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it's been so long since i last played... the arcana has images now!

cant wait to see the other new updates!

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Vantasmagoria (WIP cover)

by TopfSecret (Tumblr) / nachrichtenDance (AO3)

a Seapunkification story where Cronus Vantas, the Empire's favorite hemoanonymous crooner and sex symbol, has the insane idea to free everyone in the Orphaner's - Kankri Ampora's - crew from servitude, with the help of his comrades Porrim Captor and Mituna Maryam, and of course, we can't forget his swingin' band! ;D

Seapunkification on AO3:

A character-driven, no game, Hemospectrum Shift (Bloodswap) AU where only the descendants are swapped fully, and the ancestors are swapped into the role of the canon ancestors.

"Pure swap" means I am giving the beta trolls their own roles, balancing their personalities (nature) with their new castes (nurture). "X-ways swap" means I am giving the alpha trolls the roles of the canon ancestors and see how things get derailed from there.

Therefore, we can see that Cronus is swapped Signless-ways, Kankri is swapped Dualscar-ways, Porrim is swapped Psiioniic-ways, and Mituna is swapped Dolorosa-ways. :D

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Embroidered book covers

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happy severance day! here's some studies I've done while waiting for the new episode

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Discover Khao Hin Phap Pha, the cliff known as 'Pancake Rock' for its strikingly layered rock formations, located along the scenic coast of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand.

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prints | instagram | facebook

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So, this one is kinda random but I find it very funny. It's written in Polish, of course.

It's a working on heights hazard sign and in Polish, it literally says "Danger! Robots on heights!" (Because "robota" means "job" or "work" in Polish) but it's crossed out and changed for "humans".

It now reads "Attention! Humans on heights!" which is even more funny due to the fact that it sort of sounds like a verse from a popular yuletide song. It's fun all around.

I don't know, it's a sexy sign.

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My other piece for this lovely zine! Go check it out! @hsprzine

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pouring one out for transmascs who are fem. hyperfem even. also pouring one out for transfems who are masc. mayhaps even hypermasc. pouring one out for nonbinary folks who aren't androgynous. gnc trans people and nbs you are so based and cool and epic 🫶

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another non stim thing, but i could also do panel edits if anyone wants them ^_^ as an example, here's a portula edit (specifically my girlfriend and i from my latula kin timeline)

original panel from vast error!

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another sketchbook nepeta. had such ideas for this, bc gymnast!nepeta is a thing i headcanon

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how would one tell the difference between a crow and a raven?

You might be surprised to learn there are a lot of different species of raven and crow! The taxonomic difference between a raven and a crow (that is, whether a species gets named of or the other) is size and lifespan rather than genetic grouping. When comparing the species most of us are most familiar with  – the American crow (C. brachyrhyncos) and common raven (C. corax), which will be the two I’m focusing on here – you can’t exactly tell the bird’s age most of the time, so if you have other animals or objects to compare the bird to, size is often the first clue. 

The common raven is is massive for a passerine. It’s the size of a red-tailed a hawk, with a wingspan over four feet. Crows, on the other hand, are typically about the size of an African grey parrot. Compare someone holding a crow vs someone holding a raven:

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And lemme tell ya, it’s one thing to READ about how big they are, but it’s another to SEE it.

If you see a corvid in flight and can’t get a bead on its proportions, the shape of the tail and flight feathers is another good identifier. A crow’s tail is triangular or fan-shaped, while a raven’s is wedge-shaped (ie the middle tail feathers are longest). Both have well-defined primaries, but a raven’s are much deeper and tend to spread wider. Ravens tend to soar a lot, too; crows are consistent flappers. 

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Finally, if you can get a good look at the head, the differences are pretty obvious. A raven has a beak that hooks at the end and is as long as its head (or in the case of a Chihuahuan raven, longer than!) while a crow’s beak is straighter, shorter, and lighter-looking in general. Both have nasal bristles, but the shape these bristles form is different due to beak size (a raven’s often looks squared off). Crows are kinda shiny and a bit fluffy; ravens are iridescent and have a very distinctive “beard” of shaggy feathers at their throats which bristles up like hackles when they call.

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Finally, their voices are a bit different – a crow’s flat, high caw vs a raven’s deep, resonating kronk – but both species have a very wide range of natural vocalisations and are accomplished mimics. [This video] has some great examples of the caw vs kronk sounds.

Hope that helps! o/

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day 61

aradia time

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We need to bring back the athletics body type post

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if yall wanna colour this go ahead but gimme that sweet cred for the lines [just tag me if you do i love everyones art] dm me for the separate aa and ff layers

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@homestucklineup

jade (by other mod)

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some attempts at vintage pulp covers style