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[inceptionpositivity]

@kansouame - preciousest podficcing bean, despite their love of sin pizza

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[sleepingpatterns]

God, this book helped define me as a person.

I read this as I was just beginning to come to terms with myself as a lesbian. It is an emotional rollercoaster and if you decide to read this book, please know that it comes with all of the trigger warnings. I remember after I finished the last page, I just sat there. And then I probably had a good, cathartic cry. This book made me feel connected to AFAB queer people throughout history — for the very first time, I felt like I had been told an account of our history by one of us. Never had I felt more grounded in my understanding of my own queerness.

I would recommend this book to anyone, but especially anyone who is struggling with what it means to be queer.

The author, Leslie Feinberg, made it hir mission to have the book free and accessible to all, so you can download a PDF copy of it here. As a side note, I’m currently seeking the Chinese translation for a friend, so if you know where I might be able to track it down, that would be greatly appreciated!

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[cheeriosandwine]

Feast your eyes on this gorgeous art by @lonicera-caprifolium! I commissioned this and their work blew me away!

I wanted it to capture the feeling of Aziraphale and Crowley’s first morning waking up together, taking place after this fic (ns//fw link) that I wrote. But then Loni’s art inspired me to write a fluffy little epilogue scene from Crowley’s pov. I’ll reblog this with a link to it as soon as I have that fic up on Ao3.

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[dariabel-jew]

Soon 🥂

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[lewyn-martell]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

[zombeesknees]

#exquisite - this moment was EXQUISITE   #still riding the high from it years later

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[koo-core]

at this point it’s going to be 2040 and i will go on to the dream husbands tag and it’s going to be as active as it is now. The chokehold that this ship (from a movie that was made 11 years ago) has on society is insane. Scientists please make it make sense. i beg.

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[bvs-doj]

— Paul Verlaine, from “Sentimental Dialogue,” One Hundred and One Poems. tr. by Muriel Kittel

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[catchymemes]

“My mom painted this and said no one would like it. It’s her 2nd painting.”

“I painted somebody’s mom”

“Took a while and not perfect, but i painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom”

“I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guy’s mom who painted an egret”

“I painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the mom who painted a bird”

“When it sinks in that I stayed up most of the night to paint a meme for internet points…”

[yetimati]

…And nobody thought to post other “branchs” of this chain? Yes, it’s ‘branchS’, plural, because apparently we also have these:

Bit wonky, but I painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan.

Bit shitty, but I painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted the lady who painted the swan

I painted u/color_on_a_page who painted u/Shitty_WaterColour who painted the woman who painted the woman who painted the guy who painted someone’s mom who painted a swan

Oh well, here’s yet another layer

Another branch, starting from the girl with the white background:

Took an hour or so but I painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

I didn’t like how reddit treated the iPad guy so I painted the guy that painted the girl that who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom on my iPad.

Continue from OP’s branch:

I haven’t painted in two years and I’m glad for the inspiration!!

A painting of the guy who hasn’t painted in years painting the guy who painted the girl who painted the guy who painted the girl who painted the other girl who painted the guy who painted the other guys mom

Same ‘level’ as the one above:

Usually lurking but not today…plaid was a great challenge!

Continue! With a cat!

We painted the guy that painted the other guy who hadn’t painted in 2 years who painted the other guy who painted the girl that painted the guy who painted the girl that painted the guy that painted some guy’s mother who painted a swan whilst making them all an NPC in the process

Honorary mentioned:

Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep!!!

And finally, The Great Family Tree (some branch is not in the picture, pls click the link below for the full list:

This seems necessary…

https://nubleh.github.io/i_painted/

[sashaahoneycarter]

[the-songless-siren]

If tumblr reblog additions could be representation by hieroglyphics, this is it

[quadramatic-polyanimal]

@arbitreneart you need to see this!!!

[arbitreneart]

Aaaaaaa- just aaaaaaaaaa

This is wonderful!

[thatoneemobooknerd]

Don’t think I ever saw this finished before

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[edosianorchids901]

Mesopotamia Crowley! ❤️

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[zainclaw]

Inception  •  Arthur/Eames  •  Project Somnacin

Dream sharing was first utilized by the military to provide a realistic training method for soldiers, in Project Somnacin.

The army had changed Arthur, as it changed most young men. Eames can still remember Arthur’s boyish smile, how beautifully it lit up his face. The way it always reached his eyes, and how easily his dimples appeared. If Eames was to tell stories of that time, none of their colleagues would believe him. Most people in the industry didn’t meet Arthur until after, when that permanent frown had already materialized. Few had known him before.

They were the guinea pigs. The lab rats. They were exposed to new drugs and trauma barely tested before. There were deaths. Accidents. Suicides.

There’s only so many times you can kill someone, getting blood all over your hands, or watch your comrades die right before your eyes. There’s only so many times you can be tortured, having every bone in your body break, just to wake up, throat still raw from your screaming, and finding your body still intact. There’s only so many times you can hold the barrel of a gun to your temple and pull the trigger, before it starts fucking with your head.

Eames likes to think the military didn’t change him. But it did, of course. The only difference is he doesn’t let it show. He’s a master of disguises, of wearing faces. Even when he’s awake. And while he might be able to fool everyone else, he can’t fool Arthur. The two of them have known each other for too long, seen too much. They’ve wiped both blood and tears off each other’s faces too many times. There’s a familiarity between them that Eames knows he could never find with someone else. And he wouldn’t want to.