In celebration of Pride, I wanna make my first official coming out post on Tumblr (even though I'm out to all of my mutuals already and can't come out irl)
I am trans, non-binary, aro and ace, pronouns they/them, and mostly identify as queer (my favourite umbrella term)
I go by Cat publicly (if you know me under a different name, feel free to keep using it or to use Cat)
Anyways, happy pride everyone!
When cats lie on their backs and look at you upside down with their little vampire tooth sticking out reblog if you agree
"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
To wit:
I want to share some wisdom from my high school art teacher.
In my AP Art class, there was a girl who was just starting to experiment with mixed media. At this point she was still playing around, trying to decide what direction she wanted to go with her portfolio. So one critique day, she brought in an abstract canvas with some rhinestone highlights and painted and real peacock feathers. She loved sparkles and peacock feathers so she thought she’d try introducing them a *little*. And after everyone had given some input, the teacher gave her his advice, VERY roughly paraphrased here:
“So here’s the thing… I do not like this style. These are just elements that do not speak to me personally, but I see that you like them, and you’re doing interesting things with them.
“My biggest critique is, I only merely *dislike* this piece. I want you to make me HATE it. Go crazy with the things that you like. Don’t hold back trying to make it palatable to people like me. Because I am NEVER going to like it. And if the audience does not like it, it should drive them crazy seeing how much YOU love it.”
Her portfolio was chock full of neon colors and glitter and rhinestones and splashes of peacock feathers and it was a delight. Our teacher despised every piece lol, but she got great marks and I think even won some awards. And more importantly, she was happy and proud of the results. Because she didn’t limit herself by trying to appeal to people who were never going to enjoy what she enjoyed.
Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕
The vibe
if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality
the lush impenetrable jungles of massachusetts
Daily checklist of affirmations:
For a while now I've been wanting to try painting over the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Webb telescope.
When I was a kid I thought the earlier version looked like a bunch of dragons racing to the sky, and I think the new pic looks even more like it, so, here they are~
For reference, same crop of the photo down here:
i don’t know where the notion that if you don’t give big bucks to an artist then you’re not really supporting them came from, but when people say even a tiny bit of monetary support saves an artist, it’s not for the aesthetic or the gesture of it all. i’ve been able to have actual drinking water on days i’ve been incredibly broke simply because someone bought a brush pack for 2 euros. in the most actual, literal way i could possibly convey this: the SMALLEST amount counts. in practice counts. people-get-to-eat-today counts. especially in this age of everyone and their mother being out to deplatform artists. there’s value in the tiniest of ways
I've definitely made the jokes about black mirror being "technology bad!" in the past, but I do want to say that contrary to that, what I like about the show conceptually is that it's not actually about technology in and of itself, it's about social informatics.
it's about how already existing power structures, cultural practices, social dynamics, etc. interacts with technology. how these things influence what technology is produced, how it's produced, how it's distributed/accessed/coercively embedded in people's lives, what applications it's intended to have, what ways it can be used beyond that, how the existence of different technologies influences existing social/economic/political/relational dynamics and systems, and the impacts that this holistic interplay has on individual lives.
sometimes the writers do a better and more thoughtful job exploring and presenting this than other times, but the overall theme being social informatics is genuinely one that I appreciate in an anthology scifi series. I think it has potential as a conversation starter to discuss social informatics as it pertains to our actual lives. I could imagine a teacher using it to introduce these concepts to teenagers for example. Picking apart what feels bad and uncomfortable while watching, and why it feels bad, and what in your actual life it reminds you of, and what ways you are harmed and helped by that technology that's already embedded in your life, and the ways that the development/production/use of it might be materially impacting other people in a variety of ways.
not even fucking true its literally my bedtime
this philosophy shit is easy
tags from coloredcompulsion:
“Could you be the chosen one?”
“I am very much the guy who’s here.”
And if you're into women instead of men, I have some great news: the same technique applies for seducing autistic women!
You can in fact use this method to seduce autistic people of all genders!
Great news! This works for ADHD people as well!
a car goes full speed off a cliff and explodes at the bottom and when the smoke clears it's actually just perfectly parallel parked
a second car somewhere in the world perfectly parallel parks and when you think the car is finally aligned it spontaneously combusts and explodes
the law of equivalent exchange
being aware that your behavior is shaped by childhood experiences is so cringe every time i notice it im like ooo look at her can't even get over what someone told him when she was 7. grow up
snoopy of the day
I'll dance with you Snoopy!!!
snoopy of the day
I'll dance with you Snoopy!!!
Thank you for posting a pine cone for reference but I’d like to see what the bird looks like too, please.
