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Post-game Connor with longer hair ✨
Slowly improving my art style ~✨
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Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.
The spiritual successor to Miette
Might I also add
May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit
Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children
I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.
My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang
Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.
My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang
Me: ksst!
My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!
Me: ok
My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang
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imagine not seeing your dad for like 10 years and he turns out to be a guy with a man bun who tells you you have to kill god
It may sound strange but… I hope I’m not anything like my parents.
don’t get me wrong this is a cowardly bullshit writing decision but what’s SO fucking funny is that cas ISN’T still in superhell, he straight up is in heaven he just didn’t bother to say hey to dean. my man really sent a risky text and then ghosted his crush. he’s building celestial community housing with his son and not even thinking about dean winchester’s flat ass.
a handful of people have gleefully tagged this post “anti destiel” and to these people i offer a humble apology. regardless of how funny i find cas moving tf on from thirsting over a guy who doesnt wash his sheets, deep down i am the same clown i’ve been since i was a sophomore in high school. i will never change, i will never improve, i still want castiel to show up in the passenger seat and fuck dean winchester senseless in the back of his stupid car. you are giving me credit i do not deserve.
im still trash too, just so y’all are aware
The Point of Affinity Networks -or- Why picking up groceries for your neighbor is actually useful as a form of direct action
So in the notes and replies and tags of some of my recent posts I’ve been seeing a few people saying “What’s the point of getting groceries for my neighbor if I’m about to lose access to life-saving medical care? Why should I help the terrible old jackass down the street by lending him my tools if he’s just going to vote away my right to access reproductive care?” and.
A few years ago my spouse was setting up a volunteer radio and emergency response group and he started reading a prepper blog that I *hated* because it was taking the concept of community-building and making it Machiavellian. This blog was talking about why you should help out neighbors who you knew to be Mormon because they were likely to have good survival supplies, why you should have your kids volunteer to mow the lawns of the elderly folks at church so that more people knew you and liked your family.
And it just felt so *shitty.* And I ended up ranting to my spouse about it because it was shitty! “It’s, like, weaponizing kindness or something! Just be good people, it’s so fucking weird that you’re trying to get on your neighbor’s good side in case of the apocalypse!”
Guys. Picking up groceries for your neighbor is getting on their good side in case of the apocalypse.
I’ve recently moved to a new neighborhood. I walk my dog here about four times a day.
I have adopted four surrogate mothers in the last two months. There are several elderly white ladies who check in with me about how my husband is doing and talk to me about how cute my dog is.
You know who’s going to be a good person to be friends with if I lose my job, or if I need someone to watch my dog because my husband is hospitalized, or if I need some cash to buy food because it’s the end of the month?
FOUR ELDERLY WHITE LADIES WHO THINK I’M JUST THE SWEETEST THING.
You know who is probably going to have access to prescription medication if I lose my health insurance? FOUR. WEALTHY. ELDERLY. WHITE. LADIES.
And I hate that I have to explain it that way because I didn’t go out and be like “muahahaha, I’ll befriend Bertie and she’ll let me use her air compressor if I’ve got a flat” I went out and was like “Hey I like your rabbit and it’s nice to meet you and that package looks heavy, can I help you carry it inside?” and I was like “Laurel, it’s good to see you, how are the kids; oh Otto needs his meds from the vet, do you want me to go grab them tonight? I’ve got to pick up dog food anyway.”
And look, this is a long con.
Could I flip Diane into lying to her GP to get me an inhaler today? No. But I can walk around the neighborhood with my exclusively black wardrobe and a “defund the police” tee shirt and then maybe those scary Atifas on the teevee don’t look like a faceless horde, they kind of look like Alli - you know, the one with the pink hair and the little white dog - from down the way who crocheted you a potholder because she had some extra yarn.
So here’s a simple set of reasons why it’s a good idea to befriend your neighbors and do shit like offer to walk their dogs, pick up their groceries, water their plants when they’re out of town, or provide emergency childcare:
BURST BUBBLES - I think people are frequently less ideologically isolated than the news likes to make out but nonetheless I look pretty weird to my neighbors and they look pretty weird to me. Offering to do shit like pick up their groceries humanizes you, and therefore people who are like you, to them. Also if you are dealing with elderly folks you MAY be dealing with people whose only source of contact with the outside world right now is Fox News and YouTube and it is MUCH better that they talk to you than that they sit there and watch Hannity for another hour or get into Qanon.
BUILD A SOCIAL SAFETY NET - Look, I couldn’t get Laurel to get me an inhaler right now, but if I knocked on her door with a broken arm she’d drive me to the hospital. That hasn’t been true of most of the places I’ve lived because I haven’t known the neighbors as well. And that is kind of a huge deal that I think a lot of people overlook. YEAH, getting to know your neighbors isn’t going to get your health insurance back but it’s going to make you WAY less stressed spending five hours waiting at the free clinic because Bertie is making sure your dog has food and water and can go for a short walk. “I don’t have a car and I can’t afford an ambulance and the buses aren’t running” - honey, try to make friends with your neighbors. Most neighbors who are even vague, wave-as-you-pass-by-on-the-street neighbors won’t begrudge you a ride to the hospital; someone you’ve picked up groceries for will DEFINITELY drive you to the hospital.
REDUCE THE IRON GRIP OF INDIVIDUALIST CAPITALISM - The HOA here is kind of a giant dick about weeds and yard management and what this means is that I bought a hedge clipper. What this also means is that my new neighbors next door do not need a hedge clipper because as soon as they moved in I was like “hey, welcome, I live next door, it’s great to meet you - if you ever need anything let me know; I’ve got gardening supplies and power tools and stuff or if you need a furniture dolly or anything, just ask. Have some banana bread, and a great day.” Bertie does have an air compressor. She does let people use it if they need to; this means that I do not have to buy an air compressor. You’ve got some free boxes because you just finished moving? Put ‘em out front so that someone else doesn’t have to go buy boxes. Laurel gave me a bag of pears from her tree, I gave a set of dog stairs that my dog hates to Andie, guess where I got a free motherfucking grill?
