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Everyone is so impressed by bald eagles taking several years to develop their mature colouration, but nobody ever mentions that gulls do, too! When you see a gull with adult plumage in the Walmart parking lot, that thing is at least 4 years old. It has years of wisdom.

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portrait of my dog in her rampant pose

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The amount of red on the belly of a red-bellied woodpecker is nothing short of lacking if not laughable

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Did you see the new guidline illustrations the swedish kennel club published for pugs, bostons, frenchies and bulldogs so the written standard can't be misinterpreted?

No, I don't think so!

I've seen the judge's compendiums, but was this another thing?

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Can we stop using "still lives with their parents" or "unemployed" or "doesn't have a drivers license" or "didn't graduate high school" as an insult or evidence that someone is a bad person? Struggling with independence or meeting milestones is not a moral failing.

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It's okay to have big feelings if someone tells you "no" or puts up a boundary or tells you that you hurt them. But if you spiral and tell them things like "I guess I'm just a terrible person" or other statements that may make the person feel guilty for expressing themselves in a healthy way, that's something you need to work on.

It means you are not a safe person to say "no" to, or set a boundary with. It means you are not a safe person to talk to about their feelings. And that is something to work on fixing.

It's so valid to have feelings about it, but those feelings shouldn't be put on the other person so they need to comfort you. Being genuinely upset about hurting someone is so valid, but the other person shouldn't have to reassure you that you're not a bad person.

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People being doomers and defeatist about climate change is really so interesting because you try to tell them they’re being unhelpful and they start tweaking out

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN here's some seasonal guys! 🎃

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last dance with skully

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having mutuals who i think are really cool and get like. starstruck when they interact with me. is so weird. like why am i reacting like this. we’re literally both on tumblr

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Peaceful Sleep

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blair witch project true ending

the people in blair witch project: what was that noise!!

the blair witch: yaaaack ack ack… its me, the blare witch

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Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

second way more important edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.

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starting a collection

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Tokimeki Memorial

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