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dan and herbert from reanimator (1985) + sketches from a crossover au where they meet ash the protagonist of evil dead post army of darkness (1992)

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From the Verdigris House to the Rear Palace: Sex workers’ perspective on The Apothecary Diaries

Spoilers for season 1 of The Apothecary Diaries

There were many reasons I was automatically hooked on The Apothecary Diaries: a capable young woman for a  protagonist. Mysteries that don’t feel predictable or overdone. Crisp, colorful animation. A cast of majority female characters with their own moral complexities and a variety of roles to play. As a sex worker, however, my favorite aspect of The Apothecary Diaries is the nuanced depiction of sex work. From the Verdigris House women to the royal concubines, the series treats the characters engaged in sex work with care, subverting many of the harmful tropes and expectations that other popular media from around the world often fall into. 

The Apothecary Diaries is incredibly popular in Japan and internationally, becoming the most-streamed anime on ABEMA, an Asia-based streaming service, in Winter 2025. In February, the light novel and manga adaptation surpassed 40 million copies printed worldwide. It’s one of a small number of anime in recent years, including Ooku: the Inner Chambers and Raven of the Inner Palace, that prominently feature sex working characters.

Despite the hype and overall positive reception of The Apothecary Diaries, real life attitudes towards sex workers are still shrouded in stigma. The Global Network of Sex Work Projects reports that sex workers still face criminalization on a global scale, leading to an increased risk of experiencing violence, discrimination, decreased access to health services, and other human rights violations. In Japan, sex workers rights’ groups such as SWASH, work tirelessly to improve the lives of sex workers through education, community outreach and events, lectures, and the publications of resources and studies.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

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A couple of gems

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Boyfriend's shirt

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enjoy

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Flesh and bones, robotics and mechanics

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I coloured the utenanthy kiss panel from the manga <3

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One push, and all your problems will go away

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Boyfriend: wait but I thought you could change from alpha to omega? Like you get hit with a pheromone and bam become that and you fuck, but the rest of the time you’re androgynous

Me: … I think you have confused omegaverse with the seminal piece of science fiction literature The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

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🪦 Date night 🌙

warm toned version under the cut

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awakening of the creator

(the system sucks)

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https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/

you can click once every 24 hrs to benefit UN aid organizations in Palestine. Arab.org keeps track of these benefits and publishes transparency reports every quarter at their website here. the above link goes directly to benefit Palestine, but you can also click more benefit programs from their frontpage at Arab.org.

a lot of us on tumblr are desperate to help Gaza but have absolutely nothing to offer except our attention and our worry. we don't have money to send, we don't have the ear of the public, we don't have any influence at all. this site appears to be (i say "appears to be" because ive been on the internet and just generally alive too long to ever think anything is a sure bet) a way to summon a small amount of money out of thin air and send it where it needs to go, with zero effort besides moving your mouse or your finger. i think we can all handle that much, no matter how helpless we are otherwise.

i don't like or trust NGOs as a rule, however, UNRWA, the organization aided by clicking the green link above, is despised by Israel and has been defunded by Trump twice, which in my opinion is one of the strongest indicators it is probably actually performing some useful function in Gaza.

consider setting Arab.org as your homepage in your desktop and mobile browsers to help you remember to click, and consider setting up scheduled reblogs or making your own posts with reminders.

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was thinking about how shapes claudia iwtv is in this one shot so hard I had to draw ittt

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Illustration with Marcille & Falin which I drew last fall