#toe feathers

[u-hadme-atmoonpie]

Tired beans 🐾🐾

#🐾🐾 #tired beans #toe beans tuesday #toe beans #toe feathers #tuxedo cat #tuxedo cats #tuxie #tuxies #moonpie #meow #moon pie #floof #cutest cat ever #so tired #so sleepy

[whiskykitteeeeee]

Throwback Steve <3 He's my sweet silly beautiful empty headed kitty

When I got my tablet and decided to go maximum effort learn digital drawing this was one of my first projects. I didn't do smart things with layers and I think the font is kinda cringe but there's some good things too.

#happy caturday #toe feathers #fluffy feet #fluffy cat #black cat #whisky #whiskey #whiskeeeeee #cats #i love puns #drawing #draw every day

[bigdumbtickler03]

a soft feather tickling in between the toes is top tier imo 👌

THE REACTIONS TO IT ARE SO CUTE TOO LIKE- it’s such a light touch but it can make lees lose their mind especially if they have really ticklish feet/toes. (Not just the toes though, feather tickling in general is so fun and oh so very cute) Bonus points if your using fluffy feathers to tickle the person…good shit 🤌

#if ur toes are really sensitive it’s very effective #feather tickles #feather tickling #tickle community #feet tickles #ticklish toes #toe tickling #tickling #tickle blog #t word #tickle #ler #ler mood #sfw tickles #sfw tickling #sfw tickling community #tickle scenarios #tickle content #tickle talk #tickle thoughts #soft tickles #cute tickles

[myimmanence]

Oh no I’m falling

#spn #spn fanart #illustration #supernatural #supernatural fanart #castiel fanart #castiel #fallen angel #cas #staring forlornly at my crooked toe bones like cas staring here at his blackened feather #my art

[astronomodome]

Tumblr Poll Tournaments & MCYT

So a while ago I made a post expressing my frustration with the way a lot of tumblr poll tournaments seem to exclude mcyt characters- or if they are included, people in the notes are rude about it. The first situation of these- the poll organizer including rules against submitting characters from mcyt- is something I can easily quantify. I've crunched some numbers in order to find out two things:

How common is this phenomenon, really?

Why does this happen in the first place?

A note before I start: I'm not blaming the poll organizers for this, and I don't want anyone to get angry at them for excluding mcyt. At the end of the day, it's up to them to curate what they want their poll to be, and if they don't want to deal with the toxicity that often comes with letting mcyt characters run (or if they just don't like it for whatever reason), that's their decision. Trust me- poll organizers have to put up with a lot of shit already, and I don't want to add to it, regardless of their opinions on mcyt. If any poll organizers recognize their own words in the later part of this overview, they can contact me and I'll remove it. This is also why I have chosen not to identify the blogs from which I took the examples- I mean no harm to any poll organizer. They are a symptom of a much larger problem and they haven't done anything wrong except be a little misinformed at worst.

Excluding mcyt characters from poll tournaments really isn't that big of a deal on its own- though it is frustrating- but it does speak to the larger attitude of the general tumblr population towards mcyt. While not without its flaws, this can be used as a metric to measure the extent of this attitude and maybe get a hint of why it exists.

...Please note, also, that most of these polls date back to around March-June 2023, when poll tournaments were a big thing on Tumblr. Not super outdated, but I still should note that opinions might have changed since then.

Also also, be warned that there are examples below of some organizers being pretty toxic! It's not a whole lot, but if you don't want to expose yourself to that, maybe pass on this post!

With that out of the way, let's get started.

Part One: The Numbers

The first thing I decided to do was figure out a rough percentage of how many poll tournaments have a rule that excludes mcyt characters from being submitted. To get a sample batch of poll blogs, I used one of the blogs that pits the winners of tournaments against each other and checked each blog included in that. This ended up being a more tedious process than I had thought, since there's a lot of variation in the way poll organizers, well, organize. I ended up with 123 blogs sorted into three categories.

The first category included tournaments where a rule for or against mcyt characters wouldn't really make sense, for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, the tournament was between letters of the alphabet or animo acids or government agencies, not fictional characters, so I counted them out. There were also a handful of blogs where the contestants were determined by the organizer, not by nomination at all. Combined, blogs that did not fit my criteria made up 60/123 of my samples.

