Okay, Consider This. As A Chronic Nail Biter, I Can't Stand My Nails Having Any Noticeable Length. So

Okay, consider this. As a chronic nail biter, I can't stand my nails having any noticeable length. So despite loving the idea of having claws, I always figured that in reality it would never work. But then I really thought about why I hate having nails, and constantly bite them down, and it's starting to make more sense.

Our nail's grow from the nail matrix located closer towards the joint of our last knuckle, the nail growing along the top of said knuckle. If my nails are long and sturdy, then the action of scratching or digging into something with them will apply a force upward from underneath, essentially giving the sensation of prying my nails off while putting pressure on the top of my finger away from the tip. And it feels so wrong. Plus nails get so dirty, I have to worry about dirt getting under them and trapped between the skin and nail. And to clean them? Yep, more of that sensation of prying the nail away. Human nails were meant to provide minimal scratching and combing functionality while keeping out of the way so our broad finger pads can grip things easily.

Claws though? The claw grows from the quick, located closer to the tip of the last knuckle on the underside of it, claw fully encasing the quick like a shell. Scratching and digging will successfully distribute the force along the knuckle a lot more broadly without it being pried away. Due to the shape, the claw beds also get a lot less filthy, and cleaning them won't feel like they are getting torn off.

By biting my nails as short as possible, I'm getting rid of any possible leverage of pressure prying my nail upward from beneath. Plus the way animals like cats usually clean and groom their claws is by nibbling away any dirt, so by biting my nails, it's like I'm also grooming all the dirt away without scraping under my nails to do so.

So yeah, after thinking about it, I totally could have claws without my issue of biting them. Sure it'd take some time to break the habit, but the underlying cause that has made it impossible to break in the past will be gone

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8 months ago
I've explained how to divide a rectangle into even thirds to three board artists on the team in the last couple days, so hey, if YOU don't know how to do it, then here's how! pic.twitter.com/mXvIeXS0MY

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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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2 months ago

THIS IS ACTUALLY INSANE OH MY GOD????

Parallels.

[ID: Stylised, digital art centering Peril and Glory from Wings of Fire. They’re both shown from shoulders up, mirroring each other. Glory is placed upside down in the upper part, facing away from Peril, both frown with eyes closed. Kestrel can be seen above Peril, gently cupping her face, while snarling at Glory. Mirroring this, Scarlet is snarling at Peril, while cupping Glory’s face. Both their talons look ghostly and reach from offscreen. Particles of light, like sparks or fireflies, are all around them. The background is dark green, brightening in the center, where Peril and Glory almost touch. A light star outline can be seen there. Swirling clouds are drawn on the left, behind Kestrel and Peril, while tropical leaves are seen on the opposite side. Glory’s and Peril’s color palettes are almost identical, both using reds and teals, with their accent colors matching each others main colors. End ID] The same description is below.

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1 month ago

PEAK lesbian dogs!!!!

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4 months ago
!! (not Real) RELIGIOUS THEMES !!

!! (not real) RELIGIOUS THEMES !!

We both have ocs with religious psychosis (we’ve done research into how to portray it properly!!) so we wanted to do an art trade with them!!

this is Fretowa. she is probably not ok rn but im not sure. her gods are not very nice but it’s their will so they’re probably right I think

(this isn’t Christianity this is random made up oc religious stuff)


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8 months ago
My Gender Is Their Gender

My Gender is Their Gender

People forget the true definition of xenogender, which is a gender that cannot be described or experienced or fully explained by humans. And while this often leads to hoards, as people try to capture their understanding of their own gender. But for me, it’s been slimming down instead of gaining, turning to one point.

My gender encompasses the gender experience of animals, most specifically, the animals I am as a nonhuman. Parts of my gender are obvious, I wear brown feathers like the mallard, I avoid the mane when I can. But underneath there is this iceberg. The xeno part of my gender that I can only describe as the gender an animal experiences. A gender I in a human body will never fully quantify.

Lets for example, take the bird. Humans like to make it simple, applying their gender norms to them, female takes the eggs, male fucks off. And yet male emus are the most devoted fathers, female cuckoos abandon their clutches for other hens. Okay then, maybe males are big and flashy, and females are brown. And yet, a large majority of bird species are not sexually dimorphic. Femininity and masculinity encompass and share so many aspects that they don’t exist. And the “social construct” aspect of gender is exposed, and the rules break. Human gender means nothing to an animal.

The lioness who hunts for the pack grows a mane, the mallard who cares for the chicks grows in their iridescent colours.

And that, in some way, is me. Femininity, nullness, neutrality, transness, binary. All of it, in all its wonder, and all of it that i cannot handle to think of, is mine. I’m a female animal and that basically just means nothing and I love it. It fulfills everything neutrois and nonbinary is meant to be. I feel so gendered, it’s just in a way that humans don’t understand.

I’m brown like the mallard. It makes me female and yet it just doesn’t. and I have nipples on my belly like a lion and a lioness. None of it means anything and all of it is everything. It makes me want to chirp loudly with joy.

7 months ago

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