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“Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery. Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the windows.“
What is better to sit and read inside with good company, while storm and rain blasts the windows. Love this little passage of domestic bliss.
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Crucial thing about Buffy Summers is that she would rather die than have a conversation. She doesn't want to get other people involved in her business if she can help it, and throughout the series we see her become increasingly self-reliant as she learns to trust in her own abilities as the Slayer. The downside to this is that it weakens her connection to her friends as she becomes convinced that they can't understand what she's going through. By the late seasons, Willow and Xander fit the same role relative to Buffy that Joyce did back in high school. To Buffy, it's not worth opening up to them if they'll never really get it. All she'd be doing is pushing her problems onto people who wouldn't be able to help. In addition, thanks to that self-reliance, she always thinks that she can solve everything on her own. She doesn't like to open up about her issues, meaning that her loved ones often don't find out that anything is wrong until it's too late for Buffy to handle it delicately. For instance, when Joyce finds out that Buffy is the Slayer in season two she has a lot of questions that Buffy doesn't have time to answer because the world is literally about to end. In a desperate attempt to keep Buffy from leaving Joyce threatens to kick her out of the house, which obviously wasn't something she should have said even though it wasn't sincere. By refusing to let her mother in on the details of her life until the last possible minute, Buffy put them both in a situation where she was forced to drop the information and run, leading her mother to hate the Slayer calling in season three. Joyce only gets a peak at Buffy's life when the supernatural gets so bad that it's completely out of Buffy's control, which leads to Joyce seeing Buffy's life as nothing but terrible. We see this especially with Angel. Buffy never tells Joyce anything about her relationship with Angel except for when he's evil and planning on killing her, which means that Joyce never trusts Angel even when he's a good guy genuinely trying to protect her.
Switching back to the late seasons; after Buffy comes back from the dead she feels unable to connect with anyone except Spike. She was obviously going through a whole depression in season six and I'm not going to say that she handled it wrong because frankly as long as she made it through alive she did everything right, but this lack of communication with her friends does cause some problems for her. We see in the musical episode Buffy is forced to finally tell the truth about what death was like and how depressed she's been feeling, and it absolutely crushes all of her friends. Not only does their friend find them responsible for her depression, but she also felt the need to lie to them about it because she thinks they'd rather see her as happy than honest. Buffy tries to protect her friends from her life rather than sharing it with them, so everyone ends up upset and isolated. For the next leg of the season she has the whole relationship with Spike going on that she doesn't tell anyone about, which once again means that no one finds out until it's so bad she can't control it. (This is paralleled with Willow's magic addiction in a way that's interesting but I'm not gonna talk about it right now). Xander gets angry at her for sleeping with Spike when we know he had a much more chill reaction back in season five when the Buffybot made everyone think Buffy was with Spike, showing that the circumstances of him finding out had a big impact on his reaction. If Buffy had been up front about the relationship rather than waiting for Spike to spill the beans mid-argument, her friends probably would have been more understanding. Instead, Xander only sees Spike as the guy who starts fights and tries to rape his friend. By season seven Xander and Dawn don't understand why Buffy wants to protect Spike, because she didn't want them to know about any of the relationship so they only got to see the worst of it. If she was willing to share the parts of Spike she found genuinely appealing, she wouldn't have been hiding the relationship in the first place. Instead, everyone else sees him as an irredeemable asshole and Buffy doesn't take their concerns seriously because she can take care of herself.
I think I'm running out of steam so this post is probably approaching its end, but yeah. I think it's super interesting how Buffy works on a "dude, just trust me" level, and you can see throughout the series that her bubble of trust shrinks dramatically. Her fundamental trait of not wanting to share her struggles stays consistent, but as she grows up and gains confidence and competence she ends up willing to let down her mask with fewer and fewer people. She's a uniquely powerful Slayer because of how she draws on the strength of her friends, but she hates that she has to do it and tries to lock them out of her life as soon as she reaches a point where she thinks she can handle it alone. Once things boil over she's always left with a situation that's far worse than if she'd just been upfront with everything, but despite that the people in her life still always support her unconditionally. Joyce welcomes her back into the house with open arms, Giles respects her renewed relationship with Angel, Xander agrees to let Spike live with him despite his concerns. Buffy has so much trouble accepting the love that constantly surrounds her, but it remains anyways.
