The Queer And Dear One

Pepper. 23. They/them. I like podcasts and comics and tough ladies. 💖💜💙

[pepper-n-pen]

The one on the left is another inktober peiece. The one on the right is from a few months ago. I wanted to include them together because they were both meant to express the same thing. Basically, I have endometriosis, which causes chronic pain. And I’m managing it now, but I still have bad flare ups some days that’ll just lay me out. It’s a rough time, but art helps with the pain and frustration of it all.

[pepper-n-pen]

The Recovery Series. Wilt. Bloom. Grow. Flourish.

[pepper-n-pen]

A small comic from 2017 about names, and wants, and the blessing of having friends who give you the space to figure yourself out.

[pepper-n-pen]

January. Cold in the mountains. The night of the Super Blood Wolf Moon. We hiked up to the planaterium to see her, frosted grass crunching under our feet, but the clouded skies hid her from us. So we piled into our friend’s car and drove to the next town over, trying to outrun the clouds and the light pollution. We parked in a sleepy suburb at 1 am and stepped out into the empty street, bundled up tight in our coats, breaths making ghosts in the night air as we stared up at her.

She was so beautiful. I fell in love instantly.

My friends pulled me back into the car before I could freeze, but I watched her out the window all the way home. I miss her still.

[pepper-cola]

I’m a bit of a mess rn, and my brain makes it hard to focus on work stuff. Which I need to do! So I’m taking a break/logging out of this blog for a bit. I might start posting more on my art tumblr though. You can follow me there at @pepper-n-pen

Bye y’all!

[lets-do-get-help-deactivated202]

Live look at the American Government right now:

[falonah]

what is it about rain that makes worms go absolutely buck wild for pavement

[falonah]

worm: no longer can i suffer the constriction, both of flesh and soul, of living in the tunnels of underground, for i now long only to be free under the skies of the Saints. earth may have birthed me but the sun is my mother

me, holding a slurpee, plucking worms off the sidewalk and tossing them into the grass: go the fuck home brian

[autisticraptor]

Aren't we all but worms lost in the sauce on the pavement until the gods picks us up and throws us back in the grass

[4threset]

A very personal comic about ADHD

[miamitu-illust]

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

angsty bonus:

after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition

[kagurazuki]

lmfao

[still-sunlit]

““This survival hasn’t been graceful. This resilience hasn’t been pretty and hasn’t always looked like resilience. And this survival hasn’t been simple or short-lived; it happens in cycles, daily, hourly, sometimes by the minute.””

— Jen Labarbera, “Queer Resistance: Reclamation and Resilience” (via her-bookshelf-tells-her-story)

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[zizibutik]

[miamitu-illust]

I uhh redrew Zuko as the girl laying by the pool meme, someone help me find a funny caption

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[nedsseveredhead2]

warrior cats is so funny cause half the villains are described as dark tabbies and the books make them sound so intimidating but they really just look like this

[nedsseveredhead2]

[vcrcleaner]

Extremely City white people are so fucking weird they see a pic of a deer and theyre like “its an Old God, tell me the wisdom of the trees Forest Lord … wow this is just like game of thrones” its a deer. Its a fucking stupid idiot animal it doesnt know shit

[whenthebirdsareheardagain]

Yes deer are dumb panicky dinguses in real life, but sometimes a picture will capture one looking all majestic and we just… want to believe…

[whenthebirdsareheardagain]

Case in point: this dude

Yes he got like that by being so hormonally addled that he tried to fight a tree. But try to tell me a forest god wouldn’t have big leafy antlers just like that if he were to take a physical form.

[knivesandteeth]

who says the old gods aren’t stupid animals who are so hormonally addled they’d try to fight a tree

[urcadelimabean]

As white people, we can’t begin to eradicate our internalized biases without knowing how to identify them. Let’s educate ourselves. And don’t forget that these are biases you need to call out when you see them in others as well.

Understanding Implicit Bias (article)

Stereotypes of African Americans (wikipedia): do the work to understand the links between old incredibly harmful stereotypes and modern white expectation that Black people be caretakers, for example.

Black people are not here to teach you: What so many white Americans just can’t grasp (article)

The White Internet’s Love Affair with Digital Blackface (video)

Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard (article)

I don’t care if you’re ‘fascinated’ by my afro, stop touching it (article)

Racial empathy gap: people don’t perceive pain in other races. (article)

Read about how scientific racism was used to institutionalize racism and justify slavery and white supremacy in the United States by claiming that enslaved people could withstand more pain. 

Connect this to Black people today being denied the same medical treatment as whites: Some medical students still think black patients feel less pain than whites (article)

Let’s End The ‘Strong Black Woman’ Stereotype. Can’t We Be Vulnerable And Emotional Too? (article)

On calling Black people articulate/well-spoken/educated: The Racial Politics of Speaking Well (article)

The Dangerous Delusion of the Big, Scary, Black Man (article) 

Consider why perceptions of Black people as dangerous/aggressive make white folks so reactive to Black anger: to perceive civility as incivility and to perceive anger as a violent threat. 

Perceptions and stereotypes of Black men being bigger, stronger and scarier can also be fetishizing. Fetishizing people of color isn’t a compliment, so don’t act like it is (article)

Hyper-Sexualization of Black Women in the Media (pdf)

Is This How Discrimination Ends? (article)

I encourage anyone to add, with links or by writing out your own thoughts.

As white people, what should be guiding us is compassion: breaking down the way white supremacy has reduced our compassion for Black lives.

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Anger Benefits Some Americans Much More Than Others, by Davin Phoenix, author of “The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics.” (article)

Racial Profiling and the Loss of Black Boyhood, by Hussain Abdulhaqq (article)

What “Misogynoir” Means … and Why It Has to End (video)