the break room

Life's hard, making the best out of the little things isn't easy, but it is worthwhile.

[bluerose5]

Thank you, Black people in fandom spaces. Thank you, Black creators and Black lurkers. Thank you Black artists, Black writers. Thank you, Black bloggers, Black influencers. Shoutout to those Black characters, both canon and original. Thank you, Black people, both queer and cishet.

Your perspectives matter. Your representation matters. You are not bothersome for demanding equal treatment in fandom. It is not your responsibility to make fandom more welcoming and inclusive to you. It is not your sole responsibility to create all of the Black-centered content. You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

Black people in fandom, you are wanted. You are needed. You are loved and appreciated. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

And since they don't get told it near enough, thank you, Black women especially!!!

[murfpersonalblog]

You are not "ruining" anyone's fun for demanding better for yourself, and anyone who says otherwise can go fuck themselves. Any fandom worth being a part of should have no room for racism in it.

[kosmogrl]

on sisters

[unlockthelore]

Lore (@unlockthelore)

Check out Lore's commissions and portfolio! | lvl 28 creator ── .✦ nb ace queer black animanga/gaming enthusiast & artist/writer ✧₊⁺ they/t

Heyo! So, long story short, I had to leave my previous job abruptly and now I'm trying to branch out as a creator! I managed to get by the first two months, but this month my goal is to pay my rent by August 1st.

I've got writing/art commissions opened up on VGen with a grand opening discount of 20%. If you can't commission me, then you could give me a bit of free support by sharing this post.

Anything helps, seriously! And thanks for helping me out, stay determined!

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There's also custom inquiries!

[onecells]

fuck purity. be unpalatable. fuck being perfect, fuck always "knowing better." you wanna be PUNK? you think you're a FREAK?

psh. focus on being unpalatable first. you want to be punk AND liked/respected by everyone? wrong goal. having perfect arguments and morals gets very very little done. doing shit gets stuff done.

christians/trump/whiteUSA/republicans/racists/ableists/fascists/across the globe, and many more-- they all look down on all of us, the "nuance" to their "beliefs." Punk exists because truth KILLS beliefs. that's why PUNK KILLS FASCISTS.

wanna DO something? even with helping stop AI spreading? log-off. go OFFLINE. make mistakes. listen and learn. know yourself and why you believe what you believe. no one can punch your beliefs out of you. that goes both ways.

online is a simulation. i LITERALLY mean it when i say: touching grass is punk nowadays. logging offline (phone/computer/whatever screen unless it's like face-time lol).

social media is not social any more. it's data-collecting at BEST. like being social online? totally fine. find other apps that don't force AI.

"accept all cookies" REJECT ALL POSSIBLE.

"by continuing to use this app/website, to agree to our privacy and policy [etc]"

THAT'S A TRAP. FIND A DIFFERENT WEBSITE.

billionaires buy you through your data, and if you aren't already (in "ease-of-effort" ways) controlled by apps and ads to let them think for you (analyse ads, they're adding a lot of built-in-camera surveillance, disguised as "for your safety" "features"). ie: dont think, just do! and toyota's newest "safety" feature of registering IF YOUR EYES ARE WATCHING THE ROAD AND ALERTING YOU TO WATCH FORWARD (depicted as an exhausted nurse overworked from a shift falling asleep at the wheel).

can YOU🫵 guess how far away tech is from forcing attention to advertisements?

blackmirror season 1 ep 2 is where we're all headed and none of this is news.

PUNKS SAY NO. PUNKS MAKE MISTAKES. PUNKS ASK QUESTIONS. PUNKS RAISE MORE QUESTIONS THAN THEY ANSWER. MAKE PEOPLE QUESTION THEIR SCHEMAS. PUNK IS AWAKE. PUNK IS INDIFFERENT TO FUCKIN JOKER COWARD INCELS. PUT POWDERED MASHED POTATOES IN THEIR CARS (OR TANKS). MAKE THEIR LIVES INCONVENIENT.

MAKE FASCISTS AFRAID TO BE FASCIST. APPLY the SIMILAR LOGIC: "DEAD PEDOPHILES CAN'T REOFFEND. KILL YOUR LOCAL PEDO." fascists are "innocent"? oh? viewing other humans as lesser-than is innocent? that's fine with you? you don't wanna rock the boat? you're NOT PUNK. yet.

work on yourself before you "work" on others. know your own point before you try and get it across. know yourself and why you believe what you believe. KNOW why you, personally, believe it. even if you can't get THAT across to someone else, at least YOU know why you stand on that hill you'd die on, right?

CALL OUT CLASS DIVIDE AS FACT, NOT A PUNCHLINE. MAKE THEIR SAFETY THEIR PROBLEM. PUNK ISN'T DEAD.

PUNK CALLS FOR ONE WAR: CLASS WAR.

