#removal methods

[zahri-melitor]

Final enrolment data for the 2025 Australian federal election. We added a whole extra 0.4% of the eligible population, or almost 160,000 people, in the last three months, many of those after the election was announced.

Youth enrolment is at 92%.

Absolute record data, for the third election in a row.

From the AEC:

18,098,797 people are enrolled to vote for the federal election! 🎉 This represents a record 98.2% of all eligible Australians - the envy of so many democracies around the globe.

[ask-champion-knight-cookie]

I'm just gonna put this under a read more and say to read the tags carefully but this is Fire Spirit x Knight Focused drabble/idea

You know what? I said drabble but at this point it's full on fic, very suggestive so I will re post it with some spice to my ao3. I will make separate post and update this one when that happens.

Edit: it had happened

Sooooo what iiiiiiiifff Knight had hanahaki disease and instead of it going away second they confess through the usual means (aka throwing up, spitting it out etc) Fire Spirit burned it away during the kiss through careful use of his flames and deep throating Knight with his tongue?

Just:

Knight sitting in the royal gardens, thinking he is on his own as he coughs out few apple blossom and peonie petals. He can feel the itching of his throat worsen which means soon he be hacking out full blooms which always sucks but at least everyone else should be busy in the castle so he could be left to his agony.

Of course that wasn't what had happened, because someone out there hates him, be it Witches or Sugar Swam but as the itchiness in his throat gets unbearable, the root cause of his prediction appears.

Fire Spirit seemed to be preoccupied with something else but it didn't take long to notice the visibly struggling for breath knight on the bench. Asking him if he is alright just results in Knight nodding his head whilst trying to avoid to physically respond but trying to hold the coughs doesn't work for long so soon Knight is having a coughing fit, bend down and on to his chest whilst Fire Spirit hovers uncertainly next to him.

With a break between flower petals, Knight heaves and tries to take deep gulps of air, blabbering to Fire Spirit about not telling anyone because he is fine he promises and please don't get a medic he be fine-

Fire Spirit isn't paying attention to Knight words, instead of focusing on his blood speckled lips and the small blood soaked petal that got caught in the corner of his mouth. Ignoring Knights spluttering noises he plucks it away from knight mouth, watching in fascination as the blood sticks to his fingers, only to slowly evaporate. The petal slowly wilting from his heat, without much thought he popped it into his mouth, humming as he savoured the strange yet delicious flavour of the smoke.

Knight watched with wide eyes because that was freaky even for him and no he isn't blushing and you know what? He will find new place to hack his lungs out because this one is definitely tainted now and he won't be able to die in peace here because of this a-

He didn't make it even a step before his face was seized into a searing kiss. One surprisingly strong hand firmly held his head still, knocking his helmet off of him in the process, whilst the other held on to his waist, pressing him firmly to the hot body Infront of him.

Knight couldn't even comprehend trying to struggle out of Fire Spirit grip as something even hotter swiped over his lips making him flinch and gasp, grasping Fires arms to hold on to somethin as his mouth was suddenly full of something writhing and scalding, his brain struggling to connect the dots that it was Fire Spirits tongue, or rather tongues.

Oh he was sooo fucked and for once didn't mind it.

Fire Spirit on the other hand was obsessed with Knights flavours, so so sweet and floral with hints of bitter iron made for intoxicating mixture that had him ready to do even more questionable things.

Deciding to give knight small respite and time to breath as mortals usually needed that, he busied himself with licking up the blood tainted drool that oh so invitingly went down Knights chin and neck, disappearing under his armour. He could probably break it or melt it to get the annoying piece of metal off but then he be bitched at so-

Cough cough

Weak and muffled peaked his attention. Looking up,the was displeased to find Knight hands over his mouth as he shakes with the coughs, few droplets of blood escaping despite his best efforts.

Something ugly twisted in Fire chest as he forcefully wrenched Knights hands away from his mouth, not caring for the soaked petals landing between them. He didn't give Knight a second to recover before he dived right back into the kiss, holding Knights jaw open as his tongues bullied their way into his mouth, greedily searching for the petals to burn and blood to savour.

He felt Knight weak and panicked tugs on his clothes but he ignored them, instead bringing Knight to his lap, floating them to the highest nearby tee branch to hide them from anyone who might try to interrupt them.

Letting out a pleased hum he gorged himself on the wisps of smoke escaping Knight mouth becoming even more addicted as Knight let out sinful noises.

Feeling like a starved man he moved his tongues further down Knights mouth and down to his throat finding more delicious petals and to his absolute delight few small flower buds. Not one to waste opportunity of any kind he got to works letting his flames burn them, carefully as to not damage Knight too badly but too far gone to really stop now.

Knight knew he was in deep shit before but now he wasn't sure if he was going to survive... But if he died like this he wouldn't mind a lot actually.

