Cuddle Bear

ʕ´ㆍ⟨⽀⟩ㆍ`ʔ ❚❙❘ ʀɪɢʜᴛ-ᴡɪɴɢ ᴅɴɪ ❘❙❚☇ ◀ AuDHD - Ace-ish ▶ × Artist and Worldbuilder on my free time × ★ REPLACE CAPITALIST REALISM WITH SOLARPUNK ★

[pandurso]

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Greetings! My name is Pan, but you can call me Cudbear, bear 🐻, dog 🐶, or any other related nickname. I'm a young artist job hunting and eager to work with future art commissions!

Links:

Mastodon (@[email protected]) 🐘

My StrawPage

Neocities (https://pandurso.neocities.org)

Feel free to reach out. I mostly reblog content I enjoy, but I also share original work occasionally!

My tags:

#pan saving for later → (re)Posts I want to save as reference or have meaning to myself

#pandurso art and #cudbear art → My own works

#haku the cat -> stuff abt my dumbass white cat.

Themes I (re)blog about:

Political content

Solarpunk

Photos of my cat

Biology or science in general

Worldbuilding or creature/character design

My own art!

Commissions Open!! info under the cut

Links: Art Portfolio and Commission Info on my website, Ko-Fi, FurAffinity, ToyHouse (socials mostly empty rn but I accept messages!)

COMMISSIONS OPEN!!

SEND DM IF INTERESTED EXPLAINING SUCH, subtle comments may go unnoticed

I design and illustrate humanoids and non-humanoid creatures, colored or not! There are also extras, including website quick coding and making SVG icons!

Contact me for more info!

[faux-friend]

When a black person states that something you did was racist, chill the fuck out. Its annoying dealing with you panicking trying to dissociate yourself from racism. If you're not black, black people already assume youve said nigga or its variant at least once in your life. If they're interacting with you and bringing something up, its because they want you to stop doing that so they can still interact with you(if ur already friends)

You WILL be racist. You WILL do racist things. You have ALREADY done both. Learn and move on. There's no ideological purity you can hold on to, i promise. Proving you can take the criticism without making it a big deal and practice what you preach is better than any clean slate.

Be the kind of person black people don't have to gamble on. Shut up and lock in

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[thememedaddy]

[the-final-sif]

So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.

[straawberries]

can ppl pls reblog this version

[us-nowhere-girls]

Well damn. I was also like wtf is this stupid slime tank and then I read the rest and my mind got blown

[realsocialskills]

Learning to listen

One of the reasons this blog is called “Real Social Skills” is that the skills needed in order to listen to people with disabilities are not seen as “social skills”. 

Disabled people who communicate in unusual ways are usually seen as having a social skills problem. People who don’t understand what disabled people are saying are *not* usually seen as having a social skills problem. The disabled person is almost always blamed. It doesn’t have to be like this; it’s a problem with our culture; this is something that we can change.

Listening to other people (disabled or not) involves a lot of skills. No one is born knowing how to understand what others are communicating — we all have to learn how to listen. And we’re never done — there is always more to learn about listening and understanding other people. We should all have an expectation that learning skills for listening to people who communicate atypically is part of that. No one is too young or too old to learn to listen. 

For instance, all of these things are listening skills:

Understanding what someone who has a heavy CP accent is saying

Maintaining a conversational rhythm with someone who takes longer than most people to process or express themself

Having a conversation with someone who doesn’t make eye contact, and figuring out alternative ways to tell when they are and aren’t paying attention

Noticing when repetition is communication 

Understanding the indirect communication of people who can only use the limited core vocabulary words available on their communication devices

Giving someone who has been through intense compliance training the space they need to express their own thoughts rather than yours

Paying attention to what someone who speaks oddly is saying rather than writing it off as rude or cute 

Listening to someone who has both communicative and non-communicative speech, and figuring out which words are and aren’t intended as communication

Listening to someone who has both voluntary and involuntary motion, and figuring out which gestures are and aren’t communication

And so on.

No one is born with fully-developed listening skills. Learning to listen effectively is a lifelong process. Learning to listen to people with communication disabilities needs to be part of that.

[politijohn]

Source

[perksofbeingace]

what's the difference between libido and attraction

libido: body says NOW

attraction: body says THIS ONE

[therainbowgorilla]

Oh my god I’m over here thinking its this big hard to explain thing but here you are explaining it perfectly in nine words wtf

[genderkoolaid]

Ancient Greece literally created what became western civilization. Why are you acting like it’s separate?

(context)

"The West" as we know it, and as is wielded against the various peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, started to be formed in the Middle Ages with the idea of Christendom and attempts to rebuild the Western Roman Empire (see: Charlemagne) and "Western culture" only really came into existence as a result of the European Enlightenment into the 19th century.

West Asia and North Africa had massive influence on what would become "the West," both indirectly via their influence on Greece and Rome and directly (Babylonian religious astrology was the foundation for the entire field of astronomy in the Renaissance and later). & Greece also had a massive influence over them, as Muslim caliphates studied and further developed the works of the Greeks in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, all kinds of scientific pursuits, and it was through Arab philosophers like Ibn Rushd that these works came back into European thought at all and allowed for intellectual renaissances. Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman empire, housed the Library of Alexandria, had a massive influence over Greek and Roman religion through syncretism. Yet the WANA region & it's cultures are not considered part of "the West." We draw a big line down the Mediterranean that never existed historically. Why do the British, on the edge of the Roman empire, get to claim to be the cultural inheritors of the ancient Greeks through "Western civilization" but the Egyptians don't?