#i don't even know if i'm being coherent at this point#i'm very sleepy but crucially i also love buffy and want her to fucking communicate#also i'm not done with season seven yet so i might be missing stuff but whatever#i need to ramble to the void (tumblr)#buffy the vampire slayer#btvs#buffy summers#angel btvs#joyce summers#dawn summers#xander harris#willow rosenberg#rupert giles#spike btvs#buffy and angel are meant for each other because they'd both rather be staked than share their problems with anybody#my analysis
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"Can you take orders" "I don't know. give me one" LOGAN HONEY BE MORE OBVIOUS
#GIRL.HONEY.LOML.SUGARSLICE.SWEETIEPIE.#WHAT THE HECK#thing is with him I can't tell if he wants the rumble or if he secretly wants to be bossed around a lil#probably a bit of both lol#love is a battlefield#also I am quite sorry this is like the third post I've done about this same deleted scene#and I also know these posts are devolving rapidly at this point I'm just throwing my brain goo at the wall and trying to decipher the splat#(losing my mind just a wee bit) (and by a wee bit I mean I am in pieces)#Logan howlett#wolverine#Scott summers#cyclops#scogan#Scott x logan#Logan x scott#xmen#xmen movies#xmen original trilogy#deleted scenes#martianbugsbunny ships
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@mcyt-summer-of-yuri gift for @sooonah !!! It's Gempearl in a Secret Life mage AU <3
#mcyt#trafficblr#secret life#geminitay#pearlescentmoon#gempearl#trafficshipping#trafficship#shipping#idea draws#idea original post#okay now that the organization tags are out of the way: This was supposed to be a fanfic.#I've written A LOT of gempearl for this gift. it's multichapter. it is not done. this is me backing up and punting due to the deadline.#i will be finishing that fanfic! it's been going very well it's just LONG#I hope this tides you over in the interrim sooonah! if you want I can let you know when the fic is done so you can read it :D#I'm having so much fun with the magic system and I know you really wanted a magic AU#lmk if you have any questions ^^#mcyt summer of yuri#forgot that one
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2024 Hungarian GP | x (edited)
#daniel ricciardo#autumn posts#the (edited) is quite unnecessary as it is most readily apparent lol but!!#I tried to rotate it 45 degrees ish and my lack of photo editing skills leaves much to be desired#anyways arm 😵💫❤️✨#I fear I'll be in a perpetual state of missing him#but I'll be savoring memories of him like light from a star still reaching earth years after its gone out 🌠#also that's overly dramatic hehe a new journey awaits!!! and I will be excited if he wants to share it with us!!!#until then I'll be blogging like its 2017 at times hehe#omg I was looking up top 2017 tracks and man there were some bangers that year 👏😎#okay nostalgia trip over I've been meaning to write but tbh I got myself all needlessly stressed!!#2025 is the year of not adding so much undue stress on myself - it's keeping me from flying!!!#also 2025 goals include drinking more water and less coffee 😒 sigh hehe#hope everyone has a very wonderful last day of the year!!!!#enjoying time with friends or fam or favorite hobbies ❤️#off to another chapter!! I hope good things are in store!!! 🎁🎉✨❤️#also if you read this far then hello and also my silliest yearning is Dan comes in to replace Liam in the summer#even tho RBR does Not deserve him and the stress of the sport with travel and media scrutiny are so much#retiring at 35? a dream!! but I do wonder what the vibe will be like after DTS drops#it feels like a proper goodbye had yet to come...idk#I'm still excited for Carlos and Max and Lewis and new faves too but#ahh I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said before#and he himself said he's done!!! so! c'est la vie#not goodbye but see ya later (in supercars or as a globetrotting dashing sponsor or just kickin it on the farm)#I'm at peace with all for the most part!!! but I'll be missing what could've been all the same#anyways I should go touch some grass! I'll be back soon!!#thank you everyone for all the kind tags my heart is like 💖💞💓💗💕!!!!#I appreciate this space and y'all so much ❤️❤️❤️ onto another year together!!#many more memories to make!!!
