#juvenile reading

[peiart]

Trixie’s First Spell 🪄

Little Monsters Book 3: Trixie’s First Spell is up for pre-sale right now!

In her story, Trixie navigates the determination of her good will and independence. She wants so badly to conjure a sweet present for her mom's birthday, but the advanced spell proves difficult to read. She scrambles as letters twist and float off the spell book pages, and the spell erupts! When Trixie's spell sends the whole house into chaos, can she fix the mess before her mom gets home?

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[inatungulates]

Grant's zebra Equus quagga boehmi

Observed by hikuta, CC BY-NC

This photo shows very well just how bright red zebra foals' darker stripes can be, before they turn black with age; foals often have noticeably fuzzier coats than adults.

In addition to the red-striped, fuzzy foal, the adults here show classic features of Grant's zebras Equus quagga boehmi:

stripes are broad and relatively few in number, especially on the hindquarters

stripes continue all the way down the limbs

side stripes do not contact the dark dorsal midline stripe

brown patch on nose

[poorly-drawn-scumvillain]

Hello all! I know this is a scum villain blog, but if you’re also a mdzs fan you should definitely check out this fic if you haven’t already. It updated yesterday and they newest chapter made me go absolutely feral. After staying up all night reading it I decided I couldn’t not give it a shout out. Seriously, it’s one of my all time favorite fics. Go check it out. 

@tomatenmark5 is the official blog. There is tons of cool art and stuff for the fic on there that you should also look at if you’re interested.

[wombywoo]

Just a collection of work-in-progress tutorials from my artworks over the years 🙆‍♀️ For 'educational purposes' only ;))))))

Hope that cleared a few things up 💁‍♀️💁‍♀️💁‍♀️

[stil-lindigo]

emily carroll has once again permanently changed my brain chemistry

[lyril]

wowww, you hate this character cus they did something bad, no way... you hate this character cus they have a superiority complex, wowwww... that is sooo interesting and bold of you to say, please go on tell me more *frantically putting my t-shirts that say I LOVE WHEN CHARACTERS ARE ANNOYING FUCKHEADS and I LOVE VILLAINS and I LOVE STUDYING CHARACTERS UNDER A MICROSCOPE BECAUSE ITS INTERESTING back in my bag

[nonsenseofyesteryear]

thinking about how juvenile detention made everyone in the vicious generation worse, and how they're probably all bonded by the shared trauma of incarceration in a way that most of them probably don't even consciously realize and would definitely never admit to even if they did.

[lord-squiggletits]

Thinking about IDW Optimus again and the fandom's aversion to even acknowledging he exists bc he's a cop or whatever and like. Most of the time people literally just replace him in fic with some white bread knockoff archivist/librarian, not even bothering to keep in IDW OP's personality (which just bolsters my theory that the problem isn't him being a cop the problem is that he's too multifaceted but I digress).

And it's annoying because you could totally write IDW Optimus as not a cop while still keeping his canon personality. You just have to realize that the reason IDW OP became a cop in the first place is because his formative experiences when he was young shaped him to basically have two priorities: 1. To help people and 2. To do it by being on the ground actively doing something about the bad things happening to people.

IDW OP would not be a fucking librarian or archivist because even though those are noble pursuits that can help people and change the world, and Optimus is educated/smart enough for the profession, he wouldn't be satisfied just teaching people or spreading information about activism or social-historical studies or whatever. He's a mech of action: he needs to be doing things right now, in front of him, to people he sees/interacts with in his own eyes, improving society with concrete actions rather than indirect action or abstract inspiration.

So basically the alternate job ideas I can think of for IDW Optimus are something like being a firefighter (or any first responder really) or even whatever the equivalent would be to international charity organizations, those ones that send volunteers across the world to do stuff like build housing/infrastructure or distribute food or whatnot. I mean I can't imagine that the equivalents to these things would be exactly the same in IDW Cybertron, so you'd have to get a little creative with it, but these are just some ideas of jobs that would fit IDW Optimus' personality while still filling the niche of "not a cop" for people who are just that opposed to it.

Though I think the revulsion against coptimus is annoying in general tbh because IDW is already a continuity that rejects the idea of easily defined good/evil people or groups. It feels like people really want Optimus to be a good person in a very sanitized and academically approved way, so he has to be nice and squeaky clean but also like, a perfect leftist who knows theory and holds the most progressive opinions on every single issue....

There is no room for the idea that good people join bad institutions, there's no room for the idea that the reason people think cops are good guys who help people is bc of the government propaganda everything is saturated with. Hell there's even later issues of the Optimus Prime series by John Barber where Optimus like, MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES, is shown in flashbacks grappling with the fact that he as a cop/Zeta's regime that he works for might not actually be improving society like they say they are, and dealing with the fact that he feels more like a lesser evil compared to the Decepticons (perhaps not "lesser" at all).

