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How To Draw A Horse - a comic by Emma Hunsinger

#woah #i didn't know the baby gay horse girl experience #was a shared one

broooo did you seriously disturb my eternal rest & bring me back to this mortal coil just because my ancient enemy the eternal night has returned? after i sealed it away and everything? which one of you tampered with my binding runes 🙄

transfemininomenon

where's my useless apprentice i TOLD him it was going to be the duty of the next generation to not repeat the mistakes of those before them and to make this world bet- oh my apprentice goes by her now? you're telling me she's right in front of me! my dear i'm so sorry i didn't know. you look so much more happier and more confident than the bumbling, shy apprentice i once knew. im so proud of you. were you the one who tampered with my fucking runes

elodieunderglass

This needs to be its own post

#i don't know any context but this is like #the perfect illustration of the two people in my head

satanfemme

otherwise interesting post ruined by the bold insistence that you can never accidentally abuse someone & that all abusive people are self-aware evil masterminds

satanfemme

I don't think my parents are aware that what they did was abuse. in fact I think one of the reasons they abused me was because they lacked the self-awareness, introspection, and education needed to realize what they were doing counted as abuse. if they did have more self awareness &etc, they would have likely stopped. it is not productive to insist they woke up in the mornings with the intent to psychologically torture a kid for no reason, when that is self-evidently not the case or within their motivations.

I'm speaking annecdotally here but I think many cases of abuse are like this. I think when reckoning with the reality of how abuse functions in our society, you must come to terms with the mundanity of it including the fact that abusive people are primed to overlook the harm of their own actions through the shield of mundanity and (lack of) intent.

queeranarchism

"But abusers actions are often very good at isolating the victim, making sure the abuse is not observed by outsiders, etc." Yes. And that's compatible with not knowing that it's abuse.

"This got me looked at weird in the store so I'm only gonna do it to my kid in private from now on." is a thought people can have without the penny dropping, because most people really don't want to think of themselves as abusers. So abusers can have tons of moments like this without the realization that they are abusers.

In this way people who act abusive can, over a long period, develop habits that help them be abusive without realizing that they're doing it.

#tw abuse

abnormoinfo

new ebbits! new site!

poison-liker

this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk

sonic-gems-collection

can someone explain this to me?

shadeddaxion

Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).

In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time

So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time

But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.

SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.

This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.

TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”

abnormoinfo

ooh i love the explanation

trickstertime

Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10

polyamorousmood

It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"

silosworld

Poly folks x aro folks in the sense that "alloromantic heterosexual monogamous people view love and sex as an entirely different entity than me, and that makes life kinda strange"

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hylianengineer

Not everything that happened this year was terrible.

Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

hylianengineer

A couple highlights:

There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It's awful for the planet, it's awful for our lungs, it's just The Worst. Goodbye and good riddance!

Last year, EU CO2 emissions fell by 8%, and the data's not all in for this year yet but they're on track to drop even more. Yeah, you read that right - the EU may have already passed peak carbon emissions. Excuse me while I do a happy dance over here in the corner - this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!

This may have been a bad year for abortion rights in the US, but we're an outlier - over the past 30 years, we are only one of four countries to tighten abortion restrictions, while 60 countries have made it more available. This year, France became the first country in the whole world to make abortion a constitutional right. Seven US states did so too - Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. That's right, Missouri! Shocking, huh?

A drug to prevent HIV infections was 100% effective in trials. That. That's insane. It's not a vaccine, but it is the closest we've ever been to one.

Deaths from tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, hit an all-time global low. Hooray for preventing a truly staggering amount of death!

Egypt and Cabo-Verde both eliminated malaria, and 17 countries started distributing the new malaria vaccine - remember that? Remember how insanely exciting it is that was now have a vaccine for malaria? It is saving lives as we speak.

Deforestation in the Amazon is half what it was two years ago.

The largest dam removal project in history was completed - removing four dams from the Klamath River, thanks to decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes. A month later, there were salmon spawning in the river basin again - for the first time in a century. Nature's pretty incredible at bouncing back, if we can just give it the chance. I repeat: Largest. Dam removal. In history!

China finished the Great Green Wall

Prewalski's horses returned to their homeland in central Kazakhstan, where they'd been missing for 200 years!

