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Guys I’m going on an aggressive fundraising spree for one week (my own personal strike basically), and I really want anyone who can to join me in boosting the fundraisers I’m about to highlight. I’ll be particularly focusing on grassroots orgs and campaigns that have had little luck in the last few weeks. I encourage anyone to not only share the fundraiser posts but also write posts of their own. I’m only one person and without other people’s help it’s virtually impossible to get anything done, so please do what you can

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The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

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Sylvia Plath, from Unpublished Poems; “Walking in Winter”

Text ID: All night I have dreamed of destruction, annihilations

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“I can assure you, dear Corvo, that your trust will not be misplaced here.

But I can see why you might doubt that.”

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Since "Act 1" of Balloon SMP just ended, I feel like its a good time to share the Minecraft propaganda posters I made for @sophiebaybey and @padabana

a little behind the scenes below

some of the untextured pieces of the posed models lmao

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You Are Out Of Hope. The World Will Never Be The Same

@padabana

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I did MOOOOREEEE!

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shoot the moon

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My 'And Forests Shall Rise In Our Wake' Fanart

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faust

(no lyrics vers)

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On Friendship.

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doodley thing!

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She's standing on the block which makes it look like she's floating off the floor but she isn't.

Clip from BalloonSMP Including @jame7t @hollowtones + a brief appearance from @katydiids

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Thomas Theodor Heine, Angel (c. 1905)​​​

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spite house

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ANGEL OF TRANSCENDENCE

by Luke Starkie