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tumblr is great because no matter how many followers i get it doesn't stop me from being really fucking annoying. other places i will perhaps think before i post. Not here. not here

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もこふわ黒柴の黎くん on X: “おててないない https://t.co/U8Vo8mrROn” / X

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the entirety of reef blower as a deviantArt stamp

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ah yes the perfect name for something that goes on you eyes.

#I mean its pretty I guess

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this was a comment on one of my post from a recent live event. it was photos of joyful queer buckaroos celebrating together and proving love is real through creation, community, and a trot of love. most important I AM LITERALLY IN PHOTO AS A REAL FLESH AND BLOOD HUMAN

it got me thinking about how DEEP AND VICIOUS the irony poisoning of these early internet communities goes. the way buds like this cannot fathom someone just being a sincere person unrelated to their OWN old days of cynical posting. it is fascinating, and i will admit, sad too

despite a DECADE of work, countless live events, 350 tinglers written well before large language models were a thing, there are still people who cannot imagine someone like me could exist. it is a strange place to be. not just part of me, but my entire EXISTENCE is often gatekept

it is easy to say ‘well chuck your art IS strange’ but honestly i think it is more than that. magical realism is common. there are stories about dinosaurs and bigfeet and unicorns. this scoundrel reaction is about two unspoken things: my art is neurodivergent, and my art is queer

heres the thing: I WILL BE FINE. what concerns me is not an issue of MYSELF, it is a concern for the other young outsider buckaroos who see comments like this one and think ‘is that what they will say if i express MY unique way? will i be dehumanized like this at every turn?'

i will be honest, i cannot say that WONT happen, but i CAN say this: for as deep as this irony poisoning goes, it is slowly dying. the way i was treated at the start of my career is LIGHTYEARS DIFFERENT from the way i am treated now. there is a massive shift towards sincerity

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY. to young artists trotting up, the things that i am harassed over and doubted for and made fun of for are NOT tangental to what has made me successful, THEY ARE LITERALLY THE SAME THINGS THAT HAVE MADE ME SUCCESSFUL. YES I AM STRANGE, WHAT OF IT?

the things that you tuck away for fear of a review that says ‘there is a PROBLEM with this art because it has always been done another way’ THOSE ARE YOUR SUPERPOWERS. the gatekeepers want you to tuck those parts of yourself away because THEY TUCKED AWAY THOSE PART OF THEMSELVES

never forget that your unique way is PURE UNFILTERED 100 PERCENT ROCKET FUEL. it will stick out (maybe, if you are lucky, scoundrels will even say that someone like you could never actually be real), but sticking out isnt so bad when you are waving the flag of love.

in fact, when youre waving the flag of love, sticking out is pretty dang cool. what are flags for, after all? LOVE IS REAL BUCKAROOS. thank you for reading, and if you enjoyed this long post then please consider preordering BURY YOUR GAYS.

LETS TROT

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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Gonna get on my soapbox because im so mad. KEEP YOUR CATS INSIDE.

cw: animal death

Remember that cute little skunk I got pics of. Well we bought traps and were about to set them up to get him to a rehabber we know since it seems his mother was hit by a car.

We just learned that the neighbors cat killed them yesterday. The fact that a whole family of animals was wiped out by human encroachment just deeply upsets me. Sure skunks arent endangered but that doesnt make them less worthy of protection (not to mention we DO have endangered animals in this area. One is a rodent, so easy cat target)

Please, learn how to properly care for you cat. They do not need to go outside. No I dont care that your cat 'wants out'. My cat is a rescue and he also wanted out at first. He got over it. It didnt take that long.

#cw animal death #cats #keep your cats inside

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The baby returns!

He looks like that sad cat with the wet eyes meme

Look at the BABY that showed up in my yard <3 Sooo tiny. About the size of an adult female rat (just with more fluff)

And this scrub jay that likes to bully me lol. Hes been visiting when im gardening and divebombs me until I move and let him get any worms I dug up. (ive been trained by this bird to just move when he makes this noise that seems to be the bird equivalent to an "ahem" so hes stopped divebombing lol) Today he seemed very??????????? about me laying on the ground to get baby skunk pics lol

#Also we are probably going to try and catch him and take him to a rehabber. We havent spotted a mother or any siblings #unfortunately there is apparently a dead skunk on the side of the road nearby #so unfortunately he may be the lone survivor of a car strike :< #photography #skunk

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I already promised some more MSA sketches in the future for my watchers, but I figured ya'll deserved at least one cleaned up sketch right now since I haven't posted any art of the gang in awhile. Purely for fun as I've always wanted to draw the gang in more alternate outfits. :D

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For sale up on dealers den!

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...........the amount I want this lamp, just because it looks kinda like Ray ....

#Ghost trick #Ghost trick rewrote my brain #The neighbors hit a ball into a tree in my yard #I thought 'ah perfect for tricking'

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I already promised some more MSA sketches in the future for my watchers, but I figured ya'll deserved at least one cleaned up sketch right now since I haven't posted any art of the gang in awhile. Purely for fun as I've always wanted to draw the gang in more alternate outfits. :D

#omg what a cutie #He looks like such a sweet dork #mystery skulls

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Reblog with your score

#18 lol

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Look at the BABY that showed up in my yard <3 Sooo tiny. About the size of an adult female rat (just with more fluff)

And this scrub jay that likes to bully me lol. Hes been visiting when im gardening and divebombs me until I move and let him get any worms I dug up. (ive been trained by this bird to just move when he makes this noise that seems to be the bird equivalent to an "ahem" so hes stopped divebombing lol) Today he seemed very??????????? about me laying on the ground to get baby skunk pics lol

#photography #skunk #bird photography #birding #This lens is....not great lol #But its good enough for now #non manual zoom lenses are way out of my budget lol #But I so happy with these close ups of the baby

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I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades

but I am also super annoyed by the way it's framed as "without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is" way more prominently than it's framed as "hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?"

so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are

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Friend: what time do you usually go to bed?

Me: 10:30ish sometimes 4