found a place

she's got the key to heaven or something

maybe consider that i never implied it was a transfem exclusive experience and take a couple seconds to think about why it might be especially traumatising for us to be told to "man up" and not express emotions as children and that i was seeking to not feel alone and to commiserate within a community that i know will actually give a shit

authenticity is in short supply these days. everybody's mincing words to be more palatable. putting on that customer service smile. i can't judge anyone for it, keeping your head above water as a creative often requires it. but it's something that i realized very early on, i found utterly distasteful. so i make no effort to maintain a persona. and i remind everyone, as often and as forcefully as i feel required to, that i am a human person, and that i demand to be treated respectfully. it's not what everybody wants from their content creators, i understand that. but i've found that some are attracted by it. for those who find the plastic artifice of mainstream content creators off-putting, it almost serves as a niche of its own. it's part of my brand at this point, i suppose. everything has its place.

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

hey i follow some of those on tumblr

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

Seen in the Northern Territory of so-called Australia where protesters from around the continent are converging to demand the closure of Pine Gap, a US spy base which has operated since 1966.

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram