edgebugart: y’all, @dameron420 commissioned me

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y’all, @dameron420 commissioned me to draw Finn as an angel. i got paid to do this. i am actively living the dream :’D

thank you, marcus, this was so fun that i spent like 6 hours straight on it, i hope you love him as much as i loved working on him 💖

‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible

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‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Struggle For Autistic Women:

autisticadvocacy:

“In other words, autistic girls might seem better at communicating, but that’s not bleeding into their ability to function at home”

“Most people see me as lazy and gross. I’ve never liked myself much,” she says.

deathcarpets: deathcarpets: i’ve said it before

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i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again the secret heat of the mcelroy’s success is the escapist fantasy of a loving healthy family who likes talking to each other

inexplicable following of hordes of The Gays?? hmm i wonder why

this part of the mcelroys and their sheer… “all being cisgender heterosexuals” situation, has always been combination alluring and surreal to me. it’s like one long, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes comedic, sometimes unnerving sketch. on an intellectual level I know that they’re real humans and not cishet character archetypes, but on an emotional level I still see that they’re all married to women who took their collective last name and have biological children now and I’m just like. haha really going all in here huh? on this High Concept. on an emotional level I still see them juxtaposed with their wives as mannish men with womanish women and I’m like. you fucking live like this? absolutely incredible.

back to OP’s point more, it’s such an absolute mindwarp to hear someone talk to their family and it’s like. “oh… you would be friends if you weren’t related? you just… mesh well, as people. so having a positive relationship is natural for you, I guess?” I’m sure plenty of this is just that they’re all 30+ and live apart and probably try not to air any fraught intrafamilial emotional conflict to their audience, so an audience member would have a generally sunny view of their interactions. but I couldn’t keep that ruse up with my family with a budget fit for a Star Wars movie. having family members who share 1) interests 2) gender identity 3) apparently not having a slow-simmering active conflict around misunderstood neurodivergence, I guess 4) communication conventions sounds just too incredible to be true

to sum up, yeah, the idea of not experiencing a bone-deep alienation from your family is hog wild to me as well!

dirtmound: confession i truly do not understand the appeal of a fursona. im glad other people enjoy.

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confession

i truly do not understand the appeal of a fursona. im glad other people enjoy them but for myself i have no fucking clue what the point is

yourself but non-dysphoric

hailmaryfullofgrace55675: dirtmound: confession i truly do not understand the appeal of a fursona...

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dirtmound:

confession

i truly do not understand the appeal of a fursona. im glad other people enjoy them but for myself i have no fucking clue what the point is

yourself but non-dysphoric

in seriousness, they can serve a lot of purposes, but here are some:

1) a fantasy self that’s different enough from real world human you that you can trick yourself into letting you fantasize about being seen the way you want to be seen, having the kind of body you want to have, living the kind of life you want to live. e.g. if you’re a transmasc nonbinary person who’s usually seen as kind of a diminutive and incomprehensible twerp à la edward elric, but you feel pathetic fantasizing about being (seen as) like… a cool big strong human person with the kind of body you want, and anyway you know it could never happen and your only option is to accept that your body doesn’t determine your personality and accept your body for what it is and just deal with how people see you in the real world. well if that’s your situation, you could create a fursona that’s kind of like you and kind of like the stuff you feel embarrassed to admit you want to be, that’s maybe a bear or something. this can apply in non trans ways to non trans people, also.

2) to RP within the furry fandom, connect with other furries, and/or present yourself in furry social spaces

3) for fun character design practice

4) some people just think they look nice

5) sexy

hope this helps!

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theweegeemeister: When ‘we built this

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When ‘we built this city’ comes on the radio on a family car trip and you know everyone else in the car is just enjoying the song but your stuck in shittily drawn ms paint cow purgatory

the Ms paint cows are integral to my enjoyment of we built this city

[id: screencap from Keiynan Lonsdale (@KeiynanLonsdale) on...

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[id: screencap from Keiynan Lonsdale (@KeiynanLonsdale) on Twitter. text: 2017 brought me back to this kid. Be you in 2018 ❤️🔑 x

there are two accompanying pictures, one of keiynan lonsdale as a child, wearing a shiny purple wig and smiling at the camera, the other of lonsdale recently, with dyed purple hair, smiling again. /end id]

I know this is just part of the “talking to

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I know this is just part of the “talking to someone from a slightly different LGBT social scene than your own feels like talking to someone from another planet” problem but it’s really wild seeing people talk about how oh, everyone’s always talking about polyamory and how good and progressive polyamory is and processing their feelings about polyamorous relationships and isn’t it annoying over saturation. when the posts I consumed p much skipped straight from “rarely or insignificantly talking about polyamory” to “talking about polyamory semi-frequently but just to say it’s not more progressive than monogamy”