Probably Not A Squirrel

Salutations! Your local cryptid collective, sleep-deprived and ready to jive! This blog is a safe space for everyone except Jonah Maggot, you look like the rat from Chuck E. Cheese and if you get near me I will flip your liver inside out To everyone else, welcome to our strange corner of the interwebs! !! ANTI POISON SCONES DNI !! Art blog is @genderharvester

[orangeswithsquirrelfaces]

★The Eclectic Collective★

[pt: The Eclectic Collective]

Salutations, hi, hello! Nice to see you stopping by, why don’t’cha grab a cup of tea and ignore the glitter sticking to every surface of this blog? Nobody knows where it came from. It’s probably maybe not radioactive or a biohazard. -Squirrelly

We have finally made that new and accurate intro post 💛 -Lumen

Come talk to us! We’re all pretty friendly, and we can’t bite ya through the computer (Yet) -?

Some important snippets about the system as a whole because this is an intro, after all! -Linen

[pt: Some important snippets about the system as a whole because this is an intro, after all!]

When referring to us collectively, use they/them and refer to us as a group unless otherwise specified (I.e. post tagged with a specific name, you know who is in front, etc)

We’re all creatives, though our various passions range from art to writing to composition, and past that a few more esoteric things

We support all trans people, including any nonbinary folks, agender folks, and people who use neopronouns :)

If you’re a friend of ours, and we ever upset you, please tell us! We’re always working on ourselves and our friendships, and we would like to have constructive discussions :] We’ll let you know if it’s a bad time, and return when we’re able

We support the agendas of crows, ravens, magpies, and other miscellaneous corvidae

We’re currently under a LOT of external stress and thus are splitting a lot & often blurry. Be patient!

We have a hard time staying in touch sometimes due to anxiety and an often busy life. It doesn’t mean we don’t care, and we’re always happy to see folks reach out

Individual intros coming soon! Our lovely directory will soon at some point be all full of links! -?

Tagging System (In regards to who wrote what)

[pt: Tagging System (In regards to who wrote what)] (Tagging system? I thought we were The Eclectic Collective! -Lumen)

When we’re not too unidentified or blurry, we’ll have a signoff with our name (I.e. -Forest/Verdance for me. The / denotes multiple names for one person, whereas an & would denote a cofront (I.e. -Verdance & Nutmeg & Juniper, generally placed in order of influence though not always)

If we’re very blurry, or someone is unidentified, unnamed, they’ll generally sign off with a variant of “-Blurry” or “-?”

Some of us have a few aliases, but I think that’s a them thing and I’d rather not interfere given I haven’t met the ones that do yet. -Verdance

Tagging System (In regards to organization)

[pt: Tagging System (In regards to organization)]

#Eclectics’ ramblings - Any of our original posts (As of now halfway organized)

#Eclectics’ art - Partially organized, will be tagging now & onward

#Eclectics’ writing - Anything related to our writing (will be organized soon)

#ciphertag - For our ciphers! Think you can crack them?

Our hobbies & interests! They include:

[PT: Our hobbies & interests! They include:]

★ Hobbies (Slightly redundant, but good to have a list)*:

Writing (original & fanfic!), visual art, composition, exploring nature, collecting things, ciphering, playing TTRPGS, worldbuilding, listening to music, making & blueprinting crafts, playing video games, sewing, miscellaneous kinds of jewelry making, singing, etcetera

★ Fascinations*:

Strange dreams, liminal & vast spaces, anatomy & the body, steampunk, categorization & organization, the paranormal, folklore, sci-fi & fantasy, horror of many kinds, non-euclidean geometry, fractals, niche psychological phenomena, poetry, etcetera

*Not all of us will share these! This is a blanket list of what I can remember people in our system liking -?

Our favorite media! This includes:

[pt: Our favorite media! This includes:]

★ Movies

Project Hail Mary, Backrooms, Iron Lung, Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away

★ Shows:

The Good Place, Gravity Falls, Knights of Guinevere, Ramshackle, Welcome To Hell, The Owl House, The Amazing Digital Circus, and a lot more honestly

★ Video Games:

Portal, Inscription, Subnautica, Minecraft, Hades, Dialtown, In Stars and Time, The Stanley Parable, MCSM, etcetera etcetera

★ Podcasts:

Malevolent, Welcome to Night Vale, The Magnus Archives, The Magnus Protocol, Ethics Town, Camp Here & There

★ Musicals:

Heathers, SIX the Musical, 36 Questions, EPIC the Musical, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog, the Hatchetfield trilogy, etcetera etcetera

★ Books & Series’:

The Locked Tomb series, The Skyward Trilogy (and counting? By Brandon Sanderson), The Toby Daye Series (Seanan McGuire), The Sabriel series (Garth Nix), The Manual Of The Planes (D&D book), and probably some I'm forgetting

★ Music:

Will Wood, They Might Be Giants, Flavor Foley, Paris Paloma, Rabbitology, Guchiry, The Oh Hellos, Jhariah, The Crane Wives, Lemon Demon, Glass Animals, IDKHOW, Tally Hall, Ghost and Pals, AURORA, AZALI, etcetc

A playlist we made with recs!

