#projected path

[couchcouchcouchcouch]

HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES. HEART. LUNGS. LIVER. NERVES.

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

If you don’t mind sharing, since you don’t work for a zoo what is your job situation like? Making a living while working at a definitely zoo seems tricky. Is your main income zoology/animal related or is that more of a side thing?

Sincerely,

- a curious zoology student

I have a (mostly) unrelated jobjob - I’ve never actually been affiliated with a single facility, unless you count college internships before I started this blog. I freelance, working as a science media fact-checker and taking paid research contracts occasionally. I do work on a lot of animal / biology related fact-check content, but it’s not my entire scope of work. I also have the privilege of having family assistance, as I have chronic health issues that interfere with the normative 9-5 grind.

Everything I do in terms of blog writing/research, zoo industry research and publication, and photography is unpaid and pretty much a hobby at this point.

Prior to the pandemic I was trying to find funding for the intra-industry research and public-facing outreach I was doing, but there was never any money for it. (The industry is very used to expecting labor from young women for free. There was and is a lot of interest in the work I do, but the number of people/orgs that have ever provided compensation or financial support is in the single digits). The pandemic actually gave me the chance to pivot to focusing on professional fact-checking.

The only funding I get for any of this work is through a somewhat defunct Patreon I set up years ago when I was trying to make this blog / scicomm a full time gig. I’m terrible at updating it, and I’m conflicted enough about that to have been considering deleting it entirely. (For those of you who have stuck it out despite the radio silence, you’re incredible. You’ve facilitated the donation of my time to write a really cool paper with a zoo disaster response org, which will hopefully get through peer review soon).

To make something like this blog and everything else I do in the field actually financially sustainable, I’d need to fundraise and market more. The thing about a fact-checking career, though, is that it’s reinforced the need to make sure everything I write/say publicly is completely and 100% correct - because that level of rigor is what supports my professional reputation! Which means I’m slow to produce research and reticent to talk about it before it’s finished. My work comes out all the better for it, but it doesn’t fit into a content model that produces revenue.

So yeah, all of this is a side thing that I fit in around my paid work and my health. Because sometimes I just need to go see a tiger and smell an elephant, y’know?

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

[welcome-to-green-hills]

I swear in Project Shadow, Shadow was quite similar to Sonic in a...goofy way :3 Yes, he was more sensible XD But still was allowed to be a goofball in his own right...splashing Maria while brushing his teeth...drawing on his homework...stuffing himself with pizza slices (Me too Shadow, me too) :3 There's something so...similar ;)

❤️🥺❤️ YES! They are absolutely goofballs! Little fluffy babies! ❤️🥺❤️

They’re similar yes when they’re younger. And each took a different path…

[mynabirb]

And there were no words for the way that he felt, so he opened his mouth, and started to sing

[why-the-heck-not]

19.11.23, sunday

I listened to Succession soundtrack a lot today and had about the most productive day I’ve had in so so long

things done today:

7h of coding

went to my sister’s kid’s birthday party (mario theme 🍄)

[kawaiichibiart]

You know what? New card set wish: the characters being fit as hell

I don't want to see them in just sports equipment or their gym/p.e. uniforms and in an action pose. I want to see them actually moving, showing off their strengths, ya know?

That being said, I want a Honami card for this sorta set theme (:

She can bench press someone, I don't know who, I also don't know if the card should follow a cute path or a funny one <3

[kicktwine]

Okay so okay so hmmm. The "shadow" of the Dark Knight is meant to be some representation of a part of one's soul, specifically the darker emotions and reflections of oneself, so would Alisaie's be Alphinaud since they're twins? Someone she constantly compares herself to and finds herself Lacking In Relation To Him (In her own mind, he is smarter, he is kinder, he is more rational, he Knows What To Do More Than Her), which would force her to slowly learn that You Are Good Enough As You Are Alie-

grabs you slowly pulls you towards my wip folder looks around. it looks like wol. it looks like the wol the strongest the best the winner until they confront it and it changes shape into just alisaie, just herself she’s competing with. the wol pushes her to be better, she pushes herself to be more. the wol is what she wants in a teacher. herself is what she needs to confront

[westwing19]

Redrew a little comic I made a while ago. DMK is not immune to the Child

[episims]

AnYe's Deco Headphones in Simlish

I like these deco headphones but they had a logo in English. I edited it to be Simlish instead, and then it occured me that wireless headphones are a thing. So now the wire can be turned invisible too. I also improved the thumbnail and reprized these while I was at it.

I directly edited AnYe's original files so if you already have these in your game and would rather have this version, let these files override the old ones.

Download (SFS) (alternate) - files are compressed. Under Deco / Misc for §30. 1702 polys, 512x512 textures.

Additional credits to @franzillasims for the simlish font!

[blazlngblade]

NieR Replicant Collab in CotC!

The new collab characters are revealed and it's Nier, Kaine, and Emil.

The characters are also included in my collab project, Project Path Action so if there are any NieR fan artists who want to take one, let me know!

I don't have clear sprites for their Path Actions yet, but I'll get them soon!

That said, A2 is also available as well!

[almond-tofu-chan]

Guys what if I…

[firstroseofspring]

dr. b'elanna torres phd! (eventually) she got first place in the 35th annual planet-wide science fair but she nearly knocked kessik's moon out of orbit so she was asked not to return the next year