Sharing the World

Genderfaun (they/he), Blacqueer, Anarkata, Polyamorous, Animist, Autistic. Born to strike out the neon lights where the capitalists worship, and to make weird queers+goths+witches smile.

[solarpunkanimist]

...y'all ever pitch the wildest fucking character concept to the dm, intentionally highballing, then choke when they say "Fuck it, we ball"?

...let me tell you about the sentient Kamadan I'm now playing in Pathfinder 🤣 I had never heard of them, but after seeing the official art I immediately resolved to paint my own take on the concept.

Made a couple sketches (bottom of the post) using Adeilosmilus (art courtesy of Hodari Nundu) instead of a leopard as a reference [since they're Large creatures and I have a brand].

Using African Rock pythons for the snakes - I'm thinking of making this a little druid or ranger-y, so I'm making the snakes partially covered over in moss - to the point that they look almost like vines or branches. I gave him the Adinkra symbol for "talons of the eagle", symbolizing Power/Courage , on his head for 2 reasons -

. A nod to the idea in East Asia connecting the tiger's forehead markings (which kinda look like 王, which means king) to their status as the king of beasts

. Also it's funny because he has Literal eagle talons - making him a chimera of all 3 of the most dangerous predators of primates - snakes, eagles, and big cats.

[theartistrans]

[yuumei-art]

This one was so fun to paint! I thought I'd be taking a break from star themed stuff after spending waaaay too much time on the Star Projector Kickstarter but somehow I just ended up back to painting stars anyway lol

Like always, the HD image, hours long art videos, and PSD files will be DMed on Patreon on the 5th of each month. For now you can check out this short time lapse :)

[pocketmilo]

a world without trans people has never existed and never will 🌎 ✨

[calebwittebane]

the absolutely brutal backlash against BLM including all the backstabbing and scapegoating in the liberal media really did set political action and organizing in the usa so far back its so bleak

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

it was so infuriating to see the media in lockstep proclaim “the protestors are antifa terrorists” and the liberal politicians in lockstep proclaim “we’re increasing police funding. eat tear gas, fuckface.”

[anti-parent]

constantly thinking about how "abolish the police" was too radical and "defund the police" was still too radical and now we have massive urban warfare training facilities all over the country and flock cameras watching our every move. it's all so fucked

[noneedtofearorhope]

remember how there was suddenly a 'crime wave' sweeping the nation? weren't there police departments that tried to say it was all because they were 'defunded', despite not actually having been defunded, and in fact had been given extra funding for bodycams and shit?

[theconcealedweapon]

[haunthid]

art as a hobby is great because I can just draw whatever the hell I want Spinosaurus mirabilis

[heaven011]

[rococo-the-clown]

Can't quite cope with how much this looks like me and my dad

[rococo-the-clown]

It begins

[rococo-the-clown]

Photo credit to the exceeding bemused sound technician we bribed with two cans of Carlsberg to permit us access to his gazebo.

[natalieironside]

I think the aversion in our society to coming up w/ utilitarian answers to ethical questions (my favorite hobby) has caused us to cede way too much ground to the assholes of the world in the vein of "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb," as Dark Helmet put it. Like.

Laypeople (and also a concerning number of scientists) have often got the idea that unethical human experimentation is some sort of ultra-effective super science that would fix all the disease and discover all of the medicine and we only don't do it because it isn't nice (see: every science fiction show ever). No! Jumping straight from abstract theory to human trials is a terrible way to do science. It produces incoherent results and useless observations and nonsensical conclusions. We have pages and pages of historical precedent demonstrating this.

And lots of people have got the idea that totalitarianism is some sort of magic super-government that does all the government stuff really effectively abd efficiently and we only don't do it because it isn't nice. No!!!! "Let's put one idiot in charge and do whatever dumb shit they say" is the worst way to organize any project at all, let alone an economy and a political machine. Fascist regimes are models of corruption, waste, and inefficiency.

And so on

[cute-animals-only]

[marlynnofmany]

I hope this photographer won a prize

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

i don't think we mention how fucking horrifying that extinction was in popular media enough. like funny asteroid go brrrrr but that's really fucking sad to me. they were here for hundreds of millions of years and just got fucking obliterated by a big enough rock.

like it was ONE DAY

ONE

most mass extinctions take millions of years

but the world literally went from

"look at this lovely biosphere, all these wonderful animals and plants and fungi and microbes, look at them doing their thing"

(Prehistoric Planet)

and then

BOOM

everything over 25 kg? dead

Anything under? Better hide from the

GLOBAL WILDFIRES

TSUNAMIS

SHOCK WAVES

and IMPACT WINTER

and hope you can find food for the next few millennia while the SUN IS BLOTTED OUT

this is *trauma*. the BIGGEST TRAUMA our biosphere has possibly EVER HAD

(there's one impact event that was bigger, 2billion years ago, but this was before life really became complex - so who knows how that affected the life at the time)

ONE DAY

change isn't supposed to fucking happen that fast

never mind such DEVASTATING change

and like, the Jurassic + Cretaceous is the longest period of relatively stable terrestrial environments on earth. The Paleozoic through the Triassic is just a lot of awkwardness, complex life stretching its metaphorical legs and figuring things out

but the J+C was a fairly stable series of succeeding ecosystems with gradual change and a few minor mass extinctions that they got through

like,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

WHAT

[animusrox]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson

[stas-j-fox]

✨ Unicorn ✨

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[dogpuppy]

[sandersstudies]

“They’re just looking for attention.”

Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?

Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if I wrote a dystopian novel where the corrupt evil megacorporation that controls society has a fucking smirk for a logo, my editor would tell me to use a less heavy-handed metaphor

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and yet

[twinkiefairy]

I love this because if I were to write a literary novel in the Western cannon that described the image of an apple with a chunk bitten off, any high school English student would tell you it is a Bible reference meant to represent the source of all evil and downfall of humanity and YET 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]