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Practicing using Clip studio with a really quick doodle
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Made a new poster! :)
Since a shit ton of my audience is from the US I hope you know I am trans and all my art features trans women. My Ariane is trans, my isa is trans, Ara is trans, Elster is trans, the fucking kitty pilots and knights and every girl is trans. Wether they look trans or not. Post op and pre op. Dick or no dick. Ffs or not or what the fuck ever.
I know many of you live in Latin America too and there the situation is arguably worse in many countries. I can't do shit with my art because it's just a bunch of fucking scribbles and not actual action or activism. But I just hope it cheers you up a bit, I really do. I love drawing ourselves.
What I want to say is that I love your bodies and admire every single one of you who actually fight and stay alive. So everyone in my art is trans. Always has been. If you got a problem with it unfollow and suck me off.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now iâm thinkingâŠ.maybe this is the good luck post
âŠ..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.Â
So you know.Â
This might be the real one, yâall.
what the hell? i could use some luck *hits reblog*
World Heritage Post
reblogging again⊠need it bad lolÂ
Sure why not, whatâs the worst that could happen
Fucck I guess
Iâm confident this is the good luck post I need
Iâm not superstitious but why not.
tiktok stunt haha funny. please talk about the ice raids
even though theyre officially starting on tueaday once trump is in office the raids have already started in central california since sunday and idk where else. people havent been able to go to work becuz ice is literally patroling the streets and targeting places where majority brown people work. please keep aware and talk to ppl in your life who might not be
Time.
Updated this piece since it was my hardest to read comic. Also, I hate to do this, I truely do. I feel bad asking since I feel like I offer nothing in return. But right now I need some small assistance affording my adhd meds so I can keep making comics. If you would wish to support me you can use my Tip link here. All of will go to medical bills. https://ko-fi.com/welldrawnfish
Just wanted to rb since I noticed we are at like 32k notes, thatâs wild to me like a certified banger thank you so much for taking time to see my art, Iâve been feeling really lost and purposeless lately and this makes me feel like I might have a purpose in comics
I hope this comic helps all of you appreciate the time you have
youâre doomed, thereâs nothing I can doÂ
babe are you okay? you reblogged Iâm Gonna Kiss You Stupid again
babe are you okay? you reblogged Iâm Gonna Kiss You Stupid so many times that it got 100k notes
whenever amity invites hunter to her house the twins are on him like a fruit fly to a carcass. this is mostly because hes really easy to fluster and amity turns into a shrieking banshee when they so much as mention one of her friends. (i like hunter and amity being friends a lot. he comes over to visit their family library and he visits her at her job. 2 me)
I was in my feelings today so I drew vent art. I feel exceptionally dramatic.
It seems there's a new lawyer in town!!!
If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.
Oh hey! Havenât seen this in forever! Didnât reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.
On the issue of the âq slurâ...
So, yesterday, I got into a rather stupid internet argument with someone who was peddling what seemed to me to be a rather insidious narrative about slur-reclamation. Someone in the ensuing notes raised a point which I thought was interesting, and worrying, and probably needed to be addressed in itâs own post. So here we go:
The word âqueerâ itself seems to be especially touchy for many, so let me begin to address this by way of analogy.
Instead of talking about âqueerâ, letâs start by talking about âJewâ - a word which I believe is very similar in its usage in some significant ways.
Now, the word âJewâ has been used as a derogatory term for literally hundreds of years. It is used both as a noun (eg. âThat guy ripped me off - what a dirty Jewâ) and as a verb (eg. âThat guy really Jew-ed meâ). These usages are deeply, fundamentally, horrifically offensive, and should be used under no circumstances, ever. And yet, I myself have heard both, even as recently as this past year, even in an urban location with plenty of Jews, in a social situation where people should have known better. In short â the word âJewâ, as it is used by certain antisemites, is â quite unambiguously â a slur. Not a dead slur, not a former slur â and active, living slur that most Jews will at some point in their life encounter in a context where the term is being used to denigrate them and their religion.Â
Now hereâs the thing, though: Iâm a Jew. I call myself a Jew. I prefer that all non-Jews call me a Jew â so do most Jews I know. âJewâ is the correct term for someone who is part of the religion of Judaism, the same way that âMuslimâ is the correct term for someone who is part of the religion of Islam, and âChristianâ is the correct term for someone who is part of the religion of Christianity.Â
In fact, almost all of the terms that non-Jews use to avoid saying âJewâ (eg. âa member of the Jewish persuasionâ, âa follower of the Jewish faithâ, âcoming from a Jewish familyâ, âidentifying as part of the Jewish religionâ, etc) are deeply offensive, because these terms imply to us that the speaker sees the term âJewâ (and by extension, what that term stands for) as a dirty word.
âBUT WAITâ â I hear you say â âdidnât you just say that Jew is used as a slur?!?â
Yes. Yes, I did. And also, it is fundamentally offensive not to call us that, because it is our name and our identity.
Let me back up a little bit, and bring you into the world of one of those 2000s PSAs about not using âthatâs so gayâ. Think of some word that is your identity â something which you consider to be a fundamental and intrinsic part of yourself. It could be âfemaleâ or âmaleâ, or âBlackâ or âwhiteâ, âtallâ or âshortâ, âAtheistâ or âMormonâ or âEvangelicalâ â you name it.
