#growing a human

[greelin]

it is literally called a “happy” trail for a reason.. If you feel any emotion other than joy upon seeing it you should be sent to live on a deserted island by yourself forever. or blow up. either way get out of my presence

#‘i hate hair on the human body where it grows’ like grow the FUCK UP!!!! god DAMN!!!! get TASTE!!!! #this is about all genders baby. Hair is good and normal and also soso sexy

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This baby remained under the rubble for six hours. Read it again. By some miracle, he survived and he was rescued. But his mother who was holding him didn't. He looks like he's in shock, you can see tears coming out of his eyes but no expression or any sound to indicate his pain.

We are not numbers. Make an effort to end this.

#six hours under the rubble is too much for a full grown human being #he's literally growing up with these images printed in his head #I'm sorry the world failed you #palestine #gaza #israel #we are not numbers #important #current events #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #free palestine #gaza under attack #gaza under genocide #gaza strip #israel apartheid #video

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

Olive harvest in the West Bank. Photos by Ari Messinis, courtesy of Al Jazeera.

#the linked article is on settler violence in the west bank - they have words from some people in these pictures so. worth checking out. #palestine #west bank #brought to you by me #lovely humans #love is stored in the olive grove and love is resistance and the olive trees will grow forever i think

[lotus-duckies]

i think there's something very interesting about the fact that irl, turtles aren't very social or familial in any sense but the ninja turtles are incredibly social and love caring for others and this is arguably the greatest example of their humanity

#you see humans pack bond with everything and that's how you know they're Humanoid turtles #insert image of raph adopting spike and chompy #insert image of mikey making 10 new best friends #insert image of donnie and his BUGS #and leo doing his Bgig Brother Thing TM #insert the hamato clan growing with every person they meet #leonardo hamato #michelangelo hamato #donatello hamato #raphael hamato #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 1987 #tmnt 2018 #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Sorry for not having a Year of the Dragon MDZS artwork; Unfortunately, I can only picture Dragon LWJ in this particular flavour.

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #Dragon AU #MDZS AU #noodleji #(IT'S A REAL TAG!!! AAH!!! THROWING MY HAT TO THE LITTLE GUY LOVERS!) #Yes I watched Fruits Basket in my teen years and yes it left a significant impression on me. #'The Dragon Transforms' and its just into a small little guy. #Even more points if the human form is a Tall Guy. #Sadly this does not appear to be a common nor popular variation so I will sit on my little hill alone. (EDIT: I WAS WRONG) #Dragon LWJ probably would be some kind of river dragon. Lesser god of a small stream. #One that grows bigger with time but always has the reputation of being benevolent and calm to those who seek its clear waters. #Do not pollute these waters or your ass is going to be bit. 1000 tiny puncture marks. #I imagine that's probably how wwx first meets him (accidently pours booze into lwj's river) (gets bit - gets bit - gets bit-) #WWX eventually befriends him through stubbornly showing up every week to give him offerings. #Takes him into town in a little pot of water to show him how the people live. Maybe go to a festival. #When the day is done and he's back in his river and alone - LWJ finally feels a new emotion...it is longing and loneliness.

[ryllen]

#twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #maybe he would live at least twice as long as a human #since he reaches teenage year in the span of human year don't u wonder how long he would actually live #does sebek's older brother and sister actually has a slower growth because of their longer years #it's a funky timeline of age in the family #who's older who's younger again #maybe sebek has really big age gap with his older brother and sister because they grow so slow #we'll never know we'll never know

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[accursedvoid]

Ran across a ‘humans are weird/space orcs/humans in space’ post the other day talking about how humans make up games if they’re stuck somewhere with nothing to do and it just got me thinking about that one game and how aliens would be so baffled

As in THE game, you all know the one (for those reading this I’m so sorry to make you lose ‘the game’ again, if it’s any consolation I have now lost ‘the game’ making this post myself) and just how baffling that is from a non human perspective can you imagine it-

this is for fun? And it’s not even a game game? It’s just saying you lost the game/mentioning ‘the game’ and humans will get irrationally annoyed/upset/angry about it like-

Brian: hey Lee, guess who just lost the game?

Lee: what gam- OH YOU ASSHOLE I HAD A STREAK OF FOUR YEARS GOING!!!

Every alien in the room: ??????

#it’s baffling to other humans who don’t know it and then it’s very funny when after being informed they /also/ then get angry about losing 😂 #humans are weird #humans are space orcs #humans in space #accursed posts #sorry everyone reading this post but you too have lost the game #again #might be interesting to see how universal the game is if this post gets notes tho also #everyone growing up around me knew it so maybe 🤔

[wasyago]

little guppies <3

#jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #edyn tidestrider #jrwi edyn #my art #sketch #wanted to draw them as children for a while now #idk how old they're here exactly... gill is supposed to be younger than 5 but he also looks a lot older than 5? whoops #i think i remember reading somewhere that tritons grow up faster than humans and reach maturity at 15 but i don't know where i read it... #idk doesn't matter #also gill doesn't have his stripes yet because he baby <3

[constellation-of-boopasters]

PROTECT TRANS KIDS. LOVE TRANS KIDS. RESPECT TRANS KIDS. LISTEN TO THEM, HEAR THEIR VOICES AND DON’T STAND BY SILENTLY.

