one bird in a tiny trenchcoat

I make comics and die The Otherknown (sci-fi webcomic) Fall Until Summer (also on tapas - queer high school ace-centric romance) For a Horse and Horseman (mature m/m webnovel)

[longlostlorian]

Do you like historically-influenced illustrated gay novels (such as the MXTX books)?

My gay and trans fantasy webnovel, For a Horse and Horseman, is NOW LIVE with a printed edition of Volume 1 on Kickstarter!!

It's got 14 full-page b/w illustrations plus a fantasy map (I love a fantasy map!) plus all 55 unique chapter inset illustrations from the original run on Tapas. There are 3 books planned total, and Vol 1 is a character-motivated adventure story. This is a pretty barebones campaign, just the books (physical and ebook) plus a small selection of bespoke merch!

Thanks very much if you decide to give it a look!!

✨✨🐎🐎🐎🐎✨✨

[longlostlorian]

OVER A THIRD OF THE WAY FUNDED ON DAY ONE THUS FAR THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!

BTW, I forgot to mention here that this story is a prose novel for adults, with sex, violence, and mature themes. Some of the illos are pretty sexy too..

if that sounds up your alley, consider helping us get to 50%!!!!

[longlostlorian]

>50% and a "Project We Love" on kickstarter!! Thanks so much for the support!! ❤️🐎✨

[longlostlorian]

We passed 75%!!!! thank you everyone for supporting me in my dream to make two medieval princes kiss

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[headspace-hotel]

"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."

[mortalityplays]

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter was one of the best works of sci-fi of our generation and one of the best works of transgender fiction ever written, and there are world renowned authors who still have successful careers after they publicly assassinated the nascent woman who wrote it. I don't think they should ever know peace.

[mortalityplays]

Isabel Fall is the patron saint of works unwritten and art unmade by a culture that cannot tolerate trans women

[mortalityplays]

I think this constantly and then I get angry for thinking it, because trans women should not have to be martyrs or saints to animate our politics and our art. that work should have been her debut, not her epitaph. I should be moved by her career, not her absence. I could spit.

[mortalityplays]

read it again

[cryptotheism]

Don’t you have to read good books to be a good writer?

You need a balanced diet of Peak, Dogshit, indulgent tripe, top 40 shit, almost-peak, niche peak, and experimental avante garde shit.

[arliganzey]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: For a Horse and Horseman (Webcomic) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Şehzade Cemil/Osmund Haldebard Characters: Şehzade Cemil, Osmund Haldebard, Emre, Sakina, Mirhan, Nuray, Nienos, Kemal, Ayaz, Banu, Anaya Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - College/University Summary:

Osmund is a sophomore trying to make the grade in the political science program of a prestigious university. He’s not very academic - his true passion is horseback riding! His other true passion? Cemil, the popular and handsome son of a State Senator. When Cemil asks Osmund to join his polo club team, they start a whirlwind romance that sends their lives in new directions.

[dateamonster]

messed up that you can literally be better and nicer in every way and the adventuring party will still be like "waaa its a shapeshifter waaaa the real whatstheirface would never say that" like ok maybe i am a picture perfect copy of your friend that i imprisoned beneath the earth and replaced when you werent looking. so what. maybe they were a cunt. maybe i thought youd appreciate an improved version of your friend. with awesome eldritch tendrils.

[herpsandbirds]

Common Grackle catching and consuming a fish. Just thought I was going to a picture of a Grackle drinking and then this happened!

Eastern Ontario

[frogcroaks]

I've kept this blog mostly as a faceless drawing account, but I feel like at this point I should talk more about art related things I believe in. right now, I've been more and more annoyed by the way artists approach merch and their reactions to criticism

First of all, and I'll be blunt: the entitlement towards cheap global south labor from indie artists is insane. You can place whatever marginalized identity in your shop, it does not give you the free pass to hire manufacturers that refuse to inform you about the wages and labor protections of their workers. If the only way that you can do x product is like that, then you don't deserve to have x product as a merch option.

Enamel pins, makeshift plushies, acrylic stands, shitty tshirts and apparel... why is our community filled with dropshipping slop whos production involves labor abuses and environmental damage? why are we constantly playing dumb to these manufacturers being shady and then getting surprised they get in labor scandals? why are we coddling artists that its ok to exploit others for profit because a smol bean who just has no choice or responsibility ever?

If you aren't making your merch by hand or making sure the people making it for you are being paid properly, then you should get another job.

[etirabys]

oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

[argumate]

hello, fellow apes

[spitoutthedaisyhoratio]

The lead up to that sentence is gold:

[consistantly-changing]

[Image transcript: porch. The group had been day-nesting and sunbathing when I contacted them, but upon my approach they nervously retreated to obscure themselves behind thick foliage. Frustrated but determined to see them better, I decided to climb a tree, not one of my better talents. The tree was particularly slithery and, try as I might, no amount of puffing, pulling, gripping, or clawing succeeded in getting me more than a few feet aboveground. Disgustedly, I was about to give up when Sanwekwe came to my aid by giving one mighty boost to my protruding rump; tears were running from his eyes as he was convulsed in silent laughter. I felt as inept as a baby taking its first step. Finally able to grab on to a conveniently placed branch, I hauled myself up into a respectful semislouch position in the tree about twenty feet from the ground. By this time I naturally assumed that the combined noises of panting, cursing, and branch-breaking made during the initial climbing attempts must have frightened the group on to the next mountain. I was amazed to look around and find that the entire group had returned and were sitting like front row spectators at a sideshow. All that was needed to make the image complete were a few gorilla-sized bags of popcorn and some cotton candy! This was the first live audience I had ever had in my life and certainly the least expected.]

