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radellama · 18 days

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Omg, what was your dream? If you're interested in sharing it :0 I keep my own dream journal so it's interesting to hear other people's dreams.

Haha glad to share! This dream was back in 2018 and it was when I had a quick nap while I was house sitting with a friend. As soon as I woke up I quickly drew the main visual of the dream because it left such a distinct feeling in me and I was shaking when I woke up haha.

It was more of a nightmare than a dream, as I had a really strong sense of dread and there was something about the atmosphere of that dream that was so.... Thick?

I was walking on the beach right where the water was coming in, so it was lapping at my ankles every other step and my feet were soaked. I had the distinct feeling that something was behind me, but I didn't know what, and couldn't see because it was so dark. All I had was a flashlight, but it barely lit up the ground in front of me, and I was almost better off not using it. When I look up, I see a bunch of lines against a red sky- which I assumed to be very straight trees in a forest. I looked back, cause the slight change in the wind felt like breathing on my neck, but nothing is there, just the waves at my feet. When I turn back around and keep going forward, there's a white bar in the sky between the lines. Something about that white bar felt like hope, the first time, at least. I started running towards it but I fell, and turned around to check for injury. Every time I turned around or tried to run, more white bars would fill in the sky, and instead of hope, it was pure dread. I was terrified, something felt so wrong, I couldn't do anything without more white bars appearing between the lines and it started to feel like they'd get me or something lol. I also noticed that no matter how far I ran, the bars and lines were fixed in the sky, like a skybox in a video game. Perpetually out of reach...

I woke up in a cold sweat and was still shaky from the fear, but I fucking loved that visual so much and described it to my friend as I drew. It gave me the same chills you usually look for when you're playing a scary game, and I'd love to somehow use this concept in a story/game, but who knows.

Your masking tape art was so pretty and reminded me of the ominous white bars from my dream... Except yours are the NICE version haha, mine were evil :P

#rads asks #ultra phthalo #it was such a striking dream and it felt so distinct cause i usually dream in more narrative vignette.. esp after studying film lol #when i was really little (like toddler age) I'd dream in colours and textures but i haven't really had dreams that vivid since i grew up #once i started reading it was more stories and memories and imagination based dreams yknow..#so to have a dream that felt much more about the visual was so exciting even tho it was scary in the moment and i woke up with dead #pretty sure as soon as i woke up i went to my friend like 'dude. i just had the sickest nightmare i wish it were real'#HHGFDDDFGGHJ #it was a really fun dream and was so nice to be reminded with your pretty masking tape art!!

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radsbackup · 10 months

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I watched this earlier today and wanted you to see it

Sorry it doesn't seem like a link or video came through 😭

#rads asks #future dregs

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i-eat-deodorant · 8 months

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About the recent art of lamb pulling on narinder’s tongue: why did I see Lamb’s cloak as legs (like a lamb-spider abomination) and why did I not even question it

((To be clear I loved the art but I haven’t actually played the game myself so I just assumed that was some endgame abomination lamb turns into))

The fleece is just a plain old woven thing, but that doesn't mean they're incapable of it.

#narinder #cotl lamb #my shit #my asks #thank you for the compliment + ask!#honestly wish lamb had some body horror in-game that sounds rad as hell #also sorry surf i'm working on your ask slowly #tw bugs #cw bugs

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radfemfox5 · 9 months

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Hi there - I'm trans and Jewish and I'd like to share my perspective on the "trans genocide" thing. I don't think we're experiencing active genocide in the US; that's definitely an extreme and offensive statement to make regarding what's happening. However, I do think that the increasing legislation attacking trans rights and autonomy as well as an increasingly polarized public view of trans people points to the potential for a worse situation that moves closer to genocide.

Now, personally, I live in a state where no laws limiting trans rights have passed. I was able to legally begin my medical transition when I was 15, I've never experienced transphobic violence, and the majority of people around me are supportive of my transition. My experience is similar to most other trans people in my area, with varying degrees of familial support.

But nation wide, we have seen an increase of trans people being murdered, and a massive increase in anti-trans legislation. This legislation aims to strip trans people of their autonomy and privacy. It seeks to put trans children in danger, remove information about what it is to be trans or queer from children's access, and enforce archaic ideas about what it means to be a man or woman.

Most of this is happening because right wing politicians can capitalize on moral outrage and fear to win votes. They're scapegoating trans people instead of trying to improve the lives of their constituents. This is kind of politician's thing, so it's not surprising in any way. However, when those policies successfully do win these politicians support, they'll have to make them more extreme. They'll want to make it illegal to exist as a trans person in public.

