I gotta post this quick and hop off for the day, but I LITERALLY STAYED UP ALL NIGHT *AGAIN* TO MAKE SURE SHAMURA GOT FINISHED. They’re pretty crinkly in some areas because I have to like manually fix their crown + spider butt thing + spider legs after moving them, and I just didn’t care enough to retake the photos. I like the wonkiness of them because I just wanted them to have the energy of like, a very old and well-loved scrungly creature
I wanna slam some energy drinks and do like an ask doodle marathon soon because there’s some great ones in there I haven’t gotten around to, I think I’m done sewing for the time being so heket + leshy + narinder will have to wait to be brought into existence
I call this one “found family but it goes horribly wrong in an irreparable way” :)
I’ve been doing a lot of cotl comics but I kinda lost my comic making endurance after not working on art since last september, so I made this to help me flex my art muscles. Apologies for the watermarks lmao they kinda kill the mood but I’ve already had people repost my art when I put it on reddit so…might as well get the credit if my stuff is gonna be reposted regardless. RAMBLE INCOMING!!
I call this one “found family but it goes horribly wrong in an irreparable way” :)
I’ve been doing a lot of cotl comics but I kinda lost my comic making endurance after not working on art since last september, so I made this to help me flex my art muscles. Apologies for the watermarks lmao they kinda kill the mood but I’ve already had people repost my art when I put it on reddit so…might as well get the credit if my stuff is gonna be reposted regardless. RAMBLE INCOMING!!
A small experimental and messy comic about the queer hate to queer pipeline that seems to affect a lot of people, and since it’s pride month and I don’t see a lot of artistic commentary on this…here you go? I’m a baby gay, not even able to legally drink even and only recently realized my sexuality so I’m sure there’s people who have suffered from being raised in bigotry much longer and much worse and I’m willing for this post to be the place they can share their stories! I’d be honored to hear stories from people like me. Happy pride month!
(Writers Note for page two- I am aware of sexualities that stem from trauma like Caedsexual exist and are 100% valid! I am referring to the belief that ALL under the LGBTQ+ umbrella are sick and are just ‘confused victims of abuse’ in a not so nice sense.)
being immortal and having DID must be crazy. yeah our boy Carlos hasn’t fronted in 300 years and just woke up to the sound of Uptown Funk and started screaming
new post. i dont have energy. ive hit rock bottom and im going to the hospital to see if domethibg can be done to fix me and my mental state. im not fit to work and i cant keep calling out. i missed a lot of work the last few weeks and i cant find anything new. bills. cst litter. food. i cant support myself right now and im exhausted andbeverythibg hurts and money is hard and i need help
dm for e transfer. ppim sorry i have to keeo asking
i will write, ill do doodles, ill edit, i will do literally anything. please help my partner
ok. i am much more coherent now than i was when i made this post. i am not mentally fit to work nearly as much as i need to in order to pay my bills. im putting more info under a read more so it doesnt overfill anyones dashes. jude (as stated in her prev. reblog) can write, doodle, edit, and whatever else shes able to offer. ill also do the same but im probably doing to be slow at delivering. every reblog helps, as if you cant help financially a reblog helps posts to reach the people who can help
speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don’t say numbers. don’t give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it’s secondhand.
the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don’t let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.
you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it’s no fun anymore.
Astronaut Mark Kelly smuggled a gorilla suit into the ISS, without telling the rest of the crew
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My favourite incident like this was the Skylab 4 mission, where the crew arrived at the empty station, only to find several people already inside, to their great alarm. Upon investigating, they realized the intruders were wearing the Skylab 3 mission patches… and were also just dummies the Skylab 3 crew had made and left there without telling anyone, specifically to fuck with the next team.
Can you imagine entering a supposedly empty space station and seeing this? Fucking terrifying. I love it.
I’m just impressed that, in an environment where weight and available resources are so carefully accounted for, people still find windows to pull bullshit like this.
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Space Rajang, the final boss of Monster Hunter Wilds
Voter apathy keeps electing dickheads. When an election comes around, think about all the possible outcomes when the votes are counted. Think about the least shit one with a snowball’s chance in hell of happening. Think what you can do on that day to make that happen.
You can decide not to firebomb a Walmart after all any day, but you can only cancel out someone else’s vote for the worst person on the ballot one day.
finding out that ‘da vinci’ isnt even leonardo da vincis real last name and that it just means 'from vinci’ was so shocking to me. its like saying sans undertale
as a white person i can confirm that cheese is basically like god and life to me. i can be baited with cheese 100% of the time. i will tunnelvision a wedge of sharp cheddar from the other side of the room in any and every setting
My #1 recurring thing as an editor is to guide people away from writing shyly and defensively. If you preempt aggression and try defuse it in your writing itself, you are showing your belly. The audience wants blood.
