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Emma Tubapun, bi, She/It trans woman, scooby and pony enthusiast, i do art and post funny too header by @hikiclawd

[tubapun]

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and of course even a simple reblog helps!! tysm!!

[tubapun]

I'm gonna make all of your favorite characters trans women and no one can stop me

[tubapun]

And while I'm thinking about it, I'm gonna make em Black as well

[kelcipher]

[kryceks]

this is so humiliating but my transphobic mother just took all the money out of my bank account because she’s incredibly upset with me for being on T again so if anyone could send anything my way while i try to figure things out with her both my venmo and paypal are @ kierensb

i apologize i know everyone is struggling im just kind of freaking out because i have to make a second rent payment for $650 next week. if you can share or donate that would be super appreciated 🫶

[kryceks]

hey guys just an update

i tried talking to her and i don’t think i’m getting that money back as this is not the first time she’s done this. thank you all for donating and sharing so far !!! now it is slightly more urgent bc i now am out $600. if you guys could keep sharing that would be so great and thank you all for being so kind during this.

40/600

[guerrillatech]

[glorioustragedykid]

Thought "you're not an ally if you're dating someone who is homophobic" was a cold take but some people are really struggling with the concept

[glorioustragedykid]

"You're not the person you're dating" nah, the company you decide to keep DEFINITELY talks about YOUR character

"It's okay to befriend people with different beliefs" IT'S MY RIGHTS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT??!!

Straight people are so useless I can't do this anymore

[curioscurio]

SOMEONE had to make this joke

[vongulli]

character design comm!! a cute bo-peep inspired saytr! (plus initial concept sketches!)

[haberdashing]

if you computter keyboard is working properly ight now, withoutt any keys sticking or efusing to type letters properly, you should ake a momentt and be grateful for that fact. enjoy tthe blessings of having a functional compue keyboard. because, as you perhaps have gleaned fm thtis very text post, not all of us are able ot take such litttle luxuries forr grranted...

[obsob]

this one started as a doodle and then turned into a full drawing yayyy!!!

[vultures-nest]

im studying histology and i just like the little guys that work so hard to keep our organisms up and running

[tpwrtrmnky]

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

[bleedthebeat]

english major macklemore: i read your granddad’s prose

[ndnbutch]

therapist macklemore: i hear your granddad’s woes

[bleedthebeat]

coffee enthusiast macklemore: i drink your granddad’s joes

[ndnbutch]

body mod shop owner macklemore: i pierce your granddad’s nose

[bleedthebeat]

pizza chef macklemore: i knead your granddad’s doughs

[ndnbutch]

television network executive macklemore: i make your granddad’s shows

[bleedthebeat]

wildlife rehabilitator macklemore: i feed your granddad’s crows

[ndnbutch]

blanket maker macklemore: i knit your granddad’s throws

[bleedthebeat]

sir mackle the more, knight of the great kingdom of seattle: i slay your granddad’s foes

[ndnbutch]

rapper macklemore: i spit your granddad’s flows

[bleedthebeat]

we were sitting across from each other in the living room reblogging back and forth like it was a life-or-death yu-gi-oh duel

[natalieironside]

What if I declared myself a pretender to some throne somewhere

[natalieironside]

Fuck it, big one. I'm the legitimate Queen of England.

[annoyingalchemist]

Was this legitimacy conferred by blood, pond sword, or did you beat ol' Elizabeth at blackjack?

[natalieironside]

The great and terrible god Wōden rode down out of the sky and gave me a mandate to rule over all the Angelcynn. It was tight

[sympathischeufos]

Question. I assume you are familiar with The Game, which makes you lose when you think of it. Ancient playground lore says that the game never ends, unless the sovereign of England so declares.

In the event of your ascension to the throne, do you swear to put an end to The senseless and cruel Game?

[natalieironside]

Yeah sure. I (we?) declare the game to be over at last. Everybody wins.

[coyotegirl-writer-s-block]

what was Wōden riding? was it a really big loud badass motorcycle? I hope it was a big loud badass motorcycle

[natalieironside]

No it was that cool spiderhorse he's got

[the-occasional-mishap]

What's your stance on conkers in schools?

[natalieironside]

mandatory

[beckitty]

Cool, you're in. Dont forget that as the queen you have the power to dissolve parliament.

[natalieironside]

Well as queen of the Angelcynn I will of course be replacing those clowns with a respectable wittan

[natalieironside]

Wait if I'm a queen now but I was already one of @systlin 's house-karls I guess that makes her like the suzerain or something

[failure-to-adult]

Wouldn't be the strangest thing to happen to the English monarchy.

[natalieironside]

Declarations: The Church of England is abolished. The new two state religions are English heathenry and Islam. The new two national languages are Old English and Urdu.

[rubykgrant]

Tenth post for @creatingblackcharacters Melanin Beam Challenge, and it is a double! Two different super hero shows; the Tennyson family from Ben10, and Starfire from Teen Titans!

