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This is one page out of 14 from when I was doing shadow work. I'm not going to type it all out, so if you can't read it and want to know what it says, reach out to me personally.

If you've experienced what I have, you will know. And I'm telling you that you will be okay. It is not your fault. You will not burn.

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Lois Mailou Jones Fireflies Hand-colored print 1939 10.75 x 8" (27.3 x 20.3 cm)

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Behemoth's Aftermath

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"The price for conformity is that everyone will love you but yourself."

- Rita Mae Brown

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Cute Caterpillar 🐛

Just a cute little chunky caterpillar I illustrated. I’m working on creating a Patreon, and this is the image for the Cozy Caterpillar tier.

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RICE BEANS AND VEGGIES WITH HOMEMADE ONION FLAKES OHHHHHH YEEEAHHHHHHH😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

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Hydras are a highly elusive drake found primarily deep within cave systems. 

Known across the globe for their multi venomous heads the true nature of the Hydra is a bit more complex. 

Much of it’s life the hydra will live solitarily, and living within labyrinthian cave systems makes that quite easy. Males and Females of the species are quite dimorphic, rarely coming across one another. However it is upon maturity the the Hydra will undergo it’s task of metamorphism. The multi headed dragon of legend is in fact a bonded and mated pair.  Females develop a bioluminescent lure, that both attracts prey but also a potential mate. Upon finding a suitable sire, the male will adhere to his mate’s back. This process is not immediate and full adhesion will take years to complete. An enzyme is released from his underbelly allowing for the fusing process. However females have a counter enzyme allowing for females to reject potential males should better stock be found. Upon full adhesion the males body nearly fully absorbs into his mate, even their brain chemistry will intertwine. His wings, however, will remain fully functional and as such will allow for the pair to venture beyond the cave for greater feeding opportunity. Why most hydra are double headed, there are cases where multiple males will adhere to a single female. The most dominate male remaining most intact. This typically only happens to larger more dominant females.

Other dragon species have following a similar convergent evolution such as the False Hydra. Male False Hydra possess a suction cup appendage on their underbelly comprised of highly modified ventral scales and females have the responding on their back. However this bond is not permanent and separation is capable. 

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saw a beetle on my floor today, and a moth landed in my coffee. Spined soldier bugs keep my garden from being overrun by pests. It's ok if they wanna eat some leaves! The plant knows how to heal. The human is so worried about not being able to heal, that it won't let itself be eaten. It's so obsessive about avoiding danger, sometimes.

It's ok lil human. You can let go of some parts of your life every now and again.

What a terrible world we live in where you can google wild plants or bugs because you're interested in them and the first results are all "how do I kill this"

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hey you have you ever woken up with the feeling of having your neck wringed and the Devil himself the Devil From the Bible entered your body in the very moments before and gave you amnestics while he rapidly stretched all of your hard ligaments and spinal discs n crap, and then fused them back into place so you didn't fuckin Die and when you woke up the next morning you couldn't look behind you without having Post Traumatic Shitty Disaster feelings in your entire neck

Am I the Devil? Or did I just sleep on my belly all night again... tsk tsk tsk

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I finished Rita Mae Brown's Tail of the Tip-Off in less than two weeks.

The library I went to didn't have more of her books so I found this one instead. Forgiveness Road by Mandy Mikulencak.

It's going to be okay. Life has been humbling us all, and it's going to be alright in the end.

Love, Sal

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I'm glad someone appreciates me

the thing is, i love The Narrative, but i also absolutely adore a truly character-focused tragedy where everyone’s downfall is caused not by larger narrative forces, but by hundreds of tiny decisions made by characters who, despite their best efforts, just suck.

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Compassion for self and other

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And every single day he left a shovel at each grave.

So the angels knew to take this soul away.

Everything lives and everything dies.

On this planet nothing survives.

Wrath is a force evergrowing in size.

For every soul taken in crude sacrifice.

A new one is born

with innocent eyes.

And so the cycle survives.