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26, cartoon and video game liker.

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You can find art I made under #bvart!

A low resolution website banner depicting a close-up of Xenia, the Linux Fox's face against a red background. To the right is large, bolded text reading "LINUX" accompanied by smaller text underneath reading "the choice of a GNU generation."

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A deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of an elderly person's face to the right of white text reading "I'm thinking about those beans" with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. The background is a photo of baked beans.A deviantART styled stamp containing a screenshot of Mario from Super Mario 64, edited to be giving the viewer a realistic middle fingerA deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of a hairless pet rat next to a toy keyboard with rainbow-colored keysA deviantART style animated pixel stamp featuring cropped artwork of femtanyl's mascot. "FEMTANYL" is spelled out in white pixel letters on the mascot's forehead that individually turn red from left to right in a loop
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An 88 by 31 pixel banner of an abstract floating head creature with a liquid eye facing away from the viewer, a closed eye with an eyelash facing towards the viewer, and teardrop-shaped gems coming out of the eyelash. Xhe is accompanied by text reading "Charm will protect you!" and is depicted in front of a purple background.an animated 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with alternating photos of Laura Les and Dylan Brady's faces screaming, sourced from the back cover of the album "10,000 Gec". The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with a crude scrawling of the word "GECS".an animated 88 by 31 button. along the top is text reading "SPONGEHEAD" in a font from Spongebob Squarepants, colored in black and cohost's plum color. below is smaller Spongebob font text reading "prof-badvibes" in green, with one letter at a time in sequence flashing white. To the sides are Incidental Number 7, a background character from Spongebob, and Eggbug, the cohost mascot, colored to resemble Spongebob.an 88 by 31 button of the transgender pride flag against a gray background next to text reading "trans rights now!"
an 88 by 31 button featuring animated pixel art of Reimu Hakurei from the Touhou series against a gray background. she is pictured next to text reading "powered by Reimu."an 88 by 31 animated button. the button starts showing a blue color, but the point of view zooms out to reveal a blue variant of Tux, the Linux penguin, against a gray background. text reading "Linux powered" appears in the banner to the left of Tux.an 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with a photo of Weird Al Yankovich's face. The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with the word 'Yankovic'.an 88 by 31 animated button of the Lapfox Trax logo, which is the word 'LAPFOX' in bold serif font with a cartoon fox's head replacing the 'O'. The logo is in front of a rainbow color-shifting grid
A parody of the "Netscape Now!" 88 by 31 pixel button. To the left is a rotating marijuana leaf, and to the right is text reading "Legalize Now!" along with the letters M and J in the bottom right corner.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a yellow-to-green hue-shifting background. To the left is a cropped piece of clipart showing the top half of a newspaper cartoon-styled individual's face looking at the viewer in a goofy way. The clipart is accompanied by text reading "FREE STUFF" in bolded all capital letters to the right.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting two photographed women looking up and to the right against a white background. Text reading "GAY WOMEN" in bolded all capital letters can be found to the right, with the word "gay" being larger and emphasized.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a sprite of a blinking one-eyed green alien from the Commander Keen games. To the alien's right is text reading "Accursed Farms".
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a rainbow peace symbol to the left of blue text reading "Peace Now!", both against a gray background.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an inverted United States flag with the stars replaced by a 'no' symbol. On top of the flag is black handwritten pixel text reading "ACAB".An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting Super Mario running to the right through a 'window' to the left. To the right is blue text reading "Dave's Videogame Classics".An 88 by 31 pixel banner containing sprites of Kris and Susie from the video game Deltarune. Susie is looking at Kris with a cartoonishly angry expression. Below the two is white text against a black background reading "kris where tf are we."
An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a gray background. To the left is a 'window' showing a sprite of a dove against a black background. The dove is shown flying and being covered up by a red X symbol in two alternating frames. To the right is black-and-gray flashing text reading "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT" in all-capital letters.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an illustration of Hatsune Miku against a gray background. Miku is blinking her eyes and smiling on alternating frames. To the right is text reading "This site is Miku Approved", with 'Miku' in large, bolded blue letters and 'Approved' flashing rapidly between blue and red.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the transgender pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the blue Sega logo against a white background.
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a screencap of Blender version 1.X, with a classic-styled logo and a wireframe cube in the centerAn 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the words "download SBURB" next to a logo of a minimalist lime-green house separated into segments. The word "SBURB" is rendered in a bold, cartoony, lime-green font.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the lesbian pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting character art of Sonic from the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2 against that game's title screen background.
an 88 by 31 button of the blue-and-orange logo of the Doom video game series to the right of the Doomguy's grinning Heads Up Display face against a gray background.

