(not so) secretly a total geek

Hi folks, I'm the Sylversmyth! ‘90s baby, aro/ace-spec, she/they NB/agender. I'm an artist and a metalsmith/jeweler. I draw some too (and very occasionally post it). I love reading but don’t do it enough (unless you count fanfic). Since I work with my hands I am CONSTANTLY listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I'm a big fan of way too many things, so you can expect basically zero consistency on this blog!

[valtsv]

would you mind explaining the “and me i feel also not so good” thing? i tried looking it up without luck 😔

phrases that stick in your mind like tar to an unfortunate paleolithic beast

[ravioliet]

yes i do ship those characters but i ship them in an infinitely more aroace way than you will ever be able to comprehend

[kit-screams-into-the-void]

statement statement

some extras i cut out from the comic + silly unrelated doodle based on what my friend said when i was drawing this comic on call:

[amarkaa]

Smth smth Stratt smokes smth smth

[byjove]

we need more mpreg in horror and less fpreg in horror. no more women terrifyingly pregnant, more men terrifyingly pregnant, preferably cis

[byjove]

I hate it because it is often used as a way to (physically) weaken and punish female characters in a way that is so true to life and the way pregnancy is often used to control women in our world, instead of touching on the way it melds into real world oppression and reproductive coercion, it is more like “What if you were pregnant but it wasn’t a cute little baby that you’re going to love, what if it was The Creature?” A cis man, a demographic of person who should not be able to get pregnant being pregnant empathizes the sheer horror, loss of agency, desperation, confusion and possible shame/embarrassment of an unwanted and unplanned pregnancy. AND having the subject be a person who should not be able to be pregnant raises interesting implications about the physical toll on the body and the very real possibility of death. These are things women are expected to face bravely and without complaint, they’re expected to prioritize and love the parasite invading their body without their consent. And hey, maybe if it was the other way around, it could help a few cis men watching gain some perspective on the topic.

[gunsandfireandshit]

[bace-jeleren]

[robotlyra]

The reason why McConnell is currently ambiguously dead is because KY law was recently amended to state that a vacant senate seat must be filled by a special election, but previously, the duty to fill a vacant senate seat was by appointment of the current governor. The present KY gov is a Democrat, and has the means to challenge the special elections rule in the state supreme court, under the argument that it is unconstitutional to governor's power as outlined in the KY state constitution. So given the risk of a Dem appointee who would become an incumbent to challenge, or a special election race in the middle of the Mamdani Endorsement DemSoc run on congressional seats, McConnell will remain in quantum superposition between life and death until there is no longer a risk of his republican power being challenged.

Which... you know, really is life in the American Fascist Era in a nutshell: a questionably dead or dying racist lich refusing to reliquinsh the ability to make all our lives miserable

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[briwhosaysni]

To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade

[sexboobomb]

I want to learn more exclamations that aren’t strictly just religious stuff. “Jesus Christ” this, “oh my god” that, nah I want something fresh.

What are some of y’all’s favorite exclamations that aren’t about god?

[sexboobomb]

first submission and we're already off to a fantastic start. absolutely love this one thank you

[sexboobomb]

ok its time for the challenge round now we want nominations that arent about sex either actually

[mbrainspaz]

had a friend who used to make new ones up on the spot. The only one that stuck with me was 'good golly jelly beans'. If something catastrophic happens I go for 'that's not ideal.'

[foldingfittedsheets]

@chekhovs-tantrum

Absolutely not letting you leave these in the tags.

[linusbenjamin]

Whatever I am, it must be invisible. Do you mind? Billie Piper as Rose Tyler in Doctor Who (2005-)

[confessionsdiaz]

i am well aware of the absolutely fucked up things eating disorders do to people’s brains, and i am sympathetic, but I still think acknowledging publicly that these celebrities are promoting looking emaciated on death’s door is important. Can you imagine being 13 and seeing this shit? Every celebrity event looks like a thinspo board, it’s awful.

[transfemininomenon]

[kyleehenke]

these are basically turning into my video diaries

[hellsitegenetics]

happy 4th to her

[anabantoid]

Pea-Sized Wonder: Shedd Aquarium Becomes First Known Aquarium to Raise Warty Frogfish Baby | Shedd Aquarium

The bumpy, odd-looking animal has helped advance knowledge of larval fish development

hey guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

miniscule menace!

[foone]

When you go to the doctor's office, if you're a woman, they should give you a gun to use on the doctor if they dismiss your problem. Same if you're fat. Fat women get two guns in case the doctor really deserves it

[foone]

And Yes, of course I left out a lot of classes of people who deserve anti-doctor guns. Disabled people, trans people, people of color, etc.

The list is long and the more you think about it, the more angry you'll get.

Bad game idea: a Papers Please-alike where you're a doctor trying to process as many patients as possible, by finding ways to dismiss their problems. This guy is fat, so tell him to lose weight, and maybe then you'll think about fixing his liver. She's trans, so tell her to stop taking her hormones and maybe her leg won't be broken anymore. The next patient is black? Oh, clearly just drug seeking, no need to treat that infection!

Each day the number of patients you have to see goes up, and you get new ways to dismiss them, and then on the last day you get Brian Thompson'd. Screen goes black. No final score. You don't deserve it

[wizardarchetypes]

i wish mosquitos didn't make you itchy and give you horribly infectious diseases. i wouldn't begrudge them a humble nibble were it not so

[peach-pot]

conversations of amatonormativity and consent overlap a lot and should be discussed side by side more frequently. because when you live in a society that teaches you that you’re supposed to want sex and romance, that you may want to say no in the moment but you shouldn’t say no forever, any statements about consent get muddied. you cannot at once preach that consent is vital and “you can always say no” and also insist that people should give sex and romance a try, even when they express disinterest, telling them “eventually you’ll find the right person.”