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The Sylph class is likely to be very suited to the Breath aspect in particular, seeing as how sylphs are described in history as “invisible beings of the air”. The Sylph is most likely a passive magic class, specialized in healing others. This can be noted when Aranea heals Terezi’s eyesight and offers to fix Sollux’s. This is healing in a very literal sense and is out-with her aspect, Light, demonstrating the Sylph to be a very magical  class. Sylphs also heal through their aspect, an example being when Kanaya rearranged the space around her to make her environment more comfortable, thus “healing” it, and when Aranea paid Meenah to listen to information she had as well  as her tendency to ramble at length, “healing” the holes in knowledge. The Sylph will be skilled in the manipulation their aspect, and despite their powers primarily helping others, they will not neglect to help themselves.

The Breath aspect is about freedom, direction, motion, rebellion and confidence. It is speculated to be the antithesis of Blood. Players of Breath maybe able to literally control the element of air, as can be seen for example with John, when he does The Windy Thing and when he is able to transform into wisps of air to escape Jack Noir. The Summoner begun a rebellion against the high bloods - a demonstration of how he was providing confidence, direction and rebellion to his followers. Tavros was not confident at all at the start of his session but this grew with time, eventually enough  for him to tell Vriska he was tired of her and leave her. John never seemed to be at a loss for what steps to take next, demonstrating his sense of direction within the session. Upon godtier, it is likely Breath players will be able to exploit the air, be able to travel and fly with ease and be confident. 

What’s covered in this new flag is already covered in the original. More importantly, we don’t need to emphasize on love in order to affirm our experiences as true. That’s just my opinion as an alloace person. The yellow stripe is the only added meaning I can get behind since a lot of queer discussions— be them on Tumblr or on other social media platforms— are largely dominated by white americans. Some of whom could really stand to learn what intersectionality is.

At the same time, people are worrying too much about it “replacing” the current flag. Whether or not that’s the intention isn’t a concern to me because I don’t think it’s going to happen. I still see people using two aroace flags floating around, the original and the black-and-blue one. But usually, it’s the original. That sort of change isn’t happening overnight. These same worries happened when the Philadelphia Pride Flag was revealed, and evidently that did not happen. What did happen was racist backlash against a flag literally designed to confront racism within Philly’s queer spaces. People still rep the usual rainbow pride flag, Gilbert Baker’s pink-and-lavender pride flags, the Progress Pride flag, etc. People have options, the Philly Pride Flag being one of them. I digress.

Personally, I won’t be using it because I like the current asexual pride flag as is. The only addition to this proposed one I like is the emphasis on multiculturalism and intersectionality. Otherwise, there’s not much else I’d consider. No one’s obligated to use it either. I’m sure y’all know that, but I think folks are getting worked up over something that they ultimately won’t see outside of social media for a while. And if they do, they’re still going to see the current one in usage as well. Why? Because very self-contained online discourse over a single flag isn’t going to undo what people are already familiar with.

Phoenix

A fiery dame...

Hello everyone!

Last year I started designing a series of Coat of Arms, themed in the spirit of Pride Month and using different mythological creatures as heraldic animals. I now aim to turn these designs into wearable pins and will be running a Kickstarter in Julyto fund this endeavor!

In addition to these 5 designs I wish to be able to crowdfund enough to be able to also manufacture the following pins and identities:

I have found a very trustworthy local manufacturer, who has already shown the quality of their craftsmanship with the first batch of test pins I received, just look at the detail they were able to produce!

Since I try to support local manufacturers, which produce pins with fair wages and are more ethical than outside of Europe, the pins are more expensive to create than through the usual pipeline via Asia.

I therefore seek to crowdfund the expenses since they would be more than I can afford. If you are interested and look forward to support this little endeavor, please follow the link below to sign up for a mailing list. People who signed up on the email list and pledged during the campaign will receive an exclusive sticker set by the end of a successful launch consisting of the following designs:

SIGN UP ON OUR PRELAUNCH WAITING LIST TO GET THESE LITTLE GUYS FOR FREE

Our Kickstarter Prelaunch Page:

do your search engine results look like this? or worse?

this is wildly inefficient and frankly gives me a migraine just to look at. you deserve better than this. your searches deserve better than this.

good news! you don't have to live like this and unfucking your search engine takes less than 5 minutes, even less if you already have firefox.

here is my current solution for making the internet suck ass less. this is not an unmitigated endorsement of any of these companies or products/extensions, this is simply a list of what is currently, right now, working for me personally. do not give your loyalty to any particular (tech) company, none of them give a shit about you.

anyway.

1- if you are currently using chrome, switch to firefox. i'm sure there is some way to do these things using safari or some other non-chromium browser, but again, i'm just talking about my own personal setup. obligatory fuck mozilla for pretending to be your friend, they are also a dogshit company in bed with ai, but at least, for now, you can turn a bunch of their garbage off.

2- click the three lines in the top right of your firefox window. click on settings. click on search. change your default search engine to duckduckgo. obligatory fuck duckduckgo for being a dogshit company in bed with ai, but at least they let you turn that shit off for now.

3- search for literally anything in your duckduckgo search bar. i like 'sand' personally. click on the three lines in the upper right of your search results window (different from the three lines in firefox, i know, i'm sorry). click on 'ai features.' turn off duck.ai, set search assist to never, and set hide ai generated images to hide. you probably need to close and re-open your browser to see the changes.

4- finally, and you can also do this step immediately after installing firefox, these are the extensions that i personally use to further scrub my basic internet usage of stupid inefficient bullshit: ublock origin, GeminiNope, and aiBlock by amorehuman.net. i'm sure all of these extensions have their issues, but they work for me. i'm also sure you can add other extensions, but i literally just use these and here is what my search experience currently looks like:

you may not like it, but this is what peak search engine performance looks like. actually lots of people would rather skip the wikipedia summary or related searches too and that's great i'm pretty sure you can turn these off or get another extension to hide them, i just don't care.

Monster Merm Month #2: Wings

I've been obsessed with merms with wings for arms/fins/tails for a long time, so this was an easy prompt to do! I tried to mimic sturgeon scutes for the tail, this merm is a fun amalgamation of different things!