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giving unread book back to the library makes me feel like i should be shot

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Agree to disagree in politics only applies if we're working to improve society and disagree on the methodology. It doesn't apply if you're saying people different than you deserve to suffer and die, and you're trying to install a dictator who will make that a reality for millions. Hope that helps.

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funniest possible response to getting my gender marker changed

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@empress-carmilla for you

Today's Seal Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

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When I was a TA for the freshman art class in senior year my students really adored me. It was so sweet. I’d had classes that were more ambivalent toward me but these guys were all about me.

I loved working with that teacher too. He was the kind of crunchy art nerd whose own kid didn’t know what candy was, who loved bird watching and wearing tweed. We’d chat while they worked and it was just a three hour pleasure rather than work.

When the class switched from charcoal to gouache a devil medium, the evilest watercolor, the students struggled. We’d have in class painting where they’d spend the whole time trying to mix one color instead of just accepting something as good enough and trying to practice other skills.

So one day I showed up to my shift and announced, “I have stickers. If you get color down for the whole composition, you get a sticker.”

They wanted. The stickers. So bad. Students who had agonized before about keeping lines neat and perfect plowed ahead. The first student to call me over I tsked at. “Putting grey on everything doesn’t count,” I chided, “I asked for colors on each object.”

The classroom worked in furious joy, young adults who had seen my bird and cactus stickers and gone feral. The teacher was flabbergasted. “Why do they want stickers? They could just buy stickers…”

I held up my water bottle and showed him a tiny 3D bubble sticker the program director had brought to my game teams space last week. “You never grow out of wanting to earn a sticker.”

By the end of class everyone had a sticker. There was more visible improvement in the work too, which surprised them since they’d been rushing. “Gouache looks terrible before it looks good. It’s okay to start messy and then refine.” The teacher had said the same thing but looking at their frantic sticker paintings they finally saw the truth of it.

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Hey real quick PSA: If you have food allergies TELL RESTAURANTS. I know it’s inconvenient and sometimes people are shitty but for real, please, tell waitstaff it’s allergy specific, don’t just order it without the allergy ingredient.

This was brought up in my mind again since my step-MIL would get furious if someone presented her with a food she couldn’t eat with her Crohn’s but she’d never told them in the first place what she couldn’t have or how severe her reactions were.

When I worked at the pizza place a ton of people would order pizzas without cheese for a variety of reasons, but only occasionally would they say it was because of an allergy.

This one day a white lady came in and ordered three pizzas with no cheese. I have no explanation for why I followed up, especially because she was extremely moody and snippy. But I asked, “Is this because of an allergy?”

“Yes,” she snapped.

“If it’s for an allergy you should know we do use a small amount of cheese in the red sauce as well. Is the allergy severe?”

“What? Yes, he’ll literally die, his throat closes up and stuff.”

I stared at her. Someone she was serving pizza to would die on contact with cheese? And she didn’t even bother to tell us that?!!?? Why in gods name was she even in a pizza place???

“Don’t you have anything without cheese?” She demanded.

I ended up doing a garlic rubbed crust with toppings.

I had to scrub down all the counters and surfaces and grab fresh bins for all the toppings to try to avoid any cross contamination and the extra time made her roll her eyes in exasperation. Like I’m sorry safety protocols are inconvenient but I hope this person you’re trying to murder leaves your life.

But anyway. Please be safe. Disclose your allergies.

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This will never not be funny to me.

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I'm doing my part

If this post gets 80085 notes I will finally stop boymoding in public

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PrideFlag // PrideFlagwithRedribbons // Redribbons

Thewave // Inbetween // AlltogetherNow

acrylic paint with pastel pencil, colors and markers on cardboard and paper.

prints available

A collection of 6 pieces that I made for an event for the pride month, called CUIR which is how you would write the pronunciation of the word queer in spanish.

Wanted to create these pieces that work individually but are also connected all together. You can see it more clearly on the one making the progressive pride flag.

Meditating about what it means to be a queer person in todays society, about what it took for the people that came before us to achieve what we have today, all the sacrifices, struggles, conflicts, the courage to speak their minds, the constant fight just to be themselves without fear. Its inspiring and I am so thankful they fought for these colors to have a meaning, they went out to the streets against a conservative society and government to let them know that we are here to stay and it's okay, we are not against anybody but for everybody.

So reading about the history of the pride flag, how it started, how it evolved, how it's important to have a flag for each orientation, how there are more than one pride flag, how they're still so recent, what each color represent, why they added more colors; I wanted to remind you of the importance of our history and representation.

I painted the flag and at the bottom each color comes out of the shape of the flag to move freely on its own.

After the progressive pride flag, this one opens up and show us these shaped like red ribbons, representing the people that fought and it's living with HIV that sadly hits the queer community the most.

Do not forget how much we had moved forward, the people that came before you that fought for these colors, what we're still missing and the power you have to remind them how important our movement is.

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Puella sub arbore sedet. Bitches

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hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.

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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

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Language is amazing

the japanese “-ne?” particle and the british slang term “innit” serve the same function