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Hello! I just wanted to say I love your mha monster designs

Thank you friend <3

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BNHA comic

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🌟💫After the USJ attack…💫🌟 (Pt.2)

Here’s part 2 finally posted! There will be a part 3 coming soon too >:3 so stay tuned~!

Hope you guys enjoy this comic~!

☆✧~Go beyond.. PLUS ULTRA!!! ~✧☆

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rip

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sorry if i'm gonna be quiet for a while. my country recently introduced laws that make it so that in order to use social media to the fullest (not being able to view ns/fw content and in a few cases, not even having access to dms), i HAVE to give the sites my id/face scan.

it goes into effect july 25th. it'll probably effect here too, since this place allows mature content (tho not full on ns/fw)

i'm very distressed about it bc i might end up not even being able to talk to my internet friends. i don't really have any irl ones

if i have to disappear on most socials by then, you know why.

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RIP RIP RIP i can never interact with my neighbor again holy fuck

i was outside w/ my cat just now. and he went behind a shrub for a bit, and me not realizing my neighbor was on the other side of that same shrub, poked my head round and said way louder than necessary, “my SCRUMPTIOUS darling boy, what ever are you doing over there??”

and this 40-something man i very rarely speak to handled it w/ remarkable grace and very tentatively responded “…..watering my.. roses? you?”

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rehearsal time

you can buy this as a print !

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happy birthday to this cry baby hero 🥹🥹🥹

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Jul 9, 2025

The Flint water crisis began in 2014, after lead-contaminated drinking water was found to be leaching out from aging pipes into homes citywide.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Natural Resources Defense Council, with help from other activists and nonprofits, have released statements on the recent progress, celebrating the milestone.

The statements which they chalk up the crisis to “cost-cutting measures and improper water treatment,” that the state “didn’t require treatment to prevent corrosion,” after a “a state-appointed emergency manager” switched the water supply to the Flint River.

There is no safe level of lead exposure; each nanogram causes harm. In addition to long-known risks, such as damage to children’s brains and certain cancers, there is also significant evidence that exposure to lead is linked to numerous cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and heart attack.

The coalition mobilized the citizenry and filed a lawsuit against Flint and Michigan state officials to secure safe water. The result was a settlement in March 2017, under which a federal court in Detroit ordered Flint to give every resident the opportunity to have their lead pipe replaced at no cost, as well as conduct comprehensive tap water testing, implement a faucet filter distribution and education program, and maintain funding for health programs to help residents deal with the effects of Flint’s tainted water, according to the NRDC.

The coalition then returned to court six times in six years to ensure the city and state kept to the timeline, which was delayed by COVID-19, and other reasons which The Detroit News described as “spotty record-keeping” and “ineffective management.”

On July 1st, the State of Michigan submitted a progress report to a federal court confirming that, more than eight years after the settlement, nearly 11,000 lead pipes were replaced and more than 28,000 properties were restored where the maintenance had taken place.

Of the 4,200 buildings where lead pipes are known to still be in service, their owners have either left the properties vacant, abandoned, or have declined the free replacement under the Safe Water Drinking Act. The coalition has said it will continue to monitor city and state progress on these remaining lines.

“Thanks to the persistence of the people of Flint and our partners, we are finally at the end of the lead pipe replacement project,” said Pastor Allen C. Overton of the Concerned Pastors for Social Action, one of the organizations that sued the city. “While this milestone is not all the justice our community deserves, it is a huge achievement.”

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one work struggle that nobody prepares you for is that sometimes your buddies your good friends really suck at their job and you want to punch them in the face and also the most annoying person in the universe is sometimes decent at their job and you have to like acknowledge that

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demonic possession wouldn’t even affect me, i would just assume it’s The Symptoms

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Dear Bunjicus Wunjicus, what is the great American biotic interchange?

okay so, for the vast vast vast VAST majority of their time in existence as continents, North and South America have been completely separate continents, with oceans in between them.

