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lmaooooooo I choked out a couple hours worth of panicked spiraling to my partner and the first thing I remember after blacking that mess out was him imitating bird calls like Tulio from Rio

#he’s babygirlest #nothing quite like human connection to heal the soul even if the connection is bird call imitation #rio movie #birds #ornithology

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here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

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hedonism is pretty awesome actually and i wish that wasn’t a weird take in modern society

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a quick comic about holly’s dream

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by the time you’re 25 you should know what substance you’re going to abuse forever

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you ever been milked big time?

I was the only almond at Silk for 5 years

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do you ever just wanna sit next to someone and listen to everything they could possibly say about anything ever just because you like their face and their voice and their general existence 

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you arent a real gamer until you played this

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The gang and I watched Tom and Jerry’s “The Fast and the Fury” and could not stop hollering over Gorthan the Destroyer of Light

#he’s gay guys #like #he’s sooooooo queer coded

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what do you mean you can’t write me poetry? Look at you

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life hack just assume every illness you’ve ever had is appendicitis for the plot

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my mom used to Facebook post about my siblings and I frequently, usually quoting funny interactions or quips. I find them wildly amusing now but I remember being horrified that people I didn’t know were laughing about things I had said and my serious and legitimate conversations were being undermined for comedic content for her friends

When I see people sharing so much of their kids' lives, I think about that one time my child told a joke, I shared that joke with ONE FRIEND in a private conversation, and my child said "can you please ask me next time, before you tell people something about me?"

And, yes, I absolutely should. So I apologized, and now I ask.

"I love that video of you, can I show it to a friend?"

"Can I tell a friend about how clever you were just now?"

"Can I share this in the family group chat?"

"Can I show your art to grandma and grandpa?"

And it's not like my kids don't like when I share their jokes and puns and fun moments. They love it! But they want to have control over what I share with people. Even without their faces or their names. Even people we know and trust.

And they deserve to have that control.

My children are small so the examples are small. They wanted me to ask, so I ask. Just like being told to kiss my grandma's cheek when I was a kid was far from traumatizing, but I don't do that with my kids because it's a way to practice consent and become aware of bodily autonomy.

It gets both me and them in the habit of asking for consent and drawing boundaries and seeing the lines between their life and my life, their stories and my stories.

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If anyone has ideas for commissions I would so appreciate it- I could desperately use some extra cash but no matter what I offer I feel like there just aren’t many people buying. I’m curious if anyone’s had more luck with say, selling icons, than like full pieces ? Also price range ?

#literally been doing this 10+ years at this point and have jack all to show for it because I still don’t quite know what people want

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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

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babe this isn’t you omg no

#also me when he asked for no pickles #twilight sparkle mlp #I don’t even really know what the infection au is plz teach me #I just wanted to draw spooky ooky twi #twilight sparkle #mlp #my little pony friendship is magic #my little pony #mlp infection au #mlp infected au #infection #infection au #horror #horror art #gore #monster

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omg the Kum & Go Celebrity Meal Deal Scandal guy !! I was wondering what good ol Kyle was up to, besides yknow the lying

Literally the first thought I had was käänteiskentauri