DON'T GET DISTRACTED BY LAZY PROPAGANDA PREYING ON HOW TIRED YOUR EMPATHY IS. THEY DID THIS ON PURPOSE TO YOU.

DON'T STOP CARING. in the words of my favourite Australian artist musician Wil Wagner: "Youth is wasted on the young, drink is wasted on the drunk. Nothing's ever loud enough to properly drown the demons out. It's a punishment to care about anything this much. Nothing's ever loud enough! Nothing's ever loud enough!!! Nothing's ever loud enough!!!!!!"

TLDR? too bad. that's a YOU🫵 problem.

READ. MORE.

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR.

OP context: i am 31 years old, born white, to extremely conservative christian californian usamerican parents. grew up in Australia. found out i am LGBTQ+ after moving AWAY from the usa, and was taught queer vocabulary, taught about indigenous racism, transphobia,

[j-walking]

Both of them failed the no pda test

(I used reference for this!)

[unlockthelore]

I'm proud of myself for continuing to draw and developing this, admittedly cute and interesting perspective on this comic. I can't wait to see what'll come up from it next! This is episode 7 of Win in Progress, titled 'Welcome!" and featuring Sun!

[life-ennder]

makes me so sad when my friends refuse to pirate things and insist on paying for a streaming service EVEN when i offer to do it for them or teach them. like pleaseeee i have a vpn i have a plex server i can get you whatever you want. don't buy disney+ i can be your little poob i have it for you.

[creatingblackcharacters]

It really is hilarious because whenever you start your art journey, you watch all the videos and ask artists and they all give tips and help but it all ends up coming down to "you just have to practice".

And it pisses you off because bruh how am I supposed to practice this shit if I can't even do this first couple of fucking lines to make a good cylinder.

And then you start drawing and it sucks and you keep doing it, and you learn new skills and tricks, and you even end up developing an art style naturally (which they told you you would do, and you didn't believe them, but it came free with the constantly drawing in a way that made you comfortable and learning the medium).

And at the end of it all, someone else asks wow how you did all of that, and after all this time of putting in effort you finally have to eat crow and admit that the answer is... Damn... you really have to practice 🤣🤣🤣

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

as an adult, some adults really aren’t mature enough to separate fiction from reality or understand the basic concepts of fiction not necessarily reflecting someone’s real life moral compass and it’s embarrassing. how are you a grown adult and still acting like a mean girl who bullies real people for the sake of fictional characters and feelings morally superior

[make--it--gayer]

[veztemporana-deactivated2019061]

bonus:

[scumbagsblog]

I’ve never seen this with the update and it makes it so much funnier

[unlockthelore]

Lore (@unlockthelore)

Check out Lore's commissions and portfolio! | lvl 28 creator ── .✦ nb ace queer black animanga/gaming enthusiast & artist/writer ✧₊⁺ they/t

After putting around for most of the day, it's up!

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out, and/or kept my spirits up while I was working on this. Now, I can take writing commissions and I'm working on opening up art commissions as well.

You'll probably see this link quite a bit, but if you can't commission then please share it. Otherwise, thank you so much!

Peace!

[unlockthelore]

Lore (@unlockthelore)

Check out Lore's commissions and portfolio! | lvl 28 creator ── .✦ nb ace queer black animanga/gaming enthusiast & artist/writer ✧₊⁺ they/t

After putting around for most of the day, it's up!

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out, and/or kept my spirits up while I was working on this. Now, I can take writing commissions and I'm working on opening up art commissions as well.

You'll probably see this link quite a bit, but if you can't commission then please share it. Otherwise, thank you so much!

Peace!

[twistcmyk]

[unlockthelore]

Writing Commissions Open

I'll have to remember to post about this in the morning, but yo! If you've ever wanted something written by me or want me to continue with writing something, I've opened up writing commissions for short-form pieces on VGen!

Check it out here: https://vgen.co/unlockthelore/service/-fiction-short-form-/e6f8b99e-e810-4184-ac1f-63a45cd6c6ae

[gardeningwithpina]

Why waste the rain?

I'm obsessed with gardening systems that utilize rainwater without the use of barrels or cisterns. My ultimate fav is using bioswales to catch and filter stormwater on the street.

Fun addition: Dams that utilize trees to catch dirt/ stop erosion, and prevent disaster that can come from broken dams.

[aleeowl]

Also:

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DRAINAGE! SUDS!

We need more of them, in the right places!

Also, using these to reduce stormwater loads in storm events, particularly in places with combined stormwater and sewage systems, could/would be helpful at reducing river discharges of raw sewage. (If climate change is factored in at system level cos more rain in less time needs to be accouted for at rhe large scale designs...)

Plus using constructed wetlands to retain these discharges and treat them before rivers too!

[fairycosmos]

when avoiding the task doesn’t even free you from the obligation of it because youll still be thinking about it fucking constantly

[genderkoolaid]

its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.