Astra Avae @starborn-storyteller - Tumblr Blog

Heya! I'm Astra, she/it. I like storytelling, linguistics, anthropology & archaeology, and video games (even though I'm chronically bad at them)! I also love to talk to people, so feel free to send me a DM or ask!

Original posts are tagged [#stellar voices], older ones are [#nerdipost]

My writing blog is @astras-ramblings!

Media I enjoy: Scavenger's Reign (2023), the works of Terry Pratchett (particularly the Death and Tiffany Aching series), the Psychonauts games, No Man's Sky, Minecraft, and tabletop role-playing games (primarily Dungeons & Dragons and Kids on Bikes). Commission info in the notes of this post!

starborn-storyteller

Commissions!!

Yes, I do commissions! If you want examples of my art, this is my Instagram and this is my Toyhouse!

I will draw: - humans - kemonomimi - anthro furries (birds, reptiles, bugs included) - gore and blood - ocs - fanart - SFW ship art - smoother/sleeker mecha and robots

I will not draw: - anything NSFW - proship art - outside of my established style - non-anthro animals - chunkier mecha and robots

Pricing (USD): bust sketch $3 full body sketch $10 + $1 simple background (color or pattern) + $3 digitizing & coloring + $5 detailed background (scene or landscape) + $7 per extra character

Here's my Ko-Fi if you'd like one!

#artists on tumblr #digital artist #small artist #commissions open #art commissions #art commissions open #art commission info #art commission prices #art commission sheet #commisions open #open commissions #stellar voices

i-am-a-snom

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#rb #so true snom

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

aloeverawrites

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

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doyoulovethewayzeylily

trans women have the site's moderation weaponized against us for years -> staff happy to be complicit -> the media picks up one (1) event that's too blindingly obvious to ignore -> they apologize for not making an excuse earlier, pretend that trying to stay quiet is about the Integrity of The Platform

they clearly think we're idiots, it's just so painfully obvious.

doyoulovethewayzeylily

sincerely cracking the fuck up watching tumblr HQ accidentally(???) unbanning pjackk, seeing how we immediately started talking about transmisogynistic moderation bias, and banning pjackk again.

@staff you know we see all this stuff right

doyoulovethewayzeylily

#''moderation bias'' #you mean the fact that they're a bunch of outwardly genocidal hazbin hotel dipshits #that literally take out hits and bet on which homeless trans woman they can ban the most times in a day

you're right, thank you.

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ceilingfan5

I love to fathom and extrapolate and draw conclusions and make inferences it is more than a hobby it is a calling and a duty

#rb #this is my entire discipline #comparative literature #that's the whole thing

ceilingfan5

I love to fathom and extrapolate and draw conclusions and make inferences it is more than a hobby it is a calling and a duty

#rb #this is my entire discipline #comparative literature #that's the whole thing

leastactivejester

Hahahaha...

AHAHAHAHA!!!

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knighthearts

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

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melomelomuskmelon

i'd enjoy my pride month a lot more if this month didn't fucking always bring the most braindead and annoying discourse to my doorstep.

use this month to lift up the voices of queer people in need, shed light on our injustice, talk about our history. what we don't need is the thousandth "are he/him lesbians valid" "don't use this flag it was made by a problematic person" "eww lesboy's aren't real" BULLshit. none of the infighting matters! talk to an elder queer person for once in your life pLEASE i assure you when you've been through as much as our elders you really do not give a fuck about mspec lesbains or again. whatever the fuck we're mad about today.

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creaturefeaturecommando

"Canceling" was also an AAVE term that originally meant "We ain't fucking with this person anymore because they're weird with weird and questionable beliefs" and white people took it and tainted it to mean "You're trying to ruin someone's life, how dare you make someone take accountability for their actions !" like they really thought that saying "Hey this person is racist, maybe you want to think twice before giving them money and support" is a bad thing and that says a lot more about them than it does about us

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mizuthe-cat

respect it/its users or die to my beam

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janmisali

pick whatever option the person you're following who reblogged this post didn't pick. if they didn't say in the tags what they picked or if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random instead.

first option

second option

Voting ended onJun 7

#first option #rb