Raptor Squad

Writer, Passable Artist, plural plane and mech geek, poet, Second Knight of The Woods, 27 years.

[carmahnart]

Hey y’all I have an announcement! My web app that I’ve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!

Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨

Afro Index – Black Hairstyle Reference Library

A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming, structured filtering, and curated reference images.

[genericpuff]

this showed up in my FB memories, the lightning bolt trick! I don't sketch out the lightning bolt much nowadays but it's still super helpful when I need to lay out tricky arms and leg poses. And I still apply the logic of it, especially with how I draw arms :' ) Biggest thing it helps with is shape breakdown and visualization, we gotta use whatever works to break down shapes into simpler concepts for our brains 👏💓

[wheelie-sick]

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

[wheelie-sick]

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.

[headspace-hotel]

cops r Some Guy with a Gun

do we want Some Guy with a Gun in this situation? answer is usually "NO"

[uncivilliberties]

This is legitimately useful reframing. A while ago I started replacing the word "cop" in my vocabulary with "a man with a gun." It really puts things into perspective.

This homeless person is making me uncomfortable. Should I call [a man with a gun]?

My neighbor is having a loud party. Should I get [a man with a gun] involved?

There are some teenagers skateboarding. Do you think [a man with a gun] would get rid of them for me?

It makes it very clear what you're saying. I can call a man with a gun to threaten or hurt someone mildly inconveniencing me. You're not calling the cops, you're calling A MAN WITH A GUN into a situation that does not warrant a firearm handled by a volatile lunatic who will not be held accountable for his actions.

[headspace-hotel]

^ ^ ^

[raptorjax]

As a person in the US, with mental conditions and illnesses; this is the first time I've heard the term sanism used. It does indeed work in this context: a bias against the insane or those experiencing mental illness/breakdown and/or psychosis. It indeed does not warrant a man with a gun but instead someone with a duty of care, a professional doctor or EMT someone who will put that person's wellbeing first as indeed and this needs to be stressed: no matter how uncomfortable someone suffering from psychosis and such makes you, that is still a person worthy of love, life, care and dignity

[animentality]

[beautifulterriblequeen]

A sign to tap

[grissomesque]

"If you're still having fun in your 30s you're functionally brain damaged" sure is a take.

[noxs-mun]

Just because you want to be a soulless soot bag of a human doesn't mean you can just tell others they have to be that too Gregory!

Stars forbid someone does not want to be a dull husk of a human.

[the-haiku-bot]

Stars forbid someone

does not want to be a dull

husk of a human.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[anonbeadraws]

Illustration commission for @cottagetwilight for their partner as an anniversary present! A redraw of the original Mulan poster, focusing on Ping a bit more than Mulan. I had so much fun with this, a joy to work on!

 ✨(commission info)(kofi)(redbubble)✨

[ciricearts]

my bi queen for pride month<3

[cyber-seaweed]

i feel like the wider internet should learn more about the kingdom hearts series bc going into it i expected sora to be wildly different to how he actually is. i expected like a boy madoka crossed with deku mha vibe. this is not sora. sora lands in a foreign world at 14 after having his destroyed with him on it and immediately starts a fight with cid. sora has to be held back by his disney dads multiple times because he wont stop taunting the organization because he wants to murder them more. sora is actively insane about his boy bestfriend and frankly if riku tried to run off anymore than he actually did i believe that little sora could have and would have resorted to kidnapping. like ya hes kind and empathetic but his friends are his power and if needed he will use said power to snap a bitch in half.

[dyzeyeah]

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[gallusrostromegalus]

Thoughts, in approximate order:

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes

[thelunastusco]

Hi, an “endogenic” refresher course, right here!

1. We introduced the term “endogenic” into the community August 2014, along with some other terms! It was in response to exclusionists (wrongly) complaining about “systems without DID” using “their words”. It was an attempt at creating nonmedicalized terms that any plural system could use. 

2. It was also a way to do away with terms that had fallen into disfavor— specifically “natural systems”, a term that had been in use possibly as early as 1994. It was disliked because people felt it implied that trauma-caused systems were unnatural. “Endogenic” fixed that. 

3. The word “endogenic” was lovingly created to help systems put their experience into words. All it means is “a system not formed by trauma”; it doesn’t imply any other cause, set of beliefs, or experiences. It doesn’t imply the system is nondisordered or doesn’t have trauma. It doesn’t mean any other system’s origins in trauma or dx status is “invalid” or whatever.

4. Though the terms were eventually posted to tumblr, the idea didn’t start there. Tumblr was created in 2007; the concept of systems not caused by trauma has, again, been online since the 90s. Nor was the term created by singlets! We’re a trauma-caused system with DID. 

