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He wants that cookie so mf bad

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The tiny, bashful “h-hi” 🥹🥹

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something quick because I felt inspired

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( guy whose been into browbirds for 10 years) I support this level of hating but saying I wasted 10 years is kinda crazy 😭 1) I was 9 whole years old when I got into browbirds, 2) I have never been an active participant of the community only tagging along, 3) I havent invested a dollar into this game I've invested literally 2 pieces of artwork

You're a little maniacked out and that's okay I support hating but let's not be like that

@ recent celestial seas anon, i mean what did you really expect? practically any and all revs/ancients/halvs go right to corrin's besties who all know better than the common plebs, so what motivation does he need to complete them?

kitbulls becoming anthro furries was genuinely nothing more than a desperate attempt to lure in furry artists because corrin is starting to lose a lot more people than he realized, because he can't stop fucking acting like a jackass who favors his besties and forces everyone to personally fund the game that he made for himself and his friends. none of you will ever be important enough in c-s to matter. you could leave right now and no one would ever think twice to ask you about it. corrin is a rude jerk who doesn't care about you if you're not one of his favorite besties, or a super popular artist with amazing art that he can use for his own personal gain.

he's never going to finish anything he's started, he's too busy making exclusive customs browbirds for his little circlejerk, and making events that pretty much guarantee that the normies will draw tons of art of his and his friends' characters. it's been the same all these years. cannot believe you've wasted ten whole years of the same kind of treatment over and over.

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re-upload of my fallout 2 edit, including a watermark since this video has been reposted without credit to me. its obnoxious but unfortunately this is what has to happen

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Batman Returns — 1992, dir. Tim Burton

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Bits + Bits: A meta discussion on Sam's gender

Hello! This post by @spyjam24 has been itching me for quite a while, and while I could just include this in a post about Sam and in general the queercoding of the BTTWNS world, this seems important enough to talk about on its own. Sam being a woman while presenting masculinely is another point of discussion in my future Nigel analysis.

BEAR HEIRARCHIES:

Being solitary creatures, bears have a simplistic social structure where mature dominant males are at the top, and sub-adults and cubs remain at the bottom. Male bears assert dominance by marking their area with their scent and challenge other males to gain right to food sources or an area. Larger bears roar to scare away younger bears who aren't as strong. While bears are not territorial and learn to co-exist with each other in safe distances, even congregating in places with abundant food supply (streams, coasts, etc.), the male dominance ensures that all the given needs (food, water, shelter, and mates) are streamlined towards them. Females do not have much say in the matter. Although they are tolerant and can live within the territories of dominant males, refusing advances for mating results in injury or even death.

Female bears are most associated with rearing young and defending their cubs when male bears threaten to kill their children in order to get the mother to mate with him. Females do not go out of their way to kill or challenge other females.

Single females and subadults are almost always submissive to mature males but have a loose hierarchy within their own group.

RE-IMAGINING BTTWNS WITH A MALE PROTAGONIST:

Knowing this, how would BTTWNS play out if Sam was a man? The most prominent selling point fans and comic news outlets use to drive eyes towards the comic is its similarities to the TV show Dexter. Similar logline, similar plot, close enough characters. I have not watched the show in its entirety yet but with the knowledge I've gotten through friends and social media osmosis, it's about a mild-tempered investigator who's a serial killer by night. I have heard from a friend that one of the main storylines in the series is a string of murders happens and it is done to impress the titular character.

Sound familiar?

However, coming from a fan of Beneath The Trees and did not read under the advertising of it being "Dexter but Richard Scarry!", I believe it largely undersells and underestimates the message and themes. It also seems to disregard the importance of Samantha being a woman but also being a butch. Her gender presentation is extremely important as to how and why she kills in the first place.

But let's play this hypothetically. Sam is a man. He owns a hardware shop and is well liked in his community. He's the only bear in town. He's secretly a serial killer and goes out to the city to pick and choose his victim. Sure, it sounds similar enough, but why would he still kill in the first place when he knows he's at the top of the food chain or the social hierarchy in Woodbrook in the lenses of the anthropomorphic animal world? More importantly, if he was a man, why would anyone be brave enough to challenge him by becoming the local serial killer?

Nigel challenges Sam because she is a woman.

Caging The Idea:

Of course Beneath The Trees could work alone if Sam was a man but that would take away a lot of the gravity in the implied horror of the series.

First and foremost, Nigel is a stalker. He follows Sam around and obsessively takes photos of her to collect. God knows what he's doing with those photos, but his obsession with her extends beyond the images and into imitation. Aside from becoming a serial killer himself, he tries dressing and acting similarly in Issue 4 where he confesses to the crime in an attempt to become her equal.

But that's the thing though. He doesn't view her as an equal. He's excited at the idea of her masculinity and imitates what he can learn from the violence that comes with it. She isn't as competent because she is a woman and he needs to assert himself under the guise of assisting her or "doing it together".

He throws a fit when he is rejected, similarly to how certain men feel entitled to a woman or a partner and violently attacks her (although in this case indirectly by framing Charlie's murder on her and creeping into her subconscious in the nightmare).

He fights for dominance he knows she can't naturally have because that's how nature is, correct? Females will always be submissive to males and rejection results in injury or even death.

Now imagine all of this if Sam was a man. It does not feel twice as horrifying as it actually is in its plainest form.

Nigel is a predator as we know it in the modern sociological context, and he confidently does this by exerting the violence that comes with masculinity which he ironically learnt from a woman.

WHY DO YOU KILL?:

It's simple. Nigel kills to assert his dominance.

Sam kills to emotionally regulate, but also kills to assert dominance.

Sam is seen to revere wild bears as she sees herself as a bear (she is, but moreso in the sense she is not "human" or social like the other animal folk in Woodbrook) and chooses to be one with what she loves. Her fascination and kinship with the strength and the power they hold in nature is why she chooses to present, dress, and act butch. However, we do see in gaps and moments that she is aware of how powerless she actually is if she was a bear and if she were to be a person. There's the pressure to be good. There's the social pressure that comes with being a woman. There's the expectations of her gender and the exploitation men will have over her in either situation.

And so she kills. She has no young to defend. She's not interested in love, or raising a family or being social so she'll act like a male bear because that is the closest she'll ever get to having power over anyone.

And that power will be challenged in the Spring.

Yes. It's important that Sam is a woman. Don't undersell BTTWNS as a Dexter spinoff.

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Eider ducks sound as though you’ve just told them a very interesting fact or juicy gossip.

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playmobil woodland animals 🦌🌲🐿🍄

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Some ocs... idk how much I'll share about them bc this is a vent writing and deals with topics that are, Alot, for warrior cats

This is a few Sedgeclan cats, CraneFoot ( White furred Elder ), HuckleBerry ( Black furred Warrior ), Ferretpaw ( Brown, Black, and White Apprentice ), and CoyoteTongue ( Grey and Brown Elder )

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my fake genes. this was mostly an excuse to draw pretty cat coats that 'canon' warrior cats don't have.

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This is an odd Ravenpaw trio but Tigerclaw and Darkstripe :3

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Don't you remember what your face used to look like?

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Some silly kitty designs

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pacesetter violence compilation episode 413

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Sing me the song of your people SOUP! meow! Sing me the song of your friends SOUP! meow! Sing me a song for the good times SOUP! meow! Sing me a song, a song. HEY SOUP! meeeeoooow!