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he/him autistic queer artist B) almost entirely reblogs. if you just want art go to @unusedspite

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comic i made abt top surgery that I forgot to fucking post despite it taking so many hours to do ghdhdg. I may write abt it some later but for now I just wanted to get it up finally

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character is dominic by @/PINECONE-EATER on artfight! really proud of this piece :-3

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olivber ref :-)

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character belongs to @/CarbonMoth on artfight

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my first two attacks for artfight!! characters are by @/Cyellolemon and @/Astroreoa on AF respectively

my account is DandelionSpite if you’re interested in attacking me!

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everything is a transgender allegory except being transgender which is about being alive

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Btw sorry I have just Not been online at all, I’ve been avoiding tadc spoilers (I still haven’t watched the finale yet I’m scared </3 and also off my meds so I’m gonna wait until I’m more emotionally stable for it)

I’m not actually coming back just wanted to post some art so I have less to post later bye and happy art fight to all who celebrate

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waow

nate realizes he’s trans bc his gf puts him a tie and yanks it this is canon now. Or. He can’t actually identify what the realization he is having is but he sure is Having One. As well as Others. Also Andre who I don’t think I’ve ever posted

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sage/hazel monster time

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blehg

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artfight refs :-) whcih I cannot link to the character pages of bc the website is Struggling

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portraits for my friend and their family bc their cat passed :( she was a good cat

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actually making proper refs for art fight this year! Hopefully! I still have to do monster sage (I actually have a full monster design now which’ll be fun,,) and then also literally everyone else but. I have a month! I can do at least Some.

Her artfight page

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sincerely woke up and wanted to see how itd look if i tried more actual painting methods in msp

speedpaint ; be warned part of it got lost but i still thought it was worth uploading

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*Whimpers*

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This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.

Dorsal view by the same photographer:

And from the side:

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Sacrifice for human kind

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when thinking about how oppression works, on a structural level, my guiding principle is that I must spend at least as much time looking down as I do looking up.

what do I mean by this? here's an example. when my surgery is delayed multiple times, I spend a little time looking up (there is only one surgeon in the entire area who will perform this surgery on trans people, so every trans person's surgical timeline is bottle-necked and delayed by months every time he goes to a conference or takes a vacation or experiences an injury. in other words, if I was cis, I would not encounter this difficulty in accessing surgery). and then I spend time looking down (due to nonstop harassment and legal threats, this practice now only treats adults and will no longer perform surgeries on minors. in other words, my access to surgery is predicated on adult privilege I have at the direct expense of trans youth's lack of access).

if you do not build a habit around thinking in this way, you will become the person Audre Lorde describes as "so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face." If we are seeking to dismantle structures of oppression, rather than to simply use and climb them, then we absolutely must make a practice of looking in both directions, especially when we feel like we're on the bottom.