Welcome to my blog! My art blog is @sonic-spirit-studios, if you want to see just my art without the random posts and reblogs. I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog! I'm a nonbinary transmasc Otherkin guy (Sonic, non-MLP alicorn) who belongs to @supadari-mai and @foxelfprincess. Sometimes NSFW. He/him and fae/faer. You can also check out my website, SonicSpirit.net.
It Doesn’t Matter - Zone 01: It’s About Time - 2024-11-07
When "Amy" and family are sent by their parents to a militia training camp, they are less than pleased. "Amy" quickly makes friends with some of the other campers, and together, they work to make the best of it. But one of the camp's staff looks so much like Eggman that the trio of Sonic fans HAVE to check him out. One night, they sneak into his basement lab and discover campers in cages sporting cybernetic implants. They NEED to leave the camp, but...are they starting to grow...fur?
...the answer is yes. Yes they are.
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The Emeralds are waking, chaos is rising, and the world is changing. We have to fight for our hearts and health. They are going to try to kill us. We belong. We are meant to be. We won't let the fascistic fuckers destroy us.
Trans rights, black lives matter. Down with fascists.
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Zone 1 is finally done! Holy fucking hells! I started storyboarding this episode in 2018, and have been writing this project since 2009! Chaos, it's been a minute getting even this far! I'm so, so damn excited. Fuck, I've had, like, 5 moves since we recorded the audio for this zone! So much love to my amazing cast!
^_^;; I'm gonna change my approach so I can actually tell this story more than once every six years!
Is there beef with the Holstein cows and you or what was that joke lol
It's kind of wild It's just never come up on this blog before, but I HATE holsteins. Bottom 10 cow breeds for me. I hate how they're so common they account for the majority of milk produced. I hate that they're the "default" cow to the point where some don't even know cattle HAVE other colors. I hate their tiny horns (IF THEY EVEN HAVE THAT. LOSER ASS HORNLESS COW) and their painfully massive udders.
Legit I'm trying so hard to not launch into a No Mouth Must Scream style AM speech-- shoot my hand slipped.
(AM speech about why i dont like holsteins below the cut)
For starters, I have to give a brief lesson on what these terms mean; the "Holstein" is the American strain of the "Frisian" breed. Frisians are an ancient breed from Frisia, in the north of what we now consider the Netherlands. Crosses between the breeds are "Holstein-Frisians."
(There’s even more to this but im keeping it as simple as possible. Also one of my friends is Frisian and she is probably going to kill me for describing it like that.)
Historically, livestock was adapted to the environment they lived in. Frisians were bred by the Frisii people for hundreds of years in extremely grass-rich, lush, flat environments. The "polders" of the northern parts of the Netherlands. They're huge and eat a LOT of food.
Traditional Frisians were developed to produce as much meat and milk from a single individual as possible, without compromising the health of the cattle with constant inbreeding to get quick gains. We are talking about a breed that is over 2000 years old. They had the perfect environment to make The Ultimate Food Cow and by god they did it. I can respect that.
So, take that, drag it across an ocean to a place that does NOT have polders, and add the rapid enshittification of capitalism to it. BAM you've got a fucking holstein.
There is ONE goal for "improving" the holstein. Make More Milk. As long as the black and white milkbag leaks enough, nothing else matters. Health? Fertility? Feed ratio? Ability to not die of infection? WHO CARES. MILK LINE GO UP.
Over 90% of holsteins are inbred to start with, because Milk Line Go Up. To the tune of having an average COI of 8%-- where extreme negative effects (think Hapsburgs) start to crop up around 10%
Holstein bulls are aggressive bastards (many dairy bulls are), so no one wants to keep intact males in their herds, meaning most cows are artificially inseminated
Not being limited by the natural lifespan of a living bull means that the same stud can keep having direct offspring for decades after his death
Toystory the bull had 500,000 calves before he died, and hit over 1 million offspring in 2015. That's ONE animal and to put this in perspective, there are 9 million holsteins in the US.
DON'T WORRY IT GETS WORSE
Not only can 99% of holsteins be traced back to just two bulls-- 99% of male holsteins share one of two exact Y chromosomes with those two bulls.
The gene pool is so small that it's equivalent to about 60 individuals. Warrior Cat allegiances are larger than that. That's barely bigger than modern ThunderClan.
"Massive lack of genetic diversity" does not begin to capture the existential dread of this situation. Mark my words, WATCH, when the Bird Flu finally mutates a strain that rips through a mammalian population, it's gonna be in the USA and it's going to be through our dairy cattle.
This is not prophecy or me laying a curse on the land, this is the natural consequence of basing the stability of US milk production on the equivalent of 9 million clones of two classrooms worth of individuals, and then packing them in close quarters
And we don't have to wait for doomsday for the impacts to be apparent on the cattle themelves
Holstein fertility has also dropped by half since the 1960s when the intensive inbreeding really kicked into high gear
Because their whole body is dedicating all of their resources to milk production, they have a notoriously "bony" frame.
