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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Museum SOS

I just saw the news that the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY is facing foreclosure after a group of donors failed to produce about $30 million USD that they had promised.

The museum is run by the Paleontological Research Institution, whose collection has about 7 million fossil specimens—one of the largest in the US—and is one of only a few natural history museums in upstate NY. PRI runs both the Museum and the Cayuga Nature Center, which is also dealing with the budget shortfall.

The organization is working on restructuring (namely downsizing) to improve their financial sustainability but they still need funds, and one thing they've said could help is if people shop at their store!

The foreclosure news broke like two days ago and their shop is already selling fast (testament to how many people want them to survive!) but there are a few items left in stock, including some prehistoric plushies. If you want to make a purchase to help maybe keep them afloat, their online gift shop is here and is honestly extremely reasonably priced.

so how about a FOOT LONG TULLY MONSTER

OR A DUNKLEOSTEUS

OR SOME

TRILOBITE SLIPPERS

They've also got some books, shirts, toys, etc. and I'm sure those sales numbers will help the authors/artists as well.

(Regular donations are also welcomed)

White-barred tiger moth, Echeta grandis, Erebidae

Found in Ecuador

Photo 1 by jvacl, 2 by desertnaturalist, 3 by rhexia, and 4 by jplove

Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.

PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.

Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

Okay. So it’s been almost forever since I posted any art. Not gonna lie, this year has kind of sucked. BUT. I started drawing the other day and something magical happened. It didn’t suck. You just gotta roll with it when it takes you and you might get something nice out of it. : )

ok listen… you r literally the only person i’m telling this. just.. don’t tell anybody bud, but

i couldn’t sleep, so I decided to just start flicking through some internet TV things, like Netflix, Crunchyroll, etc.

and I found

{{ VOICE QUIVERING }}

this ANIME~~~~

called “SHE AND HER CAT”.

and it’s just it’s about

this girl and her cat.

but… it’s from the perspective of the cat. who LOVES HER.

SO MUCH.

and… the whole show is just about how happy he is to be her cat and how he thinks she’s amazing and the best ever

it’s a whole SHOW ABOUT HOW MUCH THIS CAT AND HUMAN LOVE EACH OTHER

AND HOW HAPPY HE IS TO ALWAYS BE THERE FOR HER

AND, AND, AND THE SECOND EPISODE IS JUST THEM REMINISCING ABOUT THE FIRST day they met…

and i SWEAR ON MY LIFE, I am a grown 30-year-old man with a successful business

reduced to literal tears

because it made me miss having a cat SO MUCH that I just cannot deal without ranting on Tumblr!!!

I mean come on… 

She always comes home exhausted.

She brings the smell of a faraway town I don’t know.

I live in my own time, and she lives in her own time.

So these moments when my time and hers intersect

are more precious to me than anything

it’s SO MELODRAMATIC AND SO SWEET AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY 

FULL ON TEARS. 

OUGHH MY HEART…

FE7 was my first Fire Emblem game and I probably got a little too attached to the characters but Matthew especially.

In light of the recent SpaceX news, I made a new icon for my everything-else blog. :D Space travel!

Shiva is doing the best he can being a Spider, a glorified gang-leader. But he’s not very good at it. For the longest time his younger sister was his only Fly. It isn’t until Lio shows up that he finds someone that seems almost too good to be true. Lio belongs to a hermaphroditic species from the southern cities. What their business is in snowy Miroslav remains to be seen.

Dragons and teeth!

They’re fun! :)

So I’ve sorta had these laying around since last summer. I found them again by accident and decided, what the hey! I’ll throw ‘em on tumblr!

As far as I can remember these were just for the sake of animating. The backgrounds are leftovers from an old Even Keel point and click thing I made. Flash ate the quality, so sorry about that.

I really don’t actually paint as much as I’d like to so this was very experimental. :D

Quick backstory: Rocks. My mom loves rocks. She has a nice little collection in the yard and is always looking for nice ones to add. I found this guy a while back and thought of her immediately. After some deliberation I decided to be bold and paint it for her.

Diu is always fun to draw. He also makes me want to write again, which is always a plus. :D

I was in a spacey mood. :)

(Also, I really want to try posting on a more regular schedule instead of letting things pile up so much. We’ll see how that goes!)

Cyan waiting for the train, ready to give up his old life in favor of the new.

I’ve been playing Fire Emblem: Fates and I felt nostalgic for good old FE7.

Matthew and Leila, my god. :(

Some sketches from December. Blame the Sims. Always blame the Sims.

Valli and Oscar! :D

I’m coloring sketches I did last month.

(Look, I actually did something!)

I was informed that Bat’s partner would be an espeon. I made it happen.

Also, does espeon purr? I imagine espeon would purr.

Miel is so caught up in protecting his secrets that he can’t fathom people genuinely wanting to help him.

“They finally reached a turn that broke the pattern of the city. A well-worn dirt road circled up to a set of stables on a hill. The sight of them, even in the dark, was welcoming.”

P.S.

I think my favorite thing right now is writing Cyan stumbling through conversations and trying to make it look like no big deal.The poor guy has the social graces of a rock.

The Even Keel height chart is back! :D

Look. It’s these nerds again. Diu and Latha are probably the most well adjusted couple among my characters, which is sweet. One is a killer and the other is a DJ. They also live in space. 

A quick Hiei sketch, because I’m feeling nostalgic for Yu Yu Hakusho. :)

Hegan here belongs to Kiaci.