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mymahoushoujo:

egobus:

rad-les-veg-fem:

egobus:

character development 

nope that would be called successful female socialisation in a patriarchal society

Please do not use feminism to shame my interests.

I like pink and dresses and art and music and fashion. I also like blue and sports and comics and I choose not to wear makeup and have had short hair for the past five years. I am a person with feminine and masculine interests. I have not been socialized to be more feminine, I have adopted new interest, grown as a person and learned to embrace both my feminine and my masculine sides.

If you want to do a feminist reading on this silly ass comic about how I’ve changed over the past decade maybe you should look at why I actively avoided things typically viewed as “feminine”.

You’re not helping feminism by making me feel like I don’t have control over myself. You’re not helping feminism by shaming girls who consider themselves more feminine than masculine.

Thank you and goodbye.

ALSO I NEED TO ADD
I rejected femininity because of INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY. I thought girls were lesser and it was better to be a boy. I was one of those girls who said “I’M NOT LIKE OTHER GIRLS. I HATE GIRLIE THINGS. I LIKE VIDYA GAMES AND COMICS. GIRLS ARE CATTY I MAKE BETTER FRIENDS WITH BOYS”.

I was less a feminist when I rejected femininity. Now that I’ve actually LEARNED about feminism and social constructs and stuff I’ve come to realize that I love girlie things and I love boyish things. Saying that a femme girl is automatically socializing to patriarchal society is ignorant as all get out.

You’re not a feminist if you tell women how they can and can’t express themselves.*

* obvs if they’re doing something racist or bigoted that’s different.

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northswain:

meglish:

northswain:

Been itching to get back into art lately, so I decided to start small with a sprite edit. meglish and alexheberling I think are the only followers of mine who will know who she is, but this is Sailor Andromeda, my otaku senshi I created back when I was, what, fourteen? For the Senshi Exchange Club. Back in the day when cute graphic adoptables were a huge thing, it was a club based on online forums where we could all trade “dolls” of our senshi. BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF FANDOM. *waves cane*

Even though I created her half my life ago (…I’m old), I still really like the story I came up with for her and her teammates, so much so that I will occasionally revisit it. I think the last time ended up being so ambitious that I talked myself out of it before I began. Whoops?

OH OH OH OH! She’s so cute and this makes me SO HAPPY! I was totally in love with your characters, I do hope you revisit them again! :D

Resurrect Sailor Moon Fanseries 2k15, let’s GO!

EEEE, thank you, bb! :D I keep thinking about it. I might just have to do a short series to satisfy the itch.

AND THEN THE CROSSOVER WITH UNCIA AND COMPANY Y/Y

EEEEEE, I always loved your senshi team’s fuku design. :D

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fatshiononthecheap:

Last week was such an amazing week for me- I hope yours was as well! I went back home, cooked a delicious meal, ate way too much, celebrated my birthday and got to be with the people I love the most in the world. Now on to the outfit!!

Fat is not the worst thing a person can be.

I’ve got a growing collection of body acceptance pins and I decided to wear them all today. 

The Glorifying Obesity and All Bodies are from the lovely and amazing Kris, at Fat and Nerdy and I picked them up from her store here while she was having a sale for $2. I’m kicking myself now for not picking up more! 

Fat Life I got from wonderful Alex Herberling when I met her at Youmacon a few years back. I am not sure if she is still selling these, but her store is here.

(The bacon & egg pan charm is not part of it, that came from a charm bracelet a dear friend made me)

The Fight Physical Fitness pin is actually an old Topps pin from the Wise Guys collection that was made in the 60’s- I just found it last weekend at a trade show and the guy gave it to me for free because I was so tickled with it. I can’t find it for sale online at all.

Now as for the outfit- the leggings are from Rainbow this pair here, and Jesus wept, they are the softest thing I’ve ever worn in my entire life. On sale now, for $10 and they are having some really great sales going on- additional 50% off sale items and free shipping on all orders of $20 or more.

