saw jane hate and i got so upset i had to draw my girl lol

my issue with a lot of contemporary fiction by global north authors isn’t even the writing per se i.e., narrative weaving but style and tone

like. idk how to explain it. technical proficiency but thematic modesty? not that technical proficiency should be downplayed. but idk. something’s in the water

Tobi Haslett in Violent Antagonisms

Toni Morrison says something similar in the foreword to her 1973 novel, Sula: 

id like to thank trace on twitter for allowing me to illustrate this absolutely fucking hysterical dialogue. i love them all so much

@incorrect-hs-quotes I’m sure you’ve seen this but it made me think of you

Yeah, this looks like our brand of bullshit, thanks for the shoutout!

-Mod Terezi

Kanaya Icon animation

It’s baby animal season!

This is the time of year when wildlife rehabilitation facilities get filled up with “orphaned” babies brought in by well-meaning citizens. While plenty of these babies truly are orphans and need the care of a licensed rehabber to survive, there are also unfortunately plenty of babies brought in that were mistakenly thought to be abandoned. So, what do you do if you see a baby animal by itself? Information provided based on recommendations of the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota:

–Squirrels: Female squirrels move babies between nest sites, and during this process babies may be visible outside their nest or even at the base of a tree. If you see baby squirrels outside of a nest, leave them undisturbed and keep your pets contained. Keep an eye on them for a few hours–it may take her a while! If she doesn’t return for them by the next day, then it’s time to call your local rehabber. If you disturb a nest, as is common when trimming branches this time of year, leave them be as long as they are not injured. Again, if they are still alone the next day, take them in.

–Bunnies: If you find a nest, try and keep your pet contained and the area undisturbed for a few weeks while the bunnies grow. You likely will not see mom! You can monitor the nest if you’re concerned, you will quickly see a decline in the health of the babies if mom is not returning to nurse them. If your pet disturbs a nest, bring any injured babies to your local rehab center but leave the uninjured animals alone.

–Ducklings/goslings: Mom should lead the babies to the nearest body of water within a day or two of hatching. Do not try and move mom and all her babies as you will likely just end up stressing and potentially scattering them. If a baby is left behind, you can gently capture them and keep them in a warm, quiet place until you can take them to a rehabber. Be very gentle with ducklings and goslings, and do not handle them more than necessary! These babies are very easily stressed. Unhatched eggs should be left undisturbed–they are federally protected.

–Birds: It is a myth that handling a baby bird will prevent the parents from taking care of it. If you find a featherless bird or a bird with fluffy down feathers, you can gently put it back in the nest. If the same bird keeps getting pushed out of the nest, you should bring it to a rehabber as they may be something wrong with it. If the entire nest has fallen, try and put it back in the same place you found it. If you can’t put it right back where it was, keep it within 5 feet of the original location to ensure the parents continue to care for them. Fledgling birds will spend a significant amount of time on the ground as their immature wings develop. They flutter around, but they can’t really fly yet. Parents will still feed fledglings, so you can keep an eye on a grounded bird to see if adult birds are still in the area caring for them.

–In general: If you find a baby animal alone, leave it be and monitor it to see if mom comes back. Keep your pets away from the area, and don’t try to handle the baby unless absolutely necessary as this can result in you stressing out or hurting the animal. If mom doesn’t come back after several hours, you can take them in to a LICENSED REHABBER. Many rehabilitation facilities want you to call before bringing in an orphaned animal to ensure that they are truly orphaned. Do NOT bring the animal into your house to raise! Most people do not have the time or knowledge to raise orphaned wildlife, and by hand raising them, you habituate them to humans and prevent them from having a chance to be released. Also, it’s illegal. If the animal is injured, it is ok to take them to your local rehabber right away! When in doubt, call your local wildlife rehabilitation facility. They can give you more information about specific species and situations. If you really can’t find a wildlife rehabilitator or the animal is in need of immediate medical attention, you can take it to a vet clinic. Veterinarians can provide lifesaving care or humane euthanasia for an injured animal, before getting them to a rehabber.

