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European Robin/rödhake. Holland Park in London, England (February, 2020).

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In my constant and unending pursuit of trying to figure out good toyhou.se icons i'm content with, I went a little insane and created Big Images for Alice (she's being needing one since ever...) and Cassius (who desperately needed a new rendition). Edgar kept his old Big Image (I think he's even got two...), so that's a repost, but... but there's two whole new images isn't that awesome!!!

rambling about the images under the cut he he he.

As a bit of a preface the background colours (Blue, red, yellowww...?) sort of do have meanings... In a way? Blue = Avoidance, escapism, "Losing yourself in something else", Red = mostly just anger and frustration, "taking action". Yellow is a very new addition to this sort of dichotomy so I haven't really decided what it COULD mean? I sort of had the thought that it would mean like recovery or "redemption", or just like, "idealisation" maybe, but idk. that's up in the air... I also sort of have no real idea if these are just like common perceptions of these colours in art or whatever I D K!!! But in my art, the vivid blue and red seen there will more or less always mean that stuff.

So anyway!... Alice's piece is very red, right. She's the most "active" character out of the main 3 - she's the one who's actively trying to research some sort of cure for the Shadow. She's absolutely convinced it's the source of 99% of her (and the others') problems - expressed (hopefully...) by the black swirls in the background. But her methodology sort of sucks and she isn't finding anything out (she's actually looking in the complete wrong place, "represented" by the tentacles...) and in a way is avoiding actually confronting her actual problem (transgenderism... and... the nefarious jealousy and cruelty) which the little blue swirls by her head are meant to show. The choice of lyric ("I decide there's nothing in my body" / "How can I be sure there's nothing in my body?") from Luddites and Lambs by Everything Everything I think describes her stress really well. Her feelings about the Shadow mostly revolve as a "foreign third party" in her body which has the capability of controlling her thoughts. It freaks her out to the max... I could go on for longer but I shan't.............. For alice anyway HAHAHA Cassius' piece is relatively simpler, but I realised that in the other two's Big Images, pre-exile Cassius is included* in a big, meaningful way *not in the Edgar Big Image shown in this post, but this one:

So I thought, "I should just put him against that one", like... His pre-exile self, this echo of himself, from what he can remember (which is to say not really much of anything at all) and how people treat him or talk about him, it's like, he seemed so... swell! He seemed like the perfect guy! Then there's him NOW, this beastly, vile thing. He loves no plays. He hears no music. Seldom he smiles and smiles in such a sort as if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit that could be moved to smile at anything!!!!!!!!!!!!! So anyway I wanted to have him in there because of that. The pre-exile echo seems to be a Thing going on here. The inclusion of Edgar and Alice here too was sort of under a similar thought process: Cassius appears in the other images, they should appear in his, to be truthful. And it's not like they didn't have an impact on him, so, like, it makes a lot of sense I think. And they're very... antithetical to each other (for lack of a better word?) Like on Edgar's side it's this nice, cohesive image of the lighthouse, and the sea, and there's birds, and the sun is shining. It's nice! But then you see Alice's side - the dagger! The blood! The distress! The waves there are "cartoonish", unreal, a plaster over a bigger Thing. I think it's cool. The lyric(s) chosen here were honestly a bit of a doozy. Less clear-cut than Alice's or Edgar's, but "Redemption comes in the form of a joke, there isn't any, but we still have hope!", coming from Behind the Curtain by Treeboy & Arc. That song is perhaps The Most (Pre-exile) Cassius Song Ever, but that specific lyric at the very least works with post-exile cassius insofar as he's very deep into the idea that he's irredeemable, but despite that continues to try to redeem himself, sort of. It's what he WANTS, but he can never "manage to do so", because he always gets snappy or cruel in some way at some point. So he sort of just sits and stresses about it for ever. Sort of sucks....

Edgar's image I've got less to say on because I made that a couple months ago. I dont know what I was thinking 100% when I made it, yk? But I CAN say, if after the fact, the emphasis put on Cassius here (in such a way that almost drowns Edgar's presence out) reflects their pre-exile dynamic - cassius would take the spotlight while edgar hides behind him and stays quiet. But I think that's the real extent the image itself brings? Though the lyric chosen "I will eat you alive" - Where I End and You Begin by Radiohead, is sort of meant to take the dynamic idea and push it to its "max". Tl;dr: uuuuuh ummmm fuse with your best friends today guys! you'll never suffer another moment again!!!

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i think we can all rest easy knowing that somewhere out there is a beautiful planet full of small frightened apes who are torn to pieces by giant centipedes every day

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Oc art I was leaving to die in a folder until now.

The faceless, from the city of demons, and their two companions.

Slay bonus

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next comes spite.

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scolipede riding gear c0mm for @suprememeep !

