Nurse Lofwyr

not gay as in happy, but queer as in i love you

i don’t mean this as a joke. i mean this as an expression of what queer means to me. this is the core of it: love, but radically. love, but in defiance. and i don’t mean “love is love” either; i mean love like militant solidarity between queer women and queer men and all other iterations and permutations of both and neither and something else. i mean love like trans self love. like decolonizing gender. i mean love like found families, like vows beyond and intentionally distinct from marriage. i mean love is a riot. i mean a love that transcends hunger. i mean love like disruption, like breaking concrete foundations like frost and thaw because to live otherwise is unthinkable or unlivable or simply and plainly unwanted

i mean queer like a shot-glass or a sledgehammer. something that shatters borders, that tears down walls and does not, cannot build them. i mean genderqueer queerplatonic we’re here we’re queer qpoc queer theory queer liberation queer Queer QUEER

i love this so much, this is fucking everything

Me, writing; how good is rat eyesight yes this is a vital plot point stfu

people will agree w posts about how we need to protect vulnerable people all day until they find out that it sometimes means they'll be mildly inconvenienced

this is about wearing masks to protect immunocompromised people by the way. if you don't wear one you are abandoning the vulnerable and risking other people's lives.

also, if you've stopped masking it's never too late to start again! it will make a difference, it will help others.

you cannot consider yourself a leftist or punk or whatever if you can't do the bare minimum for your disabled siblings and comrades

Wing Cocoon ✨

being a scavenger animal must be so fucking great. imagine if every time someone died a new restaurant opened up downtown.

[Image ID: A Waffle House signon top of a building. The sign is identical to the normal Waffle House sign, except that it's been edited to read "Whalefall House." End Image ID.]

we’re all boring to someone, annoying to someone, ugly to someone, but it’s not that deep

[Image ID: A picture of the tags on this post from @murderessdominatrix: #we are also fascinating to someone. exciting to someine [sic]. pretty to someone #its also not that deep #we are all just people trying our best End Image ID.]

she can’t help herself, Holga sees a halfling man who loves potatoes and she’s goin’ in for the kill

tbh hatewatching is such an alien concept to me, i can barely be bothered to watch the things i do want to watch why would i bother looking at something i know i won't like

I like the idea of Jurati's Borg becoming almost like a religious group within the Federation, where anyone can join, but there are different degrees of adherence. There are, like, the "Christmas and Easter" Borg who only just log into the collective a few times a year for the sense of community and the sense being in the presence of a higher power; there are the Borg who log in for a few hours each day; the more devout, who are permanently logged in but retain their individuality to varying degrees and bear varying degrees of cybernetic enhancement; and then there are the truly committed Borg, who are basically the equivalent of monks, who have allowed themselves to become full drones and live within the Hive and no longer exist as individuals in any capacity. And even though the new Collective's heart is basically in the right place, they're still considered kind of ominous, because converts *do* cease to exist as individual persons the more into it they go; and even though they're not going to force anyone to join and try to be as ethical as possible about recruitment (less missionary work and more just...opening up a door onto a bottomless black abyss and telling everyone that they can walk through it, if they want), it's an open philosophical question to what extent an individual can be said to be freely choosing to go deeper after they've already had experience of being part of a hive mind, if only briefly. And even though these Borg have abandoned their violent ways, they still very much *do* believe that their way of life is superior, that it is preferable to exist as a part of a collective than as an individual; and they very much *do* want you, personally and collectively, to join them.

I think that it would be an interesting development, given the Federation's overall attitude towards religion, and given the fact that the Borg basically offer a sort of secular, materialistic transcendence. Maybe you can't find God, but a single squirt of nanoprobes can allow you to experience consciousness on a level unimaginable to humanoid brains. I can definitely see why that would be alluring.

Smug about sticking to my guns against the 'prev tags' phenomenon now that tumblr's latest update has fucked up looking at a previous reblogger's tags.

For last month’s patreon challenge, I made some studies of underwater scenes. And everyone knows that underwater is the natural habitat of mermaids, so I had to add a mermaid to this study. You know, for accuracy!!

If you want to join this month’s challenge, I just posted it over on Patreon! You’ll get reference images, inspiration, and resources to help you on your way. Head on over to my patreon page and sign up to the flame tier to participate: https://www.patreon.com/loish

i wanna know what everyone’s majors are mutuals i want to know i love you and i’m interested

Another mermaid drawing, this one isn’t that small, it took me a while to finish this one hehe c:.

i know i went for the more obvious/Basic choices so please expound in the tags/replies!! if there's a story or reason to your choice, tell us more!!

i was always a triceratops fan. i think it had something to do with the land before time.

Quetzalcoatlus

So I put @regionalpancake's ship comparison chart in Photoshop

then I made the canvas the width in pixels that it would need to be to fit Red Dwarf (at 9,656 metres, or 33.5 Enterprises) on it

then I shrank the whole thing down to 1500px wide so it wouldn't break anyone's dash

she THICC

(naturally, Tumblr's tendency to resize images ruins the effect somewhat, but I think you get the general idea.)

Soulmates, but with the British meaning of “mate.” Two homies bound by a platonic string of fate.

Soulmates, but with the Australian meaning of "mate." Two people who are - depending on how you pronounce it - either best friends or about to punch each other out.

thinking about this older Black lesbian i met once (genuinely older, like, in her 50s), who said that while she's polyamorous she's not in a polycule, she's part of a galaxy. she explained that some people were planets, they were a big part of her life and very consistently present, others were comets, only in her life for a little while but enjoyably so, and others were moons, present, but not as present or consistent as others. and the way she talked about it and the smile on her face were both beautiful.

i just really love this idea. way too many polyamory set ups are like "this is my wife and my almost-wife", just echoing straight marriages with a small twist, and not only is this a model that breaks away from that, it also allows for like, the reality of how even the people who love you might not always be available, whether because of time or distance or disability, and that's okay. i think i might adopt this model, actually.

Sometimes I wonder whether those dudes who are like "semen and cerebrospinal fluid are the SAME THING and every time a woman has sex with a man she's STEALING HIS IQ POINTS" are sincere or whether they're just full-time RPing an extremely complicated bimbofication fetish, and I'm genuinely not sure which answer would be more concerning.

An gay men are just swapping back and forth a lone braincell, I guess

Cis gay polycule voluntarily transferring all of their collective brainjuice to one member so he can ace a job interview, but they overdo it and he starts seeing shrimp colours.

㋡🥀

I have logistic questions

Well, it's AI so hopefully that makes more sense. The chairs in the top pic have far too many and oddly placed legs, and the windows in the bottom pic have architecture that doesn't make a lick of sense--are they opened or closed?

Plus, a lot of the flowers are just blurry noise - especially if you look at the pink ones in the first picture.

And is that meant to be a fireplace or a TV in the bottom right of the second picture?

Poseidon

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