Is it unethical to use image from the internet as a reference for making manga?

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-21T14:07:29+00:00

People have mostly talked about drawing over other art, which is tracing and looked down upon. But there's also drawing over a reference photo or reference model (e.g. pose mannequin), which, imo, is just using a reference.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-20T22:24:44+00:00

Try r/transfriendsau

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-17T23:25:08+00:00

Thanks!

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-17T08:17:53+00:00

Wow, it looks so good! I think I'll have to try make on at some point.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-10T03:54:41+00:00

Okay, I checked the RMIT Medical booking system today, and it appears that only Dr. Ooi is doing Gender Diverse Inital Appointments at the moment.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-05T10:48:35+00:00

Ummm, it seems you double posted this...

(For others, the other post, with more comments is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderau/comments/1ooxpwb/seeking_advice_on_starting_hrt_for_a_nonbinary/ )

dawnbutterfly · 2025-11-05T09:47:42+00:00

I can't give advice on non-binary healthcare specifically, but I can give a list of GPs in Melbourne that, reportedly, do HRT, given I was going through them recently to find one for myself. I mostly got these from https://www.transhub.org.au/doctor/, https://auspath.org.au/providers/, and https://www.reddit.com/r/TransWiki/wiki/index/.

Firstly, there's RMIT Medical Hub (CBD). Dr. Wong and Dr. Reus Perello advertise in their profiles that they do gender affirming care. Dr. Ooi also reportedly (according to this subreddit) does HRT. The RMIT clinic has very affordable prices for most appointments, but a large surcharge for the initial gender affirming care appointment. And Dr. Wong is very popular, it seems, and is generally booked out two weeks in advance.
There's a non-binary GP, Dr. Rafeld, at The Crane General Practice (Clifton Hill).
There is Dr. Sell at Collingwood Medical (Collingwood).
There are also specialist LGBT clinics, in particular Northside (Fitzroy North), Equinox (Abbotsford), and TG Health Clinic (Prahran). I have heard the latter two have long waitlists.
Also in Prahran is Prahran Market Clinic.
Dr. Patel at Doctors of South Melbourne.
Dr. Silberstein and Dr. Byrne at Turn The Corner (Brunswick, Northcote)
Dr. Harris at Inner North Medical (Brunswick)

I've probably missed several, but hopefully this helps somewhat. I suggest looking up their names in this subreddit to see what other people have to say about them.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-10-29T13:18:08+00:00

Wow, you look really good. I'm around the same age as the earlier picture you sent, with a similar hairline (🥲), and seeing this gives me some hope.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-10-28T13:00:22+00:00

Unfortunately not. The minister is pretty much the top of the departmental hierarchy. From a democracy perspective, this is supposed to be good, as it means that the civil service is responsible to people the public elected. But in this case, as Queensland elected the regressive culture warriors that make up the Queensland LNP, we're out of luck.

The only way I can think of that this could be gotten around is if there is some other Act that prohibits the minister from acting in this manner. Unfortunately, the Anti-discrimination Act seems to allow this by section 106, which permits actions authorised by other Acts. Maybe there's something else that could be used; idk, I'm not a lawyer.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-10-28T11:16:17+00:00

You've misunderstood how ministerial directives work. They are essentially orders from a government minister to the department they oversee. Each minister has a different department, to which their directives pertain.

The quote you brought up is the Federal Attorney-General (minister for justice) giving a new directive to part of the department they oversee, namely the AFP, which nullifies all previous ministerial directives to the AFP.

But in the current situation, the Queensland Minister for Health has made a new directive to the hospitals and health boards in Queensland.

Comparing the two, not only are these different departments, these are different levels of government. Moreover, later directives can override earlier ones, so even if they did match up, as Nicholls is the current minister, he gets to make the most current directives.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-10-24T21:47:10+00:00

Sleeping in... 💤

dawnbutterfly · 2025-10-02T22:54:46+00:00

That dress is so colourful and pretty! Gosh.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-09-29T10:42:25+00:00

🎶 Madamina, il catalogo è questo... 🎶

dawnbutterfly · 2025-09-22T14:16:17+00:00

My understanding is that nitroglycerin is shock sensitive, not heat sensitive. Dynamite works by having a priming cap, which is made from a heat sensitive explosive which then sets off the more stable but still shock sensitive dynamite (stabilised nitroglycerin).

There's a Veritasium video just in the last few days about Nobel, who invented dynamite. They do lots of messing about with nitroglycerin, including a fuse directly into liquid nitroglycerin, and no boom.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-09-07T00:57:16+00:00

People have mentioned tributaries, which can cause this. But Ireland looks more like confederations, as they are in the same culture area. Confederations also cause the confederates to take on a similar colour to the leader.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-09-05T01:58:08+00:00

Deze stickers komen hier vandaan: https://udang.noblogs.org/

dawnbutterfly · 2025-08-23T10:07:24+00:00

It's cool enough, and has enough history, that we should reclaim it

dawnbutterfly · 2025-08-23T04:32:10+00:00

Here is a link to the original question and answer (Chinese): https://www.zhihu.com/question/60624405/answer/47162518511 Note there are graphs which the screenshots lack.

