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Chibi Trainers

Playing around with formats for simple chibi commissions (been thinking about those again 8u8) & taking the chance to fanart trainers I’ve been wanting to draw for a while 🩵

Becky by @leech-eyez / Natalia by @theoddbun / Bei by fairybei.studio / Professor Case by PKMN_Professor_Case

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Ten-in-bed

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my partner is only 40 but nestled within him is the soul of an elderly man

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embroidery of some electric pylons on an old doiley

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This is a fantastic linguistics paper – the researcher observed the artificiality and social pressure imposed on kids when they're asked to produce language on the spot, so instead had them talk to a rabbit in a room with a tape recorder. He found that when talking organically, without an adult authority figure around, their speech was exponentially more sophisticated, socially fluid, and creative.

As someone in the twitter thread points out, this has obvious implications for situations in which cued language production is used in diagnosis e.g. for autism. I'd add that (while this particular paper's remit is limited to children) it should also make us think about situations where adults are pressured to speak by authority figures: court hearings, police encounters, benefit assessments, asylum interviews, etc. If the presence of power hampers your ability to advocate for yourself, these are all rigged propositions.

Anyway, you can read the whole piece here (taken from a talk on his research, so it's very readable):

e: sorry, I should add the context that this is a language study situated in Hawaii in 1970 so there are also some very significant racial socio-linguistic politics discussed here that might be distressing to read about. I don't want to discount that aspect of the power dynamic studied here either.

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this too shall pass

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A funny thing about magical girl media is that folks who are broadly aware of the genre but don't take it in tend to assume Pretty Cure is the most G-rated of the lot, based on the fact that it's got brighter colours, frillier costumes, and generally younger-looking protagonists than average – then you actually watch the fight scenes and those squeaky middle schoolers are doing Bruce Lee shit to the monsters.

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Emilia Cantor

'The Luminous Cattle (El Ganado Luminoso)'

Oil, 51”x 51"

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Mike Carroll

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three horsemen of the apocalypse

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Snowflake Macro Photography | by Alexey Kljatov

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The Entirety of Tumblr from Tumblr has been Chucked in to the ocean! You're all wet now.