The Sacred Now

You can’t wash your hands clean of all evils in this world. But you can get your hands dirty fighting against them

[the-sacred-now]

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

[the-sacred-now]

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

[the-sacred-now]

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

[the-sacred-now]

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

[the-sacred-now]

Everyone chooses my (right) funny wife...

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[starsandsupernovae]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need better friends

[starsandsupernovae]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" some of y'all need to be better friends

[huariqueje]

The Art of Simple - Yani Lenehan

Australian , b. 1969 -

Oil on Australian cotton canvas , 93 x 123 cm.

[carbomcoco]

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

[carbomcoco]

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

[aphony-cree]

people always go "Instead of spending all that time on a study they could have just listened to us when we said these thing happen"

they did listen, that's how studies work, they asked people about their experiences and put all the data together in a nice package that can be cited

[spikelleberrygin]

If given the chance to change your height, would you want to

(4'11" or under) be taller

(4'11" or under) be shorter

(4'11" or under) stay the same

(5' - 5'7") be taller

(5' - 5'7") be shorter

(5' - 5'7") stay the same

(5'8" - 6'2") be taller

(5'8" - 6'2") be shorter

(5'8" - 6'2") stay the same

(6'3 or more) be taller

(6'3 or more) be shorter

(6'3 or more) stay the same

Remaining time: 3 days 13 hours

[redstonedust]

i think most people accept the idea of "you don't control who you're attracted to" in terms of being gay but imo it can go further. like if you're not attracted to men, but you happen to find a transmasc person attractive, i dont think thats inherently transphobic if you acknoweldge that your attraction is incongruent with their identity. you dont need to run yourself in circles creating qualifiers for your sexuality when we live in a world of infinite gender identites. it's not like you have an inbuilt radar that tells you whether that hot stranger at the bar is a woman or not. man who kissed a twink that turned out to be a butch lesbian that thought he was a butch lesbian. etc.

[flyin-shark]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[scramratz]

Truscum this comic is not for you

[pangur-and-grim]

I actually do think that the cannibal incest spiders in my next book will have universal appeal

[theindigospectrum]

what are u gonna do if someone tries to cancel you over it

[pangur-and-grim]

there is simply no way this could happen

[pangur-and-grim]

okay expanding on this though: The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo has multiple first person POVs, and I REALLY wanted each one to feel immediately distinct, because I'd just had an experience reading a book where I didn't realize I was in a new head until halfway through the chapter, and it pissed me off real bad.

I solved this by switching genres for each POV. so when you're with Protactinium-231, it's a rom-com. things are bouncy and mostly fun. but when you're with Tantalus? it's a gothic horror. he's stuck in a wheel of abuse, in a temple deep underground, where his ancient mother prunes her brood. this is where the cannibal incest comes in. but there is one shard of hope: the Elder Gods seek to rise again, and in doing so, they will spread their curse, eliminating the humans who keep his family trapped in their own filth!

and then there's Fidelgard (the last POV) who's in a more traditional politics-oriented fantasy. she alone seems to understand that the other two are bringing in their own contradictory genres, and she is SO fed up with it all.

anyway, this might result in tonal whiplash! or it might be fun. we'll see.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You are an adventurer in a generic fantasy world and you use this weapon!

Do you like it?

YES!!!!!

yes

Eh it's okay

No

NO!!!!!!!

Remaining time: 2 days 20 hours

[yesornopolls]

do you pronounce 'route' as 'root'?

Do you pronounce 'route' as 'root'?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

[slugspoon]

foliage

[prinnay]

Mountain Mint

I love this majestic plant so much. You can never have too much Pycnanthemum around.

...Until you have too much Pycnanthemum around. Then you have a mint party

Inks and acryl-gouache on paper

[maekas]

Oh look! A Strawbeardie!

[wordfather]

hold on babygirl dont die there will be a new freaky little character for you get insanely obsessed with

[certifiedautismposting]

certified autism post

[wordfather]

how did you know

[the-sacred-now]

@i-havenothingelsetopost I guarantee that if you give tumblr a little more to work with there are good odds of getting fic and fanart to boot...

[evardstentacles]

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever