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thischick25’s 100-follower tiny grub plush celebration! (because apparently this is a thing tumblr people do)

thischick25:

YAY~!

I can’t believe it—I have 100 followers on tumblr!  (Who would even
follow lil’ ol’ boring me?  I don’t understand you people, but I love
you all~! ::hugs all around:: )

I will try to keep this simple, as this milestone happens to coincide
with the time during which I am simultaneously freaking out over:

     - my upcoming wedding (June 16 omgomg) 
     - buying/moving into a new house (end of June omgomgomgomgomg)

So without further ado…

THE THING THAT WILL BE GIVEN AWAY!
For the lucky winner of this giveaway, I will construct a tiny, poseable grub plush.  S/he will be smaller than my Sollux grub plushie by about half, but will still have the styled fur hair, hand painted face, sculpted horns and what not. 

Will you be able to even handle the tiny cuteness?  I think not, Madam. (That is a nice mustache, by the way…)

The winner can choose to have a grub made to look like one of the
following trolls:

     Aradia     Tavros     Sollux     Karkat
     Nepeta     Kanaya     Terezi     Vriska
     Equius     Gamzee     Eridan     Feferi

(I don’t quite yet want to do any of the “new”/ancestor trolls because I don’t really know enough about them to make cute babies of them.)

Depending on time constraints, I may or may not include a handmade
accessory with the mini-grub, but such a thing is not guaranteed at this time).  I will also ship him/her to the winner
free of charge up to $15 (it is a tiny package, so it shouldn’t cost much to ship). I’ll try to use trackable shipping, but I
can only guarantee this for domestic packages.

THE RULES!!

• The contest opens the moment it is posted and ends at 23:59:59 CST on May 19, 2012. 

• You must reblog ONLY ONCE (without editing the original post!) to count as an entry.  “Likes”, while welcome, do not count as entries. Anyone who reblogs more than once will be disqualified. 

• Any of my original 100 followers who reblogs to enter the contest will automatically be given an extra entry (as a thank you for making this hapen). Only do this if you are interested.

• You do not have to follow me to enter or win, but you are totally welcome to if you think my blog is awesome for some reason.  If you’d like to track this contest, I will update under the tag “thischick25’s 100-follower tiny grub plush celebration” because I enjoy that name.

• You must be willing (and able) to give to me a mailing address that is able to accept packages (I promise I don’t stalk people).  HOWEVER, if the winner is going to Youmacon 2012, I will accept a phone number at which I can call/text you in order to meet and I can give you your tiny grub (and maybe have a pic with you? Yes? Maybe a hug too? No? OK.).

• After the contest period has closed and the disqualified have been weeded out, the entries will be lovingly dumped into a gumball machine at Random.org and stirred around with a stick, then space-age technology will happen and a shiny winner will pop out so I can announce their name (or at least that is how I understand these things).

• After the winner is announced, that person must either send me a message or have their askbox open for me to message them within 72 hours of the announcement.  If I am unable to contact the winner within this time period, that winner forfeits the prize and I will have another drawing, after which the subsequent winner will be held to the same contact rules. Repeat if necessary and what not.

CAVEATS (the fine-printy stuff):
Please be warned that I have two cats.  Although I do my best to make
sure your item is as free of superficial cat hair as possible before I ship, there is little I can do about micro-particles of feline origin. If you have any cat allergies, you definitely want to consider this before entering.

yeah ok, ngl, i would love this

roachpatrol:

Time to poll the audience. 

I got about 15k / 20k of this Eridan/Sollux story done and I’m increasingly fed up with not having any of it up yet. Do I:

• post at least the first chapter and dick everyone around with sporadic updates when i go into depressive burnout mode
• try to get the whole thing finished before I post and just dick everyone around by dropping tons of coy hints about it when I go into manic attention-seeking missile mode

I might not get it done either way, as much as I really INTEND to: the first posting option means I get to deal with people being sad at me, and the second nonposting option means I get to deal with no one having ever been happy at me. 

Bwar…..

