Magpie's Nest

oh y’all this is my first non-fanart piece to break 1k notes and i’m SO excited it’s enthusiasm for this design in particular! thank you; i’m so relieved and encouraged by the warm responses 🙏🏻💙

[ID: A digital painting of an older merperson underwater, staring intently at the viewer with dark eyes and a harpoon in her right hand. She has dark skin, short white hair, a bare torso with sagging breasts, and traditional Inuit tattoos on her face, chest, right hand, and left upper arm. The left arm ends just below the tattoo, at the elbow. Her tail is that of a beluga with more tattoos on the flukes. The water behind her shows light coming from above and cold darkness below. The painting is signed by the artist, accompanied by print reading “Aeroknot ‘19” /end ID]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

Thanks to [tumblr]’s new like function, I can share THE VERY FIRST post that I liked. And y'know what? I’m glad for that. Good job, [tumblr]. Now, about those Trans Rights…

I also think a majority of men cannot fathom that Michael Jackson--a straight, black man--could present masculinity in a way beyond machismo, aggressiveness, and domination. That Michael was soft-spoken, kind, loving, and in many ways demonstrated a maternal nature toward children and adults completely shatters the prominent ideology around masculinity. As does the way Michael presented himself, wearing makeup, wearing beautiful clothing, surrounding himself with beautiful things, embracing a childlike wonder in a world so broken. Not only did Michael's personality and appearance unsettle the locked crypt of masculinity that men and society at large bury themselves in, but the fact that, at the same time, his fans, the world, and a hell of a lot of women loved it. They loved Michael. They wanted Michael. They aspired to be like Michael. They saw him as The Man in many ways. The very traits men deem as feminine, many saw as what a man should be like, and I think that fact, to this very day, absolutely fucking terrifies those who cannot free themselves from a patriarchial world view that legitimates itself on violence and domination.

Reblog if you have mourned the death of a fictional character.

If you do not reblog this you are in fact lying.