emergencies and support

list of hotlines

list of free clinics in the U.S.

list of hotlines and emergency resources in english, français, deutsch, hrvatski, español, português, ελληνικά, pусский, magyar, italiano, gaeilge, 中国的, עברית, ภาษาไทย….

international directory of domestic violence agencies

rape crisis centers, shelters, and other local programs by state

sexual assault, rape, and domestic violence resources

trans friendly rape survivor resources

resources for male survivors of sexual assault

resources for student survivors of sexual assault

BDSM vs. abuse

discrete domestic violence emergency app

domestic violence guide for trans individuals

links for domestic violence victims with pets

copwatch with LGBTQ rights slide

bias crime, hatred, and extremism from SSC

bigotry, prejudice, and homophobia from SSC

bullying, harassment, and  school-based violence from SSC

sexual harassment resources

does your partner blame your bisexuality? it could be partner abuse

cyber-bullying

what to do if your private nudes are publicized

signs of emotional abuse

worldwide LGBT organizations

GLBT national health center’s telephone and internet peer-counseling

GLBTnearme.org 

non-binary support

extensive online LGBT resources

scarleteen: online, inclusive information and help for teens and 20’s

safe space network: tumblr list (tons of categories!)

anti-defamation league

queer muslim resources

trans and genderqueer jewish resources

queer pagan tumblr community

trans, gender non-conforming, and intersex athlete network

emotionalbaggagecheck.com

free online therapy (1) (2) (3)

self-care

a brief guide to self-care

self-care ideas, tips, and resources

self-care after rape: a masterlist

self-help blog

panic, anxiety, and PTSD masterpost

anxiety: a self-help masterpost

alternatives for feeling angry or restless

how to turn off negative thoughts

body positivity

coping with bad body image days

depression, anxiety, ED recovery resources by recoverykitty

app for ED recovery

apps for mental health support

how to use pressure points to alleviate period cramps

gender neutral menstruation calendar app

breast and testicular self-exams

housing, etc

LGBT youth and homelessness resources

trans housing network

queer housing networks

QPoC housing resources and initiatives

app for finding trans friendly public restrooms

colleges with gender neutral housing

clothing and appearance

trans, genderqueer, genderfluid and ally clothes swaps

plus size shopping masterpost

androgynous clothing labels

androgynous make up line

gender neutral clothing

suits & ties for beginners

makeup masterpost

tucking explained

low budget wigs

DIY breast forms

FTM binder pool

binders 101

gender

list of gender terms

what to do about dysphoria

trans resources (1) (2)

DMAB masterpost

genderqueer/non-binary resources

genderfluid vs. bigender

pronoun masterlist

non-western conceptions of gender

gender neutral names

gender neutral relational terms

gender neutral pronoun grammar

gender grammar

suggestions for reducing gendered terms

non-binary gender terms across languages

how to change your gender on facebook outside of the U.S.

american bar association’s legal primer for before, during, and after transitions

questions to help you think about your gender identity

communication and relationships

teaching kids consent ages 1-21

teaching my 2-year-old not to rape

how to talk to little girls

compliments that do not focus on appearance (1) (2)

discussing abortion in a gender neutral way

pdf on the effects of rape jokes

trigger warning guide

GLAAD media reference guide

positive alternatives for the “walk of shame”

coming out to your family (1) (2)

coming out to partners: transgender and non-binary people

coming out as trans to spanish speaking parents

coming out as transgender, genderqueer, and/or non-binary masterpost

QPoC coming out support/resources masterpost

tips for talking to someone experiencing gender dysphoria

resources for trans students K-12

template for informing professors of preferred name and pronouns

tips for teachers

teacher toolkit for homophobia and homophobic bullying

transphobic speech and thought processes to watch out for

transitioning at work

name tags with preferred pronouns

gender business cards

queer competency in health care service programs

the varieties of intimate relationship

chart of romantic and sexual orientations

aromanticism 101 (1) (2)

nonsexual ways to be intimate with someone

sexuality

guide on consent in sexual relationships

consent and communication

16 ways to talk about consent

dysphoria, limits, and triggers

list of orientation terms

maps of attraction spectrums

bisexuality vs. pansexuality

asexuality masterposts (1) (2)

demi- and gray-sexuality

disability and sex resources

disability and sex masterpost

trans youth sexual health booklet

dysphoria, masturbation, relationships, and sex: a guide for trans and gender variant people

sex ed guide

how-to guides

spanking guide

lube chart

condom myths

film, literature, zines, art, and music

movietriggers.com

the big LGBTQA film masterpost

queer lady movies

LGBTQIA literature

gender-bending booklist

historical fictions about lesbians

gay historical fiction book list

list of non-binary fiction and memoirs

genderqueerid’s list of links and books

children’s books that break gender stereotypes

LGBT children’s literature

free pdf books on race, gender, sexuality, class, and culture

more free feminist works

zines 101

zinelibrary.info

50 zines by queer people of color

cultural appreciation or cultural appropriation?: a zine on culture. respect, allyship, and racism

queer zine archive project

chew zine submissions

participants in feminist online movements

QTPoC art as self-care

feminist art and illustration

gender identity playlist

genderplay playlist

non-binary playlist

aromantic and asexual playlist

Something from the sixpenceee tag 

It’s really cool. You get to start your life over again from scratch and you make your own decisions and see where it takes you.

I found it pretty amusing. 

learn how to coupon

how to get free therapy

clean bathroom tips

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

learn time management skillz

recipes that take 30 minutes or less

see if you’re paying too much for your cell phone bill

create a resume

Starbot is a light, melancholic rpgmaker game tribute to The Little Prince. You play as a work-in-progress robot who befriends a star, explores satellites, and fetches parts for their (v gay) engineer and mechanic. Their journey takes them through strange dream worlds and crosses paths with a cast of wistful NPCs and eccentric, slightly intimidating sloths.

