One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.

The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.

“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”

The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”

“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.

I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.

He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”

“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”

A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.

I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.

So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….

“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.

Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.

The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.

So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)

But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.

“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”

fixing it for gege. 💔🩹

LEGEND tells of a LEGENDARY COWPOKE… whose sharpshootin’ skills were the stuff of LEGEND

Sorry for this one. I really am. I kept mixing up the furious five and the feisty five and then I thought about it for a little too long

(Please DO NOT repost my art to other sites :) )

GOOOOOOD MORNING I HAD TO PAINT THIS IMMEDIATELY

minho moments [44/∞]

geto canonically having big ass hands ……… nobody contact me

So I've had this wip sitting in my folders for months now and decided to ressurect it to satiate the urge to draw these two again

bbys first rain coders 👍🏼

so unlike yoda and obi-wan who both faded into the force and left no body behind, anakin left behind vader when he passed away, like luke struggled to move a very real, heavy, damaged body, and vader's corpse was a husk of a material form that carried all the scars of his life and his crimes. i honestly think that if luke hadn't forgiven anakin, and set him free by burning vader's body in a proper jedi funeral (whether he knew it or not), anakin might not have been released into the force to materialize as a ghost. i think he only got to be one because of the care of both luke and obi-wan, aka the son he never knew and the closest thing he had to a father, forming an inter-generational web of support and connection. the two of them both loved anakin so much that they helped him cross that final boundary into the force, whether he deserved it or not, that's not how love works. like fire purifies as it destroys, and luke's forgiveness and devotion with the pyre offered anakin the privilege of being made clean. as vader's armored body was transformed and consumed by the flames, the light of anakin's heart was liberated to shine out again into the force, and that light was the face that obi-wan greeted on the other side of death. so basically anakin couldn't have done it alone, not without the assistance both of the living and the dead, freely given, and sorely needed, and it makes seeing his relaxed, youthful face even more poignant. it's not only his own heart and effort that brought him there, but luke and obi-wan's too.

GOD OF WAR: RAGNARÖK Santa Monica Studio (2022)

father/daughter found family supremacy father/daughter found family supremacy father/daughter found family supremacy father/daughter--

[id: a colored, digital drawing of link and tetra from the wind waker. link carries a huge, leaking bag of rupees as he runs, eyes wide and nervous. he looks slightly bewildered. tetra runs alongside him, grin wide and looking a bit smug. they are both people of color and have curly hair. link is in his hero's set and tetra in her pirate's set. end id]

(trade w @islandlobster ) anyway i just think she'd be a bad influence

Cynthia & Lydia (Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies)

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

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— roland barthes