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[memento-morianon]

(image description: a digital painting in shades of red and orange, depicting a humanoid man covered in soft feathers. Below his feet, the name "Morianon" is written. He has large striped wings and a matching tail, with two long curling feathers extending from his tail and a tall feather fan standing over his head. He is posing as if he just finished a dance and is waiting for applause. end description.)

Usually his front feathers are light blue and his back feathers are dark green, but I was doing a little color palette challenge so now here he is in orange monochrome instead lol. Morianon, my protagonist. This is a nude portrait, but he's so feathery I don't think it matters.

Being a tropical bird, Morianon grows this fancy courting plumage for half the year, corresponding with summer time where he currently lives. Two long feathers on his tail, and a soft gold fan of feathers on his back that he can raise up for display. He also has an instinctive urge to dance when the courting season hormones hit. His wife Evarin enjoys watching him dance.

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[memento-morianon]

Life and Death: Origins. A short story setting up some important lore for the world within Memento Mori.

Dark

Silent

Cold

Hot

Chaotic

Bright

Abyssal void gave way to rumbling fire, stone and metal crashing together in a cacophony so great it sent ripples through the emptiness. It would have deafened any creature that heard it. 

If any creature yet existed to hear it. 

But there were none.

Burning heat and bright light bathed the rocky sphere as it traveled through the abyss, circling a fiery mass at a distance. The perfect distance, in fact. This fiery mass was a sun, this rocky sphere a planet. Molten stone and metal continually broke the surface, building up the lumpy uneven surface. Minuscule particles were drawn in by the gravity of it, surrounding it in gasses that mixed and condensed. Air. Water. Steam hissed into existence, erosion began its steady work. Stone, fire, water, mud, steam. Sky. Ocean. Earth.

It emerged almost by accident. In the rumbling and bubbling and hissing chaos of the planet, already so old but still so new, the sounds of Life were imperceptible. Tiny. Insignificant. It was practically formless, nothing but microscopic blobs floating in the water. Life did not yet comprehend itself, only vaguely aware that it existed. It shifted and changed, it remade itself continually. Tiny. Insignificant. No. 

Thriving. Everywhere. Changing the atmosphere and the very world around it. 

Life was excited. It danced in the primal ocean, testing new forms, new skills, new strategies. 

Life didn’t know any better.

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[patricia-taxxon]

to cis artists, yr allowed to draw trans characters to be clockable, in fact i encourage it. it's not politically incorrect or offensive to depict trans people as being obviously trans, especially if you're drawing cartoons. its not a stereotype a lot of us just look like that

[patricia-taxxon]

i mean, i know a lot of trans people disagree, but eventually every ally has gotta bite the bullet & use their judgement to decide what's best for the group they're allied with. literally just give her stubble, it's quick, it's easy and it's free.

[patricia-taxxon]

coding is neutral, it's just aesthetic, framing is what actually matters. no one's out here calling ms frizzle an antisemetic caricature. its not racist that u can tell the one car in Cars that sells gas is black. when cartoons show a man in a dress & treat the contrast between makeup and body hair as being self evidently funny, that's transphobia. but that doesnt mean its bad to have a big hairy man wear makeup in your illustrated works, thats just normal hot guy behavior

[delusion-of-negation]

my opinion as always is that there are two important things we'll regularly leave out of the conversation- everybody fixates on the simple look of a character (ie curves on a trans guy), but what is actually important is variety and characterisation. so, you might think "ugh another show about gay people where their arc is the bigotry they face", the issue isn't "depicting what we often really experience is bad", as some people frame it, the issue is the lack generally of variety. when a character wears a dress as a joke, it's framed as a simple aesthetic issue of the show, but it's really the inadequate characterisation to show this is a guy who likes to be dressing in a gender non-comforming way, and whether or not it results in judgement from others- heck, in school guys often did wear dresses as a joke on non-uniform days (I'm not american, it normally is a thing in my country that schools have uniforms), so having a guy wear one as a joke is possible, the world just needs variety in reasons and characters that carry those reasons in the shows, where you can tell the intent isn't to mock trans/gnc folk. going back to op's example, we need trans characters who don't actually pass, but we need variety and characters that work with however they look- guys with curves who aren't being made the simple butt of the joke, but rather are just a guy with curves, and both trans and cis guys like that (I know cis guys with hourglass figures pretty much). like op said, the aesthetics aren't bad, they simply are badly executed a lot of the time. I'm a hairy person in makeup, and it has been a relief meeting people in hospital who actually don't treat that as weird and funny, but just "dude, your eyeshadow is so well blended" and that's it, and it'd be nice if we could see that energy in tv shows more. sorry to ramble btw op.

[dasha-aibo]

OP, I'm a trans woman and seeing clockable trans women in media gives me dysphoria

This is not a joke, I'm not exaggerating, I literally turn off what I'm watching

What now?

[patricia-taxxon]

I'm sorry but your dysphoria isn't anyone else's problem. if someone else "gives you dysphoria" thats your cross to bear & not on them.