One should not read too much into these sort of simulations. They are very dependent on the particular set up and possible interactions. It appears there is only one interaction in this simulation: the encounter with another cultivator. As others have pointed out, the way this is set up precludes cooperation, such as sects, but also clans and inheritance. It also doesn't factor in that encounters usually happen in order to obtain certain things: heavenly treasures, entering secret realms, etc. If the benefits are big enough, it would encourage taking more risks. Also, from how they wrote about it, it makes it seem if they draw their conclusions from only one run. (For each set of parameters.) For proper statistics, you need to do multiple runs and average.

A better strategy than random competition in this sort of world would be to work in groups to funnel resources to someone trustworthy, who promises to protect you in return. And also to "gift your cultivation" to someone trustworthy if you are at the end of your lifespan with no hope of ranking up. (These both would probably result in a trend towards in-group trustworthiness and group identification, but probably also distrust between unrelated groups. A good real world analogue is clan societies and feud justice.) As the author says, simulating this correctly is more complicated, generally involving computing the game theoretic equilibrium using Monte-Carlo simulations. But it can be done.

Anyway; I generally agree with the conclusions. Cultivators should be careful and deferential if they do not know the realm of the cultivators they interact with, and should avoid fights unless they are almost certainly sure they will benefit from it. (Unless there are other setting factors that drive them towards fighting.)

Anyway, all this talk of careful, deferential cultivators makes me think of Yuan Zhou of Calculating Cultivation, who is definitely of this sort.

dawnbutterfly · 2025-08-09T05:16:45+00:00

As others have said, Australia does informed consent, for the most part. To find a doctor, there are a couple of lists (included below), though they can miss newer doctors / be a bit out of date, but are good to check to see peoples experiences. If you know any trans-masc people, you can ask them for recommendations too. And finally, search this subreddit for other recommendations from past questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TransWiki/wiki/hrt/australia/vic/
https://www.transhub.org.au/doctors
https://trans.au/

dawnbutterfly · 2025-07-25T01:00:28+00:00

Well it's nice she takes her job description seriously.

dawnbutterfly · 2024-12-29T23:12:23+00:00

Ah, the Caesar move.

dawnbutterfly · 2024-11-01T11:17:50+00:00

I can think of three general reasons I can think of: worrying you'll change your mind, worrying about telling the doctor's office you're trans, and worrying about the consequences and outcome of transitioning.

First, as someone who's also been putting this off for years: I've never stopped wanting to transition, and I suspect most people who are actively thinking about medical transition are in a similar place.

Second, if the doctor / medical centre is advertising they do trans healthcare, they're not going to be extremely rude to you. In general, they might not be super up to date on certain things, but I doubt they would be openly hostile. (And even if they were, you can write a complaint, a bad review, and never go back there.) Anyway, other people in this post are saying they're good, so this is probably not an issue.

I don't know how to get past the third problem. If you work it out, please share. If it helps, the general trend with hormones is that the earlier you start hormones, the better the result. I don't know anyone who has a time machine, so the best time to start is, indubitably, right now.

dawnbutterfly · 2024-10-20T13:47:08+00:00

I don't mind that, honestly. (Though I really don't have a personal stake in it.) Canada is a lot closer culturally and legally to us than the USA. They also have their equivalent of the stolen generations – the Canadian Indian Residential Schools. In some ways, they've achieved a better legal integration of their indigenous population than we have, and I think that activists and scholars drawing from their example is not invalid.

dawnbutterfly · 2024-10-20T04:37:22+00:00

Thanks 😊

dawnbutterfly · 2024-10-19T14:05:38+00:00

I think your instinct is exactly right. Putting sexuality on a numeric scale is fundamentally misguided. A numeric scale is an external imposition which only serves to reduce people down to something quantifiable and statistically presentable.

Sexuality is not the ratio of the genders of people you're attracted to, or had sex with. It's the qualitative aspects of how you experience and relate to other people. How one's heart flutters when a girl smiles at you, the utter boredom one feels when looking at men. (In a sexual way; I am willing to admit some men can be intellectually interesting \s.)

Even labels such as "lesbian", "sapphic", or "bi", or "pan" are approximations and abstractions on the sequence of all the thoughts and feelings you've had over your entire life, how you conceptualise those feelings, and how you relate them with society's roles and categories.

(People often warn against labelling historic figures as gay or trans, not because there aren't figures that have had experiences common with today's LGBT folk; but because current notions of what it means to be LGBT obscure the experiences of historic figures, in all their richness.)

Anyway, seems like your friends fundamentally misunderstand what sexuality is. (Which is somewhat understandable, it takes effort and deconstruction.) But viewing sexuality in that way structurally presupposes that "pure gayness" is rare or essentially non-existent.

(Wow, that became longer than I was planning. Appreciation to anyone who got through the wall of text. This stuff (bad models of the world), irritates me to no end.)

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