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Since I’m trying to be more active on Tumblr, I wanted to reintroduce my webcomic Countdown to Countdown to the peeps on this site!

Iris Black, a young man that possesses the special ability to bring drawings to life, is sheltered in a correctional facility that houses other “gifted” people like him. Outcasted for his inability to suppress his powers, he yearns to find himself a space where he can use his powers freely. His chance comes one night when a handsome intruder sneaks in to the lab.

If you’re interested in rivals forced to work together to overthrow capitalism, supernatural teens, and messy families, read his story!

Comic | Patreon | Discord 

[updates every Wednesday with 2-4 pages at 8 PM EST]

[among us] blue crewmate and his red imposter friend that stalks him to protect him from other imposters, part 4

How to raise a mini crewmate

[part 1-2] [part 3]

[among us] blue crewmate and his red imposter friend that stalks him to protect him from other imposter, part 5

The end

[Part 1-2] [part 3] [part 4]

Iris’ first time playing Among Us doesn’t go as planned

[Characters from CTC]

family (???) feud

geto & gojo

Shoko Ieiri

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suguru geto

I love when they slow down for shoko

Pro Baseball Player Miyuki Kazuya, Japan's No. 1 Catcher 🥇🏆

Took me too long to get it done but finally is here!!! I was like this while painting 😏🥵🤤

PD: Hi new followers thanks for the likes and comments they always make me soooo happy I'm so grateful 🙏 🥺🥺🥺

i fell in love again🥺

a lot of you hate historians and archaeologists, and i think that’s a problem

look, i fully recognize that there are reasons to be skeptical of history and archaeology. i am very on board with criticizing academia as an oppressive institution, and the way that researchers take their bigotry and bias with them to their work. i also recognize that academia does a pretty bad job of communicating what it does to the public, and that’s a part of why people’s hostility to it is able to flourish.

but i am disturbed by the pervasive narrative in online leftist spaces that people who research the human past are ignorant and bigoted, and i think we need to do more to combat that narrative.

historians being homophobic has become a whole meme, and it feels like people are just using historians as a homophobia scapegoat, when in reality the humanities are overwhelmingly left-leaning. people also keep blaming historians for erasing the homoeroticism of fictional literary characters, which is just… not what historians do. homophobic biases and erasures in the interpretation of history over the past few hundred years are a very real thing that’s important to learn about, but scholars have radically shifted away from that approach in recent generations, and these memes are not helping people outside the field to understand history and reception. instead, a lot of people are coming away with the impression that…

(source… really? nobody?)

this thread gets bonus points for the comments claiming that modern historians argue about whether achilles was a top or a bottom using homophobic stereotypes, which i can only guess is a misunderstanding of the erastes/eromenos model (a relationship schema in classical greece; i think people have debated whether achilles and patroclus represent an early version of it). also a commenter claims that the movie troy invented the idea of achilles and patroclus being cousins when no, they were also cousins in lots of ancient sources.

there’s this post about roman dodecahedra (link includes explanation of why the original post is misleading).

there’s this thread about how some thin gold spirals from ancient denmark look exactly like materials used in gold embroidery to this day but archaeologists are stupid and don’t know that because they dont talk to embroiderers enough. in fact, the article says they were most likely used for decorating clothing, whether as a fringe, braided into hair, or embroidered. so the archaeologists in the article basically agree with the post, theyre just less certain about it, because an artifact looking similar to a modern device doesn’t necessarily mean they have identical uses.

this thread has a lot of people interpreting academic nuance as erasure. the museum label literally says that this kind of statue typically depicts a married couple, giving you the factual evidence so you can interpret it. it would be false to say “these two women are married” because there was no gay marriage in ancient egypt. (interpreting nuance as erasure or ignorance is a running theme here, and it points to a disconnect, a public ignorance of how history is studied, that we can very much remedy)

lots of other conspiracy theory-ish stuff about ancient egypt is common in social justice communities, which egyptologists on this site have done a good job of debunking

oh, and this kind of thing has been going around. the problem with it is that there are loads of marginalized academics who research things related to their own lives, and lived experience and rigorous research are different forms of expertise that are both valuable.

so why does this matter?

none of these are isolated incidents. for everything i’ve linked here, there are examples i havent linked. anti-intellectualism, especially against the humanities, is rampant lately across the political spectrum, and it’s very dangerous. it’s not the same as wanting to see and understand evidence for yourself, it’s not the same as criticizing institutions of academic research. it’s the assumption that scholars are out to get you and the perception that there is no knowledge to be gained from thorough study. that mindset is closely connected to the denial of (political, scientific, and yes historical) facts that we’ve been seeing all around us in recent years.

on a personal note, so many marginalized scholars are trying to survive the dumpster fire of academia because we care that much about making sure the stories that are too often unheard don’t get left out of history… and when that’s the entire focus of my life right now, it’s disheartening to see how many of my political allies are just going to assume the worst about the entire field

they’re here to kick some ass

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My sunshine boy, Haibara Yu.

perhaps i became a magic user, so that i can touch his heart…

@rosa-leche​ wishing you a very merry christmas, from your secret santa! @mistletoinks​

don't ask me how he manages to hold the cling wrap with one hand

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伏黒 恵

🥺 support a black lgbt owned bookstore trying to open in the south? Bc I want to go there when they open? Thank u?

Look at them

From the Kickstarter: “Today, Durham is without a Black-owned bookselling storefront and the handful of bookstores in the area do not, at present, offer an expansive cross-genre collection of Black literature. This is the gap that Rofhiwa hopes to fill: (1) creating a space for collective imagining, where children and adults may find and share stories that reflect who they are (2) fostering the convivial atmosphere that is seminal to creating the bookcafé as a communal space (3) offering a deep collection of works by Black writers that invites readers to explore what it means to be Black here, over there and everywhere where Black people make life.”

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2025896590/rofhiwa-book-cafe-a-book-and-coffee-spot-for-east-durham

Do it for the black lgbts in the south !!! Thank u !!!