Now I'm not saying that that's genocide. I think we're an awfully long way off from trans people being mass arrested for being trans, and then murdered by the state. But we are in a rising climate of fear, and I don't think the trans people calling this the seventh stage of genocide are doing so out of bad faith. I think they're doing that because they are terrified of having their right to take life-saving medication, or have protection in the workplace, or be able to use a bathroom, or have children, or wear what they want to wear taken away. And they're terrified of those things because the bills on the table in states across the country put those rights in jeopardy. And if calling this a genocide makes people pay attention? I'm not super mad about it.

Hi, thank you for sharing your perspective on this. I appreciate it.

Your fear is primarily based on sensationalist headlines and interpretations of the law that are unfounded. I can assure you, you are not even in the early stages of a genocide.

But nation wide, we have seen an increase of trans people being murdered

In 2021, the Human Rights Campaign recorded 50 deaths of trans, nonbinary and GNC people.

In 2022, the HRC recorded 38 deaths (source). So. If we take these numbers at face value, that's a decrease of nearly 25% in one year, in a growing section of the population.

Taking these numbers and the size of the transgender population in the US (1.6 million), in 2021, trans people had a death rate of 3.1/100k, and in 2022, this dropped to 2.4. Again, the numbers provided by the HRC include nonbinary and GNC people, and accidental deaths.

Some of these aren't even murders or intentional homicides. They just say they were killed. I wouldn't consider these numbers reliable whatsoever, but they're the only estimate we have for now. There are so few trans deaths that they can fit on a single Wikipedia page, along with a little blurb about their life and who they were. It would be impossible to do something similar with victims of femicide, since there are too many to count. This page lists victims of femicide, only in Canada, only in 2022, and it is nearly as long as the Wikipedia page I listed above.

This is a perfect segue to my next point, which is to compare trans genocide to femicide, which is actually real. Women are killed so often that the UN has to categorize female murder victims as either killings (unnatural deaths), intentional homicides or gender-related killings (hate crimes, therefore considered in femicide statistics).

The intentional homicide rate for female victims in the US is 2.9/100k (data from 2021), and it is steadily increasing after having been on the decline since the mid-90s.

That only includes the pink and red circles shown in the UN's chart, not accidental deaths or unknown deaths like the HRC includes in their counts. Some countries have as many as 10.6/100k women die a year.

TL;DR: The murder rate for trans people in the US is not increasing, it is decreasing. This isn't indicative of a trans genocide in the slightest.

But nation wide, we have seen [...] a massive increase in anti-trans legislation.

As I was saying earlier, this idea stems from sensationalist headlines. It's concerning to me how widespread the misinformation about anti trans legislation really is, when house bills are publicly available online. You can literally do a quick Google search and find that most of these bills are nothing burgers.

Unfortunately, it's easier for you to just go on a website like translegislation.com and have them tell you what these bills say. I'll do some of the work for you and go through how these sites lie to you.

Alabama imposing criminal penalties on providers of trans healthcare? Sounds scary. Let's see what the source they linked, the HRC, has to say.

Ah. So it's specifically regarding transgender youth. As in, minors. This is after going through an insanely long title detailing how bad the bill is. The trans legislation tracker essentially lies by omission, implying that all trans healthcare is being criminalized.

Going to the bill in question, AL SB184, we can see that it actually acknowledges the existence of dysphoria in children.

However, they also acknowledge that this feeling may be fleeting, and that making permanent changes to a child's body solely on account of the child's personal sense of identity is unwise.

I won't go through every single bill here, as this post is already very long, but you get the idea. Feel free to send another ask if you would like me to look at specific bills.

Back to your ask: the way you speak of these bills shows that you've never read them for yourself or know how legislation works, since you're acting like it's the beginning of Armageddon.

This legislation aims to strip trans people of their autonomy and privacy. It seeks to put trans children in danger, remove information about what it is to be trans or queer from children's access, and enforce archaic ideas about what it means to be a man or woman.

I'm assuming by autonomy and privacy, you mean the choice to undergo medical transition and the bathroom/locker room/women's sports issue respectively.

Bills limiting "gender-affirming" care are focused on children, since puberty blockers like Lupron are now known to have very negative and permanent effects. The bills don't ban adults from choosing to take HRT. It's extremely profitable for doctors to continue to prescribe HRT and for surgeons to continue to recommend expensive plastic surgeries. Legislation won't go that route unless there's a massive shift in public perception.

The "Save Women's Sports Act" literally just limits participation in women's school sports to females only. That's it. The trans legislation tracker even acknowledges this.

Most of these bills are copy pasted from eachother, which is why they're all dubbed as "Save Women's Sports." Here's a snippet from HB61 in Ohio:

If someone's sex is brought into question, a simple blood test is all that's needed. Contrary to what the media may have led you to believe, there are no forcible genital inspections. No trans person is being forced to undress for this. Only 6 trans "girls" are affected by this in Ohio, out of 400k total athletes in girl's sports. So I'm not sure why this feels like a precursor to genocide to you.

remove information about what it is to be trans or queer from children's access,

Personally, I don't think children should be aware that medical transition is even a remote possibility unless they are in extreme psychological distress related to their sex. Even then, therapy is usually the best solution. I don't think the "Gender Unicorn," a surprisingly complex graphic created in part by an alleged violent rapist and groomer, should be used in classrooms to teach children about gender ideology. Gender ideology should be taught to college students who are better equipped to form their own opinion, not children who barely know how to read.

There are better, more useful things to push in our education curriculum, like compulsory comprehensive sex ed. That way, young men don't learn about sex through violent pornography, and young girls don't accidentally get pregnant without knowing what it means. This would also be a good time to teach them about sexual orientation. Leaving it up to the parents or focusing on abstinence evidently doesn't work.

enforce archaic ideas about what it means to be a man or woman.

The lack of self-awareness here is pretty astounding. The trans movement actively enforces these archaic ideas of gender by telling tomboys that they might actually be a boy. This implies that femininity is what makes womanhood, which is objectively untrue.

By telling masculine women that they are men and feminine men that they are women, you're literally enforcing the gender roles you say you're destroying.

They'll want to make it illegal to exist as a trans person in public.

You can speculate about this all you want, but you can't see laws limiting child transition and keeping sports sex-segregated as writing on the wall. We're not even close to that.

Now I'm not saying that that's genocide. I think we're an awfully long way off from trans people being mass arrested for being trans, and then murdered by the state.

I'm glad to hear you are moderately sane.

But we are in a rising climate of fear,

Your phrasing reminds me of US politics in the wake of 9/11. When people act out of fear, decisions are made in haste, and wars are started over made-up WMDs. Being fearful clouds your judgement.

Look around you. You're safe and accepted. The trans flag is flown almost everywhere in June. A trans woman won the NCAA National Champion title just last year. For International Women's Day, multiple companies featured trans women. Time Magazine featured many trans women as Women of the Year. Language is now inclusive, so women don't actually exist anymore. We're just uterus havers. This is all to cater to trans people.

Yeah. It's getting to be a bit much, isn't it? Don't you expect the least bit of pushback, especially from women? We aren't living in fear of some invisible boogeyman. We are angry at how rapidly our hard work has been undone.

We're pissed that after decades of feminist progress, we've regressed to being considered non-men once again.

and I don't think the trans people calling this the seventh stage of genocide are doing so out of bad faith. I think they're doing that because they are terrified of having their right to take life-saving medication, or have protection in the workplace, or be able to use a bathroom, or have children, or wear what they want to wear taken away.

Puberty blockers and HRT do not save lives. They actually haven't been proven to have a substantial enough effect on mental health to consider them an adequate treatment for gender dysphoria.

2. Trans people have the same basic human rights as any other human being.

3. Many places are adding gender-neutral bathrooms in order to accommodate the growing trans population. No one is checking your genitals at the door of a bathroom, no one cares that much. I care about girls being assaulted at school by boys in skirts and the school boards covering it up in the name of trans acceptance (x).

4. Trans people remove their own ability to have children by going on puberty blockers, HRT and even eventually physically castrating themselves. If you mean the ability to adopt or foster children, I don't know. Gay and lesbian couples still have a hard time adopting to this day, so progress can be made in that department.

To conclude this hodgepodge of various facts, screenshots and links, I'll leave you with this:

I fundamentally disagree with you that crying "genocide" is in any way helpful for your community. It's not. Most of Western society might have forgotten what genocide looks like or doesn't even know what the word means anymore, but you should know better as a Jew.

The attention trans people get from saying that they're going through a genocide is overwhelmingly negative from people on both ends of the political spectrum at this point. People are annoyed at trans people for making shit up, which ruins your movement's credibility.

When you have to lie to get someone's attention, you've already lost.

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trans-androgyne · 3 months

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“AFAB solidarity is terf shit.”

