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[torithehoshi]

Hello everyone, it's Tori here bringing another Art Summary but late yet again (I posted it before the New Year on Bluesky at least and hey - it wasn't like four months later on here at least too this time)

So this year, I decided that the base for my 2025 Art Summary would be made by myself this time. The main reason I did is because... I did not make a lot of finished art pieces this year! To the point that even though I've found ways to get around that in past years, I didn't feel like I properly could fill in the blanks the same way because I really lacked enough. I think the bursts of time I drew things were primarily in July (yet not for Art Fight somehow) and December. But I enjoyed making this, it was fun to add my own flairs of customization even if they're simple, while also thinking about how to make this a 'gallery' of sorts.

It was still difficult to choose though - especially when I realized I wanted the last space to be more for smaller things I've done. Although I'm really happy with what I managed to come up with in the end. Graphic design truly is my passion. It's February now when I'm posting it here on tumblr but I should really think about it.

Past Art Summaries

2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019

Individual Pieces

January (links to Bluesky) - May - July - November - December

The Highlights - The two new OC refs I made, my favorite OC icons, the MWM lineless I drew but Bad Girlz were the most fun

[mrkanman]

[voidburgers]

the pinks again

[penumbralwoods]

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

[penumbralwoods]

btw if you've ever wondered why i make posts like this and get really obnoxious about nonbinary positivity. this is why

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

[gaelahanlon]

For anyone unaware, this week Scotland elected our first ever trans members of parliament

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

💛🤍💜🖤

[foxgloves-garden]

I found a source!! *bounces excitedly*

https://gcn.ie/scotland-trans-members-parliament-first/

[mab-speaks]

Exciting! JK Rowling is now represented by a trans politician! Voting matters!

As Two Trans Candidates Win Scottish Parliament Bids, J.K. Rowling Praises Anti-Trans Loser

The ‘Harry Potter’ author is posting through it.

[genderkoolaid]

In the photo above, the person on the left is MSP Iris Duane, who is a trans woman and uses she/her pronouns. She is only 23 years old, considers herself a socialist, and had the goal of being the first trans woman of colour in Parliament.

On the right is MSP Q Manivannan, who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. They are the one who now represents JKR. They are originally from Tamil Nadu, India and is studying for their doctorate!

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

For anybody not caught up: Tennessee just passed a new map that pretty much makes it so black neighborhoods have no power in local votes. Two things about this. While protestors were chanting "No Jim Crow", white Tennessee lawmakers were caught laughing on video. On top of this, Representative Justin Pearson and his brother KeShaun Pearson were arrested for trying to give their takes on the matter (which is not only their legal right but literally his job). If you give a shit about black people, help fight this. We can't allow a return to Jim Crow.

[icemankazansky]

Heyyy guess where I live

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

The city most affected by the redistricting is Memphis, where locals are fighting against xAI's data center, which has been operating with very little oversight and is poisoning the people who live there. Here is a previous post on that with more information and more sources.

[relelvance]

Does he have "nonbinary vibes" or is he just east asian

[relelvance]

[lakemojave]

Important addition

[saintjosie]

me talking about racism i experience as an asian person and how it’s tied to white supremecy and misogynoir

some white person: ok but you don’t have to flex

[bringcal]

i miss vhs tapes and cds i miss feeding my computers and tvs yummy treats. now theyre eating nothing. theyre being born without mouths

[edgar-allan-possum]

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"if you don't want to perform the societal obligations of your assigned gender, you might be trans" is one of those things that is on one hand important because for a lot of individual people it's true and a key part of their history and self-discovery, but on the other hand when applied as a societal maxim a lot of people are really keen to use it as the "well i don't see race" of gender essentialism

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"men are blue and strong and sports and logical and practical and agentic and women are pink and gentle and art and emotional and creative and innocent but don't worry you can pick which one you are"

[sniffanimal]

[spicyraeman]

“hes a woman to me” IS HE? or are you equating women with submissive character traits you've arbitrarily put on a random man

[crowsent]

[ceruleanheaven]

i love being prevd its like getting a good grade in thoughts

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the stuffed animal situation is phenomenal these days. you can find any specific arthropod or deep sea fish or microbe etc. used to be back in olden times all you could get was bears and mutants

[redstonedust]

tomodachi life giving you so many oppertunities for custom images and text with no filters means the obvious answer is of course to fill it with sex and penis. which is why i appreciate that every tomodachi life post ive seen is actually pretty lacking in sex and penis. instead we've been giving our miis enough cigarettes to kill a small village.