PUMPKINNESS!

Pumpkinness, where randomness happens and the mad midnight chibi chibis at midnight! Or, well,usually more like 3am, but you get what I mean.

[experiment41]

perfect nest honestly. 0 notes

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[finnglas]

…relic…

*crumbles and blows away on the wind*

[featherwurm]

I found this weird VHS - the visual style is really more loony toons but the humor is pure 2001 high-schooler, it had this label on it:

"High schoolers Rico (short for Ricochet, magenta) and Magnit (not short at all, in fact quite tall, red) are two average California "weird kids", they hang out at the supermarket and the beach, goof off in class, and like to pretend they're a lot darker and spookier than they really are. In this 36th episode; when their classmate's kleptomaniac pet monkey gets loose the two watch with mild bemusement until Rico's favorite pen and Magnit's pants go missing - then it's a chase through the school full of wacky hyjinks all the way!"

Here's the image not on a screen:

Nah, I'm just joshin'. My buddy and I used to exchange notes all throughout high school and we often drew ourselves as two funny cats (morphing from CATS characters all the way into Magnit (for me) and Rico (for them) over four years). They're both sillier versions of ourselves and how we, as 14-17 year olds, wanted to be seen - Magnit is big, goofy, a bit dense, and prone to temper. Rico is artsy, funny, suave, and well-read.

I was thinking the other day 'what would it be like if they were more 'real' - should they be domestic cats or wild ones, what kinds...' but I realized they're best as just what they are - funny cartoon cats getting into shenanigans. SO! Remembering that I am no longer a high schooler (thank god I haven't been in over twenty years), I wanted to draw them at their best, and give a fun real-world looking set piece now that they're officially 'vintage', especially considering we're still friends!

Anywho, here's one of my drawings of them from when I was a teen. Behold! Pure and original 2002 nostalgia:

Crunchy scan lines from a pen drawing on lined paper, dodgy color fill, default fonts, all done in Adobe Photo Suite - I have nothing but love for my teenage self, who loved to come home after school and draw for hours - learning to pick away at drawing digitally through whatever means possible, but I had a lot to learn. Still do! But it's fun to make something I would have been just chuffed with as a teen.

[featherwurm]

Vol heard maybe you like fishcake?

[itisiives]

Baby Pyaari!!! 🥰

[importantcatpics]

[academicgangster]

[featherwurm]

Esquiline wandering through the snow. Like her twin, Parnassus, she wanders a lot to clear her mind.

[featherwurm]

Palico pottery! @ankoku-jin wanted me to make some 3rd scale felyne ceramics while I was using my kiln and I'm so happy to oblige. I love sculpting like a lil guy with no thumbs. The doll is a Cocoriang Rupee, who's smaller than 3rd scale, so I suppose it's just a kitten playing around in the kitchen.

The designs are based on a few different Monster Hunter games, including the clay oven from MH Freedom (roughly - the in-game one is based more on a Shakalaka I think though), the Grandmeowster's big soup pot and various jars from MH World, the pot on the default Palico set from MH Wilds, and the acorn vessel that has appeared in multiple games.

There's also vigorwasp spray from MH World too - because it fit the theme. I made a bunch because they were really fun to build.

These are all high-fire porcelain/stoneware with iron oxide and a little bit of glazing on the pot and acorn.

[featherwurm]

I don't want to go to work.

[sharp-fawngz]

You've barely opened your eyes and this dude is already here to bother you, what do you do?

[songsomi]

[hollowedskin]

Seeing a lot of posts like "umm why does everyone love bees and hate wasps, bees are bastards and they sting you why are they the only insect anyone actually cares about, why does everyone hate wasps when they're the same as bees"

Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn't an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they'd stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.

The reason "everyone loves bees" isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they're cuter than wasps. It's because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn't cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.

Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.

The fact that it's so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it's as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.

If you want this for wasps too (which i also want) you gotta put the work in to change people's perceptions.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[degenezijde]

Picnic Blanket Jewellery

Picnic Blanket is the place to be to discover the dreamiest demi-fine jewellery pieces, bringing you the cutest ear-stacks, the daintiest ne

[chessalein]

Oh to be a little glass kitty twirling through fire while being formed.

[shaneholeander]

I fully understand this isn’t everyone, but love the sect of m/m shippers who don’t want to be inserted into the relationship at all. dont want to fuck them, don’t want x/reader. this isn’t about me it’s about my boys being in situations and then fucking about it. I’m barely a fly on the wall im not even here.

[bossymarmalade]

this used to be most of fandom 😫

[derryderrydown]

Too nice and accurate to stay in comments, @petralemaitre

#my blorbos are not my type#they are each other's type

[bookgeekgrrl]

#yeah those guys are exhausting #they live on the other side of the screen #I am watching them like a kid with an ant farm #could not pay me to go in there with them (@dsudis)

[featherwurm]

One a them weird bog unicorns, I think.

[featherwurm]

Overly dramatic bugs club.

(Dem bug with silly, silly, Trobbio for @joasakura)

[featherwurm]

Small ceramic hand-built masks of Shakra, her master, and Master Hu from Hollow Knight and Silksong (I'm a fan of the idea that they're either all related or at least from the same culture).