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hi welcome to my blog

18+ only please, posts may contain nsfw content and i dont tag it. sorry.

some notes:

• i post whatever ; a lot of posting runs on a queue, also.

• i am pro-fiction and pro-people id'ing as they please. i dont care, im not your boss.

• i have a sideblog for topics regarding alterhumanity and plurality over at @beastden if youre into that. and a selfshipping-focused one at @foxtoys

storybookprincess

so today a group of 8-9 year old kiddos approaches my desk and goes “hey. we want to go to the downstairs part of the library.”

i’m like “you can totally go downstairs, but just so you know, right now the only thing down there is the genealogy department. that’s like the history of this area and the people who lived here a long time ago.”

i’m expecting them to lose interest, but to my surprise, they go “we want to see the genealogy department!!!!!!”

so i’m like “alright let’s do it!!!!” and lead this group of maybe six elementary school kids across the library make way for ducklings style and downstairs to our extremely not kid friendly genealogy room. our genealogy librarian is super cool, though, and he pulls out a few interesting things for them to look at & they ask a lot of questions and try to find where they live on maps from the 1800s

after about fifteen minutes, their curiosity has been sated, so we go back upstairs and over to the children’s department in that same duckling parade style

truly wish i could render this little scene artistically for you all it was a delight

ceruleanheaven

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

herpsandbirds

White-throated Magpie-Jay (Cyanocorax formosus), family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Mexico

photograph by James Ownby

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aro-ace-chaos

I’m so tired of the “why do people hate aspecs, they aren’t doing anything?” argument. I know that it is an attempt to support us, but it fails so spectacularly to understand aromanticism, asexuality, and any other aspec identity that it’s actively frustrating.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

So, no, aces and aros and other aspecs aren't "doing nothing." We're doing quite a lot.

remnantglow

looked a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

remnantglow

well anyway. my discovery of the day is the art of Jeffrey Catherine Jones! she was a trans woman who painted a huge amount of fantasy & scifi cover art for books and magazines, among other things :)

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thepinkpestilence

more people could identify as asexual/aromantic if they not only knew what that label is but also knew about how wide the spectrum could be. because not every ace/aro person feels the same way and even people who DO have a general idea on what it means, could still be like "yeah no i cant be possibly ace/aro because i feel/do this and that"

archive-moth

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)

The awakening of the Demon King

#loz

lemonsweet

I always wanted to play with N's awesome toys

lemonsweet

Ghetsis is 6'6" and he has the experience man why is he being an evil overlord instead of on the team

calebwittebane

i have to imagine he was being an evil overlord on the highschool and college teams as well. he mustve been one of those kids who grow up super tall way too early and their bones hurt like hell. he was cranky. foreboding and scary. didnt move fast but was unstoppable. he's disabled but not frail by any means in fact if his ability to ram his cane into solid rock is any indication he is freakishly strong although he gets winded quickly. my point is that he was a menace on the court. leviathan. entire teams dreaded playing against him. Oh God Oh Fuck Its That Guy Again. if you take the ball from him you are cursed for at least 7 years. shining career ended due to one terrible loss he couldnt cope with. paced around hatefully about it for a week. Well, Its Over. thus ended his evil reign over the hoop

#pkmn #litwrally what she says is true☝️

mushroom-punk

i love polyamory i love aromanticism i love QPRs i love communal child rearing let’s all get weirder forever

marine-gifs

A river bed. Filmed in Norway. From Wild Skagerrak (2016).

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creekfiend

in general I find that "why did someone behave this way" is almost always answered by "behaving otherwise was too difficult and frightening for them at the time," and then you have to dig into why that is. people behave in ways that feel 1. easy for them (do not require much thought or effort) 2. accessible to them (patterns that have worked many times before) and 3. safe for them (apparently predictable outcome)

this is true even for behavior that is absolutely horrific and totally unacceptable. which can be a tough thing to accept, I think.

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cococoffeee

Commissioned fluffy pachyrhino

corrucyst

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

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.