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Getting ready to candy my ACGUY!!!!

It begins my ACGUY just got his first coat done now we have to wait for tomorrow to start the work on the other parts!!!!

Sauske isn't black Sauske isn't black Sauske isn't black Sauske isn't black.......HE GON BE BLACK TODAY HE GON BE BLACK TODAY HE GON BE BLACK TODAY HE GON BE BLACK TODAY

This is one of the most amazing things I've ever gotten to do work through my gunpla backlog. Just got on a wing Gundam kick and it looks so awesome!

Why in the hell do people let me internet at this late hour?!

Dear star trek community,

We are different, all of us. We come from everywhere in the world, we speak different languages but our love for trek binds us, our hope to one day see a world united drives us. Our hope that the united federation of planets will be real one day excites us. When the show talks about the federation and its principles I can see that in us. I know for a fact that if given the chance we would all make damn fine Starfleet officers.  Our community is our crew the trekkies we know, to the ones we haven’t met yet are our shipmates.

When someone says they don’t feel represented in this community I’ve seen us lift them up, to not tell them they are welcome but to show them, to help them that their differences are what make our crew the best. I know this sound corny or even crazy, but I know that all of see it. At times we don’t just watch the show we live it we break down barriers, explore new ways of thinking, to help each other in times of need, to come together to show that when people talk about the show of the future the future is in fact now (soon to be warp capable)

I say all of this because I’m proud of all of us, while I know there are people out there that want to slow us down take us back to old ways of thinking and doing things (HIGHLY ILLOGICAL!!) I am so glad to see all of us demanding to be at high warp for equity, equality, love, respect and understanding.

I want to tell the story of how I found my way into this community.

I am a science nerd because SCIENCE IS FREAKIN COOL!!!! Because of that when I lived a lot of the other kids didn’t like me and I got beat up a lot. After one rather bad black eye my mother had, had enough and took me home and let me watch TV. I can’t begin to tell you how bad I felt. I thought that I would have to give up my love for science and reading and just play basketball or football because that’s all the kids who looked like me did.

That was until I saw this show with this man in a gold uniform who looked just like me with a visor, just hearing him get excited about science and its potential, the fact that people relied on him for one of the ships pivotal functions, I knew that this was something that I wanted to be a part of, that this was me but old and on a star ship. That moment saved me, in so many ways, I’m now working on my BA in cyber security, I’m still a science geek, but it was that one moment, and the NCC-1701-D that brought me here, and all of you who got me to stay. Later I would find other heroes that didn’t know where around till later Nichelle Nichols, George Takei. However, it will always be Levar burton who will always be the one I feel closest to. (also, we share a birthday!)

Thank you all so much!

TDLR; You all are amazing, keep pushing for diversity so no more little boys like me have to feel like there is no room for geeky POCs!

I mean you can mess with zaku’s girl if you want to

Ok look, I dunno why all of you want me to suffer but I hate all of you! This was so hard! Like panel lining it, cutting it, AND putting it together was heck on earth. We did it though and I am glad its over. HAIL zeon! (also do you like my cute gundam corgi shirt)

HAPPY STAR TREK DAY!!!!!!! If you know anything about me I love Star trek TNG(the next generation) The NCC-1701-D is my ship, she brought me into the trek universe. When i was a little boy I used to get the crap beatin out of me by the other kids because I was black and I LOVED science, reading, and science fiction, and many many other nerdy things.One day after getting a black eye that was rather nasty my mother was going to take me out of the school i was in and move to a different neighborhood, she sat me in front of the T.V. while she went to go talk to the parents of the kids who kicked my ass. I was ready to give up on science, there were no black scientists no black people were nerds it was just me.....and then I saw a man in the yellow and black talking about how much he loved the ship he was on, how the engines were his babies. He was an officer, he was respected, and he looked just like me! Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) didn't just keep my love of tech and science and nerdy things alive, he thew into a dilithium chamber and hit warp 10! Just seeing someone who looked like me being respected for his love and passion for what he does changed everything for me! From then on I feel in love with star trek, and I'm so happy it led me to meeting  more people who look like me and have this same interest!!  

So this is where i’m talking about my two favorite anime conventions. Katsucon is my birthday convention (it always falls on my birthday) and Otakon that’s the place I figured out that I was gay, I had my first gay kiss there.

I was feeling super ambitious and built a gundam on stream in one sitting!

