I do not have puppet cancer!

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

It's been a while since I said "this person wins the internet", but today it is merited.

“Tact, like empathy, is based on a certain form of mutual understanding. But while empathy implies the idea of entering someone else’s mind inasmuch as it is linked to the presumption that ‘I know how you feel’, tact exists to create a form of bonding between individuals that is not based on the idea of intrusion but, conversely, on the respect for existing boundaries, and on a willingness not always to assume that one knows. While empathy requires resonance and proximity, tact is there to restore distance, and to accept the difference between the individuals involved in order to protect and preserve their dignity. Tact is based on an attention towards otherness.”

How it feels to settle into bed and close my eyes and return to the totally made-up scenario I was last engrossed in

thinking about that time my friend and i were browsing random discord servers and we found one that was a bunch of people that believed in the rapture so we joined to see what was going on and they had a bot that sent auto generated images with your nickname for every new person so when my friend joined this image immediately sent

Found it!

I like fleetwood mac in the "hey this is a fun band to hear on the radio and occasionally see an unhinged post about" kind of way but have never really looked into them beyond reading about the drama or watching the occasional performance so the very obvious thing about fleetwood mac that has shocked me recently is that Mick Fleetwood is six and a half feet tall.

less of this

Most inclusive option:

So fun fact that won't surprise anyone who knows me: I've done this. My job had a inclusivity survey that pissed me off (they included "transgender" and "cis gender" as possible responses for "what's your gender?", alongside "male" and "female"!) but I noticed they didn't put a length limit on the gender field if you selected "other". So...