5. “Endogenic” wasn’t created as an insult or to exclude anyone. We have loved ones who are endogenic. Many of the terms in use now were created by endogenics. They have helped preserve plural history, and defended the community. They are good people, and real systems. The hate they get is completely senseless.

Thanks for coming to our talk. Please stop insulting endogenic systems, and educate yourselves instead, thanks. (Unless it’s just pure malice at this point in which case, fuck off I guess.)

https://endogenichub.weebly.com/ is a decent site to learn more.

[anarchistfrogposting]

The whole “scientists use big words on purpose to be exclusive” is such a bunch of anti-intellectual bullshit. Specific and concise language exists for a reason; you need the right words to convey the right meaning, and explaining stuff right is a hugely important part of science. Cultures that live around loads of snow have loads of words to describe different types of snow; cultures that live in deserts have loads of words to describe different types of sand. Complex language is needed for complex meaning.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[knightclubbing]

worry not my lord, allow me to unscrew that jar for you. i would not want for you to strain your hand or break a nail. alright. hmm. HMMMM. HNNNGRGHHHHHH. HNNGGHHHH HRRRRRGHHH. AAAAAARGHHHHHHH fucking. squire fetch me my grippy gloves

[healingkix]

I haven’t posted that much but im genuinely pissed off because folk don’t understand how politics play into every day actions.

Life is innately political. Your actions of hatred are a reflection of something akin to mold—that thing being hatred. Mold, in all of its terrible glory, spreads like a wildfire in the right conditions. You only realize the sickness when you begin to cough, realizing the terrible truth you are now faced to live with: hatred now is apart of you. Society, in its current form, has been built on prejudice and violence, in such a way that it is almost a phenomenon. It’s such an issue that you don’t dare to question nor blink at the leaking of the faucet of hatred:

You don’t blink when you hear a slur, whether directed to a black or queer person, is spoken. You don’t blink when your neighbor is shot on the street by a federal agent. You don’t blink when you realize the terrible tone leaking from your friend’s voice is merely misogyny in disguise. You don’t blink when the remarks and violence is pointed to anyone but you.

But the issue is, where do we draw the line? Is it to be drawn with a pencil so that it can be easily erased and moved, or is it to be drawn with a sharpie? Will we highlight the line or will we smudge it—blurring ourselves from the good and mixing ourselves with the evil. Do you really have morals if you’re willing to bend them?

But life is so intertwined with politics that you cannot have one without the other. To deny one, is to deny both. It is an intricate dance that no one seems to know the dance moves to and are making up their own moves. A wrong twist there—and now you have another person killed for merely existing in the same space as an agent.

Trailing on top of the thin line is to choose the side of which is spewing their hateful rhetoric—“well they both have issues—” but which one is actively working against us? Which one is currently in my state and murdering my fellow Minnesotans?

People do not understand the emotional connection I have to this mixture of politics and life. I live in Minnesota. I live not even 3 hours from the cities, in which ICE has also begun to plague my town. I watch the ICEwatch page for any news, I witness my Guatemalan friend lose her family via deportation without anyway to go back with them—and her eventual wish to move with them. I read the news and I fear for the day in which they’ll come for more than just to take. I fear for the day I hear that shot and the silence that follows. I fear for the day I hear the echoing scream. I fear for the lives in my community and yet people believe politics and daily life do not play hand and hand together.

I am tired. I am tired of the cycle I feel like I am living it. I am tired of being on wooden floors but the foundation having rotted out, leaving my life unstable. The pain, from my undiagnosed issues, lingers with me. The pain, from what I know, lingers beside me as I watch my friends fear for their lives and the fact I can’t change any of it. It sounds white savior-y but I would genuinely do anything to take their pain away and triple it onto me. None of them deserve what they are going through. I miss her already.

[animentality]

[sabertoothwalrus]

hello instagram artist. your challenge is to do a portrait study of a woman but you’re not allowed to stylize them so their eyes are really big and more cat eyed than the reference photo. You’re also not allowed to make their noses more of a button nose or their lips full and pouty or their faces heart shaped with no double chin. Also you have to draw a fat woman. one thats actually fat and not just slightly curvier than the kpop demon hunters body type. good luck

[mutimatuti]

never not thinking abt this

[mutimatuti]

fun fact - I took this screenshot back in 2018 so it's not that, the guy's name is Ross Draws and he's sucked for a lot longer than that

[sabertoothwalrus]

thank youuuuuu I’ve been seeing a lot of people lately confidently claim art is ai when it was very clearly drawn by a person.

yes, all the changes to the reference were intentional and deliberate and I think that’s important context here

[animentality]