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Are you enjoying this?

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Going to be posting some of my stuff from Twitter/Instagram! I went crazy over Hades when it first released, and I always mean to go back to it at some point because I miss these characters.

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don't discriminate. PERIOD. it really is that simple.

From a state hearing in Texas

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Me: *See a toddler with a stuffed walrus* My Brain: You should tell them male walruses have multiple sexual partners. Like lions. Me: Do not do that.

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So weird how God became less racist when most people started to say racism was bad.

(I know many people were and are still racist, but as a culture things began to shift towards racism being less acceptable.)

so I’m also an non-believing Mormon, right? But I’m still in attendance, due to being a minor, and my mom doesn’t have anyone else to go with, and I don’t want her to go alone, but once I turn 18, plan to just slowly go like

Anyway, so I got bored during sacrament st one point. And I still really like some of the art for the old illustrated Book of Mormon so I was like “yeah, I’m going to look at that”

they reillustrated it.

what. Is. This

(This is from Ammon btw)

Why is Ammon so white and the king so dark.

???

The genuine answer is because the Ammon is a Nephite and the king is a Lamanite, and Lamanites are “cursed with a skin of darkness” to essentially make them less fuckable to the righteous White Nephites.

Genuinely, this is the reason. It’s somewhere in 1st or 2nd Nephi. God made sinners darker so they wouldn’t be as hot to the easily-seduced righteous. Because up until 1979 God was SUPER racist apparently.

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ⓘ Tip You can skip part of the day by taking a nap.

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Sun conure Luffy is inspired 🙏 blessed

Everyone welcome Nami to the Strawhats! 💖💖💖

So far we have Luffy as a sun conure, Zoro as a red tailed hawk, and Nami as a baltimore oriole!

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Finally able to share my contribution for the @opswordsmenzine !! This was my first OP zine AND my first Law piece (and others if you notice them hehe)! Definitely took a lot of liberties in this piece, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did~

⚠️DO NOT REPOST⚠️

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being aware that your behavior is shaped by childhood experiences is so cringe every time i notice it im like ooo look at her can't even get over what someone told him when she was 7. grow up

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Kurama | Yu Yu Hakusho

Manga coloring and line art by me

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princess tutu princess tutu princess tutu (COMMISSIONS)

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saw the child using her phone while she was putting the dishes away and realized my mother would have gone apoplectic if she ever saw me doing that.

i don't know why, but it struck me as funny.

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okay but why would you listen to binaural beats in a car? the point is to hear different sounds in each ear by wearing headphones. that's literally how they work.

I have a lot of neurodivergent kids in my family. And I’ve worked with a lot professionally. And I often see their parents think the kids don’t want to connect, when they would love to — they just want to do it differently.

If they don’t like jokes and teasing, they might like silly noises or yes-and improv.

If they don’t like playing a competitive or narrative game with toys, they might like to take apart a toy, or sort/stack/line toys up, or get buried under toys.

If they don’t like biking or walking a trail in the woods ‘properly,’ they might like to walk along fallen logs, stand in the creek or look under rocks and leaves for creatures.

If they don’t like hugs and cuddles, they might like to bump shoulders, touch fingers, hand hug, spin around together, or (if they like more intense input) wrestle, push faces together, squeeze each other hard or run into you.

If they don’t like putting on kids’ music in the car or to dance to, they might want to listen to a game or show soundtrack, nature noises, a podcast, binaural beats, house music or metal.

If they don’t like animated movies where sad or scary things happen, they might like younger kids’ gentler shows, or adults’ science and history shows, or live zoo and nature cams.

And so many of them would benefit so much from the adults just slowing down. Not scheduling so much in the day, not rushing them through an activity, not stopping them playing the same song or watching the same bug for an hour, letting them absorb everything their way. Seeing it as a meditation instead of a problem. Joining them there.

And if you were one of those kids being rushed and scolded, trying to make yourself like teasing or competition or intense movies or a full social schedule — I’ve been reparenting myself and you can too. Whenever you notice something isn’t giving you joy — you can do it differently. Not everyone is forcing themselves through things they hate for “fun,” and we don’t have to.

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summer 🏝️

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curiosity

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I've been working on typesetting fics from @oswaldthatendswald's Cora Lives AU series. (Find the series here!) And as I'm new to this so I just wanted to talk about my process (and maybe get some feedback?)

It took me a super long for me to decide on fonts, and I'm still not 100% sure this will be the ones I use in the final version, but for now this is what I have.

The stories offer a really intimate look into the characters lives (imo) so I was really drawn towards hand drawn style fonts that give the feeling that you're receiving a personal message or a letter.

At the same time the work is very dramatic, focused on complicated and intense feelings and a relationships, so part of me was worried using a hand drawn font might look tacky or belittle that aspect of the story, but in the end I decided to embrace and try to highlight that intimate feeling.

The font I chose for the title "Somewhere to be Safe" is called Square Peg, and gives me the feeling of seeing something written on the beach after a wave has come and erased most of its harsh edges. This is a One Piece fic, and there's very much a survivor/washed up on shore vibe to this first story, so that calmness and hope of waking up somewhere new, but also the underlying fear of a future unknown was sort of what I was going for.

For "Sail the Salt Sea" I at first wanted to choose a really bold font since this is where the characters sort of step onto the world scene and let their existence be known. HOWEVER, after comitting to a hand drawn font for the previous story it felt weird to choose a really big bold font for this one. Still, I couldn't think of another font to use that could demand as much attention, so I started trying to think of the story from a different angle.

I first thought of having the title look like something that could be written by one of the characters sort of exclaiming their arrival. I looked at a lot of "messier" hand writing fonts, but they all felt a little childish or added too much of a goofy vibe to things. At the same time the cursive style fonts with lots of curls felt way to fancy.

Eventually I ended up thinking of the story as being sort of like a journal the characters might write up after the fact, a sort of testament to their beginnings. So then with the idea of "someone with messy handwriting trying to make text look neat and fancy" I arrived at this font which is "Calligraffitti."

For Portraits, because of the word 'portrait' being in the title, I thought of old photographs and how they sometimes have things written on the back. I also felt like this story, which is more episodic in nature, had the feeling of someone looking back at things that have already occurred, like flipping through a photo album. So I felt like I wanted to choose a font you might see written on the back of a photograph.

At first I tried some fancier script style fonts, but because of the length of the title it needed to be split across multiple lines, and unfortunately many script fonts have a large line height, so this meant there were huge gaps of space between the words. This font still has some gaps, but it looks more evenly spaced, and still has that hand written feel, like yes normally its a plain cursive on the backs of photos, but this still has the feeling of 'labelling' something to remember for later. The font is "Permenant Marker."

For the series title page I used "Walter Turncoat," which is a hand written font, but style has a more professional vibe about it. The author credit is in the font "Homemade Apple." The body text is "EB Garamond," used because it looks "crisp and clean." Thenumbered chapter headers are in "Allan" and the chapter titles in "Bad Script."

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I want this book to exist so badly ??????

fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love