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I love how routine-oriented cats are. in the old apartment - or rather, previous apartment, given it was a century or so newer than the one we're living in now - Urwisek used to sleep with us, in our bed, every night. but here there's so much room and so many fun nooks and crannies that he has his own spot now.

every night around 1am he goes to curl up on this one particular chair underneath the table by the tile stove: from that spot he can see both us and the door to the room as well. he sleeps there until 6 or 7am - that is the time when he decides to come check on us, and see whether we're still asleep. we are - or if he manages to wake me up with his checking, I have to pretend I'm still asleep, or else he'll demand The Day Begins, Now. and who's ready for that at 6am.

then he goes to lie down on the east facing windowsill and bask in the sun. and then, once he decides he's had enough sun, it is High Time To Wake Up, Furless Things. so he jumps on the bed - usually stepping on my partner's head to get to me - stands right above me, and hollers with as much power as mother nature gave him.

and so I wake up, make more room for him - by squishing myself against the wall - and he lies down for half an hour of pets and scritches, and maybe a quick little nap, and only then can the day begin for all three of us.

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Here. Have kudos on that fanfic you wrote in your head while you were in the shower and never typed it out. When I recover from the brilliance of it, I’ll come back to leave a review.

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10 or 11 little ducks have been spotted crossing the dash board

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i thought too hard about insect motifs got a little silly and made... a lot lmao these versions of the characters are from @sm-baby's amazing digital carnival au!! full images and rambling about insect choices are gonna get stuck under the cut... it'll be a bit long and i will be putting photos of real bugs down there so be mindful

pomni: "butterfly"

inspirational species are black swallowtails mostly for the shape, and malay red harlequins mostly for the pattern

carnival pomni's actually the one that kickstarted this whole set... i drew her hat in a way that reminded me of butterflies, went "wait...", then i fully leaned into it :)

jax: "centipede"

there was no specific species for jax. without being able to use color, they were too similar to pick any out... i have included a giant centipede just for reference though since it was mainly larger centipedes i used for inspiration

anddd there's a little bonus sketch for how pre-sentience jax might've looked with a centipede outfit... he gets a bug scarf and some goggles!

ragatha: "ladybug"

inspirational species was the twice-stabbed ladybug chosen because the inverted color scheme looked the best out of all the ones i tried, and also because it's a metal name and we know ragatha's good with a knife... stabby stab... i did add more than two spots to the dress though, it just looks cooler lol

gangle: "spider"

inspiration was the spinybacked orb weaver which i was absolutely ecstatic to find because come on that is the perfect spider for gangle like look at it!! it looks like her mask, it's got red, it's got gold on the limbs, literally twinning

zooble: "mantis"

inspiration was the spiny flower mantis which, like with gangle, i feel is pretty much perfect for zooble... they come in many colors (including pink), have abstract patterns, and it gave me the excuse to cover zooble in spikes :D fun

and no kaufmo because i'm lazy and he's dead (sorry kaufmo fans but am i wrong), and the rest don't have bug names that i know of?

i still want to draw the carnival characters in their regular looks sometime, i just got really really inspired by the idea of secret skins and bug-themed outfits and went a liiittle haywire :P

anyways if you read all that you're a real one and you've got too much time on your hands... if you didn't, i understand, i get wordy, sorry :'D okay i think that's all byeee

#tadc

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The straight woman is unsatisfied with straight studio porn. She wants to get off to something in which the actors actually emote and show passion beyond canned moans from the women and, at best, vacant grunts from the men. She turns to gay porn. She knows it's not "for her," but neither was the straight porn, and at least the actors look like they're enjoying themselves. And for a short while she is satiated by Sean Cody et al, but she runs into the same problems she had to begin with. She was not looking at sex but a simulacrum of sex, trapped in Plato's cave. Unsatisfied, she turned to vintage gay porn, harkening to a time when most gay bars still had darkrooms and reliably smelled of piss and Amyl Nitrite. Here was the real thing, in all its animalistic passion. But she still couldn't immerse herself in the fantasy. She wanted the media to engage with her own imagination and meet her half-way, rather than having it spoonfed to her onscreen. She turned to yaoi, with its elongated figures reminiscent of mannerist portraiture, then bara, including hardcore BDSM scenes. But the tactile sensations depicted in the pages didn't do justice to their real life counterparts. She turned deeper into her own imagination, this time reading erotica. No, not the poolside paperbacks sold at Barnes and Noble. The good shit. Why then, was she still not satisfied? She dug deeper, searching for the true meaning of eroticism. She studied the psychoanalysis of Freud, the cultural criticism of Susan Sontag, the feminist poetry of Audre Lorde. She took vacation time and flew to Europe, starting at the caves of Lascaux to explore the human urge to create, then traversed the Camino de Santiago on foot, along the way meeting a 56 year old carpenter from Burgos named Andrés, with whom she had an explosive affair. They both knew it couldn't last, which made them cherish each other's touch all the more. Upon flying home, she gave up. If her search for true eroticism never bore fruit this whole time, why would it now? It would take years before she stumbled upon the answer by pure happenstance: dubstep.

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I love when a trans woman comes out because the flowers bloom and the clouds part and the birds join in chorus and a rainbow leaps across the sky and the world is no longer a mean place for a little bit because Whoa! New girl! New girl!

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A blonde boyfriend is a novelty item similar to a cake pop or sea monkeys

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This is genuinely my favorite tweet ever btw

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taller wife is blessing or curse?

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“it sounds like you’re justifying their actions-“ i am. they’re a fictional character. i’m okay with anything they do all the time. hope this helps.

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(violently jerking the steering wheel) my car swerves like crazy when i do this

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ed pov edizzy: guy who doesn't particularly like or know how to interact with dogs but has a deep, inextricable, and very genuine bond with a busted little rescue dog who loves him more than you could possibly imagine that he impulsively adopted while drunk

izzy pov edizzy: guy who did an insanely extensive and ultimately pointless amount of research to be able to provide for a very beautiful and extremely intelligent cat who cannot be controlled constantly bites him for no reason and has figured out how to open doors

#ofmd

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my one (1) piece for happy edizzy week 2024. i think the original prompt was "pride". please enjoy

#ofmd #i forgot just how pretty vic draws ed... im giving up my ed hating ways again #nsfw