Merrill Before and Sometimes After Dark
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34. She/he/they (🍳). SF Bay Area. North American river otter. Find me in a river. Or in bed. A riverbed. Could be 🔞
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Welp, TIL the name and reason of a weird thing I have been able to do since I was a kid that was absolutely impossible to describe to anybody who didn't already know what it was.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_...
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Welp, TIL the name and reason of a weird thing I have been able to do since I was a kid that was absolutely impossible to describe to anybody who didn't already know what it was.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_...
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This is amazing. Colorized pictures from queer/trans history.
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Gorgeous colorizations of trans history images,
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
and a lot of incredible stories, including many lesser-known to many (A Zapatista colonel, a "transvestite pass" issued in 1928, the Scottish nobleman who the courts ruled should inherit his baronetcy in the 60s... for example...)
Coloring the Past - Eli Erlick
Using recent breakthroughs in photo editing techniques, Eli colorizes, restores, and digitizes photos from queer and trans history. The following images are originally from 1897-1973.
elierlick.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is amazing. Colorized pictures from queer/trans history.
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
We’ve always existed and will not be erased. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@goatuna.bsky.social got me with the best sticker ever, as part of our upcoming "Do a Merrill roll!" set. This one is "do a barrel roll."
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
@goatuna.bsky.social got me with the best sticker ever, as part of our upcoming "Do a Merrill roll!" set. This one is "do a barrel roll."
Come frolice with me~
"Frolicing." You know, like when you frolice.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Come frolice with me~
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Artists! Please show:
🍒the first piece you did in 2025.
🌸 your favorite piece of the year
🍒 your most popular piece.
🌸your most recent piece
🍒the first piece you did in 2025.
🌸 your favorite piece of the year
🍒 your most popular piece.
🌸your most recent piece
November 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Artists! Please show:
🍒the first piece you did in 2025.
🌸 your favorite piece of the year
🍒 your most popular piece.
🌸your most recent piece
🍒the first piece you did in 2025.
🌸 your favorite piece of the year
🍒 your most popular piece.
🌸your most recent piece
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Annette is just like me fr.
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Annette is just like me fr.
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The point being that there is no bar to pass. The concept of good/bad dancing is rooted in a performative mindset, where you’re doing the behavior as a performance, rather than as an expression of your feelings, a relationship
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The point being that there is no bar to pass. The concept of good/bad dancing is rooted in a performative mindset, where you’re doing the behavior as a performance, rather than as an expression of your feelings, a relationship
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It hurts me every time i hear someone tell me they “can’t dance”. And it brings me such joy when i get the opportunity to bring someone into their own body on the dancefloor and help them discover their own ecstatic movement, discover the play, the connection
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It hurts me every time i hear someone tell me they “can’t dance”. And it brings me such joy when i get the opportunity to bring someone into their own body on the dancefloor and help them discover their own ecstatic movement, discover the play, the connection
In this sense, generative AI wants to automate the animal right out of you, leaving a pleasant, smiling consumer in the echoing wake of your magnificence. The conceit of these posts is not "fuck generative AI," but as an aside:
Fuck generative AI, and keep howling.
Fuck generative AI, and keep howling.
Dancing is our frolicing. Singing is our howling. Drawing is our tearing apart the environment in a proud declaration of the self. Don't do it because you're good at it. Do it because you are a fucking animal and will go crazy without it.
I also think this is why it's so insidious that we look at art as a commodified skill that you are good or bad at, and not just as an inborn human behavior.
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
In this sense, generative AI wants to automate the animal right out of you, leaving a pleasant, smiling consumer in the echoing wake of your magnificence. The conceit of these posts is not "fuck generative AI," but as an aside:
Fuck generative AI, and keep howling.
Fuck generative AI, and keep howling.
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Sometimes you just gotta make weird noises and dig a hole in the ground…
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Sometimes you just gotta make weird noises and dig a hole in the ground…
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If I don't make a weird little noise every couple of hours, I will lose it.
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If I don't make a weird little noise every couple of hours, I will lose it.
Dancing is our frolicing. Singing is our howling. Drawing is our tearing apart the environment in a proud declaration of the self. Don't do it because you're good at it. Do it because you are a fucking animal and will go crazy without it.
I also think this is why it's so insidious that we look at art as a commodified skill that you are good or bad at, and not just as an inborn human behavior.
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Dancing is our frolicing. Singing is our howling. Drawing is our tearing apart the environment in a proud declaration of the self. Don't do it because you're good at it. Do it because you are a fucking animal and will go crazy without it.
I also think this is why it's so insidious that we look at art as a commodified skill that you are good or bad at, and not just as an inborn human behavior.
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I also think this is why it's so insidious that we look at art as a commodified skill that you are good or bad at, and not just as an inborn human behavior.
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no but like if i dont bark and howl every few minutes or so i will go crazy and then die
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
no but like if i dont bark and howl every few minutes or so i will go crazy and then die
The whole of you is the wrong shape to be contained in an office, or a tidy lawn, or a Facebook event listing, or stoic moderation. You are a wild thing. Be wild.
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The whole of you is the wrong shape to be contained in an office, or a tidy lawn, or a Facebook event listing, or stoic moderation. You are a wild thing. Be wild.
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
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She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!
Let it Go!
'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks
J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
She sees your fandom as affirmation, your money as funding for the harm she causes to trans people.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
It doesn't matter how you feel about her work, whether it was a formative touchstone or not. If you still buy the merch or hype up Harry Potter, you are complicit.
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Me all the time always
Fuuuuuuuck this timeline so hard. I no longer want to own anything made after 2010.
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Me all the time always
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
Wow 💔
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Wow 💔
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life