If y’all wanna know more about my OC, Lucy (I will add to this constantly, so it will be always updating) this is the place for you!
It’s got some stuff about her thoughts of her family (and I will probably be talking about her family’s feelings toward HER later, tw for neglect when it comes to that.) As well as some details of her time in Pandoria, which I am writing a fanfiction about!
My good friend of 8 years, A, lost their job, and has fallen behind on rent. T… Lamp Praise needs your support for Help A pay rent while th
One of my close friends could use some support in keeping themself and their cat afloat while they continue to seek and apply for jobs. They need another $500 to be able to make rent, ideally before January 6th, when late fees will start hitting.
Even small donations help a lot and are greatly appreciated, and if you can't make a donation, reblogs and reshares on other platforms also go a long way!
I may as well add it onto this post, despite having a separate one - If you show proof of donation, I'll do a doodle c0mmissi0n for you, so long as it's SFW and follows my c0mmissi0n guidelines
I've been trying to post this for months, but things keep on happening, so I kept having to postpone it lol
ID and transcript under the cut!<3
[ID: A poem typed up on blank sheet music, the words on the lines of the staff as if written on lined paper. The title and subtitle are in a cursive font, while the rest is in a typewriter font. End of ID.]
Poem transcript:
Composure
(A Tone You Can't Tune Out)
praisethelamps - 7/12/23
Trembling, I sit down to write
Lyrics again,
To compose myself.
Unsteady hands
Act slowly,
Unready for
The drying ink.
When questioned on it,
Just remember:
It's no one's problem, so,
Act cold.
Play a song in major key,
A simple, crescendoing melody,
No love nor joy's found in its contents,
But something resembling contentment.
When questioned, pretend
Not to notice you tremors,
Like a sick dog.
Act cold.
A tone you can't tune out
Of somber harmonies,
In solemn symphonies
Sung softly in one ear.
Today, I compose
Careful prose,
Scrapping old letters,
And rewriting all the notes.
I made a cover of Eve's Literary Nonsense with Sagawa Kiki and Kasane Teto! It's my first full-length UTAU cover, and I'm proud of it. I think their voices both go really well with Eve's music (and with each other)
Hey, I'm a freelance editor looking for work! I've been editing for my own YouTube Channel since its inception in 2020. Before that, I've been editing videos for myself, family, and friends, as a hobby, ever since I was a kid.
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Pricing is per video length, and varies depending on the complexity of the project. Prices are also flexible! (ESPECIALLY for smaller creators.)
To be frank, I haven't been able to get any work recently, and could use some help with spreading this around, if you don't mind. Obviously, I don't want anyone to hire me when they don't want to or can't, but if you could help me get the word out to people who do need an editor, it would be really greatly appreciated.
Before this catches on with miserable adult babies reblogging to only add “KILL IT WITH FIRE” or some other idiotic, unfunny meme:
This is a mature female spider of the Nephila genus. I’m not sure the exact species, but members of this genus are also known as “golden silk orb weavers.” Their yellow-orange silk can be used to make golden cloth, like in this tapestry.
The bite of a Nephila isn’t serious. Wikipedia describes the worst case scenario - localized pain or a more severe allergic reaction - but most bitten will only experience a little itching. Like any spider, they only bite in self defense or when forcibly pressed against skin, and these big females are especially docile. I’ve held a related species on two occasions, they don’t scare very easily.
They’re so laid back, in fact, and so insistent on remaining in the same web, that these are the spiders some cultures have used as mosquito guards, deliberately setting them up to spin webs in open windows or over the top of a baby’s crib.
You can trust spiders with babies. Don’t be an @#!*% about your phobia plz. (By which I mean it’s perfectly okay to have a phobia and be afraid, but you don’t need to hate all spiders and wish they were all dead they didn’t do anything but get born spiders)
Okay but why not reblog/share art from Mark Rothko or whoever themselves instead of reblogging from some random art blog?? Most artists have social media nowadays??
