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leo | 28 | he/they trans and plural

[aqueerkettleofish]

For those who have missed it, a tourist in Hawaii decided it would be fun to chuck a rock (a BIG rock) at a monk seal. He missed, but he was captured on video, and when told it was illegal to interfere with them, said "I'm rich, I can pay the fine."

Is the best part that he got doxxed? No.

Is the best part that he got tracked down by a local and beaten? No.

Arrested on state at federal charges, looking at up to 5 years and 50K? Nope.

The best part is the local city council's reaction.

And the best part of that is the look on the attorney's face.

[ralfmaximus]

More of this please, everywhere.

After the incident, another video went viral showing what appeared to be that man getting a beating. The Maui Police Department said they had no record of any reports of disorderly conduct or assault related to the monk seal incident.

Even the local police are being cool about this.

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people

[horsegirl-stalin]

Chiquita released an advertisement which used AI and so many comments were saying they would never eat chiquita again, and like I don't care if you eat chiquita, to my knowledge there's no organized boycott against them (if there is feel free to add to my post) but if you would stop buying from a company due to their wrongdoings then why do you even buy Chiquita in the first place??? They literally funded the OVERTHROWING OF A GOVERNMENT, how can you be mad about AI but not about funding an actual coup??

[horsegirl-stalin]

[lew-basnight]

Yeah Chiquita used to be United Fruit, and that name used to mean a lot, it meant so much in fact that they changed it to Chiquita hoping everyone would forget who they were. Have you ever heard the phrase "banana republic?"

[grootficguy]

i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

[gatheringbones]

[“Marginalization was a federal policy in both Canada and the United States for 150 years. The purpose has always been to get people out of the way so that industry could exploit natural resources and claim them as their own. The Declaration of Independence refers to “Indian savages” three times, while the document itself failed to apply to Native peoples. (Charlie Hill joked, “You’d think they would at least change it to ‘Native American savages.’ ”)

In Canada, it was against the law for Native peoples to form a political organization, so as to limit their ability to fight back. Until 1951, Canada defined a “person” as any individual “other than an Indian.”

The interests of corporations were always considered paramount. As of this writing, 25 percent of First Nations reserves in Canada have no drinkable water. Eighty communities are currently under long-term water-boil advisory, some of which have been in effect since the 1960s. In nearly every case, the water supply was contaminated by private industry extracting resources at any cost. Likewise, in the United States, 40 percent of the Navajo Nation lives without water after reckless mining interests poisoned the groundwater with uranium by-products.

Canada and the United States both justified their jurisdiction over Native lands by invoking the Doctrine of Discovery. Originally devised in the fifteenth century, it had the blessing of the pope and served as the basis upon which Holland, England, France, Portugal, and Spain colonized foreign lands. It stated that if a Christian explorer found a country without Christians—even if it was already inhabited by millions of people—ownership of the land automatically reverted to the host country of the Christian explorer.

Canada still invokes the Doctrine of Discovery as a legal defense whenever industrial resource projects are challenged in court by Native nations. When the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was ratified by the international community in 2007, it deemed the Doctrine of Discovery illegitimate and a violation of international law. It compared it to the codes that had once justified slavery on legal grounds. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States were the only countries that refused to ratify UNDRIP. Canada held out for several years until government lobbyists secured an amendment—Article 46—stating that they would support UNDRIP so long as they would not have to honor it. At the core of every pipeline dispute today is the contested Doctrine of Discovery and the debate over who actually holds title to the land.”]

Kliph Nesteroff, We Had A Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story Of Native Americans And Comedy

[catgirlforeskin]

My sister is doing pet play with women on roblox and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s probably a kink for the others involved

[catgirlforeskin]

No, I can’t emphasize enough that she’s totally clueless about anything that could be weird about it, she just thinks it’s funny. I had to sit there with a straight face as she told me about how she made this girl eat off of a plate on the ground (in roblox) and sleep in a dog bed (in roblox) whenever she misbehaved and go “oh haha that’s so funny” and pretend like everything’s normal.

[ice-cream-asker-deactivated2026]

maybe

how old is she

[catgirlforeskin]

She’s in college, she isn’t like, a child

[ouppykittygirlmurderinstinct]

she looking for another dog?

[catgirlforeskin]

NO

[public-trans-it-deactivated2024]

Hey is your sister single (obviously not counting her harem of dog girls)?

[catgirlforeskin]

No she’s straight (but says she’d go gay for Taylor Swift) and has a boyfriend, sorry petplay girls

[queen-mihai]

Volunteering to stand in as this person's sister during this time of need

[catgirlforeskin]

I have a name

[unoisveimved-un-medicated]

This post really makes you take a deep breath and ponder...

[catgirlforeskin]

I swear to god if this blows up enough that it gets reposted on other social media and my sister sees you all wanting to be her roblox dog…

[alyanas-little-hideout]

this will be 100k notes. I feel it.

