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ant! he/they • 25 • graduate student • disabled & gay transmasc shitposting about current obsessions and whatever else • silly goofy • scientist, artist, and lover of bugs ✨ { BG3 | animorphs | OFMD | warrior cats | queer/trans | western | & nature content } --occasionally nsfw

[i-had-a-gotdam-plan]

NO mom it’s NOT a phase *spurs clank as i stomp up the stairs*

[orcaking]

Wishing you all a get more hairy and naked summer <3

(available as a sticker on patreon through june 2026)

[lavendercowboyart]

“blood moon loon”, 2026

Featuring a common loon, redear sunfish, and the essence of minnows.

I’m gonna be honest with y’all, I had no idea loons existed until Heated Rivalry… but the “canadian wolf bird” absolutely captivated me and I felt called to illustrate it. Absolutely stunning birds. This one was a bit of a challenge to bring to life (my canvas logged 24 hours of work time haha) but here it is! Swipe down to the end to see a quick timelapse of how much this piece changed throughout my process. Planning to make riso prints and potentiallyyyy stickers - please let me know if you’d be interested in either! Okay bye thank you! ✨

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Howdy! I’m Moth, the person behind Lavender Cowboy Art. I’m a queer illustrator with a background in wildlife biology and my love for wildlife and natural ecosystems often influences my work. Please consider following along if you enjoy my work & would like to see more of it! If not, thank you for checking it out and I hope we cross paths again another time. Safe travels, friend! 🫡

[cometcrystal]

animorphs book covers sorted by whether their outfit is morph capable or not

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

It is worth noting in one of the later books, a throwaway line mentions that at least two of the Animorphs have figured out how to morph with jeans and regular shirts. One second.... Yeah! Book 47, Chapter 13, Verses 40-41: "Thank God we could finally morph some halfway decent clothes, the result of a whole lot of experience. Boys in T-shirts and jeans generally look a lot saner than boys in spandex." The two Animorphs in the scene are Tobias and Jake, and Jake is the one narrating.

We also find out later in book 49 that Marco also has a new morphing outfit, but it's still skin-tight: 'bike shorts and a tight blue T-shirt' (Chapter 8), which was relevant because the others quickly stole his shirt for a hair brained scheme. My guess is he hasn't kept up with Jake and Tobias in terms of morphing clothing (which makes sense, Marco has the most trouble morphing out of anyone on the team) - or alternatively, he could also morph looser clothes but prefers the aesthetic of tight clothes. He is the one who joked they should get superhero costumes on multiple occasions, after all.

With this in mind, we could say book 47's cover outfit is morph capable by the time of the book, and maybe 53 because that one also features Jake. We never find out (to my knowledge) if Cassie and Rachel can morph looser clothes like Jake and Tobias can.

[lavendercowboyart]

A celestial wedding 💫

I’ve been pondering how truly gorgeous and vibrant nature can be and I feel like snakes are one vastly under appreciated example. As a kid I remember being deeply interested in snakes (and lizards, and frogs, and bugs, etc) and ring-necked snakes and garters were always some of my favorites to come across. The bright colors and almost mysterious and frequently misunderstood nature of these critters drew me in and kept me wanting more. I’ve also found myself similarly drawn to the stars in the night sky, just simply in awe of how something can be so beautiful and so vast. I would wonder as a young kid where the stars would disappear to in the daytime, just as I would wonder where the snakes would go when not visible. But, as I’ve learned with time, nothing truly leaves us. It just carries on in a different way.

This piece is my illustration of the meeting of a ring-necked snake (Diadophis punctatus) and a San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) at twilight, intertwined with bold stars. The diurnal habits of the garter snake and nocturnal behavior of the ring-necked snake means that these two, though they may exist in the same ecological niche, likely rarely interact. I’ve been feeling particularly inspired by the use of bold and intentional angles and lines in art lately, as you can see most easily with my recent eel piece, and I wanted to play with and explore more of that free-but-constrained feeling with this one by mixing thin with bold lines and hard turns with gentle slopes. It was a lot of fun to challenge myself with the composition here and I’m really happy with how it turned out

Planning to make risograph prints of this piece in the new year, stay tuned! :)

[lavendercowboyart]

Riso prints now available!! I’m so happy with how they turned out 🤧

https://lavendercowboy.art/market/p/celestial-wedding-riso

[curioscurio]

when I tell you I had to do a double take because I thought these were 2 parts of the same whole joke

[ghostmouses]

mad about being chronically ill so I baked a cake about it

[crow--teeth]

my friend who is training to be a 911 operator just told me that they are having to restrain themself whenever responding to training calls from saying “that’s illegal people can’t do that” and I find that so fucking funny

[crow--teeth]

For context

[themaveriqueagenda]

i hate it when transgender people who aren't women say "i don't mind if you call me a woman, women are great!"

like, it's fine to express that you're ok with being misgendered as female, but it's weird to make the reason "because women are great", because you're implying that for the rest of us the only reason we don't want to be misgendered as female is because we hate women, which is TERF rhetoric, the idea that we're only transitioning because we hate women.

i don't think we should have to prove our belief in women's rights by allowing people to misgender us.

my gender dysphoria and my dislike of being called female has nothing to do with actual women and everything to do with me.

and i wonder how much of it is just society telling us that we have to make up for "rejecting the good gender".

[house-rat]

I saw someone say “what an honor it is to be mistaken for a woman” and like? What??? I’m So Tired of divine feminine veneration, women are not better or purer and it is not a feminist win to turn blatant transphobia and misgendering into ✨but women✨.

[kittenscratches]

I do think it's wild with this recent wave of transphobia in the US government that there'll be people on here who genuinely still believe that transfems are the only people who are targeted and transmascs are just incidental.

Like, in congress (I think that's what y'all call it?) a picture of a person who had gotten double mastectomy top surgery was used to push this legislation. Being transgender was called a "mind virus" which directly ties into that bullshit ROGD study and "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters". They're sending letters to companies that specifically sell chest binders to tell them they can no longer sell them (without medical approval). These are all very explicitly transmasculine targeted attacks.

Obviously I have to say that this doesn't mean I think transfems aren't targeted or aren't affected by this or even targeted less.

I'm saying it's very fucking obvious that they are going after all trans people and using whatever narratives suits them best to enforce this transphobia to erase all of us from existence.

The reason they use transmasc surgery is because it's easier to fearmonger to conservative misogynists about poor confused women mutilating themselves so they can't have children. They'll use this rhetoric to ban gender affirming care for ALL TRANS PEOPLE.

They'll fearmonger about transfems in bathrooms because it's easier to present the "deviant male wanting to assault people" narrative to those same misogynistic conservatives. And they will use this rhetoric to ban ALL TRANS PEOPLE from bathrooms.

This is what we mean when we say that transandrophobia & transmisogyny work in tandem with each other. They aren't incidental or opposite to each other, they are equal parts of the same force, on purpose.

[lesvegas]

A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

[draconym]

I think it sucks that you have to go to so many different kinds of doctor to take care of yourself. It's the 21st century. I should be able to go to a single office where they scan me with a big xerox machine and tell me what I'm allergic to and why my tummy hurts and if I have any cancer or cavities or if my glasses prescription has changed. And then I should get a sticker.

[seren-starlight]

The issue with the daylight savings time change is that people aren't used to falling back an hour or springing forward an hour, and people struggle as they take the time to adjust. But of course, if you only do something twice a year you'll never develop a talent for it. You need to practice if you really want to be good at something! Under my proposal, which absolutely everyone will hate,

[swedishjazz]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[json-derulo]

having the Aviation Accident Investigations Autism™️ has actually done wonders for the way I process and respond to my own fuck-ups

[json-derulo]

And I don't just mean "oh, my little work mistake is actually nothing compared to a fiery crash that kills people," either. The reason commercial flight is so many orders of magnitude safer than any other form of transportation is because after every accident and incident, an independent regulatory body investigated it with the express goal of figuring out exactly what happened, why, and how to prevent the same thing from ever happening again—not to root out which person deserved the blame or the liability.

It's a simple, shockingly effective idea. It's also worlds away from how most people approach their own mistakes and the mistakes of others.

[json-derulo]

Because it’s never just one person’s fault. And even when it is, it still isn’t. 

The sharpest, best-trained pilots make worse decisions when they're tired or sick or stressed out, so there's two of them. The most dedicated and experienced air traffic controllers garble an instruction over the radio sometimes, so pilots are trained to always repeat clearances back to catch misunderstandings quickly. The best and brightest maintenance mechanic still overlooks a screw or misconnects a wire once or twice in her career, so aircraft systems are built with two or three or four layers of redundancy, and pilots are exhaustively trained to deal with failures safely. 

Everyone eventually has a bad day. Every component breaks down. Every computer gets a bad a Windows update and spirals into a reboot doom loop. If it’s possible for one person’s mistake to domino into a mushroom cloud of a fuckup, then that task is too critical to be one person's sole responsibility. The accident sequence starts with the design of the system—so how do you improve the system to keep it from happening again?

[json-derulo]

oh yeah. The “modern commercial aviation is the safest form of transport” thing only applies to planes, btw. A helicopter is a beautiful metal horse that wants to break its legs and die so so so badly

[fruitblush]

this is actually like my third or fourth rodeo so i sort of get it but sort of dont

[fruitblush]

in some ways worse than my first rodeo cause i feel like i should be better at it by now

[track-maniac]

Woke boss forcefemming me on company time

[dabouse]

as long as it's on the company dime too