extremely funny when AI artists feel the need to put watermarks on their images
like oh you're worried about misattribution and image theft huh. you're worried that someone's gonna take the image you made and claim it as their own. or strip away the context and your name. or use it in ways you didn't consent to. boy that sure would suck huh. i bet that would feel really bad. i bet that would be really annoying. i b
I love Crowley here like “How the hell are you a licensed therapist....”
The wikipedia page for The Coleman Frog is a but a single paragraph but what a paragraph it is
How dare this go around without the image attached
gilkenansmonsterhouse2006
this is it im dying how could anybody believe this is a real frog
I have seen this fine creature multiple times and it looks even faker in person, you can see fabric texture through the paint.
you can't give me new imogen merch and expect me not to draw her in it (laudna made the flower crown for her :D)
In season three, I’m gonna need their first meeting’s ‘gorgeous’ line to happen again, except this time it’s *actually* aimed at Aziraphale.
Genderbent 4/4: Miss Crowley
This one is by far the most complicated drawing I remember.
Fucking stairs
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LGBT activists have been vocal about intersex issues for several decades, because establishing the legal right to bodily autonomy for intersex persons is basically inseparable from establishing the right of trans persons to that same legal autonomy over their own bodies. many intersex persons prefer not to be grouped together with LGBT causes; however, the vast majority of LGBT activists would agree that performing "corrective" surgery on intersex infants - to force them to adhere to a largely fictional gender binary - is pretty fucking evil.
[Image IDs: a series of tweets from #EndIntersexSurgery (@/ Pidgejen) reading: Anyways, let's start with what I thought I once knew about myself. When I was 18, I discovered I wasn't like other girls. My medical records read "male pseudo-hermaphrodite 46 XY" & other BS terminology that pathologized my healthy/beautiful intersex body.
I discovered then that I had been diagnosed with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS); my XY body couldn't fully utilize androgens (like T) and so I developed mostly like a typical female person externally.
For me, this meant I had a somewhat "ambiguous" looking body (aka a non-binary body) and the doctors performed 3 unnecessary cosmetic surgeries to make me look more like a "normal girl"
(peanut emoji) gonadectomy (scissors emoji) Clitorectomy (kitchen knife emoji) vaginoplasty
Not to mention, they lied to me about All Of This and then forced me to take Premarin (a low does of estrogen made from extracting the hormone from a pregnant mare's urine (horse face emoji, crying face emoji)
Anyways, I got in touch with a new endocrinologist recently thanks to my therapist at @/ RuchMedical who suggested I see him.
He did something no other doctor had ever done. He asked me if he could see my medical records, all of them, and then took time to read of them.
He even reached out to other experts in his field when he was confused by something.
Wow, We love humility in medicine.
Anyways, he ended up suspecting something is up and that perhaps my PAIS diagnosis is wrong.
He then orders me a genetic (dna emoji) test. Thanks to covid it took almost half a year to get the results, but a month or so ago I got them back.
Turns out, I don't have PAIS. I actually have something else known as NR-5A1. Now this is big news mostly because 1. It supports my thesis that docs who deal with intersex kids don't know shit...
And 2. P/AIS intersex folks are believed to not be able to utilize androgens and wo we're often only given estrogen (never T), forcibly "feminized" with fucked up "cosmetic" surgeries, and forcibly assigned female.
Doing what they did to me was fucked up enough, but now realizing that they didn't even have the diagnosis right—and that I *can* utilize androgens—is fucking infuriated beyond belief.
We need to #EndIntersexSurgery y'all like yesterday. /End IDs]
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I think that 2023 is a good time for many of us, and allies in particular, to practice again the dying art of minding our own fucking business when it comes to the identities and lives of other people.
You see someone from one of your classes in a public place with a different gender presentation/expression than they typically have? Mind your own business.
You discover that one of your coworkers is in a same gender relationship, but they aren't out at work? Not your place to share that information in the workplace.
You notice that your neighbor in a red state takes a road trip across state lines with their transgender child every 3-6 months? No you fucking didn't.
You overhear students in your classroom using a different name and different pronouns for one student than you are used to using? If you live in a state hostile to trans rights, pretend that you don't know anything about this and report nothing.