Show judges, however, like this because they think that's a very "feminine" look for a 1600 pound ruminant. Very normal thing to think.
Like. I don't know if i can communicate this to people who don't look at cows a lot (it's not quite as obviously dramatic as a pug skull) but here is a comparison of an "ideal" show holstein and an "unselected" holstein from a herd that's been established as a sort of "control group" for what they looked like back in the 1960s;
The way that the artery on the "modern" cow's belly runs to the udder like a big pink worm freaks me out the most ngl
The udder also bulges out from between the back legs
The show cow is so thin
And then compare these both to a Holstein-Frisian cross who leans more on the Frisian side;
Proper weight, developed legs. Its biggest "problem" is actually just the udder shape-- deep udders, which "hang" low like that, aren't optimal for milk-focused breeds because the higher away from the ground the less chance there is of infection. In that department, the "unselected" holstein clearly outclasses the holstein-frisian.
But it probably won't be surprising to hear that the "show holstein," with its massive, swollen udder, is SUPER prone to infections such as mastitis.
But it is also just more prone to getting sick generally
And, to keep up with these insane demands, holsteins need a TON of food. You aren't going to just turn these things out into a pasture and be done with it. Even its ancestor the Frisian needed premium Dutch polder grass to be such a good cow-- crank that up to 11 with these Monuments to Humanity's Hubrice
The Texas Longhorn developed in semi-feral conditions and can eat a bush to become the best thing in a 10 mile radius. The Scottish Highland was iron-forged in upland moors with a steady diet of turf and rain.
Meanwhile if a Holstein has less than 5 homemade meals a day without poland spring bottled water it will die to death.
And the WORST part? You have to use these if you want to make money in dairy farming. It's WAAY too expensive to just run a suboptimal farm. Their milk isn't great, but they sure do make a lot of it.
...so Holsteins and Holstein-Frisians (and other "super efficient" breeds) have absolutely decimated heritage cattle. The American Milking Devon is a deep reddish brown with gorgeous horns and low maintenance; rare. Randall Linebacks are painted with lines of white speckles down the back and can be used for any purpose; critically endangered. The Niata was a pug-faced cow who could fight jaguars; extinct.
And THAT'S what makes me hate them most of all. I LOVE cows, but whenever I see a reference to one, it's a holstein. It's always boring black and white splotches with big pink udders. They're practically synonymous with "cow" when their homogeniety is actually hiding much cooler breeds from you.
Did you know cows can be tiger-striped?
And that England has its own type of longhorn?
Or that cow horns can twist upwards like an antelope?
And that they can have REALLY LONG ears?
And that they can be blue?
And that's not even getting into some of the cows that have gotten a small crumb of attention lately, such as Highlands, Ankole-Watusi, and Texas Longhorns. There's so many cool cows out there! And they're all really different from holsteins! MOST of them are also a lot healthier and produce tastier milk and meat!
TL;DR yeah i don't like holsteins and I like sniping at them. For reasons both legit and petty.
A lot of people seem to mix up ‘community’ with ‘friend group’ so when they read ‘no one should be abandoned by the community. No matter what they did’ they think it means ‘you have to be friends with abusers’. When in reality it means ‘no matter what someone does they shouldnt be left to go homeless and be denied financial, housing, medical, etc aid’
You don’t have to be friends with these people, no one is saying that. It’s just saying that you should support rehabilitative justice, support programs that help homeless people, support funding for free medical services, and make sure they don’t turn away anyone who needs help.
i read the hobbit in 3rd grade and i thought it was really lame. however i liked bilbo baggins for some reason and i was fully convinced he was some sort of rabbit/mouse thing until i saw the lotr movies and was really, really confused
theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment
your starter pokemon are trubbish, rattata and glameow. which symbolise the trash you keep forgetting to take out, the rats living in your walls and the stray cat you keep trying to befriend but it keeps hissing at you.
you guys dont get it its not supposed to be dark and edgy its supposed to be living in a mundane setting and slowly rediscovering the wonder in the world by going on a journey with a magical trash bag that is your friend, its about love and recovery and coping with the stress of your adult life with your friend who is made of sentient garbage
Soooo when Doodle was ridden on the trail for this first time she was a total boss. Just happy and willing to go the whole time!
I love working with young horses who are just confident and happy about life. Its really rewarding to give them a positive and happy beginning to being riding horses and nurturing their enthusiasm for work.
This zine will be using lots of specific terms so let’s try and define them up front for our own purposes so that everyone is on the same page!
Body modification/body mod – A deliberate temporary or permanent physical alteration made to the body through surgery.
