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DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

what pride flag is this (wrong answers only)

"The Future's Out to Get You"

Featuring Maski Hart (an OC I've had for a few years now) and a strange ghost thing that may or may not be a friend. Time will tell.

I have another drawing of Maski on my DA, which has a tiny bit more lore in it, so I guess if you want more info, you could look there. The main idea here is that the ghost is suspicious but Maski hasn't figured that out yet.

Woo new Cosi ref!! Finally!

You Tumblians haven't seen Cat Cosi yet, I don't think, but they were a cat for a long time, and then they changed into a dragon just recently. But I didn't have a ref yet, so I made this. And I like it a lot. The fullbody looks good, and I'm proud of the background. I didn't want to highlight the notes with regular squares, because that's boring, so I added some little flourishes to all of them. It helps with the vibes. I wanted it to have the same feeling as a pine forest? Or at least, the taiga in Minecraft. And the swatches are alive!! They're a blue-tongued lizard, Cape Barren goose, kangaroo, koala, and quoll. And a leaf.

I've been working on this on and off for the last four days, so a lot of the original thoughts I had have died by now. I wanted to change the markings and colours more, but everything I tried looked bad, and I didn't really have any problems with the original anyway, so I just kept it.

Reblogs appreciated :D I worked really hard on this lol

Reblogging on main to say I had this happen a week or so ago when I went to a museum.

They had a Tsintaosaurus skeleton there (Tsintaosaurus was a hadrosaur with a sort of unicorn horn), and I had expected hadrosaurs to be about the size of a cow, or maybe a horse at most. Nope. They're almost four metres tall.

So imagine all 5 feet of me, in the dinosaur room, staring up at this enormous creature. It was awesome in the most literal sense.

sometimes u have to see something in real life to truly get it. Elephant in pictures is like 'thats an elephant'

elephant in real life is like 'wow, that's a fucking elephant

I reblog too much stuff so I made a reblog blog. If, for some reason, you'd like to see nothing but stuff I thought was sort of interesting, you can go follow it I guess? Anyway, hopefully, this will keep this blog clean(er) lol

The blog is @rebloggerous so yeah

I have an honest to god Pavlovian response to the Camp Here and There afternoon and evening announcement songs

And much like showering I frequently hate the thought of it and then when I do it I wonder why on earth I didn't want to do it. And much like during a shower, drawing is an excuse to do something with my hands while idly thinking. But my hands don't get wrinkly when I draw so therefore they are Completely Different

making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

I'm a sucker for random generators so here

These are probably supposed to be for writing but they'll work for art too. And since I assume most of my followers are artists I actually have a reason to reblog this lmaooo

I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

done with the requests, really had fun with the httyd ones specially, thank you all!

tagging the users that requested

@aposterous @avianreptiles @sapphofinch @helsingvania @morp @crypticcrab @bi-pan-whiteout @kratt09 @lynxfrost13 @icecreamsodaaaaa

To increase activity on this blog, I thought I'd post some WIPs. I make way more unfinished drawings than finished ones so there's a chance I'll never finish some of these.

Anyway, the first is a redesign of a sona I had in mid/late 2020, named Seppos (September Apos; Apos is short for Aposterous because I'm very good at naming things /s). She's supposed to be summer-themed.

Next is a concept for a creature to inhabit the world of a project I'm working on. These guys are omnivores who live in woodlands and grasslands. The design will probably change.

And finally, a commission for an irl friend (I don't take commissions currently, by the way; this one is from a while ago). Ft our cats, Remy (left) and Lev (right).

So yeah. I'm going on holiday until Wednesday so bye

Apparently, this blog is 3 years old now?? I could've sworn I made it much later in the year but ok

I'm probably going to lose followers if I keep reblogging random stuff from fandoms my followers probably aren't in but. I need to remember this

Lemon demon rarities folder released

hi! i was wondering what kind of problems you’re talking about in your last post about the warriors books? i stopped reading after the Great Battle and honestly i haven’t picked up a warriors book since middle school, but im trying to get back into the fandom and would love to hear what you have to say!

there are kind of a lot, some more rampant than others. you've actually read further than I have (I stopped at sunrise), but I know a bit about the books after it because I frequent the analysis side of the Warriors fandom and I don't listen to spoiler warnings. The most common issue in the books is how not much happens in them. power of three and omen of the stars easily could have been one arc, but because the authors didn't plan the books properly they ended up as two.

some other things have been pointed out more recently. the series doesn't give disabled cats all that much respect (consider Snowkit's death, for example, or how Jayfeather was pressured by Leafpool to become a medicine cat because he was blind).

a few years ago, spottedleaf got her own novella which contained some very problematic aspects that I don't want to get into here.

there's also a lot of implicit sexism in the books; she-cats get fewer lines (i.e. less focus) and usually settle down and have kits no matter how little it seems to fit their characterisation. it's especially bad in dawn of the clans IMO; I haven't read it since 2020 but I'm pretty sure gray wing has like three girlfriends in two books? I never finished dotc but I've heard the sexism continues all the way through it.

the tribe of rushing water is also in a bit of a weird spot. i think some people claim cultural appropriation, but I don't know enough about that to verify it.

that's all that comes to mind at the moment, but I'm sure there's more. and i also haven't read any of the books in almost four years, so i might misremember things or misrepresent points originally made by people who actually did read the books properly.