If you write with the expectation of being hated, you are writing for your haters. This is exactly what they want. So the more you do it, the more of your readers will be haters.
The reason endermen don’t like it when you look at them is because they communicate telepathically with one another by locking eyes! Humans are absolutely not designed to do this so when we look at them we are accidentally projecting all of our thoughts into them at the same time and it hurts :(
But like, since the player is not of the Minecraft world, the player is just what the use to explore it, what if it’s like:
Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
Don’t fuck with flamingos
….. Didn’t know most of that
Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.
Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.
American flamingos just drink that shit
(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.
When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.
It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:
Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.
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Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.
Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’
They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.
Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’
They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.
Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’
The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.
Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.
“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’
The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.
It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.
Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’
Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.
Source: ‘Flamingos have very specialised diets. And their food is responsible for their famous pink colouration. The two species in Planet Earth II eat a lot of floating microscopic algae, which contains carotenoid pigments, the same types of chemical that make carrots orange. These pigments turn their feathers pink, orange and red – without them, flamingos would be white.’
I have to watch 45 minutes of video for an assignment in my “diversity in education” class and… they don’t have captions. The videos are from a digital textbook about inclusion and diversity. The chapter is focused on EALD speakers.
Top surgery comics one and two! I’m $1k closer to the operation!!! The gfm is right here, thank you for reading and happy pride month!
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Thank you everyone who’s donated and shared this! Top surgery is really going to be a reality for me!!! I’m beyond elated 😭 I cant express my gratitude enough!!! Thank you thank you thank you
This video is so fucked up in context that this is clearly from a cattle farm therefore this little goober will get killed in aproximatly 12 months so we can eat him.
hi! if this farm was planning to cull him for meat they would not be raising him as a bull! people don’t really raise bulls to eat, the meat is a lot tougher than cow or steer meat and its not really worth the extra aggression, ya know? this lil fella is probably gonna be a service bull :)
i understand the hesitancy about cattle farming from the outside, if you’d like to read a lil bit about it i’d like to redirect you over here and here ! just to share a little bit of my perspective
plus, like, youre seeing this setting, right? grassy fields and seemingly wide enclosures in the background. raised with affection and activity. we’re always going to eat meat. thats not going to end. and id much rather our meat be sourced from a happy animal killed quickly than something that grew up from a tiny-celled nightmarish factory farm. you should be glad your food had a good life, not outraged it ever felt happy or acted cute.
So my roommate doesn’t like swears. They make her uncomfortable, so when I send her memes, I do my best to censor out any swears in them so she can enjoy them as much as I do.
I was trying to send her this meme
So I went to censor it into the final form in MS paint
Simple process, just set the secondary color to black
Highlight
And cut
Then copy and paste edited meme.
Which I did.
Except.
I forgot to copy the whole meme
So my roommate, whom I love dearly, just got a notification on her phone that only said
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If any of you ever feel like what you’re doing for Palestine isn’t helping anything, I’ll tell you right now it’s helping me. I know it is fortifying all of us who have been in this fight for years to see so many people willing to speak up. It has never been like this before.
The tide has already turned. The fact that #free palestine will have new posts everyday, that helps me. It helps my mental health knowing that Palestinians are less alone now than ever.
Yesterday I read some verses from the Quran talking about how “the blame” is not with those who wish to help but cannot, but with those who CAN help and do not.
Truly I do not care if all you do for Palestine is post in that #free palestine everyday, that is still more than many people with the means to do even more would do.
We see you. We see you standing in solidarity with us and with Palestinians. We love you. Thank you.
I have to keep reminding myself that the point of collective action is that it’s collective.
It’s terrifying and demoralizing that nothing thus far has stopped or more than briefly paused the genocide.
Where’s that post that’s like “I can’t buy expensive things like plane tickets on my phone, I have to use my laptop, big purchases are for the big screen”
Because apparently this is a literal actual thing that retailers hate cuz you think more before spending a lot of money, they want you to spend a lot without thinking about it so much
Always be vague. Say I think they’re in today or not until later. If they press say it’s company policy not to give out the schedule. Most companies do have this and even if they don’t how would a stranger know. Don’t give out specifics, they can get people injured or even killed.
At my last job someone came up and asked when “Sarah” was working next. I didn’t tell him and then texted her a description, turns out he was an abusive ex who had been stalking her. Don’t do this shit please.
Do NOT say anything along the lines of “they’re not in today” or “not until later” because you are confirming that this is somewhere the person in question can be found. NEVER confirm anything!