★ Misc Media:

Searching For a World That Doesn’t Exist (ARG), Muted (Webcomic), Hi, Strangeness (Webcomic), VSMP, Life Series

And now! It has come time for you to witness our coveted web graphic hoard! -?

Directory —-v

We have an art sideblog! Check it out if you’re curious -> @genderharvester

We also! Have a web graphics sideblog, full of things we’ve made! :) None of the graphics on our current intro post are by us, but these ones are! -> @eclectics-web-graphic-emporium

Do you want to see “Do you love the color of the sky?” On your dash EVERY SINGLE DAY? -> @enjoyskyblue-daily

Do you like spiders? Do you celebrate a fake, 55-day long holiday known as Spiderpocalypse? -> @spiderpocalypse

We may have individual intros and sideblogs (Soon!) (As folks make intros, they’ll be putting them here, but until then well. Uhh. You know us by name! (Sometimes!) -Lumen & Others )

Original intro: Time capsule <- Does not entirely reflect us today, be warned! We are no longer trying to act as one person, and that will be very noticeable in the discrepancies

[stupidestasshole]

every time you revlog this post, a new baby spider is born #miracleoflife

[iiinkos]

you ever wonder how badly gertrude crashed out when she realized the rituals were inherently flawed. to realize that every sacrifice you made in the name of the greater good—the people you killed, the damage you’d done—all of it was practically for nothing because they were going to fail anyway. you ever think about that

[gremlininho]

I remember someone saying “when I die, plant catnip on my grave. I want to be visited by lots and lots of cats” and that changes the way I see my own future death entirely

[boccher]

"Village"

[boccher]

SCROLL BACK UP. NOT A PAINTING. THIS IS A SCREENSHOT IN MINECRAFT!!!!!

[boccher]

""Village""

[touhou-noncon]

SCROLL BACK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS BOCCHER 👍

[zedogica]

SCROLL DOWN!!!!! THE POST IS OVER!!!!!!!

[shark-tranny]

SCROLL TO THE RIGHT!!!!! NOTHING HAPPENED BECAUSE TUMBLR IS VERTICAL

[gemthegerm]

happy 4th of july to this image the official boston fire department made and posted to twitter like 3 years ago. i will not let it die.

[sabrebash]

Is That Allowed

[sabrebash]

Boy am i glad that the con has a facebook page so i can post this photo:

[identifying-isopods-in-posts]

Happy Disability Pride Month! another new banner! I did edit this one slightly for visibility/clarity, there is an unedited color version under the cut.

I don't post my own images often, but from now on I'll try to give all of them alt text, and edit some of my older posts to have them (although that won't change the versions you already reblogged).

I want to share the wonderful world of isopods with as many people as I can, so let me know if there is anything else I can do to make my blog more accessible to you or your friends!

(also, I will do an image breakdown of this one like i did for the LGBTQ pride flag)

[gunsandfireandshit]

PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE

[gothcostco]

From another article i read today 😭

[hustlerose]

alt link

[rincewindthecheese]

he wasn’t even there to be a contestant he joined the crew as a CHINESE TEACHER but the directors noticed his good looks and begged him to compete. poor guy made it to the finals and if he had been one of the winners he would have been contractually forced to be in a boy band whether he wanted to or not

[lastvalyrian]

this is the closest any human being has ever come to actually being sold to One Direction

[cactusringed]

But seriously though. Learning to draw fat people will make you a much better artist. Understanding how skin and fat behaves and folds in certain poses, and being able to adapt complex poses to fit a fat body (as usually references are with thin models) will help you TREMENDOUSLY. Drawing fat being properly affected by gravity will aid you in ALL figure drawing in the future. Like if you have any sort of interest in drawing humanoid figures (AND furries) you really ought to learn how to draw fat of all kind.

[mini-wrants]

Outdoor in sun perfec t place for president to do speech! Outdoor very warm very soft put old man on green lawn under sun. Put old man in warm sun. no problem ever in warm sun because good view and audience can see long speech. Nice podium outdoor sunny perfect place for old president can trust warm sun to give nice view to President good luck to President. friend sun.

[dissociatingdumbass]

[bi-polarbear]

[wolverineheight]

hey controversial opinion but clean water should be fucking free and people should never be allowed to make money off of it because its fucking needed to live

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

sorry (/not sorry) (/murderous intent)

Glad you liked that post so much advsjshsk

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Hit send on the response to this ask and immediately went "huh, I wonder why I have 81 notifi-"

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

teehee

[newtid]

terrible comic day terrible comic

[systlin]

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

[ihonestlydontknowwhattocallthis]

InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation

[systlin]

They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.

[systlin]

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.

[sailorcuba]

the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u

[arborealgargoyle]

like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but I applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done

[arborealgargoyle]

This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat’s meowing, and I have a funny story

I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn’t meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears aren’t fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that aren’t audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldn’t hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn’t want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.

Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so they’d be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. I’d be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and I’d immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn’t. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens “yes baby?” And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones she’d had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that’s the best way to get a human’s attention.

Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn’t seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And I’m a baby give me love!

[greelin]

you have to email me but you also have to understand that when i receive emails i want to go in the woods. I have to go in the woods

[greelin]

it’s not a choice, at that point