LEARN AND TEACH COMMUNITY SELF RELIANCE - If Bertie and Laurel and Andie and Diane and Susan know they can call me to come snake their toilets or fix their computers they don’t have to call out for that. Bertie is teaching me about not killing plants and how to garden in Las Vegas, Andie is willing to share her dumbbell set, etc, etc. You know that this sort of thing is really great for? Exchanging numbers with your neighbors. You know why you want your neighbors to have your number? So they don’t call the fucking cops on you for a noise complaint or report you to the HOA because they know you well enough to just call you instead.
RADICALIZE YOUR NEIGHBORS - Look, buddy, they aren’t going to listen to your ideas about a bright, better future if they don’t fucking know you. NONE of these folks are about to go do jail support with me, or host someone who needs a safe place to stay for an abortion, however ALL of them are a lot more open to the idea of mutual aid than they were three months ago and I’ve got one completely fucking flipped on her stance about providing housing to the homeless and she’s stopped calling the cops on people sleeping on benches in the park. Changing people’s minds sucks. It takes forever. It’s shitty, boring, unexciting work that puts you in contact with people you probably disagree with pretty strongly. It feels like you’re not accomplishing anything. But goddamnit if teaching ONE of your neighbors to be compassionate to unhoused people, at least enough to not call the cops on them, works even ONE time and someone doesn’t go to jail one time, or doesn’t get their belongings trashed one time, then you’re doing good fucking work.
So no, friend, picking up groceries for your neighbor isn’t going to save the ACA or protect abortion access - not in any direct, meaningful, noticeable way. But it might save you the cost of an ambulance ride. It might save someone else from getting arrested. Hell, if you teach your neighbors not to call the cops it might keep someone from getting shot. And that’s worth it.
SOME CAVEATS:
Don’t feel bad if you can’t build these kinds of affinity networks or if people don’t respond to you; some neighborhoods just aren’t like that, some people are just standoffish.
Don’t feel bad if you can’t do this kind of thing because of social anxiety or limited mobility. It’s okay, friend, not everybody can go out and meet people.
Don’t feel bad if you can’t do this kind of thing because it is unsafe for you to do so. Some people live among virulent racists, some people’s only neighbors are raging homophobes. Don’t endanger yourself, don’t feel bad for keeping yourself and your family safe if reaching out to your neighbors makes you a target.
Don’t feel bad if you can’t do this for any reason. It’s difficult and often unpleasant and you’re not obligated to, this post isn’t to guilt-trip anybody into going out to radicalize their neighbors, it’s an explanation of why small instances of interpersonal action can be a useful longterm strategy and shouldn’t be handwaved as pie-in-the-sky UwU lefty pipedreams.
What the modern world doesn’t seem to understand anymore is that, while yes you should be kind out of the general goodness of your heart…. This?
And it just felt so *shitty.* And I ended up ranting to my spouse about it because it was shitty! “It’s, like, weaponizing kindness or something! Just be good people, it’s so fucking weird that you’re trying to get on your neighbor’s good side in case of the apocalypse!”
This is exactly why things like etiquette and the entire concept of “polite behavior” even exists.. Like… That’s literally its entire role and function in society. This is it.
I know there’s a lot of weird moral emphasis placed on “just being a good human being” and doing it out of selflessness, and what not. And in a perfect world, that would be the case, and I’d love that… But let’s be really honest with ourselves, here: No one’s good. Not all the time; we all have our bad days, our pet peeves, etc.
Polite behavior is meant to act as a buffer for that, between you and people who live in close proximity to you. And yeah. It’s “shallow” and it’s “performative”, and participating in it can very much be pure selfishness… But that’s… Literally a good thing.
But the reason why ultimately doesn’t even matter because the point is by and large to make life easier on everyone involved in the social contract; there is no bad downside to being even performative in your kindness, because you’re still helping to build a kinder world, even if you secretly want to scoop out their eyeball with a desert spoon and feed it to your python because fucking hell what a fucknugget they are.
And that might make zero impact on conservative Joe down the road, true… But it might just make an impact on Joe’s daughter… And it might not make her a liberal… But maybe she comes closer to the ideological center- and that’s a win in its own right, because now you have one less extremist in the world. And all it took was a basic act of human decency like picking up groceries.
Don’t put yourself in danger to reach across the isle to those actively dangerous to you (hell, isle work isn’t even remotely for everyone. Lords know it ain’t for me)… But maybe it’s well past time we actually start reconsidering our penchant for participating in ideological “purity culture”, and the severe “all or nothing” stance we seem to have taken on a lot of shit.
Multilingual, multinational friend’s groups are amazing, like
Friend: [an item, but in English]
You: The fuck is [item]?
Friend: [sends picture of item]
You: OH! [item, but another English]
Friend: The fuck is [Item, but another English]
Hey guys, I restocked the 'be gay do crimes' stickers and started making pride flower crowns! (I dream of a day some cute gay couple uses them for a photo shoot, or a wedding... Would be an honour tbh)
You can check them out in my shop!
Have some good gay news? (i need some bc my country is proving more awful every day)
Why when someone survives cancer everyone congratulates them and says how brave and strong they are, but when you live through a suicide attempt everyone is... mad? Dissapointed? Uncomfortable? Maybe sorry sometimes but...
Idk pisses me off, do you think I chose THIS? Depression nearly killed me. It was my illness not my choice. Now fuck off.
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