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Stained glass ao3 logo :P

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POV you’re art and your bestest most specialest SecUnit goes “hey can you make a copy of me specifically to die” and you go “that’s an awful idea” and it goes “no fuck you it’s a great idea also you asked something to send to die so you can have me” and you shout “i didn’t mean you!” and it goes “stop yelling at me” which is maybe the first time it’s verbally pushed back on mistreatment in its life so you go entirely quiet because you are so so angry with it but also you can’t yell at it because it asked you not to

and then you send out the copy of it anyway to save your crew, and it saves your crew and another SecUnit and also itself

and then it dies

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...might've discovered a new genre to lose my mind about, hold please

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(reply to the kroger & walmart chicken fettucine alfredo listeria outbreak)

hey holy shit. the sound I made when I read this. this is exactly why the chicken fettucine recall is so scary, it is such a huge comfort food and a bunch of folks eat it while pregnant. I am so fucking glad my post found you and that you got medical attention right away.

yours is an example of doing exactly the right thing: listeria is especially dangerous while pregnant, and there are antibiotics that can be prescribed for high-risk folks during the early stages of symptoms or even before symptoms begin. and while listeria can take up to 80 days to cause illness, it can also cause issues within hours or days of eating contaminated food.

for you and for everyone else trying to avoid the general news right now, here is a list to help keep up with recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks in the united states since I do not post all of them:

FDA recall list (food, drug, medical device, etc recalls with press announcements, usually bigger food recalls have announcements)

FDA enforcement reports (more recalls go here, but more difficult to navigate than the recall list with announcements)

USDA FSIS recall list (they cover different food than FDA, especially meat. the chicken fettucine alfredo recall was posted here)

NHTSA recall list (vehicles, car seats, tires, and equipment recalls!)

CPSC recall and safety warning list (products! there have been a LOT of recalls of baby stuff recently!)

FDA outbreak investigations (you can see the status of outbreaks as they happen and get investigated, this is often where recalls start)

CDC active investigations of foodborne illness outbreaks (outbreaks can have both an FDA page and a CDC page. they cover different information)

foodsafetynews (news about food safety ONLY! not a government source. mostly focused on the US and canada, but also news around the world. some of what they post involves commentary on the current administration, BUT they post about bigger and more relevant recalls that wind up in the ever-tricky FDA enforcement reports.)

best of luck to you and your baby, and make sure you get plenty of rest!!!!!

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Yuma, Past & Future

Some more versions of the art I made for this ask game prompt! On the left is Yuma in the earlier part of her timeline, and on the right is her future self.

This took me a full week because I drew it paper doll style, with fully drawn bodies under the clothes, and in two separate versions!

I've been wanting to do a before/after version of Yuma for a while, because of the potential it has for her story. Elaboration under the cut since it got long!

At the start of her story, Yuma is living on a backwater asteroid in a particularly dismal corner of the Corporation Rim, eking out a living as a mechanic, deep in debt. She's trapped and just trying to survive, without much of a future to look forward to.

But then an act of kindness comes back around, and Crowbar, the SecUnit she freed and secretly shipped off the asteroid to give it a chance at a better life, returns to offer her a future in return! And she leaves her life behind to travel with it to Preservation, where she doesn't have to work herself to death, and has time to rest and get medical care and be healthier than she has in years.

An important part of that for me is that she gains some weight, now that she is in a place where everyone is provided with enough food to eat! And also starts using a cane, because she's been living on a low-gravity asteroid for a decade or so and the transition back to what is considered "standard" gravity is hard on her joints. Because weight gain and mobility aids being symbols of growth & being in a better place is fun and cool!

(On a personal note: I have the experience of gaining weight and watching my body change and celebrating it as a marker of progress towards better health, but also having the complicated feelings of perceiving my body differently now that it's less thin. So this is something I want to see more often, and to put into my own art.)

Hence the paper dolls—so I could show the changes in her body as well as in the way she dresses herself. And it was totally worth the time it took to draw the same character basically 4 separate times lol.

While I'm here, a list of things I am very proud of in this drawing:

Finishing it at all! it was a big project and I got pretty stuck in the middle, but I stuck it out!

