Yunchul Kim, Chroma V, Venice Biennale 2022, Korea Pavillion.
How are we doing today ladies. Are we still losing it. Are we going completely insane
nimona the webcomic and nimona the netflix movie are so thematically different and come from such different periods in the artist's (nd stevenson) life and our lives and I love that?? I love the bitterness and angst and how morally gray the graphic novel was, just as much as I love the hopefulness and compassion and how unapologetically trans the netflix film is. watching his work grow as he grew older and I grew older and more secure in my sexuality, is just - so special. it's a rare thing to grow in parallel with the work of an artist you love, especially a queer artist, and I'm so fucking happy this film got made, especially with all its differences to the original work. something something to be loved is to be changed idk lmao.
the asl sign for “transgender“ is basically the same as the sign for ”beautiful“ but signed at the chest instead of in front of the face.
so that’s cool.
this is my imperfect not-a-fluent-signer understanding but:
(based on a presentation by a deaf trans guy i was at in 2005 where he was promoting that sign)
it seems like that sign was invented and implemented by trans people over the last 10-ish years. before that the predominant vocabulary was “sex change” and then some deaf trans people were like “yo fuck that” and came up with the current sign, which starts off with the sign for “myself,” then motion that indicates both change and coming together, and ends with the closed hand held against the sternum.
and in the process it also mimics the sign for “beautiful”
and because of spatial grammar, things closer to the front of your body in ASL are generally more vital, more emphatic, more immediate, more present.
so it’s actually a case where the word coherently indicates “beauty” and “self transformation” and contains hints of the complete thought of “my self transforming, through a coming together of disparate factors, into something more real, immediate, and vital than I was before.”
so yeah. that’s just fuckin’ awesome.
and that’s just the way to express that concept now.
trans-femmeboy-positive
Thats really beautiful
Sign language is transcendent by nature ♥️
we have always lived in the castle illustrated by thomas ehretsmann for centipede press
oh this is evil
What is that?
discord is adding parental surveillance. as nerdskii's tags pointed out its a ridiculous measure that doesnt help anyone because apps like Signal exist for actual illegal/sketchy activity and this just hurts lgbt teens looking for somewhere to be themselves and have resources especially with conservative parents
I use android. this is my secure folder, which was built into my phone. it has a customize option, so I've made it look like some bland fitness app. when you open it, it asks you to enter a password or unlock it in any other way you've set it to unlock before it lets you in
inside of this folder is like a 2nd phone almost, I can hide apps in here or have different accounts on apps I've already installed. I have a separate discord and tumblr inside of my secure folder (which I moved this blog to recently)
there are similar third party apps, usually disguised as a calculator that you set a certain number or calculation as the password to unlock. that's a lot more inconspicuous if opened, but also more well known, and parents might be looking out for any suspicious calculator apps
also, be careful what 3rd party apps you download, especially when it's concerning things like your accounts and data! make sure you're downloading something safe and secure
this isn't foolproof, depending on how far your parents are going to track you. if they've installed anything or had you install anything on your phone or computer, or had the chance while you weren't there, be careful for spyware. some apps report how long you look at each app, or can record sound from your phone on demand
also important: a good VPN can secure what you're looking at from the router, which parents may be able to access information from, but this also isn't guaranteed to work if the parental controls are set to block VPNs
another one, if your parents are tracking your location but not your app usage: download a GPS spoofer. you don't necessarily need to root your phone for this, as long as it's supported in developer settings. a lot of them are branded as tools for pokemon go, which can be helpful for plausible deniability
parents reading this: these are things I've learned from constantly having my shit taken and looked through as a teen. you aren't protecting your kids, you're ruining any chance of them trusting you with anything. if something goes wrong, you're going to be the last person they tell, because someone who goes to these lengths to see any little thing isn't going to be chill when something actually bad happens if this is how you act when literally nothing is happening
hang on I’m trying to see something
don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name
i’m turning 20 in a few days and like ik it shouldn’t matter but it does suck to like have never experienced romantic love or lost my virginity yet, and like there’s nothing to really blame it on besides me being myself which is what rlly makes it feel shitty
there’s something about watching documentaries / youtube videos about space, the planets, and the cosmos that really gives you a kind of easy existential answer. it takes some reminding.
here we are living in the most miraculously beautiful planet in the solar system, literally in the perfect time, perfect space (perfect distance from the sun, the moon, etc.) and perfect conditions to be able to harbor life so diverse and colorful it’s seen no where else in the universe. like... i get it now. let me watch the sunset and pet my cat and take care of my loved ones and eat delicious food
just remembered this tweet again
love this piece by Javier Pérez titled ‘Carroña’. Ten stuffed crows carefully placed on a shattered red chandelier to look as if they were feasting on a dead animal.
This is at the Corning Museum of Glass right now and it’s so cool.
Holy shit! @elodieunderglass have you seen this?
Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.
tiny beaker and tiny erlenmeyer flask btw. if you even care.
wow I'm glad ppl love our tiny glassware...
here's a picture of our smallest (10mL) Erlenmeyer next to our largest (6000mL) Erlenmeyer! and a regular-sized (250 mL) Erlenmeyer at the end for scale
I can't remember if I ever actually posted about this, but...
Ever since Matt first described the Judicators and their masks, I immediately thought of the descriptions in Calamity about how the betrayer gods basically used up, corrupted, and disfigured their clerics as basically just belief-power batteries. I have to watch [Calamity] again for the actual description but I remember it being gnarly.
I just... have a gut feeling that's basically what the Judicators are. The weapon of the betrayer gods turned against them. That despicable method used in the name of good. Carefully guarded and limited, but not hidden or eradicated because it's too useful. Too powerful to just let die out.
I feel like... If anyone ever successfully removed one's mask... these respective followers of "good" and "evil" would be indistinguishable.
After seeing this post, I looked back at how the DMs talks about Judicators vs. the K'nauth (the Betrayer power-batteries) and.. you're 100% correct. They're exactly the same thing.
Brennan describes the K'nauth as people "so devoted to [a god] that it's not even worth magically dominating them or charming them anymore. They just let [the god] into their soul." (calamity e2)
Matt described Judicators (only on a nat 20 from Fearne, so this is pretty guarded information) as people who "volunteer themselves, giving everything to the cause, their individuality, their lives, to become a weapon for the Prime Deities." (c3e43)
Judicators and K'nauth both have physical deformities and share in the motif of destroying their faces. It's.. they're the same. The lines between Prime and Betrayer Gods just continue to get blurrier and blurrier..