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Requests I did over on my Bluesky account

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Hi Lauren! I adore your art so so much! I saw you were taking art requests! I would love to see Bilbo and Thorin having some winter holiday fun!

I hope you’re having a lovely holiday season yourself!

Hiii! I’m glad you’re liking the art! Means the world to me 🥹 I’m having an excellent holiday (though i wish it were colder).. I hope you’re enjoying yours too!!

bilbo says he’s a little cold and thorin’s suddenly there like i got this 🔥

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As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

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my family celebrates christmas but my parents didn’t raise me to believe in santa, i knew of him as a fictional character basically but i knew my parents were getting presents and stuff and not santa. so i have always found it a little insane that as a christmas treat parents gaslight their children into believing in this mythical being who brings presents only if theyre good and construct all this lore and everything and keep it up for years. aside from celebrating jesus and giving presents there’s the Gaslighting Aspect of christmas. it’s so crazy to me. and if you accidentally break kids’ belief in santa YOURE the bad guy even tho a) u dont have a way of knowing if theyre santa believers b) its not real and c) their parents have been intentionally manipulating their worldview to make them Think its real. crazy to me

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Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free

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encountering an inconvenience while cold: damn that sucks, oh well, i’ll figure something else out!!

encountering an inconvenience while hot: we all deserve to die right now, come on everyone, lets all go die

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encountering an inconvenience while cold: damn that sucks, oh well, i’ll figure something else out!!

encountering an inconvenience while hot: we all deserve to die right now, come on everyone, lets all go die

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via @swatercolor [insta]

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Polar Bear | Canada Wild

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Baked beans are an American dish adapted from a similar dish first made by native Americans and baked beans were first canned in the US and then brought to Britain where the British decided to start putting them on toast and calling them a British food. And I’ve started to realize that some British people think that we think beans on toast is strange because we don’t have baked beans. When in fact we’ve had baked beans this whole time. We brought the baked beans over there. We just think it’s mildly confusing that Brits put them on toast.

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hey all, linked in this article are a bunch of GoFundMe fundraisers for animation workers who have been displaced by the LA fires--if you have the capacity to donate that would be really wonderful!

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smile, smile!

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dude as soon as the second week of 2025 starts we're hit with a windstorm which also evolved into LA BURNING and it is so, SO bad. i went out yesterday with my mom and it was so smokey, ash and dust flew into our eyes (we went to downtown LA), and it was difficult to breathe in some areas. its devastating to hear old classmates are losing their homes, whether i liked them or not, its so unfortunate and something people shouldn't have to go through.

I'm lucky I myself live far enough away that I do not have to evacuate, but my heart goes out to everyone affected. People, homes, animals, shops, everyone and everything.

If you can, please reblog/repost whatever resources and reports you find on your page! Whether on here, or other social media. It means so much if you can support anyone who needs it!

Here's some links as well! Share them if you can!

List of Places Providing Resources

- still being updated, but there is a lot! (200+)

The Humane Beings

- they help animal shelters (You know Todd Haberkorn, amazing VA? he's the founder!)

LA County Fire

- news on the fires and if you scroll down, also some other sources (like free transportation)

If you are also anywhere within the areas, please stay inside. If you have to be out, wear a mask if you can. Use your air purifiers! Air quality is SHIT out there at the moment.

Please stay safe!