Possibly the best pair of feet I have ever drawn (and TWO good looking pairs of shoes!)

Drawing the plaid on that flannel BY HAND

The anatomy and the fabric folds!! Shoutout to the Morpho books I finally pulled off my shelf and looked at (Fat & Skin Folds and Clothing Folds & Creases), which helped me so much with realistic body shapes and how to drape clothing over them. I feel like I really leveled up my drawing skills with the effort I put into doing this well!

Also, Yuma & Crowbar's story in fic form can be found here on AO3:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50659984

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🦺 for Yuma and Crowbar!

🦺 - character’s work uniform or work outfit (OC drawing studies ask game)

Thank you for the prompt, this was so fun! I spent a full week drawing two different versions of Yuma, so Crowbar is going to get left out of this one for now lol.

Left: Yuma's old work clothes are pretty worn down. She can't afford new ones often, so most of them are a bit scuffed or stained and have been mended where they can be to get a little more life out of them. That jacket has been with her for many, many years before she gives it to Crowbar to help it to disguise itself as human.

Right: After leaving with Crowbar for Preservation, Yuma has the support she needs to take better care of herself, and that includes nicer clothes that fit her better! She also gets a cane, to help with joint pain caused by higher gravity than she'd gotten used to.

I always picture her with her hair tied back in some kind of bun, or just pulled away from her face by a bandana or scarf. On Preservation she might have time to make it look a little nicer, though. (Although I think she's still the type to tie it back as quickly and messily as possible when there's work to be done, lol.)

Btw, Crowbar still has that jacket and if I do ever draw its version of this prompt, it'll be wearing it :)

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I think being aro allows you to unlock levels of haterism that most people can only dream of reaching

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Turning off reblogs for a while to give this post time to settle down and hopefully only get found by people who are going to behave. and ideally respect that single people deserve to get to stay single and still have a nice life

"marriage is the ONLY way to get these protections" "there is NO WAY to hack a legal arrangement to cover everything that marriage grants" "kiddos you don't remember what it was like before we could get married, we finally got rights because we could get married" Okay But You Recognize Why That's Bad, Right. Like that is really, really bad that you have to enter a specific type of relationship to get legal rights. That is A Problem. You recognize that that is Not A Good Thing, Right

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I have thought about reblogging this post several times. But then I remember that my advisor was once accused of being a monarchist for writing a book about a monarchy that doesn't say "it was awful, terrible, and oppressive."

I'm not sure I trust people to understand what is and isn't royalism.

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Also- the use of wind technology is STELLAR. The SE Asians also used it. Which is an interesting thing to note. #Translation of that green text to Normal Person Speak: #The stuff that gets left on the ground because it isn't copper shows that the fire was barely getting hot enough to melt copper #but it was removing the sulfur from the rock well enough to still produce results. Unfortunately we don't have EVIDENCE of #the structures themselves in the archaeological record because they were too fragile; so there's researcher beef

There is scientific evidence through slag analysis that Mesoamerican metallurgists may have used a unique pre-Columbian technology to smelt copper!

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hey, just so you know seth dickinson is nonbinary! which i didn't know until i saw that a mag had an interview with them last year using they/them pronouns

I got another anon telling me this too!

They sent this link:

Which I assume is the one you're referring to? I hadn't been aware of that, thanks! (I figured that it was possible and just not something I had seen or knew about)

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the inherent difficulty of creating incentives to eat/use them without creating incentives to make more of them :///

I see the issue though. I guess having robust laws against breeding/releasing them may help to cut that off, but I guess the laws against selling the meat is the same logic behind the MBTA: create no benefit to providing it, so that no one does the destructive parts in order to provide more of it.

I am SO pro-eating ecologically disruptive invasive species. Let’s eat Mississippi carp let’s eat Everglades pythons let’s eat Colorado River turtles (I love u turtles but there are a lot of introduced species that are crowding out the local species). Like I think genuinely a way to respect their lives while also acknowledging their negative ecological impact isn’t just culling them it’s eating them. Not all introduced species are invasive or need culling, but the species that are actually having negative impacts on the ecosystem really ought to have something done about that. We pull phragmites and water chestnut and buffelgrass; there’s nothing inherently wrong with doing the same thing to carp and pythons and turtles. It’s not their fault, they’re just living and doing what animals do, so we should do what animals do too and eat them. Get a good meal, get connected to our ecosystem, reduce the reliance on factory farming, and support the local species. Everyone wins.

