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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
trying on a metaphor
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two sides of the same coin
Deltarune but it's Sonic Advance 3 team up screen (again)
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discord server for silent video game protagonists
chell, doomguy, link, samus, and master chief are all in the server and not one of them has ever sent a message in it. they all consider the others to be their closest friends
there’s a channel where Red sends pictures of all of his pokemon and they all get a Thumbs Up emoji react from everyone else
Eventually Link starts posting selfies in the most crazy places with monsters in the background about to hit him or closeups of plants and small critters. They also get a Thumbs Up react. Nothing else is said.
the Knight from Hollow Knight is on the server. They never post or even give anything the thumbs up react except for the occasional bug-type pokemon. One time Link uploaded an image of a sunrise and The Knight gave it the only Thumbs Down react anyone has ever gotten in the entire server. The resulting Drama (Consisting entirely of a single screenshot of the thumbs down react and a series of exclamation point reacts) nearly tore the server apart
Solarpunk, realism, dystopia: a rant
Hopefully this is helpful to someone out there 🌸
You can find the Prompts podcast here, I drew some of the covers :D Also check out this digital library full of Creative Commons Solarpunk art (neither of these are sponsored).
🦗Somewhat shameful plug🦗
I would highly appreciate if you threw me a couple bucks on Buy Me a Coffee or bought a commission, my money number is only getting smaller these days 😔🤙
Now, I work as one of the head revivalists here in Ambrette. It's my job to ensure the revival process goes smoothly, and to teach any trainer that would be interested in raising a fossil pokemon with thier more specialized care needs.
Yesterday, someone came in very interested in aurorus, so naturally we went over what it's needs are, and just lots of general information about the pokemon. We also showed them our resident we have on site in an enclosure, Bori, as we like trainers to be shown just how much space a large pokemon demands if one is to raise it.
And they brought their pokemon with them, which we do allow if they are trained to remain alongside you the entire time you are in the enclosure area with a fossil.
The look of this trainer's tropius gave us when he saw Bori was priceless! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's your ancestor, young man!
I appreciate that Hi-Fi Rush is so dedicated to thematic consistency in depicting every heroic human character as visibly physically disabled that when one of the bosses turns coat, she almost immediately suffers an injury which causes her to become visibly disabled for the remainder of the game.
on endlings, and despair
Hey, y'all. It's...been a rough couple of weeks. So, I thought--better to light a single candle, right?
If you're familiar with wildlife conservation success stories, then you're likely also familiar with their exact polar opposite. The Northern White Rhino. Conservation's poster child for despair. Our greatest and most high-profile utter failure. We slaughtered them for wealth and status, and applied the brakes too slow. Changed course too late.
We poured everything we had into trying to save them, and we failed.
We lost them. They died. The last surviving male was named Sudan. He died in 2018, elderly and sick. His genetic material is preserved, along with frozen semen from other long-dead males, but only as an exercise in futility. Only two females survive--a mother and daughter, Najin and Fatu.
Both of them are infertile. They still live; but the Northern White Rhinoceros is extinct. Gone forever.
In 2023, an experimental procedure was attempted, a hail-mary desperation play to extract healthy eggs from the surviving females.
It worked.
The extracted eggs were flown to a genetics lab, and artificially fertilized using the sperm of lost Northern males. The frozen semen that we kept, all this time, even after we knew that the only living females were incapable of becoming pregnant.
It worked.
Thirty northern white rhino embryos were created and cryogenically preserved, but with no ability to do anything with them, it was a thin hope at best. In 2024, for the first time, an extremely experimental IVF treatment was attempted on a SOUTHERN white rhino--a related subspecies.
It worked.
The embryo transplanted as part of the experiment had no northern blood--but the pregnancy took. The surgery was safe for the mother. The fetus was healthy. The procedure is viable. Surrogate Southern candidates have already been identified to carry the Northern embryos. Rhinoceros pregnancies are sixteen months long, and the implantation hasn't happened yet. It will take time, before we know. Despair is fast and loud. Hope is slower, softer. Stronger, in the end.
The first round may not take. We'll learn from it. It's what we do. We'll try again. Do better, the next time. Fail again, maybe. Learn more. Try harder.
This will not save the species. Not overnight. The numbers will be very low, with no genetic diversity to speak of. It's a holding action, nothing more.
Nothing less.
One generation won't save a species. But even a single calf will buy us time. Not quite gone, not yet. One more generation. One more endling. One more chance. And if we seize it, we might just get another after that. We're getting damn good at gene editing. At stem-cell research. In the length of a single rhino lifetime, we'll get even better.
For decades, we have been in a holding action with no hope in sight. Researchers, geneticists, environmentalists, wildlife rehabbers. Dedicated and heroic Kenyan rangers have kept the last surviving NWRs under 24/7 armed guard, line-of-sight, eyes-on, never resting, never relaxing their guard. Knowing, all the while, that their vigilance was for nothing. Would save nothing. This is a dead species--an elderly male, two females so closely related that their offspring couldn't interbreed even if they could produce any--and they can't.