An added note that if the weather is bad (cold temperatures, raining, etc.) and there’s a baby down that you’re worried about leaving too long, call your local rehab for advice on how long to wait & when to step in. Naked babies can get cold quickly when it’s cool outside, so your rehabber might want them brought in sooner than waiting overnight like you could with a slightly older baby that’s furred/feathered. I know my rehab sometimes instructed people to go ahead & bring in small babies right away rather than leave them to die from exposure. 

Also if you don’t mind me adding an extra animal….

- Fawns! We would get people calling a LOT about fawns found alone (Michigan-based rehab, loooots of deer around). Mom often leaves the fawn on their own while she gets food. She’ll tell baby to stay put & stay quiet, so they’re less likely to be found by predators. You do NOT want to take a baby fawn away from their location if they are laying down & staying quiet. They’re doing what they’re supposed to! Signs that a fawn need help include: obvious injuries; walking around alone with no mom in sight, especially if they’re also calling out & making a lot of noise; if they have a dent in their forehead (indicates dehydration); if they’re near a dead adult female & show obvious reluctance to leave her. Deer take a ton of work to rehab & there are added restrictions in some states (at least in Michigan for sure) due to diseases like chronic wasting disease, so please make sure you’re not kidnapping a healthy fawn that’s just waiting for Mom to come back.

Reblogging for the added commentary on fawns!

Hey this is EXTRA IMPORTANT this year because we have some nasty diseases in our wildlife populations! Please PLEASE make an effort to leave baby animals alone unless they are truly injured or abandoned, because a lot of rehab centers are either at lower capacity or cannot take certain species. This primarily concerns rabbits, which are affected by rabbit hemorrhagic disease, and certain birds. In my area, the local rehab center is not taking waterfowl or raptors due to the concern for high path avian influenza. And even for those of us that are still taking these animals, we are limited too because we don’t have anywhere to send them. We are already struggling to find a place for healthy waterfowl “orphans”, because the local rehab center isn’t taking them right now. Plus we have to hold on to these patients so much longer, which limits space for other animals. Do not bring us animals that don’t need to be rehabilitated!

I’d love for more people to get interested in my story and characters, so why not do it in the fantroll fashion?

Ask one of the AA characters questions, or introduce them to your fantroll/oc!

And if you just want to know more about them, check out my fanventure/novel/thing? here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34880383/chapters/86852602

We’re past 70k words now and I update once a week!

Adjunct Anomaly

A homestuck fansession nanowrimo project, guided by reader suggestion. 

Three people begin a game of SBURB only to discover their session has collided with another, and the game itself has been radically altered to compensate. There’s two groups of players, but only one prize.

Also Derse is Long. Don’t worry about it.

A young girl(…?) sits in her bedroom. It is not her birthday, and she already has a name.

Your name is NELL DIAMOND, which is something you would probably be bullied for if you’d ever gone to any particular school long enough for the other kids to learn your name. And also if more kids your age were familiar with the SOFT ROCK OF THE 80’s 90’s AND TODAY. You enjoy CONTAINER GARDENING and own a variety of POTTED PLANTS, including two small FIG TREES. They and this laptop are your only belongings not currently stored in a CARDBOARD BOX, because you have spent all of your life that you can remember MOVING, having JUST MOVED, or ABOUT TO MOVE AGAIN. You learned early on not to bother fully unpacking. You love FANTASY of the high sparkling UNICORNS AND FAIRIES variety popular in the LATE 80’s and EARLY 90’s. Your only FRIENDS are on the INTERNET where you cannot MOVE AWAY and LEAVE THEM BEHIND. And you are ABOUT TO BE KILLED BY METEORS.

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Homestuck Browser

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https://bambosh.github.io/unofficial-homestuck-collection/

I absolutely need everyone to reblog this right now. This is an offline browser meant to read Homestuck as it was intended, with Flash.

This project is absolutely BIG and the person behind it BIGGER, and you guys have no idea how glad I am to have a complete Homestuck archive right at hand that also has stuff like The Baby Is You and Humanimals among so much more. Like what?? It’s the real MSPA.

Please share this. Go to the creator’s Twitter (Bamboshu) and retweet too! Donate.

