Dab it up my Boyonocerous

[cooing at a picture of a baby bird] awwwwww so cute. awwwww so cutes. awwwso cutes. awwwww [face grows cold and distant as my motherly instincts kick in] if the unit does not generate surplus value it must be destroyed

this sculpture is from 2011 by artist sara swink

cats have been bothering humans since at least 2011

people have suddenly started reblogging this post of mine from february 8th, 2012. great bit everybody

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

if I had even slightly less self control I would reblog the "tumblr is a nightmare for people with ocd" post 500 times a day but I think we all know this already. hoooooooooooooooooly shit

sometimes a post has a really good point but the way it is worded is so bafflingly Terrifying that you just have to sit back and go "hahaha. okay" and if you're unlucky and your brain is a bit tricky, spend the next hour or day or week or month or longer ruminating on it. sucks! I would love to see less of these posts [:

and sometimes you will desperately plead with the people who see your posts to not mention a topic that sends you spiralling and someone will take that as an invitation to tell you that you are Bad for telling them not to talk about the topic on your post. it's beyond comedy. hi everyone I love you and I'm sorry if you have a tough time online because of the posts you see or the interactions you have. ocd or not. it can be tough! these are words on a screen and they can be scary but your life is big and beautiful and you aren't what strangers say about you. peace and love

a small thing i learned from my sister dying is that i really would rather the people i love be a burden than be whatever the hell else they'd be if they weren't. yes even if it's messy and not always fair and hard completely inconvenient for everyone involved. even if it's weird. even if i'm rolling my eyes a bit inside sometimes. i just want you to bother me. please always bother me

like "it's rotten work" "not to me not if it's you" actually sometimes it's still rotten work. even if it's you. and i'd still do it a million times over