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So someone linked me to that terrible Kiwi! video a few weeks ago. And since I’m the sort of sap who just doesn’t like to see critters unhappy, even computer animated ones, I got to thinking about characters that would have helped a flightless bird fly.

And really, there’s only one guy that comes to mind. And the idea of J and Renais giving flight lessons to a Kiwi just stuck in my mind and refused to go away, and this is the result. Sorry for the poor art!

misterartist:

I have a head.

But do I count?

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Working on the character designs for the Chasm universe. This is Infin’s current (post fall) outfit. I tried to figure out how she would adapt her clothing to the cooler, less arid environment of the Chasm, and this was the compromise I thought she might come to.

Slowly but surely I am getting better at coloring! Next goal - backgrounds! 

epic4chan:

super great:

Cinque Terre, Italy  画

ZOMG Its Yebba Dim Day!

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savetheteaboy:

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jiji-is-a-bunny:

According to my psychology professor, we do not exist.

According to her, we are wrong for existing.

My professor flat out said this morning that she does not “believe” in bisexuals. She proceeded to say that the only valid and real…

Lies! SCIENCE has proven that bisexuals exist! Which left the rest of us (including people in my fields of Sociology and Anthropology) going duh, but hey, not only is that professor dead wrong, but there is scientific evidence to back up the fact that she’s talking bullshit!

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for my birthday, have a picture of the two namesakes of my blog with switched clothing. Karkat and Karakael don’t seem to get along very well…

Since the start of 2011 I’ve:

Cross off what you’ve done: 

guess its been an eventful year.

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piinkerton:

Makes you look pretty fucking heartless if you are homophobic or supported Prop 8, doesn’t it?

will always reblog.

I will forever reblog this. 

I’m not a lesbian, but fuck I will support the shit out of this.

This makes me sad on so many levels. Its frustrating to watch as people get denied coverage based on something as foolish as whether a hospital believes them to be married or not.

At the same time…I have serious doubts about gay marriage ‘fixing’ the problems that are described here. Yes, gay marriage should be legal and it is ludicrous that it is not. But being married does not automatically confer the same rights and privileges in all states and to all people equally. An insurance company can still deny coverage or a hospital refuse insurance whether or not a couple is married or not (in some states). Neither a gay partner or a straight non-married partner will be allowed to visit a patient in a hospital in many states, even when you have been declared power-of-attorney in another state.

Power of attorney, checking accounts, tax laws, house leases… benefits involving all these things are “assumed” as going along with straight marriage. The fact that these benefits are denied to others is insane. But the idea that by allowing gay people to get married doesn’t mean these benefits will immediately transfer over to the people who have been left out. Yes, gay people who are married in the state of New York gain hospital visitation rights. But that doesn’t carry over to other states. Nor does it force insurance companies to accept that. Nor does it allow non-married people, whatever their orientation, to have visitation rights. If the couple pictured had the opportunity to get married, but didn’t for whatever reason, the problems pictured would still happen, no different from when gay marriage wasn’t legal.

Marriage doesn’t instantly legitimize relationships in the eyes of private corporations. It is a very important step, but I can’t help but suspect that when gay marriage becomes legal, it will be an indication that the public at large has become more accepting, not that the government is forcing the country as a whole to be better and more open. What worries me is the fear that if gay marriage becomes legal before it is popular, corporations will react negatively and the government, having already given the movement “what it wanted” will not act to protect the assumed rights that go along with marriage.

At the same time, many private corporations are already taking positive action and allowing domestic partner clauses in insurance contracts. Here in Columbus, OSU and the government offices extend insurance to gay partners just the same as domestic partners and spouses. So perhaps my doom-and-gloom worries are unfounded.

Even so, the idea that unmarried long-term partners are less legitimate than a couple married after dating for two months and are therefore less deserving of benefits really rubs me the wrong way. Gay, Straight, Multi-racial…meaningful relationships are valid and should be seen so in the eyes of the law. If you’ve been together for five years, maybe you should be able to adopt kids and visit people in the hospital.

Society as a whole needs to wake up and realize that everyone deserves the right to be with who they love and create a home and a family if they wish. Gay couples are just as “real” as straight couples. So are long-term non-married couples of any kind. “Marriage” won’t solve all these problems for all these couples, no matter how much we might wish it.

So. I support gay rights. I support gay marriage. But that doesn’t mean I won’t fight at the same time for dismantling a system that no longer works. Marriage is a commitment that two people make to spend their lives together. (The idea of ‘love’ didn’t even figure in until Victorian England. Furthermore,we no longer live in a Victorian nuclear-family system.) The fact that people are denied coverage and visitation rights should not be inherently tied to marriage and to a bigoted society’s ideas of what is ‘right’. Government exists to protect those who can’t protect themselves. 99% of the time, those aren’t people that those in power approve of. Marriage is central in this debate now, because the bigots say only marriage can legitimize a relationship and gay people shouldn’t have it and that they shouldn’t have the “intrinsic” benefits that go along with marriage. These things are not one and the same, despite everyone assuming that they are.

But I know that I am not explaining myself well. So. Most of my points are better explained in the very interesting book “Beyond Straight and Gay Marriage: Valuing all families under law.” by Nancy Polikoff. Again, I want to say that I do support gay marriage and benefits extending to gay couples. I just extend that support to a little wider group.

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artisfaction:

Photo of the Day.

oh gods, this is wonderful

justbornthisway:

sevenpoints:

laphamsquarterly:

Look, we’re only human. 

YOU OTHER READERS CAN’T DENY
WHEN A BOOK WALKS IN WITH A GOOD PLOT BASE
AND A BIG SPINE IN YOUR FACE YOU GET SPRUNG
WANNA PULL OUT YOUR PENS
‘CAUSE YOU NOTICED THAT BOOK WAS DENSE
READING, HALF-RIMS I’M WEARING
I’M HOOKED AND I CAN’T CARING
OH BABY I WANT AN E-READER
AND A MEANINGFUL METER
MY TEACHERS TRIED TO TRAIN ME
THAT BOOK YOU GOT MAKE ME SO BRAINY

literally on the floor rolling

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