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qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · May 31

hi! i'm qbroots, a chinese trans man living in the us, and i draw things that i like in ms paint!

i stream very occasionally: twitch.tv/qbroots
i'm also on twitter: twitter.com/qbroots
submit anything here: qbroots.straw.page

drawing of a person laying down in shallow water. she looks like two people vertically combined: a woman with long brown hair wearing a black dress, and a woman with long golden hair wearing an elaborate red and gold dress.

A girl with purple hair and dark skin sits in a field of flowers with a portrait of herself as Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. The version of the girl in the portrait has short hair and a chest binder and reaches out towards the sun, from whose direction the real girl reaches back, as if she is God. On the other side, a third version of the girl stands in a pink dress holding a bag and suitcase and facing the viewer. They are surrounded by tulips, lilies of the valley, daffodils, and cherry blossoms. The scene is set at sunset; the sunlight is coming from the viewer, and black birds fly away towards the moon.

a drawing centered on a young boy with dark skin and dark curly hair. he sits in a chair with bandaged legs, crying, unable to get up an infinite flight of golden stairs. then, he sprints up the stairs with a magical cape that allows him to fly. finally, he jumps in the air with magic prosthetic legs and a magic cape, surrounded by magic papers, finally free. in the bottom right corner, he cries as he determinedly draws magic circles on paper. in the upper left corner, he laughs with his father in the sunset. a tree with silver wood looms ominously, its branches and roots creeping all over the drawing.

a drawing of a girl with purple blazing eyes and long black hair staring emptily at the viewer, who cradles her cheek with their hand. the owner of the hand, a girl with a long red ponytail and wearing a blue hoodie, runs forward while on the phone with someone, desperately reaching out towards a red-screened phone dropped from the black-haired girl's hand. on the left are colorful balloons. on the right are bells ringing and a giant black-haired girl in a guillotine with the red-haired girl kneeling and holding onto her huge hand. lining the bottom are colorful cups with a red chain-spear draped over them.

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qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 6d

中秋节快乐！

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 6d

i am so bad at throwing away my morals

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 6d

just need to keep pivoting

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 6d

hysterectomy 💞💖🥺

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 9d

#qbroots

collection of images with the caption "if you miss me, look for me in these characters". characters include shion sonozaki, homulilly, vocal synthesizer I.A., han su-yeong, the main character of love and curse, coustas, keiki haniyasushin, yuu koito, shin tsukimi, wo-chien, maria ushiromiya, and rosa ushiromiya

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 10d

cannot be overstated how minstrelsy is the core of american cultural power and identity

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qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 11d

last four beverages ive tried have tasted like shit

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 11d

my relationship with film is that of a bookish tsundere in denial that he remembers anything about the hot popular regular at the local cafe while my relationship with novella is that of a clumsy eager underclassman bringing purpose to the monotonous life of his jaded senior

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 11d

it would be so convenient if i knew someone whose principles were exactly aligned with mine in every possibility and i just had them look over everything and tell me what to think and do. this desire won’t get me into any sort of trouble at all

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malaika ᓚᘏᗢ? @ophanimkei.com · 11d

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qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 12d

why do i have the thinking patterns of a scared lonely despondent woman in her mid-thirties divorced with children

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 12d

i probably won’t scream until after i die

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 14d

我将终究顺流入大海

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 14d

there are so many people we need to kill

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 14d

i’ve been struggling to get along with people whose behavior shows no indication they’ve ever held primary responsibility for caring for someone and wanted to fulfill it properly. unfortunately that’s a lot of people

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 14d

if i only wanted revenge i would kill myself. i want more than that

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 15d

above you is an anvil. you have to maintain 60 seconds of playful banter with a trans person without mocking their voice, size, or relationships with their family, or the anvil will drop. act wisely

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 15d

Spiritual Pawning: Mad Slaves & Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa by Nana Osei Quarshie

Shrine priests engaged in spiritual pawning: converting mad persons, deemed unfit for sale due to mental incapacity, into potential subjects of enslavement.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa - Volume 65 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 16d

if you read a story about a woman forced to dress up as a man and think of her as a trans man before a trans woman then i think you have fundamental misconceptions about transness

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 16d

huge fan of hatred, unapologetically destructive

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 17d

dropping out of school and kidnapping one friend of each major field of study and moving into a library together

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 17d

aesthetics are not real

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 17d

oh to write GL to an audience of talkative readers forever… i feel so satisfied

qbroots @qbroots.bsky.social · 18d

perhaps i’m going nowhere, but it’s much more peaceful this way… how scary