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maddy/arthur | they/them - note to artists: if i like your art without reblogging, it's in my queue

[maulgoths]

The Liar

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[simothys]

[ID: Art of a vibrantly colored field. The sky is clear and fading into purple at the horizon. There are shadows and leaves of trees in the foreground. The horizon is obscured by another row of trees and other foliage. End ID.]

[evydraws]

"Stealing a Silmaril" and "The Defeat of Sauron" - the first two illustrations in my trio of Lúthien art. The third, The Halls of Mandos, is currently stuck on one (1) paint layer as I finish commissions...

[halondrus]

[cutecipher]

can you put that thing on a leash?

[halondrus]

ok

[aberrantceramics]

Cicada Eye Details

These are my large ceramic cicada wall sculptures.

Which one do you want?

[iris-of-the-lambs]

doodled some manticores... i meant to make them properly monstrous and scary but idk I think they're kinda cute now

[profiad]

Welcome back… been a minute.

[lonequixote]

Vincent van Gogh

Daubigny’s Garden (detail)

(via @lonequixote)

[thefugitivesaint]

Lucille Webster Holling (1900-1989), 'Shell Castles', ''Around A Toadstool Table, A Child's Book of Verse'' by Rowena Bennett, 1930

[julykings]

sketches from a long ago autumn

[taigacryptid]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox or librewolf (open-source fork of firefox) instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega instead of google drive

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

get free stuff with the help of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH, r/piracy and r/roms

use trakt (for shows and movies), letterboxd (just movies), or TMB instead of IMDB (owned by amazon).

use storygraph instead of goodreads (owned by amazon).

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause, ecosia, or ocean hero to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, or tuta instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use project gutenberg for free public domain books, and librivox for public domain books and audiobooks

use the seal app (android only) to download video and audio

use ellipsus instead of microsoft word or google docs

use mastodon instead of twitter

use peertube to create a network of small video hosting providers (disclaimer: not a 1:1 alternative to youtube)

use threema and signal for encrypted communication, on mobile and desktop

use qwant and startpage for secure internet browsers

use syncthing to securely transfer files between devices

learn how to jailbreak your kindle/ereader if you have one (wiki and video walkthrough)

use riseup’s email and VPN for secure communication (aimed towards activists)

use cryptpad and collabora instead of the microsoft office suite

use google takeout to export the data on your google account

use library extension to look for books on online stores and find them at your library

remove paywalls with removepaywalls

install the open-source adblocker ublock origin

install sponsorblock to skip sponsored segments on youtube videos

use bookfinder to look for the cheapest available listings of books, including textbooks

learn a language through mango (duolingo laid off some of its employees and now relies on AI translations) for free with a library card or through your school

edit photos with photopea

edit pdfs with foxit and sumatrapdf

download music with doubledouble

take notes offline and collaborate securely with obsidian

for android tv, use smarttube and cloudstream (ad-free, open-source)

change your OS to linux

changelog:

removed ground news (uses AI to summarize articles)

removed unroll.me (sells your data)

removed proton mail and drive (AI assistant feature, claims of CEO Andy Yen supporting Trump, please DM if you have proof I can add here)

removed NCH suite (only has very basic free features, puts watermark on anything saved)

notes:

this post blew up while I wasn’t looking (the end of my semester was hellish, and i recently came back from a 3-week family vacation). thanks so much for all the suggestions! <3

i included Ecosia because of their financial transparency. It’s physically impossible that they plant a tree for every search, but their profits still go towards projects including reforestation and solar energy. i view their actions as a net-positive

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: june 14th 2025

[sixty-silver-wishes]

the worst thing about house of leaves is how Stupid I look reading it in public lmao. yes I know I’m holding the book upside down and turning it in circles

[ludwigoat909]

[crabussy]

"dolphins are completely evil" I actually don't think we should assign human morality to animals with no concept of law or civilisation with an intelligence roughly equating to that of a toddler

[crabussy]

bottlenose dolphins use "baby talk" when communicating to their babies and smile at each other like humans do when they play. be nicies to them

[autisticexpression2]

"Dolphins are evil" is just a reactionary backlash to years of earnestly believing dolphins were all benevolence and rescuing sailors only to find out they can be dangerous and violent like any other large wild animal.

"Sharks are nice" is a similar phenomenon in the opposite direction. Pop culture portrays sharks as malevolant killing machines who crave human flesh, so when people realize they're just animals who don't attack people any more than other predators, they overcompensate into thinking you can just swim with great whites with no danger.

