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Top 5 Appalachian Cryptids, From Least to Most Deadly

Mammaw’s Friend from Church - This entity manifests randomly at family gatherings. You know nothing about this woman, her family, her home life, her past, if she is related to you in the slightest. She attaches herself to Mammaw and attends every holiday AND Sunday dinner. The terrifying part? Nobody likes her, not even Mammaw.

Yard Car Infestation - These entities resemble cars, usually models constructed between 1940 and 2000. They randomly manifest in yards in groups of 2 to 50. You cannot remove them or sell the scrap metal. Grandpa has been promising to find a way to dispose of them since 1989. He never will.

Cousin Who Needs Something - Similar to Mammaw’s Friend from Church, this entity is parasitic and memetic. Appears as a cousin you have never met or heard spoken of, communicates through grandmother and great aunts. Always in need of money or goods such as hand-me-down clothes, food or prayers. There is no equivalent exchange. You do not know this person. But grandma insists they need help and they’re your kin.

Brother Billy - Grandma’s pastor from church, allegedly. Like the Cousin Who Needs Something, this entity is always going through troubles and seeking prayers and petty cash. Unlike the Cousin Who Needs Something, you have encountered this humanoid figure, described as a tall balding man with beady eyes and a wife 3 decades younger than him. Encounters with Brother Billy result in a feeling of deep discomfort that lingers even after leaving the church.

Neo-Confederate Asshole With a Gun - The deadliest and most dangerous entity on this list. Often manifests on the porch of cabins when you try to turn around on a dirt road. Also occasionally spotted in populated places like Walmart and Shoney's. Highly aggressive and confrontational. Widespread throughout the South though the Appalachian variant, Neo-Confederate Hillbilly With a Gun, is wilier and known for its hardiness.

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If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!

It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.

It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.

You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.

Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!

https://www.211.org/

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Ok so one eyed humans. I saw your post about em and I love it, incorporating it into my monoeye peoples. The thing is im struggling to figure out how facial expressions would work if a person only has one, very odd eye and no eyebrows. Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated.

cyclops type expressions are definitely tricky! especially if you're doing what I suggested in my previous cyclops answer with the more vertical eye shape lol. closing the eye vertically on a humanoid face looks pretty weird. but! here's a few ideas for expressions:

give them a character design. it's easier to make expressions work if you have an individual personality to pull from. things like hair style and face shape will play a huge role here.

more focus on the mouth and nose area, because that's where most of the expression is really going to be visible.

shift which direction their eye is looking to help push each expression. maybe they tend to look sideways when they're sad, or up when they're happy. play around with that iris/pupil position to make the eye more expressive.

(image description: six simple sketches of cyclops characters with different hair styles and face shapes. Each one is making a different expression. in order from left to right, top and bottom rows, they are:

neutral. mischievous and/or flirty, laughing, sad and crying, angry, and finally shocked/surprised. end description)

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Source

“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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power chords were invented by indigenous (shawnee) musician link wray, who also made history when his song "rumble" became the first and only instrumental single banned from the radio in the us (way back in 1958!!!!!) "rumble" would go on to appear on shows like the sopranos and spongebob squarepants and films like pulp fiction

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Hmmm, this isn’t the Jefferson Airplane I remember grumble grumble.

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I cannot express how jarring it was after being raised by a "Porn Addiction Coach" to get into a relationship with a woman and come face to face with the fact that she did actually want me to sexually desire her.

Like, in Evangelical Purity Culture, male desire was basically poison. It was a threat. It was this constant temptation that would destroy everything. And even after leaving, in the sort of queer, feminist spaces i spend most of my time in that wasn't something that pretty much anyone was spending time actively dissuading me from feeling.

But my desire is good. It's not something that I'm being accepted in spite of. It's a positive thing. It's a bonus. Not even just vanilla stuff, all the stuff I'd convinced myself were these weird terrible desires that were shameful to have.

It honestly took me over a decade to fully accept that. To stop dissociating during sex and confront that I was, in fact, being a massive perv and that was fantastic and preferable and that I could accept that into my self-image without shame or self hatred.

But it's important to do. It's important to leave relationships that don't welcome that part of you. To know that your sexuality is valuable and valid and worth owning and celebrating. Because the alternative is just...not being. Either existing as yourself and repressing the part of your identity that is sexual or allowing that sexuality to exist but turning off your self while it does.

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cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and

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Looking through the internet and seeing all the apologia and whataboutism intended to defend predators, coming from what one would assume to be otherwise perfectly reasonable and moral people might be what will finally give me an aneurysm.

So Trump's DOJ is suing the state of Washington because WA's new mandated reporting law says that clergy (among many other professions) are legally obligated to report ongoing child abuse if they know about it. And the Christofascists in the Trump regime call that "anti-catholic"

And all I can think of is this iconic post

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“Do it scared” “do it badly” it’s time to drop the guide for do it alone

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I just watched it yesterday and it was honestly great, a liked how the shenanigannery reflected the structure of D&D games. Watching the first 30 minutes it truly put my doubts to rest.

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The original is 9 minutes long, here's the link if you want to watch it in full.

TWs for discussions of transphobia, fetishization of trans bodies, misogyny.

Kay's pronouns are she/her. For those who don't know: she's a former SW and has some really interesting insights into the minds and sexuality of cis straight men.

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Resist, it is our duty.

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I know you wanted me away But I am called to be the first Pope from the USA I heard that there's a special place where God talks directly to me every time I pray

I'm having holy dreams, of ruling the Holy See Hear Santa Monica, her son is calling me Won't make the bishops proud, the USCCB Will see their bro in Christ, I know they're gonna scream

"God, what will you do? You once were our boy, then you went to Peru," oh Fathers I'm on the balcony In my vestments, they elected me as the

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God can you imagine if Donald Trump became president? There’d be like a new bubonic plague and he’d be like “idk drink bleach about it”