His vision might be swimming and it was definitely even harder to breath now because of all the smoke and the inferno in his throat that was spreading to his lungs but the smoke seemed to be helluva of a drug, not just for Fire Spirit it seemed.

He didn't even try to fight it anymore, melting into Fire spirit possessive grip instead, finding pattern in breathing through his nose and trying to exhale through his mouth, although the lazy puff of smoke escaping from around the tongues firmly lodged in his mouth didn't seem to struggle escaping.

Just as he was about to truly pass out, Fire Spirit leaned back taking his tongues out of his throat, allowing Knight to choke on the last of the smoke. Expelling it from his lungs and taking clean air back into them.

Everything was so sensitive, his throat and lungs felt so raw, hot and cold at he same time, it was pure torture trying to find some sort of balance of not aggravating it more and letting some air in.

Fire Spirit watched Knight struggle, feeling faint traces of amusement as the poor guy collapsed against his chest, trying to breath. Fire felt a bit of pity and let him rest there's carefully stroking Knights back, letting some of the heat seep through the armour and watched from their perch as the gardens came alive with buzz of activity from various cookies walking around it.

He dropped his gaze back to the curious creature he was quickly becoming fascinated by. Watching as Knight straighten out and tried to cool his expression into something stern and serious but only coming out as pathetically cute with his hair in disarray and faint burn marks around his lips and throat, his eyes watery and still slightly unfocused from their previous activity.

Letting the Knight stutter and ramble his grievances as he tuned him out. He didn't really care what Knight had to say as his hands went down Knight back, down and down to-

Frustrated, Knight tugged at the horns of the crown(?) and yelped as they were burning to touch, even through his armour. He cradled his hand to his chest, close to true tears as the whole day was just emotionally taxing and-

He blinked in shock as his forehead was kissed, something warm spreading through his body as the warm hands cradled his cheeks and wiped the tears away. He couldn't even form words as he was kissed again, this time more gently and warmly, the inferno of passion seemingly quelled for now.

Breaking apart, Knight just knew this wasn't the last time he will see the spirit of flames. With more gentleness then he showed him previously, Fire cradled Knight to his chest and slowly floated them down from the tree and into the solid ground.

Knight nearly fell down again if it wasn't for Fire Spirit hold on him. Slowly if clumsily they walked to bench, letting Knight sit down, Fire fetched Knights helm and gave it to him.

Knight smiled graciously and put the helmet back on. The silence was peaceful but Knight really wanted to ask Fire Spirit something, anything because this was still something they really should discuss an-

And Fire Spirit teleported before he could even ask him anything. He couldn't even try and be mad as literary seconds after Princess appeared with Mother Queen, both deep in the conversation and maybe he could have escaped if it wasn't for Wildberry following them and immediately spotting him.

He really must have looked like shit if the usual stoic Wildberry looked alarmed at his sight and left the two royals to check on him who of course paused their conversation to see what could have made Wildberry panicked which after seeing him made them panic as well. Before he could try to tell them that he is actually okay he was quickly hauled to the infirmary and left to the mercy of the doctors.

Witches really hated him...

Or maybe they didn't.

He probably should feel insulted that everyone panicked more when he smiled a little after ignoring their questions.

[mo-ok]

[bonefall]

Tbh I could see squirrel/rat incisors used as an implement to remove ticks

A mouse skull could be a good basis for a rudimentary tweezer, but the cats do have teeth made for grooming. With a little education they could learn to just nuzzle in and bite the head of the tick to lift it out

It would be stupid easy to make a little tick-twister though. MUCH easier than the cotton swab they make out of a moss and a stick (like, how is this moss staying on? Is there a string?). It's just a twisted stick you carve a little notch in.

(Tw picture of a tick being removed from skin)

You could make this out of a curvy twig if you wanted to, or even a prey's femur. Flip the femur upside-down and use the neck and head as the "hook" with a little carved notch taken out.

Super easy.

[akerensumi-is-canon]

death note but there isn't actually a kira and there's just a sudden but natural uptick in heart attacks and the wild kira theory somehow gets spun up anyway and everyone even the police and L are convinced it's real and they gotta catch this non-existent murderer

[cryptidm0ths]

kohaku asks for homework help

[sleepsucks]

[virtues-end]

I've received a few asks about the update and I just wanted to let you all know that I won't be answering those, at least for a bit, but I do see them. <3

[imperial-refuse]

==> Meet a Kindred Spirit

@hemo--havoc moved from here: [x]

P1:\\ < it DID! >

It was coming back to him some now. The crash. Pulling themselves out of the wreckage. Walking, and walking, and walking? How far? He wasn't sure. Things are always hazy when he isn't himself.

