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still need to fiddle with the hair color/patterns, but still happy with how this came out!

original design by Kr-o on DA/TH

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People used to comment on web comics.

People used to comment on fanfiction.

People used to comment on fanart.

People used to comment on OCs.

I hate "content" culture.

I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.

People used to be excited about the art that other people created.

People used to want to share that excitement with creators.

I hate this future.

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Feeling funny today

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Art by Leah Gardner

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★ 【BLACKmeow】 「 蛍 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

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what if you saw a squirrel at the park with a single full-sized human finger on one of its hands next to all the normal sized squirrel fingers

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Bat Wings Belt // Contrived To Charm

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Ghost Embroidered Converse // Hoai on Etsy

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the fact that this is a real ad for the game and not a tumblr shitpost sends me into oblivion

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the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

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I’ve been playing around with some old Apple Macs via emulation and got inspired to do some 1bit pixel art! Screen res and layout is supposed to be a one for one copy of the original Mac 128k (System 1) The “Bad Dog” is one of my Inktober sketches from last year. 512*342, Black and White. Painted in Pixaki on an iPad.

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I want to preface this by saying this is not victim blaming. This not calling people online lazy or grifting or whatever.

But an underlooked proponent on why some people are nearing homeless and crowdfunding heavily rn is bc society has failed you by making it as inconvenient as possible to learn about social systems and programs that already exist to help your situation as well as not having enough programs and aid.

Lemme give some examples. I have been unemployed for 10 months. My mom told me about a paying job training program a month ago after I already decided to mive in with her to find work, because nothing was coming up in my own city. My best friend didn’t know about affordable housing assistance in my state until she talked to my dad about it on a chance encounter. Some people on here have to see posts about much cheaper alternatives to their current prescriptions or medical plans because its not in the interest of their doctors paychecks to tell them about it. I would have waited to get vaccinated and not have crowdfunded for Uber money if I had known they were going to give free vaccine rides the next month. But I wouldn’t have really known this until I opened the app once that program started, because it is in their interest to keep taking my money until its their desired time for me to reap their “generous” services.

What I’m trying to say is that this is an under discussed aspect of how capitalism fails people. When you are forced to make your life and work and finances so singular and self interested, you are cut off from community and equivalent social services to proper government assistance. You literally don’t know that there is help somewhere out there for you unless you’re told.

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damocles, you left your sword here

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i hate this place i want to go to build a bear

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Took a bit because I wanted upload these gals as a set

Original designs adopted from MinEevee on DA

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Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

Happy pride.

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Publishers' Binding Thursday

It's time for another Publishers' Binding Thursday! This book was found by Max when it was pulled to have a barcode assigned to it. It is The Nürnberg Stove by Ouida, which is a pen name for English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (also called Maria Louise de la Rameé)(1839-1908). It was first published in 1895, but we suspect this is a later edition because the end sheets are dated 1902.

The novel is a strange one, in which a young boy named August who loves his family's stove (which was designed by a man named Hirschvogel) so much that he decides to stow away in it when his father has to sell it because the family is poor. August wants to stay with his dear "Hirschvogel" (as he calls the stove) and travels with it across Germany to the King's palace, where he is ultimately allowed to stay with the stove and will be sent to art school so he can become an artist like the man who designed his beloved stove. Weird.

The binding is quite nice, with thinly ribbed grey bookcloth with the title stamped in gold and white blossoms on green branches. I personally am disappointed that there isn't an ornate stove on the cover! The end sheets were designed by W.E.B. Starkweather and include an inscription with my name on it! It is signed "To Alice, with a Merry Christmas from Hilda & Elsa, 1908."

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager