Btw, you can donate to menstrual hygiene kits for Sudanese women, which I would highly recommend if you can
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/padsforpeace/
🇵🇸 Israelis threw a Palestinian boy in an oven during the ethnic clëansing of Palestinians in 1948.
Every accusation is a confession.
// well, I tried!
(based on this WIP)
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It is so rare, for a day of peace. So, so rare. For the Apollo cabin to be empty, for siblings to be busy, for the sun to be gentle and the birds to be sweet.
"Hey, Will."
So serene. Truly. Cecil lounging on Will's bed, remembering to have taken his shoes off for once. Quietly flipping through a comic book. Will, suffering but willingly, with his Calculus III textbook on the floor. Actually making progress this time, gunning through practice questions.
And Lou Ellen.
It always has to be one of them.
Lou Ellen watches, velvet skirts tucked under her crossed ankles, dark eyes squinting in contemplation.
Will barely looks up, scrawling something illegible over the most graphite-smudged paper maybe in the entire world.
"Yeah."
"Can we kiss for a little bit?"
That works. The slowly shifting sun through the dusty windows pauses. The chisme plants turn, slowly, shifting their stems to the center of the cabin. Will takes a full seventeen seconds to visibly separate from his textbook, process the question, and erupt into a shade of red previously unknown to man.
"Um," he says, or rather squeaks. "Yes?"
Cecil snorts, turning a page.
"Bicycle."
"Shut the fuck up, Cecil."
"Just like your father."
"Shut the fuck up, Cecil."
"I just want to try something," Lou Ellen soothes, potentially hearing the lack of breathing happening in Will's general direction. "Like, for science. That works for you, right, nerd?"
"Science generally begins with a hypothesis and due process," says Will weakly. But he dutifully crawls over to her direction, settling in front of her. "Um. Now?"
"Now would be great," Lou Ellen agrees. She tilts her head. "So do you just, like, go for it, or...?"
"I mean. In my experience?"
"Which is about to go from two to three," Cecil adds.
This time, Lou Ellen and Will are in perfect sync:
"Shut the fuck up, Cecil!"
Cecil flips another page and promises nothing.
The determination has slowed some of the blush in Will's face, containing it high in his cheeks. Or, well, spite. Cecil-branded fury. That does a whole lot of activating every modicum of ADHD impulsivity in Will's soul.
"Okay," he says, nodding to himself. He meets Lou Ellen's wide, round eyes. "Okay, so I'm gonna -- lean in. And we gotta close our eyes or it's weird. And then I'm gonna kiss you, okay? And you test."
Lou Ellen nods, serious. "Got it."
She breathes in, then out. She purses her lips, leaning forward. Her hands rest, fingers spread, on her knees. Her eyes flutter shut.
Will exhales. He squeezes his eyes shut.
He leans in, gently, and presses his lips to hers, resting a warm hand on the soft curve of her jaw.
"Hm," says Lou Ellen, as they separate. "Hm."
Will shifts nervously.
"You smell good," he offers. "And you taste like orange shampoo. In a good way."
Lou Ellen narrows her eyes at him. She reaches her hand out slowly, like how you may approach a startled horse, and grabs Will's chin with the tips of her fingers.
"Why," Will says.
"Hm," says Lou Ellen, again. She moves his face from side to side, inspecting. Will does not protest, but does choose to make an entirely unintelligible gesture with his hands. "You are hot, aren't you."
"Gah??" Will says. The confusions shifts rapidly from his face; his eyes widen, pupils narrowing, he tries and fails to pull slightly away and generally makes a collection of noises that boil down to hey, pardon. "I'm??"
Cecil choses this moment in time to tuck his comic carefully away, facing his friends in full. He also chooses to take this time to appraise Will's slightly squished face, nodding smugly.
"Yeah, he's a babe."
"Right, okay, that's what I thought. It's the bone structure, right, it totally --"
"Yeah, yeah, and the pouty lips, that definitely --"
"--you're so literally right --"
"You ever watched his shoulders?"
"They're biteable! Biteable, and when he plays volleyball it's like --"
"--yep. And his legs are approximately the length of the equator."
"Freckly, too, it's so --"
"His eyes??"
"I know??"
"Honestly wild."
They turn to him, twin dark brown eyes glowing amber in the sun, appraising him from his golden hair to his bare toes. Will, unfortunately, seems to be right on the urge of passing out, so red he has begun to glow, so warm Lou is forced to let go, and so lightheaded he has begun to sway.
