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✊🏽Black men deserve peace.
✊🏾Black men deserve respect.
✊🏿Black men deserve to feel safe.
✊🏽Black men deserve to grow.
✊🏾Black men deserve to thrive.
✊🏿Black men deserve to love.
✊🏽Black men deserve to be themselves.
✊🏾Black men deserve to live their lives.
seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors
I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me
Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.
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Back in my Lesbian days years and years ago I had the honor of participating in the first issue of "That, But Lesbian" by @hattersarts. I chose Shrek of course. I wanted her to look almost unchanged. i am really proud of the hair i decided on, and of course the fat tits. Enjoy, my friends.
do not go to Dr. Kenneth Wolf for top surgery
I went to him because he was 1.) the cheapest possible option and since I needed crowdfunding that seemed best 2.) within driving distance of my friends who’d be able to host me. I didn’t have any complications and I don’t hate my results, so the fact that he stopped offering free revisions after COVID (including for people who had their surgeries before the pandemic) and ghosts everyone isn’t a huge deal personally. I do have moderate to severe dog-earring right in the middle my chest which limits what clothing I can wear and have inquired about possible revisions with other surgeons (so far no one has been willing to operate on other dr’s work and have told me I’d need to pay the price of a full secondary top surgery). Dr. Wolf famously ghosts all his patients after surgery and has strict weight limits.
HOWEVER I accompanied my friend to their top surgery at the University of Michigan last year that made Dr. Wolf’s entire process seem back alley and sketchy by comparison. My friend had extensive pre- and post-surgical monitoring and extreme sanitary precautions. Dr. Wolf just had me take off my shirt and slapped me on the operation table still wearing my street clothes and then scraped me up and sent me home the moment I regained consciousness. His bedside manner was offputting and uncomfortable. It has been impossible to contact him ever since, even to ask politely why my stitches look so different from his other results. Other people with much worse results have also been ghosted.
OH AND ALSO when I asked if he could swap my left and right nipples just for the hell of it he said “yeah sure lol” but apparently you’re not supposed to do that because there is the risk of like, manually metastasizing cancer cells. lol. I did ask for it and I think I am at very low risk for breast cancer but I do think a responsible surgeon should at least know about and warn you of that possibility before agreeing to it.
my friends and my ex were great caretakers who made the recovery process easy and kind of fun but knowing what I know now makes the whole experience retroactively a little bit traumatic
roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that
the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people
the unholy trinity of piss-poor caretakers, tag yourself:
tomboy, meaning "this child is clearly queer but let's hope it goes away"
sensitive, meaning "clearly neurodivergent and often distressed but let's keep going until they grow numb"
mature, meaning "traumatized but let's ignore that"
quiet, meaning "has been yelled at or ignored a few too many times and now considers all attempts at communicating with others to be pointless"
self-sufficient, meaning "next to zero trust in parental figures' ability in various aspects of parenting"
lazy, meaning "depressed, but expected to preform tasks or actions without positive support or knowledge of how to do things"
Your occasional reminder. 😏
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of decoden and polymer clay questions about what to use to as a gloss/glaze. Almost every time the first response is “Clear nail polish, duh!”.
This needs to stop if people want to be creating quality items. Sometimes I’m afraid to buy handmade things for fear that they have been sealed with clear nail polish and they will deteriorate over time. I want to buy things that will last!
I’ve reblogged this before - but it’s sooooo important. crafting signal boost
Oh jeez, I didn’t even know that was a thing. No - never use nail polish thats a horrible idea.
As a person who makes crafts, I must do my part in the war against nail-polish!
I tried using clear nail polish before for that purpose and I don’t recommend it. It was the only thing I already had at home and I figured why not.
It smelled like nail polish forEVER, it was somehow sticky, you could see every brush stroke, and it just ruined the project.
Do yourself a favour and buy something that is actually meant to be used that way. Even if you’re a teen and all you have at hand is your mom’s nail polish.
Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate
wait i just found out you can be nice to people and be their friend i thought we had to kill them all cause i was raised in a lab to be a living weapon
Critics and reviewers have been tearing Netflix's Swapped to shreds. Everywhere I look, so many are hating on it like its the worst thing in existence.
If these people are hating on the movie solely because of Skydance Animation possibly using AI for their projects (if that's true, I'm gonna throw up...), and/or the presence of a certain asshole by the name of John (if you know, you know...), then the rage is understandable. However, that doesn't seem to be the case from what I've seen.
Instead of hating on Swapped for valid reasons, the film is being bashed for simply 'being similar to these movies and that, therefore it sucks!' or 'its a Freaky Friday rip-off except animated with animals!' (looking at you ElectricDragon505 specifically for that claim).
It makes me face-palm, groan, and want to rage myself. Its like James Cameron's Avatar all over again, I can't stop thinking 'did these guys watch the same movie I did?'
Now I'll admit, much as I loved the movie, Swapped isn't overly special, and has a fair share of problems (its a 7 or 7.5/10 at best). Some of the voice acting and humor didn't work, the emotional moments didn't hit quite as hard as I'd hoped (some of them at least, that first flight scene was amazing), we could've used a few more scenes of Ollie and Ivy bonding and becoming friends, and yes, the plot is similar to others we've seen in the past, though that shouldn't be a valid criticism.
Why? Because it shouldn't matter if the plot is original or not. It depends on its execution. Avatar taught me that, believe it or not, and like that film, I think Swapped did great portraying its story!
The world was colorful and imaginative, I love the Dzo and their magical pods (I need a few of those right now, please!), most of the animals being part plant in some way was creative (helps that most of them were designed well-cursed fish lips aside), the characters-while not overly layered or special-were fun enough to get behind and care about, the plot twist with Boogle makes sense when you look closely (I got spoiled on that surprise before I saw the film, so I sadly wasn't shocked when it happened), the themes of empathy and working together were done well without talking down to the audience or making them feel stupid, and finally, both the music and animation were straight up gorgeous (if AI really was used for the animation, though, I'm going to punch something)!
One thing I personally admired about Swapped is that it was allowed to breathe. While the pacing was off during some scenes (Ollie meeting Ivy and her sisters did drag for a bit too long), others were allowed to stop for the characters-and the audience-to take everything in in a good way. There were even moments of 'showing, not telling', two great examples being when young Ollie explores underwater, and showing young Ivy how to open the piplet pods. Those quiet, beautiful moments not only made me feel all warm and toasty inside, but it showed me from the get-go that the film had heart. No matter how flawed a project may be, someone pouring their heart and soul into it should always count for something.
I saw all these things that help make the film stand out, so seeing others calling it a 'crappy body-swap movie with no soul' feels wrong and unfair. Hell, calling it a body-swap story feels like a lie. Watching the film and what the characters go through, its much less 'they swapped bodies!' and more 'they became different animals that happen to be what the other used to be'. Its more Brother Bear than Freaky Friday, (parts of it even reminded me of Ori and the Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps) and not in a bad way. Why call it a body-swap movie then, to the point of naming it Swapped? I don't know, maybe Netflix and Skydance had no idea how to market the film and decided to blatantly lie instead.
That's all I've got to say, sorry for the rambling. I'm just tired of Swapped getting unfairly bashed when its should be getting more praise, despite its issues.
Uncle Mike
The Javan ate Ollie.
Michael B. Jordan in the booth for his new animated film SWAPPED
Premiering May 1!
Unserious people living in fear are manipulated, then indoctrinated. Republicans can always rely on white people to play the victim and blame the scapegoat du jour.
#WHAT a fucking read of the manic pixie dream girl#I want this desperately actually???#perfect quirky enigmatic mystery girl who has all the traits you don't but long for#and lives life with extreme confidence and whimsy doing whatever she truly wants#and she's the future you can have!! she's here because she loves you! she wants you to be happy!#she hated being you so she knows how much you hate being yourself but she's here to prove to you#that there is a joy you can attain#there is a self you will love (tags via @aethersea)
The Orchard’s Wound
Based on an off-screen scene from Retired Assets 1-5 “Broken Things Can Be Mended Anew”
Process here and here
(The WIP name was Link Appleheart)
Alt version below:
This is really cool! The details!! The colors! LOVE IT!
