I'm a nonbinary illustrator who makes queer comics, pins, stickers etc, and this particular design feels more relevant by the day:
I'm a nonbinary illustrator who makes queer comics, pins, stickers etc, and this particular design feels more relevant by the day:
If you've watched how NHS England - stuffed, as Kemi Badenoch explicitly told us, with her handpicked transphobes - does trans* healthcare you can't be surprised by this from @erininthemorning.com.
But still, it's an important service to see her lay it all out.
Your nonbinary person giving themself a haircut at a strange hour of the day or night might seem like a cute self grooming ritual, but consider that it may in fact be an oft overlooked stress response
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Thank you 😊
A close up photograph of a handmade book with an Indian silk cover and a Coptic bound spine. The cover is red and gold, with a pattern of peacocks and flowers. The binding on the spine is the same blue as the peacock tails.
This week I had the absolute pleasure of making a custom order A4 photo book covered with this gorgeous Indian silk. The customer had bought the silk when he was on holiday in India and wanted a book to collect the photos of their trip for his partner, and sent it to me to work with.
anyways 🏳️⚧️
Do you ever do a slightly different thing with your craft and suddenly remember how much you love doing it?
A photograph of a ribbon closure on a sketchbook. The sketchbook is bound in gold and red silk, and the ribbon is the same purple as the flowers on the silk design.
I got to flex some old muscles and do fun techniques I don't normally do, like these ribbon closures
A close up photograph of a handmade book with an Indian silk cover and a Coptic bound spine. The cover is red and gold, with a pattern of peacocks and flowers. The binding on the spine is the same blue as the peacock tails.
This week I had the absolute pleasure of making a custom order A4 photo book covered with this gorgeous Indian silk. The customer had bought the silk when he was on holiday in India and wanted a book to collect the photos of their trip for his partner, and sent it to me to work with.
you don't have to read graphic descriptions of SA even if the rapist is running the country right now
you don't have to read or watch graphic depictions of bombing innocents even if it's happening right now
you can be angry about and take action against wrongs without exposing yourself to trauma
She sounds so good 😭
Hannah and Zack with cameras taking a selfie
I don't know if I'll ever stop smiling.
We've all done something very special. 💚
Although tbh I don't know if she's geordie or if she's doing the accent for the game but! either way, not an english accent you get to hear much in video games
I'm playing Dragon Age Veilguard (finally) and I was really pleasantly surprised that the "english" (as opposed to american) accent option for a femme Rook is a geordie; she sounds lovely
This is a massive scandal.
Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them.
How can this even be legal?
Idk man I just love it. Read Murderbot. Watch Murderbot. Listen to the audiobooks. Enjoy!
There are a lot of big themes in this series - community, selfhood, freedom, the evils of capitalism and the small goods of human (and robot) kindness - but this love of storytelling as a means to selfhood and comprehension is one that's really hitting home the more of these books I read.
Murderbot learns to see the world and itself through space soap operas. 2.0 uses Murderbot's own logs. Three loves nonfiction and documentaries. Each of them finds something they love and it's formative of how they think and relate to others, but it does help them relate.
And of course I love this, I'm a big reader, moviegoer and lover of great TV, but I also really love that the kind of storytelling Wells chooses for her characters isn't high art, and it isn't all fiction!
Having read all the Murderbot books (currently published, can't wait for more) I've noticed that one of Wells' big themes is the power of storytelling and communication to bring people together, to set them free, to understand and comprehend the world.
Me, being stabbed in the skull: maybe it's just a bad headache this time
Once again shocked by my inability to recognise a migraine until I am well into it
One design three ways 🏳️⚧️
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*citation needed
And I do think a big part of this problem is the insistence that thinking is pretentious, that complexities & unconventionalities in fiction are really just accidents & "plot holes", & the fear of "being wrong" devaluing the act of seeking out more than only the most obvious and irrefutable meanings
Stopped in at the library and it happened to be baby story time; I experienced a brief window of childlike joy while requesting a BSL dictionary.
an illustrated calendar page for January, in black on a grey background. the calendar is scribbled over and blotted out with black, although there are some gold bars on some days. at the bottom, text reads, "and then, it is February."
January
an illustrated calendar page for January, in black on a grey background. the calendar is scribbled over and blotted out with black, although there are some gold bars on some days. at the bottom, text reads, "and then, it is February."
January
a painterly digital portrait of the character of Claudia from Interview with the Vampire. Claudia is a young Black woman wearing a light patterned shirt, a brown/red houndstooth jacket, and a dark scarf knotted at her throat. Her hair is pulled back from her face in rolls on either side of her head, with a curl loose against her forehead on each side of her face. She has red eyes that look off to the left with an expression of disdain and judgement, her lips are pursed a little. The background is a very warm bright yellow, and the highlights on Claudia are also yellow.
My coven is Claudia.
Interview with the Vampire season 2 still has my brain in a vice ngl. Painting my feelings to cope.