Ho ho ho! I'm Santa!

Christmas was days ago.

Yeah well I just got this. And I have a surprise!

Taa-daa!

It's Scoria!

Yeah. She's the best surprise.

Hey! I figured out how Santa uses chimneys to go in people's houses!

Oh?

Yeah. Like this!

My sis is so smart. She's got it all figured out.

I can't say she's wrong, she's literally doing it. Good job girls!

snake spotted!!

Some parents will never forgive you for how they failed you

The crux being, of course, that this is yet another one of their failures.

Hear this: like every other way they've failed you, it has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with you. My darling, it never had a thing to do with you.

It was always them.

Help me revive my dead art account on instagram

Please read this till the end if you like my art and want to support me

Hi guys, im starting a new series on instagram where I'll be posting daily and I'll be drawing everyone who donates any amount to me (even if its 1$ minimum)

i find this method more open and direct way to do simple and small commisions which will help me through my college life and rents

I'll be doing this series on instagram because it has more users and i need your support to make my posts get more views

Rn everything i post gets stuck at 0 views

If you like my art i just want to ask you guys to follow me on instagram and share my reels , even a single share or copy link will help a lot and it'll be the best way you can support me

Here's my Instagram link

https://www.instagram.com/smx11art

Rn my account is pretty much dead but i get even 1k new followers i might start getting views

If you are interested in a quick sketch commisions you can donate through this link and send me your pic on ig or Tumblr messages and I'll draw it

https://ko-fi.com/smx11

Please consider following, I'll really appreciate your support, it'll mean a lot to me

I'll follow back everyone

And if anyone is interested in my commisions you can check this out

You can order it from here

https://ko-fi.com/smx11/commissions

I'm literally begging you, please be weird and queer, online and offline if you can, I want you to live life being as fascinating as possible

you'll only be alive for so long, please spend some time being odd

rice is the perfect food and westerners should eat more of it i'm so serious

you can season it, you can drizzle it with sauce, you can cook it in broth or coconut milk, you can add spices sugar butter sesame oil rice vinegar, you can mix it w/ garlic & scallions & veggies, you can fry it and scramble an egg in it, it goes with meat & seafood & protein, it reheats great with a bit of water, it's cheap, insane shelf-life, ideal for bulk buy discounts, many types & shapes & textures, there are thousands of recipes ranging from china to india to japan to the middle east to latin america to europe. AND a rice cocker cooks it for you. the many splendors that await you...

you think i made an error most grievous, BUT i noticed that typo before hitting post; in my infinite wisdom i chose to let nature take its course

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

This is honestly one of the places I find Marie Kondo's advice most helpful. I stop, look at the thing I've spent time and money on only to realize I dislike, and I say, "Thank you for teaching me something about myself and my preferences. I think I've learned this particular lesson and we can part ways now."

And then I don't feel like I "wasted" things or made a mistake. I just tried one path of learning about myself, learned something, and now it's time for a different path. Works a lot better for my brain.

The time Marie Kondo said "you can thank a a shirt you've never worn for teaching you about your taste", thereby making it NOT A WASTE literally rewired my whole brain. Acknowledge the thing and move forward, even if that means leaving the thing behind.

Barsboldia drawn in the style of 18th century cattle paintings

She had won awards

we have got to start putting gargoyles on buildings again

”the internet is an evil place!!” for you. i have a mile long blocklist and the best mutuals ever

Here's a mastiff completing the agility trial at a dog show.

The excited cheers of the crowd as this drool monster begrudgingly jumps, has made my 2025 already.

@shrimpsisbugs exact opposite to that borderpap

i could cry

Honestly i love how this shows how completely different dog breeds can be. Like, you can take a papillion over that course at warp 9 but this guy isn't built for that speed! He's taking his time! Hes got a lot of bulk to move!

He came pretty darn close to a clean round, too. Like you can kind of see that he doesn't get the point of this activity, but his two-legged friend wants to do it, so he's showing up ready to make an effort. What a great dog.

here’s to the people who didn’t stay soft throughout trauma…

who felt like the only way to survive your trauma was to toughen up. who’ve gotten more critical, closed off, and mistrusting. who never felt like it was safe to stay soft, and so you didn’t. who willingly or unwillingly changed into armour. who, even though your world is safe again, you still stay tough. who have to stay tough, ‘cause maybe your world is still unsafe. who have been stereotyped as tough and decided to say fuck it and be it. who have been coddled so much you feel you have to prove your strength. who have been neglected and abandoned, so strength was the only option. who is just not really a soft person to begin with. who live, breathe, and thrive better when tough. who doesn’t dare to open your heart or home again. who doesn’t dare to ever give up. who never tell anyone how much you cry when alone. who doesn’t tell anyone how much you long for long hugs. who can’t stand being touched. who’ve decided to live your life solo. who have a spouse, kids, pets, and family dinners.

to all my fellow tough cookies out there

who knows that tough doesn’t equal mean, malicious, or selfish. who knows that tough doesn’t mean a lack of emotions and empathy. who knows that tough doesn’t mean never scared and soft doesn’t mean always scared. who treasures our soft friends and their different kind of strength. who knows that survival through trauma comes in many forms and shapes. who knows that a tough mind and a tough body can house a soft heart.