The sweater I got from Meijer, and they don’t sell online. :(

(Also apologies for the crummy full body shot, I took it with my phone and it didn’t turn out so I had to color correct in photoshop which is why it has that odd pink outline)

WOO! I just saw this post with my FAT LIFE button like a week ago! You look fabulous. :D

I think the whole ‘hatred of vegetarians’ thing might be a case of insecurity. This may be anecdotal evidence, but I sometimes feel defensive about not being a vegetarian because I feel really guilty about it and I know I shouldn’t be eating meat. I have to remind myself that it’s not fair to treat vegetarians like that. Some people clearly haven’t become self-aware enough to stop themselves from being condescending towards vegetarians.

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lindsayetumbls:

cythraul:

lindsayetumbls:

The insecurity train of thought is spot on, and honestly the reason I have zero sympathy towards it. 

“Well, why *do* I eat meat? Not really for health reasons, if I’m honest with myself, I guess it’s just because I’ve always done it and I like the taste of meat. Hmm. Well, I guess that makes me feel kind of bad about myself. I’m going to project this feeling of insecurity onto this vegetarian fellow in the form of a "joke,” and surely I will be the first person to do so. Insecurity resolved!“

If this is *not* your train of thought, then I guess you’re secure enough in your life choices to leave me alone in mine. Of course there’s always the less confrontational sister to this, the “why are you a vegetarian?” which also tends to carry microaggressive undertones in the assumption that one need a reason why in order to stray from this inevitable omnivorous default (the answer is, as I mentioned, none of your goddamn business.)

Thing is, why the hell should I bear the brunt of other people’s insecurity when it does have a negative effect on me? It pisses me off.

This idea that vegetarians all proselytize (and please, spare me your anecdotes about this one teenager you met this one time who called you a terrible person for eating a chicken leg) is largely not the case, yet we have to bear the brunt of other people’s insecurity all the goddamn time, fighting against this largely unfounded stereotype of the crunchy vegetarian bogeyman, and we must take it graciously or it’s another case of crazy vegetarian. 

At this point in my life, I’m sick of being cool about it. I don’t yell get angry, because often people who make shitty jokes are my friends, but I will call them out on it, and usually they stop. They don’t realize they’re projecting their insecurity, they don’t realize (or care) that they’re the nine millionth person to make that joke, they don’t consider that they are being patronizing, because, after all, it’s just “a joke.”

It also ties in to toxic masculinity. We’ve tossed Meat (capital M) into the same box with sports, physical strength, disrespect for women, guns, and big cars.

Vegetables in general, and vegetarianism in particular, ends up in the other box. The one with “CONTEMPT” neatly stenciled on the side.

I always kind of weenie out of pointing that out, but yes. This is absolutely, absolutely worth noting.

I started eating pescetarian almost a year ago, and I started calling these people “Meatsplainers.”

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beautifulbrienne:

Hey there! Are you a fan of Homestuck who wants to expand their horizons of webcomics? Or are you a comic book fan who is interested in reading some cool, free ones? Or are you already a big lover of webcomics who just wants to check out more cool webcomics?

Well this is the post for you!! He he…

Here I have a list of all the webcomics I read and that are still updating regularly. I highly recommend reading all of them and may or may not continue to add to this post as I discover more to read. Feel free to add link to other webcomics that I don’t have here, and I’ll be sure to check them out. Each one should have a link to the first page so you can get reading right away.

You may be saying, “wait! this is a huge ass list, how am I supposed to follow all of these comics??” Well, my friend, let me introduce you to RSS feed, which allows you to see when new pages get posted.

Okay, on with the list!

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Thanks for adding The Hues to this list! What lovely company to share, as well. :D

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airyairyquitecontrary:

trust:

eternal-sighs:

thingswhatareawesome:

mother-fucking-avengers:

cherizo:

growing up as a gifted and talented student made me ridiculously ashamed of being wrong. like being wrong about the littlest things makes me want to cry and hate myself and i turn back into the big baby i actually am.

FINALLY SOMEONE PUT THIS INTO WORDS FOR ME

#realizing and accepting that I am a fucking idiot after a childhood of thinking I was brilliant #has been a slow and painful journey

YES

Growing up as a gifted and talented student gave me expectations of success as an adult that really weren’t fair; I feel I was set up for disappointment.

Oh. Hi. Yeah, this happened to me too.