Music and sound by enderbabby and close beta by zdou, rhythmprince, and enderbabby.

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‘Irish are broad built and large boned’

‘Irish have characteristically thick eyebrows’

whelp

guess I know what to blame my problems on

thanks genetics

The big post of things about hands!!! I don’t consider myself qualified to teach art at this point in my life, but I don’t see any harm in sharing observations I have made. In learning to draw hands over the past few months I’ve tried to take a lot of notes, with the end goal of hopefully creating a video tutorial one day. I personally learn better from videos than written or illustrated instructions, but I’ve never found any one video that really demystifies drawing hands. I believe that in order to tackle such a difficult subject it is important to understand what makes it difficult, and this is not often addressed. If you understand the problems you can systematically solve them…

Drawing the hand is almost like drawing a whole person. Similar number of “major masses” and a big range of motion.

Because the hand is so versatile, it’s hard to pick a pose when practicing. Most individual body parts are drawn from different angles, whereas the hand must be drawn from different angles and in different poses.

Hands have a lot of moving parts and from any given angle many of these will be partially or wholly obscured by other parts. Drawing “through the form” results in confusing construction lines that are difficult to interpret.

Hands are expressive and give big clues as to what a character is doing. Odd or unnatural hand poses detract heavily from your overall piece. Most people avoid drawing hands because of this.

The thumb flexes along a different plane than the four fingers and sits on its own deviant metacarpal. Drawing the hand in perspective is hard enough, but adding the thumb in relation to the rest of the hand at a convincing angle? Forget about it!

Hands are typically simplified into box and cylinder forms, but almost every part of the hand is a combination of angles and curves. No one simplified form really describes these parts.

Hands interact with other objects, like all the time. They’re tricky enough to draw on their own… this isn’t helping anyone.

Hands have a lot of bony landmarks, veins, and tendons, all visible at the surface level. These are obstacles when trying to render them realistically.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

I think that about covers the major issues we face when trying to draw hands. Now here are some observations and facts that you can use to fight back!

The width of the first three fingers (index, middle and ring) is the same as the width of the wrist. The pinky and thumb both emanate from the parts of the palm that overhang this line.

The palm of the hand is more of a pentagon than a rectangle (Thanks, Jim Lee!).

The length of the middle finger is approximately the same as the length and width of the palm.

The length of the phalanxes (finger bones in this case) diminishes in size as they get further from the palm. The second (middle) phalanx is 2/3 the length of the first (proximal), and the third (distal) is 2/3 the length of the second. You don’t really notice this since the first knuckle is “inside” the palm and we tend to think of the fingers as starting at the “finger crotch”.

The thumb has no middle phalanx, only a proximal and a distal one.

The thumb is rotated 90 degrees from the angle of the four fingers. So the fingernails point “up” and the thumbnail points “to the side”. This obviously changes depending on the pose, but the thumbnail never really points “up” with the other fingernails unless it is bent backwards, as in poses when all five fingers are pressed against a flat surface. It never really points “down” unless the hand is clamping or pinching… or operating a sock puppet.

The thumb has to sit lower than the palm so that it can flex underneath the hand. The first knuckle of the thumb is almost as far below the index finger as the pinky is far away from the index finger.

The “webbing” of the thumb connects exactly half way up the palm.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

That is all the knowledge I have so far, and now you have it too! I don’t think any tutorial, video or otherwise, can ever teach you as much as the thousand observations you will make from drawing a thousand hands. There is no substitute for practice. So practice by looking at your hand from the normal vantage point, and from a mirror. Practice from 3D reference like the Handy Art Tool. Practice by copying other artists and animators whose hands appeal to you. Most of all, practice from imagination. PRACTICE! Below is every reference that I can remember that I’ve personally used while practicing hands:

http://www.handyarttool.com/

http://youtu.be/BAQb-5VKxmg

http://nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/mini-hand-tutorial-68320552

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-321600866

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-2-322546252

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-3-330102275

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-reference-4-428109721

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference-part-two.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hand-reference-part-three.html

Could you live on $8 or $9 dollars an hour? A computer game made by the Urban Ministries of Durham in North Carolina and an advertising firm called McKinney lets you play out life with a low-wage job as a single mom. The objective is to make it a month, juggling getting a job, rent, a place to live, food and coping with the costs of repairs, things for your child, insurance, etc.. Actually a very hard game to play and full of reminders of the difficulties of life on that kind of salary.

THANK YOU

Honest Posters of Our Relationship with Technology

“Can’t accept the fact that meaningful relationships can be made online, struggles to respect and accept said relationships.” #LastGeneration

“Has drained and abused the Earth for it’s resources, and believes that a young person would choose internet over survival. Expects us to survive and solve the problems they have created.“ #LastGeneration

“Does not understand that phones are meant for communication, also does not understand that the average semester lasts 4 months.” #LastGeneration

“Refuses to give proper sex education, shames the younger generation for not knowing.” #Last Generation

“Does not understand how social media works and that not deleting/avoiding your recent ex online is just as bad as seeing them every day.” #LastGeneration

“Also texts and drives, pretends that they are not responsible for any accidents caused by their idiot mistakes.” #LastGeneration

“Shames teenagers for taking photos of themselves that make them feel positive about their physical image, probably can’t work the camera themselves.]” #LastGeneation

“Believes that a person’s way of texting with people they are comfortable with is a sign of their intelligence level, texts just as bad, if not worse.” #LastGeneration

“Believes our generation are internet druggies, does not even acknowledge our reasons for being online, or what we do online.” #LastGeneration