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Not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (drift compatible)

#pacific rim #sent to me #thank you babe

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Let's do this, then!

Dragon Age: Absolution Watch Party is happening on 27-Apr-2024, from 12:00 - 14:45 Atlantic Time! (Use a time zone converter to find your local hours, if interested)

We'll be using Hyperbeam, which is a free browser extension / app that allows for group streaming. You will not need anything but Hyperbeam, as I, the host, will be providing the episodes.

English subtitles will be included.

If we have tech troubles, we'll have to reschedule later in May, as I will be away on vacation for the beginning of the month.

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emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

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What I was taught growing up: Wild edible plants and animals were just so naturally abundant that the indigenous people of my area, namely western Washington state, didn't have to develop agriculture and could just easily forage/hunt for all their needs.

The first pebble in what would become a landslide: Native peoples practiced intentional fire, which kept the trees from growing over the camas praire.

The next: PNW native peoples intentionally planted and cultivated forest gardens, and we can still see the increase in biodiversity where these gardens were today.

The next: We have an oak prairie savanna ecosystem that was intentionally maintained via intentional fire (which they were banned from doing for like, 100 years and we're just now starting to do again), and this ecosystem is disappearing as Douglas firs spread, invasive species take over, and land is turned into European-style agricultural systems.

The Land Slide: Actually, the native peoples had a complex agricultural and food processing system that allowed them to meet all their needs throughout the year, including storing food for the long, wet, dark winter. They collected a wide variety of plant foods (along with the salmon, deer, and other animals they hunted), from seaweeds to roots to berries, and they also managed these food systems via not only burning, but pruning, weeding, planting, digging/tilling, selectively harvesting root crops so that smaller ones were left behind to grow and the biggest were left to reseed, and careful harvesting at particular times for each species that both ensured their perennial (!) crops would continue thriving and that harvest occurred at the best time for the best quality food. American settlers were willfully ignorant of the complex agricultural system, because being thus allowed them to claim the land wasn't being used. Native peoples were actively managing the ecosystem to produce their food, in a sustainable manner that increased biodiversity, thus benefiting not only themselves but other species as well.

So that's cool. If you want to read more, I suggest "Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America" by Nancy J. Turner

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its so difficult to draw anatomy. and objects. and backgrounds. and clothing. and colors. and lighting. i honestly dont know how i ever managed to draw anything in my entire life

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this ask polly comment..

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anyone else destroying and betraying themselves for nothing 🤣

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you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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does this resonate with ANYONE

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when I see something dated 2019 I think “oh that’s not too long ago” and then I remember that 2019 was not only five years ago but those five years have somehow contained several lifetimes

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there's something so intimate about mutuals being on here at the same time. like oh you reblogged that from me just seconds after i posted/reblogged that, so in essence we have touched the same thing. did you feel me.

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MORE IMAGE PACKS NOW ON PATREON

Do you want to see how muscle engagement varies when using bows of different weights? Or draw an archer running, seated, crouching or leaping? More image packs from my collaboration with @null-entity are now up on Patreon! P.S. give @null-entity a follow for more excellent image references

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Can't sleep. Insomnia again.

Also, thought I started my period the other day, turns out it was just spotting. Cramps still hurt like it was my period though.

I keep procrastinating on important things. I can't guilt myself into doing things anymore. I have to make time.

Reflecting on friendships and past connections. I have realized I have kept friends, when I'm a better friend than the friend is to me. I know people are busy. But I have been putting in most the effort. Multiple of my friends have not extended the same effort to me. That's okay. It's okay for me to refocus energy to my closest friends, like the ones I have through here.

If I want the life I want, I have to make time to make it happen. I can do it. I'll be okay.

#xiomara talks