#im just a little guy

[mokadevs]

finally home

[cat-dad-cyder]

Sometines its nice to be silly

Titan Hooty AU

I'm hearing you " that's so silly " well yeah it is! It's me just noticing similarities to the owl beast (which is probably a titan) and making things up along the way! His design will probably change along the way if I got time to even draw more of this. I do have plenty of ideas!

Now if you're wondering how I puzzled this together:

We don't know what he is, how old or even how powerful Hooty is?

His body does not work on normal mortal rules (he takes off his skin?)

I went with the idea that he's cursed and semi trapped by the Collectors/Archivists, so his memory isn't the best and he doesn't really know who he is either

Like here his first reaction to the titan trapper wasn't positive or neutral but kind of unhappy? So I went 'there's just this tiny feeling that makes him feel bad about this guy, because his subconsciousness is still one of a titan' He also had no problem with eating the letter being eaten

There's plenty more but I think I'll share that another time or with drawings, anyways enjoy this mess

[rainbowd00dles]

I'm asking for pictures of others people's Tav's because I'd like to try drawing some of them

[triaelf9]

Time well spent on a morning warm-up, new profile pic~ XD

[cool-lilfella]

im a minor, i see you nsfw blogs interacting w this. take ur reblogs down ‼️‼️‼️

[candy-pockets-ahhhh]

Listen I'm TOTALLY normal about Will Wood, ok??? I just thought it would be a little silly to write all of the lyrics to "Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples" in my notebook!!! It's just such a silly song made by such a silly little guy, ok??? Why are you asking so many questions??? What are you??? The popo???

[fortheloveofexy]

how does it feel to be one of the smartest people in the aftg fandom 🎤

Last night I dreamt I was at the club doing shots and dancing to Usher when a squirrel ran up and bit me so hard on the ass that I could still feel it when I woke up. :/

[realfullnameunavailable]

[natkinslight]

I have thoroughly disappointed so many people at once with this. I think it's a personal record :D

[local-homosexual]

Sjjwiwisi BigB au doodle

[berryblonde11]

[cnestus]

re: your last post about career options in entomology, consider this an invitation to talk about what you think about molecular systematics and its role in taxonomy/phylogeny. i'm an undergrad currently in a lab focused on the phylogeny of benthic marine inverts, and the vast bulk of our work is based on molecular data. i'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the topic!

i should be clear and say that i have no inherent problems with molecular systematics as an approach to taxonomy, and in many cases it can be a tremendous boon to the field and pretty much the only way to untangle some particularly gnarly taxonomic knots.

i guess my problem arises from how the ascendancy of molecular systematics is crowding out traditional morphological taxonomy, to the point where, like i was complaining in my last post, many subdisciplines are disappearing because nobody is replacing the aging and dying experts on many groups of insects and other organisms. i think that very few people who do molecular systematics would themselves argue that they should replace traditional taxonomists, but i also think that academic administrators and funding agency bureaucrats see the difference in "efficiency" between one scientist who needs years if not decades to publish a comprehensive monograph on their study group, and another who can slam a bunch of samples through a machine and describe a hundred new species in a semester, and would prefer to fund the latter. i'm being unfairly reductive here of course, but my point is that in the publish-or-perish culture of academia, being able to churn out papers faster will always be rewarded and tilts the game way towards molecular taxonomists. even incoming grad students who want to study to become morphological taxonomists are having a harder time securing the funds to do so.

i just worry about what things are going to look like in even 10 or 20 years from now when the last of the old-timers have died off and very few have been replaced. even if you can technically identify an organism of interest through sequencing it's CO1 gene or whatever, that's no replacement for having an actual expert who can way more quickly and authoritatively tell you what it is without having to be connected to Genbank.

(far more minor, but i also think that molecular work places far too great of an emphasis on dogmatic phylogenetic taxonomizing over more practical groupings. this is pure old man grumbling but i absolutely can't stand how every few years someone recategorizes some group of insects based on their genetic sequences and suddenly i gotta relearn a bunch of new taxonomies and relabel a bunch of shit because every group's just gotta be 100% monophyletic. fuck monophyly! i will not elaborate on this!)

anyway back to my main point, again i'm sure i'm being reductive and unfair and there are absolutely labs that make use of both morphological and molecular taxonomic methods, but it's just a worrying trend to me. i just can't help but feel like the ascendancy of molecular systematics is of a piece with the inexorable automation of so many other jobs and disciplines, like a robot replacing the craftsman it was ostensibly designed to assist.

[gently-decaying-flowers]

totally forgot about this thought i had yesterday

i was getting dressed and i looked in the mirror and it was the first time i saw like my body and my not flat stomach and my wide hips and didn’t hate them

[paxthepuppycat]

Alterhuman Outline Art :3

Golden Retriever Puppy ^^

@sleepii-goldie

[gingeish]

this was supposed to stay a sketch but it did not

[myth-the-sapphic]

One reason I love being nonbinary is because it’s just so convenient. My essay may get published in the spring?? I’m a girl boss. My friend says I’m unhinged? Hey I’m just a little guy. I’m just a little guy with glasses cmon :/ When someone ask me my sexuality? I’m girlie pop. Most of my friends are dudes?? I’m a fella. it’s so fun. I love it.