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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

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Announcing my brand new Patreon! It's finally here! As a welcome gift, all paid members receive free digital PDFs of my sketchbooks and past zines. Posts will begin next week starting with character designs and preproduction art for my new comic. I'm so excited! ❤️🌙

got punched in the moshpit and it was a very gender-affirming experience 10/10

#woz chika

rylandspace

in many projects, there is a Guy That Everyone Likes.

he is often quite skilled in his own right, but his main role ends up being Guy That Everyone Likes. running messages between departments gets a lot easier when nobody wants to shoot the messanger. everyone is happier whrn someone they like is in the room, and meetings go smoother when people are enthused about their work, that kind of thing.

grace was one of these guys.

i dont know when or if stratt ever confessed to basically blackbagging and murdering the Guy That Everybody Liked, but i think under the shock and pride and whatever else she was feeling in the meeting room with the rest of the original admin on the 26th anniversary, when ryland goes from "AHHH THE ALIENS COULD BE SENDING BOMBS AT ME" to buddy comedy roommate shenanigans with best friend rocky in what feels 10 minutes, she was pretty satisfied with her decision.

stargirl-and-potts

Keeping @startingatmidnight ’s excellent tags. Grace likes people, so people like him. It does translate right across the universe.

redhairandpronouns

i bring a sort of "both men and women are punished for performing their gender "incorrectly"" to the party that the "men aren't oppressed" group don't really like

antleredseb

born to prance in the forest, forced to lay in bed all day cursed with chronic pain and fatigue.

victusinveritas

Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!

foone

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the body of a God?

carmelia-rose

@derinthescarletpescatarian

clozaphim

forgot to post this

tojisloft

has this been done?

gawki

The FULL version of the book cover I painted over the course of 3-4 months.

This is for Gallerie TTRPG: Queer Stories of Beauty, Horror, and Hope

what-even-is-thiss

It’s amazing that Thailand invented so many delicious milk based drinks when the majority of their population is lactose intolerant

what-even-is-thiss

The fact that milk based food is still relatively popular in Asian countries where like 90-ish percent of the population is lactose intolerant just proves how delicious dairy really is

ursa-major-7

You'd think lactase enzyme would be easy to find in Asian countries. But no, they just suffer

dandelion-stuff-and-fluff

Dude my Asian husband won't even take the Lactaid my mother regularly gives him. Like, for free. Apparently it's not a guilty enough pleasure if it doesn't involve intestinal bloating.

probablyasocialecologist

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

wire-smith

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.