Now imagine that people started using that term as a slur.
âWhat a female thing to do!â they might say. âThat teacher doesnât know anything, heâs so female!â
Or maybe, âYikes, look at that idiot whoâs driving like an atheist. Itâs so embarrassing!â
Or perhaps, âOh gross, that music is so Black, turn it off!â
Now, what would you say if the same groups of people who had been saying those things for years turned around and avoided using those words to describe anything other than an insult?
âOh, so I see youâre a member of the female persuasion!â
âIs he⊠a follower of the atheist beliefs? Like does he identify as part of the community of atheist-aligned individuals?â
âSo, as a Black-ish identified person yourself â excuse me, as a person who comes from a Black-ish familyâŠâ
Hereâs the fundamental problem with treating all words that are used as slurs the same, without any regard for how they are used and how they developed â not all slurs are the same.
No one, and I mean no one (except maybe for a small handful of angsty teens who are deliberately making a point of being edgy) self-identifies as a kike. In contrast, essentially all Jews self-identify as Jews. And when non-Jews get weird about that identity on the grounds that âJew is used as a slurâ, despite the fact that it is the name that the Jewish community as a whole resoundingly identifies with, what they are basically saying is that they think that the slur usage is more important than the Jewish community self-identification usage. They are saying, in essence, âwe think that your name should be a slur.âÂ
Now, at the top I said that the word âJewâ and the word âqueerâ had some significant similarities in terms of their usage, and I think thatâs pretty apparent if you look at what people in those communities are saying about those terms. When American Jews were being actively threatened by neo-Nazis in the 70s, the slogan of choice was âFor every Jew a .22!âł. When the American Queer community was marching in the 90s in protest of systemic anti-queer violence, the slogan of choice was âWeâre here, weâre queer, get used to it!â Clearly, these are terms that are used by the communities themselves, in reference to themselves. Clearly, these terms are more than simply slurs.
But while there are useful similarities between how the terms âJewâ and âQueerâ are used by bigots and by their own communities, Iâd also like to point out that there is pretty substantial and important difference:
Unlike for âqueerâ, there is no organized group of Jewish antisemites who are using the catchphrase âJew is a slur!â in order to selectively silence and disenfranchise Jews who are part of minority groups within Judaism.Â
This is the real rub with the term queer â no one was campaigning about it being a slur until less than a decade ago. No one was saying that you needed to warn for the word queer when queer people were establishing the academic discipline of queer studies. No one was âthink of the childrenâ-ing the umbrella term when queer activists were literally marching for their lives. Go back to even 2010 and the term âq slurâ would have been basically unparseable â if I saw someone tag something âq slurâ, like most queer people I would have wracked my brains trying to figure out what slur even started with q, and if I learned that it was supposed to be âqueerâ, my default assumption would be that the post was made by a well-meaning but extremely clueless straight person.
I literally remember this shift â and I remember who started it. Exclusionists didnât like the fact that queer was an umbrella term. Terfs (or radfems as they like to be called now) didnât like that queer history included trans history; biphobes and aphobes didnât like that the queer community was also a community to bisexuals and asexuals. And so what could they possibly say, to drive people away from the term that was protecting the sorts of queer people that they wanted to exclude?
Well, naturally, they turned to âqueer is a slur.â
And hereâs the thing â queer is a slur, just like Jew is a slur, and no one is denying that. And that fact makes âqueer is a slur so donât use itâ a very convincing argument on the surface: 1) queer is still often used as a slur, and 2) you shouldnât ever use slurs without carefully tagging and warning people about them (and better yet, you should never use them at all), and so therefore 3) you need to tag for âthe q slurâ and you need to warn people not to call the community âthe queer communityâ or itâs members âqueer peopleâ or its study âqueer studiesâ â because itâs a slur!
But the crucial step thatâs missing here is exactly the same one above, for the word âJewâ â and that step is that not all slurs are the same. When a term is both used as a slur and used as a self-identity term, then favoring the slur meaning instead of the identity meaning is picking the side of the slur-users over the disadvantaged group!Â
If you say or tag âq slurâ you are sending the message, whether you realize it or not, that people who use âqueerâ as a slur are more right about its meaning than those who use it as their identity. Tagging for âqueerâ is one thing. People can filter for âqueerâ if it triggers them, just like people can filter for anything else. Not everyone has to personally use the term queer, or like the term queer. But there is no circumstance where the term âq slurâ does not indicate that you think queer is more of a slur than of an accurate description of a community.
If I, as a Jew, ever came across a post where someone had warned for innocent, positive, non-antisemitic content relating to Judaism with the tag âJ slurâ, I would be incensed. So would any Jew. The act of tagging a post âJ slurâ is in and of itself antisemitic and offensive.
Queer people are allowed to feel the same about âq slurâ. It is not a neutral warning term â it is an attack on our identity.
This is one of the most well written posts about the evolution of âqueerâ I have ever seen. Please take the time to read this. Yes it is long but it is more than worth the 5 minutes!
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