[ID: screenshot of a tweet by @treswritesstuff which reads “guy at this karaoke bar in a full suit and studded coke white boots just dedicated his song to ‘the most important first responders in New York’ and proceeded to do ghostbusters.” /end ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan from the AP Podcast “Rusty Quill Gaming.” Hamid is a brownskinned, Egyptian halfling with pointy ears and wavy brown hair. He is wearing a purple, long-sleeved shirt, and a dangly earring with a heart-pendant and pink gems. Hamid is sitting up on a couch with a fluffy pillow and a blanket over his lap and reading a book titled “Replace Fancy”. Behind Hamid, the edge of a fireplace is visible and the light from it is reflecting off Hamid’s brassy scales. /end ID]
Aka I listened to Roman Rogues again and had to think of thispicture.
[ID: an uncoloured line-art of characters from the AP Podcast “Rusty Quill Gaming”, specifically from the special “Roman Rogues”. Sasha Racket, a middle-aged white woman with short hair and a burn-scar on her cheek and neck, is in the foreground. She is wearing a toga, exhausted expression, and is holding a knife in her left hand. Behind her, four children are play-fighting. Little Wilde, a dark-skinned girl, is ruby-tackling Amidus, a lanky boy, while Azus, the shortest of the children, depicted as white with light hair, is dodging an attack by Amidus, the tallest of the lot. Sasha looks absolutely done with this shit. The artist’s signature, reading “Ängry Duck Time Machine” is visible at the top of the image. /end ID]
[ID: A digital three panel comic of characters from HBO’s series “Our Flag Means Death”. The first features a round image - implying it’s being seen through a spyglass - and shows most of the Revenge’s crew in a little dinghy. Stede is in the front and shouting “Ed! You forgot us!”, with little hearts around the speech bubble. The rest of the crew is wearing various expressions of anger and resentment. Lucius is glaring from beneath wet hair and a starfish which clings to his head. The crew are shouting “Captain” Blackbeard!” and “Captain! Look!”. The second panel shows Izzy and Ed. Izzy is looking on in shocked disbelieve saying “Not again! What the fuck?”. Ed seems close to tears, and his “S-S-Stede?” speech bubble features a little broken heart and crying emoji. The last panel shows Fang, Ivan, Jim, and Frenchie. Fang and Ivan are happy to see the others, saying “Lucius, my boy!” and “Finally!”. Frenchie is embracing a smiling Jim and the two are saying “We are free!” and “They are alive!!” /end ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of a “welcome home cheater” self-help group. It’s members are Good Omen’s Crowley - a red-haired demon with a black jacket, leaning one hand against the wall with his head hanging down - the Witcher’s Jaskier - a brown-haired bard in a turquoise doublet with puffy shoulders who is kneeling on the ground in despair, his lute is next to him - and Our Flag Means Death’s Blackbeard - a long-haired pirate in tight, black leather clothing, who is lying on the ground with his face in his hands. /end ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of characters Israel “Izzy” Hands and Edward “Blackbeard” Teach from the HBO series “Our Flag Means Death”. Izzy is in the foreground, arms crossed, with a grumpy expression. He is saying “FUCK Stede Bonnet”. Ed, in the background, looks exasperated and replies “I’ve been trying!” /end ID]
[ID: a four panel digital comic of Edward „Blackbeard“ Teach and Stede “the gentleman pirate” Bonnet from HBO’s series “Our Flag Means Death”. It is uncoloured lineart in a simplistic style. In the first panel, Stede is standing at the bow of a ship (helpfully labelled as “ship”) with his arms spread wide. He calls to Ed behind him “Ed! Get over here, you gotta try this!”. In the second panel, Ed has taken up position at the bow (of “still a ship”) with his spread arms, saying “wow, it feels like I’m flying!” while Stede supports him from behind. The third panel is a close-up of the two and Ed wonders “is this a reference to something?”, to which Stede replies “is it? Not sure. Might be a little ahead of our times.” The last panel is the same close-up, except Ed and Stede look directly at the viewer, as though looking into the camera. Beneath the last panel “the end…?” Is written /end ID]
[ID: A still of Lucius from HBO’s series “Our Flag Means Death”, with a screenshot of @lichrelly’s tumblr text post reading “Babygirl.. don’t be dead. be alive” superimposed over it. /end ID]
[Video ID and description: A Korean streamer is playing Elden Ring. It’s daytime in-game and he’s currently in an area atop a misty cliff, with yellow-ish green grasses and small pink flowers. His player avatar watches 3 light skinned women cackling and dancing around a fire in long white dresses and wreaths.
