The Mensch, The Myth, The Legend

It’s me Orion I draw things I promise | they/he/she | no AI or NFT | commissions are OPEN dm for inquiry :)

[orionis13]

My c0mms are OPEN‼️‼️‼️

Starting with 5 slots of my simplified style plus 3 slots of the screentone portraits! DMs are open for questions and inquiries! :)))

[mr-deep-downer]

[sailatina3]

[herecomesthementalmeltdown]

[threeninesfine]

The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

—J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

[creatingblackcharacters]

"From these made-up horrors, these fictionalized enemies, he had created a villain worthy of the violent bravado that he imagined he would display if confronted by said villain. This web of racist lies was what he needed to make himself seem like a man. He invented a story about bad guys who were out to get him, and he repeated it to himself and others until he believed it. Then he made up another story- of himself as hero, defending himself and his family against this violent threat- and he repeated that one until he believed it too. Brian wrote himself into his own American westen, a world of cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers. And for a man with no job, few friends, and a family that couldn't stand him, pretending to be a main character in violent American mythology was as close to belonging as he was ever going to get."

Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

[jingjuejing]

rocky not new to this ball

[nibeul]

grace in space

[id: It’s three drawings of Grace as a Korean man. In the first and last, he’s wearing his teacher outfit, consisting of a gray suit jacket, a blue shirt with white stripes, a lanyard, and a red tie. In the middle drawing, he’s wearing a shirt with a cat on the San Francisco bridge. In the first drawing, his collar is open, and he’s leaning back while sorting through student papers. In the second drawing, he’s pointing with both hands, and his glasses are askew, hanging from his ears. In the last drawing, he’s pointing again, though one hand also clutches an Earth bean bag. Crayon drawings depicting a cartoon spaceship, Earth, Venus, Mars, the Sun, several stars, and a few meteoroids fill the white space around him. /end id]

[organicmatter]

Being hairy is so awesome #mammal

[elierlick]

The Department of Education worked with the far-right Family Research Council to officially designate March 12th as Detrans Awareness Day last year. But what actually leads people to detransition? It's not regret, but social stigma, incited by the very figures who claim to protect detransitioners. I want to hear their stories describing how the current moral panic influenced their decisions.

[mousidy]

at my core I do just desperately want people to be normal to trans women

[mousidy]

we aren't fetish objects we aren't monsters we aren't a performance for your entertainment we aren't wolves in sheeps' clothing we are just people. please

[mousidy]

I really just want to feel like a person when I interact with others

[mousidy]

cringe to reblog this and make it about trans people in general. I said women on purpose

[sonnywortzik]

i’ve mentioned this here before, but it will remain one of the most ideologically influential experiences of my life: when i was in fifth grade i did a report on post traumatic stress as manifested in veterans of the vietnam war, and my father did me the huge favor of connecting me w/ a vietnam vet friend of his who was diagnosed with PTSD, assuring him that while i was only ten i was bright and curious and he should be as honest with me about his experience as possible. 

i remember entering his office with my tape recorder, sitting in a chair that was too big, and asking him questions about war, and his life after war, while swinging my legs over the edge of the chair. i remember being very, very quiet as he spoke of pulling the car over on the highway for fear of crashing when his hands would shake uncontrollably in response to song on the radio or a smell that he couldn’t be sure was real or sense-memory. and of ruined relationships and anger and american hypocrisy. 

and i also remember that was the day i learned what “valor” meant. he used “valor” in a sentence and i didn’t know that word, and when i asked him to explain “valor” he became very quiet. and i can’t remember precisely what he said, if he ever offered me the dictionary definition or not, but i do remember him looking very sad, and saying something about our country’s idea of “valor”, and also something about a broken promise. and there was an edge to his words that i couldn’t parse at the time that i would later come to understand was bitterness, that he sounded bitter. 

to this day i can’t hear or read the word “valor” without seeing sunlight coming through his office window at a slant, close-to-sunset light, and feeling the kind of quiet, confused, completely internalized panic a child feels when they sense that a grown up is trying very hard not to weep in their presence. 

[creative-anchorage]

[caffstrink]

Word

[hotvampireadjacent]

[bellflowermini]

concept of some monarchical jewelry for thorin

[mattymouse16]

The best magicians don't reveal their tricks.

[snakebites-and-ink]

Former living weapon absolutely dominating at laser tag

[pcktknife]

deploying my anti-suicide nico robin

[jame7t]

tumblr is like an abandoned space station & you all are the thing in the vents

[jame7t]

not me though. im girl with tanktop

[weirdtranssexual]

call me crazy but i think public transportation should explicitly also be for actively drunk/high people. so they don’t, you know, drive under the influence.

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”