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I’ll make more of these but please be respectful and know it’s not good manners to ask a stranger on the internet their medical history.

Also I reached 2k so please check out that post to help choose the event we should have. ALSO I CAN ACTUALLY DRAW PLEASE GO CHECK MY OTHER WORK 😭

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So two of the kids I watch gathered that I am a witch because A: I like bugs B: My hair is purple and C: my bones make weird sounds. They very much like me and call me the nice witch.

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stede wants more practice kissing and asks the crew and fang giggles and volunteers

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It's been hot recently, so the creatures have been inside. Nyx is not happy about suffering my affection. 😅 Increased leef offerings (kale especially!) to avoid bun wrath. It's been pretty successful!

In both top images, Shion is sitting directly in front of the fan. He's happy - he just has resting bun face 😆

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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David just posted about the auction on bsky

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Your post about Jewish child actors makes me wonder, do Jewish parents have an equivalent of "the conversation" with their children? You know the one, where you have to explain that some people hate you just for being Jewish, and many of them have access to deadly force. I ask because I grew up only two counties away from a neo-Nazi compound.

oh yeah we do.

I mean I'd say roughly there are... maybe 3? "the conversation" for Jews

first is, why is there are security guard, metal detector, crash barrier, big red panic button, etc at the synagogue/Jewish community center/Hebrew school. Pretty much every Jewish space in America is hardened against a terrorist attack at this point. We're spending a huge amount of money and energy on security. The Jewish community is really reliant on community safety grants from the federal government to pay for, bulletproof doors, anti-ramming barriers, metal detectors, and to pay for security guards and stuff.

So yeah Jewish parents have to explain that to their kids and also what they should do if a mad man with a gun comes into the synagogue. So thats the first conversation

the second is, when and where to not tell people you're Jewish, when to hide stars of David, and yarmulkes, and just not say, give a fake not Jewish sounding name. I mean some of us just look Jewish so there's no hope, but maybe you can pass yourself off as Italian or Lebanese. I know a lot of parents with teens who are having this talk with their kids around school trips over seas, but even parents of small kids are coaching them to maybe not let classmates and new friends know they're Jewish right away.

the 3rd is the oldest and the deepest. The when to leave conversation. literally every Jewish family has some elderly relative who tells you not to have any money you can't carry with you. Lots and lots of elderly and these days not even elderly Jews have shoe boxes with cash, gold, and their documents. These days jokes about "go bags" are less jokey than ever in my life. I know lots of Jews in their 20s and 30s who in fact have actual go bags. Our history is littered with dead Jews who misjudged the right time to leave a spiraling antisemitic situation and got stuck and died. And our history is littered with times when we've been expelled or faced "leave or die" offers where we're allowed to take almost nothing. It's a big part of why Jews so often stress education, they can take your bank account, your house, your car, your business, but they can't take whats inside your head. No one wants to be the Jew who judges when to leave wrongly or the Jew who doesn't have any easily movable wealth because they trusted the gentile's word that a bank account was safe. It's a conversation all Jews have among their family with differing levels of seriousness though again more serious now than any time in my life, whats the point, the sign the moment when its too much and we leave, and if we leave where do we go?

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Season 1 Stede is fascinating to me actually, because he is so enormously sheltered when we first meet him and everything about the way he interacts with the crew signals this to us in such bold fucking text but above all he is still kind. He shares his library with the crew because of course if he's got a whole library of books he wants to share it with everyone. It does not even occur to him that most of his crew can't read. He's wondering why the tribe on the island have something against white people because he wasn't going to hurt them and neither was Pete but then he gets reminded that colonialism exists. It takes him a while (and Lucius pointing it out) before he realizes that the guy who offered to pay for the hostages thinks they're prostitutes and then he has to ask Lucius if they look like prostitutes because of course Stede knows sex work exists but it did not occur to him anyone would ever make that mistake because that was the furthest thing from his mind when he was walking around with two hostages yelling "Man for sale!"

I wouldn't call Stede "dumb", but in Season 1 especially he is very lacking in practical knowledge and social awareness for a couple of reasons. Some of it is definitely him being sheltered, but also a bit of it is his inability to conceptualize people doing things for him (i.e. Ed signing the Act of Grace) or wanting to be around him without obligations or even simply being sexually or romantically attracted to him. He mentions "sweet talking" some random woman in exchange for a treasure map but then Lucius clarifies he just gave her a bunch of money, because of course Stede isn't good at flirting with people intentionally (and his claim that he sweet talked her into giving him the treasure map is also Stede trying to reinforce his polite menace gentleman pirate persona where he doesn't need to use violence or the usual pirate tactics to get what he wants).

That's not to say Season 2 Stede is perfect and to be honest I'm so glad he continues to be Stede even as he grows and learns. He craves attention and flattery and acceptance, he's a bit socially unaware, he's bitchy. And above all, he's kind. The kindness does not cancel out these other character traits, but it's there.

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People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???

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You know your drunk art post about love and personhood from 2019? Every night at bedtime my late cat would lie on my chest, and her little heartbeat would be right on top of mine, and I'd think about that piece of art you made, and have a similar sort of image in my head. Anyway, yesterday I finally put the image to paper, and idk where this is going, just that that piece of art you created means a lot to me. Have a cool day ✌️

OHHHH MY GOD!!!!! EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT THIS. ITS ALL BEEN WORTH IT

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Brick is always on the job, but just a bit too short to help!  <3

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if ed wants to go to bed and get cuddled right away but stede is clearly in the middle of something that would have him saying "oh, well, goodnight dear!" and going back to whatever it is he's doing then ed will subtly feign a bunch of yawns until stede starts yawning too and decides, of what he THINKS is his own free will, that it is time to go and cuddle ed to sleep

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This is why it takes me so long to draw anything