cis friends i want you to really understand this horror
imagine if in half of US states if you were in an accident/got sick and had to go to the hospital
the medical professionals there would FORCE THE WRONG HORMONE INTO YOUR BODY, making it change in ways antithetical to who you are
IMAGINE IT
Ethel, a pale skinned warforged woman with shaggy auburn hair that falls over one eye and ends at her shoulders. She sits on a plush bed with a stone wall behind her. A red canopy frames the sides and warm light from an out-of-view fireplace illuminates the scene. She wears a white blouse that's open in the front, and high waisted black pants. She looks down at her hand, which has visible ball-joints in surprise. Black tears stream down her face and are smeared where she wiped them away, with the black being on her hands as well. Beside her in small white text it says "oh..." to imply she said it in a quiet voice.
Ethel sits on a bench on a summer day. Her hair is longer and tied in an updo with a blue ribbon woven into it. She wears a blue jacket and skirt, with a white blouse and ruffled cravat. She has matching white gloves that hide her joints. Her expression is somber, and she gazes at the ground in silence.
Some Ethel art I haven't posted... Her from tonight's session and her before she ran away.
I'm pretty sure it's a unique form of cruelty to make a machine that can feel heartache and grief, and then try to give her the ability to cry, too.
#ocart #dnd #ttrpgart #cosPC
The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it
Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident
Btw, if it's not clear:
The tactic the right is using rn is to start censoring fetishes and kinks that are generally accepted to be "bad" or "gross" by most people to slowly warm us up to the idea of censoring all sexual expression online.
Don't fall for this by going "this is actually based!!"
""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."
Before someone says this is probably geared towards religious businesses only, remember last year that the OCC named adult entertainment as one of the industries experiencing unfair debankment
www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...
The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)
Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money
www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...
Autistic burnout loop
With what's going on with Subscribestar, it's a good moment to remind you all of something:
Free speech also includes speech you don't agree with, and freedom of artistic expression also includes art you find horrible or disgusting.
And if you go: "Yeah I agree! However-"
Then you don't agree!
Too bad we're rolling with it. 😼
Lately I've been retreating from socmed to focus back om my writing and related reading. Things will not write themselves and I don't have pressing outside obligations, so I'm taking the time while I can
Choosing a niche is its own question
The black eagles class from Fire Emblem 3 Houses have their portraits arranged in a circle around Byleth, with Edelgard above in more detail. They are stylized like they are in stained glass.
I still really love this piece I did for a Fire Emblem 3 Houses zine I was in a while back! This was made into coasters and I think they turned out so cute. I was super happy to get to draw the black eagles… Edelgard my beloved… 🦅❤️
I find this blog to be helpful, fyi thinkingautismguide.com/useful-autis...
It’s really hard to ask for help when you have been habituated to Not.
And it stings even more when you finally break out of that habituation to ask for help, and then it doesn’t come for whatever reason.
We have no good systems in play right now for this.
My hottest mental health take:
A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.
it is international women's day
shoutout to all the women in my life who have helped me become the woman I am today
all of the mothers and sisters and teachers and role models and fighters that paved the way for me and taught me to pave the way for others
I love women thank u women
USA folk, you need to annoy these assholes as much as you can. this bill is not to protect children. they want to erase transgender people from public life and classify them as degenerate content in the internet. we will not be seen or heard. they want our *existence* to be a sex offense.
I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.
I'm serious, read it all please
Google with AI buttons
Google without AI buttons
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more
github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
Dot plot chart from the Pew Research Center titled "Women are more likely than men to say pornography is morally unacceptable." The chart shows the percentage of men and women in 22 countries who consider viewing pornography morally unacceptable, based on the Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey. In every country shown, women are more likely than men to hold this view. The gender gap ranges from +6 percentage points in Nigeria to +22 points in South Korea and Spain. Countries with the highest overall disapproval rates include Nigeria (82% men, 88% women), Indonesia (81% men, 90% women), and Mexico (53% men, 74% women). Countries with the lowest rates include Japan (13% men, 27% women), Germany (21% men, 36% women), and the Netherlands (20% men, 33% women). The U.S. shows 47% of men and 58% of women viewing pornography as morally wrong (the U.S. used the term "morally wrong" rather than "morally unacceptable"). Only statistically significant differences are shown. This question was not asked in India.
New survey from Pew Research seems to explain a hidden reason that Republicans have been attacking adult entertainment: It's their new women's outreach effort.
After school boards and trans sports have fizzled, they are trying to reach women by bashing porn. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
It's a plot. It's always been a plot.
Protecting women by restricting sexuality.
This is the link for the GoFundMe 😓
Any help is appreciated thanks : ' )
gofund.me/5e0bdf39b
StimuWrite 2.4 is here!! I also started a patreon, there are details in this post, and I'll make a thread about it soon, but for now I have to collapse thatclowngoddess.itch.io/stimuwrite/d...
New from @midimyers.com, a take we’re quite honestly sick of having to argue. www.mothership.blog/you-know-wha...
shout out to bluesky's lead programmer who dipped his mobile phone in his pool to 'cool it off' and then didn't understand why it broke
Someone smarter than me can explain it better but the internet in its heyday acted like a replacement for dead or dying third spaces, never perfect, a band aid for sure, but an affective one
And then it also got colonized and obliterated by greed
really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
RT if $3000 would literally change your life
