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Inspired by BoldlyNo's "Small Rebellions" (AI and digital art, I can't draw or paint to save my life).

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Miki

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CSU ready room. Before. After.

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Rees, Rheinfront, in a cubist style (as imagined by Midjourney)

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Young man in the style of Dante Gabriel Rosetti (as imagined by midjourney)

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impressionist young man, magically rejuvenated by midjourney

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More abstract portrait goodness from midjourney

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Portrait of E in a modern style (by midjourney)

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Portrait of E in an impressionist style (by midjourney)

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Portrait of E in an impressionist style (by midjourney)

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Portrait 2 (by midjourney)

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Portrait 1 (by midjourney)

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Stadtmühle in Rees (by midjourney)

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Rheinbrücke Rees (by midjourney)

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The Construct Formerly Known As Tlacey’s Comfort Unit.

As imagined by Midjourney, because I can’t draw to save my life, alas, but will happily spend hours editing pictures in powerpoint.

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"Movies & TV shows should stop over-rRepresenting sexual minorities, they're only minorities, after all" is a sentiment I've come across just one time too often.

Sounds plausible? Let me provide some context here. As a matter of fact, movies and TV shows are positively obsessed with over-representing minorities. If, for instance, transsexual / transgender people were (over-)represented to the same degree as police offers are, then we'd have at least two shows daily that featured trans protagonists (and correspondingly, six with asexual, six with bisexual, and 12 with lesbian or gay ones; every day). Strange how that doesn’t happen.

(Full disclosure: My estimate of two police shows daily is based on a cursory glance at TV programmes; it’s meant to be a ballpark figure, not a precise one.)

Sources: Serial Killers: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-that-have-produced-the-most-serial-killers.html (calculated as follows: USA: N=3204=68% of known serials killers => N known serial killers = 4712) Surgeons: Holmer, H., Lantz, A., Kunjumen, T., Finlayson, S., Hoyler, M., Siyam, A., ... & Hagander, L. (2015). Global distribution of surgeons, anaesthesiologists, and obstetricians. The Lancet Global Health, 3, S9-S11. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(14)70349-3/fulltext) Police Officers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_police_officers Millionaires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-net-worth_individual Transsexual / Transgender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Population_figures Asexuals: Estimate based on Rothblum, E. D., Krueger, E. A., Kittle, K. R., & Meyer, I. H. (2020). Asexual and non-asexual respondents from a US population-based study of sexual minorities. Archives of sexual behavior, 49, 757-767 (found 1.66%), Bogaert, A. F. (2004). Asexuality: Prevalence and associated factors in a national probability sample. Journal of Sex Research, 41, 279-287 (found 1%), and Greaves, L. M., Barlow, F. K., Huang, Y., Stronge, S., Fraser, G., & Sibley, C. G. (2017). Asexual identity in a New Zealand national sample: Demographics, well-being, and health. Archives of sexual behavior, 46, 2417-2427 (found 0.4%) Bisexuals: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301639075_Sexual_Orientation_Controversy_and_Science Lesbian / Gay: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301639075_Sexual_Orientation_Controversy_and_Science (estimate of global average)