Yohoho and a bottle of gay pirates. My first double sided charms! When my partner suggested making these I jumped aboard fast. They did the sketch and color, I did the lineart.  Our Flag Means Death instantly became one of my favorite series. I really really hope we get to see more from its creative and fictional crews in the future! In the mean time, I’m really enjoying having fun with fan art!

Just restocked these! Also season two is on the way what a time to be alive

because fuck book bans (especially book bans that target fiction for teens), the brooklyn public library is opening up free membership nationwide to people ages 13-21. if you or someone you know wants to take advantage, now's the time!

📚 learn more about the BPL's "books unbanned" initiative here.

BOOKS UNBANNED

Free eCards from the Brooklyn Public Library for all people 13-21 years old.

Been working on a special project this week 😈😇📚 100% handmade from wood.

Designed as a bookshelf insert, but can also be used as a nightlight or stand-alone piece. It’s also a music box! 🎵🎶

I’m gonna be auctioning this on November 30 with all proceeds to the Club Q victims fund.

i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.

1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.

2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.

3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.

4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.

5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.

6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.

7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.

8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.

9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.

So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.

Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.

This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.

Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.

And their internet is in the process of being shut down right now.

(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/iran-blocks-capitals-internet-access-as-amini-protests-grow)

Reblog this and other voices from Iran. Help be their voices. They need us now.

sending love to trans dudes who can't/don't want to transition. love to trans dudes who don't want to wear binders, and to those who can't. love to those trans dudes who don't pass, and to those who don't actually care to pass. love to trans dudes who aren't all angles and androgynous looking. love to fat trans dudes. love to trans dudes who don't want to change their name, or who can't for whatever reasons. love to closet trans dudes. love to trans dudes of colour, trans dudes of any and all other minorities. love to all trans dudes, however you present, whoever you want to be, or whoever you can't be. love to all those trans dudes who can't be all look at me! and celebrate being trans! and just. yeah. so, so much love to all of those quiet trans dudes out there living their lives <333

It’s already August but the message still stands! Wishing everybody a safe and sunny remainder of Summer

and if you’re looking for a nonstrenuous activity during this heat wave…read Dudely Departed!