Cheers mate I’d love to but Mark Rothko insisted on being unsexy an d hard to reach on socials when he died in 1970
can we like…get rid of the so-called leather and rubber “pride flags” ? it’s honestly ridiculous and offensive to the lgbtq community. those aren’t pride flags.
The leather pride flag is the second oldest pride flag. It has been at almost every single US pride parade and protest in history.
It’s older then you are, it’s older then I am. The leather community is responsible for pride. Leather daddies were the ones chasing away cops when they tried to arrest us for being queer in public back when Pride Parades were illegal in the US. They are still the ones chasing away cops and corporations from smaller pride events and those that aren’t sanctioned by Wells Fargo. The leather community is essential to the queer community and has a long and rich history.
Please fuck off if you’re not going to learn the actual history of pride.
And don’t fucking out your hate in our tags, asshole.
The leather pride flag represents an expression of self which is inherently queer, and a community which has been around for generations. It is not offensive to the LGBT+ community in any way. I have seen cis gay and bisexual men standing shoulder-to-shoulder with trans men, all of them united by their leather community roots. The leather community is more diverse and nuanced than you perhaps know, but that is no reason for you to shit on a community you don’t understand.
Here is a photograph from 1998, displaying the leather pride flag, the bear gay pride flag, and the rainbow flag. This is our history.
Source.
Here is a photograph from 1987: three queer women entering into the Ms. National Leather Association Contest, or simply gathering as spectators.
Source.
A flyer from 1989, rallying the leather community to march in a Stonewall anniversary protest.
Source.
A photograph from 1988: Tony Deblase, the creator of the leather pride flag, and a gay man, embracing a fellow member of the leather community. Over his shoulder is Judy Tallwing McCarthy, a Native American woman who was part of the leather community from 1959. She co-founded the first lesbian BDSM group in Portland, along with her partner, Sashie Hyatt.
Source. Source.
Just because you don’t know the history, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Be humble, and always assume you have more to learn. Hatred, and outright dismissal of communities you know nothing about, is the most aggressively anti-LGBT thing I can imagine.
The leather community has always included trans people, lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. The leather community is global and nuanced. The leather community is where many of us encounter our found families, and our lovers. For you to dismiss that is cold-hearted and ignorant. Just because queer sex is involved, doesn’t make the community dirty or bad.
I’m again fucking begging the baby gays to read/watch/listen to How To Survive A Plague.
Do you have any. Any idea. Any god damn clue. How kink intersects with LGBT and queer community. Queer history. Do you know why the community pushed for, and against, closing the bathhouses during the 80s? Do you know who organized awareness campaigns about HIV, even way back when it was still called GIRD. Do you know who created the safe sex pamphlets, the classes, who pushed for disclosing your health history to partners, who distributed contraceptives and condoms and dental dams at parties and meetings and baths? Do you even know where the safe sex education we have now comes from? Do you know where a bulk of the language about consent came from? Do you have any good god damn idea what the kink communities have done for us, and continue to do for us?
Keep their names out of your mouths because you clearly don’t know what the hell you’re talking about
If there is one thing I could say to young queer folks, especially young queer folks in the U.S. who are coming of age in a world that is more accepting than the one I knew growing up, it’s this:
Don’t be so quick to sanitize your queerness and make it corporate pride daytime TV-friendly. Don’t be so quick to jump on the purity bandwagon. Don’t be so quick to speak on what your community should look like before you’ve actually learned the history of your community, and always be aware that there are things you probably don’t yet know.
These things will not protect you. They never have. And all you’re doing is isolating yourself from community, from support, from the strength we all have when we stand together in a world that would gladly pick us off one by one.
Queerness isn’t as hidden or embattled now (in some places) as it once was, but make no mistake: when our existence was illegal everywhere the people you have this knee-jerk “hide the weirdos” reaction to are the very ones who would’ve had your back against the cops and the gay-bashers.
The people who made me feel safe to come out in my 20s flew the rubber and leather flags alongside the rainbow flag and often the trans flag as well. You don’t get to tell any of them they don’t belong anymore just because you don’t understand.