#beaver scouts

[weltato]

Holy shit, I'm so glad I was never in Brownies XD

Scouting is WAY less culty imo, unless your particular group uses a religious promise and that's barely anything. It's one section of the night for less than a minute. My group (for Beavers anyway) uses the non-religious promise - "I promise to do my best, to be kind and helpful and to love our world."

There's no moving up ceremony, we all just say goodbye to the kid and bump them off to the next section up.

Scouting has an EVEN YOUNGER section now: Squirrels. Age 4-6. Beavers is 6-8, Cubs is 8-10.5, Scouts is 10.5-14.5, then they move up to Explorers/Explorer Scouts (used to be Ventures/Venture Scouts) and stay there till they're 18, at which point they're an adult and can join the Network as a leader if they so wish.

They say it's only an hour a week. They lied :)

I'm a Beaver Leader now, and loving it as always.

I was lowkey in a cult when I was younger because once a week I would go to a hall, in uniform, with several little girls, and we would work towards a common goal (earning badges) and we’d start every meeting with a song where the leaders, whose names we never knew so we called them things such as Brown Owl - it was all owl themed for some reason - would form an arch with their arms and we would all skip through their linked arms whilst chanting about what we were. Then we would recite a promise whilst holding our fingers up in a three fingered salute, I can still remember it and it went like this:

“I promise that I will do my best to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the Brownie Guide law.”

Then at the end of the session we would link hands and lift them up and down to simulate bells whilst singing a song that I do still remember that went like this:

“Oh Lord our god, thy children call, grant us life ease, and bless us all, goodnight.”

Then the leaders would say “Goodnight Brownies” and we’d go home like that was normal. Our parents not only knew about this, but fully supported it because where I live that’s just a normal part of childhood that’s looked back upon fondly, and they get these children in YOUNG, the Rainbows are like six or seven, and it’s not just girls, the boys have Scouts. But it’s not just the meetings that were odd, when I was too old to be a Brownie (you can only go when you’re eight to ten years old) there was a special moving up ceremony where I could become a Guide. You might wonder “What’s so strange about that?” Well, after being given a book to read about the mythological story behind the creation and ethos of the group involving a talking owl, the chosen girls would be lifted by the arms by two of the leaders and ‘flown’ over a plastic replica toadstool (I’m in a wheelchair so I just wheeled around it), then they would stand before a fake pond, spin around three times, then recite:

“Twist me and turn me and show me the elf, I looked in the water and there saw myself.”

Then we’d get a badge and people would clap. I thought nothing of it at the time but it was only after I left Guides (I could have kept going and eventually become a leader myself) that I realised just how odd it was. And that was just the modern day, back in World War Two these little girls were used to gather scraps to make weapons as well as to raise money and spread flyers for the war effort. Is it just me that finds this whole thing kind of culty? 😂

[lichen-punk]

realized i hadnt posted official battle jacket portraits yet! its never gonna be done, but here it is for now

[fall-risk]

first time drawing these weasels so they look very wonky

[idontknowreallywhy]

This is what that pocket is for… right?

When it’s Beaver Scout night and you’re making rockets…

[springtime-offrd]

Ohghhh I’m working on a massive drawing here’s some doodles I did on whiteboard fox

(Also my epic tierlist of all the characters deemed by gloobers and bloobers)

[taters169]

Can I just say how helpful pioneering skills would be to borrowers, every home should have a small book about knots just lying about on the bottom shelf of your bookcase just in case

Look at this shit man, not a single nail, screw or bit of glue and it's solid

[downingtwo]

scouts, uk, jun 2023

taken with kodak k100, kodak 100 film

[the-ultimate-squish]

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2014

16 DECEMBER 2014 || The Duchess of Cambridge visited the 23rd Poplar Beaver Scout Colony in East London.

[lilacevans]

Omg babe are you doing better now? Should I bury those doctors for making you sore 😡 Need me to have a talk with your pain? 🥺💕

-Curtis' 🐕

honestly, no. had to call the dreaded ex over bc i am way too unwell & all he keeps doing is complaining about how unwell he is.🙃. he’s literally fine, why do men do what men do🤣. i feel like i’ve been beaten with a sledgehammer and he’s like oh my tummyyyyy. fuck off

[scruffypegasus]

Commission: Battle at the Ironworks  Commission for @Vildtiger Commission is for their Team Fortress 2/His Dark Materials Crossover which you can read here  https://archiveofourown.org/works/26919874/chapters/65694874  ^_^ I personally enjoy reading her story so being able to draw something for it has been great =D ------------------------------------------------- Commission are Open! if your interested in commissioning me just send a message, I will just add I only draw SFW stuff!

[idontknowreallywhy]

We’re beginning to plan for this year’s camp…

Scott’s Scout Camp Adventure

Scott is very excited to be helping out on camp. These will be beavers rather than rescue scouts but he plans to teach them many useful skills for rescuing and otherwise.

Making sure everything is packed. Don’t forget to pack all the snacks!!

Supervising tent construction. Good teamwork, everybody! Now where did I leave that jet pack?

Guy rope Situation! Scott offers his expertise.

Checking the mess tent is F A B.

Adventure fuel!

Adrenaline time! Swinging through the treetops? Scott’s well up for that. Best check the safety equipment is up to Brains’ standards first…

… tbc…

[charactergobbler]

Sorry this isn’t what i usually post but im proud of how far I’ve come during my scouting journey.

From beavers to cubs to scouts to being a young leader doing bronze DofE i am really happy with what ive done with my life.

I am here to thank everyone who supported me on my journey and still continue to help me.

[skyecoaiart]

Red strand of hair

[piccolos-bigtoe]

They are aminals,,,, if u can believe it,, it’s sniper but crocodile mode,, demo is a ewe? Lamb? Ram? Some sort of sheep thing. Scout is a jackrabbit or something, uh a very questionably humanish one. Trying something new , very interested in the weird anthro style during the like, 70’s80’s of “what is that?? An animal with a human body,? A human body wirh an animal head? A weirdly human faced animal??” I am studiously studying stylistic styles…. It’s odd and a little bit hard to find references

I am going through a bit of a rough patch to be perfectly queer with everyone, so I am drawing to cope. It’s a comfort while also being a sort of an odd ironic annoyance for reasons. I was planning on rambling and being super philosophical but to be honest I forgort iterally everything I was going to say but that’s okay.

I meant to post this last night but I fell asleep in the middle of typing, whoops,, anyways I think the aminals the others would be are; heavy is a bear; engineer a beaver? Cat? Maybe?; medic a dove (yeah yeah I’m uncreative); spy is uh either a fox or a chameleon or a snake; soldier would be Ermm a dog or wolf maybe?; pyro would a cat meeow anyways good morning everyone I surpose,,, time for me to get up now,, I don wanna