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random question, does anyone know of any audio dramas written/otherwise significantly created by transfems? I know of some notable transfem performers and editors in the audio drama sphere, but I can't think of any writers

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Yeah, true…

I suppose if there are already laws against releasing those species, hopefully that would offset any incentive to do so, but I have no idea what laws they are or if they are enforced.

I am SO pro-eating ecologically disruptive invasive species. Let’s eat Mississippi carp let’s eat Everglades pythons let’s eat Colorado River turtles (I love u turtles but there are a lot of introduced species that are crowding out the local species). Like I think genuinely a way to respect their lives while also acknowledging their negative ecological impact isn’t just culling them it’s eating them. Not all introduced species are invasive or need culling, but the species that are actually having negative impacts on the ecosystem really ought to have something done about that. We pull phragmites and water chestnut and buffelgrass; there’s nothing inherently wrong with doing the same thing to carp and pythons and turtles. It’s not their fault, they’re just living and doing what animals do, so we should do what animals do too and eat them. Get a good meal, get connected to our ecosystem, reduce the reliance on factory farming, and support the local species. Everyone wins.

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I am SO pro-eating ecologically disruptive invasive species. Let’s eat Mississippi carp let’s eat Everglades pythons let’s eat Colorado River turtles (I love u turtles but there are a lot of introduced species that are crowding out the local species). Like I think genuinely a way to respect their lives while also acknowledging their negative ecological impact isn’t just culling them it’s eating them. Not all introduced species are invasive or need culling, but the species that are actually having negative impacts on the ecosystem really ought to have something done about that. We pull phragmites and water chestnut and buffelgrass; there’s nothing inherently wrong with doing the same thing to carp and pythons and turtles. It’s not their fault, they’re just living and doing what animals do, so we should do what animals do too and eat them. Get a good meal, get connected to our ecosystem, reduce the reliance on factory farming, and support the local species. Everyone wins.

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With the demand for high-quality, sustainable pet food rising, manufacturers are confronting a growing challenge: securing reliable protein sources. Traditional byproducts from livestock and seafood are under pressure—limited in availability and increasingly expensive. Consumer expectations, meanwhile, are shifting toward cleaner labels and environmentally conscious sourcing.

According to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund, invasive carp offer a practical alternative. With protein content and omega-3 levels that rival more expensive ingredients like wild-caught salmon, these fish meet nutritional standards for premium pet formulations. They’re also highly digestible and naturally low in contaminants, helping brands maintain product safety without over-relying on additives or synthetic nutrients.

What sets carp apart from other protein options is scalability. Their populations are well-established across major U.S. waterways, eliminating the need for the costly infrastructure and long lead times tied to livestock production. With harvesting operations already underway in regions like the Mississippi River Basin, a dependable, lower-cost supply chain is within reach for manufacturers ready to invest in alternative sourcing.

Ecological Impact Meets Market Differentiation

The business case for carp extends beyond nutritional and supply chain advantages. In the U.S., invasive carp species—such as silver and bighead carp—have overrun aquatic ecosystems, crowding out native fish and degrading water quality. Their unchecked growth in the Mississippi River Basin and risk of spread into the Great Lakes present a real ecological threat.

Creating commercial demand for these species not only supports long-term supply stability but also contributes to ecosystem restoration. Targeted harvesting reduces population pressure, allowing native species to rebound and water quality to improve. This environmental benefit is increasingly relevant as consumers—particularly Gen Z and millennials—seek products that align with their values around sustainability and social impact.

The economic ripple effect is also noteworthy. Building out a carp-based supply chain could revitalize Midwestern fishing communities and support domestic manufacturing. This angle enhances a brand’s U.S.-sourced credentials, which carry weight in a market where transparency and origin tracking matter more than ever.

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Gem Cities by Neave Bozorgi