Thanks to @framebuffer for my profile picture, @candiedreptile for the Charm button, @softwareangel for the Spongehead button!

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Crip vs. Crip

By Walela Nehanda
via the Poetry Foundation

Crip (noun): slang for a disabled person/the whole of
     the disabled community/
a school of thought
Example: “I’m on crip time” 
Meaning: Time bends differently when the universe that is
     my body dictates it 

Crip (noun): a Black gang that originated in Los Angeles
The word can be used in reference to a gang member or
     the gang itself
Example: “Nipsey Hussle’s death made gangs, including
     Crips, unite in grief” 
Meaning: Black is still Black no matter if you wearing red or blue 

I heard the word crip for the first time when 
I was kid cuz I got family from South Central. 
And there are gangs and manufactured wars 
and crimes of survival. And there are crips 
who are crips and don’t know it 
—like Maccapone, a man who was protective 
of the ways death finds organizers. Was known 
to wrestle with the pigs at 2 a.m. if it meant another 
one of us got home safely. He, steady waving
a large Pan Afrikan flag while carrying
a “No Justice, Fuck Peace” sign
right out in front of the Crenshaw Mall. 
 
He offered himself as a shield to me
with, “You good?” when I was 23
and tryna get home without being harassed.
Offered a “You good?” when I was 24
and working my first short-lived job 
after my diagnosis. “You good?”
was our “I got you.” 

When Mac dies after having neurosurgery
in another South Central hospital.
Another hospital that churns out death
more than remedies even after the discharge. 
When Mac dies, my grieving—all our grieving—
is organizing and activism. We, all so young
and naive back then but committed to liberation
or self-determination or to call something ours,
to name the oppression that hung over our heads
with acidic rain. We wanted what Mac wanted:
something better. 

In 2019, I saw the word crip
used by someone who didn’t bang on Twitter
—wondered if the hood was being appropriated yet again
& questioned if they don’t understand how in South Central,
you don’t wear blue cuz you crip. 
Red means blood, and as the numbers
on the street signs get bigger,
the colors matter more.
So don’t wear nothin suspicious
unless you want a: Where you from?
Meaning: Who are your people?
Meaning: What street you live on? 
Meaning: Who do you know that we know too?
Meaning: You better answer and quick
before—

In a parallel reality,
crip is an invitation to community.
I am told it is a positive reclamation of disability, 
at least I think so, or so it seems some weeks,
and other months I am exiled for simply being a “negro.”
Meaning: I am too audacious for saying being Black
and disabled is real different from being white and disabled. 
Meaning: Solidarity sometimes ain’t functional.
Meaning: There’s a quick snap to delegitimize us  
Meaning: We go quietly into a purgatory 
 
So what would it mean
to be a Black crip in South Central, Los Angeles,
for a disabled Black child in 2019 who isn’t a crip
and yet somehow both will be synonymous
with: danger.
Meaning: You ain't safe no place 
Meaning: You ain't welcome nowhere 
Meaning: Where are you really from? 
Meaning: Who do you actually belong to? 
Meaning: Who are you without a name? 

There is a duality of language. 

I don’t claim crip cuz of how I learned it.
My family, music, Mac and the Rolling 60s, 
the Jungles and BPS, my fiancée and her twin
wanting that “hood aesthetic” so bad, 
my best friend actually living on the street 
where drive-bys happen so often
—there’s a permanent vigil,
and this shit prolly don’t make sense
to a lotta y'all, right? It’s not meant to. 
There goes that duality of language again, 
the double entendre,
the one foot in and another out. 
I’m just over here trying to jimmy open
the door to my imagination.
Meaning: Where do I go to find 
the name for where Black
disabled people
belong?

A Note from the Editor
July is Disability Pride Month. Read more from our Disability Poetics collection.

Source: Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir (Kokila - Penguin Random House, 2024)

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