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@misteraltan @syrren and I did the thing where we each do a sketch and then pass it to the next person to line and then the last person to color it (is there a name for this?)

This is a really normal set of fandoms

#heehee hoohoo friend art #my art #art

elancholia

I think the concept of introversion may have harmed a lot of people, tbh

elancholia

It makes it easy to make an identity of being scared. And it's easy to hear a loosely medicalized idea like "I am just fundamentally de-energized by social interaction, unlike other people, who aren't", and then dig in. And really you're just scared.

#this was me in high school 100%#man this week i literally went out every day after work #it was a lot and it won't be a regular occurrence #but i kinda like being around ppl

queerspacepunk

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

madgastronomer

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

knitmeapony

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

ladyothelakes

The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.

I liked the idea of immortality leading to a reverence for life and the world around it, rather than nihilism and wanton destruction. It was also a comforting thought that if immortal beings walked among us, they could see the future of our hope become a reality someday… so it felt relevant again.

#comics

silvermoon424

Nazis crashing the fuck out at Elmo for no reason is one of my new favorite genres. Literally this pic:

#*elmo voice* never apologize to nazis #remember everybody

wishbow

hourly comic day 2026

#comics

ugh i remember when i was a young girl wanting to buy an american girl doll that looked like me and having to settle with a racially ambiguous one... anyways kpop demon hunters American girl dolls go crazy go wild

#altan's podcast #wildin

sapphicides

in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

young adult:

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month

#black history month #recs

mads-schubert

FREE POSTER DOWNLOADS via Linktree

I'm starting a small archive this year of high res poster variants (and some new designs) that people can download and print themselves.

Full color and high quality prints will still be available on the shop, but accessibility of my art is one of my priorities for this year, so these options will be here too! You can also support via Ko-Fi if you feel so inclined!

#art