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Comic based off of @musashi’s video essay on Franziska!!

I’ve watched it three times and cried really bad on my first watch, so safe to say, this video has affected me. So I wanted to draw something that paid tribute to it!!! It was definitely a challenge trying to get all the descriptive metaphorical writing into a visual medium, but I hope I did it a justice!!

Please go watch the video!

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I want to be reading fanfic, not writing it. Unfortunately, I want to be reading very specific fanfic which I will in fact first have to write.

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pardon me sappy emotional post coming up:

egan bernal just won the colombian national road race. now i first started watching cycling properly in 2019 and egan was the first rider i really fell in love with. after that horrific crash in 2022 it’s honestly been so brilliant just to see him racing, i’ve been so excited just seeing him in breaks.

i saw an interview with him at the start of the 2023 tour and he said it didn’t matter to him if he never won anything again, he was just so happy to be back in a peloton again.

and now he’s won the national title in both the itt and the road race. first wins since the giro in 2021. i barely every cry at this sport but this got me.

2025 is the year of egan guys COME ON

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I need for cx to last the whole year. What do you mean it's a winter sport? There's sand, let's go to the sea and race in summer too ❤️

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illustrated actual reason wout went to worlds

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I was asked not to spring the prompt meme opening on y'all again...

So here is a 3 week heads up for our schedule for this year 👀

🌻 Schedule 🌻 Prompts open: February 27 Posting opens: March 6 Prompts close: March 13 Posting closes: March 20 Fanworks revealed: March 21 Creators revealed: March 26

More details to come at the end of the month, I'm still refining some changes. Mark your calendars and I'll see you in just under 3 weeks!

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Being really passionate about something isn’t “cringy” or “stupid” or “immature” or “embarrassing” or “ridiculous” or anything else along those lines. Passion is beautiful and it’s brave and no matter what some mean people might imply, caring a lot is never worthy of ridicule or judgment. Don’t ever let sad people with sad lives who are holding themselves to sad standards of edgy nihilism, “maturity” and aloofness get in the way of you doing your thing and enjoying your life!

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underrated cycling pairing, go:

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quick what is everyone doing right now

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If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

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whoa this guy knows how to party

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ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

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Need home(s) for my reptiles. FLORIDA

this post is already hard enough to write. My family is experiencing housing trouble. We are currently in a hotel and have to be out on the 10th. We're going to be living out of our car soon for a few weeks so I need to find homes for my herps. If you could just house them temporarily that'd be even better, I really do not want to lose them they are beloved family pets.. I have two whole packs of small rats I can supply you for now.

Old Man (20 year old Ball Python) ♂

and Romeo ( 10 year old Argentine black and white Tegu) ♀

If you live around Brevard or Indian River County and can take one or even both of them please, I am begging, please reach out to me. I will provide their enclosures, feeders, and more information on our situation. Thank you for reading.

(if you want to help us another way you could share my ko-fi link. i will do pet doodles for any donations after we are stable. just include a link to a photo in your message. commissions are open as well but may take longer to complete due to our situation.)

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I'm not okay. Took a mental health day to do my part and make some art about it. No matter the opposition, we won't be erased. A world without trans people has never existed, and it never will! 🏳️‍⚧️

May this piece be a small light in the darkness for those in need of comfort and hope. Feel free to share/re-post elsewhere if this resonates with you. Just please make sure you include the alt text!

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Hmmmm hm. Okay. Worldbuilding/story idea.

One million years after humanity disappears, octopi and ravens have independently developed sapience. And one day an octopus child and an elder raven meet at the edge of the ocean.

Where is your mother and father? asks the raven. I have no mother or father, says the octopus, blushing pale. All octopi are children. Once we’re grown, we will mate and we will die. It is the first and the last thing our mothers tell us.

But that’s horrible, says the raven. It’s not all bad, says the octopus. We play, we hunt, we make games for ourselves in the deep. Yes, but who remembers your songs? the raven says. Who passes down your stories?

What is a story? the octopus asks.

And the raven thinks about this question. And finally it says: A story is how you remember things in the past. It is how you know where you come from, and what happened before you were born. A story can be a warning, or it can be advice, or it can be a silly joke told to make you feel good. Someone remembers the story and tells it to the next generation, who remember the story and tells it to the generation after them.

And the octopus thinks about this answer. And finally it says: Can you tell me a story?

And the raven tells the octopus a story. And it’s a good story. And the next day the octopus returns and asks for another. The next day it brings its octopus friends, and the raven brings its raven friends, and many stories are shared on the edge of the ocean.

Months later, the octopus returns to the raven. I am grown, it says. I am returning to the sea to find a mate and lay my brood. I will not be coming back. I’m sorry.

I will miss your company, says the raven.

I have one thing to ask you, says the octopus. In time my children will come to the edge of the ocean. I would like you to tell them a story I have made. And when they have stories of their own, I would like your children to remember them and pass them down to my children’s children.

Of course, says the raven. What is your story about?

And the octopus thinks, and says: It is about an octopus child and an elder raven who meet at the edge of the ocean.

And this story has been passed down to this day.