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I ended up having way too many unfinished fics to choose from for Shinsou's birthday, none of which were ao3-ready, so have this extra long snippet of my beloved ice cream shop au that I've spent way too much time on for a fic that might never actually get posted ��
(the context here is that Shinsou & Kaminari are trying to get erasermic together, but Kaminari didn't know he was trying to set his teacher up with the music store guy bc he's only heard about him from Shinsou)
#long post#liza writes#shinsou hitoshi#kaminari denki#aizawa shouta#this fic is beyond a shadow of a doubt the silliest thing i've ever written#but it got longer than it was supposed to be and then took a weirdly emotional turn#basically like if an antisocial emo teen became way too invested in the failing ice cream shop he worked at for the summer#and the lives of its patrons to distract from other stuff going on in his life#i love this fic okay#i'm just using shinsou's birthday as an excuse to talk about it for the first time it's so silly and self-indulgent#but it's also pretty far on the backburner bc i have the next three fics i want to get done (hopefully) lined up#they just keep getting beefier than intended#shinkami#i'm tagging shinkami bc it could definitely be read as pre-relationship for them#another thing that wasn't intended it just kind of snuck in there#mha fic#q#ice cream shop au
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OKAY we got a fanfic update today!!
These are the fics that are left on my wip list!
The Queer Capers of Lester Papadopoulos and Meg McCaffery
Hyapollo Multific
Drunk Twins
A Guide By Demeter
The Conspiracy of Rachel Elizabeth Dare
Of Bridges Built & Burned
Koios ToA
The Sun's Rise
All of them, except for the Hyapollo fic, WILL be done for ToApril this year! :D Hyapollo's fic will be written during the month of May (I hope, depends on when my Internship begins🤞), while Eclipsed will have the SUMMER dedicated to it (in between my Internship and work hours 🤞) So hopefully, by the end of the summer/early fall, I'll have it ready to go!!
After that will be Tangled AU, then Dawned (hunger games au part 3) and Heathers AU! Only then will I draw out my next poll and create my next wip list <3
#ramblings of an oracle#the trials of apollo#my fics#trials of apollo#here we go!!#alder's gonna be back in business#got nine fics for toapril this year! less than last year but i didn't want to overload myself with Ideas#especially since some of these fics look like they could be long oneshots (buzzfeed rachel fic and demeter fic i'm looking at you)#so i may not post on their respective days#but eh who hasn't done that before? lmao#i think i have about six weeks of classes left for college#if i'm lucky my internship won't start until the summer so i'll have after may 16 free#but we'll see#fics gotta work around my day to day life unfortunately lol#if only i could make it my life...rip
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Base drawing of Wukong


My reference photos ⬆️
Gonna do it like a painting rather than have line art but I needed a detailed (ish) sketch to go over the top of.
#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#monkey king#I have exams and it's horrid#Liu Xioa Ling Tou#Dicky Cheung#Never watched that film actually#But started the 1986 series#Uni is not gonna let me in with the way this is going 😭#I'm doing an art project for the next year and I need to pick a theme by Wednesday#I want one where I can draw jttw characters and Chappel Roan#Pls give suggestions#I have a new therapist (they seem to be passing me around atm)#She's great but I'm only seeing her until Summer 😭#The office is so scary#There's this emotion graph on the wall and the one for 'happy' is genuinely terrifying#If that is happy then I'm a tree#Sry for oversharing but tbf I doubt people are reading the tags anyway#This is my version of journaling#I think I'm gonna see if my phone will let me download the speed paint of this when I'm done#Love speedboats#I force my friends to watch them but they do the same to me so it's fine
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You have feelings for me, right? Oh, don't be so full of yourself. Don't tell me that you... Shut up.
