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Look, we joke a lot, but really, "you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you'd better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity" is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people

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chikorita slander❌chikorita propaganda✅✅✅

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Angle and Deeval on your shoulder

I love this genre of Krusielle art, but every time I see it I think of that damn Kronk scene, so I had to draw it

Bonus: What Kris was most definitely whispering in Susie's ear

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One of the things that I really enjoyed about the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is that Gilgamesh is a shitty person. Like, he's a king and two-thirds divine and all that, a warrior among warriors, his experiences could not be more different from the average person, and yet none of that saves him. I think the messages about grief and mortality hit as hard as they do because he's so selfish and privileged and awful at the beginning, before being irreversibly changed by friendship and love and loss and regret. He has all of this classical "greatness" and that does not spare him. He has been changed and chooses to change, and there's no miraculous reward for that. None of the widespread pain he's caused and is still capable of causing his subjects spares him either. There's something striking and even cathartic in seeing this greedy, cruel, mythologically "heroic" figure be so deeply humbled by a universal tragedy; to see him essentially crying out, "Not even me?" and receiving the firm answer of, "No, not even you."

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americas favorite pastime is chewing me out for my eating habits and food preferences 😔

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Maggie Smith // "Goldenrod" (2017)

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they got him 😞

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People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

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was talking to someone on fa about lovely belle and realized in just the short time since i designed him, his cane has become obsolete as a character item bc i dont need one to get around anymore. crazy but also really exciting i think

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my sonic the hedgehog race theories

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truly

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more on ^ him. i designed a couple tattoos, so ill wait until im in plushify where i can move them around his body freely to figure out where i want them all to go lol

help me think of some tattoos / placements for this design... nothing too detailed! just black lineart / black filling, no extra colors. has to be simple enough for an idiot to be able to embroider it but also cool enough for an archen with a spiky mohawk and leather jacket to have.