The second and third categories were the blogs that either had a rule against mcyt characters, or didn't. Most of the blogs I looked through had rules I could find, and some were more thorough about it than others. For my purposes, I counted the blog as a no only if they explicitly had a rule against mcyt characters, or clarified later that they weren't allowed. Most poll blogs didn't mention mcyt at all. (This will become relevant later.)

Of the 63 blogs that fit my criteria, 11 (17.5%) of them had a rule against mcyt characters, while the remaining 52 (82.5%) did not.

To me, this seems like pretty good news! I had honestly expected the percentage of blogs that excluded mcyt to be much higher. This is definitely a good sign! But I wouldn't really jump to assuming that mcyt characters would actually be accepted in all of these blogs. I will explain this in the next part of my research.

Part Two: The Examples

The second thing I wanted to find out with this research was why organizers end up having rules against mcyt in the first place. Is it just the bad reputation the mcyt space has (largely a result of one green man in particular)? Let's look at a few examples of poll rules against mcyt characters. Some of them are from my sample blogs and some of them aren't.

Type 1: Not understanding the difference between real people and characters in mcyt

The majority of the rules against mcyt I saw were of this type, and honestly, it's pretty reasonable. It's a pretty major debate in the mcyt community over whether mcyts' characters are separate enough from their content creators to count as fictional. However, there are a considerable number of mcyt characters who are explicitly stated to be different from their cc in the same way as a character in a movie played by an actor is different from the actor playing them. Excluding all mcyt characters for being 'real people' is just incorrect, though I can kinda understand where the organizers were coming from with this one.

It should also be noted that the vast majority of poll blogs had a rule against submitting real people. There's a possibility that some poll organizers might have lumped mcyt characters as real people even if they didn't specify it explicitly. Therefore, an attempt to actually submit an mcyt character into one of these tournaments might be against the rules based on what the organizer thinks. I have no way to quantify this, which is why I said earlier that the results of my initial test might not be accurate.

Type 2: 'Problematic fandom' (toxicity warning for some of these)

This type of rule is usually broader than just mcyt, but lumps it in with other fandoms known for being associated with bigotry (often hp, which is... yeah i'm definitely not going to argue in favor of harry potter but yikes. really? we're as bad as terfy potter? really.) At least one of them let dsmp characters in with the exception of dream, which is a lot fairer than... some of the others.

If we want to give the organizers benefit of the doubt here, we can say that these rules are made to keep the poll less toxic than it would be otherwise... but to be perfectly honest, some of these might be more about that phenomenon of purity culture that has had a habit of popping up in fandom spaces since forever. That's a whole other conversation I'm not ready to have now, but it comes as no surprise to me that mcyt has become a little taboo in some places (likely to a large extent because of dream and all the drama he's generated). There's also no telling whether the poll organizers in these cases even know that there are other smps besides dsmp... but that's besides the point, since there are other dsmp characters that aren't associated with dream at all. Excluding them reveals a misconception about the mcyt genre anyway. And of course, I think we can all agree that some of these are just pretty rude.

Which brings us to our conclusion.

I feel like a lot of the toxicity towards mcyt as a genre and mcyt characters boils down to people either not really understanding what mcyt is (i.e. mcyt -> minecraft youtubers -> real people) or hearing stuff about dream and assuming the entire mcyt space is reflective of that. Of course, it's a frustrating issue that some people think this way. I think it's nice to be reminded, though, that this sort of thing isn't very widespread. Alongside the bad examples, I saw a lot of organizers confronting their preconceived notions: one organizer let in an mcyt character after admitting their 'unfamiliarity with the source material', another allowed mcyt characters 'on the condition that you can explain how they are a separate character' and a few others fiercely defended mcyt characters against toxicity in their polls. Every day we grow as a community and we can't let a few people with misguided notions of what we are keep us down. Keep watching, keep creating, and as Zedaph once said, It's okay to be silly!