[patricia-taxxon]

hi :3 the goal of trans liberation is not & will never be getting every trans person to pass. i'm autistic, i had a good ass chance to figure out that i was trans early in life considering my older sibling was trans & i had ample opportunity to learn what that meant, its just that i have a hard time identifying my emotions in the best of circumstances & don't put much stake in how i'm perceived anyways. i take hormones to feel internally in balance with myself, but i didn't voice train, i don't wear women's clothes, i don't feel the need to shave regularly, i haven't been gendered correctly by a stranger yet & that's fine. i no longer feel like i went through the wrong puberty, so to speak, i'm just having a 2nd one now. we'll always exist, representation isn't just for you. we're not just fighting for trans youth, we're fighting for trans adults too.

and like, cis people are allowed to draw what literally exists in reality & always will. like yea they should consult a sensitivity reader but like, if your sensitivity reader tells you to make a character less visibly trans on the basis that its offensive to trans people who want to be invisible then i will veto that sensitivity reader lol

[strawberry-crocodile]

i'm a trans woman and i love clocky women as long as she's like. respected by the narrative as a woman.

[winking-widow]

“Representation isn’t just for you” say that louder for people in the back.

Trans people come in all sorts of variety, and so do nonbinary people and gender nonconforming people. If you as a trans person see another person who is trans/nonbinary/gnc and feel dysphoric, maybe you need to confront that feeling and ask yourself why someone else being happy in their gender presentation makes you uncomfortable. Second hand dysphoria sounds a bit like internalized transphobia tbh.

And as long as it’s being done well, I don’t see why there should be a problem with fictional characters being depicted as trans/nonbinary/gnc and sometimes having it be more visually obvious. Someone somewhere feels represented by that. Aren’t their experiences important too?

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[cryptarts]

ARE CHOCOLATE MILK AND HOT CHOCOLATE THE SAME THING BUT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES

YES (the correct answer)

No (the wrong answer)

what the fuck are you on about

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[elfwreck]

There are multiple drinks called "hot chocolate" and that has to be sorted out before answering.

US version of "hot chocolate" in packets: "powdered milk + chocolate powder + whothefuckknows sugars and preservatives and anti-caking elements etc" that you add to hot water. (Or hot milk, if you can heat up milk without scalding it or turning it boiling. If you wanted to to the hassle of heating up milk, get some damn cocoa powder and make the good kind; the packets are for people (like me) who are too lazy to go to the effort of dealing with hot milk.)

European "drinking chocolate" which is basically liquid chocolate, generally served in cups slightly larger than a thimble, and is basically melted chocolate, thinned a little with milk or cream.

Neither of those is anything like "chocolate milk." But there's a third kind.

"Proper" hot hot cocoa, sometimes also called hot chocolate - made with cocoa powder, sugar, and milk (and possibly a touch of vanilla, and other spices to taste - cinnamon is a common addition) - is arguably similar to "milk chocolate" but if you heat up milk chocolate you won't get something that tastes like the recipe on the Hershey's Cocoa Powder box.

Chocolate milk is "Milk with chocolate syrup added." It rarely has extra sugar. It generally has some additives to prevent the chocolate from solidifying when it gets cold. (I have no idea what happens to hot cocoa when it gets cold; we never let it sit that long.)

It has (1) less chocolate than hot cocoa; (2) different nutritional benefits (hot cocoa generally has more B12 and Magnesium), and
(3) a very different mouthfeel.

Heating up chocolate milk will not get you the drink commonly known as "hot cocoa." Chilling hot cocoa will not get you "chocolate milk."

[winking-widow]

my mom makes proper hot cocoa sometimes and then leaves it in a pitcher in the fridge to be reheated later. you can drink it cold! but it absolutely does not taste the same as chocolate milk, despite both it and chocolate milk being milk with chocolate in it. the basic concept is the same but they are not the same drink!

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[alanabloommd]

since we are talking about people who deserve a higher salary i think teachers should be making six figures a year btw. if state superintendents who have never set foot in a classroom can make that much so should the teachers. teachers are quite literally the backbone of our society and if teachers were actually properly compensated we wouldn’t have a shortage or bad teachers who are continually burnout because of a lack of proper compensation.

[winking-widow]

My dad is a middle school band teacher with a master’s degree and national board certification and his teacher’s union fought so hard and he participated in teacher strikes and now he makes 100k a year.

Always support your teacher’s unions.

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[memento-morianon]

Welcome to my side blog, I intend to post details about my ocs and the story I'm writing here. This includes sketchbook art! I'm going to use a custom tag system to keep things organized, which I will explain under the cut.

Summary of the project: Memento Mori is a fantasy trilogy about Morianon and his wife Evarin. He is a Quetzalin, a humanoid people species with many bird like features including large wings and a tail. Evarin is a gnome, a very small mountain dwelling cousin of orcs. She is also trans.

