#I do love that badger

[claypigeonpottery]

here’s some very early little creatures I made, years ago. I’ve definitely improved since then 😁

[knifeforkspooncup]

South Downs retirement Crowley but instead of tending his garden like a well-adjusted cottagecore gnome he prowls the vegetable patch revving a weed whacker and threatening to pave over the yard if the pears and dill don't grow well.

[slutforpringles]

via coreywilson

[marcmorrigan]

According to the artist, when it was suggested that a smile might benefit the look of the finished portrait, Attaché Nohell reportedly replied, "I thought the purpose of this was to be honest."

Super fun commission of @waterloggedsoliloquy's OC Sicely Nohell (they/them) and their terrible, horrible, no good, very bad lusus figure Commanding Officer.

[redrobin-detective]

I love writing my favorite characters and projecting my personality and interests onto them. Its healthy even.

[fabbyf1]

to the anon who flooded my inbox one after another asking for the landoscar fic... i understand you're excited, and i understand you're looking forward to it, but that's not the way to get what you want.

i'm not sure what the outcome you were looking for was. do you think i finished writing landoscar and just decided to sit on it until someone asked for it? just crossing my fingers that today would be the day someone decided to send back to back to back to back to back anons asking for it?

i think everyone knows that as soon as i'm done writing something, i post it. i don't sit on anything. i don't gatekeep my works. i don't post on anon. that's never been my brand.

clearly i'm not done writing it, or else you'd be able to read it.

i swear some of you forget that writing is hard and takes time and effort. you forget that sometimes words don't flow, or that sometimes i just don't feel like writing. i'm not sure WHY you forget this, because if it was that easy, everybody would be doing it. but here we are.

i'm not a robot. i'm not an AI creating words in a google doc for your enjoyment. i'm a real person, with real life problems. i haven't been in the headspace to write, so i haven't been. i don't want to write right now, so i'm not going to. i'm doing other things. i'm enjoying my life outside of ao3. maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and want to write, or maybe i won't. nobody gets to decide that but me.

:)

drink some water.

[chalkrub]

ode to the drowned rat. who’s hiding under there??

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

This has a bunch of authors I already love in it (Stephen Graham Jones, Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Rebecca Roanhorse!!), and several authors I've been meaning to try (like Tommy Orange, Nick Medina, and Kelli Jo Ford, to name a few), so I'm really hyped for them all to be together in one volume! Plus dark fiction is very much my jam (especially when it comes in a bright and colorful package).

[nexus-nebulae]

every day i wish that Rats SMP was a cartoon bc it would make the greatest show ever i think

[jacketpotatoo]

Hey @thehomelybadger , thank you for breaking my heart

[arlathen]

SOLAS' REGRETS ARE SO SPICY DUDE like. we (fandom at large comprised of smarter people than me) had already guessed a lot of these as possibilities but OUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sharks-r0ck]

my friend and my ocs are both sabrevine kids (badger is vic’s bio son, wilde is adopted, badger is also logan’s adopted son and then when vic and logan get together wilde is also logans kid) and so i drew them

hastag……. sibling bonding activities (beating the shit out of each other)

[musubiki]

The m34th going through different witch seduction tactics, meanwhile Lime is just: thighs thighs thighs thighs

HE WOULD!!!!! also it would be VERY funny if the anti-witch-seduction (AWS) training had the exact same vibes as those free speech training things they make you do in university where you watch a bunch of bad acting videos and answer very easy questions that have very obvious correct answers if youre not a monster

lime having to sit there watching another video of someone dressed as a fake witch and then taking a multiple choice quiz thats like "You see a witch trying to bribe you with her body, do you A) bring her in anyway, or B) give in?" and hes like "Boy oh boy i wonder what the right answer is"

or its one of those cringey corporate team meeting vibes where everyone sits down in a big room and the manager goes "okay im not naming names but REMEMBER IN THE HANDBOOK how it says we're not supposed to sleep with witches?? yeah?? that was in the handbook guys. please read it again if you need to. this is not team player behavior"

[aroaceinaerospace]

since it's the start of a new year and I'm a bookworm, I figured I'd share some of the aspec books I read in 2023. I've added any of the big content warnings I can think of as well as a link to the books on storygraph where there are more in depth content warnings.

Fiction:

Wren Martin Ruins It All by Amanda DeWitt follows the titular character Wren Martin during senior year of high school as he becomes student council president and fights his vice president to try and get the school's Valentine's Day dance shut down. Wren is very much an externally grumpy person who becomes much more loveable as you get to know him and see the reasoning behind his grumpiness. Rep includes asexual main character and an aromantic side character, and note this book is a romance.

Is Love The Answer by Uta Isaki is a coming of age manga following Chika as she tries to find the answer to who she is and explores her identity. This book is full of aro and ace rep with different life experiences. CW for aphobia and attempted SA.

Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfred is a middle grade book following Lizzie in how a science class assignment helped lead her to an understanding of her asexuality. At the same time, Lizzie is having to adjust to a new home and changes in what was once familiar and safe. CW for aphobia, harassment.

Non-fiction:

*note: these books cover some triggering topics in different parts of them, including racism, SA, aphobia, and more

Ace and Aro Journeys by The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project (TAAAP) is a really great overview of aspec identities, it gives more time to aro identities than a lot of other books, and provides quotes and information from people on various parts of the spectrums. This book brings in some intersectionality, though it is more broad than a deep dive.

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J. Brown, which has been my favorite read. This book is fantastic if you're ready for a deep dive into intersectionality and some deeper history on asexuality. This book, despite being very short, is a much heavier read content-wise, but it is very thought provoking and will stick with you. Each chapter gives you content warnings up front for the materials that will be addressed in the chapter. Personally, this book has been my favorite book on the subject and I intend on reading it many more times to capture more of the nuance.

[screechingmusicstarfish]

tw for mental and physical abuse also violence because this is warriors we’re talking about

okay this is technically a rewrite, but I like to call it an au okay so the story starts when hollykit and her siblings become apprentices, Hollypaw is trying her best And her mental leafpool tells her she’s doing great, but Hollypaw knows that she’s lying because she has the power to know what’s the truth and what’s a lie. meanwhile, Lionpaw is having a terrible time with his mentor Ashfur because he says he’s not good enough to be his apprentice and physically hurts him so when he was sleeping, tigerstar goes into his dreams and tells him to join the dark forest so he can become a stronger cat and he accepts but the thing is Lionpaw has the ability of super strength and and can’t be defeated unless he chooses to but he doesn’t know this and he almost kills Hawkfrost. while he’s training in the dark forest his brother Jawpaw Is being a bit snappy to his mentor Brightheart, she doesn’t mind this but leafpool thinks he’s better off as a medicine cat one day while he was sleeping, Tigerstar goes into his dreams but spottedleaf stops him then tells Jaypaw that his destiny is supposed to be a medicine cat, Jawpaw gets a bit angry and says crowfood i’m not gonna do that you mousebrain, he goes away also I forgot to mention he has the ability to go into anyone’s dreams, so one day he accidentally goes into Lionpaw’s dreams and sees that he’s training in the dark forest so he tells Firestar about about it and then tells to swap mentors with Holypaw because he doesn’t want to become a medicine cat, Firestar is surprised but does what he says and Lionpaw is relieved to have a kind mentor but Hollypaw isn’t so lucky because Ashfur is a terrible mentor but she’s a better hunter and Warrior than Lionpaw