[catgirlforeskin]

Sorry liberals, despite 400 tags saying “posts that have 100k to me,” we’re capping out at a nice cool 11k. My white ass is not making it onto tiktok, no robot lady is going to read this text, and my sister is not seeing it. Thank you all for playing

[ironwoman359]

Don’t sell yourself short just yet

[catgirlforeskin]

Everything is fine. I’m going to live forever

[quendergeer]

never seen a notes total as a punchline before

[catgirlforeskin]

Since I've gotten dozens of asks and comments about this, NO, my sister still hasn't seen this post, but she is gay now

[ryan-sometimes]

I’m not falling for the propaganda trying to tear apart the LGBTQ acronym, you can pry this community out of my cold dead hands. I love lesbians I love gay men I love bisexuals I love trans people I love nonbinaries and drag queens and kings I love asexuals I love the kinky people at pride I love all queerness get that divisive shit away from me I’m so serious

[ryan-sometimes]

My biggest tinfoil hat conspiracy that I believe with my whole chest and will NOT be convinced otherwise is that a significant portion of modern queer community infighting is a scheme by Big Homophobia to weaken us from the inside and it pisses me off sm that it’s working

[1nsecticidal]

Quick color comparison of living vs. dead skin colors on Brown and Black skin. This only has 4 colors but the technique is still applicable to any color.

(The colors are exaggerated to show the contrast as well.)

Written text says: (Left) "yay! This character is alive!" (Right) "This one is not"

Instead of the usual warm tone brown skin has, to make it seem dead I opt for a greyish-blue. Take the color you'd use for when they're alive, add a grey/blue toned overlay, and voila!! The result should still be brown, just duller.

To make an overlay, select the color of the skin and then add a new layer. On that layer, color over the selected area with the cool tone. Lower the opacity until it looks how you like. This might differ depending on the software you use, but I use Ibis Paint x.

@creatingblackcharacters

[creatingblackcharacters]

GAZE UPON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VIBRANT AND ASHY!

[orions-underpants]

This is great super basic advice for people, but don't forget that all color theory is contextual! It don't matter if you bump up the saturation of your melanated character's skin tone if it is jarring within the color pallette of the piece - something that I've also seen a million times.

So whatever you do, make sure your character looks ALIVE, and find the hue/saturation range that doesn't make them stick out like a sore thumb.

And that's not even getting into the darker/lighter areas on the same body - look at photos of people and notice differences in the amount of melanin on their lips, palms, fingernails, etc, which varies from person to person even when they have the same skintone. Some people have hyperpigmentation around their eyes, and that's more common in some ethnicities than others.

Another thing to consider is that, especially for people in the olive skintone range, they will look a lot more pale and ashen during the wintertime or periods of intense hermitism especially in northern climates, so there's another scenario in which you might see someone with some melanin looking more ashen (same with different medical conditions like fuckin anemia etc. or if they're witnessing a horror and all the blood drains out of their face).

Just like with everything else in art, doing melanated skin well is a skill that you can build! Study different people, look at references upon references, practice and experiment! You'll learn that the fundamental principles are pretty much the same across the board. And I promise with time you'll get better, even if you deal with melanin deficiency :')

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"thought crimes aren't real, it's your actions that matter" and "your mindset informs how you treat others, so you should try not to have a shitty one" are another pair of things that are both true btw

[tamsywindsup]

cw/tw flashing lights; body horror; gore

From the opening theme of Dorohedoro Season 2 that's broadcasting April 1

[deityofplenty]

I love fat people and hate fascism

[rvllybllply2014]

His sugar work is more impressive than his chocolate work at this point

[orions-underpants]

I look away from this man's work for one year and it becomes fucking god-tier

[vitalinformations]

shut up

[orions-underpants]

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU WHAT THE FUCK. THIS MAN MADE FUNCTIONAL HINGES. OUT OF CHOCOLATE.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

your weird obsession with moral purity is degrading your critical thinking skills and poisoning your ability to empathize with other people btw

[miseria-fortes-viros]

your weird obsession with moral purity is degrading your critical thinking skills and poisoning your ability to empathize with other people btw

[jesuistropfatiguee712]

Not interested in empathizing with rapists. Especially any that engage with CSA.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

let’s put our thinking caps on for a second. do you genuinely believe that is what i wanted you to take away from this post

[jesuistropfatiguee712]

Your originally post? No.

Your reblog with the addition of tags specifically calling that out? One could argue you’re making the case that such content is not an exception to the blanket rule you are proposing.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

ohhhh ok i see. you think that playing pretend sometimes is the same thing as actually doing the thing. of course! this post is about you then

[corviiids]

i want devices that are functional and hardy and i want them to last and fuck the rest of the shit i dont need. my ds and 3ds can lie in sleep mode for months if not years and i can pop them open and they've still got two or three bars left. my old phones in high school could go days without a charge. if i leave my nintendo switch on the floor for a few days doing absolutely fuck all nothing i will turn it on and it will cry to me mother i am dying. i am dying mother. and i tell him he'll never be half the man his brother was and he can't hear me because he's dead

[asaltysquid]

[asaltysquid]

Dedicated to those who live in spite of the horrors

Spent a whole month working on this project and here it is just in time for my city's indie comic artist fest. Wanted to write something profound here but I think the comic says it all. Hope y'all enjoy.