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"im going to continue to compare trans men/mascs to white people in my analogies"

so youre just admitting that you dont think trans men/mascs are oppressed.

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Crackpot theory:

The last component of magic is McRib now.

every time I see mfriendship I think micrib

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Dearest Tumblr, my wife formally requests Sam Britain x Quolye (human-form) smut/spicy fanfic, and which includes the tags "plus sized goddess" and "monsterfucker". Understandably that may take some time, but if at some point it were to exist out in the ether she would be greatly pleased.

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I flew a balloon just off the coast of I-hate-you Island. I searched through the Infrared Scope of my rifle. No signs of life detected. I'll return to do another aerial sweep later.

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Trying to act like my bestie/gay-lover Yuri isn't real? Ashen Wolves all the way!

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America, PA specifically, and my first was this crazy trippy thing called Noein? I think?

Just checked, it's "Noein: To Your Other Self"

My introduction to multiverse storytelling. One of the few series where not only are AUs real, they're critical to the plot. Don't remember how well it holds up social-justice wise, and I'm afraid to go back and look.

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

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Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

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For those people who need to hear it, there is nothing wrong with going back into the closet for your own safety. You aren't less queer because you can't be queer publicly. You aren't less trans because you have to act like you're not trans.

If you need to start going by your old pronouns or quietly go back into the closet to be safe - you are allowed to do that. Please do that if it means you're alive.

Your safety is important.

You are important.

And if you know someone who has to do this, don't push them. Don't out them. Follow their lead. People's safety is more important that grandstanding.

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At first I was thinking I wanna see Brennan do Gastronauts in character as Evan Kelmp, but after seeing him do it out of character, I have realized that Brennan is not in character when portraying Evan Kelmp.

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Red from OSP had a thing she said in the "Writing what you know" troupe talk which can be surmised as "you may not know what it feels like to be set on fire and pushed out a window, but you know how it feels to burn and to fall. Extrapolating the extremes just takes a bit of imagination."

Brennan uses his own memories of pain and self-abuse to portray Evan, as he's talked around during his 2nd adventuring academy with Aabria. I'd wage that all of the players (actors), Aabria included, are pulling from lived experiences in someway. For the humorous bits yeah...but for the uncomfortable stuff: micro-aggressions, grief, mistakes...those too.

You (reader) may already know this, I might be a little slow. If anything, this is a reminder for myself to try and step outside of my own experience.

At first I was thinking I wanna see Brennan do Gastronauts in character as Evan Kelmp, but after seeing him do it out of character, I have realized that Brennan is not in character when portraying Evan Kelmp.

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Getting a new computer soon. Where’s that windows debloat guide people post every so often

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While working on some world-building stuff, I did a drawing of a holy knight (without symbols of a religious order), figured I'd share. Now, as you may be aware, Knights were always sworn to lords, or were nobles themselves, which makes them enforcers of the feudalistic system, and enforcers of religious belief. As such, most characters I'd create as POVs would not mesh with them, not a big fan of religious institutions.

If your fantasy world has heroic knights, neat. Just so you know, that's the feudal equivalent of cop-aganda. Toss that book into the problematic faves pile.

This also applies to the Brotherhood of Steel. Fallout 3 is propaganda, the BoS has not stood for anything but the hoarding of power since the death of their first leader, but even that guy wasn't looking out for his fellows.

Is the use of ACAB as AKAB problematic? Possibly. The enforcement system of feudal knights doesn't carry the systemically racist oppression implications that modern cops do, even though the class enforcement angle is shared between both. Would love to hear further expression, unless you have a problem with ACAB itself, in which case, your argument/statements/comments will fall on deaf ears.

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Hey, so, Patreon is lying to you about Apple forcing their hand.

Patreon is getting rid of 1st-of-the-month/per-creation billing, claiming a new decision by Apple has forced their hand. This will hurt a lot of creatives, and their excuse is bullshit. Allow me to explain.

In 2018, Patreon tried to impose a new ill-considered fee structure on everyone that would have cost creators a lot of smaller pledges. They ended up apologizing for this profusely; they have now deleted this apology from their website and unfortunately I was unable to find it on the Internet Archive. This was shameful, but to their credit they backed off quickly when things got ugly.

Back in 2021, Patreon discussed plans to force all creators into a rolling bill structure and get rid of first-of-the-month/pay-up-front billing. The community once again very decisively shouted them down, and they had to walk it back again. This whole fiasco damaged the already shaky trust between Patreon creators and staff.

This week, Patreon announced that, along with extra fees, Apple's policies were supposedly forcing them to move everyone over to the rolling fee structure that they first tried to get us to agree to in 2021. Patreon will tell you they are not happy about this. As a person who spent a long time watching Patreon make terrible decisions, I can tell you-- they are probably very happy about this, because it's exactly the smokescreen they needed to do what they've been trying to do for years, which is pull ALL Patreon creators away from 1st-of-the-month and per-creation billing.

The spin in the news I've seen so far is "Apple bullies Patreon, boo hoo hoo poor Patreon". This is very obviously not what's happening. Mind you: Apple does suck, and they are doing something bad here. Fuck apple. But Patreon and Apple are BOTH the asshole in this situation; Everyone Sucks Here. Patreon has options: they can make the iOS app a reader app and do billing through the browser to avoid the restrictions and the extra fees (Netflix and Amazon, notably, both do this), or they can allow creators to opt-out of iOS billing if they want to use billing models that don't work with it.

It seems most likely to me that the Apple situation is a real fire that Patreon has chosen to use as a convenient smokescreen to do what they've been wanting to do since at least 2021, and maybe since 2018.

What do we do?:

They have a feedback form specifically about this.

They also have a creator discord.

And they have lots of social media pages where they probably really, really hope that this doesn't blow up again, because they never learn. The incidents I've described here aren't the only two other times Patreon has pissed off their creators. They know if they don't contain the noise it'll be harder to get away with it, so make some noise. They've done a lot of work to spin this cleverly so you'll have sympathy for them and they won't get the kind of backlash they know they deserve.

Please don't misuse these links and make threats or spam or something. All you have to do is give well-reasoned feedback. Patreon hates feedback. Make sure they get a nice heaping helping of their least favorite vegetable.

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Weekend project.

i know we joke about cis artists having the weirdest sense of anatomy, but also even when the anatomy is fine, no one seems to want to draw women doing normal things

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This is part of why I came to Tumblr honestly. Seeing people draw bodies and faces that weren't always the anime thing is really satisfying. Some day maybe I'll post some of the stuff I do that tries to reach that Non-conventional Beauty carried by people on the street or working in a shop.

For those who needed to hear it today

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As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.