Snails and Delights

This is my little tumblr. I answer questions, and do replies! I play WoW, Subeta, and am on a grand adventure learning how to draw. I also have a fondness for snails, and a love affair with sweets.

[aceofdreams]

And another freebie for Shantal on Subeta. Tried out a different chibi style with this one. c:

[schnaily]

Woooow! I like this new style!!

[archatlas]

Precious Insects

Photographer David Chambon macro photos of insects covered in dew makes them look like precious gemstones. You can see more of his work on his Flickr and 500px accounts. 

[schnaily]

These are utterly beautiful!

[unleashcore]

Tempurra for Buttercream @ Subeta-!

[schnaily]

Aaah Tempurra, your fatness! I am just loving this concept of this guy. Can’t wait to bring it to completion! 

[funny-gif-1]

[mrfalling12345]

OMG WHAT DID I DO!?

For mobile just hold the reblog button

[iguessthisismyweedblog-blog]

I LEARNED A THING

[aceofdreams]

Commission 2 of 2 for Buttercream on Subeta. Lots of fun playing with colors with this one. ^_^

[schnaily]

I just love how this turned out! Waffle is such a wonderful cutie, and you did amazing work based off just a lone picture I gave you for inspiration! Thank you <3

[i-was-a-naive--antifeminist]

Obstetric violence is institutional violence. Break the silence.

[counterftnoire]

This is bullshit. These so-called medical professionals should be brought up on charges.

[socialjusticesummoner]

I almost wrote a lot on this topic, but I’m going to stay silent. I could say a lot, this topic is very passionate for me for various reasons, but I won’t.

[setsuna22]

A lot of this is the reason I am having a homebirth sometime in the next few weeks. Pregnancy is not a disease or medical condition. If you are deemed low-risk (which most women are) there is absolutely no reason for you to have your birth in a hospital. Hospitals are for sick people. Labor and birth is completely natural and the female body is capable of it and so much more. But unfortunately, these days, we are training our women to not trust their bodies or to even believe that they are strong enough to do it. There are so many stories like this out there. And even if they aren’t as severe as this, there are a lot of OBs that push unnecessary interventions on women using fear as a motivator. WHO says that the cesarean rate for any country should not exceed 10-15%. The US is hovering around 30% at the moment and a lot of people aren’t asking why or doing anything about it. OBs are trained surgeons and very few have ever witnessed a natural birth. A lot of OBs section women in order to 1) get the women out of L&D faster, 2) to attempt to lower the risk of lawsuit and 3) for their own benefit, because its easier to section a woman than it is to help her with a natural birth. If you do ever decide to have children, do yourself a favor and see a midwife. In particular, a homebirth midwife. She will be your biggest advocate, motivator and inspiration. And, if for some reason you need to birth in the hospital (it does happen despite being low risk) she will make absolutely sure that your wishes are met and that you aren’t pushed into anything you don’t want.

[schnaily]

I am glad that this was shared because it never occurred to me that women would deal with such conditions. However, I am not surprised given the range of horrific things that females in general experience through different facets of our lives.

With that said, I would like to share that my experiences with child birth were traumatic. But it was my own choice. I wanted to have my son naturally, but I never dilated, and after three rounds of Cervitol (used to ripen the cervix) and the lowest dosage of Pitocin (used to induce labor) it became abundantly clear I had to have a Cesarean. During those times I attempted natural labor, my son’s heart rate dropped during contractions and I was denied pain medicine. It sucked, and it was very painful at parts, but I understood why I couldn’t add that to my already stressed body. I would not compromise my child.

Eventually it became quite clear WHY my son never naturally “dropped”, the term for the cervix dilating. He had his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, which in many cases, during natural birth, can cause MANY complications. My son was delivered naturally, and I honestly, look forward to scheduling myself a date and time for a future offspring.

