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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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ⓘ You can Bite your Friends.

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For a few of us, monsterfucking is never about kinking over some creature having you in all the ways possible.

It is about letting yourself being vulnerable and fragile and emotional with someone that's supposed to hurt and kill you, but instead just worships you and cares about you for being just like them:

Being shamed over the looks you've never asked for, but having the heart and sould only a few could understand.

Monsterfucking/Exophilia etc isn't just about an unusual kink.

It is OUR way of telling Beauty and the Beast, because we can see the good in them, because we all wanted for them to see the good in ours.

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Lantern fish

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I GAVE YOU MY MUSIC

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Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

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Vampire: the Masquerade Clan Haiku (I am so sorry)

Camarilla Clans:

Brujah Near Dark was so good like when they bar-fight bikers? that was my sire Gangrel we are not just beasts! we are men! we are - shit! cat! bark! bark! BARKBARKBARK!!! Malkavian if i spoke prose they would all find out I don’t know what I talk about Nosferatu hey there count orlok oh fuck, i am so sorry that was pretty rude Toreador i really enjoyed interview with a vampire not so much these days Tremere hey is that your clan’s deep-sleeping progenitor? asking for a friend Ventrue i can tell you to eat all of this old cat food and I bet you would

Sabbat Clans: Tzimisce i made you a gift out of you and me and him and this horse. you like? Lasombra could you tell me if i put my lipstick on straight? you better not lie

Independant Clans: Assamite our clan is run by a baby wizard demon not even kidding Giovanni no bad has ever come from killing your sire the master of death Ravnos our founder was slain by a big crossover event you’re surprised we freaked? Followers of Set i promise this time it is not snakes and evil haha, no, it is.

Bloodlines:  True Brujah some serious-ass doctor who shit in this clan but no amy pond :( Samedi have you heard the one about the gawker I made into a raisin? :| Nagaraja that’s some fine-lookin’ skin you are wearing like a hot people gyro Kiasyd I can assure you we know how weird our shit is we have to live this Daughters of Cacophony it’s not how you sing but how you kill all men with song. also how you sing.  Baali did you think Setites were the authority on making players squick?  Children of Osiris  no one has ever actually played this clan except that one guy Blood Brothers playing a single blood brother is like eating just one dorito Harbingers of Skulls we forgive you for diablerizing our liege but not the incest Caitiff don’t hate me because i picked all the physical disciplines. #YOLO  Old Clan Tzimisce we don’t even want the best discipline ever. BECAUSE REASONS, MAN. Gargoyle guess how few players named their dude goliath and got away with it? >:|

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I got catcalled while I was walking the other day and I couldn’t think of anything clever to say so I just made the most hideous shrieking noise I possibly could.

I heard the guys in the car go “the fuck?”

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Favorite sign so far: I’ve Read the Books, I Don’t Want to Live Them

Posted by Amy Fowler to the Boston Women’s March for America Event Page on Facebook.

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My contribution to the recent passing of vine. May it rest in peace.

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I am actually pretty scared...

I'm distracted by two things currently, one is brainless monsters slowly making an attempt to destroy the world and everything that is held dear, the other is The Walking Dead.

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It’s Supernatural Time!! Art by me, The Kao. [Shop]

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I was the moon, she was the sun. I was war, she was peace. I was disaster, she was beauty. I was sorrow, she was happiness. She was my salvation, I was her destruction. (insp.)

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#FeedTheSika on Miyajima Island

Hiroshima, Japan

by IROMO