I don't even get news I like or terribly much engagement so I do wonder what I'm doing here on bsky. The staff is evil, the infighting is ridiculous, and every artist I follow has a Tumblr or an FA. What am I doing here man?
Okay I'm getting a little fucking tired of people acting like not drawing Post GRS trans folks is a red flag.
I no personal problem with GRS and support it fully, and a key character of mine is post op, even if most are pre op.
But You Need To Remember Something.
GRS used to be mandatory for us.
Okay I'm getting a little fucking tired of people acting like not drawing Post GRS trans folks is a red flag.
I no personal problem with GRS and support it fully, and a key character of mine is post op, even if most are pre op.
But You Need To Remember Something.
GRS used to be mandatory for us.
If this is what makes you hate me btw, good. Because I'm not even your target. One of the most important people in my fucking stories is post op.
But if you hate me for reminding you what we fucking fought for then fuck straight off.
Okay I'm getting a little fucking tired of people acting like not drawing Post GRS trans folks is a red flag.
I no personal problem with GRS and support it fully, and a key character of mine is post op, even if most are pre op.
But You Need To Remember Something.
GRS used to be mandatory for us.
I do not like artists that refuse to draw trans folks. You want what I see as a red flag? Doing commissions for a decade and not ONE of them is trans. Cast aspersions on that!
Not the tranny celebrating her cock or his pussy, fuck you, we FOUGHT for that right!
I LOST MY HOME FOR IT.
Let people draw what they want. Do not red flag FUCKING TRANS PEOPLE for drawing their fucking experience. Red flag cis people who refuse to acknowledge us, Gods damn!
We have bigger fish to fry than
OTHER.
FUCKING.
TRANS PEOPLE.
Fuck.
Okay I'm getting a little fucking tired of people acting like not drawing Post GRS trans folks is a red flag.
I no personal problem with GRS and support it fully, and a key character of mine is post op, even if most are pre op.
But You Need To Remember Something.
GRS used to be mandatory for us.
Because it used. To be. Fucking. Mandatory. I can't believe I have to say this. So much pushback against us is BECAUSE we fought for the right to not need surgery to e recognized as trans women or trans men! Because that was fucking important! It IS fucking important!
Stop! Gods damn!
Please remember that broadly, *we are still fucking fighting!*
Do not cast aspersions on people who don't have post-op characters, if they fucking have trans characters at all. This level of infighting is fucking ridiculous.
We have to stop turning inwards like this!
Okay I'm getting a little fucking tired of people acting like not drawing Post GRS trans folks is a red flag.
I no personal problem with GRS and support it fully, and a key character of mine is post op, even if most are pre op.
But You Need To Remember Something.
GRS used to be mandatory for us.
For a really long fucking time GRS was literally legally required. The fact that it isn't now is progress. Thing is, it's still required in many many many parts of the world.
It is often used as a tool of oppression and rejection of autonomy.
It doesn't have to be!!! It doesn't!
But it has been!
My continued having a penis is resistance at the most fundamental level. I embrace it because I, personally, love it. It does not give me dysphoria because it is what I want, *and I'm lucky.*
But be fucking careful assigning morality to people who mainly draw non-op trans folks.
hey, my beloved, Bela, needs help with saving up so she could leave a toxic housing situation and eventually see me. she is a trans woman who works really hard on both her art and providing as much as she can! any help is appreciated
ko-fi.com/belamopdog
hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.
The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco.
www.koat.com/article/chac...
gonna make a dedicated post for it later but hustling on a dry socket is fucking hard & i got a giant pile of bills i'm behind on and live with two other talented, ambitious, broke, and underemployed trans people. halp
hi hi! i am lottie lovely / frog k, disabled trans woman poster and author. on top of other issues, i'm imminently getting one or more teeth yanked. please help me afford to eat better while i'm off chewing food this week.
ko-fi.com/frogk (paypal redirect)
cash.app/$asimplefrog
ty <3
Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations
• Water usage will be limited
• AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy
• AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission
• Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
I hate to ask. I truly believed i could make it work without needing to ask, but im At -$216 in the bank trying to make it work
Past due bills
Electricity, in internet, on credit card payments
Need help
oil change/gas for my car, cat food and litter, groceries, medications costs.
I have a power bill to pay by Wednesday that will only leave me a few hundred dollars for the rest of the month. Nana is still short about 200-300 for her bills.
Depressed as fuck i need to keep asking but this month has seen very little coming in, and the job hunt has been fruitless so far.
I'm sorry to ask again, halfway through the month and still scraping to get enough to cover Nana's bills, let alone my own.
Please help if you can or repost if you can't.
If you're interested in a shawl or a scarf handmade by a great grandmother, can do that, too.
gofund.me/501e19002
I'm so glad furries young and old have grown up mentally beyond "Everyone is 20 forever" syndrome and have learned that eye bags, huskier voices, wisdom and experience, and more rugged bodies are *really sexy,* actually.
Give that 40 year old (wo)man a facial. The last two weren't enough.
No holds barred? Okay.
I think furries need to tell more stories with their characters, but simultaneously, need to consume more than pop media, because let me tell you.
Nine times out of ten, Furry Sci-fi is complete dogwater because we're married to 2000s space Tom Clancy military scifi.
Stop turning your fursonas into biological terminators or space black ops / secret police in a highly militarized space society (Mass Effect) because all you read or interact with is Military Sci-fi! Gods, ape a little Star Trek or Battlestar for once and follow and regular ass people.
(Yes, I know Battlestar is floaty that way, but its character writing and drama, even for the more outlandish characters or deifically predestined or guided characters are still generally *people* first.)
If you HAVE to write military sci-fi, just stop writing oorahslop! I'm begging you..!
No holds barred? Okay.
I think furries need to tell more stories with their characters, but simultaneously, need to consume more than pop media, because let me tell you.
Nine times out of ten, Furry Sci-fi is complete dogwater because we're married to 2000s space Tom Clancy military scifi.
Predetermining the entire fucking course of human history to lead to fucking master chief for some stupid ass reason. Who greenlit that fucking scene man?
Further that genetically modified supersoldiers were literally man's only hope and this is always justified by John-117 succeeding.
Genuinely: There's a eugy bent to Halo. Halo is only at its best when it's outright saying the Spartan program was wrong, or is focusing on Thel and his people's story about reclaiming their autonomy.
Guess what parts of Halo people aren't cribbing!? It's just to supersoldier milslop shit.
No holds barred? Okay.
I think furries need to tell more stories with their characters, but simultaneously, need to consume more than pop media, because let me tell you.
Nine times out of ten, Furry Sci-fi is complete dogwater because we're married to 2000s space Tom Clancy military scifi.
And if it's not space tom clancy it's garden variety cyberpunk.
I need us to stop thinking Mass Effect and Halo are aspirationally written worlds and settings.
Like, guys, I love Halo but I need you to know how pro eugenics it is at its core, reinforced by the books and in the most fucking outrageous move, Halo 4, *ontologically*. You could argue about the Spartan Program's ethics, but you cannot divorce everything from APPARENTLY the fucking Librarian>
The furry community is really bad about promoting furry media that's actually made BY FURRIES and will instead exclusively promote childrens media that happens to have anthro characters
There's furry books, comics, there used to be conlang projects
Support your fellow artist if you want furry art
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow.
Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
You need to go read Tinderkell.
This stuff is masterfully written and set up.
Tindercrew has my undying respect and continues as an inspiration.
I've told folks to read it before but I am stressing it to you right now: Read Tinderkell and come along for the ride.
It is so Gods Damned Good.