shawow
shawow
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shawow · 2 days ago
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after storm
watercolor, gouache
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shawow · 5 days ago
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shawow · 5 days ago
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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, A dog and her puppies
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shawow · 7 days ago
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"Ants have a highway, and birds have a skyway, and winds can go wandering far. See how they climb in the mercy of time, and they don't know how lucky they are."
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shawow · 8 days ago
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Interlaced, 2025. This was originally shared as an unlimited edition double-sided Riso print as part of Room Party at Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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shawow · 9 days ago
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isat fans if you make loop use he/they pronouns again as a signifier of healing from their trauma i am beating you to death with hammers. please think critically about what you’re implying when you do so.
however isat fans if you headcanon loop as transfem as a signifier of healing from their trauma i am kissing you on the mouth. that’s what i’m talking about baby
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shawow · 16 days ago
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girl we've been knowing how to get lost across alternative timelines only to find ourselves in a timeline that seems identical to our origin before it's revealed something incredibly subtle and insignificant to most yet is incredibly key to ourselves has been drastically altered. beatboxing kitty
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shawow · 16 days ago
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wii remix 9 moodboard
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shawow · 18 days ago
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y'all....I'm not a fanart guy but ...
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shawow · 22 days ago
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doing artfight this year again come follow and attack me if you wanna!
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shawow · 28 days ago
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You degenerate furry faggot
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shawow · 28 days ago
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shawow · 30 days ago
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Right, so:
Intersex Deer
and just some variations. Obviously not a comprehensive list, only a few examples of how it can present in deer across species. Some of these sources contain images of dead animals (labeled DA) or outdated language for intersex conditions (OL)! Please keep that in mind before clicking the links.
First up, antlered does:
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White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
So put incredibly simply, all cervids (except for water deer) are capable of antler growth, as the stem cells that generate them are present even in females. However, in those cervids (except reindeer/caribou), those cells only activate with heightened testosterone. Usually only males can produce enough, but rarely, so can a female. Their antlers tend to be spindly and narrow, if they grow larger than spikes, and remain covered in velvet year-round. They rarely, if ever drop them, unlike their male counterparts, which regrow their antlers annually.
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White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
This is most commonly documented in members of the Odocoileus genus, such as these whitetails, and in the Capreolus genus, namely western roe deer. Like the doe above, these deer are typically capable of reproducing, and often behave like other females of their species, i.e. staying in female-only herds. Their heightened testosterone can be linked to hormonal imbalances, malformed or underdeveloped reproductive organs, or tumors/cysts on their ovaries. The latter occurs most often in older individuals, and has also been documented in elk, red deer, and moose (like this cow, which was spotted with a calf near Nome, Alaska).
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Alaskan moose (Alces alces gigas)
High testosterone has even been documented in the aforementioned water deer, causing does to grow elongated fangs (DA, OL). These does, like females of other species with permanent velvet antlers, were still capable of producing offspring. While they were expected to exceed the standard weight for does, they were actually smaller.
However, not all antlered does can reproduce, and not all have permanent velvet. In extremely rare cases, their antlers can harden and shed. This leads to the next set of conditions, which unfortunately I don't have pictures for: visibly intersex animals, externally, internally, or both.
A vast majority of visibly intersex deer are discovered via hunting; therefore, intersex whitetails and roe deer (DA) are (still) the best studied. These deer can have any combination of sex organs, such as an individual with a vulva, cervix, testes, and more (DA, OL). Their antlers can be velvet or hardened, though they're often malformed. They may exhibit behaviors of both sexes, including breeding behaviors; while I couldn't find much regarding their reproductive ability, most are likely infertile. There's still a lot to study regarding these guys, especially in poorly-researched species like muntjacs, brockets, and hog deer.
Finally, the most common form of intersex in deer: cryptorchidism. This is a condition where one or both testicles don't descend properly, or are otherwise malformed. It causes male deer to grow wonky antlers, referred to as "cactus antlers," "Devil's antlers," and, for moose, velericorn antlers (also used for antlered cow moose). They shed them at odd times, and, like for this individual, they might even crumble away rather than pop off cleanly.
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White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (OL)
These deer may have little interest in mating, scraping, self-urinating or other breeding behaviors due to a lack of testosterone, or even prefer the company of females year-round. They may look more feminine, like this elk found in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which I believe to be a bull with cryptorchidism or another hormonal imbalance.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Like many animals, including humans, deer have so much variation in appearance, behavior, and yes, sexual characteristics. Even with strong dimorphism, biology is never binary.
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shawow · 1 month ago
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shawow · 1 month ago
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them, basically
(original by hairscare)
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shawow · 1 month ago
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i was watching the rehearsal for the first time a few days ago and because i don’t have any subscription services i was
using a website to do so.
and as i was watching the first episode my prevailing thought during it was “wow, i love the commitment to the in media res start they have here. they really aren’t giving much exposition about this whole child thing,” as the episode went on i WAS able to put the pieces together better about what was happening was so it worked pretty well! i was confused at times about what was going on but thought i’d figure it out as I went along. it was only the first episode after all.
anyways i finish it and i am appropriately devastated. no spoilers but wow that ending scene, it hit me pretty hard. i was excited to see what the rest of the show had in store, so i click the next episode and


 yeah i accidentally watched the season finale first fuck. the dang website had the episodes all out of order!!!!!
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