Tism Rizz

overstimulated, under caffeinated

[goodcupofcoffee]

A Cause For A Koz: Kozzy's Emergency Medical Fundraiser **CHECK ➡THE LINK🔗 IN MY BIO On July 1st, Kozmotis was startled and fell 15 feet off of the back deck of my parent’s house where we have been staying since school was canceled due to COVID-19. Under normal circumstances he would have been fine, but somehow in his fall, he propelled himself into the window and caught his face on the exterior stucco ledge which caused damage to his lips, as well as a more serious injury. He broke his upper right canine tooth, exposing the root. He is on a mild pain medication and is doing better now. Unfortunately, to keep him healthy and prevent inevitable life-threatening infection inside the exposed root he will need extensive and expensive dental work, including a feline root canal and twice yearly x-rays under full anesthesia. Pet insurance would typically cover an injury such as this and I am kicking myself right now for thinking my student emergency savings would be enough. I had planned to buy pet insurance after I graduated from UNC School of the Arts this year and secured a stable job. Unfortunately, it is too late for that. And the current estimated expenses far exceed my student emergency savings. When I received this news I was crushed and horrified. I felt totally helpless. Thankfully, I am an artist, and after some grief, I buckled down to think of ways I could use the skills I have to help pay for these unexpected expenses. I have designed this T-shirt, and will be offering handmade cloth face-masks and custom pet harnesses. I will also be holding a reduced-price art sale of several of my pieces. Stay tuned for information about the up and coming art sale. And check out our fundraiser merch link 🔗on our: ➡ #gofundme : (copy and paste link into browser) https://gf.me/u/yfq8sz And follow #CauseforaKoz for updates. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. ❤ #kozzythecat #instagramfundraiser #checkoutourmerch #kozzytshirt #stormiesfeatures #siberian_cat_lovers #catshirts #catswag #petmedicalcrisisfund #shareingiscaring #thankyouwithlove #catsofworld #catfamily #catart #catshirtart #coolcatswearmasks #t-shirtfundraiser #petinneed #catinneed https://www.instagram.com/p/CCaBB4eJS8i/?igshid=vqttqwk6q0zp

[beckisbookshelf-deactivated2023]

“Honesty in fiction is the most important thing there is.”

— Neil Gaiman

[morbidology]

A fawn curled up beside a fake deer which is used for target practice. 

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

A lot of people are super upset by this, so here is a reminder from someone who has worked professionally with deer:

A fawn tucked down alone like this is almost never an orphan.

Fawns are extremely small, and their best defense is to stay hidden as often as possible. Unless they are nursing or moving to a new spot, fucking themselves down in grass or against bigger objects is their best defense.

What would be an easy giveaway to a lurking predator that there is a vulnerable baby nearby? A much larger, much more visible adult female deer!

To protect her baby, a female deer will avoid the baby most of the day (except to nurse it or move it), and she will keep an eye on the baby from a distance to make sure everything is alright.

If you approach a fawn (or god forbid pick it up and take it home), I’d bet money that 9.5 times out of 10, mama is alive and well, watching you from a distance, desperately hoping you’ll move on without hurting her baby.

It’s not orphaned, it’s not abandoned.

Working in wildlife, if there is one thing I could magically make the entire human population know, it would be this information.

Every summer, people show up at wildlife rehabbers, state park offices, ranger stations, and even deer farms, with allegedly orphaned fawns that they’ve “saved.”

Tragically, we pretty much have to destroy these animals every time.

Deer farms legally cannot take in wild deer because of the extremely dangerous risk of disease transmission to their livestock population (look up chronic wasting disease). Contact with a wild deer could doom their animals and their livelihoods.

I have worked on deer farms and in wildlife rehab.

Deer are extremely difficult to raise, rehabilitate, and release. Mostly, it’s impossible. Often, they simply refuse to eat from anything but their mother, and we have to decide between letting them waste away for three days or so, or euthanizing them.

Deer are also overpopulated in many states now, and we can’t afford the resources to raise them. There are species more in need of our assistance.

If you see a fawn all alone, unless it’s next to its dead parent, it’s not an orphan.

I am begging you to leave it be.

In this case, this fawn is almost certainly fine. It’s just hunkered down like it should be, waiting for Mama.

But it does make for a great photo!

