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Reblog central. Occasional Art Stuff.🐀 28 🐀 She/They/anything really 🐀

[natnormalatall]

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

[omgthatdress]

ily, menswear guy

[pianta]

for the past couple of months i've had the honor of being part of the team at DC Go! and working on WARRIORS AND A WEE WONDER! 💜✨

here's some of the panels i got to color!! this comic has everything i love in it: romance 🌈, magical vibes, warm sunsets, strong women and a touch of chaos stirred by Olympian gods

you can check out the whole 1st season of WARRIORS AND A WEE WONDER right now on the DC Universe Infinite app!

[abuzd]

Daniel Sloss SAID IT THANK YOU DANIEL SLOSS

[shy-retiring-oxford-chaps]

Reblogging again now that Russell Brand's ugly mug is back in the news to remind everyone that in the 2023 Times expose on his abusive behaviour, Daniel Sloss was the only male comedian willing to be named and quoted like "yeah that dude's a scumbag and women have been warning each other about him for years."

[proud-to-be-a-freak]

I also need everyone to know that X is free to stream on his homepage (except for HBO territories) and I am a strongly advocating for every single person but especially cis heterosexual men to watch it at least once.

[animentality]

[officialspec]

draw more fat characters ok. i love you

[capcollector]

interrupted

[saltoncity]

im not a girlblogger im an ADULT. im a WOMANblogger this is WOMANblogging

[beardedmrbean]

[sarthathrace]

me to the accursed whispering amulet: hey can you speak up please i have an audio processing disorder

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

(via @cuunos)

[butch-tradwife]

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

[bunbuttbread]

Let's do a lil thread where we name drop games w black leads/take inspo from black culture/talk about black culture !

I wanna know more black games !

I'll start:

Relooted is a good one. Shout out Nyamakop for making this game, I think it it's an excellent way to start conversations around Repatriation among folks outside of my circle. Also !!! THE ART, MAN, THE ARTTTTTT

There's also Sword Of Symphony, though it's still in development (it's literally just one guy doing everything)

I like the way that game is literally just. Playing w music notations. It feels like a music conservatory theory exam final boss. Like great, you passed everything. Okay now play Sword Of Symphony. XD

We can't forget South Of Midnight, of course. Absolutely love that game for its world building (once again, the ARTTTTTT), the storytelling, the CHARACTER & COSTUME DESIGN OUGHHHHHHH

Aaaaaand off the top of my head (for now), Hell Clock !!

I'm not well versed in Brazilian history, and the only reason I discovered this game is bc I like roguelikes. And boom, this game throws historical events at you and throws some fantasy in there as well, with a side of black Brazilian hoodoo and EYE, for one, am a fan. If you liked Hades & its sequel you would like this too. Heck, if you liked Sinners and you dabble in games here n there you would like this too.

[bunbuttbread]

After I checked out an ask I received, i would like to add some games so the list.

MORE GAMES TO CHECK OUT

Freedom : Rebels in the darkness. A(n older but still relevant) game wherein the player gets a glimpse of life during slavery in Martinique from the POV of a black person. the creator of this game did not soften the narrative to make this more palatable to a wider audience and EYE, for one, appreciate that.

On a much lighter, and much less serious topic, there is the game Error 143 where you get to romance a (queer) black guy who happens to be a hacker and is really silly and full of whimsy. Personally, I appreciate whenever we get to have a dating game where the whole point is to date a person and that person happens to be black (and queer). I genuinely love that.

on a more fantastical note, we have RUIN : BEAST CITY ! The game's demo is currently out, and the mechanics are (imo) a little rough but once you get the hang of it, you are UNSTOPPABLEEEEE. Shout out to Adama (he is the main character, seen below) bc if I had to fight Gilgamesh on my FIRST DAY ON THE JOB i'd instantly quit. but he didn't. Big props for that. I will say, the world building in this game is really neat. If you liked the combat pacing in Sorry We're Closed, you might like this game too.

Speaking of Sorry We're Closed. We got a diverse team behind that game, including CB, a queer black artist who did an EXCELLENT JOB on everything they worked on. it's going to make 2 years this year and I'm still not over this game. while the game itself is not black focused, I still want to shout it out because at the end of the day, we love black art. Also, shout out Clarissa and Beloved. They did nothing wrong, ever.

[dracula61]

[littleguysdaily]

Bob is performed by the artist Raphaël Gromy

[nanaluvbug]

soot sprite afro puffs!!! original look by Eden's Garden art by nana luvbug patreon * commissions * shop  

[heywriters]

Ivy League teacher makes students use typewriters to fight against AI-written work

Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of

Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?

Whatever, I'm going back to hand writing my stories because relying on devices that keep breaking down on me is nuts.

[heywriters]

Would love one of these little ones!

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[keresacheron]

Dinosaur cartoon.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Important reminder

[geeky-fuckery]

This reminds me of the fact that "Ancient Egypt" goes back so many thousands of years, that the most recent "Ancient Egyptians" were already studying (even more) Ancient Egypt.

[charlesoberonn]

Not even the most recent ones. It was an Egyptian prince from the 13th century BCE studying and restoring artifacts from the 26th century BCE.

[charlesoberonn]

For context, the last Pharaoh, Cleopatra VII, lived in the 1st century BCE. Prince Khaemweset, known as "the first egyptologist", was as ancient to her as the pyramids and tombs he was studying were ancient to him.

[theaudientvoid]

I remember having me mind completely blown when I learned that the "New Kingdom" was pre-Bronze Age Collapse.

[oxeanic]

This has totally be mentioned in another fork of this post, but it reminds me quite a bit of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, a museum in Ur, c. 530 BC, which housed mesopotamian artifacts dating back in some cases to the 20th century BC