Caleb & Carpet

23 | He/Him | Just vibin here until I learn how to draw

[calebandcarpet]

Absolutely stunning commission from @cinnamintkitty :3

Couldn't have turned out better <3333

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[teachingtales]

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

[professionalwritingnerd]

[irockasingranite]

Another inside tip from academia: Those papers in really expensive journals that are effectively inaccessible to anyone not in a university network? Depending on the discipline it’s very likely that same paper is on a “preprint” server somewhere, with no access restrictions.

Like if you want to read basically any physics, math, or CS paper, arXiv.org will have you covered, because everyone uploads their papers there before submitting to a journal (and generally updates it after peer review). I know all of my papers are on there. This is such common practice that journals have it baked into their licensing agreements that authors retain the right to upload their work to these places.

So the next time you get hit with that paywall, you may not even need sci-hub, just click the arxiv link on google scholar instead.

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

if for some reason none of this works, the old “send a email nicely asking for the paper to the author” is always a good trick. remember most scientists hate the commercialisation of scientific knowledge

[afoxwithpenguins]

Don’t mind me, just gotta share this with my bf so that he knows what websites to avoid

[astudyinpanda]

Many authors of papers are on ResearchGate! You can ask for papers there, if they don’t just post a copy to download. If they’re associated with a college, you can usually find their email addresses in the department directory, also.

[viking369]

Always reblog.

[naidje]

[sweatermuppet]

do you have any gender related tips

get a big pair of boots

[furattic]

Art by akarugon

[marcymallows-deactivated2026020]

[normaltemperature]

[were--ralph]

[showtits-hornybitch]

K but why the Robin Hood movie?

[were--ralph]

you mean the movie about furry dilfs and a gay furry couple in the woods?

[evilvillain123456789]

apparently my aggressive and poorly trained dog that is too large for me to physically control is now making fake as fuck stories for reddit gold

[yehudah]

trans bears are literally stronger than any US marine

[they-were-a-skater-gay]

How on earth would they be able to tell that a bear is trans. I’m not saying they can’t be but how would they communicate that.

[yehudah]

:/

[schizm-deactivated]

this is so fucking funny

[specialstarfish]

update:

[fortooate]

we the jury find the defendant not guilty your honor

[the-dao-of-the-zerg]

[furry-fey]

[furry-fey]

one of my favorite things about the harkness test is that you can easily imagine it being applied by many monsters & other non-humans to say that humans are too stupid & immature to fuck

and they could use the very existence of the harkness test as solid evidence for this being the case lol

[furry-fey]

and if you do believe that these considerations are important—even in the privacy of your imagination—you can just imagine any of these characters as meeting the criteria. you know why? because the only place you can fuck them at all is in your fucking imagination

[furry-fey]

if anyone thinks I harp on this too much and that it's not ultimately important, I disagree

I think it's very important that everyone knows that they shouldn't feel ashamed or be punished for imagining things

it's bad enough that we have to worry about living in societies where the governments & corporations who control our lives are trying to literally read our minds to increase that control

we don't need to also be policing ourselves and each other for things we imagine. yes this includes things that we make fictional art of. yes this includes consensual roleplaying

no this does not include irl nonconsensual actions which we should all concern ourselves with. so annoying that I feel the need to say this, but it's one of the big "but what ifs" that always comes up in these convos ugh

[bestfurryhusband]

Honestly i think the harkness test, like a lot of things like this are made less effective as a concept by people assuming these are hard rules that apply to all forms of the kink when it makes more sense as like, a good guideline for media where said kink is present.

Like yeah, go wild in your own mind with feral/non-human/etc stuff cause it turns out in your own imagination most things are non-problematic because it's just imagination. But if you're making like a game or a comic that's gonna be posted to social media and is likely to be seen by people who have no idea about the kink, then having an easy to follow guide that boils down to "make sure they are a consenting adult" is a good starting point to get people to feel more comfortable with the premise.

That being said i do 100% agree that fiction =/= reality and you shouldn't live your life trying to make sure even your thoughts are non-problematic cause it's gonna come back to haunt you

[lilplushiegirl]

[aesungaia]

[marcymagnolia]

a therapist is just some guy who went to gaslighting school to put undesirables in basically jail. rely on me, creepy knife stalker girl, i can also gaslight you and keep you locked up but unlike a therapist i also love you

[increasingpanic-deactivated2024]

[shello-hi]

ignore my subpar editing skills. i felt like this was a necessary edition. they are transmasc transfem solidarity

[shinosarna]

[goatstrogen]

GIMP 2.7.0 by Aurore Derriennic: "the goat is still sleeping"

[crustedart]

stardust crusader

[cinnamintkitty]

BIG boy who is so sweet and so lovely 💖

Full image on Bluesky and FA !

Commission info here !!! (theyre open!!!)