Retro city

Familiar faces

The fact that Nick can feel pain + the fact that he has to regularly have parts replaced when they’re damaged + the fact that he can’t sleep and isn’t affected by chems

has led me to some very upsetting realizations

OKAY Y’ALL I LISTENED TO DEATH SHROUD TODAY AND I ALSO IMMEDIATELY WROTE A SONG BASED OFF OF IT, SO I’M GONNA TRY AND GET THAT RECORDED AND OUT AS SOON AS I CAN BECAUSE MY BRAIN HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY THIS

mannequin grandpa💘

wanted to post today so have some Nick doodles i did on whiteboard and the other one with the wonderful people in the death shroud discord server :3

refusing to shut up about this. pls listen to death shroud

sum more things about the dating sim bc i see u pretty interested!!! i already have the chapter 0 all coded!! i just need to fix details and maybe i could release like a "beta" or something, but i still have a loong way to finish but i'm positive, besides it's just me alone. i'm already writing chapter 1 and 2, and figuring out interfaz thingzzz just to make it look nice

btw, i know the game it's in spanish (it's my first language duh), don't worry gringos bc it's going to be in english too, but my priority right now it's:

- sketch all the sprites

- paint bg

- script

- (TN) customization

cis ppl can have horns and swirls and spikes n shit surgically implanted under their skin any time they want if theyre rich enough but a trans woman wants boobs she has to wait at least 1-2 years for doctors to be convinced that she REALLY wants them

A cis woman who doesn’t have boobs or wants bigger ones can go and buy them any time if she has the money. A cis man with low testosterone can have T prescribed for him on the first doctor’s visit. Cis women take estrogen and progesterone routinely, for various reasons. A cis man with gynecomastia (breast growth) can have top surgery just because.

What I mean is it’s not just piercings and horns: Cis people can have actual gender-related medical interventions done any time, and they do have them, and it’s perfectly normal. But when trans people want the same interventions, often to literally save our lives, we have to wait years and jump through countless hoops to convince doctors that we really need it. The same things that cis people can have just like that.

this is an older post, but these procedures are excellent examples of gender affirming care for cis people. with the crack down of access to such care for trans people we are going to see the hypocrisy at a much larger scale OR we will see this card stripped from cis people as well and maybe more cishet people will begin to care?

reblog for a bigger sample size or whatever

I gotta start carrying some sugar cubes or a little tiny bottle of honey or something.

We were having tea outside and a yellow jacket came over and starting buzzing all over us. Since we had some honey, I put a little drop to one side and she just instantly chiller out. She did some little zoomies around the drop then settled in to have some, and popped by a few more times to grab more. Left my wife and I completely alone. I have never seen an insect go from investigation buzzing and circling to fully cool like that.

100% recommend this, don't forget bugs are friends.

I did not get pictures because when I peaked in on her she was startled and went buzzing in circles a minute so we let her in peace.

This does make me wonder, however, if you're just training them to return to the same spot for food - and what might happen if you don't have it.

As someone else mentioned in the notes and I've seen written up elsewhere, some hornets can learn to recognize individuals, so if we had been home and I were to bring out treats regularly it would potentially start seeing me as relatively safe to be around. Anecdotally, the upshot of this is less "harassed for treats" and more "left alone instead of constantly buzzed for investigation."

Also anecdotal, some people have reported this "non-threatening status" as passed down generationally for some wasps - potentially you could form a long term relationship with a wasp family something like can be done with corvids, the major difference being your benefit is not "friend who brings you presents and expresses empathy and concern for your specific well being" and more like funky little guys who control pest insects and aren't agitated when you are outside. Kind of like house centipedes except afik there's no hack for getting house centipedes to register you as non-threatening, some just seem to be chill around people.

But there are hundreds of breeds of wasps and such so you can't 100% generalize, even to types common across the USA. I tried the same thing with some kind of hornet nesting in our attic and had zero success. The good news is most of them usually just want to check you out and maybe have a sniff like very small, very startling dogs, and then fuck off to something more food oriented. The bad news is the fuckers still make me flich and freak out when they go NYOOOM past my head, and I'm constantly worried about them landing in my hair so this isn't me being some super chill wasp whisperer. I love em but they scare the crap outta me every time.

I forgot what I was saying. Anyway they probably won't come back just because one person fed them honey one time at one place.

Just a warning though: this might make them look to you as a gauge for who is a threat:

I had several wasp nests around the house this summer and gave them snacks/left them to their business. They never bothered me and would move out of my way if they were on the hand railings. They also left my spouse alone.

Then the neighbours had to have a tree removed. The wasps were chill as could be... until the workers fucked something up and I had to go tell them to fix their shit. The moment I walked out of that door in anger, the wasps hated that work crew. They went from annoyed, but tolerant to defensive and stingy in an instant.

So, yeah... you can make friends with wasps. Just, uh, be careful with that power. XD

I don't think this has ever been properly studied but someone really should because we know wasps can tell when you are agitated, we know they can get to know individual people, we know they share food with each other and we know when one wasp gets mad it sets the rest off.

So there isn't any literature on this but I think this completely checks out. You were an honorary wasp.

an actual world heritage post

My friend group use that last expression a lot as a reaction, but then somebody said we needed a reaction for the exact inverse of this feeling, and so i created

Unpenis.

I saw someone reblog this dismissing it as AI despite the fact they're 1 click away from a search engine. "Rosetta Nebula" is all you'd have to type. Perhaps the biggest travesty with ai images is going to be robbing people of their wonder for what's actually possible in the universe and continuing to shrink their bubble of understanding based on whether they believe it at a glance.

The image has been colorized differently above but the Rosetta Nebula is real and actually looks like that.

Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.

Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.

“suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer” - maus

the sequel we never heard about but desperately needed

one of the funniest thing that happens to me regularly is when i'm dressed The Way I Dress, esp in very short shorts or very audacious trousers, and straight women start giving me A Look that's meant to be like. a policing look between women, to show social disapproval

but then they look up at my face, realise i'm a man and NOT a woman, and you see them doing like. a double take, often with their jaws full on dropped

bc their intention was to do the crab bucket slutshaming thing at another woman and it doesn't apply to me... or does it?

bc sometimes they decide to go back to Plan A and do the slutshamey lipcurl of disgust (they've decided i count as a woman) and other times they sort of tut and avert their eyes entirely (they've decided i count as a homo)

and other times they just. stare. (forget to decide)

favourite reactions by bystanders to my general mode and manner of dress:

today's fit, for context

Byrne attack