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I hate how often someone suddenly changes how they act towards me the second they find out I'm autistic. I'm still the same person you were talking to before you found out!
I hate how often someone suddenly changes how they act towards me the second they find out I'm autistic. I'm still the same person you were talking to before you found out!
; I FINALLY KNOW WHAT TO DO W MY LEGS WHEN I'M LYING DOWN HAVAUAVSG ??!
; it's heavy, tight, doesn't mess up the sheets, I can itch my feet without moving and messing up how I'm lying down, I scare anyone who looks at how I sleep, it's enough sensory input that I can focus on it && ignore everything else, but not too much that it's overwhelming, I can fidget for extra stimulation. HAH. I'm so smart I love myself
; not to brag but
; I'm totally so excited HAGAYSVAUSVSY !! AHHH !! :D today is a good dayyy wahhhh
; * my family sleeping peacefully *
; 7yo undiagnosed autistic me standing over my mother's bed sobbing about to wake her up to tell her my skin feels like it's about to peel off and I think I'm dying:
; maybe gri is js asexual but adverts like these confuse xim
; is this supposed to make xim want to buy your product ?? why is your model looking at grim like gri js tried to explain the lore of gacha to them. Why is their nipple showing && why're they lying on the floor like that. WHAT EVEN IS THE PRODUCT ?? IS IT THE PERSON ?? THE JACKET ?? THE FLOOR ??? [ pt: the floor :end pt ] LIKE !! WHAT IS GRI LOOKING AT RN AND WHY IS IT LOOKING BACK AT XIM !!
- ⭐🦊
Help save Marha's Family
Marha @freepaleatine95 , like a lot of people on this site is a student. She was studying computer engineering in Gaza until her home, her university, and dreams were destroyed by Israel's attacks.
I am sure you have seen many posts like this, and will see more as the anniversary of October 7th approaches. I ask of you to continue to look, to keep eyes on Palestine, to read their stories, and of course to share and donate to their campaigns.
Marha reached out to me and asked me to create a post for her and support her campaign. I ask you to do the same.
Vetted by 90-ghost (different account, same campaign)
$18,956 raised $50,000 as of October 6th
A whole year without life and we are still suffering
A full year of death
A whole year of suffering, a whole year of displacement
A whole year of famine
@ibtisams shared my friend 💝
Help save Marha's Family
Marha @freepaleatine95 , like a lot of people on this site is a student. She was studying computer engineering in Gaza until her home, her university, and dreams were destroyed by Israel's attacks.
I am sure you have seen many posts like this, and will see more as the anniversary of October 7th approaches. I ask of you to continue to look, to keep eyes on Palestine, to read their stories, and of course to share and donate to their campaigns.
Marha reached out to me and asked me to create a post for her and support her campaign. I ask you to do the same.
Vetted by 90-ghost (different account, same campaign)
$18,956 raised $50,000 as of October 6th
@butchdarling shared friend ❤️
Help save Marha's Family
Marha @freepaleatine95 , like a lot of people on this site is a student. She was studying computer engineering in Gaza until her home, her university, and dreams were destroyed by Israel's attacks.
I am sure you have seen many posts like this, and will see more as the anniversary of October 7th approaches. I ask of you to continue to look, to keep eyes on Palestine, to read their stories, and of course to share and donate to their campaigns.
Marha reached out to me and asked me to create a post for her and support her campaign. I ask you to do the same.
Vetted by 90-ghost (different account, same campaign)
$18,956 raised $50,000 as of October 6th
Hello my dears! I, Asmaa, ask you to support my campaign to help me reach my goal. 🙏 I am now in desperate need of your support to help me stay alive and safe. Gaza is a very dangerous place, both in terms of living standards and souls. I need your financial support so that I can get the basic needs of my family. Please help a family survive through your small donations or through your shares to others. And reblog. The campaign is going very slowly. 🙏🍉💔
I'm reopening my donation commissions for Sudan and Palestine! Donate to receive a drawing! Please read carefully before sending in an email.
5/5 slots OPEN!
Check this original post OR my website to see if there are open slots. I will keep them updated.
Only donations made AFTER this post (August 27th) will be accepted.
This should go without saying, but please do not send in donation proof you've sent for other art/raffle/etc.. The goal is to get as many donations going as possible!
After making your donation, email the proof of donation, proof of the amount spent, and your request to: [email protected].
If it is an OC, please include a visible reference. I reserve the right to refuse a commission, but am willing to draw something else.
Fan art commissions will be posted, if OC i will ask first.
Turnaround will be at max a month.
Donation options:
Khartoum Aid Kitchen provides food for kitchens feeding thousands of people daily.
Sadeia provides medical supplies and aid. (their twitter)
BSonBlast retweets many Sudanese fundraisers, for Sudanese families and more.
Donate an e-sim! Crips for Gaza makes the process much easier, but if you would like to purchase one yourself and send it, the steps to do so is listed on the GazaEsims site. Remember to search for referral codes and sales.
Care For Gaza provides food, water and other necessities.
Donate to a Palestinian family's fundraiser. I've reblogged many on here, and here is a spreadsheet of many vetted fundraisers.
If there is something not listed here but is verifiably going towards Sudanese or Palestinian aid, that is welcome as well.
