The fact that @rainbowrowell aaaaall the way back in Wayward Son gave us the CANON fact that Baz can grow a full beard and I have yet to see a single piece of bearded!Baz fanart is truly a crime

So I did it myself for some "30th birthday Baz portraits" ✨

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Hello! Here's another sequential based on the Simon Snow trilogy books by @rainbowrowell. This one is a scene from Wayward Son in Chapter 21 when Simon and Baz are messing around with foam swords at a renaissance fair during their trip to America.

Thanks to the patient Snowbaz fans who leave very kind comments on my previous Simon Snow fanart, hope you enjoy this one!

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

pink in the night

If you had a child by choice, you:

signed up for an autistic child

signed up for a trans child

signed up for a lgbq+ child

signed up for a mentally ill child

signed up for a disabled child

signed up for a child with "conditions"

signed up for a rebellious child

signed up for a kid. in any way, shape, or form of being, it's your child, and you signed up for it.

And you are not:

the victim in any of these fucking situations for gods sake

Visual representation of me reading Any Way The Wind Blows:

(It took me two days, and just for some context, I was at work for 19 of those 48 hours. I got three hours of sleep on Tuesday 😭😂)

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

I’m flying... Jack!

"i am who i am and i am who i was and i am who i will always be" is such a good deep fucking quote and the fact that it was said grumpily by a treasonous little warlock cosplaying as an old man never fails to make my day

please watch Bo Burnham’s new special Inside on Netflix

I've gushed about this, like, fifty times but the core idea of a king kidnapping a knight's maiden, only for that maiden to usurp him and become an evil queen, causing the knight and the king to team up in order to save the day is such an ingenious premise and the fact that Galavant tells this story as a comedy-musical with catchy songs by Alan Menken, featuring Weird Al as a monk, is just icing on the cake.

mr. and mrs. movingcastle are ready for summer

brotherhood

He Who Would Swallow God

Do you blame me? It’s my fault that you wound up in that body.

watching fma for the first time n getting feels

[ID: Colored digital art of Edward and Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist, standing against a grey-green background. Al is armored, in profile on the left of the screen, looking down at Ed, whose face is buried in Al’s arm as they hug. Ed’s hair is in his usual braid, which seems to be floating in the wind, like his red coat, which fans out around both of their legs. A small, human Al stands half-in the suit of armor, his head half covered by the armor’s elbow. He is translucent, the colors behind him distorting him. He is also hugging Ed, but Ed doesn’t seem to notice. A long white ribbon sprouting from the top of Al’s helmet is floating around them. End ID]

It’s like a sliding scale of sluttiness