It's T minus 2 days, and to mark the occasion I'm drawing a few melodramatic characters. Exhibit A: Julian Bashir (and Garak)

we absolutely did not appreciate Ursula Le Guin enough while she was around, y'all

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life

fictional con artist: I've gathered you all here because you each have unique skills and specialties that will be required for the Ultimate Heist: psychologically destroying the richest man in the world, and taking his mansions, his yacht, and his wife in the process.

real life con artist: plan A is to scare an old lady who barely speaks English. plan B, is to trick unemployed people into giving us money, which they famously have a lot of, in exchange for broadly-defined Career Services. plan C is we try to make NFTs a thing again

no one is talking abt the parody indie t4t joker movie that warner brothers went to court against and lost, it took like 4 years for a huge release like this you have to see it i liked it so much :'(

This is expected, being human.

Fanart of Julien, Adeline, Henri, and one of their kitties from "The Need To Live," a game made in part by my oldest friend Chrysu! Part of the 2024 Queer Vampire Game Jam, it's a great game with appealing characters, fantastic art, 6 dramatic endings, and flawless coding💻 Check it out!

amok time

The Little Mermaid

Artist : Zdenka Kerjčová

Just had a dream that a novel exists which is written from the POV of an old man dying in the 1920s in the form of diary entries and bit by bit it's revealed it's actually a closeted trans woman who was out during her youth and forced to recloset and now I desperately want to read it

The narrator was like, referring to a girl called Sarah in all the writings, and at the start it's super unclear who Sarah actually is and it's speculated by the people around that she may be a lover from the narrator's youth, until it's noted that Sarah had heterochromia and that's the defining trait of the narrator

Oh also Sarah did actually have a lover. They were T4T and lived in a little cottage by a lake until he was drowned in it and Sarah couldn't make ends meet anymore and had to recloset

Okay a bunch of people have told me to write the thing now so I've decided if this post gets 30K I'm turning the thing into an epistolary novel.

Here:)

Consider: you are talking to a friend who is a cisgender man, and he says or does something which you think implies either gender dysphoria or a desired gender euphoria.

Please check out the full series please, it's for data (x x x x x x x)

49,830 votes later...

0. Demographics

The numbers are going to be doubly skewed by sampling bias. The polls came from my blog (a trans woman) and this poll in particular gaining 35% of the overall votes. So, bear this in mind when looking at any of this. It's heuristical analysis.

1. Exploratory analysis

The polls were run to investigate the stigma against ""egg cracking""; encouraging people to transition into trans women. This was done with sixteen polls which are identical other than four binary variables being changed:

The overall result is 69% (nice) of responses are in favour of suggesting an identity to a friend, shown here broken down into the four slices.

While gender is fairly even, there is a stark contrast with each of the other factors. Members of an identity find it far more acceptable to suggest a friend shares their identity, and suggesting a change in sexuality is far more acceptable than a change in gender.

2. Regression Analysis

Using the data, it is possible to calculate a linear regression model to find an expected result for each poll based on the results of the other fifteen. Any residual differences between the observed and expected results are down to additional factors (and errors).

Three outliers stand out on each end.

The data is limited, but it definitely seems that for whatever reason (we can only speculate) queer men are far more reluctant to suggest a friend shares their identity than queer women are. And also, trans women love to crack eggs even if everyone else doesn't for whatever reason (transmisogyny).

i don’t know how to tell people that deriving pleasure - sexual pleasure included! - from art* is good actually, and that creating specific kind of art “just” because you find it hot or whatever is just as good a reason as any, and you don’t actually need some “deep and meaningful” reason to create art about things. pleasure - sexual pleasure included - is not the devil, it is not Bad and shameful, and it’s not any less valid of a reason to create something than because you want to, idk, explore the depths of the human consciousness or something

* art here includes writing

i’m glad this post resonated with people because i lost a years-long mutual over it when i made it lmao

I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

#whats arbitration someone help me

Bad news, @noodelzmop. Arbitration basically means that if you want to sue Discord for whatever reason, the dispute needs to be handled in house. Specifically, in their house. If you don't get this email out, you're basically signing away your right to legal recourse if they do criminally shitty stuff to you, like with the McDonalds app.

I have been told that emailing "I am confirming that as of the date of this email, I am choosing to opt out of binding arbitration to settle disputes with Discord." With the Email you used for your discord account is enough for the notice but take this with a grain of salt as this was not said by a lawyer

reiterating that this only applies to US users

THIRTY DAY LIMIT BTW. I suggest taking sixty seconds to fire off a quick email with op’s recommended text. I have no plans to sue discord but better safe than sorry

reblog to boost because of course discord would put in a time limit, those absolute snakes

for anyone interested, here is the full text of the arbitration section from their website as of April 17th, 2024:

The Chickadees chose to nest here again ❤️

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

A man once asked me … how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. “Well,” said the man, “I shouldn’t have expected a woman (meaning me) to have been able to make it so convincing.” I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.

— Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society