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Kitti I '93 I biologist I cat lady Fallen Hero I Captive Prince Parallel I Stardew Valley

[dancingwdinosaurs]

this has been sitting in my files for a while now! It´s Ravishan from Ginn Hale`s Rifter Series - probably one of my absolute favourite book series ever (and seriously so so underrated!)

[landmineblogging]

don't isolate no matter how fucking broken you feel even if every attempt at connection proves futile do not stop reaching out to someone something somewhere please

[landmineblogging]

let the world know you exist

[landmineblogging]

please.

[parakeet]

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

[crowcryptid]

[awheckery]

from the above-linked ebird.org:

Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique, curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills, typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small groups.

oh my god

[roach-works]

groove billed anis are a hilarious cuckoo situation where they ended up laying their eggs in one another’s nests instead of anyone else’s. they hang out together in groups of up to five pairs until a nest gets built (sometimes by committee, sometimes they just hang around hopefully until someone does it all on their own) then they start sneaking over and laying an egg in at a time. the females who lay for the first time will sometimes flip prior eggs out of the nest like ‘oh i KNOW this one isn’t mine! away it goes’ but eventually everyone’s laid a couple eggs in there and is stuck with the mutual hostage situation. then they take turns incubating until all the kids hatch and everyone pitches in on feeding them, because no one knows which of the kids are theirs so they all might as well.

they also like to do a team handshake where they clump up and mutually make a low bubbling noise together, to signal group affiliation. go team!

[keeskiwi]

Also their eggs are incredibly beautiful. They’re a very pretty blue color, but covered by a white chalky outer layer that is easily scratched off, so they end up in various stages of in-between.

(Photo © Henrique_Anizio, shared under CC BY-NC).

[overthinkingao3]

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

[kidhellion]

they were literally there until sunset.. its jsut their cars in the parking lot left.. park maintenance was really stepping around them picking up trash

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[dvandom]

"Why do Pallas cats always look grumpy?"

"Pallas kittens."

[waywardmartian]

The sheer roundness of this kitten must be admired.

[tira4sii]

hopelessly addicted to ocxoc (dina belongs to @crowshuh )

[kidhellion]

comm for @payloadofgeckos based off their fic

,,,poor ric....

[glassesanddisasters]

Griddlehark study sketch as a treat after commission work.

[ratbugs]

this is what it’s all about

[thalassarche]

Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) - photo by Teruhide Tomori

[tira4sii]

wyd if you get mad at/try to tackle your nemesis (who doesn't know he's your nemesis btw) and he just looks at you with the most lovestruck dazed face ever instead of fighting back. and he lets you beat on him if that's what you want. wyd

[crowshuh]

AUTONOMOUS MACHINES

[ming85]

Memorial day at Marlas

(my Capri tag!)

[jdebbiel]

The girl with the dragon boy

Prints available from June 2-10

[kotyawtf]

I just remembered that I haven't posted anything here. Oh crap. Anyway, I'll show a few of my artworks and comics-

[kaletastrophes]

Listening to an old Noah Wyle interview where he says “Robby is a lone wolf. He doesn’t have any family, he doesn’t have a pet, he doesn’t have a houseplant.”

ijbol thinking about Dennis arriving to water Robby’s plants and spending 45 minutes looking for a plant that never even existed