#refined and ready

[wordsoftheheartandsoul]

Refined and Ready Don't let past pain or problems keep you from living a life of purpose. We're all a work in progress. Learn your lessons, forgive yourself and others often, and see every experience as an opportunity to grow. You have too powerful of a testimony to let bad memories or emotions hold you back. Speak your truth, share your wisdom, and spread your smile. The world needs what you have. It's time to embrace and express it.

Morgan Richard Olivier - Blooming Bare

[iridescent-king]

had this idea and needed 2 draw it immediately

[starrysharks]

savor-edesign thoughts

[amity206]

https://artfight.net/~Amity206

[caffeine-high]

honestly, the finale of rvb s13 permanently altered my brain chemistry at 13 y/o and since then i have never been normal about heroic sacrifices

epsilon's speech is just ingrained in me and i think something about that makes up a core part of who i am as a person and what i like in stories

i dont know how to deal with that

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Queen and her Advisor / The Explorer and her Knight

[morninkim]

Rise of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Distant Thunder - The White Ranger & The Black Knight

hit 200 followers on twitter so here are some more design from Distant Thunder as a thank you!!

Trent Fernandez-Hart, the White Ranger, is a mysterious young man that appears to the Power Rangers in the nick of time to help them escape from the clutches of a newly emerged enemy: Zeltrax, the Black Knight.

What he knows about this armored warrior and where the two of them come from will be revealed very soon...

[justrandomthoughtsandthings]

what amuses me about any "reform vs abolish" topic is that, like many things in life, people speak of it as if the situation (and thus its solution) is black and white when in reality they are intertwined. like the rise in mixed-methodology research and the awareness of intersectional identities, and the combined success of both the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, both extremes are needed to ensure revolution of whatever issue is being addressed.

take for example incarceration. there are those pushing for safer conditions in carceral settings, those pushing for alternatives to incarceration, and those pushing for decarceration as a whole, when in reality, all of these things on their own will not solve the issue. oh, sure, we can instill policies to make prisons safe but there'll still be the issue of mass incarceration. and sure, we can fund alternatives to incarceration like community based corrections and SUD treatment facilities but without addressing the issues that make prisons unsafe, we're just providing a new setting for the same treatment (the same way slavery was abolished but share-cropping was literally the 'rose by any other name'). and sure we can work towards decarceration but it will either take a while, leaving people in unsafe situations, or it will be like when mental hospitals were closed and a lot of people were left without the supports of a system they were conditioned to be reliant upon and often no knowledge of the world they're released into.

but if we work to make prisons safer, while investing in alternatives to incarceration that address the issues of mass incarceration (largely, honestly, substances and commercial sex economy), then steps can be taken towards smart decarceration, with supports set up so we're not just releasing millions of folx with no game plan.

[liquidstar]

I've been posting OC WIPs on another site for a while (more personal stuff on there) and I just realized it may give ppl the impression that I'm doing less OC writing when really I'm doing more! I'm just not always okay with posting it so publicly. But ik I have a few followers who'd wanna see so maybe I should get better about that...

[confusedfoam]

I issued myself a personal challenge, moved by the passion in the community of late i suppose. there will (maybe, as long as motivation holds out) be 25 days of some level of Christmas adjacent Glenn doodles.

I can promise there will be a range of quality and christmasyness

also because i issued this challenge to myself on the third day of December today is a threefer

[orykorioart]

Old Sweet Flips sketch from June 2021 to celebrate TAZ Sapphic week beginning later this week :3c

[rattkinng]

I got new toys (a demo model of some hardware we ordered) at work today and I'm so excited to start playing with it (reading fuck tonnes of documentation and crying in frustration when nothing works)

[archersartcorner]

Norman and his girls… still thinkin bout ‘em. Sometimes one of them has a nightmare and curls up with Norman, which leads to just. All of them curling up with Norman LMAO

Alt caption, they call her STACKS cus she sleeps on the top of the. Sleeping stack. Is this anything,

[fdragon-art]

Day 228 - sburbandoodle

Just a rough guitar doodle mixing "Theme of Eastern Story" and Sburban Jungle"

[monster-noises]

As I have actually started to Write two of the three of my Books now, I live in fear of the day anyone asks me to See the draft i'm working on or tries to read it vjcnmskfkv

Like not for the writing Quality (per say) it's just the loose free-form Jazz version of story crafting i'm committing to this notebook paper feels Unwittnessable

These are the garbled scrawling of a mad man you do not want to see these.

[jorvikwildhorse]

character design is my passion