and most importantly, stay safe out there and keep on surviving. we're in this together, no matter how much they try to pit us against each other.
Okay, so I try hard to cover global queer history, and this isn't marking a stop to that, but I am aware that most of my audience is American, and I want to address them very directly right now.
Google Removed Pride Month From Its Calendar App, and Stonewall National Monument's "LGBTQ" status was changed to "LGB" on the government website. This is the beginning of the erasure of queer history, not the end. I don't know what the future of the United States looks like, as someone who studies queer history and has done so for many years, I want to share some tools with you.
Now is a good time to prioritize local queer history, Making Gay History is a great project, so is the Digital Transgender Archive, but also check your city and see what resources there are.
Read and buy books about queer history. I have an affiliate list with some of the books I personally recommend.
If you use Google Calendar, repopulate that resource with so much queer history with a free queer history calendar plug-in, it has names from queer history that you can also learn more about for free when they come up. As the author of these articles, feel free to save them, print them off, whatever makes them freely accessible as suppression get's worse.
Use your local library. Email the board about book bans, request banned books, request queer books, and make your voice heard.
Make queer art. Share queer art. Protect queer art. Here is some public-domain queer art to use as you wish.
Keep up with queer news, THEM and Pink News are both great resources.
All of these tools are currently freely accessible with an internet connection. Queer history is a community responsibility, do your part.
suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’
round, skittering, and meaty, it can't get any better than this
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I tried drawing the inside of the cabin from slay the princess in cylindrical perspective. I did way too much hatching. I’ve learned my lesson, I won't do it again.
By the way, have I ever told you that I am good at perspective?
hey! i recently had top surgery (woohoo!), and i thought I'd write down what the whole process was like for me, from start to finish (aka 6 weeks later). i hope this helps anybody looking into top surgery or just looking for someone else's experience!
quick info:
i got ftm top surgery as a transmasc person on October 23rd, 2024. i got the double incision type, without nipple grafts, plus liposuction. my surgeon was Dr. Rukmini Rednam in Houston, Texas, USA.
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this link is to a Dropbox PDF. if for whatever reason you can't access it, I'll reblog this post soon with just the plain text from the file! there are no photos or anything in this file, and no graphic descriptions, just quick summaries and a general timeline.
i made a spiderman patch for my bag! i used a picture of him as a reference (I'm not sure if it's from the comics or fan-made). it's difficult to keep proportions accurate when embroidering, so the arm and hand on the first outline ended up being a bit wonky:
i later fixed it when i blocked in the colors, simplifying some of the lighting in the original image to make it more clear. the head slowly became more squished since the fabric kept warping, but not too badly:
then i added the web detailing to his suit, cut off the excess fabric, and attached it to the front pocket of my bag alongside my spiderman and deadpool pins:
i haven't done much digital art lately (even though it's my favorite medium!!) so here's a 3 hour doodle i drew on my phone
when I'm using my drawing tablet i use krita, but on my phone i use ibispaint. i recently learned there's a desktop version of ibispaint, so that's cool! i drew this much in the middle of the night and kept falling asleep mid drawing:
then this morning i went back and adjusted a few things and added the speech bubbles
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