135 mya (million years ago):

60 mya:

once they separated from Laurasia and Gondwana respectively and became their own thing after the Big Kablooie (66mya), they both started to evolve their own completely unique ecosystems with their own forms of life!

North America was a bonanza for big cats, proboscideans, bears, and canines:

<art src: Joe Venus>

while South America went big on giant sloths, terror birds, marsupials, and armadillos that could tow your car:

<art src: Gabriel Ugueto>

and so they remained, two houses alike in dignity, but rarely interacting except for swapping stormtossed refugees once in a while as they very slooooowly drifted towards each other.

and then, 2.7 mya, the two drifting continents uplifted the seafloor between them like a snowdrift in between two oncoming plows and made much of Central America and Panama.

AND EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN PANAMA ATTACKED

and WHOOOOPS.

suddenly, the biota of both continents had freedom of movement into a totally new environment. terror birds pushed north into Central and Southern North America, only to be pushed back by incoming waves of smilodon, jaguars, and pumas.

<src: Life On Our Planet>

canines and proboscideans and bears and rabbits and predators of all shapes and sizes came roaring south into the body of South America, wreaking environmental change in their wake, while fleets of possums, armadillos, and giant sloths trekked north to find some new niches of their own.

when the dust had settled, South America was VERY different from how it had first looked, with many native predators supplanted by carnivorans and many small to medium herbivores supplanted by northern species. the terror birds were gone, ending the last legacy of the dominant predatory theropods.

<src: Mauricia Anton>

North America had picked up some new additions of its own, some that lasted (armadillos, possums) and some that didn't.

<src: Peter Schouten>

and we call this kerfuffle the Great American Biotic Interchange, because it sounds better than ECOLOGICAL WARZONE: ESCAPE FROM BRAZIL

(if you're a scientist, anyway)

<src: Guillermo Torres Carreño>

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some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.

it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:

doing it wrong:

She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and followed it into the kitchen.

doing it right:

Catching the smell of something rotten wafting from the kitchen—probably from the fridge, she thought—she followed the smell into the kitchen, and saw her brother’s dead body.

Periods are where you stop to process the sentence. Put the dead body at the start of the sentence and by the time you reach the end of the sentence, you’ve piled a whole kitchen and a weird fridge smell on top of it, and THEN you have to process the body, and it’s buried so much it barely has an impact. Put the dead body at the end, and it’s like an emotional exclamation point. Everything’s normal and then BAM, her brother’s dead.

This rule doesn’t just apply to sentences: structuring lists or paragraphs like this, by putting the important info at the end, increases their punch too. It’s why in tropes like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking or Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, the odd item out comes at the end of the list.

Subverting this rule can also be used to manipulate reader’s emotional reactions or tell them how shocking they SHOULD find a piece of information in the context of a story. For example, a more conventional sentence that follows this rule:

She opened the pantry door, looking for a jar of grape jelly, but the view of the shelves was blocked by a ghost.

Oh! There’s a ghost! That’s shocking! Probably the character in our sentence doesn’t even care about the jelly anymore because the spirit of a dead person has suddenly appeared inside her pantry, and that’s obviously a much higher priority. But, subvert the rule:

She opened the pantry door, found a ghost blocking her view of the shelves, and couldn’t see past it to where the grape jelly was supposed to be.

Because the ghost is in the middle of the sentence, it’s presented like it’s a mere shelf-blocking pest, and thus less important than the REAL goal of this sentence: the grape jelly. The ghost is diminished, and now you get the impression that the character is probably not too surprised by ghosts in her pantry. Maybe it lives there. Maybe she sees a dozen ghosts a day. In any case, it’s not a big deal. Even though both sentences convey the exact same information, they set up the reader to regard the presence of ghosts very differently in this story.

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of all the phrases we used to say in the 2010s era we need to bring back ‘what the hap is fuckening’ because honestly… what the hap is fuckening lately brother