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"But the art is gross!"

Come'ere and let me tell you a story.

When I was in my senior year, a painting of mine got into an art show at a university museum. I was wild crazy excited and wrote out my artists statement in one night about the piece. I painted it based off a photo I took of a local reservoir during a particularly bad time and my statement spoke about being queer in my city and finding peace at places like the reservoir. I painted it with pallet knives and acrylics.

I was forced to remove any mention of my queerness from my statement due to the "sexual nature" of it by people at my school. There was nothing sexual about it.

Obviously, I did it, with some pressure from others. but when I drove up to see it there, I could not feel proud of it there. Compliments felt hollow. I was told they placed it at the front because they loved it. But it was censored in a way that made it lesser to me. Often I wish I would have refused.

Censorship doesn't stop at "icky" things. It crawls and devours like ivy until everything is dead. Nothing remains.

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It is wild to see so many Dems on Twitter let their masks slip and go full-fledged racists towards Latinos and Arabs. I have seen people gleefully talking about calling ICE or watching it be called. Also, the number of people wishing Trump to crater Gaza is sickening.

Like, they recognize these things are racist and life ruining. I saw a man say you should call ICE on Trump supporters undocumented family members which is FUCKED. Undocumented people can't vote, they had no say in this election and they know how bad ICE is, but they are willing for them to be casualties in order to "teach a lesson". I saw other people about not only breaking the Starbucks boycott to punish pro palestine people, but to boycott Arab businesses.

THE MOMENT THINGS GOT TOUGHER EVERYONE STARTED LEANING INTO WHITE SUPREMACY TO PUNISH THOSE ALREADY VULENERABLE.

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the american south is Beautiful and worth loving and fighting for. it’s a tragedy that there’s so much hate in power and that the government is screwing over its residents. just trying to Throw The Whole State away is like. i dont even have anything to say beyond Its Fucking Heartless And Stupid

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💙 USA 💙

national suicide prevention (edit: alternatives to 988)

national domestic violence hotline

national sexual abuse hotline

trans lifeline and resources

💙INTERNATIONAL💙

list of suicide hotlines by country

domestic violence hotlines and resources by country

sexual (+ domestic) abuse agencies by country

international trans resources

edit: taking this opportunity whilst this gets traction!

Palestine Children Relief Fund

Lebanon Red Cross

International Rescue Committee (Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, Congo etc.)

Ukraine Red Cross

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Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.

Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)

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"Why are you monogamous? Why are you poly? Why are you gay? Why are you straight? Why are you cis? Why are you trans?"

Why are you so nosey, da fuq?? Let people live.

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need all of them

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Fuck being a man at this point. I might just turn into the monster society sees me as. At least then I get claws to destroy my enemies. Lol (this is edgey as a joke)

I was seeing posts on TikTok about what monster they would be and to be honest...I don't know if there is a monster I like/identify enough with to want to be one. Same with fursonas and other stuff. Like I have such a hard time making and maintaining sonas because I don't think anything looks like me or represents me??? And it's kinda frustrating because I want to see myself in stuff. idk 😶😐😶

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being neutral about other peoples kinks is necessary by the way. when consenting adults are doing things between consenting adults, and you prioritize your discomfort over their autonomy and right to exist safely in a space without having their private interests excavated and recontextualized to make them out to be predators, that says way more about your willingness to place yourself in the position of moral authority than it does about them and you deputizing yourself on the basis of nothing but vibes and your personal traumas makes you very dangerous politically.

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Unicorn boy! 🦄✨🎀

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(detail from ‘Bacchus’ c. 1638-1640 by Peter Paul Rubens)

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People are calling women who read ‘spicy’ novels porn addicts on TikTok and when women responded “um. That’s not what addiction is.” People are going “the first symptom of addiction is denial” like okay buddy.

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it's weird when someone draws gnc trans art and the replies are always filled with "why are you drawing trans people like this it only represents 1% of our community" 3 things 1. why are you entitled to the artist's vision 2. so what there's only 1% they should be represented and accepted and loved too lol? 3. maybe the artist is trans and gnc and you are annoying