Ancient Greece is certainly a part of the mythos of "the West," and Greece is obviously part of European history, but just because people in Western Europe decided to construct this idea of a historical relay race of civilization where no one matters except for whichever European power is currently in control, does not make it true.

Not to mention that it doesn't even really benefit Greece. This idea of ancient Greece as "creating Western civilization" has been used by the British and other Western Europeans to distance modern Greeks from their ancestors, in some really fucking gross ways, and the same has happened to southern Italy. Because the people actually living in those areas don't live up to the whitewashed anti-Oriental fantasy.

TL;DR Ancient Greece did not create Western civilization, they created ancient Greece. That the people who created Western civilization were influenced by and obsessed with ancient Greece does not make ancient Greeks, people from a very different cultural context (and also a term which covers so much time and places), "Western." Especially when talking about how modern Americans and Western Europeans see things like gender, sexuality, and religion in comparison to an ancient Athenian's perception of those things.

[gefdreamsofthesea]

This is.....niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.

[vergess]

Period appropriate chickens ("heritage breeds") do still exist, and even include some very fancy ladies, such as:

The Brahma, a popular giant known for its massive meat production and comically large eggs.

The cochin, seen here with gold and black 'lace' pattern

The barred plymouth, an incredible forager for lightly wooded terrain

The fayoumi, often regarded as The Oldest Breed of chicken

The wyandotte, a particularly good forager as well as a bulky, meaty bird.

The Minorca, a Spanish bird with stunning black feathers

And of course, the famous indonesian ayam cemani, which has black meat and bones

Old timey chickens often ARE the 'fancy' ones!

[bethanydelleman]

I love this incredibly niche complaint! Get some heritage breeds, they do totally still exist. Same could likely be said about some other animals like pigs, sheep, and cows.

[earhartsease]

heritage chicken post

[blumineck]

Inspired by my recent love of the Raven Thrower (it looks like a corvid that you chuck at things!)

Also obligatory reminder that it’s the final week on my Bluminarmour fundraiser. If you want to see me test dumb stuff in proper historical armour please consider pitching in and/or sharing!

The Bluminarmour Project

Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

[cheaphalloweencostume]

you are not going to believe what they did with Books

[redshift-13]

readtpa.com/p/the-threshold

[alinahdee]

So Parker Molloy is a horrible fucking person. This was her response to THIS comment, that acknowledges that Black Trans Women don't get the same amount of coverage when they are murdered:

Like how on earth am I supposed to read ALL OF THAT in response to "Black Trans women don't get the same treatment" and not look at this as anything other than a fragile white feminist having a meltdown because Intersectionality EXISTS.

[antinativefaves]

YOUR FAVE IS ANTI NATIVE: PARKER MOLLOY

After being called out for her white feminist meltdown she used her platform to start the harassment campaign against an Indigenous woman who was called everything from a sexpest, pedophile, rapist, TERF, and when none of those could stick, FINALLY called a Pretendian.

White queer/trans folks are capable of racism and Anti-Indigenous hate.

The fact that they already know to use "Pretendian" to silence an Indigenous woman shows how intentional their malice and racism was.

[the-aila-test]

If you want to know why I have been suspended on BSky for the past few weeks, this is why.

[plasmalink]

I theorize the reason "bottoms" appear more prevalent than "tops" on these types of spaces is that it is simply easier to be funny about being a bottom than about being a top without sounding like a sex offender

"uuuuu 🥺 pls cock me aaaaaaaa *runs into wall like Wile E Coyote running into his own tunnel painting*" easy as shit comedy

"I want to put my DICK in someone" whoa dude calm down, take it easy

[beyond-a-name]

No that's literally it. Kink is stigmatized in such a specific way that it's actually much more acceptable to say "I want to be stepped on" than it is "I want to step on them" or even "I want them to ask me to step on them."

Like it's much easier to find people talking openly about wanting to be submissive (which will be errantly called "bottoming" because being a sub is Ew Gross Kink) but once there's someone to available to actually facilitate that, it's Creepy.

[spindlephysalia]

it's coy and demure to be wanted, but it's violative to Want and that's normal and good and hasn't annihlated the ability of so many people to even communicate the fact that they can desire. God help you if you're queer or neurodivergent in that cultural attitutde.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

There's also this idea that while of course kink is Wrong and Icky and means you're Damaged, submissive urges must mean that they're some poor abuse victim trying to recover from trauma and dominant urges mean that they're an abuser looking for an excuse. (Some people do use kink to process trauma, but people use all kinds of behaviours to process all kinds of things. That shouldn't be like, the assumption, and shouldn't be expected to carry moral weight.) It's not acceptable to express dominant desires because the only acceptable form of that kink is as a slightly reluctant therapist for helping your beloved process their trauma.

There's a Childish Gambino routine I can't seem to locate where he says something along the lines of "if you meet a woman who likes being choked during sex, well sure, she's been abused. But if you meet a man who likes choking women?!?!" And that basically sums up the public perception I think. Subs or bottoms (the public perception treats them both as the same thing, or at least acts like they're coincident enough that any other match is some weird edge case) are women or small gay men who have been kicked around and are trying to heal, doms or tops are predatory men looking for an excuse to hurt someone.

[theconcealedweapon]

They have you thinking "thank you Doordash and Uber for providing to me a side hustle" when you should be thinking "fuck you capitalism for making me need a side hustle".

[herpsandbirds]

[anexperimentallife]

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!