there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

THE BOY

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

Gentleman, if I might add:

yes you may add this

I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

the singular unfortunate effect of getting really into discworld at a young age is that i formed a Certain Impression about the purpose of footnotes, and now i am entering academia and it is still my true and firm belief that the footnotes are for being funny in and NOTHING else

Journal comics- my agate hunting adventures taught me that I can find moments of joy without a bunch of made up requirements

normalise giving minor background characters insane, world-changing side quests that no one in the main story ever notices.

❤️ Auntie Jilli

the secret mini-poster from my zine, make zines :)

Chat, is this true?

because we don't want too many twitter-attitude people here, everyone rebog this with rent lowering gunshot posts please

we say faggot and death and other Mean Words™ here

Beautiful vent art i found during my time here I wont ever forget.

DID I MISS THE MEETING WHERE USERS WERE THE ONES WHOM RUINED ANY OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS

And not

THE FUCKING SINGULAR BILLIONAIRE MAJORITY SHARE HOLDER????????

btw it is sexy and cool to uplift and admire people who have skills you wish you had without using their ability as a stick to beat yourself with. even and especially if you are jealous of them.

My personal experience with this is getting REALLY into things you CANNOT do or even fathom how they are done

Production and style

And ENJOY the craft. Learn to appreciate the craft that went into it. Get super nerdy and be open and about how much you don’t know and how great it is for to exist.

Starve to death on an island or learn to plunge your gaping maw into the water and admire the coral as you bite at fish.

This is nothing against the anon, but posts like this make me so sad. Like people really have no idea

1. how much it costs to store their gif sets and serve web traffic and push notification and w/e

2. how much Zuck and others have been making from brutally harvesting and exploiting your private information

3. that maintaining a social network like this is a full time job for MANY highly skilled people, and that running datacenters is expensive, and using cloud services is more expensive

4. Like seriously, how is your mind not blown every day that you can still view some gifs uploaded in 2007. That's 10 megabytes that's been viewed (downloaded) a million times. Perhaps some were viewed 100 million times. That's 1'000 terabytes (1PB) of traffic just for one popular gif. It had to be on several hard drives, safely, all that time. You've been lied to if you think that costs nothing.

And again, not saying this about anon and not judging anyone but like. Statistically, over 99.9% of you don't want to pay for Tumblr Premium. How many of you would suddenly want to pay for Open Source Tumblr. How would you talk to the New Staff. How would you react if you disagree on any UI changes they make. If people send death threats to staff over a free social network, how much more entitled do you think people will be if they actually have to pay for it. What if you see some CSAM or revenge porn or something. Who will review it. Who will delete it. Who will be in charge of banning those users. Who will read bug reports. Who will validate complaints about inappropriate DMs. There literally is enough work for hundreds of people every month even with a financial sinkhole as Tumblr is right now. How do you think it would get managed as a community project. Who will keep track of 200 volunteers. Who will replace them when they burn out. Who will make sure there aren't power hungry cliques abusing their power. Who will make sure it's not hijacked by political parties or corporations to push their propaganda and oppress or data mine a minority and sell the data to ICE. Who will make sure a creepy mod isn't just reading all your DMs. Who will carry the legal responsibility if Nintendo sues the site for copyright infringement. Who will do audits. Who will represent it in court. Who will respond to DMCA takedowns. Who will wake up at 3am to mitigate a DDoS. Who will take legal responsibility when the database gets hacked and email addresses get leaked. Who will make sure the database admin isn't actually working for NSA and that's why he can afford to volunteer for free.

Running an ethical, large-scale, rich-content (with images over a few kilobytes large) social network is just incredibly complex. And by complex I mean impossible.

I’ll do it

Poorly

But I’ll do it

Tulip and Sweet Alyssum will be available as skirts too 💖

Midi length, 100% cotton, with pockets and a bow on the waistband~

Releasing on Monday!

Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it