The streamer has a black, cropped bowlcut hairstyle and light skin, and he is wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans. He is standing as he positions the placement of his face cam to be smaller and higher on the screen. His room appears to be greenscreened out, so only he is visible against the game’s capture footage.
He then walks back from his setup so that his full body is visible, making him about the same size as the dancing women, and appearing as if he’s beside them. He turns around and begins playfully dancing and prancing, the only sounds being the game’s music, the women’s cackling and footsteps, and the sound of the streamer’s bare feet slapping against his invisible floor.
His chat fills up with watchers laughing, and he spins around while dancing to face his setup. He begins giggling, and the video ends. /End ID]
[Image ID: A screenshot of Tom Holland on a talk show. His head is closely shaved and he is mid-sentence. Below the image is a comment by Youtube user Zachary Breeden, who says “Tom Holland looks like Eminem’s more positive younger cousin, Skittles”. The comment has 908 likes and 14 comments. /End ID]
This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. I’m tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.
discussing something designed to help blind and visually impaired kids learn braille
and yes it’s “for everyone” but maybe be considerate of your target audience?
[Start id:
A series of five screenshots from a Design-milk article titled “LEGO Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille” By Keshia Badalge. The article was published on 05/15/19.
Image 1/5 contains text and a photo of four LEGO bricks. The bricks are labeled “P” “L” “A1” and “Y”. Each brick has raised bumps to correspond with the Braille character on its label.
The text reads, “At the Sustainable Brands conference in Paris last month, the LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced their new project to help blind and visually impaired children learn braille through custom LEGO Braille Bricks.
The idea, first proposed by the Danish Association of the Blind in 2011, was brought up again in 2017 by Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind in Brazil, and later developed in collaboration with blind associations in Denmark, Brazil, the UK, and Norway.”
Image 2/5 contains text and two photos. Both photos are of a young boy playing with the Braille LEGO bricks. In the first photo the boy is holding up a LEGO board with several LEGO Braille bricks stuck onto it, he is running his fingers over the bricks. In the second photo, the boy has layed the LEGO board down onto a table, he is still running his fingers over the bricks.
The text reads, “Why now? Philippe Chazal, Treasurer of the European Blind Union, cites the rise of audio books and computer programs. As a result, he claims “fewer kids are learning to read braille.”
Image 3/5 is all text.
It reads, “We strongly believe LEGO Braille Bricks can help boost the level of interest in learning braille,” he continued. In the United States, only 10% of blind children are learning to read braille, even though according to Chazal,
“Braille users often are more independent, have a higher level of education, and better employment opportunities.”
WHO estimates that 19 million children around the world are vision impaired and 1.4 million of these children have irreversible blindness.
The statistics when they grow up look discouraging: In Europe, around three quarters of adults with vision disability are unemployed, compared to 53% with general disabilities.
The LEGO Braille Bricks will be fully compatible with the LEGO System in Play and use the same number of studs for individual letters and numbers in the braille alphabet.”
Image 4/5 contains text and two photos. The photos are of a young boy using the Braille LEGO bricks. In both photos he is running his fingers over the raised surfaces of the LEGO bricks.
The text reads, “The bricks aren’t just meant for braille learners. For teachers and sighted children, these bricks also feature a printed letter or character, so everyone can join in the fun.
The set contains about 250 Braille Bricks covering the full alphabet, numbers 0-9, and math symbols.”
Image 5/5 contains text and a photo of two children playing with a pile of the LEGO Braille bricks.
The text reads, “The product is currently being tested in various languages too: Danish, Norwegian, English, and Portuguese, with German, Spanish, and French testing to begin in the third quarter of this year.
The final LEGO Braille Bricks kit is expected to launch in 2020 and will be distributed free of charge to institutions in LEGO’s partner networks.”
with both covid-19 + the primaries going on I’ve heard ppl say some truly awful stuff about “boomers” as if all old people are rich conservative white men who deserve to be wiped out, so I drew up this graphic feat. stories of some of the elders I’ve met through work and activism.
“boomer” is not a coherent class. now more than ever it is imperative that the working class stands together, while celebrities sing silly songs in their mansions we must organize to meet community needs, regardless of age we are all comrades in the same fight!
