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all that said the guy with my car insurance company who answered the phone was so fucking funny. he had a heavy Georgia accent which endeared me to him immediately and he was sooo worried about me and apologetic that there was no one to send to my aid and I said "that's okay. if i end up missing though they're gonna interview you as the last person who heard from me. what if there's a documentary?" and he said "ooooooo, can I start drama?" I said, "well, what kind?" And he said, "I'm gonna tell them you said you saw a green flash in the sky over the field and I heard strange voices then the line went dead."

genuinely obsessed with him to this very day.

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rare vent art from a few months ago

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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slamming the big red button on my desk labeled "bweh" over and over again to no discernible effect

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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Peril in the Night.

A new addition to the project to illustrated the entire Fellowship of the Ring (and more) from J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' through my passion for painting hands. I love the way hands are so expressive, capturing the portrait of the person.

It has been five years since the last Fellowship hand work, but I promise to be more timely with these additions as I LOVE to create them!

Used some artistic licensed liberties to radiate Sauron's influence into the shadows of the image-reaching out beyond the mountains of Mordor...

Peril in the Night - Pippin and the Palantír

16" x 12" Oil on Panel

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Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

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Being chronically ill means that sometimes I have to ask my wife to help me out with the most simplest of tasks and every time I feel like this image 😅

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Always a good time to burn down yet another village!

Patreon

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truly the most american thing is Big Drink. more than late stage capitalism, more than an unparalleled cultural focus on individualism, more than 9/11 jokes

what binds all americans together culturally is Big Drink

and you might be saying "is this fat shaming" or "but mayor bloomberg outlawed Big Drink in nyc" or "gays are so annoying about their iced coffee" or some other dumb comment but no open your minds, Big Drink isn't just sugary or caffeinated beverages

every day i see one of you hydration bitches (affectionate) on the train with a water bottle so big a toddler could drown in it. that too is Big Drink. we literally invented a bigger beer can (tall boy) in wisconsin in the 60s in the service of Big Drink

anyway i never feel more american then when i have Big Drink in my hands

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purity seal that just says "FUCK IT WE BALL" for the entire length of the parchment paper

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Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

Men are not inherently Evil

Everyone has the capacity for evil

Transgender Men are men

Transgender Women are women

Excluding Cisgender Men from your spaces requires Transgender Men to out themselves if they want to engage (Same for Women)

Anyone can be Non-Binary, there is no "look" or requirement

Non-binary masculine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces, many are just treated as men and predators

Non-binary feminine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces without being seen as "Woman-Lite"

Edited the wording on the first point because too many terfs keep thinking I'm their friend.

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she’s right

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reminder that "allies welcome" was once secret code for "those not out yet can still participate without putting themselves at risk", and for those who aren't out yet to comfortably exist in these spaces you have to let allies exist in those spaces too.

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I know I'm going to get angry messages about this and I know I'm not going to express this perfectly, but I'm irritated and I don't care. (But I do want to preface it by saying this is not in any way about wizards. Fuck JKR.)

Friends. Neighbors. Especially the youths. I am BEGGING you.

Even if a piece of media is dated or does not align with today's standards of representation or progressive thinking, THAT DOES NOT MEAN IT WAS NOT REVOLUTIONARY IN ITS' TIME.

And for some of us, that movie or book or tv show was pivotal. For some of us, that was a wake-up call or a catharsis we didn't know we needed or an empowering moment that changed our thinking. And for some of us, it was the only representation we had.

Does all of it hold up? Of course the fuck it doesn't! Because things CHANGE. Language changes. Culture changes. And, if we're lucky, things get better. We make progress. We get better representation. And of COURSE media that was made 30+ years ago isn't going to hold up if judged by today's standards. Even by the standards of the time, none of it was completely unproblematic.

BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN IT WAS NEVER IMPORTANT.

Older media is a snapshot of the era in which it was made. It shows you where the movement was, what issues we were facing, and how they were being dealt with. AND it shows us just how far we've come.

You can enjoy a piece of media while still being critical of its' flaws. The two are not mutually exclusive and that's part of proper media literacy, which is apparently a dying art.

The things we consider revolutionary in terms of representation and making a statement now will be obsolete and antiquated in a few decades. And none of it is totally unproblematic even now, because nothing ever is. But that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. And by the same token, it doesn't mean that older media loses its' meaning to the people who saw it when it was relevant or at an important, pivotal time in their lives.

Consider also the sources. Who does it benefit for landmark pieces of queer and progressive media to be considered anathema? Who does it benefit to have these things marked as trashy, obsolete, no longer worth mentioning? Who does it benefit to have younger generations be ignorant of the history of civil rights movements because something might be "problematic"?

Put the moral puritanism down, put your critical thinking hat on, and learn the history, warts and all. If you don't like the movie, if you don't like the book, if you don't like the tv show, then leave it alone. It's not hard.

And I reiterate, because this is the piss on the poor website, THIS IS NOT ABOUT WIZARDS. IPs whose owners are presently causing active harm to vulnerable populations and taking advantage of literal children to do it are WILDLY different from a queer musical from the 1970s or a girl power flick from the early 2000s.

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i’m at a party right now and i heard someone on a walkie talkie and i turned around and it’s a mom who left her kids home on their own for the first time ever (they’re old enough) and they live a few houses down so she gave them a walkie talkie to call her if they get nervous. they just walkietalkied her for permission to eat ice cream

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