please read the About or Curious? links before sending questions. feel free to ask me to tag trigger warnings and content warnings. see "about" for what i already tag. my personal blacklist tags: #body horror, #emetophobia, #stretch marks, #trypophobia, #rape, #gore
is there anything we can do for you in this difficult time?
give me a million dollars
take all the feeling out and replace it with steel
end capitalism
kill the Gods
give me a quest to find my true purpose and a magic weapon so that I might achieve it
give me a map to find my True Love (patent pending)
infinite nachos
in other words
there's nothing that anybody can do.
I will collapse on my own time
and hope that the Earth is shielded from my fall
maybe Zeus will come to your house and ask for succor in the guise of an old man
you'll poison his bread and he will have earned it
the flowers will bloom around his body and Gaia will claim him
we will drink ambrosia at the top of Olympus while those that remain cower
good riddance to bad Gods
the smaller graffiti on the doors say "bisogna stare in silenzio quando i bambini dormono... non quando muoiono!" aka "you need to be quiet when children are sleeping... not when they're dying!"
my new thing whenever an embarrassing memory jumps up out of some backwater neuron to t-bone my present-day thought process is to declare a statute of limitations. like i can burn down an entire building in the state where i live and the law deems it both unfair and illegal to prosecute me after six years have passed, i think that thing i said in high school can be expunged from my record.
Because polls get the most engagement I’m making a poll lol
(For the sake of this poll: a collector is anyone who *currently has* a collection of things either physically or digitally that they intentionally acquired which can be grouped together)
Are you a collector?
I am, I have a single collection
I am, I have multiple collections
I am not but I would like to have a collection
I am not. I don’t want a collection
I am not but I was previously a collector
I do not fit the definition you gave for this poll but consider myself one
Voting ended onOct 16, 2023
Please please please please pleeeeeeeaaaaaaase tell me what you collect and optionally why!!!! (This is doubly true if your collection is related to a regulatory/“special” interest!!!!!!! That’s honestly the only reason I’m making this poll, I am begging youuuuuuuuuuu
Neurodivergent related tags are for reach as I know a lot of neurodiverse people are collectors. I do try my best not to clutter those tags, if anyone has an issue with it please tell me and I’ll remove them
Not only can prisoners not vote in the US, once you've been convicted of a felony (a very large category of crimes that prosecutors like to find excuses to fit people into), you can never vote again for the rest of your life.
Oh that is fucked, that is fucked beyond belief, that shouldn't be allowed
This is actually not true of the entire US! It depends on the state. When I worked in Ohio, we would encounter people who incorrectly believed they couldn't vote because of past felonies.
16 states allow people with felony convictions to vote once their sentence is complete.
9 states have restrictions on voting rights for people with felon convictions. Some of these are effectively a ban. One of these states is Florida, which passed a referendum to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions who had completed their sentence, but the DeSantis administration has found various loopholes to continue restricting voting.
23 states ban prisoners from voting but allow people with felony convictions to vote if they are not in prison.
2 states, Maine and Vermont, allow everyone to vote.
The ACLU has a map.
OP, I know you're not American and may or may not be interested in this, but it's important for any Americans seeing this to know that depending on where they live they may in fact have the right to vote. Misinformation about this is a form of voter suppression.
Also if you live in a state where prisoners and/or felons can’t vote, CALL YOUR REPS. Start talking to friends and family. Network. Get it on the ballot.
i was going to reblog this long post abt different signs u might be addicted bc some of them where helpful indicators and i think people should be aware of how their substance impact their life so they can make informed decisions but like so much of it was just wrapped in this veneer of judgement and like underlying view that "acknowledging your addiction" = "going sober"
all of you are so fucking correct. the response to addiction doesnt have to be "oh all these other things (coffee, weed, cigarettes etc) are no different than other addictive substances so we should all adopt a mentality of hate the sin and love (pity) the sinner" instead of "people self medicate with a variety of substances and that can lead to physical and mental dependencies and people should be able to make their own decisions of what they put in their body and should be supported in doing so in ways that can reduce harm"
but thats a lot less dramatic and condescending tho so *shrugs*
Got a new lil guy for yall! This is based on some prompts shared by @ordheist on twitter, specifically, the brilliant: BRUTALIST GARGOYLE ! I knew immediately I hand to try my had at it! I might make another one, too. Maybe one that's more scary and less a cute wittle guyyyy, lmao.