The questions make them pause. Where..? His eyes unfocus, brows furrowing.. He isn't connected to any networks here. It's.. upsetting.

P1:\\ < -Ah.... -Alterni-A.. our records indic-Ate we WERE redirecting -An emergency course -At m-Ax -Av-Ail-Able power -And speeds to -Alterni-A. th-At is where we -Are RIGHT? did i MISC-ALCUL-ATE? >

That comes out more dejected than he intended. They really thought they'd gotten the hang of the whole running a ship thing. Beyond the whole accident.. But that was out of his control, really.

P1:\\ < remember MY n-Ame..? NO. known f-Aulty memory, but it's IRRELEV-ANT d-At-A. i don't H-AVE -A n-Ame. it's been deemed UNNECESS-ARY. >

He says this like it's just a simple fact, nodding sagely. What use would someone like them have for such things?

P1:\\ < i suppose.... you c-An c-All me -Arc-Ayd if -A DESIGN-ATION would be preferred! >

So it goes. Of course his dumb little joke turned out to be reality. Wasn't really any more ridiculous than what brought himself to this planet after all... At least this troll seemed to take it weirdly in stride?

Poor guy...

Wait... did they just... say they don't have a name... because it was... unecessary...? So it was willfully forgotten...?

<{ That's jUst aboUt the saddest thing I ever heard get said... |F

The immediate pivot to providing a chosen name at least, helps the lime latch onto some sort of conversation that didn't involve unpacking whatever the hell THAT meant. Sense of self whomst?

<{ I-it's nice to meet ya, Arcayd. YoU can call me Vyrgyl. I mostly jUst wander aroUnd helping people repair stUff or playing music. |F

Not gonna mention all of the extremely legal acquisition of used goods at all, nope. From the sound of it, he figured Arcayd was likely a helmsman in the fleet. Extremely not glamorous, if all the implants, lack of memories and removal of most identifying features were to go by, but he wasn't gonna hazard the chance of them being a loyalist anyway and ratting him out.

<{ Circling back to location thoUgh, it looks like ya navigated sUccessfUlly, 'caUse this is definitely Alternia, for better or worse. |F

[danderria]

Hermie the Unworthy (S2, 25/31)

Check out the other characters in this project here

More outfits under read more!

Bonus no makeup:

[niidsch]

How do you make the transparent vg gifs?

I used this website! Load your gif, set the background color to the color you want to remove and then play with the percentage until you get the shade you want gone (if the bg is one shade of green, then 1% will do the trick, if it's multiple shades of green, you'll need to go higher). Also turn off and on the Alpha Channel Preview to make sure you're not deleting any pixels of the character

BIG warning tho, I used this on gifs that had a very simple background, with one specific shade of violet and another specific shade of yellow, so I was able to colorpick the code of both and then set the percentage at 1% to only target those colors (I had to do this with one color, then save the gif, then load it again and finally delete the remaining bg color)

If you are working with something more complex, it will be more difficult, and you'll probably need to do some color adjustments in Photoshop to make the background colors different to the character's (for ex, if you want to delete the background of a gif with Mario in it, you'll need to make sure the bg doesn't contain red, orange or blue)

Otherwise you can remove the background with Adobe After Effects or do it in Photoshop frame by frame, but obvs that takes more time. Couldn't find anything more efficient than these methods sadly :(

[therandomartmaker]

remembered to post art

[dragongirlbunny]

also i feel like a lot of people refuse to come to terms that bodily autonomy means that sometimes people will make decisions that you personally do not agree with, and the answer to that is to get over it because its not your body, not by attempting to ban anything you dont like

[maddogmp3]

ARCTIC FOX TRANSYLVANIA IS MY ENEMY. I HAVE A BLOOD FEUD WITH ARCTIC FOX TRANSYLVANIA. I WILL NEVER FORGIVE ARCTIX FOX TRANSYLVANIA. IT HAS PUT A CURSE UPON MY HAIR THAT NOT EVEN THE STRONGEST MAGES CAN REVERSE. I HAVE HATRED IN MY HEART AND VIOLENCE IN MY BLOOD.

[constantvariations]

So uhh...

Anyone wanna talk about this?

[sorcerous-caress]

I really like how human and flawed characters skins are in this game. The deep scars on Wyll's face, the visible viens and circles on Astarion's eyes. Gale's discolouration around his left eye because of the orb.

The visible pores and pigmentation on Shadowheart's skin, the scar across her face too.

Jaheira's and Minthara's very visible wrinkles and aged skin, Minthara's small and thin lips.

The dots and moles on Karlach's face. The sever scarring of her shoulders.

It genuinely feels like real actual skin, the same skin I see when I look at the mirror. All these characters are insanely beautiful with it, not despite it but alongside it for how real and alive it makes them look.