cheshire

18, any pronouns, no bigots or assholes. Sadly inconsistent with tagging. Icon by @lindagoesmushrooming, header by @organicmatter

[mossyblu]

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Cheshire MossyBlu, adult, any/all pronouns (with the exception of it/its. It/its users are awesome though.) (I honestly don't care how you refer to me as long as it's not dehumanizing. go wild.)

I very rarely make original posts, my dashboard is mostly reblogs. I try to tag what i reblog, but it will unfortunately be inconsistent due to memory issues and fatigue/tiredness. I don't tag my queued posts as "queue" or anything like that, sorry if this causes any confusion.

No bigots or bigotry. (Sexism, misogyny, racism, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigenous sentiment, antisemitism, anti-Roma sentiment, ableism, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, transmisogyny, bigotry against trans men/trans mascs, etc.)

No radfems. (Terfs, tirfs, swerfs, etc. I do not want anyone on my blog who calls themself a radfem in any way, shape, or form.)

No assholes. (Harassment, bad-faith interactions/interpretations, purposeful misinterpretation, trolls/trolling.)

Taglist :

(Informative tags are featured on my blog, and self-explanatory tags are excluded from this list.)

Beaste: Vertebrate animals that i feel are beasts in some way

Buge: Bugs and insects (and maybe other invertebrates)

Creechur: Beings (real or fictional) that i feel are creatures in some way, includes art of all types and especially plushies/3d fiber arts

Humanity: Expressions of humanity (I try to keep this a mostly positive tag)

[anthrophobixx]

I had a dream where Brock was revealed to be a butch lesbian at the end of journeys and he thought that "ash and the others already knew" and the entire internet started losing their minds over it and after a couple hours the pokemon company tweeted "surprise faggots" with a picture of Brock holding a poorly edited lesbian flag

I tried to recreate it it looked smth like this

[hypnosispkmn]

In light of recent events (my main got a pkmn related hit post ppl see the butch brock vision)

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[pinketine]

When the topic becomes about racism between children you very quickly realise children of colour aren't seen as children but as some other thing that should just take the abuse and then forgive the Real White Children because they didn't know better. They don't understand it but children of colour can and will very early in their youth.

[thehalfricanhoodpoet-deactivate]

I hope Black girls with anxiety have a good day today.

[antiblackness-archive]

I hope Black girls with depression have a good day today.

[beeorchids-moved-deactivated201]

I hope black girls with PTSD have a good day

[freshest-tittymilk]

I hope black girls with body dysmorphia have a good day

[thereluctantwife]

I hope black girls with verbally abusive parents gave a good day

[dittohasadhd]

I hope autistic black girls and black girls with ADHD have a good day

[midnight-soulless-system]

I hope black girls with schizospec and/or personality disoders have a good day today

[peanut-jelly]

i hope all mentally ill and or disabled black girls have a good day

[uriigamii]

I hope chronically ill & people pleasing Black girls have a good day today 🫂

[raxxandtraxx]

[pinketine]

When the topic becomes about racism between children you very quickly realise children of colour aren't seen as children but as some other thing that should just take the abuse and then forgive the Real White Children because they didn't know better. They don't understand it but children of colour can and will very early in their youth.

[h2ocolors-blog]

Eva Funderburgh

love her work

[s-olipsism]

she still makes these and they’ve only grown more wonderful over the years. The wood-fired surfaces really give them life.

love these lil guys

[thehalfricanhoodpoet-deactivate]

I hope Black girls with anxiety have a good day today.

[antiblackness-archive]

I hope Black girls with depression have a good day today.

[beeorchids-moved-deactivated201]

I hope black girls with PTSD have a good day

[freshest-tittymilk]

I hope black girls with body dysmorphia have a good day

[thereluctantwife]

I hope black girls with verbally abusive parents gave a good day

[dittohasadhd]

I hope autistic black girls and black girls with ADHD have a good day

[midnight-soulless-system]

I hope black girls with schizospec and/or personality disoders have a good day today

[peanut-jelly]

i hope all mentally ill and or disabled black girls have a good day

[uriigamii]

I hope chronically ill & people pleasing Black girls have a good day today 🫂

[animentality]

[cartoon-fanaticism]

The second you are born you have earned the right to continue living. Access to anything that keeps you alive should be a free and unalienable human right. I am firm and inflexible in those beliefs and expect I will be until the day I die.

[crabussy]

i want to study at a kiwi university

i will spell trail mix as scroggin and wear jandals on my feet. i would watch footrot flats on TVNZ all night while drinking a lemon & paeroa with a sheep. i'll have a mince pie every day that's worth 11 stupid dollars somehow. i would go to the wop wops every night. i am also more likely to meet JAFAs, Lorde, the director of Shrek and Sirocco the Horny Bachelorparrot.

i wish i was kiwi :(

[literate--trash]

Hello! These are my prev tags!

I unfortunately can't seem to find the exact article I was thinking of, but I've attached a couple of ones that are relevant and expand on a similar sentiment.

Don't call me Kiwi

Names matter, so we need to find the right ones.

What defines a ‘Kiwi’ – and who is allowed to bear the name?

We're obsessed with the term but there is uncertainty about who qualifies.

The Spinoff article gets more into the politicisation of the term and how it's been ill defined and weaponised against many groups, not just against Māori including under the current government.

But it's something that was discussed throughout my history courses as an undergrad and when I later tutored them in postgrad! I recall a Māori lecturer also railing against the term, particularly when it's used to portray the positive achievements of Māori as a national collective "win" that everyone can get behind, yet are conversely labelled and identified as "Māori" whenever something negative happens. This was also expressed by Tāmati Coffey several years back now (not to link a Stuff article 😒)

"If the individual attains success, Māori are escalated to 'Kiwi'. Because it's a positive story."

There's also a lot more to unpack (that these articles briefly touch on) around the history of colonisers fashioning an independent identity from that of England by utilising Indigenous flora and fauna, therefore actively attempting to Indigenise themselves, especially as second-generation settler colonial families overtake the number of first-gen colonists. This appropriation obviously has further implications when trying to assert land rights or claim Terra Nullius as in Australia, but I'm trying not to digress too much.

Hopefully this is a good start!

[crabussy]

thank you so so much for all of this!!! I'll give these a read [:

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

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[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[memeclassheroes]

[greywrenn]

#‘el pastel promedio tiene tres leches’ es en realidad un error estadístico. El pastel promedio tiene 0 leches. Leches Georg#quien vive en una cueva y absorbe 10.000 leches al día#es un valor atípico qeu no debería haberse contado (via @deathbycoldopen)

[adamsmasher]

I don't speak Spanish but I understand every word

[optionalcausality]

I appreciate 'adn' being preserved in the form of 'qeu', that's absolutely beautiful.

[no-one-offical]

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[animentality]

[cartoon-fanaticism]

The second you are born you have earned the right to continue living. Access to anything that keeps you alive should be a free and unalienable human right. I am firm and inflexible in those beliefs and expect I will be until the day I die.

[victusinveritas]

Meet Pando, not a forest but a single tree. Every trunk of the Quaking Aspen is genetically identical & connected by a single 80,000 year old root system, making it one of the largest and oldest living entities on Earth!

[foone]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through the body of a God?

[carmelia-rose]

@derinthescarletpescatarian