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y'all ur local dabihawks artist is in need of some help! please check out my page and support if you can, and share even if you can't! 🙏❤️‍🩹

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content descriptions: trans hawks 💞🍑 stapled/pierced 🍆 marking/blood 🩸 quirk play 🔥 dacryphilia 💧 dubcon / war prize AU ⛓️

purchase on patreon through tiers Ashes or Resurrection If you're in the EU or just unable to access patreon and would like to purchase this illustration, please DM me !!!!

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y'all ur local dabihawks artist is in need of some help! please check out my page and support if you can, and share even if you can't! 🙏❤️‍🩹

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y'all ur local dabihawks artist is in need of some help! please check out my page and support if you can, and share even if you can't! 🙏❤️‍🩹

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next week they’re gonna put me on the hrt that makes you grow one angel wing one devil wing

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English added by me :)

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bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

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“It was always you” is just so good. It was always you. The second we met, it was you. It was you even when I didn’t want it to be you. It was you even when it was someone else. It was you. It was you. It was you. I belong to you, even if you don’t know it yet. I will never belong to someone else, I only belong to you. Don’t you get that? It was always you.

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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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i can't believe i have to fucking say it because i'm an educator so like how is it possible nobody else has said this.

unless a person is actively making materials/etc for children, they do not need to worry about your kid.

your child gets respect as a human. that's it. nobody's private life/artistic endeavors/unrelated interests must be controlled for the sake of your kid.

educators and athletes and artists do not have to live in chastity because your kid might see us on our days off. we do not owe it to your kid to only write poems about bunnies and only sing songs about tying your shoes. i do not care how much a person has given to children, if they are acting as an adult in adult spheres, they are allowed to. they are adults. it is your job as a caregiver to raise your kid and keep them out of adult spheres, not our job to keep ourselves out of those spheres just in case.

guess what! adult role models are going to bars and hooking up and dancing and being adults! this is so they have the mental energy to do all the child-centric things.

"it makes me feel weird to picture them like that!" i don't know how to tell you this but actors aren't actually their roles. the customer-service personality your waitress has is probably not her actual personality. the way teachers interact with students is not the way that they interact with their private lives, and it shouldn't be.

"this tells kids this kind of behavior is okay!" actually it's showing kids a normal and natural progression of a person's life, boundaries, and bodily autonomy. it's showing kids that adults are dynamic human beings. kids already know this. they know there's places they're not allowed and things they don't understand yet. it's just that you have icky feelings because you were raised in a society with black-and-white morality.

celebrities don't owe your children perfection, modesty, sobriety. and you know something? it's way healthier when they don't. "this is a person, who gets up every morning and does their job - but also has adult interests, which you'll learn about later" is way healthier as a role model than "you should be perfect like the curated image of this person and if you're not perfect you should be deeply ashamed."

anyway. idk why "think of the children!!!!" is making a comeback as a popular stance. but to be clear? it's a way of saying "this makes me feel uncomfortable, but i don't know why, and i don't feel like untangling it, so i'll blame you for it and hope you feel guilty about my children."

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maybe its because im an asylum seeker but i am of the opinion that even if immigrants and asylum seekers contributed nothing to a nation that nation should not have the right to deport them.

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i like thinking about them

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and there was only one coffin

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folly / the Sun's warmth

probably one of my favorite works up to date; I think I've captured perfectly how I see this character. Despite always looking calm, the Sun is always full of feelings, warmth and love. It's almost sensual in a way

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Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park!

via Axios Twin Cities

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

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queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

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