you! the person reading this! please tell me one good thing that happened to you today
Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.
hello there, i am a severely disabled trans person who is currently developing crohn's disease who also deals with arthritis, schizophrenia, and hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome. i have been very sick for the past 6 months, dealing with unhealthy rapid weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diahrrea, constipation, dehydration, exhaustion, brain fog, and malnutrition. i have barely been making any money lately because of how sick i've been, so i have fallen behind on electric bill payments due to having to prioritize rent.
i am too sick to get a conventional job at this time, i currently make my living with my online shop where i sell handmade jewelry, accessories, zines, and paintings. i also offer traditional illustrations on card stock, and custom jewelry and keychains! :) you are more than welcome to ask about requests for custom jewelry and keychains and i will see if i'm able to fulfill your request! i also have a gofundme for saving up for my rent & bills
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Stuff originally for vday i never finished <3
My shaylas 💔
Have an extra Gianna doodle too:
rb to give a flower to the person you rb this from
Essentially it's like a classic gift exchange (like rtc secret santa) but during Valentine's! Forms close on the 31st of January and gifts can be posted on February 14-15 (until that point please don't tell people you are their gifter!)
If you have any questions please shoot in my askbox, all posts related to this event will be under #rtcvalentinesexchange2025
Event discord - https://discord.gg/VG66JXkHyC
& J line-up ‼️
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Tried to throw a butt ton of appearance headcanons into this. I would LOVE to share any other headcanons that come to mind if anybody wants.
I hate the Noel Gruber transfemme headcanon SO muchhh.
Disclaimer: You can headcanon this all you want I just disagree!
Noel doesn't want to be A girl, he wants to be THAT fucked up girl. He invented a character that he romanticised and wanted to be. His monologue was about how he wanted 'bad love', quoting that those who have 'never felt the ecstasy of betrayal know nothing of ecstasy at all'. He wants to hurt, just to feel something.
Noel was bored, poor, and lonely. He longed for love. I think people miss the idea that Noel is a commentary on what under representation/misrepresentation of marginalised communities does to the people in those communities. He says that he was the only gay man in his school. Gay men are not properly represented in media, so the ones he saw in film/TV were probably oversexualised and sidelined. He believed that he had to move to another country to achieve his dreams of love (though he never explicitly states that as being why he was saving up to move to France, but given that he is 'the most romantic boy in town' and is very fixated on romance we can only assume).
To me, it seems like he internalised the idea that straight people get to have relationships whilst he stood by and watched, playing into the twink persona to be more digestible to the small town people that surrounded him. So, he wanted to be the girl that all the boys wanted. He wanted to be something more than the guy who works at the Taco Bell. He submerged himself in this world where he was fuckable (because he was a ruthlessly horny teenager) and attractive to men, and, to him, that was a woman whom they could use (a further implication towards Noel being intensely influenced by the media he consumed, since his monologue is, like, 50% about a movie he likes). He doesn't want to be a woman, he wants to be Monique Gibeau.
So, what I mean is that just saying he's a trans woman erases all of that and makes his character so shallow. He stops being the romanticist who longs for a love that he fears nobody will ever offer him, he just becomes a woman. This contradicts the fact that he clearly doesn't know the first thing about womanhood and the fact that he's a gay man who lacks the community and queer joy that other people who live in more urban areas have access to, being told by his mother that he should 'blend in' rather than feel pride.
this is like my proudest fic give it some love because i went insane writing this
i really cannot properly express what william finn’s work has meant for me.
his art is what made me realise how important and powerful theatre is. he reminded me of the strength that comes with being entirely unique and not being afraid of your art’s original style.
i’ve found so much purpose in his work over the years; his shows just get me. i wrote an extended critical response about falsettoland over the course of 9 months last year, which caused me to greatly appreciate the craft of bill finn, and how he used his gifts as a composer and author to express his pain, grief and anger- and get audiences to share in this.
we have lost one of the greatest theatrical storytellers in william finn.
may his memory be a blessing
He/Him - professional yapper and artist, talk to me please ‼️ (art reqs open 😼)
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