Edit: @smewduck reminded me of the WC racism doc, which is as far as I can remember where I heard about the Tribe thing. here's the link to the doc in case people haven't read it, but just know it's really long: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nnCCD4TfR-5MZie9hQgpDfEE4mYpCtjNXQpD9VqOkxs/edit

Don't come at me, I'm the main character and you have to like me.

Rambling under the cut

The character here is Firestar from Warriors. I'd tentatively recommend reading the books if you haven't read them, but I'm not confident people will like them as they have their problems. Although most of the problems show up after the books that feature Firestar. He's supposed to be a Somali cat here. There wasn't any reason for drawing him. I just default to cats with my art experiments because they're easy to draw. And I did a study last night and I wanted to put the stuff I remembered to good use.

I'm trying to experiment with art that mimics traditional art, specifically the doodles I like to draw in class and stuff. This was really my first attempt and I think it turned out good so yeah!

Also, this is my first art piece of the year! Well, the first finished one. The New Year's Redraw is coming... eventually... I'm not too fussed about that coming out on time because I'm not usually on time with them anyway. One of them took four months and another was just never finished because it looked so ugly. This year's version will hopefully turn out very good, but I'll have to see. Anyway. Thanks to all my followers and stuff, and here's to a good year. Maybe I'll even open commissions.

YEAH!!!

i could watch about 8 billion of these every single day. i eat them up like a vacuum cleaner

Welcome to my art, where I only draw refs for characters I never use. Today’s instalment is Void, a character who used to have a purpose (and might again someday), but is currently just a cool design I have.

As their latest lore goes, Void is the spirit of death. They don’t do any of the soul collecting, though. They’re more of a shepherd. They oversee an army of little grim reaper creatures who bring the souls back to the afterlife, where Void tends to them. Void’s gender is ambiguous because they never speak out loud, and they have no obvious physical traits to identify biological sex. They don’t care what people call them, so people just pick whatever works.

This character has sort of been slotted into an idea I had that, in a dream scenario, would be some kind of game. Imagine Creatures of Sonaria but the survival aspects are better. Of course, I lack the motivation and skill to make that idle dream a reality, so it’ll probably never happen. In this hypothetical game, Void would be an NPC that you can do missions for.

Anyway, I’d write more (is it weird to make descriptions long on Tumblr?) but it’s almost midnight and I’m. So tired. See you guys (all 18 of you, wow) tomorrow. If things go to plan, I’ll be posting again on Jan 1st because I do a yearly redraw on New Year’s Eve/Day. I’m excited to work on it. I feel like I’ve improved a lot with my scene art this year, and unless I get lazy I'll probably try to paint it so that might turn out cool. Ok bye

the miracle of flight

Man I wish the book had this instead of the boring useless unnecessary plot we got

Golden Devil

I remember once talking to my partner about the Dragonslayer book (which I have not read myself). I told him I hope there is a scene in there where Sunny does something normal and non-threatening and somehow ends up misinterpreted as a horrifying nightmare creature by a bunch of clueless scavengers with overactive imaginations.

I've sat here for about an hour now, trying to decide whether I should tag this as "violent" or not. On the one hand, it really isn't; it's just strawberry juice after all. On the other hand maybe the evocative imagery in the first panel is transcending the actual reality of the situation. I've decided to leave it as is for the time being. If this imagery upsets you though, please let me know so I can figure out a way to deal with that in the future. Maybe I can make up a new tag or something.

So cute so amazing and I should do this exact thing too because LOOK at the result ARGGHHH I especially love the genet inspiration?? Those little guys. Underrated.

i have tried and failed to make myself a secondary animal-critter-thing sona so i just mashed several me-animals together and i thnk it worked this time. this is me. i identify with small skittering animals. i identify with fear

i even made an id board in preparation. i think i captured it well in fact

Back at it again with my ClanGen game! You might remember me talking about ClanGen. You may naturally assume I've picked it up again recently and decided to draw my clan's ten founders, and that I spent a few days to a week making this. And you would, naturally, be wrong. I started this in February. I drew the first eight cats. All that was left was Morningpaw and Creekpaw. But I just. Stopped. And forgot about it. Until a month or so ago, when I FINALLY drew the last two cats. And then I forgot about it again until a week or two ago, when I finished it up, and I'm now posting it.