#nex benedict #trans rights #disaster gets a bit political #but it’s not politics #it’s human rights #please support us #please consider the consequences of making transness illegal and blocking all help #please #please advocate and learn and grow #just #trans

[ruporas]

invisible scars (referenced previous talk here)

[ID: A colourless, digital Trigun comic of Vash and Wolfwood talking about Wolfwood's scars. They're both laying in bed and topless. Vash lays on top of Wolfwood, playing with the rosary around his neck. Then, Vash kisses a spot on Wolfwood's chest. Wolfwood asks, "What are you doing?" Vash smiles sadly, "You got shot here. In the last town we visited. You didn't even bother moving."

Vash props himself up over Wolfwood, who frowns slightly. Wolfwood is quiet for a moment before he says, "You remember that, huh?" Vash grabs Wolfwood's left wrist and brings it to his face. "And here." He kisses another spot there. "When you helped free the hostages from that robber..." Wolfwood dismissively says, looking away, "Was a lucky shot." Vash huffs, “Don’t brag. Jeez.”

Half of Wolfwood's expression is shown, eyes returning to Vash who is now sitting up, continuing to say, "And..." Vash goes on and kiss Wolfwood's right palm. "You got cut here, even though that girl was aiming at me." A moment from the past flashes, of Wolfwood grabbing a knife aimed at Vash, his hand bleeding.

At present, Vash moves down and puts another kiss on Wolfwood's right shoulder. "And here, from watching my back." Another memory flashes of Wolfwood and Vash back to back. Vash looks back as Wolfwood grins while holding Punisher, bleeding from multiple gunshots in his shoulder.

"And," Vash combs up Wolfwood's hair to reveal his forehead, "Here." A final memory shows Wolfwood with a regeneration vial in his mouth while getting shot on his temple. The next panel is framed in blood with Vash at the center, eyes wide and stunned in horror. The next panel is a closed up shot of Wolfwood's eye, locked on Vash's face.

Back to present, Vash’s head is bowed down as Wolfwood raises a hand to his nape and says, “Spikey.”

Wolfwood looks serious and frowns as he says, "We talked about this. Those were my decisions. They're not there anymore. Forget about them." Vash looks very sad before he smiles ruefully and says, "I still see them. All the time." He leans down so they touch foreheads. Wolfwood’s sorrowful expression can be seen as Vash says, "You protect so much. I could never forget what you've done to me. And many others..."

In the last image, they're drawn more cartoonishly. Wolfwood sweats and asks, "You don't actually remember every wound, right?" Vash points at a spot on his chest. "Kuroneko left a scratch here 7 times." Wolfwood, startled, says, "Why the hell are you keeping count—" End ID]

Credits for ID here and here

#vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #trigun #trigun maximum #another scars comic for one of the vw week days!!!! frankly i think about their scars WAY too often . most notably wolfwood's because #it really symbolizes a lot for him imo bc for vash it's a history of all the people that's ever harmed him betrayed him and the trust he has #given to humanity despite it all. its a beautiful reflection of his character and then u look at ww and presumably #since we dont really see him half naked Ever (shame) and i mean. i guess technically its a hc -- i assume he wouldn't have any scars bc #of the regen potions (which is why he doesnt have his t scars btw the regen pot took them away :pensive:) #in a way its like washing his hands of blood. giving him the body of someone who might never been involved in a fight never held a gun #but he knows thats not true yet he cant really do anything about it anyway bc he's still just human. if he stops taking the regen pots #he can't press forward. so its just a rinse and repeat and growing accustomed to whats inflicted on him because he knows it'll go away at #the end of the day. he's human but he's also not he's far beyond what could be considered a normal human but he still just is. #mortal but also not immortal. idk. i overthink about it a lot GMSKGMDK frankly i dont think it matters THAT much in the context of trimax #but it means a lot to me somehow. also thinking about how no matter how many times ww kills he's never numb to the sensation of it. maybe #the adrenaline gets to him for the beginning half but ive been rereading like.. vol 3? and that entire fight for ww #u can slowly see him spiral as he keeps on going on. anyway anyway. i love ww #ruporas art

[aq2003]

ten is aroace for this one sorry society

#human ten is actually so. different. from normal ten. i really appreciate how he's portrayed as like #this empty shell of a person. past the surface level there's just kind of nothing underneath #he isn't selfless. and nowhere near as caring. like he's fine with kids growing up to be soldiers under his watch #he is like a blank wobbly sheet of paper. factoring in reading (normal) ten as aroace and this makes the point crunch in such a funny way #dr who #asexual #aromantic #tenth doctor #aroace #aspec doc tag #10 era

