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Art dump (in varying degrees of practice/experimentation/quality lol) of my current favorite Tav, Ferne 🖤

They're a human fighter (battle master), and romanced Astarion. Rest assured, I'll probably be posting a whole backstory about them (and maybe even share the fanfic I'm writing for them someday 🤭), but for now, I just wanted to get these random finished drawings of them out into the world

#drawings #art

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Boo!! I'm not dead lmao

Finally got a more mobile drawing tablet (Galaxy Tab Active with CSP), so I now have a much more functional setup for drawing more regularly yayyyyy

Cause the traditional desktop/bamboo tablet setup I was relying on before was fuckin brutal lmao, and feels almost arcaic compared to now lol

Anyway, hoping to post more art now, but it's been over a year since I last drew anything, so it's been a blast, but also a challenge to get back into the swing of things again

Oh! I'll also be posting on tiktok (under Peachii-Bear), at least while tiktok is still alive before it possibly gets banned :/

#drawings

homunculus-argument

I will not elaborate.

glumshoe

St. Louis drivers, the instant they spot my Indiana license plates:

puddlebrigade

People in St Louis just drive Like That. It’s worse than Chicago traffic in a dangerous and concerning way.

glumshoe

I have never had any kind of car accident in my life but the moment I pull out of my grandfather’s driveway it’s like every single other driver is LARPing Fury Road and hunting me for sport

beelzebufo

Some parts of the US are just Like That. The one I'm familiar with is D.C. where it's like...

Maryland side: my blinker gives me a magic wizard shield which allows me to safely do anything I want in regards to changing lanes, tailgating, or cutting people off. No harm may come to me as long as I blink.

Virginia side: if you don't think this is a race you're wrong. I can, and will, do what I have to in order to win.

The district: I live I die I live again the grid's made up and the rules don't matter.

Sometimes a city's roads are just cursed.

glumshoe

See, I’ve been to a lot of places with crazy traffic—Chicago, urban Morocco, the fucking outskirts of Rome—and I feel like nihilistic road anarchy is terrifying and bad, but that St. Louis is unique in its malevolence. I can handle chaotic driving, but Missouri drivers drive sadistically.

zookeeperproblems

Wait, why is “The Dodo” bad?

I got quite a few questions and responses about why the online brand / website / Facebook page “The Dodo” shouldn’t be supported. Here’s a quick rundown:

Misguided Anti-Captivity. They are often blatantly anti-captivity, or use anti-captivity language and/or promote anti-captivity views. They use language such as an animal is “trapped” in a zoo or an animal was “saved” from a zoo. They actively support and often get quotes from representatives from ZooCheck, an anti-zoo and anti-captivity organization, and support HSUS (Humane Society of the United States). Their reports on tragedies of animals being injured or dying at zoos are overwhelmingly full of blame, toxicity, and disrespect. Their ideas of anti-captivity are incredibly limited and misguided – they are often pro “sanctuary” with the idea that all sanctuaries are better and they rarely discuss any kind of conservation.

Anthropomorphism over Accuracy. They are wildly, ridiculously, inaccurately anthropomorphic. For example, a picture of a bear leaned against a wall is captioned as: “He looks desperate, depressed, despondent. He stares up, seeming to search for a way out.” They described an owl resting on someone’s shoulder as “missing the man who saved her so much she couldn’t stop hugging him.” A kitten “looks at his rescuers face to be reassured everything is okay.” One of their most recent articles is about a cow “shedding tears” and crying because it is sad. Overall, they are much more concerned with ‘tugging on heartstrings’ of animal lovers than with being accurate about animal behavior.

Unsafe Animal Interactions and Inappropriate Pets. Despite being anti-captivity when it comes to zoos specifically, they have often published videos of exotic pets and/or inappropriate free contact with wild/dangerous animals.

Lack of Primary Sources and Information. They often lack any resources to accurate information about their “news”. Recently they made a 45-second video which claimed that basically any elephant on display (from a Ringling Circus to a rural south Asian performance) was automatically and certainly being abused and tortured. There were no sources or proof to back this up, no resources to explore, nothing. They rarely have any kind of scientist or animal care worker as a source for any video or article, just activists.

