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sureinsunlight · 15 seconds
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i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.
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sureinsunlight · 2 minutes
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Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.
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REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.
We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.
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sureinsunlight · 2 minutes
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I had a tattoo client ask if I ever used AI to design tattoos for me. Man I spent the better part of a decade doing shitty bit work as a graphic designer and now that I have the space to do whatever I want, I'm gonna let the computer generate random garbage for me? What next should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?
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sureinsunlight · 3 minutes
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Nonbinary legit means outside established gender ideas yet you racist, transmisogynist, otherwise bioessentialist assholes keep bothering amab nb people because you think theyre too masc or whatever to be nb. Hey newsflash not all nb people are androgynous-femme white stick thin transmascs with undercuts
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sureinsunlight · 6 minutes
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Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS
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sureinsunlight · 9 minutes
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30 Antifa Actions
For our 4th anniversary in June 2018, we posted a different anti-fascist action every day, partly in response to the flood of questions we get from people that want to take antifa action but aren’t sure just what to do.  Each one was something we reported on at some point over the last four years and most of them are actions that anyone could pull off anywhere, no matter their age or (dis)abilities.  Here’s the full, linked list for handy reference: #1: Show ‘Em Where You Stand #2: Table Shows #3: Take The Streets Away From Fascists #4: Know Your History #5: Go Where They Go #6: Love Football, Hate Fascism #7: Declare An Anti-Fascist Zone #8: Welcome Refugees #9: Write Your Bulgarian Ambassador #10: Cancel Their Plans #11: Get Them Fired #12: Go On Patrol #13: Start ‘Em Young #14: Keep The Fash Off The Beach #15: Ride With Them #16: Put On A Dance Party #17: Know Their Signs #18: 100 Nazi Twitter Scalps #19: Start Training #20: Show Some Solidarity #21: Movie Night! #22: Expose ‘Em #23: Stop Deportations #24: Write To Antifa Prisoners #25: Raise Money For Antifa Causes #26: Keep Your Town Nice & Clean #27: Banner Drop #28: Start An Anti-Racist Neighbourhood Watch #29: Work On Yourself #30: Read And Share
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sureinsunlight · 17 minutes
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ponder ferret variant (feriant)
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sureinsunlight · 17 minutes
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She's getting cooked on twitter but she's entirely correct
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sureinsunlight · 18 minutes
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The Nisenan tribe in my local area has the opportunity to purchase 232 acres located on a historic Nisenan Village site called Yulića, but they have a limited time (until April 4, 2024) to raise the needed funds. You can learn more about the fundraiser and donate here.
Especially if you have ever enjoyed any of my writing, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Aren't Dead, it would mean the world to me if you'd consider donating what you're able.
I'm also happy to take commissions and donate the funds in full to the fundraiser or to write anyone who sends me proof of their donation oneshots upon request; dm me or send me an ask if you're interested!
Reblogs are appreciated to spread the word. Thank you <3
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sureinsunlight · 19 minutes
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Jon Stewart gets it right on Gaza. This is the reality. It doesn’t matter if Israel tells them beforehand that they’re going to drop bombs. The Gazans have literally no place to run.
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sureinsunlight · 19 minutes
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I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.
Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.
And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 
The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.
There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.
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Embroidery on random objects by: Severija Incirauskaite-Kriauneviciene
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sureinsunlight · 1 hour
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Hey: Does anybody have anything on who the author of this Onion article might be?
Chris Straub cites it as an important inspiration and it's had such an outsized influence on the past two decades of horror fiction and it ain't right for that contribution to go unacknowledged.
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sureinsunlight · 1 hour
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something ive noticed after being a hobby cosplayer for years is that in a lot of places the general consensus seems to be that wearing costumes in public is weird and/or socially unacceptable, but whenever I'm in costume in public while on the train to the con venue or having a photoshoot on location or something, people by and large fucking love my costume. they think it's so cool. kids think my costume rocks. their parents are impressed that I made it myself. random grandmas tell me my armor kicks ass. I was at a japanese garden once and barely got around to doing the photoshoot me and my homies came there to do because swathes of visitors who had never heard the word cosplay before were lining up to take a picture with me.
it's the same thing with adjacent hobbies like larp or reenactment or fursuiting, the general image of the hobby is that you're weird nerds (and probably also sex perverts) for playing dressup despite not being a child but when you're actually in costume the response from random normies is categorically positive. I inevitably get weird looks from the kind of people who think having a tattoo is an affront to god but they give me that look for just existing with blue hair and pronouns too and the people who actually talk to me always do because they wanted to tell me they love my costume. and the response that always gets me the most is when they say it looks fun but they would never dare to do the same. it's such a shame. why did wearing a silly little costume have to become an act of bravery.
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sureinsunlight · 9 hours
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made foolish katsu (katsu that looks dumb cuz ive never made it before and the bowl is too small)
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