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hello! im an australian, autistic, aroace trans man, i play a lot of nintendo games (big fan of botw and animal crossing), i like chainsaw man and look back (both by tatsuki fujimoto), and my favourite game is an indie game called Mutazione!

any art i've posted will be tagged 'my art' <3

my posts are sporadic but i tag them, current hyperfixation is the pitt #the pitt and also project hail mary!!!

#keep for later #recipe #cook later #my art

somethingusefulfromflorida

The housing crisis isn't about a lack of housing, it's about companies buying up properties and jacking up the rent. You can build as many new homes as you want, but if you don't stop the landlords you're doing nothing but putting more money in their pockets.

rabbitkinglune777

black people in gothic/alt scenes are just so cool because I think the concept of being black is already outside of the conservative worldview so being black and rejecting norms of a Christian fascist society is a goddamn power move. especially in the face of black conservatives. I've heard from black people who are goth or alt that they faced antiblackness in those spaces and they are honestly troopers. I'm alt too trying to express myself after being in a Christian cult for 18 years of my life, finally out. I find comfort in nu metal and ig "dark" music

it's also why I drew furry lesbians and transgender furries and porn because that shit was so heavily repressed tooI mean my fursona is literally a demon wolpertinger!!!!

saszor

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"Tutorial" on how to draw an OC with dwarfism (well, some of it).

Boring tired disclaimer: Keep in mind that this is an introductory "drawing" "tutorial" and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. Which happens to be true for everything in general.

You are heavily encouraged to do your own research because this does not contain everything you should know before making a character with any type of dwarfism.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

If (when) you repost this on pinterest at least put a link to the original post somewhere..

anglerfl3sh

I love post like "you all are against rich people until they're a fictional character" because it's completely true. I am against rich people until it's a fictional character. I don't think liking Scrooge McDuck makes someone a class traitor

brightlotusmoon

footlongdingledong

come get your fucking man he just referred to the genderally ambiguous creature design as he/him

swingsetindecember

i feel like people think companies will be altruistic and do the right thing regardless of government intervention. like no, companies are driven by capitalism. to make the most out of the day and money they have and maximize profits, especially fortune 500 companies

like without government intervention, strawberry jam would have wood in it. like it's a thing. food companies realized that they could use less of the expensive strawberries as ingredients and just use wood. there are laws you cannot legally call it strawberry jam if you do this. you have to call it a strawberry product or spread. food companies are always trying to get that shit through. they have lobby groups pushing that all the time

it is more expensive to put metal detectors in a food processing plant. companies want to cut costs. it is a legal requirement in a lot of countries to have them. so it forces companies to install them.

also to do routine inspections. that is a government requirement. so are building codes. a lot of codes are the bare minimum. like some companies will exceed the code and have more protections but a lot don't. like if it is not in the code, they don't do it. so that's why having governing bodies that regulate building safety, worker safety, food safety and product safety are crucial. because without them, your employer will not see the need to have exit doors with quick release handles, or do routine fire sprinkler inspections or have road salt for the sidewalks. some of it is basic fucking stuff.

companies when left alone do not regulate themselves. it's been historically untrue. companies want to give you a product that is cheap for them to make and that they can sell at the highest price so they can get the most profit. for everyone who loves capitalism, that's what it is. the free market will not self-regulate. if you don't have anti-monopoly laws and anti-wage theft laws and workers' protections, the open market will not fix that organically.

when government officials talk about removing protections it is not good. like they were put in place for a reason. like drinking water and food regulations were written in blood. same with human rights and freedoms. like people died for the building code to be written. people died for occupational healthy and safety codes to be written. there is a reason food safety codes are there. companies will look at 100 people dying and say it was the cost of doing business. it is the government's job to say that is an unacceptable and for companies to do better

bundibird

Manufacturers of matches knew that the sulfur they were using was making their employees sick, but the safer alternative was more expensive so they buried the knowledge for as long as they could and only swapped to the safer option once word got out and they were forced to make changes.

Arsenic miners knew that their fun little green colourant was killing people, but green clothes and furniture and wallpaper was super in vogue at the time and the miners were making bank, so they hid the knowledge for as long as they could.

DuPont/Teflon knew that their non-stick coating was poisonous, but it was super popular and making them loads of money, so they buried the information and kept making it (knowingly poisoning their employees) and emptying their waste into local waterways (poisoning local communities and animals) and selling it (poisoning their customers).

Cigarette companies new the harm that their products caused, and buried it for as long as possible. PG&E knew that they were causing cancer clusters, and they tried to bury that. Purdue Pharma knew their drug was addictive, and they not only tried to hide that fact, they also did their best to get as many people hooked on it as possible. Watch makers knew the paint they had their employees using was horribly toxic well before they stopped using it.

There are countless examples of a company knowing full well that their product or processes or etc were causing harm, but choosing to persist anyway because making money is more important to them than the health and wellbeing of their employees and customers. Thw only thing that has ever stopped them from doing this is public outcry and legislation.

People dont say "those regulations are written in blood" for no reason. They are literally written in the blood of all those individuals who were sacrificed before the rich and powerful were forced to stop their harmful practices. The second anyone starts talking about stripping back protective legislation, you know theyre either an absolute moron or theyre on the payroll of someone who wants to get very rich at the expense of people's lives.

zombiezinmydreams

theonion

Blasting the 2-year-old’s incessant lying to the American people, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday slammed her toddler son over baseless accusations that the caterpillar was very hungry. “Time and time again, this vindictive child has served up fabrications regarding the caterpillar’s appetite that consist of nothing but radical left talking points,” Leavitt said in reference to the insect protagonist of Eric Carle’s classic children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, adding that her son was peddling fake news and that the caterpillar had never at any point munched its way through a number of fruits and junk food items.

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