#Really thanks

[shakooo]

HI☺️ weeeell i come to give a little message <33 because i wanted to thank each and every one of the people who requested a commission!!!! you don't know how much you helped me and i thank you from the botom of my heart for that as you have no idea‼️💖

i must also thank the people who are always here supporting me or interacting with me :"))) this month i was only able to upload commissions but i really had to take the time to make them of good quality and put all my effort into them 😌 i must also say that the commissions will not close FOR A LONG time since i'm still saving for the tablet :'3 but anyway, if i evr close them i will be letting you know ^^ now that it's over all the pending commissions that i had, i will be able to continue with the projects that i have as well as the askblog or more comics only with less frequently becuase i want that even if i publish little, it is of quality

(also because i just came out of a somewhat "discouraged"episode (? in a certain way, but i regained inspiration, thanks to the people who gave me messages of encouragement TvT) i know i'm always apologizing for not bringing you some new drawing or thanking all of you, but AGHGHH i swear ido it because i feel happy to be here, all of you guys are so kindly and that should be appreciated, sorry if i went on too long, but i have to do it whenever i can, i will do it💖 THANK YOU AAAALL GUUUYYS

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Thanks for the advice about my ear! I appreciate it. I'm sure it'll be fine

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happy birthday kris <3 hope you can still enjoy your day despite repair guy dhfdfhs

Thank you so much! I'm still waiting on the repair guy, but I hope to enjoy the rest of the day soon. I'm glad it's Friday tho. Still have the whole weekend ahead

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I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

made this with tears still drying on my face

[filibusterfrog]

types of wizards :)

[morkazstuff]

Currently stuck between what the hell? and oh I've seen those burrows before, so thanks for that.

Right! Apropos another post, let’s talk about lawn crayfish aka The Lobsters Beneath Our Feet!

This is Craw-Bob. He’s about three and a half inches long.

Long ago, when I had only gardened in the Southeast for a year or two, I saw an interesting hole in a flowerbed. It was rather deep and had a muddy front porch. I gazed into this hole, thinking “Ooh! Is it a rodent? A snake? A toad?”

And then I saw…the Claw.

It was unmistakably a crustacean claw. And it was in a hole in my yard. My terrestrial yard! Why was there a crustacean in my flowerbed?!

I could not have been more astounded if an octopus tentacle had come flopping out. I ran screaming for my husband and the internet, both of whom said “Yeah, that’s a lawn crayfish, they do that.”

And yes. There are about 400 species of crayfish* in North America, and a not inconsiderable number of them are burrowing species. The devil crayfish, which builds little mud towers, ranges from the Rockies to the Atlantic and as far north as Ontario. There are a number of other species as well. Some are limited to stream banks, but many burrow in lawns, flowerbeds, and other places with consistently damp soil, which means that there is a non-zero chance that when you wander around the grass, a tiny lobster is lurking somewhere beneath your feet.

You would think that more people would know this, but at no point in my life had anyone ever mentioned it to me.

Being me, I immediately set out to determine if other people knew about lawn crayfish and I had just somehow missed it. I took an informal poll—by which I mean I accosted random strangers at the farmer’s market, the coffee shop, and my doctor’s office—and discovered a stark divide. Half the people looked at me like I was telling them I’d seen a lawn chupacabra and the other half looked at me like I’d asked if they’d ever heard of squirrels.

It was not divided by social class or education. The farmer with the heirloom breed hogs knew about them, his wife did not. My nurse practitioner first thought I was hallucinating, then went out into the clinic, and began demanding to know if her co-workers had heard of this. My barista was like “Yeah, mudbugs,” but he’s from Florida, so may not count.

My theory is that if you know they’re there, it’s just a fact of life so obvious that you don’t bother to comment on it, and if you don’t—well, why would you ever assume that any given hole in the ground comes from a goddamn MINI LOBSTER? And since they mostly just hang out underground during the day and don’t really hurt anything, it just doesn’t come up very often, until one day you’re at the farmer’s market, just trying to sell some organic tomatoes, and a wild-eyed woman with a Studio Ghibli T-shirt descends on you yelling “Are you aware of lawn crayfish?!”

(Yes, they’re edible, but it’s a lot of work popping them individually out of their burrows.)

During torrential rains, they will often leave their burrows and wander around, which is how I got the photos of Craw-Bob. My hound spotted him in the garden and poked him with her nose, whereupon Craw-Bob poked back. Hound, not sure what was happening but that it was probably bad, began doing her “release the humans!” alarm bark, and I came out to find her toe to toe with a crustacean who was waving its claws and presumably screaming “Come on if you think you’re hard enough!” in Lobster.

Despite their willingness to fight everything, they’re pretty harmless. The most they do is move soil from underground to a little pile above. I’m sure golf courses hate them. Our local county extension office suggests “These nonprolific creatures should be appreciated like an interesting bird or turtle living on the property.” Some, like the Greensboro burrowing crayfish, are so rare they were thought to be extinct until somebody found one in the backyard.

So. Lawn crayfish. They exist! And could be lurking underfoot as we speak!

*or crawfish, depending on where you’re from.

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Is this anything

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[littlelightfish]

Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:

Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.

(You can hear it here)

In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.

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this is fine

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Last part whoo!!!

PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 / PART 4

[buthappysoverrated]

✨Forceful reminder you are a unique soul, irreplaceable in this world, and bring so much to everyone you meet. You have done so much good and have so much more to do. Thank you for just being you✨

woah thanks

[collaredkittyboy]

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Laios Touden Period Cramps moodboard

[image ID: a 3x3 moodboard of alternating Dungeon Meshi manga panels and Delicious in Dungeon anime screenshots of Laios suffering from cramps and stomach pain, arranged in sequential order to show how his pain progresses. Laios is a blond tallman (human) in grey plate armor. In some images, there is a closeup of his face with a pained expression or crying, while the rest show him doubled over on the ground. In two manga panels, Laios says, "My stomach. Urrgh..." Narrative text from the other panels read, "Laios tried to say something... But overwhelming stomach pain and nausea wiped all thoughts from his mind. For an entire night, it felt like his stomach was being carved open from the inside." End ID.]

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Omg?! Thank you for 2.1k?! AA! I really don’t have anything prepared so take these billford magma doodles I did today! XD