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Almost didn’t manage to draw up anything for pride month, oops! Maybe I should do a pride moth as well (thanks autocorrect)

Didn’t turn out the way I intended, but it doesn’t matter because loons are always a win.

99% watercolor with some colored pencil details that you can’t really see. Gotta get the rust out somehow.

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I sent you omens and all kinds of signs please respond

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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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Need a music box like this

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my cat likes being gently scraped with a plastic butter knife like a cute lil fuzzy piece of toast WAY more than she likes any of the grooming utensils or toys i have spent actual money on 

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figure skating + spirals (requested by anonymous)

Satoko Miyahara - arabesque 

Yuna Kim - one-handed Biellmann 

Mao Asada - cross-grab one-handed Biellmann to Kerrigan

Carolina Kostner - cross-grab catchfoot

Adelina Sotnikova - Charlotte

Evgenia Medvedeva - skid 

Shizuka Arakawa - Y-shaped 

Elene Gedevanishvili - I-shaped 

Sasha Cohen - I-shaped to fan 

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as the cat is out of the bag, yes Shoma skates a duet with Marin in his new ice show "Ice Brave" that incorporates ice dance elements, which includes:

a full set of sbs twizzles (three twizzles, two clockwise, one counterclockwise)

three lifts (1 choreographic lift, 1 curve lift similar to the besti lift P/C did, 1 rotational lift)

choreo sequence (spreadeagle + spiral)

choreographic step (YEAH THIS WAS WHERE I LOST MY MIND lol when it first happened i lost it when i realize they did it from where the boards should be to the other side)

dance spin (sit spin, upright spin with marin layback, shoma camel with marin kneeling)

no immediately recognizable elements related to steps (one footed section, step sequences and/or patterns)

also the craziest thing about this all is shoma uses the same skating blades as marin, which is japanese made (YS blades) that is designed specifically for ice dance AND THEN HE USED IT TO JUMP TRIPLE AXELS (for his loco program YOU KNOW WHICH 3A) and in the finale he jumped...... 4T................. and 4T3T (and landed them ofc, the second show 4T3T was a step out but still)

the power of loving marin honda gave him the power to do quads and triples and lifts and twizzles aksndakjsdnaksjdnaksjdn

Footage from Japan local news: here and here.

Also explanation from their friend who is a staff at Kosugi Skate, the skating shop where they train in Tokyo and Yokohama (in Japanese): thread here.

Also this is the song they used (you may recognize it as the final part of Kaori's The Piano FS and Jia Shin's Oceano/Tree of Life FS):

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sorry can’t talk i’m too busy romanticizing vampirism

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still thinking about that r/hypotheticalsituation post where someone was like "what if a potato chip spawned somewhere randomly in the world. and every hour the number of potato chips at that location would double. and the only way to get rid of them for good would be to eat all of the potato chips before they doubled again." and someone calculated that it would only take like, 48 hours of people ignoring a weird pile of potato chips before an absolutely irreconcilable number of potato chips was blanketing a city.

and then people were like "no wait if it spawns randomly in the world, it's highly likely it would be in an ocean" and then people were debating whether there were enough small fish swimming at the surface in the open ocean that would be able to eat a potato chip and thus save humanity from the potato chip apocalypse.

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I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

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Landscape embroidery by Carolina Torres

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Sergiu Ciochina, Blossoms of Spring #3, 2025, Oil on board

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the problem with having seen avatar the last airbender even once is that you're never again going to be able to think of the words "secret tunnel" without That Fucking Song popping up into your head again

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liking an unpopular ship is like being dehydrated in a desert and liking a popular ship is like being dehydrated in the middle of the pacific ocean. you understand

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Submerged Table From the Kumpula botanic garden, Helsinki, Finland.