[saphushia]

i read a wonderful little sickfic that had phantom!etho in it, and despite never even considering the concept before i now can't stop abt etho phantom mechanics and him just being silly with it <3

#fic doesn't have relation to any of the drawings really btw #it's just nice n i wanted to give credit for where i got the idea before running hogwild with it ^-^ #bdubs is human here but theres many good ethubs possibilities and dynamics with glare!bdubs too #adds this to my quickly growing stack of etho designs ideas i adore and are all in direct conflict with eachother #he doesn't get violent if you don't sleep but he DOES like to bully you abt it and scare you #art #fanart #mcyt #hermitcraft #hermitcrap #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #docm77 #beef's also there but i dont think enough to maintag him #phantom!etho

[nelkcats]

The King's last gift

Danny was tired, tired of being responsible for protecting the world. At first it was just Amity but the ghosts began to explore more and the halfa was exhausted. He was the only hero available and it was taking its toll.

He knew he couldn't go on like this, let alone with his coronation around the corner but he didn't know what else to do. He knew he couldn't interfere with the world after the crown was on his head. The world would fear him (maybe even more than now) and protecting them with so much power in hand could do more harm than good, but if he didn't protect them, who would?

His core ached at the thought of all those people begging for a hero who wouldn't come, so Danny took desperate measures, and cheated a little.

He visited Desiree; she watched him with a raised eyebrow, curious. And Danny did what he forbade long ago, he wished. He wished for the future and for humanity itself, he uttered the words he had wanted to say ever since he knew he would not be able to visit earth for a long time.

"I wish for the world to be safe even when I no longer live in it, I wish for there to be someone who can protect it, even if it's just a human."

Desiree blinked in surprise not expecting the King who had "forbidden" her to do such a thing. She smiled and nodded. Her power grew exponentially but neither she nor Danny said anything about it. The halfa would not undo that wish after all.

In New Jersey, Thomas and Martha Wayne were celebrating the birth of their son. Neither of them noticed the spark of magic entering the baby, nor the boy's unusually blue eyes. Bruce Wayne, the Ghost King's latest gift to mankind, had been born.

And years later, when the Justice League was formed and everyone was talking to each other, John Constantine looked at the dark knight curiously, wondering if he was aware that he was death's favorite.

#dpxdc #ghost king danny #immortal danny #he protected earth for a long time #But Danny knew he couldn't protect them forever #Danny loves humanity but they are not his people #not anymore #his people are the Infinite Realms inhabitants and they would desperately need him after the coronation #especially after the disaster that Pariah Dark left behind #Clockwork warned Danny that he couldn't be the hero anymore #his powers would grow and it would take him a long time to control them #But if he doesn't protect humans then who? #dp x dc #dc x dp #Danny wished for a hero #and Bruce Wayne was born #maybe Danny changed his future and his parents wouldn't have died if the King hadn't wanted something so selfish #but Danny can't help but be selfish #he loves humanity too much despite how much they hate him #John Constantine is wrong though #Bruce is not Death's favorite #he is the King's last hope

[babylemonart]

Grandpa Baul and his newts

#diasomnia spoilers #ch7 spoilers #twisted wonderlans #twst #sebek zigvolt #twst silver #baul zigvolt #i like to imagine baul was indifferent and/or distant towards silver at first #but seeing him grow up along his grandson softened his heart #plus lilia is a menace so the zigvolts just HAD to help ok?? #it's not like he likes the little human or anything nope #tsun grandpa

[akindplace]

The biggest trap of your teens and early 20s is to believe that any given situation is absolute, and that things will remain the same forever™️. I’m not blaming anyone for this because when we first experience love and grief and sorrow and anxiety it sure feels like a lot to process and it’s okay to be overwhelmed but I promise things can and will change.

Maybe your first love won’t last forever, maybe it shouldn’t last forever, but your first heartbreak won’t last forever either. Pain has its way of being so powerful that it makes us doubt that we could ever have a different future where pain isn’t prevalent and this feeling might make us just want to give up. But you will find new joy too. Again and again. You just have to stick around to find it. You will start over. Again and again. You’re not stuck and this is not the end. Maybe you should explore life and what it provides you, good and bad, knowing that in the transitional nature of things, nothing lasts forever, and it can be very sad when things end, but it can also be for the better. No feeling is final, meaning that even though joy didn’t last forever, neither will your pain. Coming from a person in their late 20s who fell into the trap of believing certain things would last forever even though she was only taking her first steps in life, please believe that you will find your answers, you will learn to let go, you will experience beautiful things in life again. You just have to take my hand and stick around long enough to find them. So please, do.

#original writing #on growing up #on growing older #reminder #on being human