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spaceyjules-deactivated20180305

If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again

spaceyjules-deactivated20180305

Isn’t it disgusting that 23 people just unfollowed me

clarknokent

Unfollow me too

gothhabiba

this goes double if you call paedophilia a disability. unfollow me twice

closet-keys

and if you call pedophilia an “orientation” or in any way compare it to being LGBP+ you can unfollow, delete your blog, and set yourself on fire.

peachypastel

I just lost 50 followers.. bye

katiemcgrxth

clearing out the trash

bway-grimes

GO ON AND S M A S H THAT UNFOLLOW BUTTON

moonedknights

BUHBYE U McNASTIES

bogleech

I’ve seen this circulating forever and genuinely thought “no way do I have any of them following me” until this week when it turned out I had all these fuckin “MAP” (pedophile) followers sad to find out I’m an “anti” (normal person) Please leave and also please get guinea worm.

wvxi

Pedophilia is plain and simple predatory and disgusting. I understand some people do have it and hate themselves for it and force themselves to suppress it and never act on it. That’s a start. But regardless, this is your perfect opportunity to gtfo my page.

tricktster

As I’ve previously mentioned, I happen to be the proud owner of some truly stupid novelty slippers, which I couldn’t wear until very recently because they terrified the cat. This sucked, because for 10$ novelty slippers from Target, they’re warm as hell.

Fortunately, as you can see, Peanut Butter decided that they were no longer a threat a few weeks ago, so a few hours after they earned her approval I was finally free to wear them to dinner, as I have nobody to impress and it’s cold as hell. Then, of course, my niece saw them.

Now, my 18 month old niece is REALLY into bears right now. Owls are still cool, of course, but BEARS ARE WHERE IT’S AT. And my slipper paws? In her mind, those are the paws of a mighty bear. It was love at first sight. She giggles at them. She pets them like they’re kittens. She scoots onto the floor to rest her head on them during bedtime stories. She becomes immediately alarmed and indignant when I don’t have them on. Or, you know, if I do have them on, but they’re not in her immediate line of sight. “Ba?” She asks. “BA? BA? BA? BAAA? BA?!!!!!” (She is also very big on repetition.)

It has been like this for several weeks now.

Look, I’m an absolute sucker for this kid, and I will do basically anything on earth to make her happy. I’ve been wearing the bear slippers a lot recently. Like a lot a lot. The novelty of the novelty slippers has worn off over the weeks of having half of the word “bear” cooed/screamed at me on repeat.

So, being a problem-solver, I figured I’d get my niece her own pair of paw slippers, as 1. she’d love them, and incidentally 2. If she transferred her affection I could maybe have a meal without being forced by the toddler on the other side of the table to do this pose on command:

(I mean it’s not exactly that pose, but it’s actually even sexier when I do it.)

Anyway, guess what I can’t find in a toddler size? Fucking novelty paw slippers. Seriously, I have done my research, and I don’t believe they’re being manufactured. Hell, I couldn’t even find a sewing pattern for toddler slippers online that looked anywhere close to paws, which is WILD to me, considering that toddlers are basically the target market for animal dress up.

Well.

That’s not entirely true.

See, I did eventually find a pattern for really, really well designed bear paw slippers. Once I hit on the right search terms, I found a LOT of patterns, actually, and more tutorials for how to make them and modify their size than I ever dared hope for. I took the best of several designs, pieced them together, and I’m presently in the process of making them for my niece. Before I show you guys the final product, I wanted to pause for a moment to recognize the people who made this project possible:

Thank you, furries.

Your ingenuity and DIY ethos is an inspiration to us all, and you are going to make a toddler very happy.

tricktster

holy SHIT GUYS

FURRIES WORK SO HARD

THIS IS SO HARD

THIS TOOK LIKE 45 hours and it’s just ONE FOOT

tricktster

okay okay okay okay

so l encountered an issue, but i’m fine.

i’m gonna be fine.

so I finished the paws. I did it, it took so long, I learned so much, I felt really really great about it, and all that effort was worth it when I saw the sheer disbelief and delight that overtook my niece upon first laying eyes on them

“Ba?” she whispered. Then, “BA? BAAAAAA?!!! SSSSS! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

(she calls me, for reasons best known to her, “Sssss.”)

Anyway, it was exactly the reaction I had been hoping for. It was, very briefly, a perfect resolution to this story.

And then I tried to put them on her feet.

so, to backtrack a little, before embarking on this project I researched a LOT, and I consulted a LOT of different patterns, but the ones I referenced the most were this pattern by Bardic Bestiary and this guide/pattern by @matrices.

I want to be perfectly clear here, not just because Matrices has a tumblr (that is unbelievably full of tutorials and helpful ideas) and therefore might somehow encounter this post, but because both Matrices and the good folks at Bardic Bestiary have honestly made this inscrutable process something that was possible for me, an idiot: What went wrong was not their fault.

So, again, the paws I was trying to make were for a toddler, and toddlers typically lack the requisite resources to purchase and/or create their own fursuits. Given their percentage of the market share, it’s totally reasonable that I wasn’t able to find a pattern specifically for toddlers. But hey, I figured, I’m resourceful, so I just plopped all the pattern pieces into the same Illustrator window, selected the group, and then scaled it all down until the insole pattern piece was 5.25 inches long. Easy.

Everyone with children and/or costuming experience can stop laughing at me right now.

To explain what went wrong, here’s a scientific diagram of a typical adult leg that I made from zooming in on clipart of a soccer player.

And here’s an equally scientific diagram of a toddler’s leg.

In case you can’t see the issue that rapidly became apparent as I tried to shove my niece’s foot into the paws that she now desperately wanted to wear, I will share one further diagram.

Help.

zarnitza

You could cut a line a few inches down the front or side or back, whichever is most appealing to you, open it up at the top to the width you need & then insert a triangle piece into that space. Fur or elastic would work. I’d just like put it in by hand with some back stitching & finish any edges with a whip stitch.

That would give you the room at the top you need. When I have a problem i usually find whip stitching can help. It won’t look as pro as what you already made which is amazing btw, but it would work 🤔

Alternatively you could put a cut on each side & just whip stitch the edges. Then you don’t have to add a panel

I hope the half assed diagram makes sense & helps a bit

tricktster

Wow, I know I have spent this whole project being very pleasantly surprised at how many people have gone out of their way to share their knowledge and expertise, but I honestly didn’t expect so many people to offer so many genuinely useful ideas. I was incredibly stoked to see @zarnitza‘s suggestions, because I spent about an hour last night glaring at a pile of snaps, buttons, velcro, and zippers, haphazardly trying to figure out what would be the least annoying technique to add some room for toddler chonk while simultaneously being something that would not be a huge pain in the ass to fasten/unfasten from the ankle of an extremely squirmy kid yelling “BA”.

What I eventually arrived at was basically what Zarnitza first proposed, with a slight variation. I was still flying blind at this point, so I decided not to do the same procedure on both paws until I was confident it would work. Here’s the way I approached it, which you can feel free to skip if you just want the payoff at the end:

I took out the liner, then ripped the back seam most of the way down the heel on both the faux fur shell and the liners. Then I traced the openings to make a super sloppy triangle template, went through the usual mess of cutting the fur (HOLY SHIT GUYS, EVEN FOLLOWING EVERY SINGLE BIT OF USEFUL ADVICE ON HERE, FUR IS ANNOYING TO WORK WITH), the much easier task of cutting fleece for the liner, and I sewed both the shell and the liner back up. As promised, this left me with a MUCH wider ankle. Easy to put on… but also easy to fall off/trip over.

So here is where I think I might actually have been clever, I took the fur shell and I stitched in two elastic cords on either side of the triangle piece I’d just added, like this:

Okay, that’s an unintelligible diagram, but you get the point. Elastic bands, sewed in place with enough tension that the slippers would stay on her feet without cutting off her circulation, since that sort of thing is frowned upon. Finally, I put the liner back in, folded it over the shell, and stitched the cuff into place by hand. End result?

I know you guys can’t see this (because I obscured it with a bear emoji) but holy shit… if she was this happy with ONE paw, I can’t wait to see what she thinks about getting to wear TWO of them tomorrow…. which will actually happen, because I just finished the final stitches on the second paw. They’re done.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped me in any way during this long, weird journey I decided to take. I knew that this whole thing was pretty damn wholesome going in, but I honestly didn’t expect that I’d encounter the efforts of so many people who clearly put the time in learning how to make something, and put even more time in to share that knowledge with anyone who wanted to learn how to do it too. I’ve been feeling so bummed about what the past year has suggested about the average person’s willingness to sacrifice in order to help someone else out, and this was kind of a nice reminder that there are plenty of generous, thoughtful, genuinely brilliant people out there who just want to share something they love with the world… and a lot of those people, as it turns out, are furries.

In conclusion, if I encounter anyone talking even the vaguest hint of shit about furries from hereon out, I will go to that person’s house and put a house centipede in their ear while they’re sleeping.

tricktster

This is officially my final update on the bear slipper saga:

Not to get too emotional here but…

BA!!!!!!

bleachandgrenadine

Things Edward Could’ve Said That Sound Less Suspicious

Bella: Your eyes are a different color, did you get contacts?

Edward: Uh haha yeah I did. I think they look pretty cool.

Edward: *stops the car and saves Bella* Hey are you ok? *stands up, pretends his arm hurts* Awesome I’m gonna get this looked at now.

*Tells Carlisle. Comes back to school with arm in a cast and sling*

Bella: How did you stop that car? You were amazing.

Edward: Well sadly I wasn’t bit by a radioactive spider and I don’t have superpowers. Doctor said it was an adrenaline rush, it’s a common natural response to life or death situations. Basically it maximizes your body’s physical capabilities. So yeah it’s like temporary super strength and speed. Crazy shit.

Bella: You’re so cold. I can’t feel your pulse.

Edward: I have hypothyroidism and bradycardia.

Bella: Aren’t you going to eat something?

Edward: I have to be on a special diet.

Bella: Oh right, your condition, sorry.

This list could go on and on. You’d think after being a mind reading vampire for 91 years you’d learn a thing or two about being a good liar. SHEESH.

elidyce

THERE IS NOTHING I HATE MORE THAN ALLEGEDLY SMART CHARACTERS WHO CAN’T LIE LISTEN DUMBASS I CAME UP WITH THREE PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR YOUR SITUATION WHILE YOU WERE CLEARING YOUR THROAT AND LOOKING SHIFTY AND ONE OF THEM WAS JUST ‘SORRY, I’VE HAD LIKE TWO HOURS OF SLEEP AND I AM INCREDIBLY OUT OF IT.’ WHICH WORKS FOR ALMOST ANYTHING.

shitpostbishop

Date clarification

weaselle

I read about this, reblogged this post, and forgot already, so clearly I need to talk about it more. Have a second reblog of this information

damagaladriel-deactivated201405

narcoleptic-red

I am Sid

thecooltrashcat

We are all Sid

completegold

But when I meet another Sid I become Manny

fuckyeahcomicsbaby

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

lovingmyselfishard

I will always reblog this.

brightwanderer

I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.

rubysevens

i??????? sksjsbzvsvshdhsbdb

rubysevens

update:

undercoverpopsicles

He did her right

helloitsbees

“he”?

takemetoohigh

confirmed

beiguangst

One of the hottest controversy of the month

vagiilante

I’ve seen this post a bunch and never once did I consider a scenario where it wasn’t about a woman.

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hyena-ears

@ the people who think all nbs are teenagers

gloomdocwife

this is amazing and beautiful but can I just say: “ain’t going away til I die so get over it” is raw and powerful as FUCK.

lowcountrymountaineer

So yeah….seeing older Non-binary people is so fucking reassuring. Thank y'all for fighting and paving the way. We will continue the fight to be ourselves!

noping-out-deactivated20241117

Dude there’s tons of us out here. We just didn’t have language for it when we were younger.

thedisneysoldier

Reblogging this for my Non-Binary followers and because I like that hat

catchymemes

ed-longshanks

this isnt a catchy meme at all

blakelywintersfield

#fyi this dude is a horror novelist its not real

OH THANK FUCK

shavingangrypirates

@spiritspodcast

pigcatapult

I love a good horror story. If you need more assurance tonight, however, know this:

Sneaking around through air ducts is an invention of writers. It is almost impossible to crawl through an air vent quietly, and definitely impossible to crawl through one quietly fast. Creepy Wall Dude would have been making muffled clanging noises in his retreat from our protagonist’s room’s vent.

tmitransitioning

Hi, you mentioned weeding out people who might have transition regret. Well, unfortunately that this a thing, albeit rare and understanding is still new. This rare is something that should be minimised. And there is a reason that HRT is controlled otherwise let people get them otc like cough medicine. If that happened there would be a lot of issues. Surgery is even more serious, you don't just get it if you want.

I mentioned transition regret in the context of “some cis people increase waiting time to access services in the mistaken belief that it decreases transition regret”- it’s true that did mention that. There is no evidence that this is accurate- indeed, trans folks are better educated about our care (we often have to train our providers) and have researched it well before we present for care, and our rates of regret are much lower than for those who undergo other irreversible types of care (like plastic surgery). You’re right that transition regret is a real and rare thing- this blog has not shied away from the discussion of de-transitioning/untransition or transition regret here in the past. It’s important that we recognize that it’s both rare (less than 0.5% to 3% depending on which studies you look at) and that it’s most generally caused by social stigma. If i transition but then I learn that my family has rejected me; I’m unable to find a job; I have nowhere to live and i can only sometimes afford HRT- it’s likely that I may choose to live a life that doesn’t reflect who i really am in order to put a roof over my head and food in my stomach. It’s also why more than 60% of those who choose to untransition go back later and re-transition to live as their true selves.Some of the studies that report high rates (2-3%) of regret accept “disappointment” over surgical outcomes as regret- even when the respondents report they WOULD have the surgery again. (for example, if the result isn’t as cosmetically attractive as they had liked, it’s not as functional as they had hoped, it’s reported as “regret” even if the patient says they would do it all over again). When you speak of understanding about regret being new- it’s not. We’ve been studying it essentially as long as we’ve been doing transition surgeries. While the language changes over time, one of the underlying themes is that social support/ability to live and be accepted in the true gender is key to decreasing regret. increasing timeline to transition doesn’t change that.

(some of these links may be behind a paywall, i have access through my school. let me know if you have trouble accessing them- i downloaded most of them)

mod mayhem

aesthesiamag

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan

People Matching Artworks: An Unusual Photo Series By Stefan Draschan More info: Website | Instagram…

cynicalbitchmuppet

I was really hoping these weren’t staged and the artist just spends weeks in art galleries and days in front of paintings to make these

Well guess what… That’s exactly what he did!

ripe

thedragonwoodconservancy on ig

cryptidsydario

laser gun gator boys

peniswakt-deactivated20210717

oh my god i didn’t realize this video had audio

actualaster

Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound? A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?

@why-animals-do-the-thing

why-animals-do-the-thing

This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.

See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.

These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)

So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!