Cosimo Galluzzi
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if i look back, i am lost
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Janaina Medeiros
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Love Begins
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@jaql
anybody else feel that being human is like being a long-time syndicated cartoon character watching the world get more complex while your own design stays the same until youre incongruous with the reality around you??
Do you ever see a complicated meme that expresses a very specific feeling, and while you wouldn’t have said it that way, it instantly resonates with you?
We had to write a Mini Comic for my Illustration Class so I did mine based on The Frog and The Scorpion. Hopefully you all know the story!
But if you don’t know the story… In the original the scorpion stings the frog in the middle of the river. When the frog asks “why” the scorpion says “it’s in my nature” and they both die. I like my ending more.
Done with watercolor and pen and ink nib.
It’s a cold feeling when there’s no one in your life to hug you as tightly as you need it.
untitled comic!!
Written and sketched by Alex
Drawn by Sidney
Giggling at some of the pissy posts I get on my “gender play” posts like, even despite the fact I’m probably cis bordering-on-genderfluid (I call it gender agnostic personally) they seem to take such offense to the idea that someone could just be openly doing it for fun. I guess the fact that I’m okay with people identifying as whatever is the problem?
Anyway, additional points since I decided to open the can of worms:
1) Something they keep wanting to bring up is the clinical side “you can’t give birth with a penis!!” Like well duh, nobody’s saying you can outside of some miracle magic? Testicles produce sperm and ovaries produce eggs? This is not disputed by anyone so far as I know?
2) If we’re past that point then the hang-up is this: when it comes to calling someone by a gender, which is more important: presentation or sex organs? You seem to accept a theoretical individual that CAN look like Thomas and yet are insistent he must be female, despite the fact the most significant piece of that anatomy–A PENIS–is present. In an essentialist view he HAS TO BE male and the only thing that’s causing an issue is the presentation, and yet you pooh-pooh the idea that presentation has anything to do with it because gender isn’t a social construct?
3) if you’re arguing, then, that someone is obligated to present based specifically on, and subsequently must identify with, which genitals they have, well you’ve completely misunderstood where *I’m* coming from with this. The “altersex” thing is specifically made to push the boundaries on the theory because as an artist I can mix and match *secondary sexual characteristics* however I want and those clearly affect presentation–if you can’t (as a group) decide which part is most important (sex organs or presentation, given you want to leave self-id out) then you’re gonna have a bad time trying to wedge them in your pre-made box when they clearly conflict, because I don’t feel particularly obligated to make one match the other.
4) if you, personally, consider that EITHER sex organs or presentation to be the be-all end-all of determining gender, the mere fact there are people who believe the opposite should immediately show that *you can create a world in which the opposite is the accepted standard* and it causes no conflict.
5) What I specifically am doing with these characters is fictional. Yes, personally I do hope it’s validating and/or gratifying for real people who identify as non-cis, but let’s just start with the fiction rung of the ladder: how is it you can suspend your disbelief for practically everything in the universe but can’t wrap your head around gender being flexible *fictionally*? Even a little? Even inventing a society where they have standardized rules, and another society where they have different rules? Why is it so important to you that someone’s fictional gender be fixed to some real-life standard when it doesn’t affect you, personally? Are you afraid people will become confused as to the biological function of the penis or vagina? If so please return to point 1 and repeat.
6) if at some point in the future it became medically *trivial* for people to swap out their genitals (like we could grow new ones that function as intended, or not, and it becomes a nearly outpatient procedure), why should anyone be barred from doing so if they want? *Whether they id that way or not*? Would they have to change the “sex” on their passport every time even though it literally has no bearing on how they live? Do you have scripture for some vague biological decree against “mutilation”? Do you hate tattoos and pacemakers too? Is it the sacred duty of someone born with a penis to cherish it no matter how mundane and replaceable an object it is? If so I refer you to my very first point two posts ago: gender is not sacred.
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Lazy Spotted Hyenas, Turtle Back Zoo, July 11th, 2018. Their pelts are amazingly sparkly in person!
Deep murky water.
A short comic about feelings of hopelessness. My Patreon
Molly and Mark stopping by to say happy pride month and they hope you have a great one!
“It’s chaos. Be kind.”
We watched this the other day and I’ve never laughed and cried in one comedy special.
“It’s chaos. Be Kind.” is my new life motto, honestly.
ANYWAYS this is actually like a year old but on the original post was flagged as NSFW by tumblr’s weird flagging system so this is a repost Patreon
Atlanta, at the beginning of #fwa2018 to the end.
Views from the room, Marriott Marquis, Atlanta GA.
The Marriott Marquis Atlanta; the most monumental, wonderful, and surreal interior to a hotel I’ve ever stayed in.
was cruisin my tl & this is so fucking important
i think the moment i was disillusioned about life was when i was maybe 7 years old and realized the reason all my friends had become assholes was because boys aren’t allowed to have any physcial contact that isn’t fighting
my parents were hippie feminists so my brother and i could play clapping games and sleep in puppy piles and give each other weird hairdos, but all the ‘normal’ boys just up and stopped knowing how to touch anyone without hitting sometime between kindergarten and first grade
and my little kid mind briefly saw the vastness of life stretching out in front of all of us, and all the hugs everyone would need and not get, and for a moment i was just like
maybe life is not such a good idea after all
I grew up around a Russian ballet school. Let me tell you something about Russian men: They touch each other. Especially dancers, who are in my experience almost always super tactile people. They rough house like Americans, but they also hug each other, and sit on each other’s laps, and share blankets when it’s cold backstage.
So I grew up knowing full well that the whole Men Don’t Touch thing was puritanical bullshit.
What I was absolutely not prepared for, however, is the super intense effect it has on straight men’s romantic relationships.
Because when you are literally the only person it is okay for your boyfriend to touch, Jesus fucking Christ, that changes the game.
I strongly suspect that a lot of Str8 Dude feelings of entitlement to women’s bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they’re allowed to have.
I know for certain that the framing of any and all platonic physical contact as un-manly has been directly responsible for a lot of sexual dysfunction (and then the attendant misery of trying to get that treated at the ripe old age of 22) with at least one of my exes. It’s a mess when you can’t get it up because you’re depressed and want to be held but you’ve been brainwashed into thinking what you actually want is sex because being held is for girls.
Amazing how the erectile dysfunction went completely away when he learned the difference between feeling horny and feeling cuddly. /sarcasm
“I strongly suspect that a lot of Str8 Dude feelings of entitlement to women’s bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they’re allowed to have.”
Omfg
No wonder the worst of them seem crazy… profound isolation does exactly that
When I taught in Japan, the boys were all super comfortable with each other. They’d sit on laps and hug and roughhouse and it wasn’t seen as bad ? Like it surprised me at first, but then you realize the problem is with so many men feeling that they have to prove… something? I dunno. I personally don’t like hugs or touches, but that is my own personal reasons and nothing of how I was brought up.
@thedancingnerdmermaid I’m sure this is nothing new to you.
Seas of light and dark, Northern California, January 15th 2018. Top to bottom, San Francisco, San Mateo, Cupertino, San Jose. Urban California is striking from the air, with it’s use of deep orange sodium lamps adding a lot of warm, contrasting color.
Mark pays a visit to his mother’s for the holidays Hope everyone has the chance to make fond memories before the year ends <3 My Patreon