[catchymemes]

Mildly Interesting Dump #5

I have a hereditary gap in my eyebrow

These three ceiling fans run off of one motor

The picture of the Japanese movie advertisement is printed on two sides of the newspaper, so the full picture could be seen under light 

The perfect symmetry of this plant 

Shadow and slope makes it look like he’s floating

This tiny ceiling tile at my house

My broken antenna on my car looks like a half sunken boat.

The shower in my hotel has a little cutout so you can turn it on before getting in.

I drew poppy outlines for my class to cut out - they look like they overlap but don’t.

The golf balls at the mini golf on this pier are biodegradable and fall into the sea at the 18th hole 

Our refrigerator has revolving levels so you can reach everything easily

This window that makes my back yard look like it’s in 4 different seasons 

This one dude in the crowd in a neon shirt. 

The way this picture of a frozen puddle in my backyard looks like a landscape from the perspective of a plane.

Modern tomato vs one grown from 150yo seeds 

My neighbors are moving their entire house back 200ft.

This door in my hotel bathroom can close off either of 2 doorways.

Our dog’s paw looks like a mini-version of him 

This dead straight line of bubbles in my beer 

This “where are you from” map at The Aurora Museum in Reykjavík Iceland 

You can see the number eight between the diamonds on this 8 card.

I made a piano shelf

This purely golden bee landed on my car today 

[ringwaldhaze]

This was so satisfying 

[llywela13]

Today I took my niece to Caerphilly Castle, where There Be Dragons

Wanna hear the story attached to these dragons? I’m gonna tell the story, because it entertained me (I heard it played enough times while standing there communing with the dragons, because there was no tearing the niece away from them!)

Once upon a time, the story says, there was a mighty king who lived at Dinas Emrys, but this king left his castle one day and got lost in the mountains. While he was wandering, he stumbled upon a dragon’s lair, in which he found an egg. Now, the king had heard a prophecy proclaiming that anyone who ate a dragon’s egg would himself be transformed into a dragon, but he was too hungry to care. He broke open the egg and ate it…and became a dragon.

Centuries later, the dragon grew tired of living in isolation in the deepest, darkest caverns, so he clawed his way out into the sunlight and found himself in Caerphilly, where he was welcomed by the people. They named him Dewi for the patron saint of Wales, and he has made his home at Caerphilly Castle ever since. Then one day a couple of years ago, while exploring the country by night, Dewi encountered another dragon, the first he’d ever met. This beautiful blue dragon came from Snowdonia and was named Dwynwen, for the Welsh patron saint of lovers. Dewi and Dwynwen fell in love, and soon afterward Dwynwen laid two eggs, which hatched out last spring to complete the dragon family. The babies were named Dylan and Cariad, and this lovely new lair was created for the family in the ruins of the old gatehouse just this summer past.

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

literature tumblr is revolutionary in the way that it tricks kids into literary analysis by framing character analysis as headcanons it’s like wrapping a dog’s heartworm medication with lunch meat like gay moths to the flame

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[lalaleliana-blog]

i really like the advice “write marginalized characters but don’t write about marginalization unless you experience it” 

absolutely i think cis people should expand their horizons and write trans characters, but they shouldn’t write stories about being trans. likewise i think allistic / NT authors should write about autistic characters! but not stories about being autistic. 

represent us. absolutely. but don’t tell our stories. let us do that.

[amerlcanapparel-deactivated2020]

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

[straighthater]

when guys objectify women and expect them to send nudes

[timelordpillbug]

when someone asks you about your nuclear plans for russia

[hikingnerd]

When Russia sends you nudes

[dr-thackery]

[dismantlerepaired]

[ilovepretzelrods]

[thegingerbalrog]

[onwardwall]

[miss-jaxon-flaxon-waxon]

#what the fuck happened here

[her-eyes-dared-me-with-danger]

This is my favorite post in all of tumblr

[kyloschuyler]

reminder that this post is now illegal in Russia

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

reblog it, because Russia can´t

[maradaisykat]

Thanks Obama 

[my-sisters-eyeball]

Wtf

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

When Russia makes this post illegal

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[stevienick]

A cat meowing at your feet, looking up at you, is life smiling at you. Those are moments where we’re lucky. They remind us that we’re alive. 

KEDI | 2016.

[goodcupofcoffee]

I saw this in theaters I think...

[mcapriglioneart]

how to draw arms ? ? 

