Gay & Sad Art Lad

Hi I'm Val :) 21, non-binary, ENFP, pansexual mess. There is no order to my blog, but I post a lot about art, witchcraft, cartoons, tattoos and social justice. Chat me up if you'd like :)

[lilmamabeyellin]

u ever look so good that u know ur making ppl feel uncomfortable?

[puckfu]

When I am having a big androgynous day and making everyone question their sexuality

[badtthew]

“how come you don’t listen to [boring ass band of men]??”

Me:

[tealesbian]

the rain: makes that soft rain sound

me immediately:

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

Depends on who’s asking

[sensei-wrong-deactivated2018121]

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[notcayleb]

this is a good post.

[maskedriderbiocore]

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

[habibialkaysani]

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

[sabertoothwalrus]

I can’t believe this is canon

[sarahconnorjr]

Military commercials: do you like playing video games? Wouldn’t it be cooler to murder people?

[flowerinaflame]

[happilyshanghaied]

For inspiration reasons, here’s a list of actresses over 40 who can probably still kick our asses:

Kelly Hu (Age: 48)

Linda Hamilton (Age: 60)

Charlize Theron (Age: 41)

Gina Torres ( Age: 47)

Ming-Na Wen (Age: 52)

Kate Beckinsale (Age: 43)

Gwyneth Paltrow (Age: 44)

Milla Jovovich (Age: 41)

Jada Pinkett Smith (Age: 45)

Michelle Yeoh (Age: 54)

Lucy Lawless (Age: 48)

Regina King (Age: 45)

Lucy Liu (Age: 47)

Helen Mirren (Age: 71)

[gelana78]

Badassery does not have an expiration date.

[anachronic-cobra]

Alien: You’re telling me that in times of great distress humans have been known to suddenly gain the strength necessary to lift objects more than a dozen times their own weight?!

Human: Yeah, it’s called “hysterical strength” and it usually happens in life-or-death situations, like when someone gets stuck under a car or something and someone lifts the car to get them out. We can’t really test it though, ‘cause it only happens spontaneously.

Alien: Humans have the ability to tap into untold strength and power and you don’t even know how you do it?

Human: Pretty much, yeah. We think it has something to do with temporary analgesia, so we just don’t feel the pain we should when we pick up a 3000-pound car.

Alien: YOUR PAIN RESPONSE JUST SHUTS OFF?

Human: Yeah, it’s like an adrenaline thing? Do you not have that?

Alien: Fuck you and your entire species of tiny juggernauts.

[eraemx]

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

[i-amneveralone-deactivated20201]

wow.

[robotsandfrippary]

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

[deletedblog122020]

tender & delicious gummy pasta

[westerncrib]

Forbidden penne

[super-metroid]

this is about as al dente as you can get

[ithelpstodream]

[jehovahhthickness]

This shit was so funny

[quicklywisecollector7-deactivat]

Lls

[neo-soulless]

Im screaming at the way the other woman signed vagina

[gentlepromises]

i’m the kids 

[sunwukxng]

i’m the vehement fury with which that lady signed vagina

[turings-deactivated20180627]

furbies have forward-facing eyes. they are predators.

[glumshoe]

#or they could be scavengers who are not predated lets not get too black and white#its possible furbies just have no natural predators and also scanvenge corpses.

[heedra]

a single glance at the beak shape of the average furby dissuades notions of them being primary scavengers. they do not have the tools necessary for stripping meat and cracking bone. however, forward facing eyes could still indicate a primarily-herbivorous omnivore, as we see in many primates. the jury, as often in nature, remains out.

[thesokovianaccords]

here’s the thing about adulthood-

you will go for like three months with nothing happening and you’re bored as hell and then in the span of two weeks eight different things happen at once - some fantastic and some shitty and some just plain bonkers - and you’re just running around like a chicken with your head cut off and no clue what the fuck is going on

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Heartbreaking

[shinydinosaurkingdom]

FINALLY!!!!  I’m so happy I was able to finish this in time for pride! I made a parasaurolophus and animated it. And then I deleted the animation… Woops. I was able to make a gif of the animation beforehand so it’s all good. Also I can make a walk-cycle in a day so it’s fine. I really want to use my tumblr more, so expect more of these ugly low-poly dinos XD.

Also, pride herd. My brain wouldn’t let me post this without a pride herd.

[ommanyte]

Big lick energy

[gods-oats]

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