For Ben10, this is now a show about a Black family who initially set out for a summer road trip (I'm imagining that for both Ben and Gwen, their parents noticed that the kids have been having a touch time at school; Ben gets picked on, and Gwen is kinda stressed out trying to always fit in and be a top student. spending time with Grandpa Max seemed like a good break from all that). Then sci-fi shenanigans happen! (also, this version of Grandpa Max definitely sounds like Danny Glover now)

Starfire is such an interesting character; she's an alien princess, she's a warrior, she's a foreigner in a new place, she's the one with the brightest smile, she's socially awkward, she's confident and courageous, she's a genius- and it all just combines together in away that (ironically) makes her seem down-to-earth! She's had a LOT of different designs over the years, and often we have seen some that are Black-coded, or very intentionally Black... but there was always those particular jerks who complained about it, insisting "she's a space alien, she can't be Black!" because they consider very specific kinds of white features to be the "default" (generic white designs can be anything, but other features? oh, heavens, no!)

For the entire Tennyson family, they all have dark-brown skin-tones (Gwen is sort of more "golden", Ben is a deep earthy brown, and Max is a softer copper). One of the big visual changes I made with Grandpa Max is giving him a beard and a shorter hair style; I wanted to show the texture without it looking "scruffy", he's still very much clean-cut with his appearance!

I gave Gwen much thicker hair, with wavy curls that are darker red and shine a bright orange (I like to imagine that when she's older, she cuts it even shorter, and just lets her natural texture grow). I changed her outfit slightly, just for the fun of it; she has a short-sleeved pale powder-blue shirt under a camisole (that is a little long, making it almost a mini-dress. not seen are her white denim shorts). Other background things I had in mind; she's a year older than Ben, and maybe an inch-and-a-half taller than him, which she never lets him forget... but they look a lot a like, which means people not in the know mistake them for siblings (when they're still in the annoy-each-other-phase, this bothers them. but the time they're in highschool, they don't mind). Despite the year difference, they actually share a birthday, so they've got that rivalry BUILT IN. After having so many adventures over the summer, they mellow out on antagonizing each other (thank goodness). Gwen in particular learns how to relax and not try so hard to hurry and grow-up

For Ben, I kept the "direction" of his lengths of hair, but made it longer, and styled it as very thick curled locs (when he's older, he pulls his hair back into a ponytail. if I ever do a redesign for Kevin, when he's older I'd actually give him a short punk-buzzed undercut to be different than his long hair as a kid). I also decided to make Ben more chubby; I think it is nice to see main characters who aren't all cookie-cutter skinny, and it isn't just a joke or something they have to stop being (he is indeed still chubby when he's older). Gwen tries very hard to fit in at her school, while Ben has gone in the other direction; if he's gonna stand out, then at least he's getting attention, right? So he's the class-clown, which isn't always appreciated by the teachers. Making people laugh is also a good way to defuse bullies, but that doesn't always work either. So, Ben has unfairly been labelled a trouble-maker and a target for jerks... well, now he's going the be a hero! In fact, several different heroes! He's a little over-excited to use the Omnitrix for fun in the beginning, but eventually learns how think things through, becoming very responsible and clever (while still keeping his sense of humor). I gave Ben a black and gray baseball pattern shirt (not seen are his classic green pants)

I combined many different things I like about different versions of Starfire; obviously working within the style of the 2003 show, but I made her hair slightly more of a magenta-red like in GO. Initially, I did a lot more tiny, detailed lines with her curls, which didn't look "bad", but didn't match the rest of the style. I tried to compromise with thicker shapes and volume all through the hair! I stream-lined her clothing; she has a backless swimsuit-style outfit instead of a two-piece top and skirt (to make Raven a little different, she'd have a sleeveless dress that ends in a short skirt and matches her cloak, going over the black bodysuit that covers her arms and legs). The outfits where she is basically just in underwear with suspenders across her chest bug me (not for prudish reasons, I just think it looks annoying haha), but there is an important balance between "overly-sexualizing certain characters is a major issue" and "treating anybody that isn't white that showing their skin at all is automatically sexual is a big problem". I didn't want Starfire to be covered up and hidden as if there was something "shameful", but I also didn't want her to just... be in underwear with suspenders across her chest, thank you. This looks like something kinda cool, from an alien world, minimal clothing, bust still comfortable and functional. I changed up the pattern of accents, so they look distinctly different from other characters, and gave her rounder gauntlets that are also similar to what she has in GO. Her eyes and her face have a somewhat diamond-shape to them, and the green in her eyes doesn't have a dark line dividing the colors. Even though she is "orange", I wanted it to not be uncertain that she is definitely Black, so she's a deep warm shade of orange-brown, with a broad shape to her nose, and a defined upper/lower lip

[reanimator-electric-art]

“It’s almost as if you were born to be ordered around”

[pingo1387]

having a headache while hydrated is so unfair. you were supposed to protect me.