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"we're a family."

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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

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snoopy of the day

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This has to have been posted but i cant find it so

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

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positive affirmations for the day: i would intrigue doctor house so much with my mystery symptoms and he would insult me in so many different ways

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TINY WRLD (2020)

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early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion

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the cyerce elegans sea slug srsly has no business looking this ethereal

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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Scrolling through Facebook one day in October 2017, wildlife photographer Melissa Groo seethed when she saw Heather Keepers had posted another image to Instagram of herself kissing a cougar, with the hashtags #coolestjobintheworld, #luckiestgirlintheworld.

Keepers, petite with long brown hair, blue-green eyes, and tattoos of constellations on her arms, was the face of an industry Groo despises: photography game farms, where captive exotic animals are kept to model for photo shoots. For nine years, Keepers was the head trainer at one of the nation’s top photography ranches, Triple D Wildlife in Kalispell, Montana.

Triple D’s animals have starred in films produced by National Geographic, Disney, Nature, and the BBC, according to the company’s website. They’ve also posed for calendars and ads, and they appear in countless Instagram posts. In a five-day workshop costing about $900, Triple D clients, ranging from professionals to amateurs and artists, can photograph more than a dozen animals, including grizzlies, cougars, bobcats, and wolves. Keepers trained the animals to leap over logs, stand perfectly still, and howl on cue. “You couldn’t have gotten these shots in the wild,” owner Jay Deist likes to tell his customers.

That’s exactly Groo’s point — such picture making is the antithesis of nature photography. She would know. Groo’s an acclaimed photographer and conservation advocate whose work has graced the covers of environmental magazines. Nearly six feet tall with long blond hair and usually toting a camera lens the size of a small howitzer, Groo is soft-spoken and deliberate. She will sit with her camera for hours at the edge of a pond patiently trying to capture not only an image of a great blue heron on the hunt for a fish, but also the bird’s very essence. For roughly a decade, she has worked to expose the deceptiveness of game-farm photography and advocated for ethical standards and transparency in publishing. “This business is polluting the whole landscape of wildlife photography,” Groo says. “They’re taking away from the work of authentic photographers.”

What’s more, she claims, there’s a “dirty secret” behind many of those cute animal images that show up on your Instagram feed. She alleges game farms’ animal models — including the ones at Triple D — are kept in small, filthy cages; some of the menagerie exist purely for breeding, supplying pups and kittens for popular baby-animal photography workshops; and once those babies have served their purpose, they’re regularly sold to exotic-pet buyers on the internet, or worse, to fur farms. “These despicable places breed and dump animals, like the exotic version of puppy mills,” Groo says.

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I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

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Robit sketch page for emotional support

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"pointillism is sexual" is certainly a bold claim by tumblr but for once i think we should hear them out on this