Stealing and Editing Videos. You’ll notice almost every video on their site is made by them and hosted there, not shared from somewhere else. They take videos from other sources, add music and text, and call it their own. They almost never link to the original source.

Overall, “The Dodo” is not a news site. It’s a brand. It’s a website designed to get views and make money - it will do anything just to get those clicks. But it tries to sell itself as news, and therein lies the issue. They use strong language, buzzwords, and clickbait titles in order to push a vague, biased agenda that hurts those of us who work in zoos and other animal facilities.

Here is another strong, detailed breakdown of some of their common practices written by Why Animals Do the Thing

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When to click away from an animal video

–Any wild animal in a house/being treated like a pet. Yes, even if they say they “rescued” it. No legitimate rehabber would EVER treat a wild animal like a pet. Repeat after me: it does not matter if the animal is not suitable for release; they still shouldn’t be kept as a pet.

–Free contact with big cats. Even if it’s a “sanctuary”.

–People interacting with wildlife. Feeding, petting, playing with, etc.

–Free handling venomous snakes.

–Predator and prey interacting. Cats and birds, dogs and birds, literally anything else with birds. Cats or dogs with rodents, etc.

–Any video that claims a wild animal is domesticated. Wild animals are NOT domesticated, but they can be tamed. These are two very different things and anyone who doesn’t understand the difference shouldn’t be owning one of those animals.

–Any video claiming that (insert wild/exotic species here) is “just like owning a dog/cat!” i.e. the video that went around saying foxes are “the best characteristics of cats and dogs”.

–Facilities that breed hybrids or morphs (i.e. ligers, white tigers, coywolves, etc)

–Any video by the Dodo

–Obese animals being portrayed as “cute and chonky”.

–Click bait titles about dangerous/exotic animals i.e. “bitten by my king cobra!”, “my pet fox did what?!?”, “letting my pet alligator pick out a toy!”. You get the idea. Anyone using wild animals to get views/publicity does not have their best interests at heart.

–Any “dog trainers” promoting dominance theory (this shit has been disproven so many times and is not even accurate for wolves…)

–Owl cafes, otter cafes, or any kind of wild animal cafe.

Seriously, don’t give these people views. I understand that it can be hard to distinguish good and bad animal videos, but try and be critical of what you’re consuming. Giving these people views gets them sponsorships and money. Plus, more views = increased circulation of the video. This is honestly especially important on TikTok because there are so many younger people on that app. Look at the comment section on any pet wildlife video and it’s “omg I want one!”, “where can I get one?” over and over. And yes, this does matter. It has been proven that the media we consume does influence people to get these as pets. It is currently baby animal season in the US and my clinic is inundated with people who “rescued” baby wildlife (aka nest-napped) and now want to keep them as a pet. Mostly raccoons but also squirrels, opossums, ducklings, wild birds, and pretty much everything you can imagine.

wagyubeefs

someone likely already said it but the itch bundle for Palestine is ending in like 2 days and theyre only abt half their goal

if you wanna support a rly good cause and get 1k games, tools and other fun goodies i highly recommend it. i got gifted it myself, and if uve already bought it i 100% suggest buying it as gifts for friends esp since many of these games wont require a super powerful PC, and that could be good summer fun for someone who maybe cant otherwise get it

wagyubeefs

btw!! heres the link <3

fish-to-male

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

weaver-z

I don't just think kink should be "allowed" at pride, I think we should train a huge pack of those puppy mask dudes to bark at all of the floats that have corporate branding on them

kingpin-of-steel-act3

Awww shit yall know what it is

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im a transgender athlete and my sport is fucking both your parents separately on the same night. i know the odds are always in my favor because of my natural aptitude and it's not fair to you but that's why i do it

Y'all

If you live in St. Louis, especially near Affton, check out Mainstay Barber Parlour!

The vibes there are ✨ immaculate ✨, and I think they did a fantastic job!

This is my first real haircut (that wasn't just done by myself) since the pandemic started, and I'm glad I picked them!

They were also super non-judgmental about how masculine of a haircut I was getting, which is one thing I was worried about, because pretty much every salon I've gone to in the past hasn't let me get the haircut I wanted 😰

Like, I've even had beauticians refuse to use clippers on my hair, it's been rough 😒

Anyway! They're a relatively young small business, so go support them if you can, or reblog this if you don't live in the area!