Sorry for OC Posting

Basil, Salamanderpie I'm an artist but it's not like you can tell

[whizpurr]

[catasters]

[mmy7souvlaki]

i think everyone needs to see this

[hope-for-the-planet]

From One Surviving Male Bison, Azerbaijan Now Has 25 Calves Born Wild in 7-Year Success Story

Once native to most of Eurasia, these big-bodied ecosystem engineers lumbered freely around the whole of the continent

In the 1920s, the last Eurasian bison were hunted out of existence in the Azerbaijan region. Efforts to restore the species began in 2012, and the first 12 European bison were released back into their native habitat in 2019.

Now only seven years later, 25 wild born calves have been added to the Azerbaijan population.

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[lovrboyx]

The Last Unicorn really said “There will be times when you can’t find other people like you and there will be times where you'll wonder if you're really the only person experiencing the world as you are and others will even try to take advantage of you through commodification and exploitation to the point where it starts to dilute your own sense of self and will make you question if you were ever you to begin with but it’s important for to resist the urge to assimilate and find community because there will always be people like you who will understand and have experienced these same things and the only way to combat a dark world who wants to smother your light is to FIGHT FIGHT RAGE AGAINST THE RED BULL DO NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT OCEAN.”

And I just think there’s something beautifully and inextricably queer about that

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[dragongirlbunny]

there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.

[dabblingreturns]

Tell me your worst crafting bad habit.

And I'm not talking normal stuff like being overly ambition, or lack of planning, not finishings

Tell me the stupid stuff.

I'll go first: I keep working with size 11 and size 15 seed beads in bed. And find them in my sheets when I'm trying to sleep

[blessedbrick]

This is mine I think

Original post here

[punkrorschach]

games over! everyone loses! 👍

[mctreeleth]

same energy as me holding pins in my mouth while singing along with the music that I have playing while I'm sewing

[kaitlynillustrations]

I love being able to draw cute things all the time! 🎀💕

This original piece is available at my Etsy shop, kaitlynillustrations.etsy.com 💝

[3000s]

when i go somewhere on friday people are always like "have a nice weekend" but i work weekends and this is my sunday

sorry i cant get the hi off of my skeleton right now

[magiconic]

Don't worry I covered up the "HI" so no one can read it

[3000s]

thank you, much better

[paranormal-taters]

hang on i need to review my entire post history from all time and make sure i haven't said anything embarrassing

[paranormal-taters]

awful news guys

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I remember when my area got the orange smoke. It was eerie.

[iah-q]

⋆⟡~butterfly magic~⟡⋆ 

[silmanupropria]

The Empty Grail

Elle est retrouvée. Quoi ? — L'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.

Commissioned by my friend, thanks to @restlessspiritofboomkin for this wonderful artwork. It depicts my Watcher’s journey as an Eothasian and I love it SO MUCH IT'S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING

Artist:@牧风风

[tofupixel]

I really love your art, especially with how you color the faces of celebs. Do you have any resources on how you go about creating pixel art for faces? :0

no sorry i dont, i just did it over and over, i used to do a weekly portrait for quite a few months for practise. and it takes me quite a long time still tbh.

i am a very 'bad' sketcher, my sketches never look anything like the finished product. i just use the lasso tool and cut and move things and change colours whenever i want. a work in progress is a work in progress!! i also flip my canvas constantly so i dont get upset by how wonky it looks

i couldn't find one of a 'portrait' but here is a timelapse of how i made the heart eyes cat. you can see it looks very ugly for quite a while. but its digital art so we can just make it look better

i don't really have any tips for portraits because my whole method is just 'keep going till it looks right' 😵

edit: oh yeah actually ive been doing a lot of portraits on stream recently so if you can put up with me thats the best way to watch imo. check out my vods:

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[my0clonic-jerk]

[cardassiangoodreads]

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

[tjalexandernyc]

Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.

[gothiclolitabible-blog]

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