This is why we lost roe vs wade. Cis women and transmascs have abortion and ten other material issues in common. It is a class conflict. Denying the existence of the class hurts our fight.

“This is why we lost roe v. wade” 💀 As if transmascs had any input on that.

“AFAB” is hardly a class. You don’t know anything about someone AFAB except that they were assigned female at birth. You don’t know if they’re perisex, if they have a uterus or ovaries or even a vagina, you don’t know if they menstruate or are capable of giving birth, and you don’t know what their biological sex or chromosomes are. Literally just saw a TERF minutes ago posting about “TRAs” denying AFAB solidarity, and I’ve exclusively seen it in tandem with the transphobic idea of “AMAB supremacy,” so I’m very confident in my assertion it’s a TERF talking point intended to connect people AFAB with womanhood and against trans women.

#I’m all for reproductive justice but this is so not it #te/rfism #rad/feminism tag #transmisogyny #transmisogyny tw #transandrophobia #transphobia #intracommunity issues tag #ask

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weaselishmcdiesel · 1 year

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have you ever considered mumbo with sleeve tattoos. i think about it sometimes

im considering. how fricken cool it would be seeing his tattoos for the first time since he maybe seems like the kinda guy too scared of the pain but oohh my gooddd that would be so hot

(I AM. REALLY NOT GOOD WITH DESIGNING PATTERNS SO JUST. IMAGINE A BETTER TATTOO DESIGN THAN MINE I WONT BE UPSET)

#my ass gotta make it about grumbo sorry #hello tumblr user mcyt hello hello ^^#I'M TAKING A WHILE TO GET TO SOME ASKS BECAUSE I WANT TO DRAW FOR THEM WOOCH IM LOOKING DIRECTLY AT THE THING YOU SENT #THANK YOU I SEE IT I JUST HAVE LIKE NO TIME TO DRAW FOR MYSELF #OK THANKS GOODBYE #mumbo #hc #art #my art #weasel speaks #asks!#sigh. i forgot to tag it hermitshipping. it isnt REALLY. i mean. anyone would get flustered seeing someones rad tattoos for the first time #sighhhhhh #hermitshipping

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hktextposts · 26 days

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Could you elaborate on your tag here? I'm really curious what ya meant by it, ignore this if you don't feel like bothering, i just love hearing people's thoughts about the funny bug game 👍🏿

Sure! I've joked in the past that this game's story is so huge, it's a stretch to imagine all of it was intentional. I believe that for the most part? The fans created a majority of the lore. Not like they made it up, but rather put all the disparate pieces together into a coherent story. This image is my favorite example

#ask #My favorite example is whatever is going on between miss rad and nkg #There's so much and yet so little #Yet people managed to Find the behind the scenes epic that no normal game player can really perceive #I'm people :'D

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radellama · 2 days

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📏 , 🌈, and 🍀!

📏 What’s your go-to canvas size?

A3 or A4, they're easy to start with, but I often change the crop size once I've started so... Weird rectangular shapes roughly between those sizes

🌈 Do you use more warm or cold colors?

A few years ago? Cold and muted. These days, trying to do more vibrant and warm.

(You can see it in my Harland colour palettes lol, early 2021 vs late 2022 is when I made big changes)

🍀 You wish your art was more..(fill in the blank)

easy (to draw. I get so nitpicky LMAO)

Send some artist asks

#rads asks #darksideofthemamon #it's funny cause i still honestly pretty muted washed out and cold colours... they're easy on the eyes lol #but like. i DO know colour theory and shit so i may as well demonstrate it #** honestly PREFER #hate my phone auto correct

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radsbackup · 9 months

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🤡 🤩 🎉

🤡 What sketch or detail in an image have you drawn that made you laugh?

This sketch makes me laugh

🤩 Who is your favorite character to draw?

Just based on how much I draw them... These bitches

🎉 What leads you to consider an image a success?

There is a point where I feel most pieces reach a natural conclusion.. I'm not the best at stopping there and sometimes try to do more and end up ruining it haha, but I'm getting there. Usually, if the sketch is visually communicating the idea I want, or when I've finished all colour rendering is when I'm happy with it

Send an emoji from here

#rads asks #anon

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devildomwriter · 5 days

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hello, it’s totally cool if you do not have anything on thas, buutt apart from mammons car in his room, do we ever get told if they have cars in the devildom?? do they drive around?? or do they just walk and fly around??

(sorry if you got this twice, tumblr acted up and i’m not sorry if it sent the first one i sent)

Yes they actually mention both of these in RAD News articles