"Hngg-what," he mumbles, eyes far away. "Wha -- I'm --"
Cecil pokes gently at him with his toe.
"I think we broke him," he observes.
"I see," Lou Ellen agrees, chin in her hands. "That's kinda cute, too."
"Oh yah. He's like -- he's never not a smokeshow, you know? Like he's hot when he's mad."
"Smoking."
"And the whole -- it's diabolical to say, but he's like..."
"Movie star pretty when he cries. Yeah, yeah, I hear you."
They turn to each other, lips pursed in thought. They turn back to their slightly dying friend.
"Hm," they say, together.
Will begins to pray. His father, intrigued, only shifts to better the lighting on Will's face. Will agonizes, shifting to pray to his aunt. This too proves useless.
"You know," says Lou Ellen. She taps her manicured finger against her cheek. "We could always share him."
Cecil raises his eyebrows. "We could?"
"Do I??" Will gestures wildly, face now glowing so brightly he is kind of hard to see. "Get a say??"
Cecil and Lou Ellen look at each other. They look back at Will.
"No."
"Nah."
"That's! I am -- taken, okay! I!"
Cecil snorts. "A long-standing crush on greasy Gerard Way does not count as --"
"It's not his fault he's greasy!"
Lou Ellen observes the boys. She hums to herself, rocking back on her knees.
"-- and he's hardly ever here, you met him like twice --"
"Four times! And he's charming!"
Hm indeed.
"I have an announcement to make," Lou Ellen announces.
Both boys stop immediately. Lou Ellen nods graciously, sitting regally on Will's bed. Will pouts a little, but says nothing.
"I am considering converting to lesbianism," she says solemnly. "I'm not sure yet, but I have been presented with a case and it is compelling."
Will and Cecil shrug, making noises of agreement.
"Yeah, fair."
"I mean, girls. I get you."
Will clears his throat. "But, uh. No boys? For sure?" His pout returns. It is indeed very cute. "Did I do a bad job?"
Lou Ellen reaches over and pats him very gently on the head. Her bangles get in his eyes a little. He blinks them away politely.
"Aw, no. You just seem very hung up, and I'm not sure how well dating Cecil would work, and no one else will talk to me yet."
"Dating me is an amazing experience, I have references," Cecil says, at the same time Will says, "Wait, still?"
There is a pause. Again, they speak at the same time:
"Stop using me as a reference, Cecil, gods."
"You want me to vandalize their possession for you, Lou? I would love to do that for you."
Lou Ellen moves to pat Cecil gently and condensendingly on the head.
"I'm good. Thanks, though. Chiron says they just need time. And perhaps an ass-kicking, if I feel so inclined."
"Sage."
"Good advice, that."
They all nod at each other. Wordlessly, they stand, returning to their earlier positions: Cecil, reclining on Will's bed, having abandoned the comic book for a nap; Will, poking at his math; and Lou Ellen, passing a green spark around her fingers and carefully Observing.
It takes her several minutes of reflection to blink and realise.
References.
Her eyes widen.
"Hey, wait a second --"
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the biggest tip i can say about trans inclusive language when discussing anatomy is to just say what you mean without trying to find a euphemism, and to be specific to the conversation that you're having. if you're having a conversation about childbirth, say "people who can give birth". not everyone who can give birth is a woman and not every woman can give birth (both trans and cis), so don't say "women" or "mothers" or "females", you don't even have to say like "womb haver" or whatever. "person who can give birth" is specific and clear if you're talking about childbirth.
if you're talking about penis and testes, just say that. "men" in that context is cis-centric. "amab genitals" means nothing, since trans women can have bottom surgery, and intersex people exist in all kinds of physical expressions of sex.
avoid sexualized terms like tits/boobs (use breasts) or dick, balls, etc. those terms take on a context that can make folks feel uncomfortable about their anatomy due to the sexual context. I feel uncomfortable when people try to be inclusive and say shit like "pussy haver" but if I'm reading a medical article about vaginas I'd much rather it be addressed to "people with vaginas" rather than "women"
the more we separate language of body parts from gender identities and actually start speaking frankly and respectfully about anatomy without acting like its some taboo, the better it will be for trans and intersex people. it can help cis people too. you can be a cis woman who doesn't have a womb, you can be a cis man who doesn't have penis or testes. imo this kind of language is inclusive not only for gender non-conforming people but everyone with a physical difference in their sex characteristics, due either to genetics or a lived experience!
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