Child birth is the good, the bad, and the ugly. I am saddened to see women experience such traumatic events during something already quite rough. I hope to see more increased awareness and support for this cause.

[floralls]

flower in black I  by  noirblanc 777

[schnaily]

Gorgeous!

[ponieponpon]

a little giveaway to thank you all for your support this year - good luck!

rules 

must be following either @poniepon and/or @ponieponpon

like and/or reblog this post as many times as you want

no giveaway blogs, i’ll check

there will be three winners, for whom i will draw a coloured piece (you can pick your oc/fav character/a real person,/whatever) the giveaway ends on January, 7th 2016

[setsuna22]

Soooooo… this is part of the reason I have been gone from Tumblr… 

One reason was that I worked a demanding job over the summer which left me with absolutely zero drive to do anything but sleep when I got home. The second is that I am now 22 weeks pregnant. So, not only was I working a ton over the summer, I was also dealing with morning sickness and general fatigue from my first trimester of pregnancy.

This is something that I have wanted my whole life but it didn’t come easily to me. I was responsible and careful and waited until my late 20’s to start a family. Little did I know that something that is considered so easy would not come easily to me. I found out very shortly after going off of birth control that I had PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). PCOS is a condition where the ovaries are covered in cysts and the cysts cause a multitude of problems, the most major symptom is that you do not ovulate. And if you do not ovulate, you can not get pregnant.  So, as a result, I spent almost 2 years in and out of fertility clinics, getting poked and proded and tested to see if I could conceive on my own or not. I was put on two medications, one of which, Metformin, made me terribly ill but it seemed to help. It still wasn’t helping in the best way possible so I was put on ovulation medication. After only 3 months, I got a HUGE surprise and found out I was pregnant. My husband and I were ecstatic. Then, only 48 hrs after receiving our good news, we were hit with the blow that I was going to miscarry.  But the miscarriage never came, which resulted in a surgery to force the issue (since my ovary had swollen to 5 times it’s size and was at danger of rupture) and the results came back with the worst news I could get: There was no baby in my uterus. Which only meant one thing, my pregnancy was ectopic and was threatening my life. So, I was rushed to the hospital to get a small dose of chemo therapy to eliminate the pregnancy and finally, weeks later, there was no sign of pregnancy anymore. All of this happened right before Christmas. I was forced to wait a few months before I could start trying again to let me body recover and to also perform some more tests. I was finally put on ovulation medication again and went back to the same old routine of timing things, waiting 2 weeks and taking a pregnancy test to only find out it was negative. By this time, after 2 years of negative pregnancy tests, I couldnt bear to hope for a positive one so I always just expected a negative test in order to save my feelings and sanity. Until one day, the test came back positive. And here I am now, a little more than halfway through my pregnancy and expecting my first child; a boy named Desmond. Due April 1, 2016. TL;DR: I tried for 2 years to get pregnant. I struggled with infertility. Had an ectopic pregnancy but am finally pregnant.

[schnaily]

Congratulations! I am so happy to hear about your future wee one! I know you were trying so hard and I'm glad it happened to such a beautiful person such as yourself!

[tastefullyoffensive]

Punny Illustrations by Arseniic (Deviant Art) (Tumblr) Related: Cute and Funny Illustrations by Jaco Haasbroek

[schnaily]

Needing more punny ideas for my class!

[lostbellchime]

Thank you lovelies for following me, it means a whole bunch to me! To celebrate I’ll be doing an art giveaway! ^v^ Only one winner for now, but if this gets a lot of entries I’ll up the winner count as well as prizes. 

Prizes

1st place - One (1) full body done in a painterly style; One (1) doodle

Rules

Must be following me, since this is a giveaway for my followers only. New followers are welcomed, but be sure to read my about before you follow. No giveaway blogs.

Ask box must be opened! Winner must reply within  48 hours to reply before I choose another winner.

Reblogs only but only one (1) reblog counts as one (1) entry.

