THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA

By that I just mean my blog looks different lmao -- Bellamy -- Ey/em, bey/bem, neos (aux. they/them)

[starlingsweet]

Creep is a song about being transfem

[v3rm1nn]

happy birthday little karkat

also bonus davekat because i hate them

[themuppetmasterencyclopedia]

Miss Piggy's Guide to Life Photos

[jakewag]

real!dave finding out hes queer organically by gallivanting with karkat on the meteor while davesprite realized wayyy earlier when they had nothing to do but mourn doomed!john

what if as a fandom we all accepted daves first boy crush was john and then he told karkat on the meteor and thats why karkat was like "dave are you still gonna be my friend who is a boy once john comes back?"

its funny to think of a couple who had the same crush as tweens

thoughts on the colouring in this one? i want to make my comics visually interesting but i am afraid it is too much / drowns out the lineart / just doesn't look too nice. advice/criticism would be appreciated!

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[weirdwerewolf-deactivated-deact]

ATTENTION EVERYONE, IT IS NOW

[angelicguy]

Many of you may be asking- what is rap? Well, to put it simply, rap is the part of the Gorillaz song that sounds- a little different.

[jassiex3]

i love davekat

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

[hotvampireadjacent]

[mumblesplash]

[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

[wizardarchetypes]

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

and i'm like unfortunately i have bad news.

[wizardarchetypes]

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

the point is that OCD compulsions are never solutions, they're actually the problems. the intrusive thoughts SEEM like the problem and the compulsions FEEL like the solution. and that's how it getsya.

[twisted-blahaj]

these homo SUCKS

[hockeydiva]

my collection

[crimewave420]

about to go in for the green surgery

[crimewave420]

would you have sex with a dude if he was green

are they nice to me

[marinebiologyshitposts]

[vernadskova-deactivated20230803]

[i-fear-neither-death-nor-pain]

Do they not have skulls!? Why is it mushy there!?!? @bunjywunjy

[bunjywunjy]

well of course beluga has a skull!! that's just not where it is.

see, you wouldn't necessarily pick up on this, but beluga skulls (and most cetacean skulls in general) are pretty much

flat...

so what's going on up there? well, most of the beluga's head is taken up by soft tissue and a large organ called the melon, which is basically a big ol waterballoon of semiliquid fat!

(boob. it's a head boob.)

this organ is found in every toothed whale and dolphin species on the planet and it's INCREDIBLY important, because the melon is what lets them echolocate!

the actual sound-producing organ is inside their nasal passage of all places, which sits up behind there, but the melon is what's actually used to fine-tune the soundwaves into the laser-accurate pinpoints that dolphins and toothed whales are so famous for.

tldr: without their head boob, belugas and their relatives would be literally flying blind!

[puppetbilly]

does slapping the melon like that hurt it ? like does it affect how it works or anything

[proteus-no]

@weirdgirlwambsgans @vampire-juicebox you guys are in luck bc it does not! Belugas will squish their melons voluntarily against things like rocks and glass. Think of it like when you squish your butt (but at the same time not, bc they have no nerve endings beyond the skin) they even voluntarily let humans play with it!

This is a strong creature, if that hurt or bothered it, you would know