I’m black and Otaku, and super blerdy! With everything going on I needed to do some self care. 

Did anyone else look at this and think gayta....just me ok 

A set of Data + Spot pride icons!

Like or reblog if used :)

[flags in order: bisexual, gay, pansexual, asexual, aroace, aromantic, nonbinary, transgender, genderfluid.]

So....i bought this shenron and in my defence I didn't think that it would be this big (yes yes thats what she said....or he said) but it's huge and I can't put it on my desk XD

Just a little PSA for your favorite Pink husky

It took a bajillion years but I finally cleaned off my manga shelf but its finally done and looking AWESOME ( honestly i didnt know i owned that much) love all the inuyahsa now i have to read it to get ready for  Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

I love how I look at Edward Elric, and what’s more my actual name is Edward!!! This was at an Otakon, and I was the only black dude cosplaying from FMA but i loved second of it 

So, it's been 3 years since I've been comfortable building gunpla and for the first time in going to be building a higher grade.

I also think it's super funny because I graduated today and today I graduate to a higher grade gunpla!

Did you paint it at all

HG 1/144 RMS-141 XEKUEINS

Old school HG kit has hat holds up pretty well.

Queer as folk ain’t it chief

Also also I am talking about the us version! A. It refused to represent people of colour B. it's dipiction that the only gay relationships worth having are those that value sex/what is considered sex above deep and meaningful anything (TLDR Just find a cute boy and fuck them and everything will be OK) now I understand that, that kind of mentality comes right after the HIV/AIDS epidemic and I 100% AM NOT trying to invalidate that experience but I would like to see the community evolve but I feel like this show puts a stamp on this way of behaving is ok from here till forever. But Let's start on the thing that everyone is uncomfortable with RACE. This show is racist period point blank, no it doesn't have to say it is, no one has to run around the show in a white sheet, no one has to run around saying the "N" word (nutella its delicious) The show not being able to show people of colour but calming to be a reflection of community is an issue (Also also spoiler there are black people in Pittsburgh) or only showing a person of colour when they needed to talk about HIV/AIDS ( not the best look jan) is also something that again a big show like this lets bleed out into the community it self, setting a precedent for other shows like it and community understanding. (TLDR; you can't represent the community without people of colour [thanks Marsha P] and saying you do is disingenuous, and when you try to use people of colour its to talk about HIV/AIDS only that ain't it chief) Next up Sex is like the currency of worth. So I think his name was Ted in the show he was the one who couldn't find his prince charming because he was sexually unattractive to......everyone in Pittsburgh. The show pushes this narrative that your worth in the community is based only on how much someone whats to have sex with you and if you dont you're worthless which is an attitude that the community has been echoing more and more today. (TLDR; if I dont want to bang you then you must not be worth my time) The impossible standard of beauty, now now before you say anything please know that i get it's a T.V. Show and people dont want to watch not actor pretty people, i really do, HOWEVER This attitude that you need to have a twink body be blond with blue eyes to find your prince charming..........that should be a no from all of us, this narrative that you have to be this level of hot to have a place in the community. ahem THAT IS A CROCK OF SHITE DONT YOU BELIEVE GURL! ( i dont think that part needed a TLDR) Look, im sure the show did a lot of good for some people, im not trying to attack the good it may have done for you but it did a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of harm too and we need to be able to say that. Thank you for cuming ( see sex joke) on my ted talk

Blinded by Pride

This piece depicts a KKK member with his legs up in the air with his prolapsed anus, and feeding into the mouth of a man that is blindfolded with a standard pride flag.

For Pride 2019, I have elected to create a protest piece about the racism in the gay community and how in recent years it has been increasing in saliency, and how racism is still being discounted or ignored by those people that have chosen to wear the rainbow blindfold.

Queer people of colour (especially those that are non-binary and trans) have been purposefully excluded from the conversation of pride and queerness due to the desire to appeal to the mainstream. The gay community in its race to become accepted has copied the hierarchical structures of privilege, and has become accepting or complicit of racist attitudes so long as it is done within the gay context (which we validate implicitly or complicitly).

As a community we need to be more cognizant of the culture that we consume, the gay celebrities we prop up, and hold the people around us accountable for their actions and their beliefs. The moment individuals become complicit, they become apart of the racist problem that purveys the LGBTQ2A+ community.