Finn McLellan

It's my birthday. On this, the day the Earth was destined to be destroyed, i command you to buy the book and request that you share with your friends so they too might become entranced, enraged, and engorged by the sexy action drama of #Boombride

The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!

This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.

Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start

Length: 5.6 cm

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

Frustrating to see “Did your art have a good moral and did you convey it clearly enough that your entire audience could understand?” (a methodology previously only applied to children’s after school specials) becoming the main approach of modern internet criticism.

#WIPSnips | massive

Because sometimes the universe (and the author) just isn't playing fair...

( saranadosfiction.com/2024/03/05/s... )

“Hey, little guy, what’ve you got there?

“You’ve brought me another bloated drowned corpse, haven’t you?

“…any chance you could stop, please, bud?

“Especially during my kid’s swimming lessons?”

Today I have learned that “cadaver otters” exist.

They are trained to bring bodies up from murky and dangerous water unsuitable for human divers.

I like to think they follow in the footsteps of a wild otter who just kept bringing someone corpses.

#AwesomeCharacters As always, all art is by the wonderful @illustratedjai.bsky.social <3

1) Sketch portraits of Sabbat, Archer, Fest, and Mortimer
2) Portrait of Viola
3) Portrait of Sabbat and Archer

More hedgehogs. These two big lads are evidently getting territorial ahead of potential mating opportunities. #TinyJoys

Image 1 All slides have a dark background, with a variety of pink, blue, and white doodles as accents. Text reads: Trans Rights Readathon 2026 Storygraph Challenge The prompt: A Book About Trans+ Youth or That Imagines Trans Futures The text repeats on the top of every slide

6 book covers are shown, listed below top left first, row by row. Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo And They Were Roommates by Page Powars Everything for Everyone - An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien ad Eman Abdelhadi Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku Lake Lore by Anna-Marie McLemore

6 book covers are shown, listed below top left first, row by row. American Teenages by Nico Lang The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag Growing Up Trans In Our Own Words by Dr. Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry Generation Queer by Kimm Topping Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

6 book covers are shown, listed below top left first, row by row. Magical Boy by The Kao Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith Marley’s Pride by Joelle Retener and DeAnn Wiley Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

We honor our trans elders, but we also encourage readers to honor and listen to the young people in their lives, and to open our imaginations to better, more inclusive futures. 💙💗🤍

BTW, if you haven’t called your reps about H.R. 7761, apps like 5Calls make it easy.

#trr26 #transrightsreadathon

I’ve also got a bunch of new rainbow Raven stickers, as well as the new formline’d therian sticker in!!

(The ever-present cigarettes were made of rolled-up white A4 printer paper, and I always had a fair whack of spares in a cigarette case in my bag just in case the one I had on me went walkabout, because being in Jacob's headspace *without* a smoke on hand didn't feel right)

Black-and-white waist-up photo of yours truly in Victorian-esque gear (white shirt, black neckscarf, black waistcoat, coat, flat cap, and a [fake] cigarette jammed into the corner of the mouth), mid-gesture while chatting with someone.

Randomly reminded of one of my favourite pictures of one of my larp characters (by the excellent @tgarnett.bsky.social )

This was Jacob Trevithick from the since-ended game Waking Nightmare: gang leader, surgeon, knife-fighter, mesmerist, and (semi-)functional laudanum addict.

If anybody local in Britain can help, or knows someone who can…

Medium purple drop pendant netted in silver wire.

Medium purple drop pendant netted in silver wire - side view.

Medium purple drop pendant netted in silver wire sitting in black and white gift box.

Brighten up someone's day with a drop of lepidolite:

oishiny.etsy.com/listing/4457...

#Handmade #TreatYourself

([The 'ideally' there's because I want to spring for one of the chairs designed for folks who sit like me [i.e. in a variety of folded-up shapes because hypermobility], but they're expensive enough that that might be a 'wait a wee while' project since things like, y'know, *beds* take priority])

Desk acquired!

