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oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

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ok i have to know

HOW do u make the egdes so… perfect?? like not a pixel of the original image/white pixels appear on the sides of the pngs. and u do it so fast???? how???

I usually just drag the image into remove.bg, it's free and pretty good!

When I want to make high res pngs I use photoshop. I don't know if it's the most efficient way, but this is what I do: 1. drag image into PS, 2. use the automatic eraser tool on the image background, 3. make a new layer with a colored background and place it before the layer with the image (to see any areas that are not yet transparent), 5. switch back to the image layer and use the regular eraser tool to clean up the edges and any stray pixels, 6. remove the layer with the colored background, 7. save as png.

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back in the 00s a single dancing anime chibi gif would feed us for months on end

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MANED WOLF AND HOATZIN BIRD GRYPHON!

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Chondrocladia is a genus of carnivorous demosponges of the family Cladorhizidae. Neocladia was long considered a junior synonym, but recently become accepted as a distinct genus.

33 named species are placed in this genus at present, but at least two additional undescribed ones are known to exist, while some of the described ones are known only from a few specimens or (e.g. the enigmatic Chondrocladia occulta) just a single one, and their validity and/or placement in Chondrocladia is doubtful. Chondrocladia sponges are stipitate, with a stalk frequently anchored in the substrate by rhizoids and an egg-shaped body, sometimes with branches that end in inflatable spheres.

Fossils assignable to this genus are known since the Pleistocene, less than 2 million years ago. But given its deep sea habitat, Chondrocladia may well have been around for much longer – perhaps since the Mesozoic, as characteristic spicules (termed "microcricorhabds" or "trochirhabds"), almost identical to those of some living Chondrocladia, are known from Early Jurassic rocks almost 200 million years old.

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France: hundreds of years with baguette -- DID NOT INVENT BANH MI

Vietnam: less than 100 years with baguette -- INVENTED BANH MI

ANOTHER WIN FOR VIETNAM‼️‼️‼️‼️

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The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

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rod shot through my prefrontal cortex in a phineas gage type incident and the only change to my personality is becoming mildly bicurious

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“okay 💖 yay💖” really changed a generation

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2 color varieties of the Land Snail, Helicina viridis, family Helicinidae, Dominican Republic

photographs by Carlos De Soto Molinari

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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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yo who wants some Free Fonts

font designer yutaONE is giving away 151 display fonts in ~70 families for free today (august 1, 2024):

they're also available for commercial use but only if you follow them on twitter or instagram (which is weird but whatever lmao)

you can grab them all over on their Booth (pick the 0 yen option):

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Aphid farmer…
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Ants typically contain and tend to aphids like we do with cows. So essentially, ants have livestock!!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B0SDz6mHQi6/?igshid=1hujn0j896ytk

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We are well beyond canary in the coalmine warning levels with the way trans people and particularly trans women are treated on this site.

Maybe you've heard the metaphor of allowing wolves and sheep to share the same space, welcoming everyone. You end up with just wolves because allowing them in that space makes it unsafe for any sheep. Or the story about how a nazi goes into a dive bar and is refused service. The bartender then explains to someone else at the bar that if you serve them once they tell their friends and before you know it you're the nazi bar they all go to and normal customers don't feel safe.

Terfs and other bigots are seeing these targeted harassment campaigns succeed against trans women and rejoicing. They see Tumblr ban them and officially stand by those decisions as endorsement for their harassment. It's a sign to bigots across the internet that Tumblr is a good place for them.

And what's more is that a lot of us probably don't realize just how much trans women contribute to Tumblr. The women banned recently were sources of site-wide memes and posts I wasn't even aware originated from them.any years old memes and references can be traced back to trans women on this site.

How many of these folks have to be removed before this is no longer a site you want to be a part of it? Sure you cultivate your own experience, but you can't follow or interact with people who aren't here. And if I wanted to interact with the nazis and terfs I'd go to reddit.

I encourage everyone to reblog this. Trans women shouldn't have to be the only ones speaking out against the bigotry they're experiencing. They shouldn't be the only ones risking their blogs being nuked by staff. We have to stand with them.

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I've been researching some mythical creatures and. The fuzhu are so insanely Rarity coded i hAD TO *hits rarity with deer-fication beam*

Her name is Baoshi, meaning gemstone, but she usually goes by Rarity which is her favorite word in the pony language. She came to ponyville a few years ago when the sky split, pouring down a flood onto the small town destroying a good half of the houses. The flood stopped as soon as she arrived, and after she helped to rebuild the destroyed buildings and supported ponyvillians the best she could. After life went back to normal, she stayed. Assisting with anything she was asked, as if still trying to apologise for what happened.

Rarity is a creature never seen in equestria before, but many assume she is just a slightly strange looking kirin. She likes to keep herself clean and has a strange affinity for water, the garden around her home filled with small ponds, streams and fountains. She even keeps a few bowls filled with fresh water in her house. She can cast spells similar to unicorns by tapping her hoof in certain patterns.

It doesn't seem like she uses chaos magic, but has surprisingly extensive knowledge of how it works and finds it strange how ponies see it as a dangerous form of forbidden arts.