Artist Uncute - Work Debatable

i do have a recipe. it's very simple:

ingredients: vegetable

It DOES have a sign. It turns on when it detects something too tall for the bridge. It even flashes. And the traffic lights will go red to get people to stop when it detects an over height vehicle so they read the signs. (note this lovely example where the lights are red, because the truck thought it was better than the lights)

Sit down and crack open a cold one and if you're lucky the bridge will crack open a cold one with you.

“there’s a restaurant two miles from my house called—” nope

“today I learned [celeb] went to my high school—” nope nope nope nope nope

these are all real posts I’ve seen on the internet that allowed me to identify a user’s hometown instantly. if it’s a small town, that’s doubly dangerous, because a bad actor could trace you just by a unique first name or selfie you once posted. in an age where doxxing and stalking are some of the worst I’ve ever seen it, you HAVE to think twice about what you’re posting online.

i once saw a 13-year old post an image they noted as being “a few miles from their house.” it had a theater in the shot with a unique enough name to be local. one google maps search, now everyone knew not only what city they lived in, but the possible neighborhoods in that radius too. and they had a HUGE following…who all knew this was a 13-year-old child.

so yeah. not to sound like a 90s internet safety PSA…but I’m gonna be that PSA for a minute.

if you’re posting an image, there is NO need to say that you live there. you could just be traveling. “saw this in Montana” is better than “saw this by my house!”

before you post about a venue, especially a restaurant or small store, check and see if it’s local—CRUCIALLY if it has only one or two locations. people might travel to arenas or convention centers, but they’re far less likely to be traveling to Bartleby’s Fish and Chips. if it’s an anecdote and you still live nearby, you can honestly just leave the name out entirely.

if you’re sharing a news story, it can just be a story you found and wanted to share. you don’t have to clarify “it happened in my town,” because even if you don’t mention your town name, an easily-googled news article will.

if you’re seeing a concert or meeting a celebrity on a tour that’s stopped locally, wait until they’ve hit a few more venues before you post about it, or at the very least wait until you get home. this is honestly a smart move for any event you attend: unless you’re marketing yourself, there’s no need to advertise your location in real time.

check your selfie backgrounds for anything identifying. this includes city names on venues, school names, street signs, and house numbers.

this stuff is flexible if you no longer live in your hometown, or if your city is particularly big, but there’s STILL no reason to tie yourself to your school, your workplace, or your street. you can call it paranoid, but as someone who’s seen my friends get literal death threats over fictional characters before, the last thing I want is someone willing to act on those threats finding out where they live.

beauty requires openness. it asks you to let things reach you, to soften enough to be moved. it’s not naive to see beauty everywhere—it’s a skill, a form of intelligence, a kind of quiet bravery. because it is so much easier to critique than to create, to detach than to engage, to dismiss than to love.

In this specific instance, there was a much earlier post that brought up the hypothetical of "What if Peter Parker transitioned?" which was less of a "This guy strikes me as an egg" and much more of "How would someone in Peter Parker's exact situation (superhero with a skin tight bodysuit, a photographer that gets paid to take pictures of his alter ego) navigate socially and physically transitioning?"

There were a lot of points that made it an interesting thought experiment. How would she play off transitioning at the same time as her alter ego? Her boss, Jameson, is vindictive as hell about her alter ego, but most canons write him as very sympathetic and supportive in regards to minorities. How's he going to react?

And then recently someone thought Petra Parker would be a fun thing to draw and a lot of artists thought so too. And so a major game of "Yes, and" has ensued.

So I think this one's less of a serious headcanon (although it might be for some people) and more of an interesting supposition that's caught Tumblr's collective fancy.

“What would it be like if a superhero with a secret identity was trans?” Is a cool question.

“Petra Parker is a puppy girl” is… written in hieroglyphics.

Which was my point. Like not “don’t write in hieroglyphics!” Not “that’s bad!”

Just “I think sometimes people get cliquish, and when they do that they lose sight of how other people might vibe with them if what they were saying was a bit less opaque.”

Like.., maybe I’m being unfair here. Quite possibly. But I sometimes get the sense some people do it on purpose. Like they like the idea that only they Get It.

I get more of what you were saying in the original post now.

To me, that is very similar to fan fiction that slots whatever characters, no matter what their actual personalities are, into a cutesy coffee shop college au with the the exact same dynamic as ten dozen other cutesy coffee shop college aus. But the coffee shop au has been swapped out with puppy girls, which are currently a popular motif in art about trans women by trans women. And since there is currently a popular au about a popular character being a trans woman, someone will draw her as a puppy girl.

Which is, like you were saying, "Hell yeah, follow your bliss," but also "I don't think the specifics of this character have much to do with this."

Also since the puppy girl motif is specifically popular with a subset of trans women, I think that's where the cliquish feel you mentioned comes in. Not because those trans women are a clique per se, but because you are outside that particular in-group.

I don't think anyone's trying to be purposely opaque (in this instance at least), it's just that due to how Tumblr functions compared to other socmed sites, a lot of posts escape containment from their particular in-groups, often without explanation. And a lot of times those in-groups have been been bouncing ideas back and forth while being fairly insulated for a while so they've cooked up some wild shit from the perspective of people not swimming in the same soup.

Anyway, in undergrad I had a prof who spent a class session answering questions about working in tech writing. Someone asked him how he felt about having worked in pharmaceuticals, given the fears/hatred/distrust of "big pharma."

Which led to him saying he was generally fine with it, but one experience stuck with him. His pharma company was trying to create a weight loss drug, but no matter how much tinkering with the formula, they ran into the same problem over and over again: People shit their pants.

Like, over and over, people shit their pants on a scientifically interesting level.

His company finally gave up on making the pill marketable because, well, how you sell a pill that makes you shit your pants?

Anyway, it became Alli. Because my prof's company sold all the rights/research to another pharma company, and they came up with "oily discharge" to describe what is truly "you have a real chance of sharting yourself."

Thing that happens when you can't digest oil is that it just. Goes through you. But also is a really good solvent, which is why you can get lovely things like garlic and chili infused cooking oil! And because it's a different consistency than water based liquids, your bumhole isn't as sensitive to the touch of it.