(Desk currently in its component pieces in the workshop, since the room it's going in isn't painted yet, but desk acquired! [Now just need to paint the room, assemble the desk, move all my stuff over... oh, and ideally buy a new chair])

Being able to be your full self Cosplay is about expressing yourself, and for trans people it can be an extremely affirming space to express one’s gender in a way we may not feel safe or able to elsewhere. This is why preserving this safety is so important. And each and every one of us has a role to play in that. Be respectful. Call out transphobia. Uplift trans cosplayers.

Cosplay is about expressing yourself, and for trans people it can be an extremely affirming space to express one’s gender in a way we may not feel safe or able to elsewhere.

Be respectful.
Call out transphobia.
Uplift trans cosplayers.

Insulting the way post-op chests look. Keep in mind this is both horrific body shaming and also bringing someone down after they’ve invested enormous effort, emotion and money into feeling more affirmed in their body.

Asking invasive questions or making comments about someone’s chest. Even if they are positive or you mean them to be! As kids were all taught not to stare and not to ask personal questions. Trans people aren’t an exception to that social contract.

Rules or body policing at events that apply double standards to cis and trans people. This can look like con staff asking some people with flat chest to cover up because of how they look or how their chest looks. Even with a “cover-up policy” selective application of such a policy is just as discriminatory.

There are so many examples of trans masculine folks being affirmed after top surgery.
There are also cases of:

What is top surgery? Top surgery, formally bilateral mastectomy with chest contouring, is a surgery that some trans folks access to help align their body with their gender identity. There are different types of incisions that are used, including double incision (scars across the chest), periareolar (incision around the areola), keyhole (incision along bottom of areola) and other variations. There is no single way a top surgery chest looks.

What is top surgery?

Shirtless in cosplay: A big moment for some trans and non-binary cosplayers.

Like many trans masculine people, after I had top surgery I was STOKED to cosplay a shirtless character for the first time. Unfortunately, my initial experiences were filled with transphobia, harassment that caused truly life-long body image issues. To hear that this is still happening to trans masculine people 15 years after my experiences is deeply concerning. So let’s talk about it.

I’ve thought long and hard about making this post but after seeing posts they have echoed my experience over the years as well as reading responses from the ‘Experiences of Trans Cosplayers Survey’ I decided I wanted to share this.

#cosplay #transgender #trans #cosplayer #topsurgery

I honestly hope someday art gallery sites make a comeback, and I hope that we all become less addicted to ''content'' and go back to the times seeing a new piece by an artist you love is an event, a good surprise, and not just like ''oh this one's cool *scrolls*"

This is not a critique on people, it is just a think piece about how things changed online, and it hurts me seeing artists younger than I apologising for going a week (!!!!) without posting new pieces. Your art should not be content for scrolling-by strangers, this sucks so bad.

I feel a lot of younger artists nowadays are in the path of permanent wrist damage and burnout with the amount of stuff they feel almost obligated to make in order to feel like they are still relevant and present on peoples timelines.
I was like that with comms, and all I got was damage on my body.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Sudden realisation that I could probably do a really bloody good updated (16-years-later-updated, gods) version of my Gaia Online bartender character now, given the last time I cosplayed him I was very very new to both FX makeup and costuming (and I also now look the right age xD)

A picture of a wooden plate painted purple, with the raised edge dotted with abalone shell buttons. In the middle of the plate is a symmetrical bear head coloured brown, with tendrils of gradients ranging between light cyan, light pink, and light green. Within the tendrils, the lines of the bear head turn white.

SPIRIT BEAR AURORA 🐻‍❄️🏔️ #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

This piece was made using thrifted wood, posca markers, and abalone shell buttons.

A picture of a round wood, two tone cutting board with a formline design painted on it. The design depicts a jumping grey fox, with two navy paw prints placed on it. Where the paw prints intersect with the fox, the latter’s lines change to bright teal.

BOUNCE 🦊💚 #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

Made with a thrifted wood cutting board (?) and posca markers

A picture of a wooden plate with a formline design painted on it. The design depicts a circular swimming salmon coloured in ivory with blue highlights. The background is dark navy.

BLUEFISH 🐟🌀 #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

Made using a thrifted wood plate and posca markers

#AwesomeCharacters I like happy endings, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to put folks through hell on the way to getting them there.

(Also I consider 'together in death' to be a happy ending, in some circumstances, so)

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