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Mystical rose divider 2025 Ink on paper, digital

This is a very tiny drawing, but I'll still post it on its own first. Because what happened is that I'm writing out scenes of my version of the events of Bloodlines, and at last I decided I wanted different dividers according to viewpoint characters, and then I didn't want to actually use the dividers without having documented their existence and my having made them in their own separate posts.

So this one is the one I made for Strauss. It's an Altissimo rose, which I associate with him for a whole host of reasons.

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A young man stands in his bedroom, it just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2023, is this young mans birthday. though it was 27 years ago he was given life, it is only today that he finds neil absolutely banging out the tunes

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lucky charm pngs ! credit not necessary for pngs! like or reblog to use, don't repost as your own please.

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they call me the .pdf haver:

Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination, 1885–1935 by Emilie Taylor-Pirie

Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond by Boel Berner

The Supernatural Media Virus Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990 by Rahel Sixta Schmitz

(i’m slowly working my way thru a bunch of books/essays on 19th medicine & gothic lit in britain wrt to imperialism, and these three are next on my list w/the added benefit of being open access as well)

these are so up my alley, I couldn’t thank you enough!!

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now i dont know if anyone else here agrees but personally i think trans girls are pretty amazing👍

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I feel like I would have been diagnosed with OCD a lot earlier if the vast majority of screening questions (for mental illnesses in general) weren't based on the person's perception of their own behavior, in isolation. and what i mean by that is asking someone with OCD "do you wash your hands excessively?" is not a good question.

a person with OCD believes they are washing their hands the correct number of times. it's not excessive. we believe we're exhibiting best practices and helping to keep everything clean.

better questions might be, "does it seem like you wash your hands a lot more than your friends or family?" "do you get dry patches or cuts on your hands from washing your hands?" "do you find it deeply distressing, more so than how you've seen other people react, when you get something on your hands that you can't clean off right away?"

being asked "are you overly preoccupied with bugs, symmetry, and contamination?" also got "no" responses from me years ago in my life. what they didn't ask for, and didn't know, was what *exactly* I was doing in my day to day life that genuinely ate up my time and mental space to a concerning degree, but I *didn't know* that other people don't do this.

"do you spend a lot of time cleaning?" -> no, it's not a lot. it's a good amount. why?

"do you become frustrated because it seems like no one else meets your organizational and cleanliness standards - do you often 'take over' for other people because they can't do it right - do new friends seem surprised by how strict you can be about your living space?" -> oh. yeah. yeah I get it now.

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This is so fucking funny

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Coconut crab (Birgus latro)

New paper art! This one was just entirely for fun, I love these weird giant tree climbing hermit crabs. Their shape and patterns and colours are just perfect for paper art honestly. This one took me about a day and a half to do and I'm super happy with how it came together!

The crab is about 25cm wide, which is within the real size range of these crabs but definitely not the biggest they get!

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asexual galahad not understanding what's so hard about keeping a vow of chastity

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i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

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Tuunbaq

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Very quick sketch of book Toothless because those books altered the course of my life ngl

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Toothless Fan Art

These books shaped my childhood.