Professional Baby Cuddler

She/her. Bookworm and fandom butterfly.

[novans-wizard-tower]

Finally figured out how to draw Arwen's profile (kinda).

[radicalityincident]

Seriously anyone engaging with age verification bill discourse in terms of whether or not you think age restricting content is good or bad are completely missing the point.

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

Thats it, thats the whole thing. They want to link your every single usage of computers to your real world identity, and like they have been doing for all of time, they are hiding under the guise of protecting the children.

[ymutate]

Stained-glass window and tiled wall section from the Torre Bellesguard, also known as Casa Figueres, designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. The building was constructed between 1900 and 1909 and blends Modernism with Gothic architectural styles.

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.

[theminotaursmanual]

by Laerte Coutinho

[las-lus]

btw this is laerte. She is 73 now! Making art and being happy! It's never too late to transition

[dogpuppy]

[bakersfield-row]

[chucktaylorupset]

i do think the internet would be a happier place if everyone admitted that the reason their blorbo man is their wife/princess/babygirl/whatever is because of a feminization kink. the related aspects of misgendering, humiliation, needing to "knock him up" are then rendered a fun kinky game, not a serious expression of anti-feminist beliefs about womanhood

which means bringing that play into serious circles is forcing people to be a part of your kink. somebody asking for examples of well written female characters does not want you to tag "dean winchester" please stop kicking your soccer ball into other people's windows

[jupitermoths]

I don't think "you are exposing others to your kink" is necessary to explain why doing this to posts that are trying to center female characters is obnoxious. "You are being misogynistic, as evidenced by your inability or unwillingness to think of women (even fictional ones) for even a fraction of second" is accurate, it's sufficient, and it doesn't invite someone to defend themselves with "Kink? What kink! That's just a joke people say about their blorbos, I wasn't exposing anyone to kink!"

[chucktaylorupset]

i agree that "misogyny" is a sufficient reason for something to be rude and to want it to stop.

however, I think it's useful to be more precise about what this behavior is. if someone is making misogynistic dehumanizing jokes about women, i don't want them to be doing that anywhere. however, if "my wife, blorbo" is a kink/game, then it's acceptable behavior as long as everyone has agreed to playing.

there are people who are understandably upset and people who just don't get the appeal and are kind of grossed out who are speaking like the feminist thing is to never call your man babygirl. i think reframing this as kink behavior is something that lets everyone win: the people who like the joke keep making it, they just do it somewhere else.

i also think there are people who are getting an unnamed thrill out of calling their blorbo babygirl, imagining him in feminizing situations, connecting that feminizatoin to humiliation or submission, but because it doesn't neccessarily involve jerking off or having sex with another person, they don't think of this as fetish behavior, and this ignorance inhibiting their ability to navigate the situation well. obviously everyone is getting the same feeling out of this! everyone likes this joke! and it's like no i think there's something else happening here

[boise-chypre]

Livresse (Bookish) ~ Frederique Mariot

[cuillere]

So, I just wanted to say a little bit more about the title and its translation.

"Livresse" is not a word that exists in French. It's a play on word between "livre" which leans book and "l'ivresse" which means both drunkenness (not in this context I believe) or euphoria /exhilaration.

Also "-esse" can be used in some context to feminize (I doubt that's actually a word, but you know, turn it into a female version) a word, so I believe there is also the idea of the person being a woman "made of books" if that make sense? The idea that she's a bookworm.

So yeah, I'm not offering a better translation at all, but the ideas I understood behind the title.

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

From "Who's Who at the Zoo," written by George Mazzei and illustrated by Gerard Donelan for The Advocate in 1979. Possibly the first recorded usage of the term bear to refer to a gay subculture.

[ramshacklefey]

Can anyone help me find the rest of this? The only references to it I can find online are to this page.

[saydams]

I found the date: "Who's Who at the Zoo?" July 26, 1979, The Advocate. A large library, or library in a queer area, probably has the advocate in their periodical collection. Possibly not digitized though.

Wait @cbpolt posted it on Twitter but it's been made private. Maybe they'll share with you if you ask? https://mobile.twitter.com/CBPolt/status/1535327694614933504

Edit no no here it is! https://www.out.com/today-gay-history/2016/7/26/today-gay-history-when-advocate-invented-bears?pg=full

[mim8icri]

[aanthonyvb]

It’s barricade day and I just couldn’t help myself-

[boschintegral-photo]

Magnolia

[shinonart]

It's impossible to tell where the frog ends and the plant begins. Its entire body looks like the roots of a water plant.

The Dawn of Pangaea is a board game that takes place in the magical lands of Pangaea. I illustrated a bunch of different creatures that inhabit this world, each of them being a blend of some animal or other life form and aspects of the nature in Pangaea.

The Dawn of Pangaea is now live on Kickstarter! 🌲

Feel free to share this project with others that might enjoy it! The more people see it, the better. I'm not any part of running the campaign so if you have any questions about it please check out the Kickstarter page and direct any questions to the creators of the campaign!

Find me and my art elsewhere!  

[andiedraws]

That scene from Lotus Empire 👀

Priya binding herself for Malini was so hot 🥵

It’s interesting how Priya is often mentioned to have no sense for poetry. But I find her use of magic and flowers when it comes to Malini nothing short of poetic, sexy and romantic. Honestly loved the kinkiness between these two after some time and knowing each other 😆

[zuccnini]

[oc] Beartrice portrait

[samanthamash]

🌟🌟🌟 Started this earlier this month and boy was it hard to get through it because I have been so burnt out. Has anyone else just been feeling so terribly burnt out this past month or so? I hope that 2023 is a bit kinder to me in that regard (and you all too if you’re feeling the same way). This is luckily though all nice and finished in time for it to be my Patreon mini print reward this month, though you can see all the steps (from sketch to final) from when I started earlier this month at my Patreon! That is available for those at the Amber Swan tier and up Like I said this will be the mini print reward at my Patreon this month so pledge before January first 1st at the Cerise Swan tier and get this sent to you almost anywhere in the world! www.patreon.com/samanthamash Big prints of this are for sale at my Inprnt! www.inprnt.com/gallery/samanthamash

[janmisali]

here's another idea for a poll! I think this will have some interesting results. this sentence is here to pad out this paragraph so people who don't read posts will be more likely to accidentally miss these instructions. if you're reading this, please select option eleven. here's another sentence to make this block of text look longer. anyway here's my fun poll idea!

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Remaining time: 4 days 36 minutes

[bread-in-the-void]

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