sam is rotting

Sam | he/him | 27 | Trans | Art, my shop, my interest of the week, and my ramblings

[themightyhumanbroom]

My average writing experience:

"Alright I think I'm almost done actually-"

*Google doc grows second health bar and a choir starts singing in latin*

[ain-person]

@samrot

[joudama]

Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

[none-penis-with-left-beef]

sources:

Trvor Project

Rolling Stone

There's an ActionNetwork petition you can sign. Don't let the Trump administration win without a fight.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Non-Americans can also sign. We need all the help we can get the next 1,307 days

[bogleech]

Genuinely why, what is even their claimed justification

[skoofie]

Friendly reminder that you should

Write that fic

Draw your OC

Redesign that blorbo

Plan that comic how you want

Create the content you want to see

Be cringe

Be free

The only thing that matters is you having fun! Not what others think!

[sawbones4117]

[997]

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨

Sign the Petition

Defend the Internet Archive

[997]

[celestialrunes]

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOUR DONATIONS ON CHANGE.ORG DO NOT GO TO THE SUBJECT OF THE CAMPAIGN

That means that when you donate, it goes to change.org. Now, this isn't useless — it does mean that the petition gets boosted. However, you're pretty much doing the same thing by reblogging. I am concerned about people donating something like $40 dollars since I'm not sure if they realize it doesn't contribute to the legal fund or not.

If you want to donate to the internet archive's legal fund (and help with operation costs), then you can click here to go their donation page

[callmearcturus]

I saw this without that last bit before. READ THAT LAST BIT.

[engineer-gunzelpunk]

Can I have everyone’s attention please? Especially Australians

Sign Petition EN7163 - Asylum for Gender and Sexual Minorities from the United States

There is a petition imploring the Australian government to take in LGBTQIA+ refugees from the USA. Given the rapidly worsening political situation over there, I want to at least give this a go. I don’t have any illusions that it will get through to the people that need to see it but I want to try anyway.

The petition closes in 8 days; if you aren’t Australian, please do me a solid and pass this around. Reblog this if you can. Thank you.

e-petitions

e-petitions

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[sandmandaddy69]

[harzilla]

Reblog to cast healing for your homies.

[kosmogrl]

[moonlitmanchego]

[fernwah-funzone]

wait you understand that kinks are ok because they're fantasies that make you happy right? you all get that you don't need to have trauma for your kinks to be okay? right? like none of you think i witnessed a tragic accident on the pool toy assembly line right?

[fernwah-funzone]

like "some people work through their personal issues with kink" was a good first step for some of the class that were struggling but i think now we're ready for "things that don't hurt anyone and make people happy are okay even if you personally think it's icky"

[curlicuecal]

[misunderstandings-georg]

BECAUSE ROUGE THE BAT DRAWN AS WIDE AS SHE IS TALL WITH TITS TO MATCH KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?

[briandavidgilberts]

[ebitenpura]

my body is a machine that turns online multiplayer games into single player

[plaidos]

You’ve probably answered this a million times but do you feel safer in the U.S. or the uk in your experience?

i was talking to a friend about this last night — considering that the transphobic legislation in the US is immediately being taken to court, and in the UK, the so-called (incumbent) leftwing party is arguably more enthusiastically against trans rights than the rightwing one, i’m going to say “yes” lol.

like i cannot stress to anybody enough that there is no political opposition to transphobia in the UK. it is a shared opinion of both major parties & very few if any british politicians would even lift a finger to do anything that helps the trans people here. this might be a frustrating, slow moving conversation with a lot of back-and-forth in US politics, but it isn’t a conversation at all in the UK. they literally just expanded the definition of rape to include trans people who don’t disclose. when Scotland ruled trans people should be allowed to self identify, the UK in a blatantly illegal and unprecedented move overruled it, even though Scotland is supposed to be a devolved government. when they blocked in, the UK cited fucking national security.

so yeah. i don’t just “feel” like the US is safer — the places i’m going to in the US are literally legally safer for trans people. period.

[youreaspecialflower]

Yeah, I live in Texas, a state which targets trans people, and I was able to receive informed consent and walk out with a estrogen prescription the day of my first appointment. To my understanding you literally cannot do that in the UK. I didn't have to prove to anyone I was trans, and that I meant it. Astonishingly, at time of posting, it is easier and safer to be trans and to start hormones in Texas than the UK.

[plaidos]

for reference, i came out to my parents at 15, i was attending a gender clinic by 18 (which was chokeholded through both a waiting list & my pediatrician's hesitancy to Fucking Let Me) and they didn't let me go on estrogen until i was nearly 23. this was considered fast at the time, and it's only gotten slower & worse since. i know people who live in places in the UK with 10+ year waiting lists.

[herssian]

as of march 12th clip studio is on sale celebrating their version 4 release. it's an incredibly powerful drawing program you will NOT regret getting, especially if you want to ditch adobe. the sale ends in 5 days so if you were looking into getting it, now's the time

CLIP STUDIO PAINT - More powerful drawing.

Your go-to art studio for illustration, animation, manga, & webtoons. Fully packed with customizable brushes & tools. Draw on your smartphon

and since i see this brought up often when i make these posts:

for pc and mac users, there's a perpetual license option; you do NOT have to get a subscription to use clip studio unless you're on an ipad

you can forever own the version of the program you buy; if a future version has things you want, you will be able to upgrade for a discount

future update releases won't make your current version unusable. you simply won't have the features any new release will include. for example, i will not be upgrading from ver 3 to ver 4 because i'm not interested in the new features

pro is for illustrations, character art, concept work; ex has handy tools for comics, webtoons and animation. both can make use of their 3d assets

[hyperbali]

For what it's worth, even if you buy the PC/Mac version, that does not transfer to the iPad. You gotta have a subscription to use it on iPad at all.

... it's still the only art program I use anymore, so >> worth it to me

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[sponsoredbyadhd]

[str4wb3rry-newsboy]

no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.

[homunculus-argument]

My dash is full of struggling writers rn.

[chronurgy]