The flip side of this is the spring break give no shit young people are also not representative of their entire generation. You know what they are? Rich.
image description: two graphics with red and yellow background and text color schemes, and full color illustrations. the first is titled “Elders are not our enemy: Working class solidarity with all generations!” and has illustrations of 3 elders:
1. a Black woman with gray streaks in her hair, glasses, and a green cardigan, looking down with a tired expression. beside her, a text box reads:
- has worked at the same store for decades and never been promoted
- knows more than the boss but will never be paid what her labor is worth
- works multiple low-wage jobs to support children and grandchildren
2. a partially bald Asian man in a light blue shirt and tan jacket, raising a wooden cane with an angry/frustrated expression. beside him, a text box reads:
- has been protesting since the Vietnam War
- goes to city meetings to advocate against fascist local policy
- cannot believe we’re still dealing with this shit
3. a woman with short, curly black hair and brown skin, wearing a maroon shirt. her expression is concerned. beside her, a text box reads:
- lives on a fixed income
- new company bought her retirement community and wants to raise rent
- afraid she will end up homeless or have her heat shut off and die
the second graphic has faces of people of various ages, genders, and races with the text “Generational politics can not replace class analysis: We are stronger together! No war but class war!” end image description.
thank you so much for doing an image description! going to make a note for myself so i remember to do this for any future posts bc i need to do better on this front.
the fact that biden cant landslide an impeached president responsible for a massive lethal disease outbreak shows how fucking pathetic he really is
Biden has over 70 million votes, which is the most of any Presidential candidate in history. He’s leading Trump by 4 million votes.
He came very close to flipping Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina.
The take is that 1) the electoral college is fucked up and 2) white supremacy and hate are extremely strong motivators for this country’s right wing, not “Biden is pathetic,” you fucking dimwit
Also this was in the face of massive voter suppression
And there’s a certain percentage of the voting population who are just … kind of terrible people?
The ones who like Trump because he hurts people they think he should be hurting. The ones who want to overturn things like marriage equality. They were never going to vote for Biden - or any Democratic candidate.
I saw this thread earlier from Ursula Vernon that helps put a lot of this in perspective: (ID and transcription below)
[ID: a series of tweets by twitter handle @ursulav, username Kingfisher & Wombat, who has a cute little hand-drawn wombat as their user ID pic.
“Basically, though, it seems like people expected a landslide denunciation of authoritarianism. And I feel like that was never actually on the table? Of course it would have been nice! Sure! No question! But that’s never how it seems to work?”
“I’m not enough of a historian to have any go-to but Hitler, sorry, but I seem to remember that he was quite popular and then he lost the war and a few years later nobody in Germany had ever been a Nazi and that was all other people in some other town.”
“We all wanted the big repudiation without the war. I get it! But I think we did something more impressive, in its way. We saw it coming before we got that far.“
“More Americans than have ever voted in the history of America saw down the road and went “Oh HELL no!” Before we had to have the big collapse where suddenly nobody had ever supported the despot, ha ha, no, not us, that was some other town, nobody here.”
“So yeah, it would have been more emotionally satisfying if all the Trump supporters had a Come to Jesus moment and threw down their MAGA has. But you only get that if the despot runs unchecked long enough to destroy…well, everything.”
“If there’s a really unsafe road and you block it off, a lot of people aren’t going to be grateful. They’re going to yell that it’s safe and anyway, they’re a good driver. Somebody has to die on the road—maybe multiple people—before they’ll admit it’s dangerous. Some never will.”
“But the sooner you close the road, the more lives you save. And that’s worth it.”
End ID.]
I know things are still unsure, right now, but I think this is worth taking heart from.
The cat mmrps in their lap and butts their head against their hand. “Yes, yes, I’m petting you, don’t worry,” they say, resuming what must be their earlier petting. They look back up at Martin, and gesture halfheartedly towards their stack of books. “I, er. Had a bit of trouble, deciding.”
Martin chuckles. “So you got the cat to help you choose?”
“Well, the cat has a name,” Jon informs him in their most esteemed professional voice, “and a very fine one at that. Pangur Bán is the official defender of this bookshop, and he is very good at his job.”
That… sure is a name. “Uh. Pardon?”
“Pangur Bán - you know, the, er, ninth-century Irish abbot’s cat?” Jon asks him this, innocently, as if this is a question to which Martin should reasonably answer yes.
woke up and realized today is Jon Sims and Cats Day, so I figured I’d illustrate one of my favourite scenes from my fic one foot in sea, one on shore! it is. so late at night where I am oops
[ID: a picture of Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives petting a cat in front of a window in a secondhand bookstore. Jon is a thin brown person with long, dark hair, angular glasses, and slight freckles, wearing a dark sage cardigan and dark trousers. Sat in their lap is a fluffy cat so dark black its only discernible features are its big, round yellow eyes with wide pupils, staring directly at the viewer. Jon also looks at the viewer with a softly surprised expression, one leg perched on the seat and the other hanging down towards the floor. On one side sits a stack of books, and on the other rests their cane. Behind him through translucent glass is a small-town street punctuated with leafy green trees, where the bright sunlight shines across their shoulders. Framing them on each side of the image are bookshelves, and dust motes float through the air. End description.]
