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drawing people i see in the city (60/?)

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HELL, IT'S ABOUT TIME!

The official release of the fourth mainline installment in the "Ariadne's Angels" series, entitled Ojo De La Tormenta, is nearly upon us! The first chapter will go live on SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th at 2:00 PM EST, and new chapters will be posted WEEKLY ON SUNDAYS AT 2:00. You will be able to read it here, on tumblr, immediately, or soon after on the same day at ao3!

Some basic FAQ about what to expect:

What is it? - "Ariadne's Angels" is a serialized science fiction series about a crew of space marines and pirates fighting both space-fascism and earth-fascism, in the grand tradition of "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy." They're very fun, very gay, and just the right amount of political. They're also entirely free to read online, and always will be!

Who wrote them? - Hi, I'm Dan! You may remember me from such hit tumblr posts as "Batman: Do The Butts Match?" and "Among Us - How is red sus? This is McCarthyism!" I'm often found on tumblr at raptorific and factsinallcaps, but this blog, @ariadnelives is my blog for all things related to this series!

Why should you read them? - You may be a fan of jokes! You may be a fan of action-packed scifi violence! You may be a fan of LGBT+ romance! Maybe your cup of tea is fun hypothetical technologies! It's possible you are a big fan of diverse ensemble casts with rounded, dimensional characters! Maybe you, like me, have a lot of unresolved anger towards the Bush Administration! Or, possibly, you just plain want something to read! What it boils down to is that these are incredibly fun and emotional adventure novels.

Where can I talk with other people about them? - Well, right here on tumblr is as good a place as any! The comments on ao3 are another great place! But the best place is in the series' official discord server!

Now, as a special treat, over the holidays (December 28th-January 4th) there will be DAILY UPDATES. This chapter takes place over the course of a week, so for that week, you will get an update on what the characters are up to EVERY SINGLE DAY AT 2:00 PM. You can feel free to read them live, or wait until they're all posted and read them all in one go, but I should tell you, there's a reason I picked the holidays when people have time off to post this part!

I can't wait to share this adventure with you all, and if you do enjoy it (I think you will!) then please, tell your friends! Drag them along on the adventure! The more, the merrier!

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Look don't test me I'll block and turn off reblogs with a hair trigger if you all can't be normal about this but I do feel like it needs to be said that "do you think abortion should be allowed if the mother's reason for wanting it is—" the only acceptable answer to that question is Yes no matter what the end of that sentence is going to be. I do not care if someone wants an abortion for selfish reasons or bigoted reasons or cruel reasons or any other hypothetical strawman you can think of, there is no circumstance where someone should be denied the right to opt out of a forced pregnancy and birth. First of all, who's in charge of interrogating everyone seeking an abortion to make sure they're doing it for reasons Pure Of Heart? Second, why do you think Forced Birth is an appropriate punishment to inflict on anyone? If your answer to "should abortion be allowed when the motivation is—" is anything but an unequivocal "yes, and I don't care about the motivation" then you are not pro-choice

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havent been able to stop thinking about this for about 30 minutes

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...and then they were attacked by gnomes lol

This is what I cleverly entitled "Six-point comic" (AKA Dipper discovering journal 3 in a universe where Mabel also has polydactyly)

The inspiration was this over on Ao3 by @wickerss-s (hope you don't mind being @'d)

Bonus:

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There was a character in a book I read once who was described as "handsomely fat" and that phrase is stuck in my brain forever. The author really was like "no shut up, they're charismatic, they're good-looking, they're handsomely fat. not just handsome AND fat; them being fat is directly contributing to their good looks. you agree." and they were RIGHT

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The Wichita Beacon, Kansas, August 9, 1918

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yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

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“I’m the Labor Day Fairy and I’m here to teach you the true meaning of collective bargaining.”

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There is no autism that makes white people unable to understand racism and when they're being racist. Please. Be serious with yourself and us.

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I think every lesbian who says she wouldn't date a bi woman is functionally on the same wavelength as men who say they would only marry a virgin

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put my cat on the cover of CRIME Magazine, where he belongs

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media literacy would automatically go up 100% if people knew how to consume stories without self-inserting themselves into the characters' shoes. "if i were him..." you're NOT. you may relate to his story, his past, his traits, his quirks, his identity but the moment you start treating the story accepting what you feel/think as what the character feels/thinks, you're misunderstanding the story.

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