I’ll only draw things that won’t go against my T.O.S. and I’m free to refuse a winner’s request (you can still change it though).

Ends November 14th 11:59 PM PST 

[schnaily]

WOOT! GO LOST!

[the-awesome-quotes]

Sea Slugs That Prove Aliens Already Live On Planet Earth

[kisforkarol-deactivated20260127]

I love sea slugs

[schnaily]

Must reblog for all the colouring!

[lostlx]

Woolly for ( schnaily ) wickkeddreams on DA

[schnaily]

Woolly is a book worm, literally, he eats books! His favorite to nibble on those of pirate or seafaring persuasion.

It was a complete and utter pleasure to work with Lost on this piece. They did an amazing job staying in contact with me, and working to make sure the pieces were perfect! I am so happy, and utterly love how Woolly turned out! Also, Lost’s shading fur is fucking awesome, holy crap do I love it!

[subetaspeaks]

Dear Diary,

Today marks the sixth or seventh month in the winner’s queue. Or at least I think. I gave up counting ages ago.

Am I even a winner anymore? Was my pet even looked at? These questions and more race through my mind on a day to day basis.

Ah, my poor pet. I love him, I love all my pets and pride myself in their stories and characters. The thought of winning our first spotlight excites us, but seeing others win over and over while we wait in the dust… hope wanes every day.

At this rate I’ll have to turn my pet Nostalgic so at least collecting dust makes sense. Or Graveyard since we’ve been waiting so long.

With fearful optimism,

Subetian

P.S. - I wonder how many others are trapped like we are, in a never ending cycle of suspense?

[rahlala]

Aww, I’m afraid pretty much everyone is trapped in the current system - I’m not being as thorough with it as we’re working on rehauling the entire thing, at which point we’re going switch up to 5 spotlights per week and users will hopefully get more input into voting on aesthetics (which is by far the hardest thing to judge on a small team!)

Hoping that in the next few weeks i’ll get the chance to meet up with Keith in person to work on this properly c: 

[schnaily]

Bolding the part that concerns me. Please, please, do not make the Spotlight into the new HA voting contests. I’ve seen the outcomes to those situations, and they are never, ever pretty. I’m very concerned that the Spotlight feedback thread isn’t even being taken into account now. A majority of the user base spoke out against anything that has to do with voting, especially on the aesthetics side. 

[subetaspeaks]

Holy name hoarding, Batman!

[schnaily]

I’m incredibly surprised so many of Hope’s pets were adopted by a single person. I would have loved to have given Azure a home, and made a tribute pet to her :/

[houndpets]

schnaily wanted to see this full-size… I’m not sure who based it, I think it was Loverly?? idk… I only coloured it ;__;

[schnaily]

I wanted to see the colouring up close!! See the details on the swirls! I love that! Lovely job, Pathos! <3

[awkwardarbor]

You know what time it is? It’s conduit cat time!

I’ve been adding some more bits and bobs to the base I work on, and each of these cats is featuring either a new set of ears or a new tail, just for funsies. 

TOS -  If you’re interested in taking a kitty home, please either email me at [email protected] or send me a note here on tumblr if you dare risk Tumblr’s message system. (Remember that tumblr will eat asks if you put any characters immediately after a period and isn’t 100% reliable.)

1. Echo Conduit - Passage $12 - on hold 2. Weaver Conduit - Cactacaea $8 3. Weaver Conduit - Filigree $8 4. Mimic Conduit - Fauna $8 5. Wild Conduit - Solar $8 6. Reblog with two to three colour hex codes, plus your preferred class (for the pupil) in the comments or tags. I’ll use a RNG to pick one of the reblogs at the end of the month and make one patchy Conduit to match the colours given for the person whose number is drawn! 

[schnaily]

The new tails are so lovely in design, Ms. Noel!!

Throwing my name into the Reblog category

Relic Pupil - Palette

Echo Pupil - Palette

Wild Pupil - Palette