#summer night the series#summer night#ivystar#starivy#meine grafiken#smngifmine#adrm#hello it's like 4am lmao#but i wanted this done before the next ep and i'm also going to germany the next two days without my laptop so... 🤷♀️#publishing this tomorrow tho when all the people i know for sure are watching this show are awake#nighty night everyone#or rather. hi. good morning. good afternoon. whatever
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"I'm gonna take that promotion, I guess."
"Well, engineers have their bad days, too..."
🚨 SUMMER OF 51’s (2024) 🚨 ⮑ Day 16: Change Your Mind
#emergency!#summer of 51's#roy desoto#johnny gage#kevin tighe#randolph mantooth#johnny & roy#squad 51#engine 51#didn't think i'd get this one done till later into the weekend...#but in a surprise twist i actually finished it up pretty quickly#i mean... it's still very late considering it's for the day 16 prompt lol#but i only finally started working on it a day ago so i'm proud of myself ; )#anyway this clearly focuses on roy from the 'promotion' episode#where he was all...#'i don't really want the engineer job'#to 'i guess i'll take the engineer job'#to 'forget that engineer job'#we all know he loves being a paramedic too much to give it up for the promotion#plus who in their right mind could possibly leave johnny? 😜#can't break up the dream team... 😉💙#nothing to it when you know what you're queueing...
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just finished crush on my s5 rewatch and oh my god I NEED to know what the general opinion was when that episode first came out. how did y'all og buffy fans react to that??
#I forgot how INSANE that episode is holyyy shit#he's so annoying and creepy vjfvjndj honestly if I wasn't so fond of spike that episode might've put me off from him#we love a guy who can't take no for an answer#but also... spike. so. I cringe but I continue on anyhow#also maybe evil of me but I think it would've been SO funny is harmony dusted him with that arrow#to survive everything he's been through only to be done in by harmony in that moment? fantastic#like if he died then it would've been like see!! he's going on a rant about how he should just kill both of them oo he's not truly changed#or whatever do you get me? if they wanted us to not like spike well there that would've been perfect lol#or to kill him during lovers walk obviously but y'know just a thought if he died here instead#also HIII HI DRU DRU I LOVE U!!! she's so lucid in this episode honestly it's kinda weird haha#I'm used to her floating about nattering on about fucking whatever nonsense she's saying#aka my most rewatched episode is school hard and that is always my most recent memory of her#love that she kept laughing at him as well tho like yeah#spuffy#spike btvs#drusilla btvs#buffy summers#btvs#buffy the vampire slayer
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digital landscaping via Rivendell
#i never know what to caption these kind of drawings#like i wanted to do a landscape. there's no catchy caption there#fun fact about my art process 90% of the stuff i make starts with the caption then i go from there#this is part of the 10% where i'm like yeah. its a thing i made. praise be#anyways#all my rat#lotr#7/52#i know i'm behind but school + monster hunter is a dangerous combo for getting literally nothing else done#ill make it up over the summer probably
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something to chew on for those two for sure..........
#reise tag#its like. gestures vaguely. you know#idk I'm tired and brain fried ill come back to this when finals are done#if i remember#ONLY GOTTA HOLD OUT UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY I CAN DO IT!!!!! JUST GOTTA WORK REAL HARD#and then i can draw whatever i want all summer
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call for (very early) k'tober requests !!
hey all !!! i've started writing planning out my kinktober '25 fics already (and writing some of them... LMFAO). i know this is very early but...
i wanted to feel out if there were any particular characters, kinks, or character(s) and kink(s) scenarios that my lovely readers and mutuals would like to see?? (drop a comment or ask, whichever you are most comfortable with). i largely write dom!reader but i’d be open to writing sub!reader depending on the content. i'd enormously appreciate any reblogs on this post <3
my fandom list is here. i'd only be comfortable writing for media i'm familiar with to ensure i do the characters justice! butttt my list isn't exhaustive so please just ask if you have something you're dying to read about hehe.
as for kinks, i don't have a list but you can check out #𐚁 mel writes! or #𐚁 mel yaps! if you'd like inspo, or just fire away. i promise i don't bite and there's ZERO judgement on this blog LOL. i'm comfortable with dark and light content. hard nos off the top of my head are: incest/stepcest, daddy/mommy kink & pregnancy.
