Mosquito Milk

Harpy Woman 🪶 25◇She/Her◇Sapphic

[taylor-titmouse]

Your recent ask has reminded me that I've been meaning to read more books. Are there any authors that you would recommend, and/or anyone who has been an inspiration for your writing?

le guin, always. left hand of darkness, the dispossessed, earthsea if you feel like wizards, always coming home if you enjoy speculative anthropology.

octavia butler's lilith's brood series. great alien science fiction about human nature.

pratchett, of course. look up the discworld reading list and pick anything that suits your fancy, but i'll specifically recommend either starting with Equal Rites or Guards, Guards!

i really enjoyed scott lynch's lies of locke lamora. i also just finished michael chabon's the yiddish policeman's union, which i would describe as jewish disco elysium.

it's also genuinely worth giving the Classics that they made you read in school another try, or seeking out the ones you missed. i read fahrenheit 451 and 1984 for the first time as an adult, and they're legitimately good reads when you're doing it for pleasure and not for a grade.

those are my recommendations. if you buy any of them get them through this bookshop.org link so i get a dollar :)

[microposting]

people went to war over this show

[sanrio-stud]

who suffered more?

Pearl

jesus christ

Voting ended onApr 10

[mortalityplays]

my friend justifiably yelled at me for telling every other artist I know to make a tip jar available on their profiles but not actually having one myself, so I've dusted off my old ko-fi

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this probably won't get a ton of attention going forward, the stuff I actually have piled up to share is destined for Patreon as before, but there's literally no reason not to have a one time tip jar for the many many assorted fuckers who drift across my profile from reading my stupid posts every day. everyone make it easier for strangers to toss you coins RIGHT NOW 🫵

[great-american-chapel]

Emerging dragonfly at 1am

[unpeeled-human]

special defense

does this count as anything ???is this art

[unpeeled-human]

im capping it at 59k notes. thats it. shows over everybody

[unpeeled-human]

im gonna have to draw them fucking each other at this point

[girlteuthis]

Dawg how are you 22 with a wife and kids you should be outside playing

[artofmaquenda]

Colors :>

[taylor-titmouse]

Piggyback off of the previous Bergen ask, I'm kind of curious how susceptible the rest of the mercenaries would be to flattery from a woman lol (Also welcome back!!)

karken: depends on the woman, but generally it doesn't work on him because he doesn't believe it's sincere. less out of self deprecation but because most women he'd meet in a tavern are human, and human women are not generally into dwarves. there's also the fact he's the leader of his group, so he'd view any flattery as suspicious and motivated. basically he has a brain. while he's not against being flirted with, it won't change his behavior unless he's interested in the woman.

sidus: doesn't respond to flattery, or at least not in the way you'd hope. flattery is for the weak to kiss up to the strong, which means you're beneath him in the great hierarchy. while male imps generally consider all females above them, sidus doesn't have that part of the socialization. so people who are nice to him and don't have power over him are designating themselves as potential chew toys--things to fuck to impress higher value mates.

deacon: he is going to be casually misogynist about it and fuck it up. he does respect women because he thinks they are less intelligent and less capable than he is. he's going to experience a war of impulses--to want to encourage the flirting, because he likes attention, and to write it off as frivolous and dishonest, because he doesn't trust women. he doesn't think they could be legitimately attracted to him because he has low self esteem, but at the same time is so up his own ass that it bothers him not to get attention.

they're all just terrible men

[pikaole]

Me and mom learned new English word.

[pikaole]

Wow…This is probably the most famous posts on my Tumblr lol. 

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

[possumcollege]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

slice of a beetlejuice YTP that has replaced the communication center in my brain

[cheaphalloweencostume]

:( RIP Catherine O’Hara you were my everything my princess di…

[plastiboo]

[tinytelescopes]

go my eva. i think she would do the edwardian era face framing curls earning her the reputation of liking odd and old fashioned things

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[ohcorny]

For Your Consideration...

If you liked Hunger's Bite, it would be super cool of you to nominate it for the Ringo Awards! It's eligible for Best Cartoonist, Best Original Graphic Novel, and Best Kids Graphic Novel (12 and Up).

🙏 pwease

[raygeigrr]

Rewatched Death Note recently 🖤

[zisurru]

something i think would make a lot of historical romance more accurate & interesting is the realization that people are less likely to totally disparage the ethical & social values of their time than they are to use those values to defend whatever it is they want to do

a woman is less likely to go "it's stupid that women are expected to be modest" than she is to go "there is nothing immodest about a woman going out without a chaperone" or even "i can go out without a chaperone because i am so modest"

people also seem less likely to see someone's shitty behavior as reflecting a shitty society than they are to view that behavior as being out of accordance with that society - e.g. a father who's excessively controlling of his daughters' marriage prospects isn't, in her mind, acting that way because he lives in a repressive patriarchal culture, but is actually outdated in his values - his cruelty is unmodern, ungentlemanly, stuck in the past, barbaric. we might think he's upholding the values of his culture perfectly, but the people around him who took issue with his behavior probably wouldn't see it that way

[chocolatepot]

I agree, and I'd also note that people are capable of carving out a hole in their prejudices to accommodate someone who doesn't match them.

If some Victorian dude comes across a capable female doctor, rather than going "she must be lying, or they gave her easy tests to let her through" or whatever, he'd be very likely to see her as an exception to his belief that women couldn't do medicine. She was made without feminine frailties. She has a man's mind. Oh, she's very nurturing, so nurturing that she feels she must heal people beyond the level of nursing.

There can still be an assumption that she wouldn't take really difficult cases or she wouldn't medically examine a man with his shirt off or whatever, but it's much more realistic when prejudices are complex and shifting. And it can still be an obstacle for the character! It can still make her deeply uncomfortable! It would just be more interesting to read.

[sinnykitt]

butler threw a fit and refuses to clean up