guide and the two travel together.

Yonten is the great-great-granddaughter of Aang and proud of it. A rather arrogant airbender who cares deeply about a lot of things, which goes against her people's philosophy of detachment.

Reza is an industrious and polite young boy. Very smart but also very ignorant about a lot of things since he came from a sheltered home. That sheltered home being the mobile imperial palace of the Second Earth Empire, where he was the emperor.

Wy is a waterbender from the Foggy Swamp Tribe. A weirdo even by her own people's standards, she likes to dabble in the dangerous and off-putting. She rejected the path decided for her and chose to be an apprentice to an apothecary that many (including Wy) call a witch.

Likai is Yumi's animal guide. A spider-cat stray who lived around the bodyguard academy's grounds. He would always come back even when told to go away. He is the last connection Yumi has to her home. His name literally means "go away".

[charlesoberonn]

Reza is actually a non-bender.

The Second Earth Empire isn't a top-down fascist dictatorship like Kuvira's empire, but more of a loose collection of semi-independent states and warlords that all on-paper swear fealty to the emperor.

It's loosely inspired by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

The setting as a whole is inspired by the Cold War era. The world is divided into two broad alliances, referred to colloquially as the Green Bloc and Grey Bloc.

[charlesoberonn]

I already started writing their story!

It'll be published on my AO3 (with maybe more art by @ube-kun)

[charlesoberonn]

btw, I intentionally made Yumi resemble Asami to reinforce the "face you loved in a past life" theory, that every Avatar resembles the love interest of the previous Avatar (at least when they're young)

[inbabylontheywept]

there is a stripper pole in my attic. i saw it in a dumpster one day, and i went, shit, this is exactly the kind of thing my wife would want. and i didnt really want it in the house, what with it being a used stripper pole lightly seasoned with dumpster juice, but i mentally decided that if she were to see it and ask for it, i would say she could have it, and then sure enough, later that evening, she went soooo baaaaaaaabs there's this thing by the dumpster and i want it but i get it if you don't want it in the house but i have to show it to you- and i went, no you dont, you can have the pole, and that was the most surprised i have ever made her look. even compared to the day when i proposed to her, which she was prepared enough that we both knew she would say yes, and she could also get her hair done up and have a cute outfit, but not so prepared that she was not fucking flabbergasted by the 12 empty decoy ringboxes i sprung on her. i handed her so many decoy ring boxes that day. still one of the funniest things i've ever done to her.

anyway we like pacing around together and ranting in the attic but sometimes instead of pacing one of us will just hang on the pole and spin, and the other person will watch on the beanbag, which makes for these really goofy conversations where the person on the bag will say something that gets the other persons goat, such as, hypothetically, that xylophones do not belong in rock music, and then the other person will go on a tirade about this, but they'll actually only be facing the Hot Take Speaker half of the time, what because of the pole, so the response will sound something like

I can't believe

you would even suggest such

a stupid opinion. You've

been to a Danny Elfman

concert! How can you

have heard Oingo Boingo

live and say with a straight face

that they alone do not justify

rock and roll xylophones

and then that person will continue until they get too dizzy, then they'll get off the pole, and by unspoken agreement, the person on the bag will get up and trade places with them to deliver their rebuttal while also spinning and it just creates this sort of crazy strip-court lawyers debating absolute nonsense for no reason kind of vibe that frankly just really does it for us.

i don't really have any marriage advice for this i guess its just a look at what being married can look like. i thought that being married would involve a lot more stuff like carving the turkey, or barbecuing, or watching the sunset, and if id known how much time it would involve arguing for xylphones in rock music while spinning upside down i might have prepared for it a little differently.

[inbabylontheywept]

who is jane prentiss

[hartsnkises]

Sojiro is such a cat dad

[flebdoodle]

I wish I could say I knew why I decided to draw Cookie Clicker But Stylized and Weirdly Dramatic

But I don't

So. Wo, cookie clicker be upon ye

[hartsnkises]

I have now failed to harvest three duketaters. Fuck those fucking things

[depsidase]

[squagel]

Can we not do this? The whole "Yeah well Leviticus also says this and that's so obviously ridiculous" thing? Because it's extremely reductive and actually antisemitic. Many Jewish people still take those verses seriously. If you want to accuse homophobic Christians of cherry-picking, there are much more damning ways to do it. You could use just about any of Jesus's quotes, any number of verses in the Old and New Testaments commanding we care for the poor, Micah 6:8: "What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God?"--I mean there's literally so much material to work with.

Let's do better next time, guys. We don't need to demean Judaism in order to get a one-up on bigoted Christians.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I've just found the single most homoerotic piece of LOTR art ever who wants to see

[outlaw-monarch]

Um, YES?

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

This is The Taming of Smeagol by Donato Giancola and by god they're gonna have a threeway with that wriggly guy

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

[anthonyhurd]

Tonight’s thoughts as we’re hitting the half way point of pride month.

[hartsnkises]

I dunno, I find it interesting that Shallan is the canon bisexual, but Kaladin and Adolin are the ones assigned bisexual at shipping

[sadclowncentral]

so many misguided metaphors around violence and desire. if the open maw of a panting beast fills you with the want to be devoured, that does not make you prey. while the rabbit trembles in fear, its deepest desire is to run. evolution demands it. in fact, the desire to be eaten does not make you any small animal at all.

it makes you a fruit.

[sumverendus]

[sandpancakecat]

[venndaai]

Big fan of calling male characters babygirls but I think we should start calling female characters babyboys too

[venndaai]

I’ve seen people on here rail separately against calling male characters babygirls and calling female characters little guys, and while I think they’ve correctly identified a problem (“girl” has sexual or demeaning or childish connotations while “guy” is an example of masculine-as-neutral-default) I don’t think the answer is to get more essentialist in our language use but rather to freak it up more. he’s just a little gal. she’s my sweet baby boy. she’s my boyfriend. he’s my special girlie. she’s my beautiful husband.

[farrox-deactivated20180925]

Spooky fact: there is at least one living skeleton in your house right now and it is VERY close. GET OUT OF THERE

[farrox-deactivated20180925]

I SAID RUN NOT HAVE SEX WITH IT

[drakepaws-archive-blog]

Ive only gained a single follower through all this bullshittery

[the-haiku-bot]

Ive only gained a

single follower through all

this bullshittery

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.