MADE IN HEAVEN

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications.

NORMAL ABOUT HIM. VERY NORMAL ABOUT HIM.

i finally had an entire weekend off since forever and was able to draw and hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngwehewbdjwnsdjjrk

and god he‘s so hard to draw for me. like. the problem is he‘s not a cartoony videogame villain. his character model is pretty damn realistic. but i‘m specialized in cartoon dudes 😭😭 tf2 humans shaped my understanding of anatomy lol. and idk maybe i‘m also just rusty but trying to draw him is hard esp. when i wanna stylize him. but my brain battles this every second since i wanna draw him as close to the source material as possible but that‘s not gonna happen aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (i also wanna do him justice aaaa stupid brain just DO)

(also i hc that he‘s got the split tongue maybe in his 30s as a body mod? so it‘s not part of the parasite transformation but a choice lol. (he also loved going to kink parties and is heavy into electro / industrial stuff aaaaaaargdh i‘d love to draw comics about how things changed after the infection, inhibition center completely wrecked and all… man i wish i could write))

i‘ve also scribbled down a storyboard for an alternative ending for re9 which contains over 40 thumbnails already orz but i need more time for this.

also also i'm not getting enough sleep as it is....................

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Last week I was at a meetup where I was the only transfem. I checked the groupchat when I arrived and there was a message from the organiser: "We have a newcomer called X, can you look out for him if you get there first?" I located X, introduced myself, sent a message to the chat say, "I have located X," and continued to talk to him until the organiser arrived. When the organiser arrived, she was not happy with me. It turned out my phone had autocorrected, "I have located X," to, "I had located X," which the organiser interpreted as me passive aggressively telling her that I had already done the thing she was asking about. Her conclusion: I was unreasonable and aggressive in responding to her reasonable request. My explaining what had happened didn't convince her otherwise.

A different occasion last week: in a local trans groupchat, a trans man sent a link to a drag event happening in our town. A few people said they were already going, some said they might go. Then a trans woman replied saying, "Thanks, but I don't really like drag." Her tone was immediately called into question. Her words were assumed to communicate: "I think you are a terrible person if you like drag," even though she never said that. Several non-transfems who had never even heard that drag might not be universally-beloved by everyone were upset to discover that fact. A trans woman simply saying she didn't like this thing became A Big Deal.

Meanwhile, at a different event again, a trans man told a group that he was straight and attracted to women, but he wouldn't feel comfortable bringing home an "AMAB woman" (yes he actually said that). It was quickly brushed over, and after he had left even trans women tried to defend him by saying "he probably didnt realise people would be offended" etc etc. In contrast to the examples above, he is not even aware that anyone was upset by what he said, never mind worrying about what consequences he might face.

Very very important periodical fit checks + height difference because I simply just couldn’t hold myself