Surgery – A procedure where the body is cut open and something is implanted, removed or replaced.
Otherhuman – Someone who is something other than human, they may feel this physically or mentally/emotionally. Note! (Same as non-human and otherkin for the purposes of this zine, but there are differences and unique aspects to the communities and identities.)
Therian – Someone who is in some way or form a non-human animal even though their appearance may be human.
Hope that clears things up!
Species affirming body modification
What are SABMs? A SABM is a body modification used to bring someone joy or pleasure derived from feeling connected to their species (or perceived species). This is not an official acronym currently recognized in body medication. This zine is documenting the modification procedures performed on and by various members of the queer and or otherhuman communities.
The Goal or why does this zine exist?
The goal of this zine is to document various niche mods and procedures so that they’re collected in one place and can be used or studied as inspiration for future SABMs.
This zine isn’t
This zine is not written by someone who currently works as a professional body medication artist. This zine is not written by a medical professional or doctor, this zine is also not about mods like tongue splitting, tattoos, or more well-known body mod options.
There are currently shockingly few mainstream options for body modifications. If you look for information or studies on body mods online then most papers are about the social aspect of body modification and how people with body mods are treated by the wider public, this is not what this zine is about. Though it is important to consider how a body mod may affect how people treat you, there are plenty of other papers to read on that topic. If you are reading the obscure queer and otherhuman body mods zine than you are probably hyper-aware of how people view you!
Luciafur
Starting with the wonderful artist and self-described plural thing, V.V.K. known on itch.io as Luciafur!!
VVK had a microchip injected in 2025 after the realization that there’s nothing stopping him from getting chipped just like any other dog thing. Having worked in pet care they were familiar with the process and felt comfortable DIY’ing it. Motivated by her therian, petplay, and furry identity.
Combining her and her owner’s prior knowledge of the microchipping process and anatomy they started researching the microchip injections more seriously. They were acutely aware that dogs and cats have anatomy quite different from that of a standard human body, in this case the main difference to be aware of was the variation in skin thickness.
Dog – Thick skin
Cat – Thin skin
Much thought was given to placing the chip at the appropriate depth and location, if the chip were to be placed incorrectly it could be more likely to be rejected by the body or even potentially hit muscle!
After the chip was injected it was monitored closely for signs of rejection, infection or any other medical complications. After two months and no complications the microchip project had proven successful! VVK is very happy with the results and is hoping to get more mods in the future.
The steps by V.V.K.
$20 total
Materials used:
FI Nano microchipping kit – for dogs!
RFID microchip scanner
Alcohol wipes
Disposable gloves
Bandaid
Sharpie marker
Sharps container
The microchip was scanned (while still in its packaging) to ensure it worked and to write down the ID number.
The injection site (towards the top of my left ass cheek) was marked with an outline, and I confirmed that the location looked correct for where I wanted it.
I laid down comfortably, and the injection site was cleaned with an alcohol wipe.
My partner put on gloves, opened the microchipping kit, and aligned the syringe with the injection site.
They pinched the skin and inserted the needle at a 45 degree angle (a subcutaneous injection)
They pushed the syringe plunger until it clicked, inserting the chip into me.
The needle was removed, the injection site cleaned up, and a bandaid placed over it.
The syringe was tossed in the sharps container.
The injection site was scanned to confirm the chip was implanted correctly.
Felt like “A particularly painful piercing.” The pain might be reduced by having a piercer or doctor perform it!
The healing process went well! No pain after the initial injection and no side effects besides mild itchiness and typical bruising (which is normal and went away after the first week.) A success! Find VVK on itch.io under Luciafur!
The Canidae Collective
The Canidae Collective were looking for a way to lessen their species dysphoria. After removing their chest nipples didn’t ease the feeling as much as they hoped, they started looking for other mods to help.
Inspired by the nipple tattoos popular among people who lost their original nipples to cancer or who couldn’t keep theirs after top surgery The Canidae Collective looked into how they might be able to get the proper anatomy that most aligns with their transspecies selves. They hoped not just for the flat appearance tattoos can bring, but to add some more dimension and realism, so they turned to implants. Luckily, The Canidae Collective managed to find an affirming and supportive body modification artist who was willing to help them with their goal.
Of course there were the risks that come with any implants, mainly rejection. In The Canidae Collective’s case the effects and viability of the procedure were not 100% clear, silicone subdermal implants have only been performed by a select number of plastic surgeons and this was the first (to The Canidae Collective and my knowledge) implant on the stomach to be formed by a body artist.
The steps by The Canidae Collective
$3,000 total
Materials used:
Numbing agent
Silicone implants
Scalpel
Sutures
First, the desired areas were marked with marker. We tried a few placements.
Inject numbing agent to area (this was the worst of it honestly. Burns and then goes away.)
Make incision underneath desired area.
