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Making friends with people from other countries is so crazy. I sent my group chat a Big Bird gif.

And this one girl says, “why isn’t he blue?”

I’m like, the fuck you mean??

So today I learned that in the Dutch version of Sesame Street, they do, in fact, have a blue Big Bird.

I was baffled by this so I went on Muppets Wiki and guess what.

In Mexico, Big Bird is green and his name is Abelardo.

Turkish Big Bird (aka Minik Kus) is apparently fucking orange.

This looks like a fuckin alternate universe or smth. I can’t.

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How many languages do you know at least little bit of?

Remake of an older poll (link here)

Like last time I am using a strict definition of language and a loose definition of being able to speak/knowing the language.

Details:

Sign languages count, conlangs count, super similar languages only counts one & dialects of the same language usually won't count (unless you can make multiple sentences in both that someone who only spoke the other couldn't understand), for Norwegian being able to write both bokmål & nynorsk only counts as one

You need to know more than 30 words and be able to construct at least one sentence for it to count. it has to be at least one of the following: writing/signing/speaking/whistling, it doesn't have to be multiple.

(and for people with "sampling bias" concerns, this is not supposed to represent society as a whole)

Poll:

It's super cool if you put the languages in tags

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Fight me you long-ass bitch kinda composition for this game of high-stakes leapfrog

Brazen belongs to @tavernlightsart

(Art from March 2023)

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Sketchpage for @tavernlightsart !

An incredibly graceful and ferocious character! My first gryphon, I think! Loved to experiment with her!

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I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they���re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

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I've got two D&D homebrew campaigns running right now, and this is one of my parties!

These characters belong to @sumeria @tavernlights-casual @lynxfang and @mudpool-art!!!

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Mountain Whisperingroar - First Hunter

Mountain is usually the cat with a warm smile ready on a cold day but lately it has been hard. The recent rebellion has come as a shock to the large cat and even more so that her adoptive son was on the coups side. It has been a tough last few moons as they wrestle with their conflicting emotions. There is much to be done, much to be considered regarding the colony's fate and survival.

Will she rise to meet the challenge or sink under the crashing waves of responsibility?

Check out @shipsrestwcrp for more info, apps open till the 7th!! Art and design by @/Tavernlights!

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Hey uh- as an indigenous person. I say this in the nicest way possible.

What the actual fuck.

billystorm was right to try to send his kids back to his housefolk considering they literally almost died. btw. why did leafstar bitch about how being a kittypet is literally the worst thing ever and god forbid her kids dont live a safe and comfortable life away from any dangers compared to being exposed to the elements and engaging in kitty cat incest war

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presidential alert: the girls are fightinggg

TAPAS | CHRONO COMMISSION | KOFI

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Shalom and happy Thanksgiving, please consider donating to the mashpee wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts, a tribe that was one of the first to be pushed out of their lands and are often in the fake folklore of the history of Thanksgiving. Currently Massachusetts does not recognize the mashpee wampanoag as a tribal nation and has been trying to steal even more of their land and destroying their culture

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warriors, but with their mini figurines designs

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Time to start buffing my feed with ART. Here's an old commission I'm still quite fond of!

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click for better quality!!

wctober day five - dreaming

mr sandman, bring me a dream

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a starless clan protagonists! 

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Very happy to announce the arrival of Partridge, MarshClan's reluctant healer, and his little cousins, Acornpaw & Chestnutpaw, to @lostcoastclans!

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cat violence moodboard

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adopts on a base by jambonbons! info under cut <3 reblogs super appreciated! please dm if interested in buying

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