These cats are from HeronClan, a fanmade Warriors Clan that lives by the sea. They are the Clan's founders. You might have noticed the 2:3 adult to child ratio, which was an accident, and resulted in Rowanstar getting four apprentices: Wolfpaw, Webpaw, Morningpaw and Creekpaw. I can only imagine what that must have been like. Mouselarch was the only warrior at the beginning, too. I'm now in the 30-somethingth moon, and the Clan has wayyy more members now; I'm thinking of drawing another list of cats once I get to Moon 50, but we'll have to see.

Here are the traits/skills of each cat, so you can get a bit of a feel for their personalities:

Rowanstar: calm, unusually strong fighter

Toadheart: careful, great teacher

Skystripe: faithful, great hunter (pain)

Mouselarch: strange, good teacher

Wolfpaw: patient

Ganderpaw: ambitious

Hillpaw: ambitious

Webpaw: loyal

Morningpaw: compassionate

Creekpaw: cold

I started this game before the experience system changed, so that's why the apprentices don't have skills yet.

Anyway, I've been procrastinating on this thing for long enough, so here it is! Enjoy.

So I have this terrarium in a jar on my desk, and for months I thought everything in it had died, but I just looked in it and found a pair of healthy adult spiders just. Hanging out in there.

You may be able to imagine my surprise upon seeing this, as I had not opened the lid in months and had seen the two plants I put inside die in real time. That all happened in, like, August? Maybe earlier?

The weirdest part is that spiders are predators, so if I have spiders, I must also have other bugs they're preying on that I never noticed.

I'm assembling a summary of art because I do it every year, however, this year's has been really annoying because it turns out I made basically no good personal art in March. And November.

So, it's kind of less of a documentation of my improvement, and more of a frustrating reminder that I can't draw as often as I used to.

But at least I made some art. There's always that.

Reblogging because I'm feral for wing anatomy (in other words I have Opinions about it) and maybe people will find it useful

here, have wings.

Good Resources:

Puget Sound Wing and Tail Collection (where all the wing images I used came from)

Origin of Flight in Birds

Animating Bird Flight (great resource for ALL artists)

Faces

These are two characters from my main ClanGen game: Hillpatch and his son, Shellpaw. Hillpatch is the brown-and-white one and Shellpaw is the black-and-white one. I don't have much to say about them lol, I just wanted to draw them. I also drew the original ten starter cats (which includes Hillpatch, just as an apprentice), and that drawing will be posted eventually.

Idk what is expected on Tumblr in terms of having a theme for your blog, if you can't tell. I'm probably just going to throw all of my OC stuff into this one, including my ClanGen stuff, unless I start making a lot of ClanGen art, which is unlikely. So yeah. Expect that

Yoooooo

Update: I redid the ref's background and changed her name, but I left the original description under the cut

New OC?? Technically. Not really. This is Anthropos, a character I made 3 years ago and redesigned a week or two ago. She has dug her claws into my brain and is refusing to let go.

Anthropos was one of my sonas in 2020 (although I barely used her). You can see her first design on the ref, but I also have a very underwhelming redesign from 2021 that I’m not going to bother with linking because it sucks, and I spelled her name wrong on it. What’s going on with the name? Reasonable question. It’s short for Anthropomorphic Aposterous.

You can see the old design on the ref. Look at it. It's so ugly. I can't believe I made that and didn't hate myself for it. The new version is a lot better imo. I tried to make the demon theme (because that's a thing) more apparent since the original is just an anthro cat with horns and four ears.

Note: she has a sort of mohawk and a set of long blue spikes at the base of her tail that I couldn’t include on the ref because it’d look weird. Her tail is also technically longer than seen here.

K thanks for reading, bye

As a proud pirate, this is invaluable. Thank you sincerely

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

Finished the last of my assignments for the year today!! Now all that's left is the exams...

I promise I'll actually post art soon but until then, please. Lucids is so swag and the fandom needs to be bigger. Go watch it. Unless you don't want to have a mild existential crisis or paradigm shift, I guess.

a random guy rlly will go ‘what if i made the most interesting and meta bullshitty series where every character is acted by myself that will change how ur brain chemistry works’ n i have no say in the matter but to cry about it

anyway if you like multiverse and dreamscape-y stuff PLEASEEE go watch ‘LUCIDS’ by Nicholas Podany on youtube im like, actually losing my mind.