hey gang! it's a couple weeks before my next market and my start date at my new job got pushed back again so now is a great time to pick up a lil something in the shop... stickers and buttons all ship free in the continental us and you know I do custom work
happy pride help out your local queer cryptids if you can
I barely managed to claw back my table fee and it was a trillion degrees at the market so I have made zero progress towards being able to pay my rent this month if anyone would like to make a purchase or commission an art
Today I was helping run the booth for the local queer non-profit at the farmer's market and a woman told me that she would like a flag, pointing to our little bucket of flags. So I picked up the bucket and I brought it over and asked her which one she'd like.
"Well, tell me about them!"
"Oh! Okay! This one is the inclusion flag- its for everyone, including allies."
"What's this one?"
"That's the bisexual flag: it represents people who are attracted to two or more genders."
"Hmm... what about this one?"
"That's the nonbinary flag: it represents people whose gender isn't strictly 'male or female.'"
"Hmm... what's this purple one?"
"That's the asexual flag: it represents people who may not feel sexual attraction the way that others do."
She put her hand to her chest and got this really curious look on her face. "Tell me more about that!"
"Oh, happy to! So like if you're out with your bestie and someone real fine walks by and she's like 'omg look at him' and you're like 'girl get a grip?' Or like you just don't get what the 'big deal' is about sex or why everyone is so weird about it? But there's also room for like- you don't fall in love with the way someone looks, you're attracted to the person- their sense of humor and their kindness, or there's something about their personality that just makes it click for you? That's asexuality, too!"
And she got real quiet and seemed to think about it for a minute. So I grabbed our little informational sheet about different queer identities and handed her a copy. "If you want to do some research, this is probably a great place to start."
She thanked me and took an ace flag, stuck it in her hair.
Sometimes when you're online all the time, its easy to think that 'everyone knows about (topic), there's no reason to keep talking about it so much.' But while the people on the internet are real people, the internet ISN'T real life. And there are lots of people who do need to know that they do have community!
One of the jokes is that I'm a lot of people's 'patient zero' for discovering that they're queer. This is why.
I think you deserve better than the implications of "patient zero". How about "seed crystal", "catalyst", or "NPC who gives out quests"?
I like the idea that there's like... a question mark perpetually above my head indicating that 'this NPC has a gender and sexuality quest for you!" Like I show up on their little minimap and if you talk to me long enough a flag shows up in your inventory.
Omg it's a question mark that only queers can see!!!!!
Fucking hate ai bitches this shit is poisoning my search results just like that tumblr baby crow post fuck y'all for real
LITERALLY LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UPPPP. IS SHE NOT GOOD WNOUGH FOR YOU
The baby males will practice their tail display with little hatchling feathers! They also get 'top knots' which will develop into adult crests!
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what does 🙃 mean to you
I'm happy and goofy
I'm the maddest ive ever been
I'm so fucking sad
I'm putting on a brave face but it's hard
I'm so very confused
I'm horny beyond all belief
other answer, infinite nuance, I'm Bald (leave in tags)
I'm never sure what the intended message is when i recieve it so I tried to put the most common emoji meanings I've heard
Both parties are not the same. #VoteBlue
For those who don't vote for Biden, there will be no consequences...for them.
The people who know damn well the president and the party in power will affect them directly know damn well who to vote for.
We need to get the rest to understand that their choice, or inaction, will have a big effect on other people, people they purport to support.
sometimes I read a radioactively bad take and just sit there like "not only do you not understand this story but you fundamentally do not understand how stories work in general, and you have never considered that your discord with every piece of fiction you come across could possibly be a problem on your end"
Sometimes a family is a mad scientist, a science experiment who can travel between universes and move things with her mind, an MIT dropout con man who isn't supposed to exist, a junior FBI agent just trying to do her job, a cow, their boss, the alternate universe versions of most of the above, a biomechanical time traveling entity from the future, and Lincoln.