Making Comics. Old Vs New.

Quite a few people requested some form of trait/personality generator, and here’s the result!  I wanted to keep it vague enough that the options could work for any universe, be it modern, fantasy, scifi, or anything else, so these are really just the basics. Remember that a character is much more than a list of traits, and this should only be used as a starting point– I tried to include a variety of things, but further development is definitely a must.

Could pair well with the gender and sexuality generator.

To Play: Click and drag each gif, or if that isn’t working/you’re on mobile, just take a screenshot of the whole thing (multiple screenshots may be required if you want more than one trait from each category).

wanna know what’s funny about transgender jokes? Chicks with dicks, dudes with boobs? No. That’s not the funny part. The funniest part is The fact we get up in the morning and get too scared to look in the mirror in case we get overwhelmed with dysphoria, OBSESSED with looking like the gender we are inside but irritated because we feel like we can’t, to the point where we hide from our own reflection. The fact that we barely want to leave our house sometimes because we don’t want to answer the daily pestering questions. “Are you a boy or a girl?” The fact that needing to use to the bathroom in a public place is like waking a sleeping dog. The fact that we have to be ashamed of our own natural bodies and wonder why a God would ever do this to us. The fact that your options are: coming out and swearing that you were born with the same sex as your gender, or locking it away and not telling a soul. The fact that we have to hide from the world, one way or another, because people aren’t ready for the “diversity” we bring. The fact that my friend thought ‘transgender’ meant I was born with no genitals. The fact that I am notorious in my town, and I can’t walk out the door without being asked why I want to be a boy if I’m really a girl? Why I don’t just identify as lesbian and move on. The fact that shower time equals to “put a towel over the mirror just so you don’t have to look at yourself” time. The fact that sometimes, I feel okay. Sometimes I accept that my body is my body. That I was born like this. 
Sometimes I can respect myself, because I know that one day, I’ll become who I need to be. 
There’ll be no more questions. 
No more insults. 
No more misunderstanding. 
No more mis-pronoun-ing. 
No more suicidal thoughts. 
No more self loathing. 
No more of people looking at me like I’m some sort of freak. 
No more complicated relationships with people who can’t help putting someone’s body before their everything else. 
No more cutting. 
No more worries. 
But as the day progresses, I remember that people already do look at me differently. I remember that, if I ever fall in love, I’ll have to find someone who doesn’t care that I don’t have the “parts” to be a man- someone who can understand that I AM TWICE THE MAN as the guy who just told me that I’ll never be one, so why don’t I just give up?
I remember that I’ll never have kids of my own. 
I remember that having a sexual relationship will be near impossible for years to come. 
I remember that I’m too weak and feminine to fight. 
I remember that I am still my birth-name to every register I’m in.
I remember that I look twelve years old and I will still look twelve years old when I am 19.
I remember that I am PATHETIC without my masculinity. 
I remember that people will never understand how worthless I feel- how much i’d rather be anyone else. wanna know what’s funny about transgender jokes? Nothing.

"Trans Jokes"- Cody Woods (via immakinggingerbreadcookies)

People starving when tons of unsold food is thrown away globally because people couldn’t afford to purchase the food, that’s violence. 

People dying and going bankrupt to pay for their healthcare, that’s violence. 

People being evicted from their homes when there are more houses than there are houseless people, that’s violence.

my grave

Russell Brand discusses Iggy Azalea and the appropriation of black culture (watch the full interview here)

“Hasn’t that always been the way with mainstream culture? Whether it’s the blues or rock n’ roll [or hip hop]. The re-appropriation of black culture into the mainstream? That’s always been the way. It becomes sanitized. It loses its original message without ever conceding any rights to non-white people. Take the best bits. Keep the fruit. And abandon the people.”

“The idea that black culture is constantly being ransacked is a powerful narrative, a powerful story that began with slavery, one of the great abominations of human history. That injury hasn’t been healed. The civil rights struggle is only 50 years ago and still racism is a prevalent issue in this country and all over the world.”

a quick and sloppy tutorial on drawing profiles for the anon who requested it. hope this helps some people! 

He’s never gonna live it down

A bit late, but happy birthday you doof.

2015.

FRIENDS WHO TAKE ANTIDEPRESSANTS:

Just so you guys know, mucinex interacts INCREDIBLY poorly with most antidepressants, especially Zoloft. It not only almost completely negates the effects of your antidepressant, it also has terrible effects on your body. (Frank wouldn’t even let me read all of them because he thought it would just scare me more, but he said do not take them together again)

I found a website where you can check for possible interactions with any medicine:

http://www.rxlist.com/drug-interaction-checker.htm

Sudafed seems to have fewer negative interactions with physiatrics, but it’s still a good idea to check. 

Be safe this cold/flu season, my friends.