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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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a little artist :)

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Moldy/unmoldy doomed yaoi or yuri?

you got it boss, here’s your doomed strawberry yuri

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rolling rolling rolling

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Bent Bars needs UK transfem penpals and second-hand clothes

i do this thing with Bent Bars where they match queer & trans people outside of prison in the UK with queer & trans people in prison to write letters, share things, etc. they also get gender-affirming clothes to transgender people in prison, host writing by queer & transgender prisoners, and other stuff. my experience with them has been amazing!

they recently sent out an email calling for gender-affirming clothes for transgender prisoners. so, if you have any old clothes in good condition you'd like to send to transgender prisoners, you can do that here (click).

and they also asked for more outside penpals! they asked for certain kinds of penpals which are frequently requested by inside penpals, who they have trouble matching. these are:

people over 50

gay men who are into football

trans women

i figured some of you could help there, especially with the last one.

a month or so ago i started writing to a transfem in prison through Bent Bars, and it turned out she had first applied in 2021 and was not able to match with any trans women until now. not many transfems are signing up for this, meanwhile since getting involved i've heard about a lot of transfems in prison—men's prisons, who may not have the support of anyone who understands. so, i think it would be really helpful if any of my transfem followers or anyone who sees this could sign up as an outside penpal.

you can sign up as a penpal here (click). requirements are that you have to be from the UK and have to be "LGBT, queer or gender non-conforming" in some way. thanks for reading!

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snoopy of the day

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The Lijadu Sisters (Lagos, 1977) from “Lighting up Lagos: the stars of 1970s Nigerian rock music” - Photographer Unknown

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unfortunately i do abide by my imaginary rules and it is upsetting that others do not

They hate it when u dont abide by the same imaginary rules that they force themselves to live under

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"After the Carnival" in Rio de Janeiro, photograph by Alain Draeger, 1983

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LampinoLamps on Etsy:

This handcrafted lamp is inspired by Soviet-era apartment blocks, commonly known as Khrushchyovkas, which were built in Tbilisi during the mid-20th century. The design captures the soul of a typical residential building — faded facades, rhythmic windows, and colorful curtains glowing softly in the night.

(Handmade in Tbilisi, Georgia using laser-cut plywood, translucent film, and LEDs)

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I’ve been a butch my whole life you think I’ll let a little testosterone change that?

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when I was a kid I wished I had nosebleeds. I had some friends who had them and I was like. that looks so fucking cool. you're just sitting there and suddenly you're covered in blood. it looks so dramatic. it looks so... and here my language failed me. at such a humble age I did not have the vocabulary to describe the sublime. I just sat in incomprehensible jealousy. I turned out totally normal by the way

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Anatomical Heart and Japanese Eel (2024).

解剖心臓と鰻 (2024)。

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There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages: