Salutations My Friends

Welcome to my humble page filled with art and bamboozlment - Artist / Weeb / 24 year old Trans Man / Local Gremlin-

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Hey guys! Commissions are ready for business!! If you cant buy please reblog! That helps just as much!

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Lol I totally forgot to mention on here that my TikTok account got hacked like a few months ago so here's the new one!

https://www.tiktok.com/@bendigotheshmendi?_t=ZP-908tiZFQLle&_r=1

If you follow the old one go ahead and block the guy

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They orbed my man…….

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Gravity Falls art dump part 2

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Stanley Doodle dump!

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Going down the gravity falls rabbit hole here we go!

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I've seen like the first episode of Gravity Falls so everything I know about Bill Cipher is from tik tok videos

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I've seen like the first episode of Gravity Falls so everything I know about Bill Cipher is from tik tok videos

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coachposting

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Two side

[coolyo294]

scientist voice: today i will be a dick to this cricket 

[onion-souls]

The phrase “exposed to this spider torment” will haunt me

[ventela1]

People in the notes have entirely misunderstood the point of this experiment and what it entails.

It’s not “proving that crickets can be traumatized”. It’s proving that *animals can genetically pass on the stress that a dangerous situation causes, and the offspring will instinctually respond to the same situation without ever having personally experienced it.*

And that’s a big deal for many things, including human psychology.

When Nazis invaded The Netherlands, local Dutch peoples were under extreme emotional and physical duress. The Nazi army took their food for the soldiers, starving the population. They patrolled the streets and harshly reinforced their new laws. Existence was horrible and some parents had to give their children away to wealthier families because they couldn’t feed them anymore. This event is known as the Hongerwinter, or Dutch Famine.

One generation later, the children of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the famine have been proven to exhibit intense reactions to stress, and heightened fight or flight responses. They also experience more obesity because their bodies are prepared for starvation.

Some of these children were never personally exposed to the famine. Their mothers gave birth after conditions had improved, or even after moving to another country. But the effects are there, and those people are now adults who can recognize this and attest that they didn’t experience something else traumatic during childhood. It was passed on in the womb.

You can read about it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.amp.html

The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars

Babies born during the Dutch Hunger Winter became adults with higher rates of health problems. Now researchers may have found the genetic sw

This is called epigenetics. It’s essential to understanding how the human brain and body works. That our responses to stress can be passed on genetically. That it can show up in how we look physically, our physical health, our mental responses, our instinctual reactions. It’s especially important for people who are in therapy and need to understand *why* they act a certain way before they can actually work on it.

So no, this experiment wasn’t “haha let’s torment a cricket”. I’m not going to argue the potential cruelty of the experiment with people. I just want you to understand what it actually all MEANS.

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Reblogging for that last comment!

[naamahdarling]

Another important thing to remember in terms of effects of stress and hardship on humans is that ovaries are formed along with the eggs in utero, and not by the fetus later in life. So life events that affected your grandparents directly affected you while you were still a gamete in your mother’s ovaries. Your grandmother made your egg based on her life events.

My maternal grandparents were incredibly, unbelievably tough people. They were Great Depression-era farm kids who grew up in a time and place where most people were hungry and hurting, barely scraping by. My granddad especially had it rough, a farm worker who broke his arm as a teen and gutted it out without ever saying a word because there was no money for health care but illegal whiskey (Prohibition!) and whatever folk remedies were available.

They were literal farmers in the lower Great Plains, so they remembered the fucking Dust Bowl because they were THERE. Like, we’re talking some John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath shit they lived through. They were in their late teens/early twenties. Their stories were unbelievable. They never once complained about rain.

How does that level of grinding, endless hardship NOT affect your babies? Or your babies’ babies? Turns out it does, and it is responsible for some VERY surprising things.

So yeah, the Spider Torment experiments are a fantastic example of that.

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I guarantee some of this odd personal stubbornness over my eclectic beliefs and my advocacy comes directly from my grandmother hiding her Jewish identity among other things through the 40s and 50s while she worked her way up in Manhattan law firms. My mother as a kid was extremely independent, skeptical, rational, and very quick to spot inconsistencies. They literally fought and beat up gender essentialism to get to where they got.

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The same thing can be said for Native Americans! When my Mema was young she was a child stolen from her people and forced into one of the infamous Indian Boarder Schools. Here they ripped away her culture to make her "civilized" in the eyes of the government. "Kill the Indian save the man" was the philosophy. Many children were beaten, torchered, r*ped, and killed all in the name of the God. This range of children were from actual babies to teens. No child was spared this torment.

All this happened up into the 70's, when others decided that we were a people. Now, only two gens away, my family, as well as other native kids, run and hide immediately if there is an unexpected visitor. I can personally attest that I've never even came close to the horrors my Mema had to face yet I've always had the instinct to run and hide Everytime there's a knock on the door.

Generational trauma and depression is a real thing that happens and Native people are still suffering from the pure genocide that we have gone through to this very day.

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Pink Hair Beej moment

Lil painted sketch i did for a moot in twitter!

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Love it when he drool

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I got ko-Fi now!

Heyo! Got 5 bucks you wanna spend but can't afford a commission? Like my art and what I do and would be sad if I starved to death?

Consider supporting me on Ko-Fi or even sharing my link helps a whole bunch! It's the things like this that help give me more time for projects and art!

Support Bendigo-Schmendigo on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/bendigoschmendigo

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Got tired of looking so I made my own!

Here's my list of Inktober prompts specifically for Darkwing Duck!!! You can use an oc or a character or what ever you feel like!

Feel free to use if you want, just tag #darkinkduck23 so I can see all the art!

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Anyone know if there's an inktober thing for Darkwing? I wanna draw D U C K S

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Hey Bendi, i dare you to re-draw this image by @shandzii in the style of your own SunDrop! ^-^

It accured to me while drawing this that I have never had to color him before lol

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Commision for @bullyet

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