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Me and my sibling are having a discussion on what the best flavor is. Is strawberry actually good or nostalgic?

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Whitetail deer

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embarrassment has good bones

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Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

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i need to know everything about everything

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sidenote: why have i heard multiple people mention a “labyrinth remake”? why would u remake labyrinth. it’s a perfect movie already. you literally could not improve it. david bowie wouldn’t even be in it. what’s the point.

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Have you got a brook in your little heart, where bashful flowers blow, and blushing birds go down to drink, and shadows tremble so - and nobody knows, so still it flows, that any brook is there, and yet your little draught of life Is daily dunken there -

Emily Dickinson, from Part Three: Love (IX) in The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

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what I think will happen if I message my mutuals

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felix is cat coded as in 'just a little animal', indigo is cat coded as in 'no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer'

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I think this is one of my favorite commissions I have done. Commission for YouTuber Inkwell. He specifically requested to make his frog character look “Sleepy/Lethargic/Not Cute”

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dogmark mandog "guess i'll die" moments

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heart-shaped forget me nots

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guy who gets so mad about losing a video game that instead of punching his wall he goes and gets his electric hole saw and it's not battery powered so has to run an extension cord and it's a whole thing

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OC Tag Game

I was tagged by @frenchy-and-the-sea to talk about a blorbo, and you know I can't resist an excuse to talk about a blorbo hehe. thanks for the tag!! 🥰

In turn, I'll tag @ragsy @entropyking @zincbot @pretttydemonboy @ketunperse @antique-symbolism @sarahmeeps @humblegoat @qunaributts @kitterjitters and anyone else with OCs who wants to talk about their OCs 😁 no pressure of course but also. [grabby hands]

(oh my god why don't I ever draw him in color anymore :'D)

— GENERAL

Name: Felix Golightly Reynard Skimbles Caspian Weatherby Pikwikken

Alias: If he has to introduce himself, he almost never gives more than Felix; some of the sobriquets used by people who don't know his name-- or do, but don't bother to use it-- include weasel, snitch, moggie, and rat

Gender: M

Age: 57

Spoken Language: Gnomish, Elvish, Common, and sign language

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual

Occupation: [handwiggles] Whatever work he can get. He always checks the RPG Job Boards for RPG Type Job Postings, and does as much private detective-ing as possible (which he sometimes even gets hired to do, and/or rewarded for), but mostly he scrapes by with miscellaneous errand-running and tinkering jobs, if anything. He's broke more often than not, but it gives him the freedom to come and go as he pleases.

—FAVOURITE

Colour: Red! He also really likes green, particularly deep woodsy greens, and navy blues. Interestingly, he does love bright flashy colors as well, he just wouldn't tend to name those as his favorites over colors with a slightly more cozy feel, as it were. For the sake of convenience and efficiency, he typically only carries one color of thread/ string/ darning wool in his mending kit, and they're all red rather than a neutral color, so his clothes and stuff like his backpack all have spots that have been darned or hemmed or had a patch sewn on with red thread.

Entertainment: He loves storytellers, or public riddle-games. He could happily spend hours listening to a practiced orator weave their tales, or skilled riddlers talking complicated knots around each other; there's a fair degree of overlap, as gnomish stories are often complex and riddling themselves. He does also really enjoy our bard Limerick's dance routines-- he's a belly-dancer and a real peacock, so his performances are always visually fascinating.

Pastime: Eavesdropping, haha. More generally, he loves people-watching; if he can manage it, the ideal is sitting quietly somewhere where he can draw people while listening to them chat or otherwise go about their lives.

Food: Braised rabbit with spring greens and a nice crusty bread. He's also particularly fond of sweet pastries, especially fruit turnovers.

Drink: Root beer, although it's really hard to find outside of gnome communities! For hot drinks he likes coffee, particularly black coffee paired with something very sweet. He's not usually a big drinker, but his favorite of standard tavern fare would be mead, and his favorite overall is mulled wine.

— HAVE THEY...

Passed University: Ehh [handwiggles again] nothing so formal, no, but full gnomish primary schooling would essentially amount to something like a bachelor of general studies in modern real-life; they spend a lot of time covering the basics of a wide variety of subjects and trying a lot of different things, so that young adults are as well equipped as possible to get into whatever specialty or vocation piques their interest. Felix never settled strongly into any particular thing once he left school, though.

Had Sex: Yep!

Had Sex in Public: NOPE

Got Tattoos: Nah. He's not opposed, in theory, but there's nothing he's felt strongly enough to get tattooed yet, and he'd be very hesitant to be cavalier about tattooing Just For Funsies before he's even completed his first century (gnomes live a very long time, and have only so much real estate for tattoos, after all)

Got Piercings: Like most gnomes, he got his first set of ear piercings as a baby; the first piercing he asked for was around age twelve, which is also pretty normal. I always lose track of how many piercings he has now, lol, but it's probably more than I actually draw jewelry in anyway. Only his ears are pierced, though.

Got Scarred: Oh for sure. Lots of little ones all up his hands and arms, a little one on one cheek, and a smattering of others that look more serious (or unusual-- like whatever he keeps covered on his left upper arm)

Had a Broken Heart: Yeah, a few times. His track record with actual relationships isn't great; he's more or less given up on them.

— ARE THEY...

A Cuddler: Yes. He's very tactile. Alas, he hasn't been very close to anyone else in a really long time, so nobody really knows this; he probably gives the opposite impression, if anything. Fortunately he's good at making friends with animals, so at least he can give (and receive) a lot of affection with Critters and Creatures that are likewise so inclined.

Scared Easily: [handwiggles yet again] yes and no? I wouldn't say he scares easily. He scares frequently, because he puts himself in Situations, but even at that, he also has made it a point in his life to meet fear with curiosity, so he's not especially timid nor easily spooked-- Do It Scared, But Do It kinda guy, as much as possible. Fear is just information, and sometimes that information is useful, but sometimes it's base prey-animal survival instinct that you don't necessarily have to allow to stop you from finding out where that mysterious noise is coming from, you know?

Jealous Easily: Not really. What right could he ever possibly have to be jealous?

Trustworthy: Absolutely yes, although his various behaviors and general demeanor frequently lend themselves to a reputation otherwise.

— FAMILY...

Siblings: One older sister, Quin. He usually stays with her family on his relatively rare visits home.

Parents: Penrose, his father, and Selwyn, his mother. It's... complicated. He spends most of his time roving far and wide, so he doesn't see them much anymore anyway.

Children: Nope

Pets: Nah. He moves around too much, and his lifestyle's too unstable. He's got a lot of friends who are animals, but he's not directly responsible for or living with any of them. OH-- but, it's probably worth mentioning Kipper and Biscuit, the local cats he's recently asked to watch the party's rooms at night! I say he hired them as bodyguards, but they're being payed in room and board, because they are cats, haha. Biscuit is an orange tabby and Kipper is a grey tabby; they're not pets, but he's known them their whole lives (they're brothers, and their mother used to lowkey pressgang him into babysitting sometimes)

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This is possibly the most insane national security story in the last 50 years. Includes a massive text chain between senior members of the Trump admin gaming out foreign policy and war plans on Signal, and they accidentally added a reporter to the group chat.

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I feel like a lot of people have massively lost the plot re what the word "radical" means but whatever. Swarm of locusts attack

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ok so a couple days ago my stagalicious beetle came in the mail and he’s the size of my dog laying down and fully articulated. he’s so fucking adorable and i can cradle his swively face and it’s just the best thing ever

and i think everyone should see him so behold:

MY SHAYLAAAAA