#like no. it’s just keratin

[dysphoric-culture-is]

Varying body dysphoria + high social dysphoria culture is being fine with your body mostly, but feeling terrible when people gender it or you

Dysphoric culture is!

Also, mod deals with this too. Mod’s natural state is an inherently abinary blob of flesh and skin but cis people (including ’allies’) can’t seem to get past their gendered assumptions about bodies enough to respect that.

All bodies are wonderful and only gendered to match whoever inhabits them. A trans woman’s body is not “a man’s body” or “male” or ”boy parts” and vice versa for trans men. Nonbinary people’s bodies are nonbinary just like them! And mod is sorry that people are gendering your body for you.

#mod has a lot of body hair #which is not a inherently gendered thing #but people are still like “wow hair! so masc!!!” #like no. it’s just keratin #and most people have body hair (unless you have alopecia) #or shave or get laser hair removal. which still doesn’t actually make you naturally hairless #so yes moral of the story is to leave people’s bodies alone! #dysphoria tw #gender dysphoria #dysphoria #dysphoric culture is #social dysphoria #body dysphoria #cisnormativity #misgendering ment tw #trans body positivity #trans #lgbtq #lgbt+ #queer #nonbinary #socially dysphoric culture is

[show-tunes]

Nice rack

#hits him with the creatureification beam #i love drawing him with antlers #got kinda lazy towards the end though #i think white-tailed deer suits him better but i like how the pronghorn one turned out the most #also fun fact pronghorns have neither antlers nor horns #unlike antlers they're made of keratin but they shed them every year #and unlike horns they have multiple points instead of one #they're just a weird mix of horns and antlers #leshy #inscryption #my art

[tunisian]

the love hate relationship between a curly girl and her hair

#like what if i just get a keratin treatment. #what if i just chop it all off. #why must you most often fail me when i need you the most.

[deadcrowcalling]

screw keratosis pilaris my friend is playing connect the dots on my arm and my whole upper arm is just covered in purple marker

#if u dk what keratosis pilaris is #it's a buildup of keratin in like my skin #so my skin is bumpy #it's mostly on my arms but also a little on my face and my legs #it's not itchy or painful #it's just there #ITS MY LAST DAY OF EXAMS WOOHOO #i have to do math and world history today

[dead-set-goat]

Hey look at this super duper DNA structure drawing I found in an old genetics textbook! It's beyond cool...

#also hiiii Im #back in the #game #the biology game babeyyyy #through the end of summer I had lost my will and joy for the things that once brought me so much joy #I was scared tbh that something really died in me but nope #I'm YAY YAY YAy #drawing #biology #my art #art #cheez scribbles stuff #oc #kert #the keratin man #gosh I have so many doodles like these to post but I feel bad just throwing unifished stuff like this around... but tbh #i think I should. I never finish it anymore #barely have the drive or time and I just really like putting my heart in doodles :> #🦞chat

[striving-artist]

the mixup at the gender office continues, and I remain in receipt of someone else's goatee.

#its a texture problem for me #I can feel it #all the time #and it often gets confused and grows backwards #which then gets inflamed #or just grows ultra thick keratin sticks #someone please correct this #I do not like it

[thiscatiscreepy]

Why do (to my knowledge) only hoofed mammals have horns it's so unfair. I want to see a lion with big ol ram horns.

#does it have something to do with hooves themselves. like theyre keratin growths so the animals already produce a lot of it #so having horns if just the extension of hooves #does it? #should look it up sometime #cat talks

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

I just realized that if I’ve got a little head world full of reimagined Spider-man villain’s anyway, I could just take my favorite wild reinterpretation of the Vulture and make him his own character.

So meet Butcherbird.

#his coloration is actually based on a species of shrike that is not technically a butcherbird but it also butcher’s its prey so it counts #the feather ruff didn’t work if he wasn’t a vulture so he’s just slinging around a big jacket #his mouth also once again changed! #I’m fully embracing that he’s a weird conglomeration of animal genes so his jaw hinges like a goblin shark #the keratin in his nose grows and stretches to strengthen the top of the ‘beak’ which mostly hides this #but I drew all the bones! #it’s awful! #my art #the butcherbird #shrike Maddicks #Spiderman villain redesigns #specter spider au

[finalhaunts]

I hate you skincare i hate you hair care i hate you conflicting and overwhelming information on how to take care of yourself i hate you advice influenced by the pursuit of beauty and not actual concern for health I hate you 7 step skincare routines I hate you “tame frizz!” I fucking HATE you i HATE YOU !!!!!!!!

