SF, trans, safe house opens
"Come February Jane Cordova will move out of a shelter for LGBT adults in San Francisco's Mission district for her own room in a Chinatown apartment. The scalloped windows in her bedroom will look out onto the city's famed cable car line, which stops mere feet away.
Cordova, 60, a transgender woman, is the first resident selected for the Trans Home SF on Washington Street, the city's first transitional housing program for transgender and gender-nonconforming adults. The program aims to provide apartments for 12 individuals age 25 and older who will be able to live rent-free for a year as they receive support in landing a job, enrolling in school, and saving money to move into their own apartment."
https://www.ebar.com/news/news//287167
(h/t @maeve)
FROM THE PATREON: ah, transhumanism month. the bleeding edge of sci-fi erotica, where we let slip from our mortal bonds and transform ourselves into new forms of pure thought, will and emotion. in this case, a big titty cyber vixen,
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Furry art; eye contact; mild nudity
I got a couple of new commissions done for Pride Month! Aren't they great??
🎨 by @hotdogebuns right here on Fedi~! Thanks again!
Furry art; eye contact; insect (bee)
A while ago, I woke up with the urge to be a bee! This was unusual, as usually I preferred being a squirrel. Still, looking back on it, I really wanted to be a bee as a kid. So much so that I once asked my grandma to make me a bee costume!
So, here's Lexi the Bee!
🎨 by EneTheLigthingDancer (https://www.deviantart.com/enetheligthingdancer)!
Furry art; eye contact
Weehee~! Sproutsnout finished my latest pic! It's nice to have my current look done in their style!
🎨 by Sproutsnout (https://twitter.com/sproutsnout?lang=en)
Furry art; eye contact; underwear
Okay wow, two commissions arrived on the same morning...! 💦 Nice way to start the day, but people are gonna start thinking I have a problem...
(i love the face; this might become my new avatar)
🎨 by Sleepy Screen (https://twitter.com/sleepy_screen) again~
Crowdfunding, asking for donations
So my sibling @AliceGrimaude is in a bit of a financial bind right now, if you can help them out with a couple of small donations, it would be great!
Link to donate : https://ko-fi.com/alicegrimaude
(linguistic footnote: -aster is a pejorative prefix from the Latin indicating that someone is bad at the skill indicated by the noun it attaches to - the classic example in our mind is the grammaticaster, who berates others for failing to adhere to made-up rules of propriety in a language, like the no-split-infinitives thing in English. - 🐲)
hot take about social media hustling and social media boundaries (warnings for discussion of guilt trips, second-person, 168 words)
Something I don't miss from Tumblr is the periodic outbursts of "if you want to help artists, you can't just like their posts, you have to reblog them too".
Yes, I realize that visibility on social media for creative labor comes through wider distribution of content, and boosts are somewhat ideal to that end because they put both the work and the creator's account directly on the feeds of more people who are potentially interested in it...
...but those aren't your accounts, Mx.s Lecturing Infographicasters. Our accounts are our metaphorical faces, voices, bodies. /Yes/, it is a good idea to remind us that resharing your work (and subscribing to your feed, and backing your crowdfunding campaign, and so on) is something you appreciate; being prompted to do a thing makes more people choose to do it. /No/, it is not okay to treat us as skinflints and robbers and ungrateful for declining to use our bodies as advertising platforms for you.
- 🐲 🦊
It's still a little ways away, but I thought I'd debut the theme song for TAIL Act 3 here now. Originally it was going to be a much more energetic rock song, but then some very Dark Things happened.
-Katie
Katie Bat - The Long Road
Music
Okay, I am gonna sit on this mix for a day before publishing it.
Valve Hot Take
All of the resources that went into Half-Life: Alyx could have been better spent:
Fixing the Linux versions of Half-Life 1 and its expansions (you literally can't "finish" Opposing Force because of a bug they _reintroduced_).
Porting and putting HL: Uplink to Steam.
Porting Decay to PCs.
Reinstating any fucking kind of quality and content control to Steam.
@wintgenstein the texan rallying cry is that we should remember the time mexico killed the shit out of a bunch of slaveowners, and they're right, the battle of the alamo fucking rules
Artist and Composer. Trans plural voidpunk anarchist and antifa nonbinary gremlin. My voice is for the oppressed, and I shall fight for freedom with no quarter, so that those around me won't have to.
Plural members:
> Velvet Silmeria (Fae/They/She/Ey/He)
Räsvelg AY-N4 Tiyaga (Kit/Bit/She/They)
Lenneth Crimson (She/Xey/They/It)
Ashlynn Valefor (Xey/They/It/She)
Ricardo Sophia du Sol (Ey/He/They)
Saturnine Stargazer (She/They/It)
Innominat (They/Them)
Yuri Sunbreaker (It/She)