The cat mmrps in their lap and butts their head against their hand. “Yes, yes, I’m petting you, don’t worry,” they say, resuming what must be their earlier petting. They look back up at Martin, and gesture halfheartedly towards their stack of books. “I, er. Had a bit of trouble, deciding.”
Martin chuckles. “So you got the cat to help you choose?”
“Well, the cat has a name,” Jon informs him in their most esteemed professional voice, “and a very fine one at that. Pangur Bán is the official defender of this bookshop, and he is very good at his job.”
That… sure is a name. “Uh. Pardon?”
“Pangur Bán - you know, the, er, ninth-century Irish abbot’s cat?” Jon asks him this, innocently, as if this is a question to which Martin should reasonably answer yes.
woke up and realized today is Jon Sims and Cats Day, so I figured I’d illustrate one of my favourite scenes from my fic one foot in sea, one on shore! it is. so late at night where I am oops
[ID: a picture of Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives petting a cat in front of a window in a secondhand bookstore. Jon is a thin brown person with long, dark hair, angular glasses, and slight freckles, wearing a dark sage cardigan and dark trousers. Sat in their lap is a fluffy cat so dark black its only discernible features are its big, round yellow eyes with wide pupils, staring directly at the viewer. Jon also looks at the viewer with a softly surprised expression, one leg perched on the seat and the other hanging down towards the floor. On one side sits a stack of books, and on the other rests their cane. Behind him through translucent glass is a small-town street punctuated with leafy green trees, where the bright sunlight shines across their shoulders. Framing them on each side of the image are bookshelves, and dust motes float through the air. End description.]
me when i see someone put zero effort into drawing martin fat:
[image description: a poorly edited version of a madagascar meme where the main characters are all looking at the viewer judgementally. it reads, “WHY ARE YOU SKINNY”. end id]
my glossy 3d acrylic brush is on clip studio assets now. get it here
ID. digital art on a gray background, painted with a brush that looks like realistic paint, with highlights and bristle marks. there are scribbles in different colors and then a still life of a sliced round of watermelon on a cutting board in golden sunlight. End ID.
Aka: public displays of affection vs performative displays of affection
I was talking to me mom today about PDA and, we got on the topic about how there really are two types of PDA: the first is really just displays of affection where you just happen to be in public and the second being where you are engaging in displays of affection specifically because you are in public.
I don’t know if I’m, exactly, explaining this right but like: sitting close next to a SO on a couch at a coffee shop because you enjoy sitting close to the person would be a public display of affection while, like, making a post on Facebook about how much you love your SO even though your SO doesn’t use Facebook and will never see it would be a performative display of affection.
And, I mean, there is kinda, probably, an overlap between the two but, I did decide to look it up and found this:
Anyway: this is something I would like to explore with the community in the sense of romance-repulsion and how it affects it, because I can definitely say that I can usually tell the difference between PDA and PDAand that, while PDA usually doesn’t flare up my romance-repulsion, PDA definitely does and I’m now wondering if it’s because the people engaging in PDA are, in a way, forcing me to participate in a romantic scene/situation that I did not concent to or agree to be involved in.
Thoughts?
The number of people reblogging this with tags like ‘oh this makes so much sense now!’ Tells me this is definitely something the aromantic community should have been talking about for a while!
[id: an extract from the linked article reading:
Although a number of people said they participated in PDA, 32% of people who identify as women and 37% of people who identify as men said that they had engaged in PDA in a strictly performative way. So it really wasn’t about being caught up in the moment with their partner — it was about grabbing other people’s attention.
end id]
Plain text: (Big text) PDA vs (italics) PDA (end bug text and italics)
(Medium text) Aka: public displays of affection vs (italics) performative displays of affection (end plain text and italics)
I was talking to me mom today about PDA and, we got on the topic about how there really are two types of PDA: the first is really just displays of affection where you just happen to be in public and the second being where you are engaging in displays of affection specifically (italics) because (end italics) you are in public. End plain text
[id: an extract from the linked article reading: Although a number of people said they participated in PDA, 32% of people who identify as women and 37% of people who identify as men said that they had engaged in PDA in a strictly performative way. So it really wasn’t about being caught up in the moment with their partner — it was about grabbing other people’s attention. end id]
Plain text: Anyway: this is something I would like to explore with the community in the sense of romance-repulsion and how it affects it, because I can definitely say that I can usually tell the difference between PDA and (italics) PDA (end italics) and that, while PDA usually doesn’t flare up my romance-repulsion, (italics) PDA (end italics) definitely does and I’m now wondering if it’s because the people engaging in (italics) PDA (end italics) are, in a way, forcing me to participate in a romantic scene/situation that I did not concent to or agree to be involved in. End plain text