[roach-works]

imagine some freakish not-a-human alien THING has shown up out of nowhere and is trying to get into your office building to study you. but it has no idea how to get past a revolving door. it tries for three hours. by the time it finally understands the concept of a revolving door and squeeze into the building everyone in the office is crowded into the lobby to watch and call helpful suggestions. it’s conclusively determined that the alien is definitely not a threat, except maybe to itself.

[obeliskthetormentorsfeetpics]

Addition approved

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[boltlightning]

I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store

[boltlightning]

i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me

[genderkoolaid]

it really should be transfeminism 101 that the concept of victimhood under patriarchy being tied to some inherent state of being, rather than one's actual lived experiences with oppression and violence, is unhelpful and inaccurate, leads to the alienation of trans and intersex people, and is itself grounded in patriarchal ideas about gender as an inherent natural trait.

so why isn't it?

[tildesee]

I suspect that in part is because the most common and quickly learned trans women's self defense is, to combat relentless undermining of trans women's "qualifications" as women, to insist to the point of thoughtless mantra "every trans woman is and has always been a woman from the moment she was born", "at no point in life ever has a trans woman experienced male socialization or male privilege", and similar statements, to the point that it actually makes it difficult as a trans woman to talk about the fact that, for example, I went from being able to hand out 3 resumes in my industry and get 4-5 job offers out of it, to handing out 30+ resumes before I could even get a call back for an interview.

The core of that self defense is rooted in creating the narrative of an inherent, timeless, and extrasocial gendered experience. It's a self defense strategy that has had an incredible amount of utility, as much as I dislike it and try not to utilize it myself. It also has the knock on effect that if trans women's experience is inherent, timeless, and extrasocial, the only way that works in the protective way it's meant to is if everyone's gendered experience is inherent, timeless, and extrasocial. This is also why you'll get a surprising amount of trans women arguing against the idea that binary gender (and gender as a whole, sex too) is a social construct.

If trans women's experience of womanhood is inherent and eternal, so too must trans men's experience of manhood; for trans women to have never experienced manhood or make privilege or male socialization, the same must be true of all women, and the opposite true for all men, trans inclusive. Because internalized oppositional sexism.

This is a significant part of why I go pretty hard on the "it doesn't matter if we were born this way or we choose our gender or orientation, we deserve the same respect either way". But that's kinda getting down a garden path.

Anyway. Transfeminism has such difficulty grappling with transandrophobia and trans men's experiences of womanhood as concepts because that mantric self defense precept is so powerful and so high utility, and relies on gender and this experience of oppression as being inherent.

Genus delendum est ut genus liberetur

[velvetvexations]

male socialization

This is complicated more by TERFs practically changing what the term "male socialization" means so you can't talk about it without being accused of thinking trans women are programmed to be men or that it even necessarily applies to everyone AMAB.

[shithowdy]

from a certain standpoint birdwatching is a sort of gacha

[shithowdy]

-reliant on RNG random encounters

-instills a deep sense of fomo

-seasonally-cycled releases

-becomes increasingly financially prohibitive the more you want to expand your list and/or document your encounters

-achieved goals sound meaningless to those not in the hobby

[shithowdy]

never give up!

[bonesjaunst]

Guys from my 🐎✨

[longlostlorian]

working on my otherknown miis (yes Prati is terrifying)

Demeck is perfect however

[tawked]

Superman desperately scanning the street during a fight to find the most morally acceptable car to throw at his opponent, knowing that not everybody has insurance, and loss of transportation can ruin a life -

A wave of incredible relief washes over him as he spots the hard geometric lines and silver paintless sheen of a Cybertruck.

[rudavoidish]

Y'all if you're American please email your politicians and senators against the parents decide act. I'm fucking begging because we're reaching a tipping point.

[hetrosjistin]

Call or Write Congress About H.R. 8250: Parents Decide Act - GovTrack.us

Quick and easy link to both find your congressmen/women and giving you a quick and easy way to copy / paste the message into it. You want to oppose. It's an act that will demand that all major OS makers integrate a direct forced age verification control into all OS.

[rudavoidish]

I received a comment on this that I figured would be very helpful- it's a template for communicating with your representatives. Be sure to use it for reference

Dear Representative [Name],

I am writing to express my strong opposition to H.R. 8250 (The "Parents Decide Act"). As your constituent and a concerned citizen, I believe this bill introduces unprecedented risks to digital privacy and security.

Specifically, I am alarmed by:

SEC. 2(a)(1)(B): Requiring age verification to even use an operating system creates a mandatory "hardware lockout" that ends anonymous computing and forces users to hand over sensitive identification data to major corporations just to power on their devices.

SEC. 2(a)(3): Mandating that OS providers create a system for all app developers to access verification data is a massive security vulnerability. This effectively creates a centralized API of user identities accessible to thousands of third-party developers, many of whom may lack adequate data protection.

This bill does not protect children; it creates a centralized surveillance infrastructure at the OS level. I urge you to protect the privacy of your constituents and vote NO on H.R. 8250.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

[Your Zip Code]

[willowtree1527]

This is a hell that us down under in Australia are already living in, and it’s not even effective at what it claims to do in protecting children.

Given that, in the wake of this mandatory identification policy, my country seems to be moving to hand over its citizens biometric data, like fingerprints, Face ID files, and identification documents, over to the USA and to ICE to maintain the visa free travel (ESTA) we have, I strongly urge any US resident to send these emails, or make calls.

But if you can’t do that, the most powerful thing you can do is spread the word. Tell your friends, family, coworkers, anyone who can help.

My reach will likely be small, and so I don’t know if this will mean very much in the grand scheme of things, but I cannot stand to see this tracking happen to another population as it did to mine.

And if you think it won’t affect you, it will. All anonymity goes out the window when your accounts can be linked via your personal ID

I wish you all luck in preventing this act from going through.