eclectic and confused

Leaf | she/her | lgbqtia+ | 27 yo | AuDHD | makelikeatreeandleaf on ao3

[bunniope]

i skink therefore i scram...!

[bunniope]

[bewbin]

dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats

[dudethatsmypillowcase]

Sketchbook stuff! Every Rocky I draw looks like a completely different guy.

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[sunnnmothhh]

Lightning round!

I couldn't miss an opportunity to make epic geological phenotypes for eridians:D them rocks will look fly as hell on my watch!

Nerding out under the cut:)

For those interested, the igneous phenotype is inspired by granitic pegmatites, with hexagonal beryl crystals growing from it (of the aquamarine variety)

The sedimentary fella is a BIF, or a banded iron formation - a type of chemical sedimentary rock recording the years following the Great Oxygenation Event, with alternating bands of red jasper and magnetite/iron oxides:)

And the metamorphic eridian is inspired by an amphibolite, containing garnet gem porphyroblasts:)

*also cue the geology pun on the cup;]

[sunny-sourzii]

They make me sick btw

[finzerr]

That’s not our sun…

[valeriapryanikova]

hope has blood on her hands

[pinkinink]

You sleep, I watch

[seankurwisean]

I am not immune to behemoth Adrian propaganda

[thedogeveryonehates]

[punkitt-is-here]

[felixcloud6288]

#i attempt one of these and knock myself unconscious for eight hours

[czech-hunter-reject]

Teeheehee, off to do my little schemes 😜

[czech-hunter-reject]

Teeheehee, on my way back home from doing my little schemes 🤪

[monster-at-the-end-of-this-book]

How were the schemes Were the schemes successful

[czech-hunter-reject]

Oh- hehehejehe huhuhuhu hæhæhæ, my little schemes were an astounding success!! 😝 they never saw it coming teeheehee

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

When I was in uni my housemates had a baby, and we taught them some sign language so they could communicate before all their mouth parts were coordinated yet. None of us knew Auslan but two of us were familiar with the signs that the State Emergency Services used in the field so we worked with those.

The kid learned to request a drink, which is great, because that's like the #1 most important thing for a baby to be able to request, but instead of learning any of the other signs they just used modified versions of the drink sign to ask for all kinds of things. They couldn't actually make the proper drink sign (it requires some level of hand control) and used a modified wave, so they ended up with a whole bunch of subtly different waves to ask for stuff. Which was pretty fun in public because strangers would coo over this adorable baby who kept waving at them when, in practice, the baby wanted their ice cream.

[foxgloves-garden]

Our kid used the "milk" sign for any and every liquid, including Lake Huron. We went to Mackinac when they were a toddler, they looked over the edge of the ferry and got so hyped up yelling "wa-juice! Wa-juice!" (Everything was either water or juice at this point in their life) and signing about it. Didn't know what to make of the waves.

[sockdrawerdemon]

My friend's baby also learned some simplified baby AUSLAN and he would sign GIVE at whatever he wanted. Your lunch. Passing birds. The book he just handed you. Just at you, when he wanted attention. The time he demanded *the wind* was perplexing.

[elliefint]

I used to have a baby in my class who, any time we had a car go by the classroom window, would watch it go by and then look at me expectantly and start signing "more? more? more?" and pointing at the window. It was adorable, and sweet that he thought I was that powerful, but unfortunately I couldn't make more cars go by for him.

[ineffectualdemon]

Babies are so funny

My kid was a late talker despite clearly having good understanding early on

We tried using some makaton sign language but they would just try to get what they wanted most of the time so we just followed them (late talker, upsettingly early walker)

But two things stick out.

1. When they were nearing two they basically only managed one word which they used when I was trying to get them say bus

Me: oh look a bus! Can you say bus?

My baby: *incredibly firmly for a baby* No.

I felt very put in my place

2. I was singing them a kids song, and I'm not a good singer but I can do a simple kids song. Not according to my then non verbal baby who gently covered my mouth with their hand and shook their head

[clanslist]

[despazito]

Sometimes I'll be looking at bullshit online that I know will just rile me up and I have to think of this image to get myself to stop

[loveridden1999]

[to-orrr]

here are some more cats 🍓