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Please Read & Reblog❤️

Thank you all for your continued support. We achieved a very important goal, which was the cost of living for the first months upon our arrival. I increased the goal so that I could buy a new computer and go back to my job (graphic designer) after my house was bombed and all my devices at home were destroyed. This is what my office looks like. In my house before the bombing. I appreciate your continued support for us ❤️

🚨Update: One day left until the campaign ends🚨

A second link if the campaign link does not work for direct support

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Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Windsor Nature Park, Singapore

photograph by Tony Wong 

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Hey, if you're a minor and you're following my blog, I just need you to be aware:

You have been on this earth for fewer years than my cat has.

She turns 20 this week, everyone please say happy birthday 🥳💖

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everyone please read this and share if you can.

Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.

i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.

and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.

three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.

this is not natural.

unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.

when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.

links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):

link for non-brazilians (paybox)

link for brazilians

pix assufrgs

will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.

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Aliens when they realize the indomitable human spirit isn’t a myth:

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the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u

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Ended a month long search today for an American bittern

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Rawzom the Raven

(King of the Raven Tribe, based on a story by @olivescales)

This is fanart I painted for a story written by @olivescales which you can find here on their blog. Their story, "The Forgotten Legends of Chima," is based on "The Legends of Chima." It has action, adventure, and mystery, as well as realistic characters with unique personalities, so I've been having fun reading it.

Media: water-soluble oil paint on Claybord

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i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

#save for later

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Hey guys, almost forgot -

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most important thing about the eclipse:

whatever you do, DON'T listen to some stuck-up calico claiming he caused the sun to disappear! he'll dethrone your leader and become a dictator btw

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woah, i actually made something for once

this was drawn at school without reference pictures so it’s not super accurate but hopefully it’s ok-

poob design by @glassandhamsandwich!

#poob regretevator #art

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As protests start ramping up and violence escalates please remember:

DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES FOR PEPPER SPRAY OR TEAR GAS.

It can and will cause infection due to bacteria. Flush with water, distilled if possible, and never EVER wear contact lenses to protests where there may be police retaliation.

Please reblog. It may save someone's sight.

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woah, i actually made something for once

this was drawn at school without reference pictures so it’s not super accurate but hopefully it’s ok-

poob design by @glassandhamsandwich!

#poob regretevator #art

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[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”