the new trans pride pins finally came in and they look amazing!!

you can find them in my etsy shop! 💜

This may be controversial but I think polyamory should be in tv shows and video games. I think there’s so many unexplored dynamics for romcom relationships and we simply deserve these kinds of stories.

probably my most powerful interpersonal communication hack is to, whenever possible, ask either/or questions rather than yes/no questions

for example, when chatting with coworkers, i’ll often ask if they have any fun weekend plans. but let’s be real - we all feel like friendless losers when someone asks that question and we go “uhhhhh… no.” so instead, i phrase it as “so, do you have anything fun planned over the weekend, or are you just going to enjoy having some time to relax?”

phrased like this, there’s rarely any awkwardness. you’ve presented two options & given both equally positive connotations, so your conversational partner has an automatic “out,” so to speak

but it works for higher stakes conversations too!!!! my mom was saying this weekend how she and her neighbor both like walking around the neighborhood & that she wanted to suggest they take a walk together sometime, but was worried about how to approach the conversation

so i said “how about you just say ‘i’ve noticed we both like taking walks! would you be interested in going for one together, or do you use walks for some precious alone time?’”

now Walking Neighbor has an automatic “get out of jail free card” if she wants to say no!!!! which means my mom doesn’t have to worry about the conversation being uncomfortable, because she’s set it up to go smoothly

either/or questions rather than yes/no questions. it is really like magic

Harpy eagle

think I’m gonna do a secretary bird design after this

if you have any bird/animal suggestions to dragonify I’d love to hear them

i think that all the people who argue about gender by saying "the woke left cant even define a woman" need to get hit with the "who are you" question by a buddhist monk. no, thats your name, who are you. no thats your profession, who are YOU. no you fucking idiot thats your species, who are YOUU. dumb bitch u cant even define yourself

mutual 1: i need him. (picture of a computer)

mutual 2: i need her (picture of a car)

mutual 3: wrote a little fic (my house.wad house/house of leaves house - 30,000 words)

mutual 4: doodle. (most beautiful awe inspiring art you've seen - 6 notes)

mutual 5: GOD I NEED HIM (video of an industrial drill working)

mutual 6: i don't know if i need him or what he was (picture of the ship of theseus)

mutual 7: i hate him (picture of a trabant)

mutual 8 (mutual 5 alt): this is better than a rock concert (video of an industrial drill being maintained)

Share an "about me" of yourself.

no about me you have to learn my lore via random overly personal posts I make at 2am and delete a few hours later

every time a fat girl wears a shirt that shows her belly an angel gets their wings reblog if you agree

that post abt "no moderation would be better than this" is by angel-athetos and if shes the same person as goddess-athetos then. well she mightve gotten mass-reported for transmisogyny reasons but it also couldve been for the fact she openly ans proudly announces shes a map and pro-pedo, zoo, and necrophilia.

Oh No

squilf

turns out i was NOT lying when i said i post cat art every 2 yrs. but hi Tumblr! i don't really know how you work!

but here's squirrelflight/star!

2 Adventure Time spinoffs + a movie just got announced at Annecy!

Not much said about the movie, other than a bunch of the core staff from the OG show are back, including Rebecca Sugar, Pat McHale and Adam Muto.

Adventure Time Sidequests - show focused on younger versions of Finn, Jake and the core cast

"Heyo BMO" - preschool show featuring Bmo and a new group of characters facing challengers that teach kids lessons

More details in the article!

Hi if you ever find yourself in a relationship saying anything along the lines of "well I can't leave cause I would never be able to find something better than this because I'm trans/fat/aging/antisocial/unlucky" I beg of you to run. Please. You can find and build better but in order to do that you have to take the first step out the door. You do not have to endure abuse, mistreatment, or just plain incompatibility for the sake of a fraction of happiness. You don't.

overly specific dnd meme that could also be about godhood if you think about it

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

God I am sick and tired of people uwu-washing indigenous American history.

Did the Inca have exquisite building techniques, efficient messengers, and quality waterworks? Yes. They were also an expansionist empire built on violent conquest and the splitting up and relocating of conquered peoples.

Did the Aztecs have a gorgeous capital city built at the heart of a lake, with floating farms and towering temples honoring their fascinating pantheon? Yes. Guess what tho. They were also a violent expansionist empire who practiced ritual sacrifice of prisoners of war.

The Iroquois confederacy had one of the most unique representative political systems I’ve ever heard of, with women taking a forefront in most local government matters too. But their internal peace allowed them to redirect violence to their neighbors, as so often happens with tribal confederations, and they eventually violently conquered the Ohio valley and destroyed or displaced dozens of other indigenous groups.

Even my beloved Cahokia has the graves of sacrifice victims amidst its ruins.

A society should not need to be (and fundamentally cannot be) squeaky clean unproblematically stannable in order to be worth studying and remembering, and pretending that they were is no less disinformative than the European accounts painting them as godless savages.