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For a start, he attributes The Vampyre to Lord Byron. Who did not. He didn't. He did not write it.

Today I found a summary of The Vampyre in my documents.

I do not know when or why I wrote this.

But I was suuuuper mad at the guy who wrote the intro.

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Today I found a summary of The Vampyre in my documents.

I do not know when or why I wrote this.

But I was suuuuper mad at the guy who wrote the intro.

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Good Trans News Roundup: September 5, 2025

While I'm at it.

^via LGBTQ Nation, September 2, 2025. They were playing Pink Pony Club on the kazoos, it was in Seattle, and yes, there is video.

^"Since the president took office in January, over 20 hostile shareholder resolutions were filed demanding companies shed their commitment to DEI, including Visa, Deere, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Levi’s, American Express, Coca-Cola, Berkshire Hathaway, McDonalds, Amazon, Netflix, Walmart, Alphabet, American Airlines, Caterpillar, Best Buy, Mastercard, and Costco, according to Fortune...

But across those annual meetings, shareholders (representing over $9.8 trillion in value) have voted with management to continue DEI policies and programs.

Those decisions weren’t based on altruism alone, if at all: HRC’s study backs up previous research demonstrating that companies embracing DEI are more profitable than their peers that don’t."

-via LGBTQ Nation, August 27, 2025

"According to Jinsiangu, a Kenyan intersex, transgender, and gender non-conforming (ITGNC) rights group, the court recognised Chepkosgei’s right to self-identity and gender, declaring her “notably recognised as a transgender individual” to ensure her rights are guaranteed...

In a groundbreaking move, the court went beyond addressing the specific violations experienced by the petitioner.

Justice R. Nyakundi directed the Government of Kenya to initiate and table a bill addressing the rights of transgender persons, with Parliament instructed to take the necessary steps to enact protections and recognition in law.

The judge also awarded Chepkosgei 1,000,000 Kenyan Shillings (approximately R137,000 / USD 7,700) in general damages. [Note: And that stretches a LOT further in Kenya, where the average monthly after-tax salary is just $413, making the reward a bit less than 2 years of salary.]

-via Mamba Online, August 21, 2025

"The Advocate General for the European Court of Justice is recommending that all EU member states be required to issue identity documents reflecting their citizens’ “lived gender identity.”

The Court’s AG Jean Richard de la Tour argued that national rules that do not allow legal gender recognition may violate European Union law, including the right to free movement and residency across all EU member states...

While the Advocate General’s opinion is only advisory, the verdicts in about two-thirds of cases argued before the court align with an AG’s recommendation."

-via LGBTQ Nation, September 4, 2025

"A federal judge has sided with a sorority that inducted a transgender sister after several other members sued over the definition of the word “woman.”

“Having considered the issues presented (again), we find that the majority of the claims must be dismissed on the grounds that this Court still may not interfere with [the sorority’s] contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws,” U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson, a Ronald Reagan appointee, wrote in his ruling.

...the judge rejected their arguments again, noting that Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bylaws don’t define the words “woman” or “women” to be exclusively referring to cisgender women. He even noted that the sorority “published and distributed multiple texts” showing that its interpretation of those words is trans-inclusive, so the plaintiffs can’t claim that their contract with the sorority was understood to mean that trans women would be excluded."

-via LGBTQ Nation, August 26, 2025

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) announced a landmark free hotline for LGBTQ+ people in the state. Offered in both English and Spanish, the first-of-its-kind service launches today and will provide legal advice regarding housing, safety, health care access (including gender-affirming care), discrimination, identity documents, and more.

Pritzker announced the initiative, called Illinois Pride Connect, at an August 21 event with the Chicago Legal Council for Health Justice, which will run the hotline. “For us to be able to go on offense, and not be on defense, is what I love about this state,” he said.

“Building upon the state’s transgender and gender-diverse wellness and equity project that we launched at the beginning of 2024, we will be the only state in the entire United States that provides free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ community,” he said."

