furry artists are essential workers

30. she/her. bi. im trying.

[pizzopaps]

everyone say thank you @knifenick for another incredible cat look alike

[fucktoyfelix]

Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:

-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.

[muntzerism-diggerism]

Best part of following this account is that there's a new Ogre Blowjob Hell once every two months

[clericofshadows]

MORINTH'S NEW NIGHTCLUB OUTFIT MASS EFFECT 2 - THE ARDAT-YAKSHI

[mlarayoukai]

age regression omorashi saw

[cyberglittter]

bhavya ramesh jewelry

[catsuggest]

caturday nighte im headinge to détroit !

[catsuggest]

sunday morninge im exhausted from the détroit hams bacchanalia

[emil]

"Peggle make phone calls" has become shorthand for "fuck it, whatever" for me but no one ever knows what im talkingabout and it's also longer (longhand?)

[emil]

peggle make phone calls

[natalieironside]

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

[snkrfnd]

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

[natalieironside]

Thank u for sharing this with us

[desolationlesbian]

I don't want to buy mass-produced garbage from a big box store so I go to etsy but half of etsy is now dropshipped mass-produced garbage or AI slop so I go to the local arts and crafts street market but a ton of those booths are also selling the same generic plastic objects or identical stickers or 3D printed dragons so WHERE do I buy real trinkets and art from sincere freaks

[audacityinblack]

From me! I'm one (1) queer disabled artist who makes jewelry and accessories by hand in my apartment. No AI, no dropshipping, no 3D printing, just me and way too many boxes of beads. I just dropped my Pride collection last month and now I'm doing this year's summer themed stuff.

I have a shop blog here (that I really need to update more often): @audiesoddities I'm currently fundraising to move out of my unsafe housing and to get some safety equipment for my bike. Shop link here: audiesoddities.etsy.com

[carolsturka]

how it feels to talk about anything at all

[noodlerface]

idk where these feelings came from but here they are 

[crabussy]

people online are on a mission to hold every single random person "accountable" in the same way as a thief in the middle ages who is about to be beheaded in the town square for stealing a tomato

[crabussy]

sometimes, if someone makes a cruddy mistake that hurt some feelings, you don't have to make a 10 page callout doc detailing every time they were sort of a dick to you. sometimes it's okay to just block someone and talk about the situation to a close friend instead of doing this whole "hear ye hear ye" thing

[crabussy]

you know the whole "this meeting could have been an email" thing? this callout doc could have been a difficult but rewarding private conversation

[northerlyfilms]

15 years of aeiou

july 17 2010

[mxjackparker]

Making motivational "it's never too late to transition" posts is really undercut if the age you're highlighting is still young. Claiming that your transition was late and it worked out great for you actually makes older people more afraid to transition if you're saying that shit in your 20s. How do you think a trans person in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s feels when you're 23 and calling yourself a late transitioner?

It's never too late until you're in a coffin. It is worth it for a single day of being yourself, even if you're 110.

[mothermara]

I am a spry young man, only 24, in the springtime of my adulthood (my knees crack alarmingly loud as I crouch to pick something up) that sound is harmless and actually indicative of health

[enchantedbook]

From The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

"The Bones of Djulung"

Illustration by Henry Justice Ford, 1910.