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one reason conservative reactionaries sound so stupid about trans people a lot of the time is that they think every trans man looks like a scared little girl in oversized men's clothing and that every trans woman looks like a big man wearing a dress and they think they have the magical cis-given ability to clock everyone always bc they're wilfully ignorant that HRT actually does what it says on the box. the exception to this rule of course is when someone does pass and they don't clock them and THEN the trans people are deceitful freaks out to upend the family and turn men gay or whatever other bullshit du jour the right cooks up to froth about

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man woman or child. agender or multi. human or animal. if you expose your tummy to me within raspberry range. well. consider yourself raspberried

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You guys really liked my last poll so

#STUDIO GHIBLI MOVIEEEEEEE

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Posting this because I reblogged something about Usborne Books and apparently most people seem to associate Usborne with lift-the-flap books for preschoolers.

Which is weird because to me as a child Usborne books were some of the spookiest books I could get my hands on. They filled the same place as Dorling Kindersley - colorful, creative, informative books that were educational as well as fun to read. And their approach to myths and legends was, not going to lie, very formative for me. If it wasnt' for Usborne, there might not have been ABC.

And much like Dorling Kindersley, Usborne went through a phase of extreme creative experimentation before stagnating into safer forms of publishing. But for a while, Usborne books were mindblowing.

So what has Usborne done then that aren't lift-the-flap books for preschoolers? Well, a lot. Puzzle Adventures. Extreme map and code puzzles. How to Draw Books. Cut-out and build houses, Trojan horses, and dinosaurs (by Luis Rey no less). How to Be A Detective. Nature spotter's guides. Nature Search books. Facts and Lists books that instilled cosmic horror in me years before I knew what cosmic horror was. I could go on forever.

There was a series of excellent myths and legends books which I posted about before.

These were illustrated by Rodney Matthews and were every bit as metal as you'd expect from something by Rodney frickin' Matthews.

Then there were the Quest books which were Where's Waldo-esque books that followed a storyline in a fantasy world.

In this case, they showcased lush art by Nick Harris in which you find various items or characters to make the story progress, as well as other random things (find 10 rats, find 8 clownfishes, etc).

The Tabloid Histories books, oh my gosh.

Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, etc. history told through tabloid articles and ads.

More about monsters though! There were books about folktales and legends illustrated by Stephen Cartwright.

For me it was my first time hearing of a lot of them, such as the Lambton Worm!

The Haunted World, now that was spooky! With lots of colorful, dripping art by Graham Humphreys.

Introduced me to a lot of ghosts, vampires, and monsters from around the world. Such as the story of Arnold Paole!

And there were maps and diagrams...

... and lindorns [sic] and mokele-mbembes!

The Supernatural Guides had denser text but sadly have not been reprinted anytime recently.

The World of the Unknown series, though... ohohoho those were good.

Of course (no offense to fans of ghosts and UFOs), I had eyes only for the Monsters book. With such gems as the Velue...

... the Lambton Worm...

... and cryptozoological rubbish such as the Monongahela sea serpent (below), the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, and their ilk.

You know, the sort of thing that would keep a 7-year-old fascinated (and perhaps scared under the blankets) for weeks.

Anyway, yeah I just really love Usborne books. Or at least what they used to be.

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more chilchuck and da kids

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Dungeon Meshi - Laios & Falin

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The Red Shoes (1948) 

“The Ballet of The Red Shoes” is from a fairy tale by Hans Andersen. It is the story of a young girl who is devoured with an ambition to attend a dance in a pair of Red Shoes. She gets the shoes and goes to the dance. For a time, all goes well and she is very happy. At the end of the evening she is tired and wants to go home, but the Red Shoes are not tired. In fact, the Red Shoes are never tired. They dance her out into the street, they dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day. Time rushes by, love rushes by, life rushes by but the Red Shoes go on.

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Tumblr Tuesday: Farcille Fanart

Hello, Dungeon Meshi fans, but perhaps a particularly special hello to Farcille fans and artists. These two have really captured your imagination in a way that has us a little bit breathless. Here's a Farcille fanart collection for you. 

(We had to be selective, but there is so much more. Please visit the #farcille fanart tag for the rest of the outpourings of genius.)

@bemp0:

@mad-cosmos:

@a-paperboxgozilla:

@cerylune:

@madeleinefjall:

@teeceezhang:

@sointuina:

@chumii1:

@fr0guu:

@nousanti:

@mad-cosmos:

@pien-art:

@turnipoddity:

@alexpperkins:

@vexiimoon:

@mgosketches:

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Drew the funny bird

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Today is THE day when we finally say

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oh yes it's that time of year

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happy april 30th!

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the thing i like about homer and marge's relationship in the good seasons of simpsons is that not only is homer like, actually devoted and caring to the best of his ability, but also marge is just naturally fucking crazy and i don't think we appreciate that enough. she is NEUROTIC. she enjoys being a control freak around the house and having very precise routines for all her chores, and she finds very boring mundane things to be super exciting ("well, we have a brown shoe..." "did you hear that, kids?? brown!!!"), and she also genuinely thinks stuff like proposing with a piping hot onion ring or fucking in the minigolf windmill is peak romance. marge is a nutcase. also she apparently has batshit insane sexual chemistry with homer and i think that counts for something too

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oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show

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been working on collapsing harry styles and timothee chalamet into one celebrity entity in my mind to make room for more important stuff like the locations of nuts that i buried before winter