The inevitable (fri)end

Should have worried more about his mental condition.

“Don’t forget to come up for air. And not just because all these people need you. Because I need you.”

hi y’all i just wanted to put you onto this fundraiser for the buffalo nations grasslands alliance. they’re trying to recoup some of the funds for black-footed ferret conservation on tribal grounds that the trump/musk administration has frozen, which is impacting not only the conservation efforts themselves but the livelihoods of the people working on them. the frozen grant is 1.1 million but this fundraiser has a goal of 50,000.

the fundraiser has 24 days left and has only reached 2% of its goal with 11 donations. black-footed ferrets are an endangered lazarus taxon that was thought to be extinct from 1979-1981 before being rediscovered by accident. they’re a miracle of conservation and it would be horrible to lose them for good, not to mention (again) the impact of people working with these animals losing their jobs which is outlined in the fundraiser link. indigenous-led conservation efforts are extremely important for a wide variety of reasons and as someone in the zoology area i feel obligated to share this fundraiser to contribute to those efforts.

i know that things are hard right now and there’s a lot of people and organizations all across the world that need help, so don’t feel pressured BUT if you have extra money and you can contribute to this fundraiser or share it with people who can that would be great.

super cute black-footed ferrets ^

Boosting this here- black footed ferrets are perhaps a little more charismatic than we usually allow here, but they need all the help they can get!

A few experimentations with Imogen’s hairstyle ;D

there is this trend I have noticed in Queer Books of late (it's not just Queer Books, but that's the only arena I can definitively speak on; please see this Goodreads review dragging The Hacienda to hell and back for a related example) where authors are so very proud of themselves for reinterpreting, reinventing, etc. a genre, but 1) they don't actually understand the genre at all, and 2) they are scared absolutely shitless at having their protagonists ever do anything remotely morally questionable - or, god fucking forbid, not being good people - that the result is the blandest fucking mush I've ever had the displeasure to read. See: Lavender House, a murder mystery about a family of queer people where the killer is obvious from the jump because there's only one straight person in the house and it's obvious the author isn't willing to let a gay person commit a crime, and Reluctant Immortals, a vampire book where our vampire leading lady not only doesn't kill people but doesn't even drink blood. I'm sick of it! None of these authors have anything remotely insightful to say about anything, but they're getting their books boosted because slapping a "look! it's queer!" label on the cover sells. Obviously the "classics" (by which I mean, the likes of Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite) are hashtag problematic, but god, I wish current authors had a fucking ounce of courage when it came to writing characters who just plain old fashioned SUCK.

For those of you that may have just finished watching Cory Booker’s record-breaking senate speech and are inspired to “get in good trouble”, you have a great opportunity for it this Saturday!

On April 5th, numerous advocacy groups are banding together into one nation-wide rally that will be held in major cities all over the country - you can easily find a participating location here!

www.handsoff2025.com

I’ll be volunteering as a safety captain at my own local rally, and I encourage all of you to go out there too and get in some good trouble as well!

for the record when I say a lot of major cities I mean a LOT of major cities :P

Dear Elmville, The Bad Kids

really crazy how much one (1) friend hang out can do for your mental health. do people know about this?

SOOOOO funny when you’re having a strong emotion and your logical brain KNOWS you’re overreacting but you literally can’t do anything about it.

Emotional brain: fire and rage and biting and biting and biting

Logical brain: That was an innocent mistake, and not anyone’s fault.

Emotional brain: you’re right… fire and rage and biting biting biting for one thousand years tho

He’s fine, it’s fine! Eventually!

@cr-aspec-fest Week 4

people will design soap dispensers and dish racks and go like it's okay if this is capable of getting rusty, right. that's an acceptable weak point for an item whose sole immutable destiny is to get wet every time it's used, right

The next three reprint covers by Matt Taylor dropped! Out on June 5th!

So i was trying my hand at a shadowgast gif following the jester one but turns out that i can't draw consistant water frame by frame so i'm just putting that here unfinished

And here is the jpeg version

It's a good look.

wow! that was a fun accidental 2 hour session of video's game. now to go to the kitchen to check on my pet Pot Of Boiling Water...

"Are you worth saving?" ☀️

I'm finally able to share a piece I'm very proud of that I got to make for Critical Role Abridged :)

What a question indeed.