Hello Everyone! I Just Came Back To Tumblr To Anounce That I Have Open Comms For Anyone Around The World

I tried that thing where you're casually open about your identity, without ever actually trying to explain otherkinity, and it fucking worked??

Went out for lunch with a guy I've only met twice, and he asked about my bison pendant. I just said that if I were an animal I'd be a bison, I relate to their resilience and stubbornness, it's kinda like a spiritual thing.

Later in the day, he commented about my not wearing a jacket in December and I jokingly asked if he'd ever seen a bison get cold (and then said something about my ADHD meds making me overheat).

And wouldn't you know it, a while later he himself made a joke about me being a bison, completely unprompted.

Incredible. I don't know what I was afraid of, I should've tried this way sooner!!

"We're complimentary"

(Originally this was drawn for the Mosaic of the Unhuman zine, but after two years of no updates I think it's safe to say it's not getting released)

Everyone say hello to a rare depiction of Atleir. I wanted to convey how we're complimentary parts of a whole through the contrast of warm and cool tones and how certain parts, from the arms to the mane, can be looked at as though they merge into the same body. Note how the hand with phantom claws rests over the heart. The way things run parallel to each other is my experience otherheartedness and daemonism.

(Part 1/2 since apparently I can only post 10 images)

Finally my art class and first comic are finished.. After *checks notes* 300+ hours?!? It’s done.

I wrote this story for another class and decided to make it my first comic for this class. I know I can improve already and I’m so excited to learn more. So uh please enjoy Canary and Gerel’s story.

Bird’s Song

I found a meme format and thought of them

commission for @gay4carver

Giving him his well deserved rest. What bedtime story should I read him?

Per @esomaniac’s request.

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

Learn from me: https://kevinparry.tv/learn

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

i wish i had a nicole

can people please stop filming the entire fucking world around them for public consumption? and especially random fucking strangers who you did not ask???

I work at a park and man the front desk. and I'm photographed and filmed a lot. I'm talking easily 20+ times per day. most of the times, it's parents filming me swearing in their kids as junior rangers. which. they're intending to film their kids. what they get is me and the back of their kids' heads.

there's this recurring problem that like. people forget we're real people? like yeah you're filming your kid, but you're filming me interacting with your kid. I could count the amount of times someone has asked me permission to do this in the past year on one hand. and sometimes that's after they already start filming.

Like, I'm not an actor. I did not agree to this. You could be a dick and make the argument that I'm a public figure, but I'm not. This is not a persona and my uniform is not a costume. I'm a person trying to do my job and help people and teach them about science and history. And you know what makes it harder to do that? The knowledge that anything I say or do could end up shared with thousands of people. The fact that if I fuck up the wording of this kid's junior ranger pledge, or I sneeze, or make some basic mistake, it's not just a funny or embarrassing moment for me and this one family. It could end up on tiktok.

And okay, those are the people intending to film their own kids and not thinking or caring about the collateral. What's worse is the people who film everything. A few times a week some guy walks into the visitor center, phone already horizontal in front of their face, narrating what they're doing and seeing. They come up to the desk and ask me questions, phone in my face. They take wide establishing shots of the visitor center and every visitor in it. None of us agreed to this! None of these people consented to be in your youtube video! We are not the fucking set dressing of whatever travel instagram story you're making!

I don't know where I'm going with this. This is really only the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes people ask us to repeat what we just did - swear in their kid, or explain a detail, or hand them a fucking map - so they can get a second take, and they're already filming so if we say no we look like the asshole. Sometimes we're asked innocuous things like to point out a landmark, and next week there's a photo of us in the 15,000 member Rangers Pointing at Things facebook group (yep, real thing). One time my entire 45 minute evening program was filmed without my permission and I was informed after the fact. This happens all the time, and I'm giving park ranger examples, but this happens to so many people in service work or public positions every single fucking day.

I guess just, next time you go to film in a public space, take a second. Think about who you're about to film, if they agreed to that, what might happen if a video of them went viral. there's a reason I'm not out as trans at work. And then, maybe. don't. or at least fucking ask.