Make a ‘pocket’ underneath the skin to put the implant in.
Insert the implant (second worst). It is uncomfortable and pushed in by hand.
Stitch up the incision!
Not having any other major body mods done before, they’re not super confident in their ability to compare the pain to another procedure but say that it’s “definitely a bit more painful than a stick n’ poke tattoo but might be rivaled by a very large or intensive tattoo.” Which seems fair.
Canidazed on tumblr
The healing process/upkeep was a bit more intensive than VVK’s but still pretty standard for implants. While healing The Canidae Collective prioritized keeping their torso as still as possible to minimize risk of rejection, along with this after the second skin was removed they would apply aquaderm and once the incisions were closed they would use silicone scar gel over them. Their belly nips were swollen at first but have become less swollen and more visible over time!
The Canidae Collective have been happy with their new belly nips and hope to continue on their self-customization journey with paw and pawpad tattoos, extended canine veneers and (potentially) facial tattoos/implants.
The belly nips also will be tattooed at some point to give them a more realistic look, but overall the procedure was a major success and a great step forward in the body mod space!
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Night: I randomly made this a few months ago, but for some reason never posted it lol.
It's another otherkin-type drawing of my raven theriotype. I get phantom shifts a LOT, and this is a pretty accurate representation of how my wings feel.
It's really odd, sometimes I'll also get chest feathers, tail feathers, and feathers on my arms? (As phantom shifts ofc). Any one else get these kinds of phantoms?
[Image description: Three different drawings in one image of Night, a humanoid with large raven wings and a + instead of facial features.. The drawings include: a half-body shot of him wearing a blue shirt and facing the viewer, a fully-body drawing of him walking away from the viewer in a green shirt and black shorts with wings outstretched high above him and a final drawing of him in a red shirt and brown shorts sitting down with his arms loosely around his raised knees. The background is solid white. End description.]
tom nook is NOT a landlord!!! he is a construction worker! he SELLS you a WHOLE HOUSE! He is not CHARGING YOU however many bells a month to live there! You PURCHASE a HOME that he BUILDS FOR YOU and then you PAY HIM FOR HIS SERVICE. He charges no interest he sets no time limit it is a relationship built on trust. the only penalty you get for not paying off your home is that he won't build more home until you pay him for the first one. A guy that builds you a house wherever you want him to and then charges you for the cost of construction is not a landlord you own the fucking home
Hey idk who needs this but helpful reminder that "virgin blood" in any witchcraft shit that requires that means "virgin" in the same sense as "virgin hair" means hair that hasn't been dyed or processed in any way, natural in the default sense. So no, "virgin blood" doesn't mean blood from a virgin, just blood that hasn't been used for any other kind of witchy shit earlier.
Whether nor not someone has fucked before is completely irrelevant. Any act of fucking doesn't instantly make someone contaminated or un-magic any of their shit. You're just not supposed to re-use blood for blood magic. That's just not. Just do not. Like that's just weird who does that.
Unles you've like, poured out ALL OF YOUR BLOOD, used it for a spell, and then somehow SIPHONED THE WHOLE THING BACK IN, that doesn't mean the blood on the inside of you is also used. And even then, if you'd had your sacrifical blood IV'd back into your body-
actually nevermind, I need to draw a graph to illustrate:
Art Fight attack on FlirtyFaunArt's unicorn sona Taeyal! I'm so happy to draw more unicorns, and especially cervine unicorns! I ran into FlirtyFaunArt's accounts for the first time this Art Fight season, and have gotten really excited about their work!
I'm hoping to do at least one more Art Fight attack this Art Fight season, I have two more unicorns I really want to draw this year. And yeah, I could draw them independent of the game, but that's not the same thing!
I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes
I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.
I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.
Something about how society cares more about punishing the wicked than about making the world a better place, and how many people really struggle to shake that.
All k9 dogs are abused hands down if you post any pro k9 stuff on my dash you’re unfollowed I don’t care if we’ve been mutuals for years, you can claim to be anti-cop or a leftist or whatever but if you post k9 dogs with like “a good doggo! A good boy!” fuck off, if I lose followers over this then good riddance
It’s ALSO worth saying that police dogs serve a significant role in worsening police brutality. A dog trained to attack a human will maim them. A cop looses a police dog on someone, and that person is expected to peacefully cooperate while a dog is trying to tear their limbs off. It is very easy for those massive wounds to get infected. It is an absurd amount of violence. And beyond the initial attack, the fact that a “poor sweet innocent doggo” did this is used to excuse that brutality in court. Especially if the victim, panicking in the moment, lashed out at the dog. As this website has demonstrated many times, majority-white juries have more sympathies for injured dogs than the people of color who are most often victims of police brutality. So they’re not just systemic animal abuse, they’re also a tool for increased police brutality and to excuse
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