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there is no pressure of course — i have already planned out some days but i'd love to be able to give back to those that have been so sweet to me on here, and to anyone who enjoys my writing. i cannot promise requests will be fulfilled, but if any catch my fancy, i'll definitely write them and make sure to tag you next year when i post them <3 i hope this is reasonable!
looking forward to hopefully hearing from yous !
big love — mel 𐚁
#this is out of my comfort zone#i haven't called for writing requests yet but i'm hopeful#and excited actually!#i promise i'm friendly!!! hehe#so please be kind if you do request anything#kinktober 2025#i know its so fucking early for kinktober#hell we only just finished this year's one#but i'm a crippling perfectionist#and the slowest writer known to man#a bad combo i know#so i wanna plan and write all these fics wayyyy in advance of next october#i really want them to be good eeek <3#planning to have them all done by next summer (fingers crossed)#mel yaps
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Ok, idea that I'm really excited about
Everyone is always talking abt an in-person temple for pagans but what if instead of a temple-temple, there was a museum-temple?
Hear me out bc I think this would be really cool.
Things the temple-museum would have:
Permanent exhibits including:
Outside land art similar to Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt that line up with the solstices/constellations
Inside sky art for meditating similar to Skyspace by James Turrell (PLS look this one up, it's so pretty. The picture in the article doesn't do it justice)
A wall of prayers/manifestations/affirmations. Visitors write them on a post it or note card and pin it to the wall to make a collaborative exhibition like Post Secret at the Museum of Us
A small gallery with general overviews of popular pagan pantheons: Hellenic, Celtic, etc. This will include artifacts from those time periods either depicting the deities or how people worshiped them
A small gallery with historical witchcraft artifacts. This will include medieval European poppets, Copic love spell manuscripts, Chinese oracle bones, etc.
Rotating temporary exhibits including:
Witch trials from around the world (1400-present, bc they do still happen)
Paleolithic cultures: Venus of Wellendorf, Stonehenge, Cave paintings/music, the Lion-man ivory, etc
Did Christianity Steal From Paganism: yes… no… it’s complicated (basically the overlap between early Christianity and Roman paganism) This will include villa mosaics, sarcophaguses, layouts of early churches, etc
The Rise of Modern Occultism: Hilma af Klint, Carl Jung, surrealism, spiritualism, Wicca, etc
A series of exhibits celebrating closed practices: different indigenous religions, Voodoo, Hoodoo, etc (Very important: these will not be teaching those crafts, just giving them the same public platform/attention as open practices. Key word here is "celebrating." People who practice in those closed communities will be consulted)
How paganism is incorporated into Abrahamic religions: Judaism and paganism, Catholicism and paganism, etc (People who practice in those communities will be consulted)
Modern witchcraft, good or bad? So that would be New Age, the rise of consumerism, witchtok, etc
More in-depth focuses on different pantheons: Celtic, Slavic, Mesopotamian, Hellenic, etc
Historical witchcraft accusations and race: Mary Lewis, the New York City Panic of 1741, Ann Glover, etc
Regular people's (like you!) devotional art. The public will be encouraged to donate/create devotional art pieces. Be that visual media, performance art, video art, music, sculpture, photography, writing, etc. It'll really highlight all the different ways people are worshiping, the diversity in deities being worshiped, and how big our community is
An auditorium. This would be for concerts, festivals/ceremonies that are done inside, and guest speakers. Guest speakers would include academics like Malcolm Gaskill (English historian and author), Katherine Howe (American author), etc. as well as big name practicing witches/pagans.
A garden. I haven’t decided yet what kind but I’m debating between a rooftop garden like the MET, one behind the building but open to visitors, or an atrium like medieval European cloisters/monasteries (bc I love those). The garden would be for meditating, connecting to nature/the gods, feeding pollinators, protecting "creepy" insects like spiders or burrowing bugs (bug hotel?), and potentially -depending on what type of garden it is- housing wild birds in bird houses or bats in bat boxes. Also, it could be a good place for festivals/ceremonies that are done outside, concerts, or general get-togethers like altar piece swaps!
