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As someone who learned to ride a horse before they learned to ride a bike and who still has clocked way more hours on a horse than a bicycle (even though I mostly stopped riding ten years ago), it is sometimes difficult for me to regard a bike purely as a machine. Even after you get past the differences in stance and muscle usage between bike riding and horse riding, there are some riding habits that are difficult to break:

Signalling to the bike that you are turning by turning your head in the direction you intend to go (I have been told I also do this when driving a car)

Standing up in the saddle whenever you go over a speed bump

Counting down from three before you go over an obstacle even though your bike doesn't have legs and therefore doesn't have a stride

Sitting down and leaning back when you use the brakes so as not to give your bike mixed signals

Feeling discombobulated when walking or standing on the right side of your bike

Patting the head tube of your bike to reassure it that it did a good job going up that hill

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saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

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snivellus

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Severus Snape the type of guy to not even be in an omegaverse and still end up being an omega somehow

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ppl need to stop saying Harry and Draco are black cat x golden retriever. They’re both hissy cats. Are you kidding me. Harry Potter hasn’t had a moment of peace his whole life this boy is so grumpy and sassy and Draco Malfoy is spoiled and a prick and incredibly dramatic. They’re both grumpy. There’s no sunshine. They are each other’s sunshine.

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Shh... He's Sneepin' 💤

Lucius looked everywhere for this tiny, missing Sneep! He was starting to worry.. but it seems the Sneep fell asleep while hiding away in a little cupboard.

one can only assume he was hiding from unscrupulous individuals

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He's a Prince but the crown they gave him is shitty at least his ribbon is a nice bright red.

works through my religious trauma by inflicting it onto snape in vaguely erotic ways

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skeb-like c☼mmission for a flustered eiland 🍰

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Chapter art for the new chapter of Harry Potter and Malfoy's Suspicious New Interest, "Students Out of Bed." Going up later today. :D

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do you ever become obsessed with a character and you just go "of fucking course its that one" at yourself because you are so incredibly predictable

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Why is the idea of Severus Snape receiving affection and being cherished by little fairies or magical forest creatures so adorable?

Imagine the little fairies in the forest when Snape goes to look for potion ingredients. Then they say "Mister Severus is here!!" And they fly to kiss him and play with his hair. Finally, they say they will visit him at his home whenever possible

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Lost and Found

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Art for Chapter 3 of Harry Potter and Malfoy's Suspicious New Interest, "The Extra Champion." Going up later today :D

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we always saw how drarry oblivios for each other and romione know about them. but what about ron and hermione flirting, draco and harry like "you know they don't know that they want to make out real bad"

i cannot imagine a world were romione are not already together 😭😭😭

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You have become one of my favourite Sev artists! I just found out about your blog. I love how you portray his exasperation. Do you think you could sketch something like...(prof) Sev desperate for some peace and quiet and wanders somewhere to be alone only to find (prof) Remus, his enemy, chilling there, also done and tired and exhausted and just this time, Sev accepts to be done and tired with Remus even if he hates him. Ty <3

the library is his usual hiding place after a death eater meeting, but his usual seat's occupied

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My submission for Drarry Let's Play, Inspired by Among Us. 5 page of 4 koma comic :D. I hope you guys enjoy murder husbands.