My old boss told us a story of how, years before when she was a fairly new manager (I’m talking decades, she’s 64 right now), there was a man who came in and asked for an employee by name and said he was her uncle. She told him the employee’s shift started in a coule hours. He waited the entire time for her, and when she came in, he assaulted her and bashed her face into the counter. My boss saw everything. She can’t recall what he said, but he kept screaming until someone threatened to call the police.
She told me that story after a man came in and asked for when an employee, who recently quit, would be coming in. I told him she doesn’t work here anymore and he said to me “Okay, well I’m her dad so if you see her tell her I’ll be across the street at the gas station.” He left and my boss IMMEDIATELY came out and scolded me for it, then told me that story.
She gave me some advice on what to say or do in that situation:
Don’t just deny knowing anything, deny the person asking. Example, “When is ____ coming in?” “You can’t know that information.” or “Can you tell me when ____’s shift is?” “Schedules are only for employees.” Additionally, saying “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” can usually work, it may piss them off but it can work.
Continue on with the customer service. “I can’t help you with that, do you need help (with clothes, finding a product, ordering)?” or “Can I take your order?/Can I help you find (a product)?”
If they persist, insist they leave the store. “If you’re not going to order, please leave the building.” or “I can’t help you, have a nice day.” and, if you can, leave. If you can’t leave, call for or help the next customer.
If they still persist (by now they may be aggressive), threaten to call the police on the basis of them becoming aggressive and refusing to leave the premises. Some people will leave at that point, others stay. When the police get there, explain the situation but still do NOT confirm the existence of the employee they’re looking for to the police until they have been escorted out of the area.
Regardless of if the customer know the employee’s name, description, or daily (not hourly) schedule, even if they look like the same race and claim to be family, you NEVER confirm the employee’s existence.
The only exceptions are if the employee tells you themself they’re expecting someone to come in for them (ASK FOR A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON), and if you personally know who they are in relation to the employee. When anyone I know has to come in because I asked them to come in, I describe what they look like and what they usually wear. I go into deep descriptions, even including how they walk.
You could literally save a life, guys. Don’t blindly trust your gut either and think “But they LOOK innocent” or “But they said ______” because that can result in someone getting severely hurt, or killed.
I know I joked on this post before but seriously
If youre in the US it is against federal law to give out anyones personal information (this includes numbers, names, and schedules) without writen and signed permission.
Just say its against federal law and you cant give out that info without risk of termination - this will get 99% off your back the first time
I love British mystery shows set in beautiful peaceful quaint idyllic towns full of simple happy folk who are constantly murdering the shit out of each other.
the way sesame street, a pbs puppet show for literal babies, is pressing on with pride content despite vitriolic monsters descending on every post to insinuate they’re pedophiles or demons while some of the biggest companies on the planet who could swim in olympic swimming pools of money like scrooge mcduck on steroids buckle and cave just emphasizes how completely and utterly pathetic these corporations are. they’d butcher a baby if it meant saving a penny.
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where Starbucks and Target and Budweiser will be bullied into submission with the slightest push, puppets and people in your neighborhood stand tall
Sesame Workshop has been doing pride stuff since 2017. The Muppet Wiki has a nice list of stuff they’ve done:
Jim Henson supported his openly queer colleagues in the 1970s! The Muppet performer Richard Hunt was majorly influential on Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.
They also dumped Chick-fil-A in 2012 when CFA made their stance on gay marriage known.
It would be a dishonor to their memories for the Jim Henson Company to kowtow to queerphobic demands when their namesake always stood for diversity and acceptance of everyone, and it makes me proud to be a Muppet fan to see that insisted upon 💖🌈
its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea
Did you intentionally make him Cajun before that screencap or was that baked into the prompt already. I ask only because the eyes as green as the bayou got me good
he’s naturally australian so i gave him an upgrade
Honestly there’s nothing a child can do in public that’s as much of a disturbance as an adult yelling at them
Spoken like someone who is not a parent.
Or someone who has watched adults yell at kids in public and found it more disturbing than what the kid was doing. If you think you aren’t mature enough not to lose your absolute shit at your child for acting like a child, don’t choose to have one, or if you already chose or couldn’t choose, work on yourself so you can be better for that child. Everyone snaps every once in a while and raises their voice, which sucks, but the shit I’ve seen, the way they talk to their kids, it is often obvious this is just how the parent is. I have no respect for them. I genuinely think you’d probably recognize the difference, if I could show you what I’ve seen. It’s… it’s not normal behavior. It’s inherently upsetting. If you care about kids and see that shit, it sets off all kinds of alarms. Kids might misbehave, but the parent’s response shouldn’t be cruel or frightening. If bystanders are noticing, the parent needs to cool off ASAP.
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