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Homegrown and Unusual

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Let's be honest, it's mostly birds and trash posts

whenever I tell someone “I’m tired” and they say “go to sleep” and I say “I’m not that type of tired” and they say “there’s only one type of tired” I always feel amazed. Astounded. How do they not know the different versions of tired.

  1. Physical exhaustion from the chronic illness. Not drowsy, but needs to lay down. Maybe my Hashimoto’s or bad knees or plantar fasciitis is acting up, but either way, I need to relax with an ice pack and a tens unit.
  2. emotional exhaustion. The type of “tired” people mean when they say “I’m sick and tired of x.” I’m so numb and usually I’d be about one minor inconvenience away from snapping but the exhaustion of being alive has gotten so heavy that I don’t even notice inconveniences anymore.
  3. drowsiness. If I’m trying to tell someone I need to sleep, I’ll say “I’m sleepy” or “I want to go to bed.”
  4. unable to process what’s going on but the closest word I can use to describe how I’m feeling is “tired.”

5. The kind of tired that comes with severe brain fog. You don't mean to be struggling so much just to answer a simple question, but you are. And the effort makes it worse.

Koi dog family - Beachy Blues

It’s a dog! It’s a fish! It’s way cuter than either of those! This litter of three coordinated guppies and their very busy parent share an unusual black and blue color combo. Koi dogs are semi-aquatic, and most often have cream colored fur and markings in shades of orange, red, and black, with occasional blue.

These pieces and many others will be available this summer at Anthrocon 2023, but I do have work currently available at myarmcanfly dot net!

[ID: two pictures, the first of a blue t-check rock pigeon walking over stone or pavement of some kind. the second is a turkestan hill pigeon standing on a rocky slope. the pigeon and background are overall both a sort of dusty brown/tan colour]

hello and welcome to the first poll in the contest!! descriptions of the contestants will be under the cut, I got a little carried away, they are kind of long.

Rainbow flag colorpicked from the original 1978 flag <3

this is my favorite of all the rainbow flags because a) the stripes mean things: sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic, harmony, and spirit. Sex (hot pink) and magic (turquoise) were more difficult colors to get which is why the standard flag is six colors, but those are my favorite colors! Both as colors and as meanings!

and b) we know for a stone cold fact that Gilbert Baker meant this flag to be for Everybody In The Family, which has gotten a little lost in the emphasis on individual flags for different identities, to the point where some people are starting to think the six-color rainbow is only for gay men

anyway thank you this was nice to see on a Monday, hello beautiful

The thing about the D&D movie which is absolutely genius is that the game mechanics basically insulate them against any of the most frustratingly fun sucking movie criticisms. “But why were the guards looking the wrong way?” Failed their perception check. “Why did the spell stop RIGHT before they would have died” Dropped concentration. It gets to be dumb and fun anyone that TRIES to be the plot hole police gets ever increasingly obscure D&D rulebooks thrown down in front of them and called a fake nerd. There's NOTHING those type of guys hate more than being a fake nerd. This movie is untouchable.