#.txt #my grandma forced me to have a keratin treatment while down in cleveland #even though i absolutely did not fucking ask for it #and maybe its my ocd or something but like this hair shit has been plaguing my fucking mind ever since #am I actually taking care of my hair right? am I healthy? am I doing everything right? #and then it evolved to also include skincare too #because I don’t really use lotion often or wash my face #and its aagaghhhh kill me fuckkng KILL me !!!!!!! I HATE THIS !!!!!!!!!!! #WHY IS ALL THE INFORMATION SO CONFLICTING !!!! DO I EVEN NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!! DOES THIS SHIT EVEN MATTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #SOMEONE FUCKING GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER #i dont even know what my hair type is #fuuuckkkckckkckckckkck&;&;&&4&3&2&&2&:&; #also like. even the smallest and simplest routines. are still taking time out of my day. #and I hate it #i dont have the time to fucking worry about my skin and hair amongst all the million other things #but my ocd has fucking LATCHED onto this and it wont leave my head !!!!!!! #if someone has like. any advice or anything. please just let me know #someone tell me if this is something I actually need to worry about or if i can just go Thog don’t caare

[susansontag]

I do think foundation and concealer are evil but they are also ugly... it just looks like something you shouldn’t be putting on your face, you can see it’s bad for you imo. true my finding it ugly isn’t a reason not to use it but the societal idea that wearing makeup = beautiful whereas women being barefaced and natural = ugly is a compelling reason

#I don't see nail polish as makeup that's just painting the keratin protruding from your fingers... like why not #it's another thing to waste money on if you pay for it a lot but so are many things #moth.txt

[sniffanimal]

One time like a decade ago I was holding a parrot I was pet sitting and my sister's kid asked if they could "touch it's horn" and I've been thinking about that all day today. Bird beaks are Horn now

#i mean im assuming theyre keratin so like. yeah? #but just like. the wonder of a child seeing a bird and going. dude its got a horn #badger rants

[ttearsofthekingdom]

Ok i know its partially the fault of '98 but I wish people drew Vash's 'plant break out mode' more monstery and less angely sometimes... Dont get me wrong i LOVE the angel look cause its so on the nose. but like in trimax there's a part where his arm grows a whole 'nother mouth and eyes and fucked up fingers. He can do MORE than the feather thing... actually Im not even sure theyre feathers! They sometimes look like tentacles! Hes not just a feather monster, hes a flesh monster too ❤️

#even knives! #knives in the arc arc gives his body a metallic look! #they can do inorganic material too #and when knives forces vash to blow a hole in the moon his arm becomes hard maybe like stone/keratin/shell #theres soooo much and everyone just focuses on the feathers

[zhuhongs]

also goddddd. i want like nice long curly princess hair once in my life but god.. the upkeep is NOT WORTH ITTTTT. Esp not while im living in a dorm...

#i heard one stylist say that foreigners typincally cure their hair woes with a keratin treatment. like thats enough to combat the taiwan #humidity for most. and i was like... hmm maybe i should do that and get a light trim but like.... is it worth the shedding? #its not... ill just go short rn while im in taiwan and grow it out when im in the us and get a treatment there when its long to keep it #nice and pretty. yes its scheaper here but like... its fine.

[tillman]

bask materials... ik I rendered them as metal but what do the yellow parts look / feel like :-) also is there any story to their belt

its scutes! bask is the funniest nightmare creature in terms of his biology. hes a griffon, technically. its a point of debate within the world about what beasts like bask count as (he and a few other scholars label what he is a Margina, a beast made by god with no real shape, just kinda as if he was scribbled in the margins of a book (guess his inspiration LOL)) but most people just kinda regard him as a beast.

yeah i just kinda draw it as metal and whatever but biologically it would be a weird growth of scutes like a bird foot or a turtle shell. his belt is just a part of him smiles so wide. Margina are all kinda weird unique creatures they all are one of a kind which is kinda lonely for them. see why bask became a scholar who follows around 8 knight

#i love the word scutes. like yes its just keratin. but its scutes #bask (oc)

[oasisofgalaxies]

I love birds so much. The range. We have tiny cute ones like hummingbirds and downy woodpeckers and intelligent ones like corvids and colorful ones like the birds of paradise. And then there’s the Actual Fucking Dinosaurs.

#the existence of Cassowaries fascinates me beyond anything #like #it has a crest. #not a feather crest. no it’s fucking keratin plated #it’s HUGE and it’s got BULLSHIT CLAWS LIKE #is anyone else just?? that’s a dinosaur #that’s a whole ass dinosaur . #I know technically all birds are dinosaurs but that??? that’s a capital D Dinosaur #no way around that. man #nebula rambles

[lordtonic]

good morning everyone I thibk about hhrjrmrmmrmr damsel today bc I thibk hes kinda cute teehee

#im gonna draw him today but like #as a YOUNG MAN BC IVE BEEN MEANING TO. ... #also he just like #removes his horns every once and awhile bc theyre a strain on the neck #they come back in a matter of a few days bc u know keratin but a fresh removal is so nice