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#spinning her sunday

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Elidryas but pretend it was all rendered and stuff, i got impatient

#sheeeeeeeeeeee

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still thinking about my ocs as pokemon,starting with Crow and Cardamomo ofc

#reblogging them again bc this is so cute

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Guess who finished EoD for the first time!

#reblogging again for pretty thalys screenshots

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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

#polls #6+ #i only wear pants (and shorts during summer) and they don't specify which types #so i assume it applies to all types of pants #so yeah I got more than 6 haha

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me emitting a psychic blast killing everyone

#Mourynn

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Born to be a princess stuck in a tower waiting for a sweet (lesbian) knight to save them, forced to work :/

#u_u

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doodles of the day old woman

#gw2 #largos #zafira #YEAHH BABYYYY #hot GILF hours let's gooooooo #your lines and faces are so good audie

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'why r you smiling at your phone' cool girls from tumblr interacting with me mind ur business

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you guys ever hear a character say something so gay you sitting there trying to figure out how you were supposed to interpret that platonically?!

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reblog for sample size !!

#polls #i'm laughing bc this is pretty much handed to me on a silver platter for you Anna bc of your icon #seal point since it's one of the many Siamese types

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Symbiosis isn't just mutualism. Parasitism is symbiosis. It's uncomfortable to confront parasitic relationships if you want to see your human ideas of good and bad reflected in Nature.

But gazing into something huge and utterly Other, being uncomfortable means you're engaging your mind with it. "Uncomfortable" is actually a whole spectrum of emotions that become a vivid and satisfying rainbow.

There was a post a while back with some artwork of Dendrogaster, a crustacean that parasitizes starfish, and its body is like this branching fractal of fleshy lobes made to fit inside the body of the starfish mirroring its structure, and I was absolutely horrified to look at this, and this horror was the same emotion as a strangely visceral wave of sympathy for this parasite.

Creative works about parasites often invoke the horror of bodily invasion, which is visceral and strong for me, but this artwork inverted that horror, instead showing the horror of being made so perfectly for fitting within someone else that you lose everything you are and become unrecognizable.

I also think of the post about the cowbird chick. It's awful that the bird pushes its siblings out of the nest as it grows, and the mama feeds it because she instinctively must feed her chick, but the cowbird is just a baby. Was it wrong for him to hatch, to be alive, to be hungry, to be a baby and to need love?

Symbiosis is intensely beautiful, and sometimes it's beautiful because it's grotesque and terrible. Of course, the symbiosis between two organisms isn't an allegory for a relationship, it just is a relationship, but looking at the way organisms become entwined feels like you're seeing things that, if words described them, would also be human experiences.

Being invaded by a parasite is a horror of powerlessness and loss of autonomy, but being a parasite is also defined by powerlessness. In many cases, the parasite will die without the host, but the host can live without the parasite. I wonder why it is expected to sympathize with one and not the other.

Your immune system fights against internal parasites like a tapeworm...Imagine being a tapeworm. The body of your host is your universe. Do you find your world to be kind? Benevolent? Does your god love you?

Sometimes people call disabled people "parasites." When I think about my future sometimes I'm uncertain and afraid.

But when a rare non-photosynthetic orchid blooms in the forest, this is not the forest's weakness and failure, but its crowning glory.

#mourynn #vallotash #wasn't expecting a post about symbiosis and parasitism on my dash but that's literally their whole origin and existence #that last line especially fits everything so well

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more beckons!! and the commander. of course

#BECKON BACK ON MY DASH!!!!! #always reblog Beckon!! #beckon ilu beckon ilu beckon ilu #still obsessed with how you draw them Marcel bc it tickles me silly

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love me some dark blue and gold

want me to draw more weird fashion? asks are open <3

#charr #asura

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How about a fancy kilt: https://i.imgur.com/cSNyRK6.jpg

:D

im kinda in love with those square appliques, nice contrast.

learned how to do quick tartan patterns! hah!

thanks for that prompt <3

#charr #slay

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The Bug Brothers

the boys Simon [left], Finnegan [mid] and Jimothy [right]

#sylvari #well they're not really but just for my tag lol #them!

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Some cool kids whose designs I like a lot

Wynn (idk if you have social media) / Wixxi (@rytlockdripstone) / Iovitus @skrittkicking