Also, all the content is less than 4GB? I’d think it’d be way more heavy. You can even save it on a USB and you’ve got the entirety of Homestuck and MSPA in your hands… 

okay so I know Homestuck is a meme and all, but like - it is absolutely no kidding one of the most influential works of the last fifteen years? Undertale is fucking massive for an indie game and got the kind of critical accolades that last and inspire all kinds of imitation, and it was started in Homestuck’s author’s garage - its most iconic song was also used in Homestuck for crying out loud. Two of the 2019/2020 Hugo and Nebula nominees for Best Novel, including the Hugo winner, are by former Homestuck fic authors who are open about the fact. I can recognize threads from Homestuck, and, more than that, from those authors’ specific interpretations of Homestuck, in both. Neither the Hugo nor the Nebula are small potatoes! Both those books are going to impact SFF in their own right; it’s gonna ripple out from there. I can name at least three other books published through major houses whose authors spent time in Homestuck fandom. This is just off the top of my head.

I am being one hundred percent sincere when I say that when if we lose Homestuck to the digital decay of Flash, we lose a modern landmark in SFF and experimental fiction. It’s worth grabbing a copy of your own, and this is a service to the world that’s been done here. I’m not joking.

This looks more like a how-to by @5triderofthenorth or @instructor144

One of the easiest and most gratifying restorations a person can do! About half my cast iron is salvaged, the rest was new.

A great YouTube channel for cast iron cookware, restoring, collecting, cleaning & cooking, is Cast Iron Cookware.   The guy is incredible.  

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO7aRkmQGejiKrXhAniOVnw

Do you like homestuck, visual novels, and raging against the concept of predestination? How about just a whole parcel of hot aliens? Then check out …

PARADOX LOST OPENING GAMBIT VOLUME ONE: OVERTURE (A PARADOX AT SHOWTIME)

MSPAR wakes up on an Alternian colony with no memory of how they got there. To survive & learn the truth they must reunite 12 trolls driven apart by tragedy. Let the Friending begin! 

The trolls of Paradox Lost are inspired by the Eastern Zodiac and stories like the Legend of White Snake and Journey to the West. The first volume features Shoyao, a brilliant but paranoid shut in who needs your help to get back something precious she thought was lost forever. 

Though inspired by Friendsim, Shoyao and all of the trolls you meet will continue to be a part of every volume as you struggle to bring their shattered friend group back together in time to avert a terrible fate, not to mention save your own ass. 

The answers you’ll find as you struggle to learn how you ended up here and what caused the tragedy that drove these friends apart will change your understanding of the mechanics by which SBURB generates new universes, and challenge the very concept of an Alpha Timeline. 

Featuring original music by the amazing Jake Gamelin ( @characomposer on twitter ) and a shit ton of art by yours truly, OVERTURE is the first chapter in an extremely ambitious project a year in the making!

Will you accept what fate has told you is inevitable? And if you refuse, how much are you willing to sacrifice to reshape destiny? PARADOX LOST OPENING GAMBIT VOLUME ONE: OVERTURE (A PARADOX AT SHOWTIME) AVAILABLE FREE NOW!

The answers you’ll find as you struggle to learn how you ended up here and what caused the tragedy that drove these friends apart will change your understanding of the mechanics by which SBURB generates new universes, and challenge the very concept of an Alpha Timeline. The answers you’ll find as you struggle to learn how you ended up here and what caused the tragedy that drove these friends apart will change your understanding of the mechanics by which SBURB generates new universes, and challenge the very concept of an Alpha Timeline. Do you like homestuck, visual novels, and raging against the concept of predestination? How about just a whole parcel of hot aliens? 

Then check out …

PARADOX LOST OPENING GAMBIT VOLUME ONE: OVERTURE (A PARADOX AT SHOWTIME)

MSPAR wakes up on an Alternian colony with no memory of how they got there. To survive & learn the truth they must reunite 12 trolls driven apart by tragedy. Let the Friending begin!

gloria used double slap. double slap hit the bass ten billion times.

Whatever pokemon appears when you load Pokéfusion is now your government assigned starter

I got Venuew

Polibasaur…

Sandeon!

ah

This is actually kinda cute,,

alright,

well i guess that works too

Oh! A baby!