-via LGBTQ Nation, August 25, 2025

"A federal appeals court has ruled that West Texas A&M University’s ban on student organization drag performances violates the Constitution’s First Amendment protections of free speech. The court’s Thursday ruling overturns a 2023 district court ruling in favor of the university.

FIRE’s lawsuit also claimed that Wendler’s actions violated a campus free speech law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in 2020, which explicitly forbids universities from taking action against student organizations “on the basis of a political, religious, philosophical, ideological, or academic viewpoint expressed by the organization or [its] expressive activities.”

In its 2-1 decision issued last Thursday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Leslie H. Southwick (an appointee of former President George W. Bush) wrote that theatric performances and drag shows, “plainly involve expressive conduct within the protection of the First Amendment.”"

-via LGBTQ Nation, August 19, 2025

"Five Virginia school districts are refusing to revoke their transgender-inclusive policies that allow trans kids to use facilities matching their gender identity [and other policies about pronouns and sports teams], even though the current presidential administration has frozen the districts’ congressionally approved federal education funding over the matter.

The school districts — Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William — say that their policies are required by Title IX, the federal law prohibiting educational discrimination based on sex. But while the previous presidential administration interpreted the law as requiring schools to maintain trans-inclusive policies, the current one has claimed that such policies harm cisgender female students.

...The letter [from a local LGBTQ regional coalition] notes that over 3,000 Virginia families, teachers, and residents signed letters supporting the districts’ pro-trans policies in the face of “unprecedented federal pressure,” adding, “These policies and practices foster a culture that affirms the dignity of each student and celebrates our diversity as individuals.”

-LGBTQ Nation, August 18, 2025

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Phil Davies

"The Egret was in shadow and the background was in full sun"

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we talk about how surreal it is to befriend really good creatives on here but what’s really surreal is when those really good creatives also have, like, debilitating social anxiety and impostor syndrome. leonardo da vinci is on my dashboard calling the mona lisa cringe. rembrandt thrives off of my deranged tag rambles like a starving college student going after café leftovers

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Attn: People With Cervixes!

When was your last Pap smear?

Because I am tired of seeing young people (think 40 year olds!) die horribly of an almost completely preventable disease, and I haven't seen the obligatory Tumblr PSA about it, so I'm making my own.

1. CERVICAL CANCER IS REALLY BAD

Cancers that have a good prognosis are usually cancers that can be caught early--like skin cancer, which is easily seen, and therefore usually treated very early. Cervical cancer does not give you symptoms until you have very advanced disease, which means unless someone is regularly testing your cervix, you will likely not be diagnosed early. More than half of people diagnosed with cervical cancer present with advanced disease. 75% of them will be dead within 5 years. For comparison, when caught in the earliest stage, there is a 90% 5 year survival rate. Treatment for those diagnosed is chemo and radiation, and believe me, those are not fun. If you do happen to be in the lucky 25% of survivors, if your cancer comes back, you have an 85% chance of dying within a year. Also! We think of cancer as something that happens to old people, but the average age of diagnosis for cervical cancer is 50.

2. WHO GETS CERVICAL CANCER?

Cervical cancer used to be the most common cause of cancer-related death in women in America, but at this point it's basically a disease of People Without Pap Smears--developing countries, immigrants, low socioeconomic status, BIPOC, rural communities, LGBTQ, etc.

3. HOW DO PAP SMEARS SAVE YOUR LIFE?

A Pap smear is a screening test for two things: HPV, and your cervical cells. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. Literally half of the people in America have some strain of HPV on their body. Most HPV infections go away on their own (in people with healthy immune systems), but some strains are Very Bad, and some people are just Very Unlucky, and the HPV starts causing your cervical cells to turn cancerous. 91% of all cervical cancers are caused by HPV. So a Pap smear looks to see if your have HPV, and if so, is it one of the bad ones? And also, do you have any cancerous cells hanging about in your cervix? And! It takes 10-30 years for HPV to turn those cells into cancer, which means you have a really really long time to catch it before it becomes cancer and cut those pre-cancer cells out!