Oh

I would be really, really okay with option A! You update when you update, you know? The world shall not end if you don’t finish it, but it’s always nice to read a new thing from an author you like. I’m just happy to read your stuff whatever pace it comes out at.

d0cpr0fess0r:

sololololux:

d0cpr0fess0r:

sololololux:

roachpatrol:

meowgon:

green-evening:

ATTN: everyone who reblogs that series of Humon drawings of anthropomorphised animals with accompanying commentary about nature being “fluid in representations of gender and sex”

ASIDE FROM Human being an enormous racist, sexist piece of shit, WHO GIVES A SHIT if animals change sex characteristics or have matriarchal societies, because nobody should have to justify being gay or trans by pointing at a fucking fish that is gay or whatever.

also the descriptions themselves are chock full of bullshit (essentialism, kawaii rape, in the artist comments she apologizes for talking about “lady penis” and “man breasts”)

so could we all please stop propagating this shitty meme drawn by a shitty person and then saying that it totally justifies trans peoples’ existence, because

• that shit dont need to be justified
• humon is terrible
• the descriptions are shitty and essentialist anyway
• analogizing human behavior to that of other animals as a form of justifying human behavior is pretty much useless anyway, especially considering you’re saying “lol it’s ttly ok to be trans cuz animals do weird sex stuff in nature” WHILE USING A COMPUTER TO ACCESS THE INTERNET…

^^^^^^

Oh, hey, this is good commentary. 

Okay, while I’ll agree with you that the artist as a person is kind of an asshole and makes me deeply uncomfortable and that series of pictures isn’t the most amazing enlightening treatment of sexual biology ever, much of this rant is kind of incredible bullshit.

• Okay, so you do realize that for most of modern biological science since Darwin, homosexuality and gender variance has been almost universally condemned as “unnatural,” and that condemnation has been used to justify all manner of marginalization and abuse against LGBT people, right? It’s only in the past 20 years that same-sex sexuality and gender variance has been studied with anything short of contempt, and even then there’s a long way to go. Considering that people outside the sexuality and gender norm have been told they aren’t normal or natural or that they don’t play a role in nature all this time, why don’t they deserve to hear that they are normal and they are natural and the people who tell them they aren’t are full of shit?
• Essentialism is shitty, yeah. It’s also the basic premise of pretty much all science for the general public’s consumption - all those David Attenborough documentaries can only give us a brief glimpse into an animal’s life do the same thing, because that’s a necessity when you’re creating something for a public audience. Pictures aren’t textbooks. You have to assume your audience is not experts and boil down all the things you could say to suit your chosen medium. Humon chose to do a series of pictures concerning biological sexual expression across various species, and even if the way they chose to do it was at times problematic, there’s only so much to fit on a little blurb in a single photograph. Presumably those who are interested more than momentarily in the subject will then be able to go research more about those species’ sexual and gender expression.
• I’m sorry, but “you shouldn’t care about science concerning your gender/sexuality because STARVING CHILDREN IN AFRICA DON’T EVEN HAVE COMPUTERS” has got to be the most tired fallacious argument ever. Yeah, some people don’t have computers, and some people are dying in the Middle East, and some people are working themselves to death so we can have iPhones. But the problems they have do not mean we can’t have a right to our own problems, even if they are lesser. Caring about shit isn’t a zero-sum game. I can care about things like all of the above and still care that cloning whiptail lizards produce more clutches when they engage in lesbian behavior. People are allowed to be interested in more than one thing, or a few things, or whatever.

You’re right that we don’t have to justify who we are. But research like that which resulted in Humon’s series on animal sexuality surely does help disprove all the bigots about us. We shouldn’t have to feel like pariahs of both culture and the natural world, because we’re not.

If anyone who saw the photoset referred to is interested in sexual biology and variance in gender and sex in nature and in humans, I recommend you read Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden. She discusses in much greater detail many of these cases and more.

Peace out, kids.

The point about computers isn’t “Starving kids in Africa”, it’s “You can’t compare humans and animals because one can build and use a computer and the other cannot.”

But by that logic we can’t learn about human behavior and evolutionary history from chimps and bonobos either, and scientists do plenty of that. :V

Chimps and bonobos are similar to humans. Seahorses are not.

