That One Asshole Cat (Bites)

grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

i hate art and being an artist and i'm stupid so this comic by buttpoems really speaks to me

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

I think I found the article!

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

It’s from the Old English word feng, which can mean “to take”, or also “to grasp, hold, or embrace”. So something that’s newfangled is something that was taken up recently.

The reason it’s using this pretty archaic root is that it’s an older word than a lot of people think. Here it is in the Canterbury Tales.

Minutes after posting: "Why did I write archaic when I could have gone with old-fangled?"

Reblog to fangle this post

One time I had a dream that I got shot in the arm and the pain was so vivid and intense it lasted well after the dream. I swore I could feel the spiral of the bullet ripping at my flesh and muscle. My first thought in the dream was "Wow, now I can finally write what getting shot feels like!"

So anyways, yeah I wanna see if that dream was right.

This opening fight is so fun. Every character has the showiest possible entrance. Lio doing whatever the hell that move is with the sword. Galo deciding "fuck it gonna just shoot this guy in the face". The blatant flirting.

it literally drives me insane that so many companies refuse to send rejection emails like it’s disgraceful tbh. you put so much time and effort into putting together an application and they can’t even be bothered tell you via some measly automated message that you didn’t get the job. you’re expected to just infer

Till death do us part? Yea no you’re not getting out of this that easily

artists, this is ur reminder to start drawing references or redesign your original characters before artfight in july this year

every time it comes up i see a wave of people rushing to update their references and it would avoid a lot of stress to start early!!

I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

an acquaintance told me i had the subtle guardedness of someone who “learned social skills the hard way” and i’d honestly have much preferred they took out a gun and shot me

the urge to make ocs of a god and their special little mortal (soldier? priest? jester?) so i can put them in situations (healthy relationship) (ritual sacrifice)

Not with that attitude

had to make the inverse situation of this. lets give it up for time blindness yayyy