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I forgot how nice noodles made from wheat were ohhh my word

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Finding some random artists OC and getting so incredibly attached to the character and design out of nowhere like hi. I’ve just met you and your Pet Freak. I’m going to Monitor You so I can one day catch another sighting of your Pet Freak

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the blacklist fandom is 30+ year old people and then me the resident 20 year old twink who is also obsessed with that man

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with the disclaimer that people can like do what they want forever & stuff lowkey i do hate that the general climate on here has shifted to "we love incest we love loli you're a stupid regressive kinkshaming conservative if you don't think fucking little girls or your family kink is cute and awesome". like it just sucks. 2 me. man i think it depends.

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“Image Credit: Carol Rossetti

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become. 

Thousands of shares throughout the world later, the appeal of Rosetti’s work is clear. Much like the street art phenomenon Stop Telling Women To Smile, Rossetti’s empowering images are the kind you want to post on every street corner, as both a reminder and affirmation of women’s bodily autonomy. 

“It has always bothered me, the world’s attempts to control women’s bodies, behavior and identities,” Rossetti told Mic via email. “It’s a kind of oppression so deeply entangled in our culture that most people don’t even see it’s there, and how cruel it can be.”

Rossetti’s illustrations touch upon an impressive range of intersectional topics, including LGBTQ identity, body image, ageism, racism, sexism and ableism. Some characters are based on the experiences of friends or her own life, while others draw inspiration from the stories many women have shared across the Internet. 

“I see those situations I portray every day,” she wrote. “I lived some of them myself.”

Despite quickly garnering thousands of enthusiastic comments and shares on Facebook, the project started as something personal — so personal, in fact, that Rossetti is still figuring out what to call it. For now, the images reside in albums simply titled “WOMEN in english!“ or ”Mujeres en español!“ which is fitting: Rossetti’s illustrations encompass a vast set of experiences that together create a powerful picture of both women’s identity and oppression.

One of the most interesting aspects of the project is the way it has struck such a global chord. Rossetti originally wrote the text of the illustrations in Portuguese, and then worked with an Australian woman to translate them to English. A group of Israeli feminists also took it upon themselves to create versions of the illustrations in Hebrew. Now, more people have reached out to Rossetti through Facebook and offered to translate her work into even more languages. Next on the docket? Spanish, Russian, German and Lithuanian.

It’s an inspiring show of global solidarity, but the message of Rossetti’s art is clear in any language. Above all, her images celebrate being true to oneself, respecting others and questioning what society tells us is acceptable or beautiful.

“I can’t change the world by myself,” Rossetti said. “But I’d love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another.””

From the site: All images courtesy Carol Rossetti and used with permission. You can find more illustrations, as well as more languages, on her Facebook page.

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update on my glorious dvd collection :]

cotbp: 29

dmc: 24

awe: 9

ost: 6

dmtnt: 0

special trilogy edition: 1

total: 71

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"New Yorkers bite more people than sharks annually" is an excellent example of how statistics can be misleading. Like yeah no shit, do you have any idea how rare it is to even encounter a shark in the wild? They're not exactly urban animals. I'm pretty damn sure that if sharks were living in big cities like pigeons, just strolling down the streets looking for food scraps, you'd see a lot more news stories about New Yorkers biting them.

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Most TERF arguments I see against intersex people seem to not actually be responses to things intersex people are actually saying.

For example;

"The only gametes are sperm and ova"

"Humans can't be hermaphrodites"

"There is no third sex"

Exactly what intersex person is saying there are isogamous humans, we are hermaphrodites, and intersex people are a third sex? This all seems to be stuff that comes from well-meaning but uneducated perisex trans people, and most of these TERFs have never actually spoken to an intersex liberationist.

For this reason I think it's very important we (the intersex community) teach our perisex trans siblings about intersexuality and intersex liberationist ideas, such as the abolition of binary sex categorization, not a creation of a sex trinary. Sex traits are real, but "biological sexes" are just names we have given to clusters of sex traits which don't necessarily need to appear in specific tandem, and often can be changed later in life.

The first 40 minutes of this video is a great resource for learning about the general complexity of gonochoric sex determination as well as the specific ways in which a person can be intersex and what it means. It's an incredible introduction to the topic and Forrest Valkai is in general an excellent science communicator.

Intersex people do not prove the existence of trans people, but we do provide a very glaring examples of problems with bigoted frameworks about sex and gender. It's not intersexist to point this out as long as you do so correctly and with the intention of actually making a point about intersex people instead of using us as a rhetorical tool only for the purpose of validating perisex trans people.

And importantly there is no "correct" or "incorrect" way for a person's sex traits to develop. The idea that intersex people were "supposed to" develop differently but failed to do so is the reason the abuse enacted upon us is considered "corrective".

Intersex liberationist ideas generally follow the idea that the binary model of sex is what causes our abuse and suppression, and should therefore be changed or abolished altogether. What this means on a material level is not considering sex trait clusters to be "sexes", instead seeing these as individual anatomical features of a person, essentially nobody (including perisex people) should be assigned a sex and ASAB as a system of categorization should be done away with. Having a penis or a vulva or testes or breasts or a uterus should be viewed as just an anatomical feature you posess, such as brown eyes or being tall, rather than an inherent multifaceted category you are part of.

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Here’s something I’m curious about.

Picture this. You’re reading a book, a standard book divided into chapters. Let’s say it’s fiction (don’t know if nonfiction would get different results). You’ve been reading for a while and you want to stop for now. Assume you are not literally falling asleep, you’re still awake and lucid.

You are in the middle of a paragraph, in the middle of a page, somewhere in the middle of a chapter in the middle of the book.

“Power through and finish the book” is not an option, but if you really do that you have my sympathies.

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no nuance and reblog once youve voted

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I think it would be funny if Celine managed to make sure Rumi had no self esteem issues with literally everything that wasn’t connected to her patterns.

Rumi has zero body issues (besides her patterns) she doesn’t feel bad for eating as much as she needs to, she doesn’t feel awkward about the fact she’s utterly ripped or for being bigger than most Idols because Celine made SURE she ate when she was a kid.

Rumi knows she’s awkward and kinda weird but doesn’t feel bad about it because Celine was like ‘don’t worry you can be as weird as you want off stage and I’ll make sure you know how to fake it’

Sexuality crisis? Not for Rumi! Celine, having been devastatingly in love with a woman in the late 90’s/early 00’s was like ‘I’m too emotionally constipated to have this conversation but here are some books if you feel curious’

I guess this isn’t funny in a ha ha kinda way but it’s funny to ME. I’m imagining Mira and Zoey side eyeing Rumi post movie like ‘Girl what other issues are you hiding from us????’ But besides that bit about her patterns that’s it. Totally open with everything else.

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New 5 star forms of March 7th and zhong- *cough* I mean Dan heng are looking pretty sick

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Rukiye Garip,B. (1964) Turkey

Watercolor on Paper 22 W x 29.9 H x 0.1 D in

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It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!

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when you get the summoning instructions mixed up...

more ocs! I had this idea for a comic years ago but I didn't really think of doing anything with it unless it was a long running comic, but then I thought covering this interaction alone for starters was fine too 👍

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what the fuck is your body