'The Madonna of the Roses' and 'The Madonna of Pietà' by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

@lightupduck HeLLO??

#every now and then a protestant user has a catholic epiphany via @secifosseluce

I want more villains who care about their henchmen. I wanna see the bad guy fly into a rage because the hero hurt their very favorite bungling goon and it was nearly his birthday.

"how dare you fail me you miserable oafs!!" should be retired. "How DARE they bully my adorable oafs!!!" should be industry standard.

Underlings having to hold back their dark lord like an overprotective parent because they don't really want a famous hero to get outright murdered just on their behalf.

I had to draw something

I don’t want to go ‘realism in fiction’ bc we all know how much of a dogwhistle that can be. But it really always bothers me that this isn’t the norm. Like, how the fuck do all these dark lords and evil empresses and what not keep any minions or lieutenants or what not around?

Literally, what is stopping them from just walking to Hero and going ‘I surrender, get me the hell away from this asshole!’ when most Heros will immediately turn them in a redemption story and all.

Like, how they hell do the villains keep anyone working for them without a solid health plan, 401K, and recreational facilities? Isn’t that the minimum. Has no one actually read Machiavelli?

Indeed; one of my least favorite tropes is the whole "I don't need you anymore" bit, where a villain backstabs a fellow villain working beneath them, which inevitably ends up with the betrayed villain aiding the heroes in order to spite the big bad.

Luckily, I can just draw something that cuts that bullshit out!

NEW KO-FI

SO! As you all know im an idiot, and for reasons im ashamed to admit i had to make a new ko-fi account. Please help me make more art donatin' a few bucks there!!

If I were rich here’s what I’d do with my free time okay Mermaid pranks Let me explain. So, I’d get one of those super fancy mermaid tails, like those sick as hell silicone ones that has the super long thick tail that uses like, toe pullies and stuff to make the fins move in cool and impossible ways. like this

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And I would go all fucking out on this fit okay. We’re talking diving lessons until I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and go deep as fuck. Long hair, starfish, scales up to my tits, those funky contacts that make it so you can see under water, all of it- everything I could to make myself look as “thing of the deep but hot” as possible.  Then, I’d go get some shiny valuable rocks. Pearls, Uncut gems, like super fuck’n nice ones like diamonds and shit, and ofc some gold coins. Then I’d dawn my mermaid fit and hit public waterways. Rivers, beys, lakes, places where people are around and might be swimming, but where I’m not gonna die via boat propeller, and not super crowded areas where a lot of people are swimming.  Then I just prank people by poking my head out of the water and surprising them, then I motion them closer and reach into my hair or satchel or something and give them a fucking emerald, smiling all big the whole time then I just- swim the fuck away.  What the fuck they  gonna do now!? Keep it as a fun memory of that time a fuck’n mermaid larper gave them a shiny rock? Never know it’s actually valuable? Or do they take it to a jeweler and find out it’s real? How the fuck are they gonna explain that. They gonna tell the jeweler a fuck’n mermaid gave it to them?! I think the fuck not.  Gonna pop up at the peir and smile at people and give gold coins to whoever stops. Kids are gonna freak. Put a little wonder back in the world. Flirt with pretty girls. Swim down rivers, pop up and surprise some old lady sitting by the water and give her an uncut diamond then swim away without a word. 

Get a reputation as the weird lesbian mermaid who gives out precious gems and never speaks then suddenly stop without warning for like three years to give people time to forget me then do it all again. 

If it’s a kid, and only the kid has seen you, act horrified that you’ve been found.

Beg them to keep you a secret, and give them the jewel/coin in exchange.

i swear to god ultra rich people are so fucking boring with their mansions and yachts. ThiS is what i wanna see in the world. Where are the superheroes? The masquerade balls? WHO is gonna invent real farie wings that let you fly??

PLEASE HELP ME AFFORD TO CREMATE MY DAUGHTER.

My daughter passed away this morning. I am not only heartbroken but extremely physically ill and have no one to turn to. I just buried my mother less than a month ago and this came out of nowhere (please DM for details). I need to come up with $5,000 ASAP for the funeral home, plus other expenses. I am not getting a paycheck for a while because I took time off from my job to deal with my mother’s estate and to be with my daughter while she was in the hospital with RSV. I am still waiting for my mother’s life insurance check and doubt it will come in time due to the holiday. please please PLEASE HELP if you are able to. I am devastated.

Cashapp: $Vixxey777

Venmo: Vixxey777

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

So no affirmative action, no discrimination protections for same-sex couples, AND no debt forgiveness? This sucks

Another piece of news:

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183931393/the-supreme-court-rules-against-the-navajo-nation-in-colorado-river-case#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Supreme%20Court%20says,tribe%20in%20a%20decadeslong%20dispute.

This court fucking sucks.

Not much we can do right now for college applicants of color, indebted graduates, or lgbt people facing discrimination from businesses, but we CAN donate to the Navajo water project https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

Neighboring farmers take down Deputy Sheriff Ronald R. Reedy at the Ziegenhardt homestead in Lapeer, Michigan on June 2, 1952 

I, THE DRIVER BEHIND YOU AT THIS STOPLIGHT, HAVE DEDUCED THAT YOU COULD HAVE THREADED THAT LEFT TURN BETWEEN THOSE TWO CARS IF YOU FLOORED IT BEARING 92° SOUTH AND CAUGHT THE WIND.

HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK

sometimes blocking someone isn't personal. sometimes blocking someone is so personal that you're cain, they're abel, and the block button is a rock

look at this video of a mouse eating soup and bread and butter

peace and FUCKING love on planet earth

also literally fucked a man so hard yesterday that today i found pieces of my bed on the floor

I read this too fast and thought it said “pieces of him on the floor”

My heart. ❤ Love to this girl.

Also - this incredible story has been nominated for a Hugo (major award). PLEASE support her on Twitter if you're there.

https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1420177932518137862?t=l6nQ5U7x2q4M-dzm_6HEVA&s=19

This is one of the ones that hit and was getting spread around in my final stages of my egg finally cracking for the last time and me coming out. I cried back then. Crying a touch now still, for different reasons.

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

Thank u for sharing this with us