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[hollylynwalrath]

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[hollylynwalrath]

Absolutely obsessed with this early photo of Richard Mansfield as Dr. Jekyll...and Mr. Hyde from the original stage production in 1887. Created using double exposure.

[hollylynwalrath]

Using mold as *art*

I’m making an erasure poem for each entry in the Encyclopedia. Here I’m using turmeric and beet paint to dye a page, along with a fun mold spore

[hollylynwalrath]

I used melting beads (the iron kind) and heated them in the oven. I’m erasing an entry from the Encyclopedia A-Z. The door is a symbol to me of being closed off, trapped. But when you open the door, there might be a million beautiful things beyond. It’s hard to walk through that door and be yourself. 🌈

The poem reads:

Door

The

Narrative

Hollow casting

Doors

Common in

Modern

Usually solid

Strength

Cut in two

By pivoting

[sarahseeandersen]

[shalottoflady]

“If you do not schedule system maintenance, your system will schedule it for you.”

[hollylynwalrath]

I’m erasing the encyclopedia A-Z. Here is the entry for cancer 💖

[hollylynwalrath]

I’m doing my first ever solo art exhibition in one month! 😬 This means so much to me. I don’t have a lot of funds to make my art but I’m determined to make this happen.

[hollylynwalrath]

Ahh yes, the headless woman

[hollylynwalrath]

I’m making a blackout poem for every letter in the alphabet using the Encyclopedia as found text! Today’s poem comes from the entry for “Burns”. The poem reads:

Burns

In a normal

commonplace

wound

the face falls off

after it dries

It is particularly useful

loss and pain

may increase

scar formation

for grafting

limits the formation of

lost

loss

and so there is a danger

[hollylynwalrath]

Conveniently placed beaker

[hollylynwalrath]

Nobody gets any pants on this planet

[hollylynwalrath]

Erasing the Encyclopedia A-Z: Burns

I’m making a blackout poem for every letter in the alphabet using the Encyclopedia as found text! Today’s poem comes from the entry for “Burns”. The poem reads:

Burns

In a normal

commonplace

wound

the face falls off

after it dries

It is particularly useful

loss and pain

may increase

scar formation

for grafting

limits the formation of

lost

loss

and so there is a danger

[hollylynwalrath]

They really went and made Santa a thirst trap

[hollylynwalrath]

🤷‍♀️

[hollylynwalrath]

Wrangling the mechanical snake? 🤨

[fattyatomicmutant]

Petition to refer to TERFs as FARTs, which stands for Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobe

[riftwitch-deactivated20200531]

“Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist,” when you think about it, is a VERY kind term. To be called a TERF is for the person to admit that they still consider you a feminist.

But what kind of feminist excludes so many women from their movement? If you hate so many women for what they are, you really don’t deserve to be called any kind of feminist, radical or otherwise.

[bartfargo]

Anti-trans people: Stop calling us terfs it’s insulting

fattyatomicmutant, about to coin a new term: ‘K

[queeranarchism]

Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Transphobe is far far more accurate too.

[i-am-a-fish]

ima just spread this

[pother]

I’m legitimately going to use this, everyone hop on board, we have to do this  FARTs, unfollow me!! 

[entwife508]

I like this new term better. It accurately captures the implicit bigotry of excluding trans people while also not dignifying hateful people with the epithet “feminist”, which they do not deserve.

[natsueyama-deactivated20240226]

Saving that

[spicecities]

worst thing people did was turn the incredibly personal experience of being lgbt into strict definitions and rules and then ridicule and harass others who don't fit into their neat boxes, as if that isn't what we were trying to run away from this whole time.