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Turned one of my little figure studies from a few days ago into a full illustration!! Only the full art treatment for my bestie

Because I’m only slightly obsessed with this piece and everyone has been so nice and enthusiastic about my TMBD art (🥹), I also edited it into a phone background which can be found below the cut!

This is @bzeye's OC, currently unnamed! They have such a cool design :D

So many people just being like, "Well now that we're all stuck indoors" as if "essential workers" didn't count, and virtually every commercial being like, "Welcome back!" after companies started making employees come back to the office, ignoring that some of us never "left" our work stations to begin with. Nowadays you see so many people say, "Remember when we were all indoors?" and I'm like...no, I don't actually, some of us never had that privilege.

Amatonormativity is about the bigger picture of how society treats romantic relationships. It's about placing romantic relationships at the top of a hierarchy and then claiming that most meaningful close and intimate connections to other humans are only accessable through them. Amatonormativity is the assumption that everyone wants to end up in a monogamous long-term romantic relationship and then decrying anyone who wants a relationship that doesn't fit into that very narrow category.

Every individual person has to figure out for themselves which types of relationships they desire or don't desire and how much importance they want to give them. Amatonormativity criticizes the fact that that's not a question you are normally asked in the first place, because the answer is always assumed.

This is not a comprehensive list, just some examples.

Making fun of people who've been married multiple times.

Giving preferential treatment (first choice on holidays, no overtime requirements) to married persons or people in long term relationships.

Expecting people to bring romantic partners to functions for work, social groups etc. rather than a person who would enjoy the event best.

People respecting "I'm seeing someone" more than "I'm not interested".

Asking new co-workers, strangers, etc. about their marital status, which assumes 3rd parties have a right to such info (they don't) and that everyone has an interest in marriage.

Laws that prevent non family from supporting single friends but allow spouses and romantic partners to do so in times of crisis.

Laws that give financial benefits to the married for no reason other than they're married.

Laws against poly marriages and relationships even if all parties involved are happy in the relationship and want to get married.

Single people not being permitted to carry friends on their insurance while married people can carry their whole families (this essentially creates a pay gap as the married person is getting more benefits than their single co-workers are permitted)

Discrimination against single people in the rental and housing markets.

And things that are not amatonormative

"and the god that speaks to you is definitely yours, you are sure, you are so sure"

Happy Halloween! You get what may be a limited time offering, which is a crummy phone recording of a Murderbot filk I wrote a little over a week ago in less than 24 hours. It doesn't actually have a title yet and I don't really know like...what to do with it? Or if I want to keep it on my blog? But it exists!