Oh….. I’m gonna cry….. blessed….

Presumably, the cannons launch coconuts.

Slightly terrifying?

I choose you, DRASEA!

Cute little aquatic-draconic baby.

LOOK AT MY SON!

yes, I am also an odd gay

the face

you may be Oddgey, But I am Magigey

They is shaped like a murderous friend!

fuckin horrible! i love it!

not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny

governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies

115 colonists: okay

governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit

governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone

governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post

croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin

everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke

hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating

There’s 180,000 notes on this so someone’s probably talked about it already, but part of the reason this was regarded as a ‘mystery’ so long is because the colonial government of the time was invested in framing it that way as part of a campaign of propaganda. And because they had a pretty good amount of control over what information went back and forth, they were pretty successful.

Basically, the british government had two problems. They needed people to come settle in the new colonies, but they were having a serious problem with those colonists (particularly the slaves and indentured servants) running off to live with the native americans. So on one side of things they were hiring artists like John Verelst to paint a picture of the natives as healthy, beautiful, simple people, nonthreatening and exotic, potentially promiscuous, in need of religious conversion. The romanticized ‘noble savage’ that would make people want to go to the colonies. On the other side of things, they were spreading stories about the natives as violent dangerous animals who would kill you as soon as look at you, to keep the runaway slaves and servants from seeking shelter with them.

So you ended up with two different versions of the Roanoak ‘mystery’ being spread. On one side, the colonists just disappeared. A freak accident that could never happen again. On the other, the word Croatoan was the last accusatory message left by the helpless colonists before they were murdered or kidnapped by the evil natives. Two different narratives that serve essentially the same purpose- controlling opinions about the natives in order to control the colonists.

It’s time for artists to stop personifying Gluttony as a fat person and start personifying them as a billionaire capitalist who surrounds themselves with luxury at the expense of the poor.

For everyone in the notes being a little bitch

Gluttony was never supposed to be just about food. It’s about overindulgence. Greed is about the uncontrolled desire of wanting things you don’t need, just to have them. Gluttony is basically hoarding things and overindulging, especially and specifically when those things are needed by other people.

Food was often used as an example because it was meant to be shown as one of the things that, when overconsumed by one person or a specific set of people, it would cause the deaths of others. It also had other ways in which it was used, yes, but overall, gluttony is about fucking overindulgence.

It’s also mentioned to often be about overconsumption of alcohol, but hey. We don’t really go after alcoholics the way we do fat people, do we?

Anyway, a capitalist billionaire is both a wonderful symbol for both greed and gluttony, and y’all are just fatphobic cowards

Thanks for adding this, you express the reasoning behind things way more clearly than I do.

I’ve been saying this for years someone finally gets it

while we’re on the subject, Lust and Sloth don’t mean what you think they do either

Sloth, classically, wasn’t laziness but rather more akin to cynical pessimism and ingratitude. A refusal to take joy in the wonder of creation. It’s easy to see how over the years the interpretation of sloth as “being bitter and seeing the worst in everything” could drift towards apathy and ennui (“i cant find the will to do anything because everything sucks”), and eventually with a little capitalist influence to the modern idea of laziness (”i don’t want to do the work/chores my better have given me”). A better modern interpretation of classical sloth might be a trust fund kid who bitches constantly about how hard their life is with no awareness or gratitude for how much has been given to them.

Lust, meanwhile, is not just “the big sexy.” It’s irresponsible desire. Sex, yes, but also money, drugs, gambling. Anything that you throw yourself after with such thoughtless abandon that it causes you and those near you direct harm. Addiction, essentially. Lusting after your neighbor’s wife isn’t bad because sex is bad. It’s bad because it puts you, her, and your neighbor in danger and throws your whole community into conflict. When you know this, when you know it’s irresponsible to pursue her, and you do it anyway, you’re being lustful. A wall street exec who gambles with the company pension fund on the stock market because on the slim chance he gets lucky he might become a billionaire, heedless of the much greater chance that he will bankrupt himself and leave thousands of people fucked out of their retirement, might be a modern symbol of lust.

fantroll fanzine thing feat. my boys and some foods

@fantrollszine