You suspect that an acquaintance of yours might be gay, but they deny it when asked directly? Leave them the fuck alone.
One of your friends refuses to publicly label their sexuality? Good for them, you aren't entitled to that information anyway.
Your sibling comes out to you as questioning, but isn't comfortable sharing that with your parents yet? Keep your fucking mouth shut.
Don't out people; coming out is a personal choice not a moral obligation. Don't demand personal information about other people's sexuality or sex lives. You aren't entitled to information about anyone's gender identity, assigned gender at birth, or transition.
Bring back privacy, allow people to have control over the information that is shared about them publicly; it might save their job, their housing, their parental rights and their child's safety, or even save lives.
loose lips sink ships
I just have to say that I love Nina and Maggie in your style and your Muriel is so fucking adorable it hurts me in a good way
i just remembered i hadn't shown yall the chibi versions i was sketching for them skfbndg
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Aziracrow fanart I did
(@cilla.blu on instagram if you are interested, i post all kinds of projects this is my first good omens fanart but I'm planning many more)
Your daily dose of cat memes
I do in fact need everything to be okay
the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post
T Count: 15
Letter Count: 198
Your T Percentage: 7.58%
Average T Percentage: 6.95%
You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!
YOU EXIST???
Sometimes you create a guy and it turns out they already exist
Sometimes that guy has skills beyond your comprehension @identifying-cars-in-posts
1993-1997 Mazda 626
I love all the fun kinds of autism we get here
Baby Raven Vax'ildan Sticker Sheet!! You can get your own at my shop!!
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Hello, I really love snakes and I enjoy holding them so much. I was wondering if there are any ways I could give them physical affection that they enjoy since I can't really hug them or anything like I would with an animal like a dog. Would light strokes anywhere on their body be something they enjoy, and is there any way to tell if they like it?
Unfortunately, snakes aren't social creatures and just aren't capable of understanding physical affection in the way mammals can. While a dog or cat might enjoy being petted, seek it out, and understand it's an affectionate gesture, being stroked and patted is just more likely to tickle and irritate a snake.
The best thing you can do to communicate to your snake that you are a safe place for them is to continue earning their trust. You can do this by meeting them on their terms and leaning into what makes them most comfortable. Often, the best way to do this is just to hold still! You can move your snake between your hands, and lifting them above your head is great for communicating to shy or nervous snakes that they're not in danger.
Hi!
I will point out that snakes are more social than long thought! This is especially noteable in many rattlesnake species where females will prefer to spend time curled together and part of the low success of relocation efforts might be due to them losing their social networks/hibernaculum sites! Iirc there was a viperid (copperhead maybe?) in which it was found that not allowing newborns 24 hours with their mothers and littermates impacted their behavior going forward, which is cool. Garter snakes are the obvious answer to 'are snakes social', I am close to the authors of that paper - but follow up experiments on other species are shedding light on even mostly solitary animals having social lives. There's a couple of papers in the pipeline on ball pythons, more garter snake species, hognoses and corn snakes that I'm really excited about!
So to actually answer the question... well, snake social behavior is not something humans can mimic well. They seem to have individual preference in seeking out areas scented like their species and seem to behave differently if they don’t actually find a snake there (this is mostly observation as of yet so dont quote me on this), but tbh in most of what I see 'social behavior' is them just curling up together in a hide despite equally good hides being available, which is difficult to replicate as a human. Their world is heavily based on scent (of which we don't fully understand the cues), close contact being permitted at all, and a few obvious social signals ('fuck off' tail shaking, sexy jitters, etc.). You're massive to them - being a safe, warm place for them to hang out is still something lovely you can offer them, while keeping an eye on their body language.
The main caveat is that a lot of this research is done on juveniles at most a year old, not adults, due to the difficulty of properly housing enough full grown snakes for a statistically significant conclusion to be drawn. So I'd take this with a grain of salt and recognize that this might present differently in adult snakes!
Having Kiki and Vax thoughts again this time about the more abstract idea of the champion of the goddess of death being in love with an almost immortal woman, the only way they can be reunited is by waiting a thousand years until her death and he will show up time and again to make sure she gets to live those thousand years, there is a woman that the embodiment of death is in love with and he ensures her immortality