ITT: people please don't do this and engage with the matter at hand, thanks. Inability to look beyond the surface level because you think it's just about what's attractive is why we are in this mess

"wow i really like battan's art too bad i have no idea how to do that : (" girl it's Lines !!!!! make a master study out of it !!!! copy reference remix !!!!

"how did this artist get so comfortable with drawing this" copy reference remix "how did this artist develop such a cool style" copy reference remix "how do i study anatomy/backgrounds/form/colour/whatever" copy reference remix

or being a mom

buried lede: despite self-protective cultural myths about interest in csa(m) being rare, "deviant," an outlier, an exception, it is in fact common, widespread, & normalized because that is what happens when you have a group of people defined by their powerlessness in a culture where sex = power

And it's time for another one...

Shin Aim for the Ace!

Video for this one is social media only, nadda for the stream.

i notice sometimes people tend to overdetermine the weight of the concept to the point of feeling it is somehow wiser to just not write about queer women, when the absence of women is itself a strong reification of the male gaze. it's better to negotiate and struggle with the world than to not

as i've said before, social forces like violence, power, etc always flow *downhill* and any challenge to power from below is met with extreme instant violent outrage, but enforcement from above is always seen as the neutral state of affairs.

child abuse research comes to this conclusion over and over and over again and anyone who cares about survivors and youth safety or rights understands that increasing kids' autonomy, power over their own lives, privacy, and access to safe channels is THE most effective path to kids' safety.

> of vulnerability or dependency, that increases the responsibility of those around to be conscious of what could harm them and to not do those things. it doesn't become more subjective or undefinable, it becomes more important to not cross boundaries. children are not just objects you act upon

when conservatives claim affirming your trans child is abusive, they are wrong and willfully lying. their malicious disinformation does not make child abuse per se an undefinable matter of parental discretion or personally subjective opinion. children are not property.