And an altar/worship space. Obviously. It wouldn't be a temple without it. I'm thinking it would be mostly a big empty room with chairs and rugs scattered about and an alcove in one wall for the altar. Inside the alcove will mostly be nonspecific religious objects like candles, nice fabrics, flowers, incense, etc . Visitors will be encouraged to bring their own small personal devotional tools (except candles/incense for fire safety reasons). That way they can pray to, appreciate, and connect to their own gods and the main altar doesn't leave anybody out; the main altar is more for ambience than specific worship.
Giftshop? I'm not sure about this one yet bc it feels wrong to have a gift shop in a temple, but most museums, even small ones, have gift shops. It could have fresh herbs from the garden, candles, and local artists' art like prints, stickers, jewelry, etc. All at a reasonable price ofc (I hate overpriced museum giftshops more than anything else in the world... except overpriced museum tickets)
In terms of funding, museums get more government funding than churches, but they do have to pay taxes churches don't. I was thinking of generally modeling it after the Museum of Us in San Deigo; they let their employees pick the holidays they take off so they can each adhere to their personal religious practice, start paying them at $22 an hour with built in raises each year, and good insurance. They have done an amazing job, way better than any big museum, at collaborating with communities from all over the world to either give back artifacts in their collections or closely work with them to reframe how the artifact is presented/stored. They also don't charge for tickets, memberships, school trips, or basically anything except the giftshop. But that means they rely heavily on donations which may not work as well for a museum that's just starting out. Idk, this is all hypothetical rn.
The pillars the museum-temple would stand on are worship, education, and community.
I feel like teaching people about the history of these practices is super important and isn't smth that everybody bothers to learn or has correct information about. (And I'm a huge history/museum nerd if you can't tell lol)
I'm actually really excited about this lol
#i'm getting my degree in art history and museum studies if u can't tell lol#i've done two internships at the American Musuem of Natural History in NYC and i'm set up to do a third next summer#and i'm close w the Director of the Museum of Us and have been invited to work with them in the future (i admire them so much)#so the idea of running a museum that's also a place where ppl can worship and build community is INCREDIBLE to me#but it would take a lot of money. funding is what i'm most concerned about rn#most museums have a bord of directors where they get abt 60% of their funding from but idk who would want to sponsor smth like this#hellenic polytheism#witchcraft#paganism#paganblr#pagan community#polytheism#pagan temple#witchblr#witch community
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Zelda
She/her, 65 moons, cis molly
#Zelda (cat)#<- so it doesn't go in the fandom tags of the game lmao#Loner#honeyclan#<- the save file she's from. I'm gonna say she lives nearest to them#warrior cats oc#warriors oc#kiri’s clangen#clangen#She also doesn't have the chest spot on her sprite but I thought she looked better with it so. Y'know#I made her fur so massive but I need it to be known that the rest of her is massive as well. She's jut very large#also I HAVE RETURNED TO THIS BLOG!!! Can't say how regular activity here will be but I'm queueing this on thursday to go up on friday#and I've got three more finished cats to go up the three days after that. We'll see how many more I draw before the queue runs out#I'm doing hermit-a-day-may over on my main blog and I'm coming up on the end of the schoolyear so I may be mostly swamped until summerish#but I'd like to pick back up with posting these during the summer. I have some ideas for a comic that I'd like to do but I haven't written-#-it out yet becuase I want to get these designs done first and I think I'm about halfway through all the cats I have? across 5 different-#-clans two of which are very large so. Mass extinction events will be on once I start playing moons again!!#anyways sorry for rambling but I'm very proud of my next few designs. I think I've found a good method for doing them quickly. It involves-#-using actual reference images for the poses lmao#EDIT I lied I'm not even close to halfway#I've got 66 out of 181 done meaning I have 115 left#jesus fucking christ ITS FINE it's fine it's just a lot. not a problem though#I can pick up the pace after this next month or two#it's chill
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