Here Are A Couple More Of My Characters, Nataliya And Deveraux! This Suspicious Couple First Met As Members

is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription

will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

This is my first post on my first art blog (unless I have another one that I forgot about which is VERY possible)! I haven’t been drawing much in a while, but I want to encourage myself to do more illustration since I finally am getting illustration classes next semester after being stuck with graphic design courses for like forever, SO ANYWAYS!!!

These are two of my original characters, Jay and Kiara! I want to make a comic about them some day, so I drew this scene a while ago to show where they meet. I’ll probably finish this with a real background, better lighting, and more color in the future at some point, but not yet.

oda don't be weird while designing teenage girls challenge

someone: hi

me: did you know the narrative that school shooters in the US are all bullying victims is false and originates from inaccurate coverage of one of the most infamous school shootings, the columbine shooting? in reality the columbine shooters were reactionaries who isolated themselves deliberately and followed an ideology that positioned them "above" the rest. so, a lot of school shooters are actually ideologically motivated rather than revenge motivated. no one knows this and the media paints these murderers as victims. do you want to know what the columbine effect is? also I have a lot to say about "stranger danger" as a conservative fear campaign to promote the isolated nuclear family

There is an elderly man in my neighborhood who lives right next to where I park my car and he’s very proper and polite so I always wave hello to him whenever I see him sitting on his porch, and apparently he saw my mom outside the other day and told her about how nice and polite I was and how much he appreciated me talking to him.

That was really nice to hear and made me happy, because I like being polite to people, but I also realized that this means that every time I park there and get out of my car I have only JUST turned off my Lemon Demon playlist before opening my car door and am probably thinking about the little gay people who live in my brain and this very nice old man (who wears a very nice brimmed hat btw) has no idea what magnitude of shenaniganery I am getting up to behind the scenes….

This one is so iconic

Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a big deal in feminist science fiction for being one of the first widely popular and critically acclaimed works to do cool shit with sex and gender (which was certainly nothing new, but previous such works had rarely "taken off" the way LHoD did). It was criticized for referring to the genderfluid characters with the indefinite "he," which was a la mode in style guides at the time, instead of using alternating or gender-neutral pronouns. In time Le Guin came to agree with this criticism; she considered her decision not to take things further one of her biggest literary regrets, stating that "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns."

I tell you this only because the phrase "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" is one I think about a lot.

:)

Reblog if you genuinely support asexuals

It terrifies me that there’s so much raging passion in the lgbt+ community that insist on marginalizing asexuals and implying that asexuals don’t deserve to have safe spaces. There’s still so much acephobia so I just wanna know which blogs are genuinely supportive and a safe space for asexuals

the fantasy genre turns people into royalists so fast. i’m not even talking about return of the true king fairytales here but i mean, like, when there’s a “who will become king/queen!” plotline and people immediately start genuinely talking about who has the rightful claim. can we all sit down and first agree that none of these people “should” be king or queen because that isn’t a thing that should happen to people. what century are you from. divine right isn’t real go back to sleep