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Had to ban the phrase “tricky dick” from my classroom during watergate lesson because saying the word dick in front of 30 fifteen year olds is like lighting a bomb and throwing it through the doorway but now they’re just calling him Richard the Treacherous like they’re all medieval peasants. gonna lose it

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Weird Things happening in space

bonus: a red cell because i am very biased

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In my constant and unending pursuit of trying to figure out good toyhou.se icons i'm content with, I went a little insane and created Big Images for Alice (she's being needing one since ever...) and Cassius (who desperately needed a new rendition). Edgar kept his old Big Image (I think he's even got two...), so that's a repost, but... but there's two whole new images isn't that awesome!!!

rambling about the images under the cut he he he.

As a bit of a preface the background colours (Blue, red, yellowww...?) sort of do have meanings... In a way? Blue = Avoidance, escapism, "Losing yourself in something else", Red = mostly just anger and frustration, "taking action". Yellow is a very new addition to this sort of dichotomy so I haven't really decided what it COULD mean? I sort of had the thought that it would mean like recovery or "redemption", or just like, "idealisation" maybe, but idk. that's up in the air... I also sort of have no real idea if these are just like common perceptions of these colours in art or whatever I D K!!! But in my art, the vivid blue and red seen there will more or less always mean that stuff.

So anyway!... Alice's piece is very red, right. She's the most "active" character out of the main 3 - she's the one who's actively trying to research some sort of cure for the Shadow. She's absolutely convinced it's the source of 99% of her (and the others') problems - expressed (hopefully...) by the black swirls in the background. But her methodology sort of sucks and she isn't finding anything out (she's actually looking in the complete wrong place, "represented" by the tentacles...) and in a way is avoiding actually confronting her actual problem (transgenderism... and... the nefarious jealousy and cruelty) which the little blue swirls by her head are meant to show. The choice of lyric ("I decide there's nothing in my body" / "How can I be sure there's nothing in my body?") from Luddites and Lambs by Everything Everything I think describes her stress really well. Her feelings about the Shadow mostly revolve as a "foreign third party" in her body which has the capability of controlling her thoughts. It freaks her out to the max... I could go on for longer but I shan't.............. For alice anyway HAHAHA Cassius' piece is relatively simpler, but I realised that in the other two's Big Images, pre-exile Cassius is included* in a big, meaningful way *not in the Edgar Big Image shown in this post, but this one:

So I thought, "I should just put him against that one", like... His pre-exile self, this echo of himself, from what he can remember (which is to say not really much of anything at all) and how people treat him or talk about him, it's like, he seemed so... swell! He seemed like the perfect guy! Then there's him NOW, this beastly, vile thing. He loves no plays. He hears no music. Seldom he smiles and smiles in such a sort as if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit that could be moved to smile at anything!!!!!!!!!!!!! So anyway I wanted to have him in there because of that. The pre-exile echo seems to be a Thing going on here. The inclusion of Edgar and Alice here too was sort of under a similar thought process: Cassius appears in the other images, they should appear in his, to be truthful. And it's not like they didn't have an impact on him, so, like, it makes a lot of sense I think. And they're very... antithetical to each other (for lack of a better word?) Like on Edgar's side it's this nice, cohesive image of the lighthouse, and the sea, and there's birds, and the sun is shining. It's nice! But then you see Alice's side - the dagger! The blood! The distress! The waves there are "cartoonish", unreal, a plaster over a bigger Thing. I think it's cool. The lyric(s) chosen here were honestly a bit of a doozy. Less clear-cut than Alice's or Edgar's, but "Redemption comes in the form of a joke, there isn't any, but we still have hope!", coming from Behind the Curtain by Treeboy & Arc. That song is perhaps The Most (Pre-exile) Cassius Song Ever, but that specific lyric at the very least works with post-exile cassius insofar as he's very deep into the idea that he's irredeemable, but despite that continues to try to redeem himself, sort of. It's what he WANTS, but he can never "manage to do so", because he always gets snappy or cruel in some way at some point. So he sort of just sits and stresses about it for ever. Sort of sucks....

Edgar's image I've got less to say on because I made that a couple months ago. I dont know what I was thinking 100% when I made it, yk? But I CAN say, if after the fact, the emphasis put on Cassius here (in such a way that almost drowns Edgar's presence out) reflects their pre-exile dynamic - cassius would take the spotlight while edgar hides behind him and stays quiet. But I think that's the real extent the image itself brings? Though the lyric chosen "I will eat you alive" - Where I End and You Begin by Radiohead, is sort of meant to take the dynamic idea and push it to its "max". Tl;dr: uuuuuh ummmm fuse with your best friends today guys! you'll never suffer another moment again!!!

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Marsh Tit/entita, Eurasian Bullfinch/domherre, Eurasian Treecreeper, Blue Tit/blåmes and Coal Tit/svartmes. Värmland, Sweden (February 19, 2022).

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Did you seriously just allow the seed of cruelty to sprout

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get this an oscar

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Keramic studio - 1899 - via Internet Archive

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is his camouflage working okay?

(ptarmigan coin purses will be back in our next update!)

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writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.