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they/them, it/its and ze/hir, 20, specs_the_strange on AO3 My art blog is @cryptie-boy-arts

"Dont drink coffee after 2 PM" is such a neurotypical issue that sounds made up. Such a thing couldnt happen to me, ADHD Georg, who has coffee past 9:30 PM and can still fall asleep freely because I have a natural toxicity resistance to caffeine.

"OooOooOoOh I cant haev cofee so late otherwise I'll be up all night" sounds like a skill issue

if i went back in time and showed walt disney 4 minutes of toy story 3 or whatever do you think he'd put way more or way less effort into making EPCOT a technofascist commune

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toy story 3 would make him do more Cars 2 would make him do less

i disagree cars 2 is fundamentally based on eugenics he'd go all in on that

i was thinking more along the lines of whether or not a computer animated 3 dimensional shape would make him scream and throw up and go bald immediately

oh yeah he'd shit and die immediately

RYAN (HEAD-BUTT), 1999 “That’s not my blood. I was making out with my main squeeze on a stoop in the East Village and some macho jock dickhead walked by and called us fags. I don’t think he expected me to get up in his face. We scrapped a bit and then I head-butted him and could feel his nose break on my forehead. We ran for blocks, laughing at the top of our lungs, and then jumped into bed, where my boyfriend took this picture of me.”

i hate high-budget star trek you have no business with that. put a unicorn hat on a cocker spaniel. wear felt

star trek should be about three things

1. a hopeful, if complicated, future

2. the most batshit insane gay subtext youve ever seen in your life

3. sequins

Dear Mr. Gaiman.

first of all, thank you for your work. It has given many hours of comfort to me.

I’m a trans man and your writing, especially Good Omens, always meant a lot to me and it still does. Unfortunately, the fandom feels like a hostile place for me right now. Since you confirmed Aziraphale and Crowley as canon nonbinary, I’m being told that my headcanon of them a gay (trans) men is no longer allowed. They say I’m being transphobic. I’ve read the book as a teenager and it meant so much to me that Aziraphale could be a man even though he was not “born” one. I understand it’s not canon and that’s fine. But Aziraphale is my comfort character. Aziraphale and Crowley as gay men, men that came to be men because that’s what they felt like, are my comfort headcanon. And now I’m a bad person for that headcanon? I just don’t understand why every headcanon is okay, except for mine? You might say I could just ignore the people who attack me, but being called a terf is pretty hurtful for a trans person. Again, I’m not attacking you for making them canon nonbinary (or word of god nonbinary, I don’t understand the difference, to be honest). But I feel it’s not right that Good Omens fans attack me for my headcanon.

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They are Angels. According to the book of Good Omens, angels and demons don't have a gender unless they really want to make an effort, which is one reason why you would be wrong to see Aziraphale as a gay human male even if that's how he presents himself.

That being said I'm happy for anyone in the fandom to Headcanon anything or to write fiction about anything. That's the fun of it. They could decide to start making an effort suddenly. Telling someone else their Headcanon is wrong or that they are wrong and bad for feeling a certain way about characters is a dick thing to do.

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Disabled Jewish Butch in need- that's me...

Hi I'm Birdy. I'm autistic, struggle with mobility, ptsd, and other things. I am unemployed with no income. I had been kicked out of 2 abusive housing situations and now I am being housed by a close friend and their foster family in another state from where I was before, and am trying to survive it all. Though I have more support than previously, my support system is still very small so I really need help.

I need money for transportation, medication, food, hygiene, you know, the basics. I'm also trying to save for a new phone, as mine is literally around 10 years old and reaching its limits, not to mention on my abusive father's phone plan still, of whom I am trying to cut out of my life. Shit sucks.

Anything helps, please share.

“credit goes to the artist! :)”

well unfortunately it really fucking didn’t, is the thing

not enough people really know what credit is for, so it bears repeating:

if I see art I like and want to see more of it, Credit is what gets me to the artist so I can see more of it.

If I’m writing a novel and I see an art style that would be perfect for a cover design, credit is what gets me to the artist so I can pay them for a commission.

If I see something I know my partner would love, credit is what takes me to the website of the artist where I can buy a poster that the original artist gets paid for.

If I see Plagiarism, I need to know who to notify to stop stealing my art, and if they don’t who to report.

Most artists (even the ones with thousands of followers) have a hard time making a living off of art. Giving credit means giving a pathway to the source.

Saying you didn’t make it isn’t the point, you need to say who did.

Listen I'm hammered right now but I did competition martial arts for several years. If Zuck and Musk actually fought, it would be fucking fascinating.

Zuck has been training for several years, but Musk is literally two weight classes heavier. That's enough of a difference that most orgs would consider it legally dangerous for them to fight. However, Musk is also older, which could mitigate his weight advantage.

In a vacuum, I'd give that matchup a tenuous 50/50, but I think Zuck wins the psychological game. There's nothing behind his eyes. He reminds me of the 5'4'' coked up ringers that every Jiu-Jitsu dojo would bring to MMA tourneys. You can't take your eyes off those guys or they win points by slipping along your kicks. Musk might be stronger but Zuck has the strategy.

Final call. Hammered 4/1 for Zuck.

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[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

As a biologist, that is a fantastic comparison.

We talk about “fish” (which, cladistically, do not exist, there is no monophyletic group of “fish” that simultaneously includes all organisms we understand to be “fish”-like while also excluding, say, humans) because, despite the utter fiction that is fish, it’s still a useful label when we talk about certain features that “fish” tend to have in common.

Gender is absolutely the same way.

Oh is this like tree is a shape not a species