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Capt | 31 | lesbian | he/him fandom | animals | humor | politics This is my main blog! For art only, click here for my art blog!

It's that time again! Commissions are OPEN! Grab em while they're hot! I've got 5 slots open for the month, apply HERE or email me to claim!

In addition to the offerings above, I also make custom mood boards! if you have an OC or blorbo and really want a gorgeous aesthetic-heavy mood board for your RP blog or just to stare at because your beloved character is so pretty, hit me up!

Simply choose the option for something not listed there on the order form, and write in "character mood board" in the description field provided on the form. Pricing for mood boards start at $250.

hey btw I just wanna say it’s really cool NOT to cover your greys as they come in

1) aging isn’t bad

2) you are a grown ass adult and it is a privilege to be one

3) part of the reason grey hair is seen as ‘old’ is bc ppl keep pretending they aren’t going grey when they are. Grey hairs usually show up in ppls mid/late 20s and increase in your 30s.

Grey hair is far more ‘adult’ than ‘senior’ tbh but it always seems like that’s not the case when everyone‘s always hiding the truth.

Don’t cover your grey hair. It’s your adult coat.

To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.

They are literally cutting off library access to minors.

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every gym leader is like “I lost!?! UNBELIEVABLE!” buddy you live in a world where every ten year old child has always been offered a free fire breathing monster at least once and you brought nothing to this fight but anthropomorphic flowers

gym leaders’ whole job is to provide a specific challenge, a battle of a certain type and difficulty level. if you’ve brought the tools and skills to complete that challenge, you’re going to win by design. the pokémon in that battle are probably not actually the strongest pokemon they have.

when gym leaders go “argh, how could i lose??” they’re acting to give your victory legitimacy because you’re 10. they’re like a villain cosplayer letting a baby knock them over. they’re being nice!!

If you're trying to unpack and heal from Christian religious trauma, a thing you really need to understand (if you don't already) is that you were probably misled about Judaism a lot. Christianity generally tries to paint itself as the self-evident successor of Judaism, and one of the ways it does this is by painting Judaism as Christianity Without Jesus.

In reality, Judaism is practiced very differently from Christianity, and Jews have a very different relationship to their Bible than Christians have to theirs. Just about everything you'll hear about Judaism from Christians is total hogwash - literally, it's Christian propaganda. Christianity as most of us know it was shaped by the Roman Empire's political agendas, and that's a huge reason why it's the way it is.

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I hate how everything's called devices and apps now. Those are frail words with no weight and show no respect like machine and program do.

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and no whimsy like contraption or gizmo

[ID: A digital illustration of Essek Thelyss from Critical Role. He is visible from the back, with his head turned to the right so his face is in profile. He is wearing a silver mantle and a purple and silver cloak. His expression is neutral as he looks off to the right. Behind him is a pale pink background with some pale blue sparkles. End description.]

The Shadowhand 🤍

this is a poll about whether or not you can remember the first election that happened whilst you were reasonably old enough to form memories. when I say “remember”, I mean, do you ACTUALLY remember it happening?

definitions!

parliamentary system = system of government where the executive is responsible to the legislature (e.g. UK, Canada, Australia)

presidential system = system of government where the executive and legislature are completely independent (e.g. USA, Mexico, Indonesia)

semi-presidential or mixed = a system that blends presidential and parliamentary in some way (e.g. France, Ireland)

for the purpose of this poll, “conscious life” is anything that happened AFTER your earliest memory. for most people this is between the ages of 3 and 6

do you think they know how much they contributed to online literacy? to the spirit of curiousity? to the idea of doing research yourself instead of always having it laid out in front of you?