ren's reflections @chupacabren - Tumblr Blog

when a child wants a flamingo, you oblige

(American Flamingo)

#artists on tumblr #birds #bird art #american flamingo #marker sketch #this kid LOVES flamingos and was giving facts the whole time #who am i to say no #art #nature #freehand #just me a reference a black marker and God

tarositos

first batch of artfight attacks 🫡

@bumblekits @nercmoon @chupacabren @/simplyobnoxious

#artfight #artfight 2026 #artfight mystery

byjove

my dad had this bit growing up where whenever he was introduced to a little kid, he’d ask them how old they are and then be like “when I was your age, I was older” and he stole this from a standup routine on the radio but the gag works marvelously on children, you can see the gears in their little brains turning trying to understand the statement and formulate a response and then they giggle. 10/10 bit.

fite me!

#artfight 2025 #team fossils #artfight #artfight fossils

"what makes me different?"

#artists on tumblr

poppitron360

I lied. Put your clothes back on. I haven’t seen my wife in twelve years and I need to find a way to evade Poseidon, so if you could just un-pig my men-

#odysseus

heading home today a giant spider appears was under my car

#haiku #twas the size of my hand #it was dark out too #almost decided to not go home

#a fox in a field #what will it do now?#fox

faeriekit

...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.

He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.

I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.

Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.

Edit: for those who struggle with reading comprehension; no, this patron interaction is not meant to represent the status of the Chinese public library system at large nor the country of China itself; this was my response to a random Chinese immigrant dad's anecdotal concerns as he expressed them to me, because the whole breadth of concern I'm responsible for while on desk starts and ends at recommending which library services would fulfill his needs. If you think he misunderstood or was lying about the status of public libraries in China, that isn't something I'm charged to verify before writing my thoughts and feelings about the patron interactions I was exposed through throughout my day. Expecting anything else is absurd.

Edit edit: Also, your library may not actually use Libby as the distribution method for their ebook collection. The best way to find out about how to access your library's ebook collection is to call them directly.

wizardhecker

Another artfight 2024 attack!

Raines and Guilherme for @t3-art

Coin for @albifrons

Enrico for juivanescent

Bly for @chupacabren

#artfight #LOVE THE BLY

autumn-may

My week 2 Artfight attacks!

Find me on Artfight @/autumnmay!

characters in order of appearance (if one of these is your character, tell me if you’d like me to remove the @ !)

#aaaa #your drawings are so good #artfight #artfight 2024

marzipanandminutiae

scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife