Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus), family Pteroclidae, India

Photograph by Bhanudas Chavan‎

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I think one of the worst things a story can be is unproblematic.

Nothing makes a story more unreadable than being able to see the author squirm apologetically for the story they actually want to write—wringing their hands and imploring the reader please, please don’t be mad, I know it’s ideologically questionable but I need you to not be mad at me!

For example: a Good King™️. It’s one thing for a story to present a fictional monarchy and ask me to root for it. It’s another thing for a story to say, hey, I know what you’re thinking—but don’t worry! I can justify this premise! I have introduced a lot of convoluted self-aware political justifications for why my king is good and likable without actually asking any risky ideological questions! These characters aren’t actually problematic! Don’t be mad at me!

Commit to the bit. Apologetic, defensive writing designed to bypass obvious criticisms often winds up offending me far more than stories that are just kind of surface-level problematic. If I’m gonna be a hater you cannot stop me; the more you insist that a character is actually a good oil tycoon because of all these exceptional situations and beyond my reproach, the more I resent you and hate your stupid book.

my scholarly physique and delicate constitution are not well-suited to questing, but they keep me around because i’m very good at saying ominous and unsettling things at significant moments

i have spotify. open. right now on my computer. do you want me to blast you? do you want me to put you on blast cuz i got your history right here in the side bar take it back by jimmy buffet. nautical wheelers by jimmy buffet. jolly mon sing by jimmy buffet. STEAMER by jimmy BUFFET! treat her like a LADY by jimmy BUFFET! mañana by jimmy BUFFET! WHEN SALOME PLAYS THE DRUMS BY JAMES BUFFET. HaVaNa Daydreaming by Jimmy Buffet. what the FUCK happened to you? are you HAUNTED? are you FUCKING POSESSED??

YOU USED TO BE MY BROTHER

I am both.

ok since tumblr is removing profile pics from the dash, I'm resurrecting early 2000's forum behavior and adding a custom signature to all my posts. this maintains user recognition and is a vast improvement to this site.

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~*☆ beemovieerotica ☆*~

I was struck by the way some mama birds tuck their babies up under their wings and walk around. So I wondered, what if other animals did that?

ASH

OOAK art doll by me

my mum just called "scrolling on Tumblr" "scrumbling"

we should consider that your mum is correct

there's been a couple of people who agreed that it should catch on and become a word, so maybe you're right 🤔

just scrumbled past this

Been scrumbling for a while. Glad I saw this.

you can't do this to me

yes we can 😌

NOOOOOO

Passage -   Mia Bergeron ,  2023.

American, b. 1979  -

Acrylic on Yupo paper , 5 x 7 in.

Feetprints

I just looked up african pygmy mice for the first time today and ahhehee ohoohoo hoooo

LITTLE.

also: he is under arrest

horse foal in a pasture in the act of pouncing upon a blue ball this baby is poised to strike and is doing so very skillfully its front legs stretched out like one might imagine a vampire holding out its cape further adding to the mental image of a predator striking at its prey in the background there is the behind of another older horse perhaps the foals mother she is not watching the playing take place

I have silver dollars in my aquarium for a long while, but today one of them gained a superpower; mitosis

"i fucked your wife"/"i'm having sex with your wife"/"i'm cucking you": comedy

"i'm helping your wife with household chores"/"i'm taking your wife out to a nice dinner and show after she's had a long day at work"/"i'm bonding with your children over family gatherings": peak comedy

Transcendent comedy

aaaaaay im streaming tomorrow! Follow me here so you don't miss it! gonna draw some chibi taurs I think :) Feel free to send species suggestions now and I might get to them on stream!

stream’s starting in about a half hour!

stream is live!

wake up babe, new reason to ditch FANDOM/Wikia just dropped

Previosuly

Alternative free wiki hostings (aka wiki farms)

Other free options I'm aware of are either too limited in allowed content or are very outdated/unstable in technical department to recommend here (or in case of Neoseeker - I'm completely unfamiliar with it, and can't say anything about it), but you still can check them out, alongside paid hostings, on this MediaWiki page.

If you (or your community) are brave and dedicated enough you can go with self-hosted MediaWiki instance (aka independent hosting), like JoJo Wiki (who started on Wikia and succeed at overtaking the SEO) or NIWA wikis. This option, of course, requires funding and technical knowledge, but it's still very much possible.

How to find existing alternative/independent wikis

Fuck FANDOM, support real people, support indie wikis

Dunkleosteus Stellae

A commission from a while back that I forgot to post. Got to paint some of my favourite things!

Find me and my art elsewhere!