Of course that’s the case. It’s also not the point. There’s a lot about sexuality we can learn from animals without equating ourselves to them, and I certainly didn’t see any equating going on in Humon’s pictures, even if they’re anthropomorphic representations. It seems to me more an invitation to think on how many possibilities there are for sexuality and gender expression, throughout the natural world, expressed in terms suitable for public consumption, and a consideration of how it’s really hard to say that these things aren’t natural if they do in fact occur everywhere in nature.

If animals besides our closest relatives weren’t valuable to look at for humans, we wouldn’t have the field of biology today. People look for reflections of themselves in various fields, be it English literature or biology, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. All this really is, I feel, is an introduction to some of the fascinating things we’ve learned about sex and gender in the natural world, and the research being done now.

d0cpr0fess0r:

sololololux:

roachpatrol:

meowgon:

green-evening:

ATTN: everyone who reblogs that series of Humon drawings of anthropomorphised animals with accompanying commentary about nature being “fluid in representations of gender and sex”

ASIDE FROM Human being an enormous racist, sexist piece of shit, WHO GIVES A SHIT if animals change sex characteristics or have matriarchal societies, because nobody should have to justify being gay or trans by pointing at a fucking fish that is gay or whatever.

also the descriptions themselves are chock full of bullshit (essentialism, kawaii rape, in the artist comments she apologizes for talking about “lady penis” and “man breasts”)

so could we all please stop propagating this shitty meme drawn by a shitty person and then saying that it totally justifies trans peoples’ existence, because

• that shit dont need to be justified
• humon is terrible
• the descriptions are shitty and essentialist anyway
• analogizing human behavior to that of other animals as a form of justifying human behavior is pretty much useless anyway, especially considering you’re saying “lol it’s ttly ok to be trans cuz animals do weird sex stuff in nature” WHILE USING A COMPUTER TO ACCESS THE INTERNET…

^^^^^^

Oh, hey, this is good commentary. 

Okay, while I’ll agree with you that the artist as a person is kind of an asshole and makes me deeply uncomfortable and that series of pictures isn’t the most amazing enlightening treatment of sexual biology ever, much of this rant is kind of incredible bullshit.

• Okay, so you do realize that for most of modern biological science since Darwin, homosexuality and gender variance has been almost universally condemned as “unnatural,” and that condemnation has been used to justify all manner of marginalization and abuse against LGBT people, right? It’s only in the past 20 years that same-sex sexuality and gender variance has been studied with anything short of contempt, and even then there’s a long way to go. Considering that people outside the sexuality and gender norm have been told they aren’t normal or natural or that they don’t play a role in nature all this time, why don’t they deserve to hear that they are normal and they are natural and the people who tell them they aren’t are full of shit?
• Essentialism is shitty, yeah. It’s also the basic premise of pretty much all science for the general public’s consumption - all those David Attenborough documentaries can only give us a brief glimpse into an animal’s life do the same thing, because that’s a necessity when you’re creating something for a public audience. Pictures aren’t textbooks. You have to assume your audience is not experts and boil down all the things you could say to suit your chosen medium. Humon chose to do a series of pictures concerning biological sexual expression across various species, and even if the way they chose to do it was at times problematic, there’s only so much to fit on a little blurb in a single photograph. Presumably those who are interested more than momentarily in the subject will then be able to go research more about those species’ sexual and gender expression.
• I’m sorry, but “you shouldn’t care about science concerning your gender/sexuality because STARVING CHILDREN IN AFRICA DON’T EVEN HAVE COMPUTERS” has got to be the most tired fallacious argument ever. Yeah, some people don’t have computers, and some people are dying in the Middle East, and some people are working themselves to death so we can have iPhones. But the problems they have do not mean we can’t have a right to our own problems, even if they are lesser. Caring about shit isn’t a zero-sum game. I can care about things like all of the above and still care that cloning whiptail lizards produce more clutches when they engage in lesbian behavior. People are allowed to be interested in more than one thing, or a few things, or whatever.

You’re right that we don’t have to justify who we are. But research like that which resulted in Humon’s series on animal sexuality surely does help disprove all the bigots about us. We shouldn’t have to feel like pariahs of both culture and the natural world, because we’re not.

If anyone who saw the photoset referred to is interested in sexual biology and variance in gender and sex in nature and in humans, I recommend you read Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden. She discusses in much greater detail many of these cases and more.

Peace out, kids.

The point about computers isn’t “Starving kids in Africa”, it’s “You can’t compare humans and animals because one can build and use a computer and the other cannot.”

But by that logic we can’t learn about human behavior and evolutionary history from chimps and bonobos either, and scientists do plenty of that. :V

roachpatrol:

meowgon:

green-evening:

ATTN: everyone who reblogs that series of Humon drawings of anthropomorphised animals with accompanying commentary about nature being “fluid in representations of gender and sex”

ASIDE FROM Human being an enormous racist, sexist piece of shit, WHO GIVES A SHIT if animals change sex characteristics or have matriarchal societies, because nobody should have to justify being gay or trans by pointing at a fucking fish that is gay or whatever.

also the descriptions themselves are chock full of bullshit (essentialism, kawaii rape, in the artist comments she apologizes for talking about “lady penis” and “man breasts”)

so could we all please stop propagating this shitty meme drawn by a shitty person and then saying that it totally justifies trans peoples’ existence, because

• that shit dont need to be justified
• humon is terrible
• the descriptions are shitty and essentialist anyway
• analogizing human behavior to that of other animals as a form of justifying human behavior is pretty much useless anyway, especially considering you’re saying “lol it’s ttly ok to be trans cuz animals do weird sex stuff in nature” WHILE USING A COMPUTER TO ACCESS THE INTERNET…

^^^^^^

Oh, hey, this is good commentary. 

Okay, while I’ll agree with you that the artist as a person is kind of an asshole and makes me deeply uncomfortable and that series of pictures isn’t the most amazing enlightening treatment of sexual biology ever, much of this rant is kind of incredible bullshit.

• Okay, so you do realize that for most of modern biological science since Darwin, homosexuality and gender variance has been almost universally condemned as “unnatural,” and that condemnation has been used to justify all manner of marginalization and abuse against LGBT people, right? It’s only in the past 20 years that same-sex sexuality and gender variance has been studied with anything short of contempt, and even then there’s a long way to go. Considering that people outside the sexuality and gender norm have been told they aren’t normal or natural or that they don’t play a role in nature all this time, why don’t they deserve to hear that they are normal and they are natural and the people who tell them they aren’t are full of shit?
• Essentialism is shitty, yeah. It’s also the basic premise of pretty much all science for the general public’s consumption - all those David Attenborough documentaries can only give us a brief glimpse into an animal’s life do the same thing, because that’s a necessity when you’re creating something for a public audience. Pictures aren’t textbooks. You have to assume your audience is not experts and boil down all the things you could say to suit your chosen medium. Humon chose to do a series of pictures concerning biological sexual expression across various species, and even if the way they chose to do it was at times problematic, there’s only so much to fit on a little blurb in a single photograph. Presumably those who are interested more than momentarily in the subject will then be able to go research more about those species’ sexual and gender expression.
• I’m sorry, but “you shouldn’t care about science concerning your gender/sexuality because STARVING CHILDREN IN AFRICA DON’T EVEN HAVE COMPUTERS” has got to be the most tired fallacious argument ever. Yeah, some people don’t have computers, and some people are dying in the Middle East, and some people are working themselves to death so we can have iPhones. But the problems they have do not mean we can’t have a right to our own problems, even if they are lesser. Caring about shit isn’t a zero-sum game. I can care about things like all of the above and still care that cloning whiptail lizards produce more clutches when they engage in lesbian behavior. People are allowed to be interested in more than one thing, or a few things, or whatever.

You’re right that we don’t have to justify who we are. But research like that which resulted in Humon’s series on animal sexuality surely does help disprove all the bigots about us. We shouldn’t have to feel like pariahs of both culture and the natural world, because we’re not.

If anyone who saw the photoset referred to is interested in sexual biology and variance in gender and sex in nature and in humans, I recommend you read Evolution’s Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden. She discusses in much greater detail many of these cases and more.

Peace out, kids.

sollux:

i am about to fucking rip my throat out i am sobbing
why did i go on omegle
i have never been insulted to my face so many times about my gender before

i feel so fucking useless why cant i just identify as male or female

god i want to jump off a bridge  

WHERE HAS MY REPLY TO POST BUTTON GONE

also wow what a bunch of awful people you are fine however you are where are they I will punch them :c