22 species were removed from the endangered list - let's hear it for the Saimaa ringed seal, Scimitar oryx, Red cockaded woodpecker, Siamese crocodile, Narwhal, Arapaima, Chipola slabshell and Fat threeridge mussels, Iberian lynx, Asiatic lions, Australian saltwater crocodile, Asian antelope, Ulūlu, Southern bluefin tuna, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, Yellow-footed rock wallabies, Yangtze finless porpoise, Pookila mouse, Orange-bellied parrots, Putitor mahseer (this is a fish), Giant pandas, and Florida golden aster!

This year was deeply shitty in a lot of ways - but not all of them.

stuffieautism

if you didn’t realize, ableism is actually bigotry and systemic ableism and inaccessibility are really oppression and it’s not something disabled people brought on ourselves by having bodies&minds that you think are inferior and therefore not worth fighting for. disabled people’s lives and wellbeing matter. we don’t have to earn our worthiness by doing “enough” to deserve a good life. nobody does.

harbingrs

And dare I say it's all or nothing. Either you believe life is a meritocracy and people need to 'deserve' things or you don't. You cannot see disabled people as a special exception to the rule (whether positive OR negative)

As in, you cannot think certain people deserve to be poor and suffering - then tack on "but of course I don't mean disabled people who can't help it" and have it actually be be plausible.

In practice, that just sets up a paradigm of who counts as 'disabled enough' to be excused from the meritocracy, versus who is just lazy or taking advantage. Which is just Ableism 2.0 with plausible deniability and marketability.

To the point where we all know the rallying cry to protect REAL disabled people by mercilessly going after 'fakers' is just an excuse to attack disabled people. Just like the concept of the 'deserving poor' vs 'undeserving poor' is a prop to justify state violence against poor people as a whole (and say it's people's own fault if they suffer)

When it comes down to it, as long as there's a merit system, ANY disabled person can be classed as 'not disabled enough' to be excused from it. No matter how severe or obvious someone's disability is, there will be a way to spin it as a lie or their own fault or they're not trying hard enough or they didn't fill out the right paperwork or they had a bad attitude about it.

Combating systemic ableism requires doing away with meritocracy and distinctions about who is deserving vs undeserving, full stop. As long as those goalposts exists, they'll just be moved to continue perpetuating ableism against 'acceptable targets' (and any disabled person can become an acceptable target)

Ok OK tumblr keeping it real, notifying me that my blog is now old enough to get a tumblr of it's own 😭

#13 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

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‘Rat Park’ -Stuart McMillen

You’ll never think about drug addiction the same way again after reading this comic.

elodieunderglass

What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.

jenroses

This is one of the most important pieces of research done in the last 50 years.

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Read this!

jerichocaine

A beautiful experiment and so simply explained for even the most naive layman to understand. I love it.

ismokevodka

genuinely one of if not the most destructive policies of the nixon and reagan administrations (and that’s fucking saying something) was the war on drugs. I’m really tired so I’ll probably some back to this tomorrow but one of the many quotes I’ll never forget was the one from a nixon aide that said (and I’m paraphrasing here) “if we could associate the blacks with heroin and the hippies with marijuana, and criminalize both heavily, we could infiltrate their movements and arrest their leaders”

valtsv

i think the hottest look you can give someone after they commit acts of unspeakable violence is approval. like don't get me wrong if there's lust there too that's great, but staring at someone with gore dripping down their chin and coating their hands to the wrists with undisguised appraisal and admiration. maybe giving them a little nod as if to say 'well done'. THAT'S what says "yeah we're gonna fuck nasty later".

valtsv

"i could fix him" well i could pat him on the head and tell him he's a good boy

goldensunset

rotating individual blorbos separately is great and all but i rotate pairs of characters together as one, spinning around each other, like a pair of celestial bodies in orbit. blorbit, if you will

suck-it-and-see-16

This whole thread has killed me

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kholran

It’s finally happened.

After almost a decade on this site, I found another Tumblr user in the wild. I stopped to tie my shoe with rainbow laces this morning outside the silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and I heard it.

“I like your shoelaces.”

Oh. Oh no.

I responded the only way I could. “Thanks.” And then I reluctantly added, “I stole them from the president…and if that makes sense to you, I’m very sorry.”

The poor man, in full Colonial dress, stared at me for a long moment. And then burst into laughter. And said, “I haven’t thought about that in YEARS and this has never happened to me before.”

Yeah. Me neither. Not until today.

Tumblr rite of passage. Achievement unlocked.