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Just learned this absolutely delightful bit of etymology:

During the 15th century, the English had an endearing practice of granting common human names to the birds that lived among them. Virtually every bird in that era had a name, and most of them, like Will Wagtail and Philip Sparrow have been long forgotten. Polly Parrot has stuck around, and Tom Tit and Jenny Wren, personable companions of the English countryside, are names still sometimes found in children’s rhymes. Other human names, however, have been incorporated so durably into the common names that still grace birds as to almost entirely obscure their origin. The Magpie, a loquacious black and white bird with a penchant for snatching shiny objects, once bore the simple name “pie,” probably coming from its Roman name, “pica.” The English named these birds Margaret, which was then abbreviated to Maggie, and finally left at Mag Pie. The vocal, crow-like bird called Jackdaw was also once just a “daw” named “Jack.”  The English also gave their ubiquitous and beloved orange-bellied, orb-shaped, wren-sized bird a human name. The first recorded Anglo-Saxon name for the Eurasian Robin was ruddoc, meaning “little red one.” By the medieval period, its name evolved to redbreast (the more accurate term orange only entered the English language when the fruit of the same name reached Great Britain in the 16th century). The English chose the satisfyingly alliterative name Robert for the redbreast, which they then changed to the popular Tudor nickname Robin. Soon enough, the name Robin Redbreast became so identified with the bird that Redbreast was dropped because it seemed so redundant. 

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Embarrassing as fuck when people interact with or follow my danmei alt and they're openly into HP. Blocked. Imagine outing yourself as being into that series at this point, jfc. Move on, please.

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btw if you're bored as an artist you should try learning to draw fat and skin folds, it genuinely is really fun once you get into it.

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Hello Fellow OC Lovers ✨ My Car Exploded so my commissions are now open indefinitely, forever, and all the time! Yay! For real though this will probably be a financial nightmare since I require a car for my job, so I'll need to grab another one soon! Any help to spread the word that I'm doing comms would be awesome.

You can grab a slot here on my ko-fi! Support your local ghoul Today... (If you can't use ko-fi, feel free to DM me as well!)

Extra examples (mostly from artfight) are below the cut!

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Btw, I've been calling it bug yaoi because the protags are gay men, they will get together, and one of them is a bug (alien). Bug yaoi. If you're like, "Is that really just bug romance, perhaps?": no. They are absolutely going to fuck. It will happen.

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Chapter 24 of Astra Inclinant, in which River prepares. ~5,500 words.

For the benefit of anyone new: yes, this is the bug yaoi. You may have seen me talking about it before. I have an info post here if you want to determine if you may vibe with it.

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Out of curiosity / to se how answers would differ, I thought about making a companion to the "how would you feel if someone drew art for your fanfic?" poll. ("How would you feel if someone drew art for your original fic?") Except doing that other one unexpectedly completely exploded my notifications for at least a month and totally buried everything else, so I don't really want to. (And you can't mute notifs on a specific post here like you could on Twitter.)

If someone's braver than me, you have my blessing in stealing the poll option wording from the fanfic version. I'm just curious to see if the "only if they were good at art" becomes more prevalent with the original fic people.

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Chapter 24 of Astra Inclinant, in which River prepares. ~5,500 words.

For the benefit of anyone new: yes, this is the bug yaoi. You may have seen me talking about it before. I have an info post here if you want to determine if you may vibe with it.

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my favorite customer service slip ups

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asking for praise for a thing you made feels so humiliating like oooh look at me I’m a little animal and I did a trick and made a thing can I have pets and treats about it. and then somebody tells you it’s good and you understand why golden retrievers are the way they are

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River in the Magic Earring Ken outfit and Caladia in an outfit by @/judepansyfemme! Thank you for the outfit suggestions! I probably could have drawn adult Caladia to go with adult River, but I didn’t think of it, oops. Coincidentally, both these fits have a mesh shirt… [OCs; Astra Inclinant]

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what if your doppelganger loved being you more than you ever loved being yourself. they're better at being you and everyone loves them and it feels almost selfish to want your life back. i want clone horror but the horror is that the thing trying to replace you is also the person you always wanted to be.

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'Apple Treeometry'. Adam Hillman. 2020.

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