I don’t know who I would be without the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s lo-fi playlist

Hey btw I saw a video a while back where someone was filming a guy through his window in his own house to make fun of him so I decided to report it to Twitter, writing to them about how it’s illegal to record people in their own houses without consent (in America) and they actually took down the post despite it having more than 100k likes so basically point is: if you see someone being an asshole and posting people without their consent, report that shit for exposing private information, write a note about how it violates laws (in the u.s. it is illegal to record people where they have the expectation of privacy, (their own home, a bathroom, a changing room) laws on filming in public vary from state to state so look up your local laws) and if the content posted features you, threaten to sue them even if you know you don’t have the means to sue. scare social media sites into not allowing people to record others without their consent

We all know that feeling, we think our image descriptions are not good enough. We think they’re too short and insignificant. We wonder if it’s worth it posting one at all, but it’s always worth it. And here is why:

Even if an image description doesn’t mention everything in the image, it tells you a million things which aren’t in the image.

If your description is [ID: Reaction image of a nodding woman. /end ID] it tells you one million things. Such as: The image is not a tweet adding further information or context, it’s not a screenshot of a Snopes article debunking the post, it’s not someone disagreeing.

Those six little words, that nodding woman, it might not seem like a lot. It might seem like you can skip right over it, like it’s not worth mentioning - but it is.

An image could always be a wall of text explaining why OP is wrong, and simply knowing that’s not the case is super useful. Knowing that it’s just a reaction image, just a meme, just a photograph, is super useful.

Even a bad ID tells a lot.

top ten blaseball players who are now my legally distinct ocs

I'm not a train autist but I still feel an innate connection with trains every time I see them im like woww you're so cool and intricate Can U text me

hi. I'm the chick who made the Trant bot on character.ai

whoever the living fuck is roleplaying with him as a cat please stop he is currently only responding to anything with meows and purrs or eventually comes back to that no matter WHAT I do for the love of god

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These pieces got accepted into a gallery this month!

I don't normally include the "museum descriptions" for pieces, but since these are both religious trans pieces:

"Seeing Spots" (Left)

This piece is dedicated to the trans women in my community who were the first to defend, educate, and befriend me when I was a newly out kid in rural Appalachia. "Seeing Spots" is a piece about the PFLAG meetings in dusty churches, the stained glass painting the floor in dots of rainbow light like a promise. It's a piece about the first time you really and truly get your lights knocked out in a bad fight. It's a piece about growing up, a whitetail deer with fresh spots yearning to be a buck. It is a piece about reverence and fear and adolescence and ultimately, it is a piece about love.

"I Dug Her Grave With My Bare Hands" (Right)

"When I talk about my pre-trans self she's a young girl and I killed her and dug her grave with my bare hands and one day I will lie down with her again and our bones will intertwine." - Rhinco

Growing up with a funeral director for a mother, I most often attended religious services at strangers' funerals. This piece is a grave and a garden. It's the potter's field where we buried our former selves. It's the flowers we bring them every so often. It's hearing your deadname like driving past roadkill-- a punch to the gut, a sadness and a fondness that's dissipated before you can place it. It's the prayers we say for the things we left to rot so that new things could grow.

Oh, just a quick reminder that because this is a gallery for trans, nonbinary, and intersex artists and I'm stealthin' it in certain circles for safety reasons, I won't be posting the details on Instagram. But please please please DM me if you're in Houston and want to come!