The reality, of course, is that both dolphins and sharks are large wild animals who should be approached with caution and respect if at all. It's probably best for you and the animal to admire them from a safe distance.

[syi666]

ok, so octopuses are for sure evil then. they're building HOAs off the coast of australia

[bonnettbee]

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

I think a big problem with the "queer community" is that it has become a homogenous ingroup that presumes we are all "siblings" in some way. As in, its more about a vague sense of unity and oneness rather than a political alliance of marginalized people's.

So the discourses become who is and is not queer. Who's gender is more subversive. Flags, labels, and other petty nonsense. When one tries to meaningfully analyze how our different genders, races, classes and so on impact our conditions and potential privileges, they are called a separatist who is threatening the oneness of the community.

But, there is no community. There is no siblinghood or unity. We all have materially different conditions compared to each other. Rocky horror is not "my queer history". It is just a bad movie that some suburban whites watch. Women are not my sisters. They are a marginalized people who share one thing in common with me, but everything else is infinitely varied on the individual.

What I am saying is, instead of a community who is unified. We should be an alliance between the marginalized. Yes, we will strive for the liberation of us all, but we should also study our material conditions and how our struggles, needs, oppression, and lives differ.

[caemidraws]

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[vulgarirex]

Years ago I drew a few leafhoppers for an exercise at school. These are still the most popular thing I have ever posted on the internet. So I drew some more and made a poster. These little guys are very fun! finding all their scientific names was a pain though!

If you would like a print:

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/vulgarirex/leafplanttree-hoppers/

[heycollage]

@onenicebugperday

[storyweavingspider]

I know that on the internet transfemmes tend to get accused of “separatist ideology” the most for speaking about our issues, but I do think it’s hilarious (evil) how the more marginalized you are the harder it becomes to actually be separationist or isolationist because of the exact systemic discrimination that creates those desires.

Like ok, you’re transfemme. You have hella bad experiences with non-transfemmes doing transmisogyny to you so you end up interacting almost exclusively with other transfemmes.

But you’re also Black, and you hope that also being marginalized will help cut out the antiblackness and transmisogynoir from non-Black transfemmes, but it turns out they still gonna do that shit to you, so you retreat to just other Black transfemmes.

And then you get hit with long covid or literally any other disability, can’t work anymore because of it and become reliant on mutual aid to survive. Surely, you think, the double whammy of being Black and transfemme means they’ll understand ableism too. Maybe mask so you can be with them safely without getting even more disabled.

And then they don’t, so you try to find other disabled Black transfemmes, a sliver of a sliver of a sliver, but they’re all ALSO broke and isolated and surviving on mutual aid and luck and they tell you your options are to accept everything being done to you so that you have a chance of surviving via mutual aid and community resources, or simply give up.

So you go back to the larger community to have a chance of surviving, because the average lifespan for Black transfemmes is mid-30s and you’d like to beat the average at least, and you prepare to suffer again, to survive.

Last year, two of the best known/loved cis Black women who were disability advocates on Twitter died due to lack of mutual aid. One couldn’t raise funds for her chemo, the other couldn’t raise funds for a rideshare to the hospital the day she died and knew that an ambulance would ruin her financially.

I look at them, two well known and loved disabled Black women who put so much effort into helping their community only to die due to lack of help, and then I look at the other disabled Black trans folks I know surviving off of mutual aid and I wonder how much longer it’ll be until it’s them, because they damn sure don’t got the same amount of people that even know who they are.

(If you BIPOC/trans/disabled and trying to cf, I’ll reblog it if you message it to me or put it as a reblog on this. I’ll also try to go through and reblog everything on here every so often)

[storyweavingspider]

Pink, a homeless Black trans woman living/traveling through the rural US, desperately needs funds to survive, keep on the move, and afford medications to treat her chronic illness.

Her PP is @ogpink, and you can bring her asks on bluesky at bsky.app/profile/pinktrannypants.bsky.social / http://pinktrannypants.bsky.social

If you can help her out directly, please do. If you can’t, please reblog this so someone else might be able to. Thank you.

[cleanbrainforget]

she is currently behind on payments for a hotel, so if you'd like to help her stay warm and dry she could do with some money

[sawasawako]

please support workshops4gaza if you can either by signing up for their workshops or buying a book from their amazing catalogue. some of you need to read more widely and browsing their bookstore is a great way to do that