Finished this on August 15, 2023.
WOW, thanks yall so much for the response for this lil guy!!! This has got be the most popular thing I’ve made and put up online!
As a treat, I’m adding on the couple of WIP pictures I took while making him!
First one, just a lil guy sitting down:
@dericbindel as promised, here is the first of your kiddos! This particular drawing also has a bit of speculative Lore about how a chunky little gargoyle like this guy might work, and what kind of place he might come from! 😊 The design process and Potential “Creature Lore” is under the cut if you’re interested.
I looked at a lot of other brutalist artwork and buildings to get some ideas, so a few of the shapes might have ended up a bit different, but I REALLY hope it’s still coming through that this was based on the same little guy shown above… I also hope to do some beastie designs for your other ones too, I’m still just trying to figure out how to draw the right shapes and testing poses and things. 😅
So, about some of the more obvious changes… Something about the shape of his head gave me a strange “funny little Minotaur” vibe, hence the rebar-stud “cow nose”, the slightly smoothed horns, and the “cloven hooves”. :3
I also felt a bit bad that a “real-life version” probably couldn’t see very well, which I assumed would make mostly sitting in place all day pretty boring for him… so I gave him some “eyes” made of what I assume to be magically modified Security Camera Lenses, which presumably connect to whatever he has in place of a brain and let him People-Watch! 🥰
They probably also help him do his job of guarding the building he was built to protect, and keeping the people inside safe from disasters or violence… Given his Brutalist Style, I imagine his home to be a Big-City Bank, a busy Corporate or Government Office Building, or maybe even something like a Local Library.
When I first saw these adorable gargoyles, I immediately imagined a world where more “Modern” Metropolitan Magi create and animate special Gargoyle friends like these ones to help protect public buildings and their patrons in big bustling cities… when not actively performing their assigned duties, they look more or less exactly like large versions of your original sculptures (aside from the occasional additions like the cameras, of course 😅).
However, you might be wondering what’s up with the cracking concrete, as well as all the Stuff sticking out and the Goo oozing all over him… and there’s an explanation for that too!
See, when their help is needed in an emergency, they need to be able to spring into action and MOVE… which, even when you’re made of living magic, is REALLY hard to do when your OTHER “primary ingredients” are Big Inflexible Blocks of Concrete and Rebar!
The solution? A combination of a magically-conductive “skeleton” of enchanted rebar that can twist and move itself into new shapes while still supporting the weight of the rest of the creature’s components (and almost anything it might need to move or carry); and the ability to selectively turn the Concrete from which they are poured back into its original semi-viscous state to allow themselves freedom of movement, then seamlessly Re-Harden it when they go back to resting or need to Armor themselves further against danger!
This process doesn’t hurt the gargoyles, but they do sometimes have trouble “re-setting” as they get older and succumb to wear-and-tear, and they tend to lose a bit of their concrete when they Liquify it, so a good Gargoyle Maintenance Crew will regularly “feed” their Blocky Friends specially-formulated cement mixes to help keep them happy and structurally sound, as well as cleaning and checking them for damage regularly. 👷
They also “feed” on any number of different ambient Power Sources to fuel their “metabolism” and retain their functions, much like any living thing… some have additionally been rumored to munch the occasional Pigeon or take a cheeky bite out of any plants near them in their building’s landscaping, but this hasn’t been officially confirmed. 🔍👀
"All your tests/labs came back clear! Isn't that great?"
American healtcare is a business, and you are the customer. Here's something you can say:
"It's great that we ruled out X, Y, and Z with these tests. However, I'm still having these symptoms, and they're effecting my daily life in these specific ways. So what's next on your list of differential diagnoses?"
And if that doesn't get you anywhere, you can say something like:
"Okay, we've ruled out all of the common causes for my symptoms. So when do we start exploring more rare explanations?"
And if that still gets you nowhere, you're going to document their refusal to do further testing in your chart, because they don't want to have to put that in writing. Keep going, you're worth it. I love you, mean.
