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Spring, fall

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comm work done for a friend!! :D

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Decided to redraw my old artwork from 2023/2022

I am talking about these!

My boy went trough alot of changes

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When I say this is the au where Kamina lives, I Mean it

Even if I don't know what leads to this moment yet

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Twinkle the Cheetah for StarZDrawZ

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Cover of my new junk/dream journal

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In the bad times au, Kamina has his attention way more focused on Team Rocket than he does in main verse. So when the Lake of Rage incident happens, he captures the red Gyarados and becomes fast friends with her

They also have the common goal of vengeance against Team Rocket

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Wrote a short story about Kamina and Simon dealing with Sinnoh's climate (particularly on route 217) where they spend the night in that One Cabin and Kamina ends up seeing a ghost

And then I proceeded to make a drawing about it

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I’d love to see your favourite raptors!

Here are 5 of my favorite raptors...

Black Baza (Aviceda leuphotes), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, India

photograph by Risav.Pal

Collared Falconets (Microhierax caerulescens) juveniles, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, found across South and East Asia

photograph by Sheau Torng Lim

Crested Caracaras (Caracara plancus), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Aruba

Photograph via: https://www.birdwatchingaruba.com

Bat Falcon (Falco rufigularis), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, found in Central and South America

Photograph by Yung Niem

Laughing Falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, QR, Mexico

photograph by Douglas Faulder

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Sometimes people will hate a parent-type character in a way that's so far from actual canon that you can tell it's not the character they really hate but Their Dad from Real Life. Which is fair but really annoying when you're trying to post about The Character

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a moment to check the gears and cogs

feel like i want to talk a little on the message of a recent post because i think it is an important point. when i say that you do not need to QUALIFY OR DEFEND your love of tinglers or my work in general, i am pointing out an interesting social anomaly that happens with my art and with queer art.

as an autistic buckaroo i notice patterns, and on social media i see them a lot. little phrases that come up again and again with my art. ‘yes THAT chuck tingle’ ‘its ACTUALLY good’ ’my favorite author i have never read’ ‘so bad its good’. these are always added after a POSITIVE comment about me

they also all have something in common. they are trying to distance the posters SINCERE JOY and give them an out socially. it is very very very subtle, but they are all saying ‘yes i like this but here is a sliver of acknowledgment that it is also weird or bad or ironic. in not REALLY fully in'

essentially these are added because it means the poster can escape their very real joy if needed. try applying these phrases to any other popular author. its much more subtle with the first two: ‘i liked all fours by miranda july, yes THAT miranda july. its ACTUALLY good’. what does this imply?

the other examples are a little more blatant but lets try them with other authors anyway. imagine saying ‘youre my favorite author i have never read’ to stephen king. would you EVER say that to someone? what does that imply? how about 'i love your books theyre so bad theyre good'. horrifyingly rude

lets dive into saying 'CHUCK TINGLE is my favorite author i have never read’ sounds unusual when substituting other authors because theyre usually not queer or autistic or making outsider art. to be blunt, why CHUCK gets it all the time is because it really means 'i like chuck tingle but im not gay’

while we have mostly culturally evolved past the idea that saying ‘no homo’ is some kind of joke, that FEELING is still around. it has just burrowed a little deeper. honestly it might never go away, or at least take centuries. remember these people GENUINELY LIKE MY BOOKS but feel they MUST qualify

should also be pointed out that LEFT and LIBERAL people are the ones who say this stuff to chuck. they do not MEAN to harm, and if you ask them directly how they feel about queer or neurodivergent people they would not express the same opinion as their subliminal comments might imply

the final elephant trotting by is while some of this is homophobia and fear of a neurodivergent other, it is also just plain old IRONY POISONING. its conditioning from being raised on an internet where sincerity was ‘cringe' and loving something was a weakness or joke. these problems work in tandem

so whats the point? what can we do? first of all, just recognizing these patterns is a start. i didnt HAVE to write all of this today but i think its important to be aware and to look inward and think about the gears and cogs that churn behind the things we say. NEXT step is trying to push past it

if you have done these things in the past, i want you to know i am NOT AT ALL UPSET. i am not mad or hurt and i do not think any less of you. you can trot by my side any day and you are trying your best to prove love. we are ALL just tryin our best, just consider this a friendly chat between buds

proving love can happen in BIG WAYS and it can happen in SMALL WAYS that we barely see. just take a moment and think ‘WHY am i saying this? WHY am i in this pattern to distance myself from outsider or queer art?’ a little moment of consideration goes a LONG way buckaroos. LOVE IS REAL

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Remember earlier this year when Boeing very clearly had a whistleblower executed? And law enforcement didn't even look for anyone or release any info about it or anything?

People keep comparing Luigi Mangione's case to the subway murderer who got off because of systemic eugenics, but I think there's something more apt about the fact that a CEO had someone executed in recent memory, with zero attempts to find a culprit, while they spared no expense at all to find (and probably frame, it's beginning to look like) someone who shot a CEO. It's always fine to slaughter if you're rich, but if you kill the rich, they will hunt you down.

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Local barbarian flirts with tavern owner’s daughter.

He’s probably banned from that tavern now.

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im making this its own post actually

found family is "i have endured the fucking horrors with these guys. i would both kill and die for them. i would rip my own bones out to make splints to heal theirs. there is no name for the bond we share"

found family is NOT "this guy is so dad-coded and these guys are so sibling-like and—"

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oh and hereee

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What selfshipping is like