[swagginsloths]

holy fuck

[shoutsofthunder]

holy fuck is right… but… does it work with legs???

[mcapriglioneart]

yes !!

[empresspinto]

but how much extend

[thunar]

^^^^^^^^^^

[kvothe-kingkiller]

[gabbyzvolt25]

I NEARLY CHOKED

[lifeofcynch]

ENJFDFNFATFVFDF

[deactivated-blog]

finally. i can be accurate

[shiny-charming]

This is too fucking great to not reblog

[wishem]

I give it MASCLES

BIG MACHO

[keithislactoseintolerant-deacti]

🤣🤣

[urhella-gaychloe]

LMAOOOOOO

[fernacular]

Okay but for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:

The elbow joint on average rests a couple inches higher than the navel, so if you measure how long the distance is from the middle of the shoulder to that point then you have the length of the upper and fore arms!

[fernacular]

So if anyone’s wondering about legs too, the simplest rule of thumb is that the length from the top of the leg to the knee is equal to the distance between the top of the leg and the bottom of the pectorals:

And I wanna stress that when i say “top of the leg” i’m not talking about the crotch (please don’t flag me tumblr it’s an anatomical term) i’m talking about the point where the femur connects to the pelvis, which is higher up on the hips:

It’s easier to see what I’m talking about in this photo of a man squatting: 

So yeah if you use that measurement when using this technique you should get fairly realistically proportioned legs:

But remember! messing with proportions is an important and fun part of character design! Know the rules first so you can then break them however you please!

[im-a-hyperion-vault-hunter-deac]

HOW THE HELL DID I FIND THIS POST OMG

[erasaure]

[goodcupofcoffee]

Um...I mostly just guess and cry

[anxietyproblem]

[goodcupofcoffee]

But....what if both??

[gallusrostromegalus]

So while I was getting my haircut, the lady asked me if I had other plans for the day and I said:

“I’m just going to pick up the boy from daycare and then it’s date night.”

And the lady says “Oh! How old is he?”

“He’s three.”

“Mine too! Where are you registering him for kindergarten it’s such a hassle-”

And that’s when I realized I said “boy” and not “dog” because I always think of Charlie as “good boy” but this slip up has lead to a miscommunication.

The lady is now 6 minutes into a clearly needed rant about how unnecessarily complex shopping for schools is, esp when you have a neurodivergent child, so I can’t just tell her that Charlie is a dog because then she’ll feel awkward for unloading on me and she clearly has enough going on.

So the rest of the haircut became a game of “how much can I say about Charlie without revealing that he is not a human child?” And the answer is “enough to cover a half hour hair appointment, quite possibly several hours worth if I’m specific enough”

[gallusrostromegalus]

“is he very verbal?”

“It really depends on who he’s with. He’s very quiet at he but won’t shut up if he’s at the park or has a friend over.”

“was it hard to potty-train him?”

“he’s adopted, but I was genuinely amazed at how good he already was with hygene and potty stuff.”

“mine’s just obsessed with paw patrol and Frozen, drives me crazy!”

“I imagine. Charlie is colorblind so he’s not as into tv, but he always wants a toy if I take him anywhere with them.”

“oh gosh the toys! And the kids are so rough on them!”

“yeah Charlie can destroy a stuffed animal in about 2 minutes, so I only buy him the really cheap ones.”

“Does he throw tantrums when they break?”

“Not really. It’s meditative, really, taking them apart. He has hysterics if the cat takes his toys though. Runs downstairs and cries at me until I retrieve it because he’s not tall enough to get it out of the cat tree.”

[goodcupofcoffee]

Me with my cat...I have a problem?

Every time people talk about their kid Im like gosh kozzy does that too!

[captain-planet-official]

It is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere! Even more good news is that the bee population has actually been climbing back up and they have been doing very well this year so far!

Which means you are more likely to see an increase of honeybee activity! Especially if you live near any open fields, orchards, or even just a lot of flowering plants!

When a new queen is born into a hive and becomes mature, she takes a lot of workers with her to find a new hive! But the queens are somewhat fat and not very strong fliers! So they stop and rest while scouts find a new spot for a hive! This is called swarming and looks something like this!

This is NOT a hive! If you see this behavior in bees, rest assured that they will likely be gone within the next few days once they find a spot for their hive! They don’t want to be there any more than you want them to be!