Morianon enjoys dancing, loves his adoptive family, and he has made a career in archaeology. Though he was born in a tropical rainforest, childhood tragedies lead to his adoption by a mostly-elf family far north of his birth country. The childhood tragedies also gave him DID. By the start of the story, he is 30 years old and five years married, planning for parenthood. But his life is not so simple as that, because there are lingering questions and concerns he needs to find answers for. Things he would rather not think about, and which he keeps secret even from his wife. He knows Death very personally, and it just can't seem to leave him alone.

Evarin is also 30 years old. She loves her husband very much. He won't tell her what he's struggling with, but she knows there is something he won't tell her. Something that seems to be eating him alive, even as he puts on a brave face about it. Outside of that, Evarin is still dealing with so many other things. Smaller things, sure, but they do weigh on her. She assists her mother, a local doctor. She is relearning her father's art of weaving, which she loved as a child but left by the wayside as a teenager struggling with her gender identity. A struggle she finds herself coming back to now and again, much to her frustration. Between her ongoing gender questions, her responsibilities within her family and community, and her concerns for her husband, Evarin is struggling more than she lets on.

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[winking-widow]

There’s not much here yet! But I’ve decided I want to post more about my writing projects.

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[copperbadge]

Ah, guys, just to be clear, I realize most of you probably know this but I’m seeing it framed….weirdly, so – 

Tumblr is not $30M in debt. You can’t get Tumblr out of the red by giving them $30M. I mean you can, for a bit, but Tumblr is operating at a $30M deficit. That means yearly, Tumblr is spending $30M more than it earns. 

None of this is to say we can’t have a Crab Day and try to get that $30M covered, sounds like fun! But that just means Tumblr breaks even for the current fiscal year. Tumblr has investors that want profits (or, well, I guess it’s Automattic’s investors, but regardless they want profit), so in order for it to continue operation, it has to either become Genuinely Profitable Very Quickly, or it has to do a fundraising round of some kind and get even more investors on board, which is really just kicking the problem down the road a year or two. 

And either way, the extremely slick and semi-alarming pitch Tumblr is making about all the changes it’s going to make to increase engagement and such is still going to be necessary, because that’s where the money is, unfortunately. I don’t like it either (my favorite bullet point from that pitch is that they will email people who have their notifications turned off, because sure, that sounds like it won’t annoy anyone who like me was already overly inclined to be annoyed) but like. Baby needs a new pair of shoelaces.

None of this is to be alarmist or anything, I just got a bit worried about all this talk of $30M in debt, because this is not a one-time deal. 

[im-phoenix-black]

I mean… AO3 and Wikipedia do well with a yearly fundraiser. Do we like this site enough to participate and make a yearly fundraiser to keep it going?

[copperbadge]

Well, bear in mind Wikipedia also has grant funding, and AO3′s yearly fundraiser, with a passionate user base, usually raises between three and five hundred thousand dollars. I didn’t really want to get into it but raising ten million in $3 purchases is, uh, highly unlikely, let alone thirty million. It’d have to be the equivalent of 100 AO3 fundraisers all happening at once. The company I work for, a nonprofit, brings in about $10-$11M per year and the VAST majority of that is not individual donations, it’s a combination of corporate grants, family foundations, and a handful of extremely wealthy donors giving $50K+ on a yearly basis. 

I still – even with that taken into account and even with the awareness that the original organizer is a creepy evangelical transphobe – think it’s kind of a fun idea to do Crab Day. And even if it only raises a few thousand or hundred thousand dollars, it would be something Tumblr’s staff could point to and say, “Look, our users are really passionate about the site as is, so think hard about whether you want to lose them when you implement changes.”  

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[videodrome-fag]

Sorry this is from the Annoying app but I do enjoy I can do cool time lapse things of my crochet

The pattern for this is out now on my Etsy btw if you wanna make yourself one

She's also available via Hobbii which gives 100% to designers so that's another swag option :^) it's also where i get all my yarn for my parasols, srsly cannot recommend Sultan enough

Another edit: I’ve made a Patreon if you want to support my designing endeavors. I have a lot of complicated clothing I want to grade the patterns for but it’s a lot of work so I needed some way to financially justify that. So yeah, if you like my work and want to chuck $3-$5 at my face every month to support it, that’s where you can do that

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[painsandconfusion]

Alright.

You ready for a hard 'tag your oc' challenge?

Tag an oc who doesn't have childhood trauma. At all. Who's family is still alive.

I'll wait.

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[cullenvhenan]

if you’re a white creator and your brown/black characters are always sassy, reckless, aggressive or cold and your white characters are always soft, demure, shy and introverted you should think about maybe why you did that

[bogbodybutter]

[guulabjamuns]

sorry to hijack your post, but imo this also applies to colourism dynamics, even if you have a full cast of colour. like i can only confidently speak from the south asian context, but RAMPANT colourism in the community has given rise to and perpetuated these same stereotypes of people with darker skin being more aggressive and sexually promiscuous than the “reserved, civilised” light skins. 

[thisismisogynoir]

This applies to your wlw and mlm ships as well. If the lighter or white one is always sweeter, nicer, softer, more innocent, or more feminine and the darker or poc one is always meaner, louder, more aggressive, more sexual, or more masculine then you’ve got a problem sweetie and that’s racism. 

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