#and me :)

[ask-fuyuhiko-bleh]

She'll be perfect for my clan

are u birthing rn

I’m putting her up for adoption who wants her.

[haydenshill]

Why are there never guys like this at the bar?

[metastatiic]

reblog this butch for good luck

[themusicsweetly]

All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future.  We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway.  By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.

[cardi-c]

papa kisses

[velvetchaika]

Redraw my old art

[trinityprocessing]

I've read "Dark Heir"

Atleast the fucking horse loves him, right?

[calmmyfears]

hi, if you are struggling with not knowing who to be or what to do with your life this year just like me. i want you to know that it'll be alright, we will figure it out along the way. breathe deep and take my hand, we are going places you've never imagined. the world is waiting for us and we will get there in our own time, slow but steady. one foot in front of the other with kindness and patience in our hearts. we're not lost, we're on our way. 🤍

[fresh-frogs]

Merry Christmas from this shy frog ‼️

[anglerflsh]

These are meant to be a gift for my friends because I see them soon. So I'm scheduling the post on the morning of when they come visit

[nemeyuko]

Happy international asexual day to Herbert West 🖤🩶🤍💜

[bignosebaby]

You know her

This little ape is pretty iconic on tumblr, having a niche popularity as a meme from the "and me" post that is around ten years old! That's a long time for this mysterious (and cute) face to circulate.

I get a decent amount of people both in real life and online asking me about her, which makes sense because as a big advocate for primate welfare I can tell you the golden rule is primates are not pets and should not be kept in domestic human contexts. People attuned to the inherent cruelty of keeping primates as pets and raising apes like human children are wary of images like this, because that is exactly what it looks like.

Good news! This baby (as with all babies with Silver Tree Nursery watermarks) is completely fine. Because she's a doll.

Many people know about reborn dolls-- The hyper-realistic baby dolls that look and feel like the real thing-- but not everyone knows that there are also ape reborn dolls. Silver Tree Nursery is a (now defunct) Facebook page for an artist named Gemma who painted and customized reborn dolls and specialized in apes. The artist behind this doll has done several orangutans as well as some gorillas and chimps. While the iconic "and me" model above is a little too cutesy to be perfectly realistic, some of her work is so realistic that it would fool me (if not for the handy watermark). Here are some more shots of this doll:

And some of the other apes she has done:

I'm not the first person to post this-- while searching for more pictures I found this tumblr post which seems to have been the big reveal for most people that these are dolls. However, I thought I would tackle 2 follow up questions:

Are these dolls ethical?

Well, yeah. Some might ask if these dolls encourage the idea that this is an acceptable way to treat primates, but personally I think that the very small community of primate doll enthusiasts is a non-issue especially when you consider the impact of social media accounts that promote actual primates being kept as pets and treated like babies. Frankly if you want to snuggle a baby ape this would be the only way to do it (short of working as a surrogate caretaker for orphaned wildlife) without seriously contravening the endangered species act. Still, being vigilant against primate exploitation content is important, so:

How can you tell the difference between super realistic dolls and real primates?

In this case it was as easy as following the watermark. Googling Silver Tree Nursery brings up the Facebook page of the artist who makes the dolls. In general, sourcing is everything. If you know where an image comes from you can determine what the larger context is and whether what is happening is good. Here's an example:

Is this a reborn doll or a real baby? The framing makes it look very similar to the Silver Tree dolls with the stuffed animal and baby blanket, but if you were to reverse Google image search the picture you would find out that this is Yakini, a gorilla from the Werribee Zoo when he was a baby in 1999. Reverse searching is your friend, and it only takes a minute.

[ode-to-fury]

I’ve been thinking about that previous gifset I reblogged of the moment Gale is outraged that Nettie would try to kill you, and… oh my god he’s going to make me cry. You get so much approval from him in the grove because he approves that you handle that situation, he approves when you save Arabella, he approves when you save the tiefling kid from the harpies because in his opinion it’s wrong for people to just “snuff out life” without a second thought

But then Mystra asks him to blow himself up for the chance to have her forgiveness and he just says yes. No second thoughts just says yes because he genuinely 1.) thinks the world would be better off without him 2.) believes Mystra is owed that because of a mistake you could argue she encouraged him to make and 3.) doesn’t view himself and his life as having the same value as everyone else’s

[fencecollapsed]

people who want Paul so bad it makes them look stupid:

- Emma (requited <3)

- Pokey

- Ted

- McNamara

- Melissa

[sorbeau]

ive got gukgak autism

also some drawings of some actual ocs from earlier today woaahhh so cool i love t4t people