4. WHAT ABOUT THAT VACCINE?

The thing my dad said I shouldn't get because it might make me a slut. Yes! There is an HPV vaccine! You should get it! It protects you against the nine most common cancer-causing types of HPV. It's recommended starting at age 11, and you can get it up to age 45 now! (It used to be 26, but as of 2020, it's now extended.)You can get it from most primary care doctors, or from Planned Parenthood, CVS, Walgreens, etc. If you get the vaccine you still need Pap smears.

5. I HEARD YOU CAN ONLY GET THE VACCINE IF YOU'RE A VIRGIN

Fake news. While the vaccine does not treat old infections of HPV, it does prevent new ones, so while the benefits are theoretically decreased in those who have already been sexually active, it does not mean you will not benefit from having it!

6. WHO GETS PAP SMEARS?

Everyone with a cervix starting at age 21, until you lose your cervix or until you're 65. You should get them every 3-5 years (depending on your exact age and what test your doctor does).

7. BUT I GOT THE VACCINE

Nice! You still need Pap smears.

8. I HAD ONE AND IT WAS HORRIBLE/I'M SCARED OF THE EXAM

Talk to your doctor about this in advance! Good gynecologists (and other providers) will work with you to minimize discomfort as much as possible. They can use a small speculum and lots of gel, prescribe anti-anxiety medications to take in advance, and some people will even use numbing creams and/or laughing gas.

9. BUT I DON'T HAVE/CAN'T SEE A GYN

Most primary care physicians can do them! So do a lot of urgent care centers!

10. BUT I'M A LESBIAN

HPV can be transmitted through oral/genital contact, hand/genital, and even hand-to-hand-then-genital, so you still need Pap smears.

11. BUT I'M A VIRGIN/ASEXUAL

You still need Pap smears. HPV can be transmitted not just through penetrative sex, but also through oral/genital, hand/genital, and hand-to-hand-then-genital, and also 9% of cervical cancers are not caused by HPV.

12. BUT I'M A TRANSGENDER MAN

If your cervix was removed, then congrats! You do not need Pap smears. Otherwise, unfortunately, you are still at risk for cervical cancer and need to be screened.

13. BUT I'M A TRANSGENDER WOMAN

Neovaginas do not need Pap smears! Congrats! Consider getting the vaccine, though, to prevent spreading HPV to others.

14. BUT I'M A CIS-GENDERED MAN

Congrats! You do not need Pap smears! You should still consider the vaccine though, not only to prevent the spread of HPV to others, but also because HPV causes 50% of all penile cancers as well.

In summary: please please please go get your pap smear. Go get vaccinated. The spread of HPV can be prevented, and cervical cancer can be caught and treated before it even becomes cancer.

DON'T FEAR THE SMEAR

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I should have drawn more bg characters but I ran out of spoons. It's a long story.

Also this just took. So long to do. There are SO many layers. SO many.

Oh and it's the Tudor era, by the way. Shakespeare was around in the time of Elizabeth I.

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Lucinda and Victor are stood at a road crossing waiting for the green light. There are a few other people standing there.

Lucinda: How you doing?

Victor: Not good... B-but not bad.

(shot of Stratford-upon-Avon. It shows two modern houses and a Tudor era house)

Why a-are some of the houses different?

Lucinda: Will said Shakespeare was born here. So I guess they're from Shakespeare times? Whenever that was... I should know, but I don't.

Victor: Should I study some Ear- s-some history?

Lucinda: If you want to?

Victor: (starts to look panicky)

Lucinda: ?? (She looks to the side)

(There are two teen girls staring right at Victor.)

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-cries in author who finally drew some passable hands after many, many attempts-

Pro tip: using yourself as a reference for this kind of pose specifically sucks. Do not recommend.

Just a reminder or for new people: Otherworlders cannot give themselves away while on Earth, Earth is 'locked out' from the other worlds. Hence his picking the neutral word 'strange'.

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Two teen girls and staring right at Victor and whispering together. He has frozen up.

Lucinda: (leans her shoulder into his) We should go to a tea room or something later.

(she brushes the back of her hand against his)

(he takes her hand)

There's a place I want to visit this way. (points)

Lucinda and Victor walk down the street, both remaining quiet.