It's like there's this idea in fandom of like, fictional media and opinions on media having to strictly adhere to progressive ideals at all times. So people just go "cops bad, this character is a cop, therefore they suck" without being willing to engage with the idea of like. IDW OP is born wanting to fight injustice and protect people -> a good way to protect people is to fight the people who are hurting them and committing crimes -> surely following the law is a reliable moral code to guide him in this -> becomes a cop because he's been indoctrinated into a society (much like our own) where he was told that the state/the law exist to protect the people and being a cop means you get to fight bad guys that hurt people. There's really so many interesting concepts there that could be (and CANONICALLY IS) explored about how good, well-intentioned people can be led to harmful actions simply because they have been fed the idea that the things they're doing are good/helpful/noble. Which is especially important for a character like Optimus, I think, who has a cultural icon status as The Irrefutable and Perfect Good, so it's really important actually to use IDW Optimus as an example of how even the most noble people you know have held problematic beliefs or done bad things at some point in their life. You know, because no one is born perfect and ideologically pure, and in fact society is constructed in exactly a manner to make people drink the kool-aid and believe that the systems designed to hurt them/others are just a normal, if flawed, society.

I mean the writing in IDW literally has Optimus deal directly and indirectly with the harm he's done as a cop and how people don't/didn't trust him because of that. I don't know what the fuck else this fandom wants if the source material literally saying "OP realizes that cops suck and he hurt people and earned their disdain by doing the things he did" doesn't stop them from going EW cop bastard sucks and is the worst Optimus. Like the narrative barely stops short of outright saying ACAB and Optimus himself would agree with this sentiment.

At that point, the collective fandom beef with IDW OP isn't because he's a cop and the narrative didn't do enough to condemn that. The problem is literally just that people don't read and don't care

TLDR: Consider the fact that good people can do bad things sometimes especially when living from birth in a corrupt society that thoroughly disguises its vices/oppressive structures as completely normal parts of existence

[vermillioncrown]

@rozaceous replied to your post “Later TPAC teasers bc i'm busy rn”:

FULL OSTRICH, lmao that he very abruptly recognizes that he's abt to receive The Talk and deploys Jason as a defensive weapon

​the talk from anyone bat-related is not going to be a Normal Talk. he doesn't want any one of these eidetic memory freaks knowing anything of his anything, which is where this talk was likely to head towards

(dick, trying to be the best brother-dad, also shameless, also raised on bat contingencies

"--and i'll send you the encrypted list of discreet shopping sites afterwards. let's move onto the next module on the psychology of kinks, and--"

korvin, "kill me. kill me now")

jason's happy to stir shit and get in people's way, there are no loyalties there

korvin just 🙈🙉 "lalalala not listening lalalalalalala" ostrich mode

[chotachica]

Now where the fuck are the south park mental hospital or juvenile facility au fanfics . Where the FUCK are they

[inatungulates]

Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus

Observed by laurreid, CC BY-NC

This Risso's dolphin calf must be very young. The deep creases along its flanks are fetal folds, which are produced by the calf lying curled inside its mother's womb. Fetal folds fade over the first several weeks of life and are completely gone sometime in the first few months. A close look at the little calf's upper jaw shows a series of small bumps; these are the follicles for its whiskers! In most (but not all) species of cetacean, these wispy hairs are lost even before the fetal folds fade, in only the first few days or weeks of life.

Notice also the much darker, unmarked appearance of the calf compared to its mother. Adult Risso's dolphins become paler as they age, but this natural lightening is helped along substantially by the development of a dense network of scars that are produced by the rather large teeth of other Risso’s dolphins, which regularly rake each other in routine social interactions. Tooth-raking is a completely normal part of social behavior in most toothed cetacean species, but Risso’s dolphins take it to an extreme not found in others, so it must play an outsized role in their social signaling to one another, compared to other dolphins.

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

rose reads 2024

2/18 Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

2/25 In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce

3/12 The Woman Who Rides Like A Man by Tamora Pierce

6/15 The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos

6/22 The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

6/27 Beartown by Frederik Backman

[buttercup-barf]

Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.

Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.

That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.

The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.

Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.

Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.

[emiliosandozsequence]

it truly is so sad everyone is getting into fantasy only bc of sjm. back in my day, we had tamora pierce and robin mckinley we were happy about it bc their books are actually fucking good and original.

[toontalks]

"the most dangerous kind of person is someone who has something to protect but whose values are all wrong" MC of (Juvenile Offender)

[aroxis]

Can't begin to tell you how frustrating it is to see East Asian fanartists go viral on English speaking side because of either antis trying to sic mobs of puritanical cyberbullies on them or because their fanarts get stolen and reuploaded under the wrong tags and nobody thinks to check before sharing. In this fandom it's extra infuriating because the same people who make harassing Gojo x students shippers their whole personality are the ones happily spreading Gojo x students fanarts as fuel for their "found family" headcanons. Shame, self respect, none of these are to be found here.