Explain Australians walking on their hands. You’re not walking, you’re hanging on.

Streaming on Prime Video!

Gave up Spotify. Now i spent $15/mo on artists that i like and can actually use my support. The rest are freely sourced.

How i read this the first time through…

Crows take hundreds of litres of water to make 1KG of cow flesh. Crows gotta cow.

Seriously don’t be a dick, just absurdly relevant.

Simple compliments help a lot too. "Nice work!“ or whatever can really make sometimes day!

Goated drawing! Ink is so intimidating, living without an undo option. Good work and confidence!

I love the nose!

Maybe the edges give you a clean line to work off? Or possibly your wrist can rest on the page?

It’s just part and parcel with caustic masculinity. If you don’t want to be competitive and treat other human beings like meatbags then you’re uncomfortable and weird.

This is great! It’s nice to surprise yourself with what you can do when you just go for it 😁

Thanks! I’m definitely more motivated than ever.

Thanks! 😁

I actually really enjoy the challenge. I spent hours yesterday just trying to draw them out of plane. Here’s some of that:

You could consider the question of whether there is still something about reddit that you value. Seeking an alternative usually means you’re trying to fulfill a value or need the previous option provided. While that was true when i first landed on Lemmy there’s simply nothing i value about reddit anymore. So i no longer consider it an alternative.

There’s also the alternative motive of valuing/supporting FOSS/federation.

The adults are gonna be alright

Couldn’t be me talking from personal experience 🫠

Yeah it’s definitely not a monolith. There were always those cis-hating types of spaces around and that’s just counterproductive. Luckily my experience is in the “let’s figure it or together” types of spaces which are far and away the majority. But everyone remembers the most irritating voice which is often also the loudest.

I think there’s also a phase a lot of people go through in their journey where they feel a need to over-express their new identity. That can lead to social growing pains.

I meant the Royal “you”. Fixing.

I’ve been in the leftmost spaces most of my adult life. Accommodations for nuance have generally cost me a few calories in processing thought and not misgendering people but tha’ts it. It was annoying at times to learn new things but the impact on my ability to experience and navigate the world was nil. The benefits were that i got to have deeper connections with my friends of various genders and ethnicities.

I think if someone’s coming from an unchallenged experience of masculinity that when people ask for accommodation they feel it as a personal attack because they never had to expend a single calorie of energy on it before, and now someone is asking them to.

It also just takes a looooong time (decades even) to get over one’s own insecurities because it’s easy to hide those behind a mask of masculinity. That part takes a lot more effort whereas the manosphere tells you that you don’t have to climb that mountain because actualization is achieved hiding behind that mask.

A weird assumption that an occupation would cut down corruption.

Assignment at birth is based on genitalia/sex. Sometimes doctors fuck that up too, intersex or no. I personally don’t see a point in it either.

It’s reductive to think there’s a correct gender at birth or that it could be reliably assigned as it often has little to do with what’s in your pants. E.g. you’re probably not experiencing gender dysphoria in the first couple years of life, because babies are treated pretty much the same regardless.