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☼ HOTBLOOD! KICKSTARTER 80K STRETCH GOAL: Z A R C O ☼

➸ Hotblood! is a [finished] M/M webcomic about centaurs in the American Old West. It ran from September 2013 until April 2016, and will always be free-to-read online.

➸ The Kickstarter to print an omnibus edition of the comic & a companion art book has surpassed the funding goal of $24,000. Check out the campaign page for more information (or to snag yourself a copy)!

➸ Hotblood!: Zarco is the proposed sequel. If the stretch goal of $80,000 is reached, it will be serialized online, once a week, free for everyone. Set [nine years] after the events of Hotblood!, the comic will follow the adventures of Sheriff Rafael Zarco of Sonoma County, California, and his encounter with the  renowned criminal James Rook and his partner, Asa Langley. 

The campaign is less than half over and we are already at 44/80k! If you enjoyed Hotblood! and want more of our heroes as seen by the other side of the law, please consider backing the Kickstarter, telling your friends, and/or sharing the campaign! I’m blown away by the support the project has received already and I’m on fire to produce another story!

Thank you!

T

[riikkapaints]

Present.

A tiny watercolor sketch. I tested out a couple new inks and the Scarlet red especially pops out wonderfully.

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"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

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Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

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Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

[isitscary]

I love this post.

Too many parents wonder why their kids aren’t honest with them, and never realize their own non-receptive behavior and their failure to listen are the reasons why.

At one point or another, a child WILL keep a secret from you, but if it’s to a point where all their emotional feelings are being poured away from you as opposed to toward you, it’s probably because you haven’t been emotionally trustworthy or open. 

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Adultism :(

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not to mention, you then take away one of your child’s coping mechanisms. if your parents read your journal, you’re never writing in it again. if your parents monitor your conversations with friends, you won’t tell them when you’re depressed anymore. if you have a therapist that reports what you say to your parents, you won’t tell that therapist anything. now all those methods of venting, feeling better, self-soothing, sorting out your issues, and feeling safe are gone. “i want information” is not synonymous with “i want my child to talk to me.” those are two separate goals, but i think parents conflate them – i want my child to talk to me, but since they won’t, i’m stealing information from them. no. you didn’t ever want them to talk to you. you wanted information. if you wanted them to talk to you, if that was your entire end goal, you would have approached things completely differently. stealing information from a child ensures they will never talk to you again. but if all you want is information, then you can take it however you want and call it a parenting success. if what you wanted was a child who talks to you, you would apply the same principles you do to literally any other human interaction in your life, and cultivate a relationship and trust.

[splintercat]

Too real.

[pularia]

Happy 11th Birthday, Buck Buck. Long may you reign over the yard with beak and talon; hawks and mailmen alike shall tremble.

Though I’m sorry the sky sent down snow and made you angry.

[captainesc]

[chlorophylia]

A safe bird

[pularia]

:’)

[tinymisu]

[ttyto-alba]

Inktober Day 7

More Owl people. 

[Patreon]

[scorpi-xo]

When your mom puts this on her birthday list

[micdotcom]

Not having kids (by choice or by chance) is a perfectly healthy and normal thing to do. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Just listen to the women who attended the first-ever Not Mom Summit, a safe-space conference for those who are childfree. They put forward a solid list of what you should never say to people who don’t have children.

[nypost]

This is Betty the chicken. She’s tweeting from Chicken Treat’s Twitter account until she can successfully tweet a five-letter word in English. Good luck Betty!

[intindra]

Sorry for no inktobers, I suddenly got inspired to do something that involves a lot of my time.  Hopefully you can forgive me with these backgrounds I’ve done for the project.  Will reveal more soon!

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joanne needs to either straighten out her grandchildren or mind her own fucking business 

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garlic bread

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-laughs-

[intangibl-e]

Fuk u nan i do wat i want

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I wanna know what she was commenting on

[mmcoconut]

“That’s the thing, I don’t believe in ‘deep down’. I kind of think all you are is just the things that you do. ”

I love when Bojack and Diane have these little talks on roof.

[astromechapunk]

[muus3]

That beautiful chickens under a sea o almond flowers. #chiken #chick #gallina #pollo #chickensofinstagram #feather_perfection #feather_features #nuts_about_birds #lovely_birds #loves_birds #mobile_perfection #rising_perfection #simpley_perfection #wildlife_perfection #bns_birds #birdextreme #nature_sultans #splendid_animals #your_best_birds #pets_of_our_world #terresdelebre #fleeingbirds #anythingfeathered

[wildcraftedwoman]

[certified-p0ser]

Who wants to move here with me?