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A quick little Stellar expression sheet!! She's my baby girl...

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I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true

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Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section

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In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

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i feel strongly about this

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You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right

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I see Batfam requests are open… May I humbly request the siblings ever (Cass and Duke)… 🥺?

yes of course! presenting: THE BUMBLEBATS! (my fav duo name ever btw??)

as always, ignore the shitty background and hands <3

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“A forest gem”

Species: Wavy-lined Emerald Moth, Synchlora aerata, male

“This photo features a beautiful Wavy-lined Emerald Moth sitting on a mossy log. Taking a break from its adventures through the trees, this moth is displaying all of its beauty for us to appreciate.”

by Alexander McKerracher (Canada)

Royal Entomological Society’s Insect Photo Competition

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Isabella Owens art 

@issabelaowensart (Instagram)

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[ID: an illustration of a white and gold unicorn and dragon. The unicorn is running to the right, with a cloud in the colors of the trans flag behind it, and the dragon is flying to the left breathing rainbow fire. Text reads "respect our existence or expect our resistance". End.]

Happy pride ✌️🩵✨ new bumper sticker soon maybe ??

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Just thinking about my onyx-line charcoals and becoming increasingly suspicious that there is an actual mutation at play causing them to be so dark. It really just doesn't make sense otherwise considering I'm only on the second generation.

Pictures and stream of consciousness rambling under the cut

And it's all stemming from Lacy, the founding dam.

She is my bare-minimum goal for the onyx charcoals. If I can get them even darker, great. But at minimum *this*. She was from South Mountain Reptiles and I reached out to Don a while back and he said that dark pewters like this would sometimes pop out of his bloodred lines but he could never predict it.

But Don has also sometimes produced bloodreds like this:

This is Wild Cherry, who belonged to Poppycorns. Sadly, she stopped breeding before I could buy one of this snake's sons. She is profoundly dark for a bloodred. Now imagine that overlaid atop pewter....

But back to Lacy. I only had one charcoal male to breed her to. This is Vanay.

He is... uh... kinda the opposite of what I'm going for. His low contrast was very nice but...

Those 2 together created Gabby:

Okay. She's kinda smack in the middle of them, right? All the babies looked identical at hatching. None particularly light, none particularly dark. I kept her because she had a little patch of aberrant saddles that kinda spelled out 'win'

But anways, more the fool I, I only kept her. Just one baby. At this point, it could be either way. Maybe Lacy was homozygous for something, and she passed one copy of this incomplete dominant trait down to her offspring, making there be no extreme variety in the clutch. Or maybe this was a selectively bred trait and all the babies landed smack in the middle between their parents. I was leaning towards that second, until Gabby started producing.

Her first mate for producing charcoals was Gallium. He's the dad of the current Onyx charcoal line.

He's... darker than Vanay at least? (low bar, tripping hazard) and kinda odd looking. But hey, he was a nice pewter which kept the diffused gene being at least a guaranteed het in all his babies which is great.

This is the point where I start seeing some rather stark variety in the clutches.

Like... okay. That's a bit odd and seems a bit less likely to be just natural variation between the light and dark parent, especially as the bottom snake is Onyx who is much darker than her mother.

But the real clincher for me was when I put Gabby to Charmot, a bright silver charcoal motley (tripped over the better-than-vanay low bar and into a vat of bleach).

But then they managed to create Larune

She is only a little lighter than her mother.

That... that just doesn't make sense. She's two extremely pale charcoal fathers down from Lacy but could have come from one of Lacy's clutches.

So I'm hoping that pairing Larune to her half-brother Peter will give me some answers, plus the chance for more babies as dark as Onyx.

And that's me done vaguely rambling. If this gene/genes is what made bloodreds like Wild Cherry, even the outcross babies will be more than worth it. And Edeshi should be a very nice bloodred in his own right so those babies should be astoundingly good.

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So last month I got hit by a car and died right. Which I didn't initially realize until I watched some guy haul my body into his pickup and drive off. Which, being that it's deep in rural Michigan, I assume means my body will make some venison jerky and maybe some wall decoration, and I'll be resigned to being one of hundreds of deer ghosts floating around Saginaw, which is w/e. But then I find out the guy works at a taxidermy shop or something, and he's actually pretty good at stuffing and mounting deer carcasses, which I come to find out when I find myself face to face with my old body in the shop window. So naturally, I figure since ghosts need to possess something to interact with the living world and etc etc etc the most logical thing to do is to possess my own body, since it's basically a statue of myself. And a little surprisingly, it actually fits like a glove. Like, since it's my body, it feels like stepping right back into place. So I get out of town and back to my herd, eventually. And that's where the trouble starts coming into it, because after I get settled again, I don't know how to explain to everyone else what feels so weird. Like since I can move my body and do everything I used to do, it's functionally the same, like nothing happened. Or it SHOULD be, so I don't know how to explain how it's NOT. But it's just hard to explain it to someone who's never been hit by a truck I guess

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Oops, I never uploaded this one to Tumblr (which I only realized when someone else did, but then was kind enough to tag me, thank you)!

This is the comic that kickstarted my obsession with telling stories with as few panels as I could (usually 10-11 haha), so it’s got a soft spot in my heart. 

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