Sometimes they pick very inconvenient spots to swarm and understandably you want them gone as soon as possible! Luckily there is a humane way if removing them is your only option!

Call your local apiaries (beekeepers) and ask what options they have for humane swarm removal! Many pest control companies also have a humane option to transport a swarm to an apiary!

(About apiaries: Kept bees are actually very healthy and well taken care of and their contribution actually made a great impact in restoring the honeybee population!)

Remember to be good to our hard working little sisters! Don’t panic if you see a swarm, they will be gone before you know it!

And if I catch you hurting a swarm… bees will be the least of your problems!

-Captain Planet

[orchidvioletindigo]

I believe I read somewhere that swarming bees will not sting because they’re focused entirely on the task at hand. So if you see a swarm, nothing to fear!

[vareidow]

Yes, that is mostly true! They can sting, but are completely uninterested in doing so unless you actively pose a threat to their queen (that is being protected somewhere in the middle of the bee cluster). Just leave them alone, and they’ll leave you alone ^^

[goodcupofcoffee]

I am happy about these bees

[greenairsheep]

As some of you may know, for the past two months I have been working on a cardigan out of spite. For those who don’t, someone insulted my knitting, saying a sweater I was wearing looked too complicated to be the work of my hands. It was a store-bought cardigan but I was offended that the person thought it was beyond me. So I decided to make a similar sweater. I couldn’t find a pattern I liked, so I designed one. This is the result.

[ramboknits]

Nice

[goodcupofcoffee]

I aspire to this level of spite #slay

[marauders4evr]

Friendly reminder that Vincent van Gogh willingly checked himself into an asylum so that he could get better, resulting in him creating some of the most iconic paintings of his entire career, done in the asylum, when he was being treated 24/7, because he finally didn’t have to struggle with his demons and could instead focus on his muse, WHICH WERE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

Remember this little insignificant painting?

How about this one?

Check this one out:

All of these and more were painted in the asylum when he was receiving treatment for his mental illnesses and I know I just said that but I said it again and I’m saying it a third time until you dramatic abled assholes understand!

VINCENT VAN GOGH

- KNEW THAT HE WAS MENTALLY ILL

- WANTED TO CHANGE THAT

- WENT TO AN ASYLUM

- GOT THE HELP HE NEEDED

- PAINTED SOME ICONIC MASTERPIECES AS A RESULT!

SO DON’T YOU DARE COME OUT HERE WITH THIS, “I WISH I WAS DEPRESSED SO I COULD BE AS CREATIVE AS VAN GOGH” BULLSHIT BECAUSE EVEN HE KNEW THAT HIS DEMONS WERE HARMING HIS WORK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, HIS HEALTH, AND HE DID EVERYTHING WITHIN HIS POWER TO FIGHT THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, UNTIL THEY ENDED UP WINNING! 

[asexualmew]

This is also incredibly important for any creative persons dealing with mental illness, and their parents.

Receiving mental help improves your craft, not hurt it. Before getting put on medication for the first time to treat my mental illnesses, my mom expressed to me how she’s worried about my getting treatment because of my art. Regardless, your mental health should be more important anyway, but, honestly, it’s a lot harder to produce good art when you struggle getting out of bed, let alone creating masterpieces. When you’re in more health, improving your craft comes much easier!

[grandparomeaskblog]

Personally I think the most beautifull painting of him was this one:

He made it when he heard about the birth of his nephew who was named after him. Still in the asylum but really happy for his brother! “How glad I was when the news came… I should have greatly preferred him to call the boy after Father, of whom I have been thinking so much these days, instead of after me; but seeing it has now been done, I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, big branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”

[justasillynerd]

Oh I have sucb rants about how “good” art comes while suffering.

No.

look at me.

The idea of the “suffering artist” comes from bunch of alcholic, drug abusing, womanizers trying to justify their bad life choices as some sort of artistic angst.

IT IS 100% BULLSHIT

Take your meds, get your therapy, be happy, and live life

The art will be there.

[thekatiemasters]

This. ALL OF THIS TIMES A THOUSAND MILLION. Especially that end message there! YOU DO NOT NEED TO SUFFER FOR YOUR ART. AND THOSE WHO DO SUFFER WISH THEY WEREN’T. 

[goodcupofcoffee]

I like this