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hi! i'm qbroots, a chinese trans man living in the us, and i draw things that i like in ms paint! i stream very occasionally: twitch.tv/qbroots i'm also on twitter: twitter.com/qbroots creative & analytical writings: qbroots.substack.com send me money: ko-fi.com/qbroots
[houseki no kuni oc] reconstructing you (aquamarine x meteorite)
new post on Tailfeathers and Hepburn’s film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open qbroots.substack.com/p/the-specta...
The Spectacle of Home in The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Against a mainstream cinema that turns Indigenous worlds into spectacular attractions for consumption, Tailfeathers’ film refuses to simplify its narrative and offer itself to a colonial world.
qbroots.substack.com
some recent elegant decks that won slay the spire 2 ascension 10 featuring: the gambit + prolong + body slam; my fastest A10 win on silent (under 22 minutes); neat status-defect / forge-regent / oblivion-necrobinder decks
my intuitive coloring of the first eight numbers: 1 is white 2 is red 3 is blue-teal 4 is violet 5 is yellow-orange 6 is pink 7 is green 8 is black-grey
tore into franz fanon’s misogyny in class while bracing for criticism and a low grade for having overly negative opinions and instead got a “in my 10+ years of teaching, you’re the first student to offer a robust gendered critique of fanon, i’m impressed” 😎
successful individuals are not the main victims of the abuses of the entertainment industry. a skinny idol’s eating disorder primarily harms the ordinary fat girls with eating disorders who are starved and killed by the very oppression that her career is built off perpetuating
people enjoy making actor AUs in which canon conflicts are just entertainment acted out by friendly coworkers. yet this is both an insult to stories that discuss conflict as necessary for overturning an oppressive status quo and to the abusive reality of entertainment industries
gendering is a set of social processes that distinguish positions in society for building family, property, and reproductive labor divisions. so say “women” when you mean women. or if you’re referring to victims of a specific gendered oppression, say it precisely
bought these little creatures for my partner and got attached and tried drawing them as humans (plushies by GIANTmicrobes)
i’ve experienced many miracles… i’ve gotten to live as a man, make art, develop skills, learn secrets, explore the world, change lives, experience being understood, admired, cared for, pursued, & plan my future with the person i want the most… i’ve lived a wonderful life
just gave birth to my beautiful baby laptop & my partner isn’t even awake to see our child. our darling Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 2 16" FHD+ Touchscreen AMD Ryzen 5 7535U 32GB DDR5 1TB SSD cried and laughed for the very first time without their father in sight. considering divorce
Something, everything is wrong. #まどマギ #MadokaMagica #pmmm #杏ほむ #kyohomu repost fix of an old drawing
watching brain surgery videos with my partner and they keep bringing up how the texture must feel delicious
humidifier (noisy) pros: i no longer try to flay my skin off in my sleep cons: there is a drill boring into my skull at 125 degrees counterclockwise
sorry everypony i was too lazy to crosspost onto here for a while... let me get out some of my queue!
wearing hanfu and some elderly woman pointed me out to the kid with her :)