I was told this week that (almost?) every Glass Animals song is an anecdote/fable. I’ve been intentionally not spoiling myself on what they are, but it’s been fascinating listening to the songs as they come up in my playlists and paying extra special care to interpret the lyrics!
Make corpse pretty/scientifically interesting by preserving it and removing the skin or whatever parts you want removed/preserved (500-1000 hours);
Corpse goes to the spa and has its moist squishy watery bits replaced with nail polish remover (No timeline given);
"FORCED IMPREGNATION” (Replace acetone with plastic; 2-5 weeks);
“OH GOD I NEED A MINUTE, THE BODY IS ACTUALLY STILL POSE-ABLE LIKE A GODDAMN BARBIE AT THIS POINT I NEED A MINUTE OH GOD–
Corpse goes through p… Posi…. Positioning (Weeks-months);
Corpse gets HARD;
"This whole process takes about a year to complete start to finish.”
Anonymous:
queer is literally a slur. like you’ve never been called that in a derogatory context like most lgbt people? you think your experiences escaping homophobia make it okay to justify the use of a homophobic slur?
it has also been used as a slur. there is no denying that. but using a word as a slur does not make it a slur. because before queer is a slur it is an identity. before it is derogatory it is a label. the use of queer as an identity is infinitely more important than the use of queer as a slur because the people who identify as queer are infinitely more important than the people who use queer as a slur.
say a lot of people decided they hated me. despised me. were disgusted by me to the point where my own name became a slur. would you tell me not to say it? would you tell me i could no longer be helena, and instead must come up with a euphemism for the name that belonged to me decades before it belonged in the mouths of bigots?
because that would make you an enabler.
you would tell me i can’t say my name anymore because some lowlife decided he could use it to insult me?
you would tell a gay man that he can’t be gay anymore because some teens in the early 2000’s started calling everything they didn’t like “gay”, and now he has to say “same sex oriented male identifying individual”?
does that enrage you? because it should. that’s exactly how you sound.
you are telling me i cannot use my label. you are telling me that when my great-uncle shouted until his face was red and he spat tobacco and the word queer at my feet, he was right. he was right to insult me, and i was wrong to say my name.
you are shitting on every single one of our predecessors. you are slandering every person who fought for their rights to exist and and be tolerated and be celebrated in their countries, every person who was lost to the aids epidemic, every person whose country criminalizes love and gender expression, every child whose parents abandoned them for straying from the norm, every person who was born and will die in the closet longing to be themselves. the queer umbrella is a safety net, a security blanket, the comfort of being known without being pressured to tell. it is near and dear and important as fuck to every member of the lgbt+ community and you are a blight upon the earth you walk.
how dare you speak upon my experiences with homophobia. how dare you disguise your own homophobia as activism. and how fucking dare you have the audacity to come to my blog and hide behind an anonymous ask and preach to me about how i’m oppressing myself. go look at the fucking wikipedia page for queer and read about how 1980s lgbt+ activists, especially lgbt+ people of color, fought to call themselves queer in a world that still hates peculiar things. and here you are forty years later spitting queer back at their feet.
i don’t give a fuck if people start using my name as a slur. my name is still helena. i will not change it. i chose it, i like it, and it belongs to me. it does not belong to bigots no matter how badly they want it. your discomfort with my identity is not my fucking problem.
i am helena. i am queer. die mad & go fuck yourself
it’s pride month babes reblog if you’re queer or if you like frogs
Next anon is going to tell fat people they aren’t allowed to call themselves fat don’t you know it’s a slur that thin people use against fat people.
genuinely as a fat queer person this is a good example. do you know how many times fat ppl are told by thin ppl they can’t/shouldn’t call themselves fat, like, oh, no, you’re PLUS SIZED you’re CUDDLY you’re FLUFFY, like, fam, it’s fat. I’m fat. It’s not my body’s fault that you decided a perfectly normal word was an insult. Frankly the way queer ppl and fat ppl have mobilized around their words can be compared as well, as well as the way ppl try to disarm them by giving them more “harmless” or “pleasant” epithets.
We take words they use to hurt us and we turn them into shields to defend ourselves.
“you some kind of queer?”
Yep. Next.
“you’re fat”
No shit, nothing get by you.
They can’t hurt us with words that belong to us.
I’m a simple bottle: I see someone fiercely and passionately defending Queer as an identity; I reblog.
…. You know what, I was going for a humorous post where I’d just drop sick rhymes or some shit and make it all purple because I was excited but for SOME REASON the
Beta Post Editor On Web
does this thing ONLY when I start writing a new post where it’ll ignore the first letter I type then insert it randomly in the text a few seconds later and it happened again up there and now that’s ALL I can fucking think about.
What a strange bug.
What even is style consistency? :’)
(I’m having fun with Art Fight this year. Go team Cyberpunk!)
Hey guys, wanted to shoot an announcement that I’ll be opening up sketch commissions through Ko-fi if anyone’s interested.
Medical bills have wiped my wallet clean, so as much as my work progress is slow at the moment, I’m hoping I can take some small stuff to fill the gaps.
They’ll be worked on between my other work, so it’ll be done slowly, but at the very least it’s just sketches.
I’ll also be aiming to add some misc doodles to my Ko-fi itself for folks who are kind enough to donate, give you a little something for your generosity. Gonna toss the same stuff towards my patreon as well for the same reason.
Thanks for all your continued support!
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