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Just random stuff I find annoying

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I think people get mixed up a lot about what is fun and what is rewarding. These are two very different kinds of pleasure. You need to be able to tell them apart because if you don't have a balanced diet of both then it will fuck you up, and I mean that in a "known cause of persistent clinical depression" kind of way.

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oh my god I don't know what I expected I don't know why I didn't expect the duck comics you've made to be LESS painful or heart wrenching than all the other work you do and it's. MORE. IT'S REALLY REALLY GOOD I'm not even FINISHED you've made so many but I cannot get over that one page in contrariwise comic (where magica has swapped bodies with gladstone) where she has that revelation that he/she could just destroy the whole city but he hasn't. 'they don't know how lucky they are' will haunt me to the grave thank you for that

AH!!! THANK YOU but sincerely if you like my duck comics you MUST read The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. there are so many extremely good duck comics but that work is a masterpiece and I truly mean it when I say everyone should read it at least once even if they have absolutely no interest in the ducks OR comics

I was very proud of how that sequence turned out, and it's very much in the style of/inspired by the emotional gut punches of Don Rosa

so yeah if this tickles your curiousity you can read Contrariwise right here, as all of my duck comics have their own section on my website! and if you can find the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck I Beg you to read it and be transformed as I and many others have been.

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Some recent commission examples + a new YCH commission option

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Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.

"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.

“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."

More here.

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It’s genuinely amazing that mobile people don’t have access to their archive. That’s how I find like all of my posts. I would be nothing without my archive. And you guys are telling me you just search in a desperate attempt to find something??? You can’t go in and find a gallery of every post you’ve ever made or reblogged all the way back to the start of your account? You can’t filter it by time or tag or type of post????? Jesus Christ man.

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Nicolas Aditi at Louis Gabriel Nouch Fall 25

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Cashmere Goat Taur Adoptable

Drawn on stream. waaa the lil babiessss

Buy here: https://ko-fi.com/s/dc4fae7091 !

REMINDER: I have a sale on all adopts going on till the 22nd!  https://ko-fi.com/bethdehart/link/MARCHCLEARANCE!

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Ki

A strange little mousething that lives in the walls of a library and is suspicious of all the big folk.

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Cozy Taur YCHs are OPEN AGAIN!

I’m opening up 10 slots this time because oof rent. I had a lot of fun with these, and I got a lot of people asking about them, so here we go again! 

Claim your slot here: https://ko-fi.com/c/b3b3795ccc !

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‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

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I don't mean coffee or espresso. I mean drinks like Red Bull, etc.

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I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

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YALL. Holly Black has a list of resources she's used for writing her books on the fair folk. I'm OBSESSED. I love her work and world building. it's so true to the heart of faeries

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can he sit on your dash for a minute?? he'll be very polite :]

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I regret to say that The Day the Earth Blew Up is kind of appallingly bad :’)