Victor: D-Did I say something.... strange?

Lucinda: Nah.

They look our age. They probably just thought you were cute.

Victor: Cute?

Lucinda: Cute? Attractive?

Victor: (horribly confused expression)

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i collect playing cards, and for a long time, i've wanted to make my own deck, but i struggled picking a theme. last month i finally settled on wanting to do one made of fan art of witch hat atelier, and now i'm finally getting to work on the deck!

some of my favorite decks i own are drawn by an artist by the name of John Littleboy (cards can be found here tho i dont have these fancy versions of the decks aha www.artiphany.com/collections/...)

i love how he's done the pips as imagery associated with the themes of the decks, and i've always been super inspired by that particular detail, so I want to bring that idea into a deck with more of the traditional rightside up/upside down face card style of cards

and then i settled on witch hat because 1) i love it and do want to draw all the characters lmao & 2) face cards are generally wearing these poofy robes, and there are so many wonderful poofy robes in wha

anyways i finished planning for my first suite and an attempt at a first card, so i wanted to share. i'll probably tweak the layout a little more so lmk if you have any thoughts. i crave feedback.

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It’s practically 2014 and you guys still don’t know how to google if an article is real or not before giving it 100,000 notes

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-cries in author who finally drew some passable hands after many, many attempts- Pro tip: using yourself as a reference for this kind of pose specifically sucks. Do not recommend. Just a reminder or for new people: Otherworlders cannot give themselves away while on Earth, Earth is 'locked out' from the other worlds. Hence his picking the neutral word 'strange'. Next Previous First First in this arc Comic text: In a min Two teen girls and staring right at Victor and whispering together. He has frozen up. Lucinda: (leans her shoulder into his) We should go to a tea room or something later. (she brushes the back of her hand against his) (he takes her hand) There's a place I want to visit this way. (points) Lucinda and Victor walk down the street, both remaining quiet. Victor: D-Did I say something.... strange? Lucinda: Nah. They look our age. They probably just thought you were cute. Victor: Cute? Lucinda: Cute? Attractive? Victor: (horribly confused expression)

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new reaction meme just dropped

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this was in my drafts with no caption, which feels right

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my favorite part of the week is when we watch a guy turn chocolate into a fucking bike and we have to just accept that it happened.

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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head.

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I've come with actual information instead of goofy ocs.

To anyone who is new to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise or curious about Yugi/Atem's fashion, here's some things to note. The Yu-Gi-Oh! Manga began publication in 1996 and would continue until 2004, spanning almost 40 volumes. It was inspired by earlier manga like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Mitsume ga Tōru (or The Three-Eyed One).

These characters are a bunch of late 90s kids with their Tamagotchi and payphones. Punk and punk alternatives were very popular during the 90s and would continue to grow over the early 2000s with subcultures like Scene, who listened to hardcore music like pop-punk. Their hair style is called teased hair. There's a wide variety of styles that fall under this.

But the name of their shape is Liberty Spikes.

Yami's iconic buckle vest is inspired by Edward Scissorhands.

Metal punk and alt is known for its DIY, buckle shoes, chains, and studded bracelets.

And one of the signature motifs of Scenecore is layered studded belts.

Some people have referred to them as goth, but personally I've never associated them with gothic elements in their textures and clothing outside of the morbid attributes of the story. So, have some punk guinea pigs as a mediator.

(Also, your art is very cool. I am kidnapping your Atem redesign as we speak. No, you cannot have him back, I need him for dumb comics.)

OH HELL YEAH YUGIOH FASHION HISTORY LESSON!!!!!

man. i grew up right around the time vkei/scene/emo fashion trends were starting to taper off and every day i lament that i didn't have nearly enough time to explore my own tastes before it faded away and High School Depression obliterated my sense of self. past me would have secretly gone bonkers for this. present me is not-secretly going BONKERS for this and it feels GREAT

thank u for sharing and for making me realize that i need to be drawing yugi+yami with WAY more belts and studs. you are more than welcome to kidnap my atem redesign, he needs to be shared with the world!!