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Tumblr are you. Did you create a narrative.

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Wonderful phone interaction with @ratalligator

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I love my friend that doesn't know she's autistic. yet.

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Character sheet WIP and a Sketch for my ocs that are giving me brain worms

(CLICK IMAGES FOR HIGHER QUALITY)

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did I expose my little cousin when he lied about making a stick figure animation gif that he definitely googled? No. He gets one (1) art lie to build his ego

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You don’t need to overthink that awkward thing you said four days ago, you need to sit down in a shitty lawn chair and draw mermaids, while experiencing a strange solidarity with a robin brave enough to forage for food about 10 feet away from you, but not so bold as to take her eye off of you.

Stop being so goddamn existential, there are flowers to press into book pages and baby blankets to make. You’re only scared of the world because you haven’t experienced it yet. Now go try and communicate with your local bird population. Joy is out there, you freak.

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can we please leave this in the past

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Today I fell down the stairs while texting and when I got to the bottom I realized that I had hit the “audio message” function and sent them an entire 30 second recording of it

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Have we adopted Inigo Montoya as the patron saint of artists who don’t use AI yet?

Not a big fan of people who don’t want to pay artists for their work.

Big fan of practicing and honing one’s craft.

Always keeping an eye out for the six-fingered man.

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I think if I stop drawing Natasha I will die and also explode oh no

(two sketch book pages down, i am frantically scribbling)

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I am NOT fond of how her face turned out in the larger sketch

but ☝️it’s 100% because I didn’t use face references

Sue me

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Gay gay homosexual gay (click for higher quality, tumblr eats art)

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Hey so how we feeling about the ending of endgame

I know you have opinions

for context, this bastard just rewatched it with me. hi. I know you’re talking about the Steve ending. Bitch. Have my condensed list.

obviously? Endgame spoilers? But? It’s been out for so long? Just? Catch up?

he left behind people he knew still needed him

Peggy had a happy life after him. He knew she did. But he was selfish enough to change her entire future. And it reduced her to nothing but a love interest 

Straight up doesn’t work with the time travel rules. Like to an annoying degree

The first avenger callback and. He still. Fucking. I hate this

HE COULD HAVE HAD A HAPPY ENDING IN HIS OWN TIMELINE. THAT WAS THE ENTIRE POINT OF HIS CHARACTER ARC IN THE EDIJCNEICNIEWN ILEFVNILWRHV N

he would miss google in the 40s

HE WENT BACK TO A TIME WHERE BUCKY WAS ACTIVELY BEING TORTURED. AND HE KNEW WHO WAS DOING IT. AND WHERE. AND DID. NOTHING? . ?  . ?  . ?

wdym he abandoned all his avengers friends. And Sam. The hell? After all that? Would he not?  Miss them? 

Sharon would be his niece and that’s. Too weird 

he could’ve also like, been there for everyone after the Natasha and Tony loss. But no. He carried that grief to a different timeline with no understanding of what happened. HE ISOLATED HIMSELF. AGAIN. FOR A GIRL HE ONLY KNEW FOR A FEW MONTHS 

The 2012 Steve that stopped trying to kill modern Steve because modern Steve mentioned Bucky's name? That guy? Would’ve never done this. 

he wouldn’t have aged like that either. But. Y’know. I’m not gonna get into that

NARRATIVELY PEGGY CARTER WAS STRONGER WITHOUT HIM TBH.

I could keep going

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Half finished Wanda from a month ago? Yeah

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Natasha (click for higher quality)

I highkey gave up halfway through drawing this, but y’know better than nothing

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evil thought:

I can draw what I want

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Some of you may have heard about Monarch butterflies being added to the Threatened species list in the US and be planning to immediately rush out in spring and buy all the milkweed you can manage to do your part and help the species.

And that's fantastic!! Starting a pollinator garden and/or encouraging people and businesses around you to do the same is an excellent way to help not just Monarchs but many other threatened and at-risk pollinator species!

However.

Please please PLEASE do not obtain Tropical Milkweed for this purpose!

Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)--also commonly known as bloodflower, Mexican butterflyweed, and scarlet milkweed--will likely be the first species of milkweed you find for sale at most nurseries. It'll be fairly cheap, too, and it grows and propagates so easily you'll just want to grab it! But do not do that!

Tropical milkweed can cause a host of issues that can ultimately harm the butterflies you're trying to help, such as--

Harboring a protozoan parasite called OE (which has been linked to lower migration success, reductions in body mass, lifespan, mating success, and flight ability) for long periods of time

Remaining alive for longer periods, encouraging breeding during migration time/overwintering time as well as keeping monarchs in an area until a hard freeze wherein which they die

Actually becoming toxic to monarch caterpillars when exposed to warmer temperatures associated with climate change

However--do not be discouraged!! There are over 100 species of milkweed native to the United States, and plenty of resources on which are native to your state specifically! From there, you can find the nurseries dedicated to selling native milkweeds, or buy/trade for/collect seeds to grow them yourself!!

The world of native milkweeds is vast and enchanting, and I'm sure you'll soon find a favorite species native to your area that suits your growing space! There's tons of amazing options--whether you choose the beautiful pink vanilla-smelling swamp milkweed, the sophisticated redring milkweed, the elusive purple milkweed, the alluring green antelopehorn milkweed, or the charming heartleaf milkweed, or even something I didn't list!

And there's tons of resources and lots of people willing to help you on your native milkweed journey! Like me! Feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions!

Just. PLEASE. Leave the tropical milkweed alone. Stay away.

TLDR: Start a pollinator garden to help the monarchs! Just don't plant tropical milkweed. There's hundreds of other milkweeds to grow instead!