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yes I know it doesn't (even theologically!) work like this, but i've been captured (enraptured) by the mental image of Jesus ascending to heaven (this 4/20 easter sunday) while accidentally snagging his ankle spurs on Pope Francis' robes

Piggie disciples at the last supper

What is old is new again.

I wish all these bastards a very Trial at the Hague.

Imagine that hug from that one particular person. That hug that eases all the tension from your muscles, washes away the stress from your body, and gives you a sleepy warmth that lets you know you’re safe.

I am good. I am loved.

Wild concept that shouldn’t be wild and the coldest take ever: disabled adults are *adults* and not just children trapped in adult bodies

Disabled adults have sex

Disabled adults do drugs

Disabled adults curse

Disabled adults get piercings and tattoos

Disabled adults can make adult decisions and act and behave like adults because we are adults

It’s just so weird for people to constantly infantilize me all because of my mobility aids when I’m not a child!!!

I hate how, when legislation and technology become threats to the disabled community, especially the physically and severely disabled, abled people freak out about spillover happening to them.

And it's extra shitty that its usually other minorities who, as usual, don't so much as mention us

Elon's stupid brain chips were announced and the Internet went nuts with 'he's trying to cure autism and other neurodivergencies!'

Meanwhile, Musk's human guinea pigs were phtsically disabled people, paralysed people.

Trump was elected and I didn't hear a word about the fact that he legitimately thinks we should die.

And now the UK has green-lit euthanasia because a fragment of mostly abled people campaigned for it and I just saw a fucking post about 'oh no, they're going to start killing trans, Black and poor people now'

As though our government isn't actively targeting disabled people between this and their decimation of our benefits.

If you're on disability benefits, you can't have more than £6000 savings. Over that triggers them to look at your bank account and then start deducting a percentage of your benefits every £250

It's a good thing medical equipment is so cheap.

The only place I hear anything about disabled people is in disabled spaces, and for other minority communities who talk a big game about intersectionality, that's pretty fucking shit.

Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father on Father’s Day…his grave is annually shot by local police

I really do think he’s gonna declare martial law on Easter. Things are ramping up.

"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

I don't know how people came to think that "the banality of evil" means "evil people are people too".

That's also true but it's not what the banality of evil means.

The term was coined by Hannah Arendt in her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the "final solution" in the Holocaust.

It describes the way in which the Nazis at large and Eichmann in particular have turned the horrendous act of mass murder into just another job, disconnecting themselves morally and emotionally from their actions.

Before the death camps and gas chambers, Nazi soldiers simply shot Jews into mass graves by the hundreds of thousands. It was a lot cheaper and faster, but it caused great psychological distress for the murderers who pulled the trigger.

The leadership's solution was a massively upscaled version of the "gas vans" they used to mass murder hundreds of thousands of Germans with disabilities and mental health issues.

Shooting bound civilians in point blank range over and over is something you can't just pretend you're not doing or is no big deal. But if you're just the guy who sorts people into groups. Or just the guy that funnels them into a room. Or just the guy who opens a cannister on the roof. It's much easier to distance yourself from what you know is happening.

The same principle applies to much lesser evils, like soldiers operating drones from a distance, or insurance workers denying coverage for life-saving treatment.

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

Print design I was working on

Botanical [ 8 colors ]

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The Moon Dressed Like Saturn ©

When love finds you again, I wish for you that is kind, gentle, loving, peaceful and tranquil. May it make you smile again, laugh often, dance like no one’s watching, and support your true self without condition.

— Nikita Gill

Croissant manatee 🥐

did u go protest today

good evening officer

Spring moo-d! 🐮💐🍓

it genuinely makes me sad that “happy wife, happy life” is a phrase that means “I make my wife happy because if I don’t she’ll be annoying and fuck up my day” when it should mean “I keep my wife happy because seeing her smile genuinely makes my heart light up with mirth, I love hearing her joyful laugh, I love making her happy”

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 is a great resource.

All of these tools are currently freely accessible with an internet connection. Queer history is a community responsibility, do your part.

1950s Butch-Femme wedding, seen in Before Stonewall (1984)

(open pages for better image quality)

the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

flower meanings in order of appearance:

single femmes who stay inside all day and only go out to go to work, daydreaming about a butch just randomly bumping into them in the way the romantic movies do. i just want to let you know you are real, seen, and loved.