Northern white rhino conservation was the most devastatingly hopeless cause in the world.
Two years from now, that dead species may welcome a whole new generation.
It's a holding action, just a holding action, but not "just". There is a monument, at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where the last white rhinos have lived and will die. It was created at the point where we knew--not believed, knew--that the species was past all hope. It memorializes, by name there were so few, the last of the northern white rhinos. Most of the markers have brief descriptions--where the endling rhino lived, how it was rescued, how it died.
One marker bears only these words: SUDAN | Last male Northern White Rhino.
If even a single surrogate someday bears a son, we have erased the writing on that plaque forever.
All we can manage is a holding action? Then we hold. We hold hard and fast and long, use our fingernails if we have to. But hold. Even and perhaps especially when we are past all hope.
We never know what miracle we might be buying time for.
Hat tip @mugwomps !
October Flash-Fiction Writing Commissions
I don't have a flashy graphic for this, so instead picture a red dragon sitting at a cramped desk with a small pad of paper and a pencil.
Alright, I've talked myself into it. I'll be opening up commissions for flash-fiction stories (1k or 2.5k words only) for this October! If you want one feel free to fill out the form down below. I'll probably be closing this around/a day or two before October 1st!
I'm looking to try out a couple commissions for the first time! To keep myself from bouncing off a force field of indecision like every othe
A few important notes:
I'm currently doing college and it's hard! While the intent is to get these done during October it is entirely possible they might stretch out of the month, especially if I take a larger volume! I'll only take payment when your slot comes up, so if your financial situation changes, you don't want an out-of-season prompt, or you want to change your idea, don't hesitate to say so. That being said, if you want an out-of-season prompt anyway, feel free to ask! Sometimes you wanna be a reindeer for Halloween, I get it.
Obviously this is a place where I post a lot about furry transformation, BUT! Your story does not have to be transformation focused, or even about furries at all! I've got experience in all sorts of types of writing; feel free to ask after fanfic, realistic fiction, basically whatever you want! Just remember these are going to be largely SFW and short. If you're curious if I'll write about a specific thing just reach out and ask. :)
I am going to reiterate once again that these are flash fiction pieces so they will be short! I won't be doing an extensive multi-draft process for these. Smaller edits/changes can always be made, though! I do my absolute best to ensure that the story won't need any major rewrites (since at this size that would mean redoing just about the whole thing); if that happens, I will probably charge extra unless it's pretty explicitly my fault.
Normally I write much longer stories but I'm gonna be pretty strict on the word count here! (but also if I go over it then I'm not gonna charge extra lol)
I think that's all for now. Hoping to see some fun ideas! Also, here's an extremely brief guide on things I probably will or will not be willing to write.
Therapy so worked guys <3 That alien has no problems at all!
Reblog if you remember this motherfucker:
ooh i have a nice fun fact!
Static was WILDLY popular in Brazil (a country where the population is over 50% black) and we had re-runs for YEARS on open television. Everyone who was a kid in the 2000s knew and loved him. As a result, every single Brazilian Con has a LOT of static cosplayers!
So, a couple of years ago, Comic Con Experience (the biggest con in Brazil, which is actually also the biggest con in the world!) invited Static’s creator Denys Cowan as one of the guests of honor.
Now. Thousands of people attend his panel. And cosplayers went NUTS because they could show their Static cosplay to the creator himself! What none of us expected was Debts Cowan’s reaction:
He cried on stage.
He had never seen Static cosplayers - especially not so many of them! And he had no idea the show was popular here! No one ever told him his character was so beloved! Years and years of reruns and he had no idea! He obviously created the character with his experiences and his community (Black North Americans) in mind. Still, he accidentally touched a whole other community of black people who could see themselves on the screen as a superhero!
Anyway he is a lovely person and one of the best, most memorable guests we had. And I think this is a nice reminder that your art might touch people you can’t even imagine would when creating it.
I don't know if anyone else on this webbed site has read Girl Genius but I've been rereading the whole thing (which is. like. twenty years of comics.) and it's just made me more of a polycule truther. You're telling me Agatha kisses Gil AND Tarvek, ON THE SAME TWO PAGE SPREAD, AND NEITHER OF THE GUYS ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS?? Once she gets her city fixed and also re-kills her mom she is GOING to have a polycule. You go girl.
The 2024 Gender Census is now open!
[ Link to survey ]
The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.
It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.
After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.
If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.
Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com
The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.
For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.
Thank you so much!
[ Link to survey ]
Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.
a clip from my new comedy special (x)
Chocolate guy has learned how to make corrugated cardboard. he is a powerful eldritch being who cannot be contained. The only reason we seem to be alive is because his interests are exclusively in the making of delicious lifelike desserts.
PACKING TAPE?? fucking PACKING TAPE??