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[third image description: a screenshot of a tumblr tag saying "you did her name is earth.". End description.]
i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this
A recent cartoon for New Scientist
Something to make up for all the text heavy posts lately lmao I've finally done what I've been threatening to do for half a year and made a nice reference pic for myself showing what goes on inside this guy
Pantera is very old - almost three centuries old, and one of the very first holy beasts ever constructed. His systems were upgraded many times over the decades to improve performance, efficiency, and reduce the number of crew needed, but the archaic original construction proved a barrier against true modernisation. Even still he was highly successful in his time and participated in over a hundred hunts. This schematic is accurate for the 15th rebuild of Pantera.
The bottom image shows the vital fuel lines as well as the typical crew count and communications systems between each occupied chamber. The throne room seats two, but can fit more apprentices around the seats if they all squeeze in tight.
Starting with the navigation platform - this is open to the air, beneath the curve of Pantera's helm. The navigator sends up the appropriate communication flags and maintains a collection of charts. There is a cluster of gravity-fed tubes which can convey messages to the throne chamber. The navigator's apprentice will use cords to pull up returning messages (i.e there's no suction tube, this is manual). For quicker communication, the navigator can direct using heading degrees using a pull-cord system, pointing the knight in the right direction.
The throne, heart, and furnace chambers are all densely interlinked and must be perfectly in sync to avoid disaster. The heart directs fuel to the 100+ engine cylinders in and around Pantera's hull (not pictured) using its own engine, which is powered by its own fuel tank independently from the larger tank in the pelvis. The heart cylinders are controlled manually by the enginesmith in the forward position - by constricting the action of the heart cylinders, fuel from the furnace can be rerouted to where the knight indicates more power is required. It requires a gentle touch as prolonged fuel starvation in a cylinder-driven pump can induce additional stress. Operating the heart is, visually, somewhat like playing the piano, with each key a separate cylinder governing a pump that sends fuel somewhere.
This fuel comes from the main tank, where it is stored in its unexcited state. The tank has a movable floor which ensures there is always sufficient pressure to feed the furnace. Smiths in the furnace chamber operate the valves that allow the gravity-fed furnace to fill. There are eight open wells which receive fuel, four on either side of the central walkway, and each can be excited independently as needed, depending on demand. The fuel is excited by dropping in a spark. On contact with the ignition source it enters its excited state, and turns from a thick, clear oil to an incandescent orange liquid which ignites when mixed with compressed air inside an engine cylinder, similar to common rail diesel engines. In this state it also powers the nerve cords that interface with the knight's dialogue, which is ultimately what lets the beast to move with lifelike rather than mechanical motions.
The knight does not quite feel the beast's body as their own but they do feel it as an extension of themselves. Their dialogue informs them where power is needed for their current manoeuvre, and in turn they pass that along to the heart workers and so on. There are several levers in the throne chamber, one of which is the fire handle that tells the heart workers to redirect fuel straight to the mouth. Two tanks can fill with incandescent fuel allowing for two subsequent flamethrower sprays before the tanks have to replenish. This is the most fuel-costly manoeuvre on board so aiming must be precise.
Tips for writing and drawing amputee characters: Stump Scarring
This was something I had originally intended to mention in this post but felt it deserved its own separate post.
A lot of people, when drawing and designing amputee characters, draw their characters with these big, gnarly looking scars all over the stump. I get why people do this, but in reality, most amputees have stumps that look more like this:
The only scarring that is inherent to amputation (meaning most amputees have) is a very thin line right at the tip of the stump that comes from where the stump was sewn shut. After 5-10 years though, these thin incision scars will fade to be nearly invisible in most folks other than the indent it usually leaves in the skin.
Of course, there are exceptions! My own legs are covered in heavy scarring like the pictures below.
but typically, you only see this in amputees who lost their limb in ways that required them to also need skin grafts, such as from a burn (fire or acid), gangrene, some types of rapid-onset sepsis, or particularly brutal animal attacks.
For context, I used scars from meningococcal as reference here.
I think this is another reason a lot of people, particularly in 2D comics and animation, cover their amputee character's stumps, because they think all amputees have scars like the ones in the second image and I'll be honest, that's a lot to draw when you're drawing it over and over again, but unless your amputee also needed skin grafts bcuase of their injury/illness, their stumps will look more like the first images.
Fun fact: on particularly pale skin, scars can change colour depending on temperature. scars have less circulation and the blood vessels are closer to the skin, which means if you don't have a lot of melanin, your scars can turn a grey-ish purple colour like so:
This information is brought to you by an especially pasty white person in the southern hemisphere (where it's winter atm) who's scars haven't seen the sun since june lmao.
A quick final note: If you look up "burn scars" or any other similar type of large scarring on google a lot of what you get are fresh scars, so they're going to look different than the ones here. On pale skin, large scars like the ones above start out very dark red and will fade to look more like the images here. The same is true for dark skin, typically fresh scars will be much darker in colouration and will fade to be closer to the natural skin tone with time, though on both, they will always be very visible. Some types of scarring on darker skin tones can cause the skin to become lighter, but they don't usually turn entirely light pink like I've seen some folks draw. This is why it's so important to look up references of the type of scar your character has AND how that looks on their skin tone.
And as always, listen to POC and seek out the recourses specifically made by them, especially if you're drawing characters with darker skin tones. Their lived experience will always beat my "what I found through internet research and from talking to friends"
silly beast named ruffles
full quality
your honour i love them
accidentally made a triptych
Anon hate - Is it true? - Did you know?
Merlin as Textposts Meme (1/?)
Bonus:
[image id: Arthur peacefully lying dead in the wicker funeral boat merlin made for him, captioned with the text post “It’s very important that I’m allowed to slumber for one thousand years and never feel pain”]
(Captions in alt id. All Merlin pictures come from farawaysite)