#this ended up being a larger project than i expected. i hope it doesnt ruffle anyone's feathers too much #i don't like dipping my toes into discourse-y stuff but i thought this was pretty fascinating #if anyone has any questions or imput feel free to speak up #i don't bite and i love discussion #mcyt #astro speaks #idk what else to tag this as. i dont want to be spamming fandom tags for this #but i also want people to see it since i worked really hard on it #so uh. i dont like to beg for reblogs but if you find this interesting at all please consider reblogging

[merloksdigitaltoes]

Milk can you pretty please draw Feather? 🥺

I will give you a singular lego shield without a nexo power if you do

sure, here is your goober :)

#wizard more like rizzard #the knights are nexos #nexo knights #merloks digital toes #nexoknights #nexo #milkisvibin #you ask toes answers #stellarwaffles #feather oc #feather nexo knights #feather squirebot #squirebot ocs #squirebots #squirebot oc #feather from the hit show nexo knight

[nixsmis]

i'm open for wing-its weekly on fridays/saturdays via google form linked on FA/twitter! Moonbeam Patrons get a discounted price on Simple-Cel Wing-its! https://www.patreon.com/nixsmis character © AuraSentinel art © me

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#snow leopard #snep #wings #feathers #spots #rosettes #furry #anthro #nixsmis #fluffy tail #big tail #fluffy #necklace #paw pads #toe beans #beans

[corvid-language-library]

Also this classroom is reeeeally cold but they have no kerosene for the heater so I'm stuck huddling by the tiny little fan heater

#ruffled feathers #once students start showing up it'll get warmer but rn i feel like my toes are gonna fall off

[yellowplumfruit]

Are those side feathers uncomfortable for your pigeon? I’ve heard that some breeds can have traits that make mobility harder, but had never seen that kind! I’m really curious now.

yeah as pretty as they are they’re very inconvenient for him! the blood feathers on his feet are more susceptible to breaking and sometimes they catch on things when he walks

#he’s much better at walking on tile than carpet #and i have to trim the feathers that grow over his toes or else he trips #it’s not as bad as i’m making it seem though he’s very good at walking and usually unbothered

[bigdumbtickler03]

Ticklish toes are so cute and so fun, like just teasingly swiping or scritching a finger under someone’s toes. Man it’s the best.

Even better, a feather going between the toes!

#tickle community #tickling #tickle #t word #tickle blog #sfw tickles #sfw tickling #sfw tickling community #ler #ler vibes #ler thoughts #ler things #ler mood #feet tickles #feet tickling #feather tickling #ticklish toes

[thebusylilbee]

Hi, iI just came here to tell you something wonderful that happened today. I feed pigeons every day at work and since monday I hadnt seen one of them, that is the first that reached out to me and the first I named. I was so worried and stressed out thinking the worst but today she came back. I was so happy I was crying. That's it. Thanks for listening

aaww anon I know what it's like, it's always wonderful to see your fav birdy come back unscathed after a time of absence ;v;

I have this one pigeon who is my little favorite bc he's incredibly smart and friendly and he's been visiting my mother's balcony every day for the past ten years, and sometimes, for some mysterious reasons, he won't show up for like 2/3 whole weeks ?!? it's happened 4 or 5 times now, and every time we made peace with the fact that maybe something had happened to him and he was gone now... and every time he came back lol ! it's very strange.

anyway thank u for sharing, im always happy to know pigeons are loved around the world <3

#Anonymous #my fav pidge is doing great he still has all his toes and his feathers are shiny he's leading a great life for a feral pidge ! #he brings his babies once in a while #now that im back living with my mother I see him every day and it's a delight #pigeons #birds #asks

[toad-moss]

practice drawing of my main characters, both to differentiate their appearance and an attempt at a more realistic look- basically to try and separate them from how I draw anthro cats/dogs/foxes.

#Lilac on the Hill #lilac LOtH #Callisto brunnera #Character design #Idk just trying stuff out #Toad moss #There are other details such as feathers. three toes. Flat tails and such #But this is just to get their faces #speculative biology

[fastman27]

Anzu wyliei.

#dino #dinosaur #dinosaurs #paleo #art #digital art #paleoart #palaeoblr #prehistoric #anzu wyliei #anzu #illustration #theropod #caenagnathidae #caenagnathid #feathered dinosaurs #one of the most underrated groups of dinosaurs ever #feathered toes should be drawn on more dinosaurs imo #feathered dinosaur

[merloksdigitaltoes]

silly little comic i made involving a random idea for s5, might not be canon yet. Characters - Cherry Faleyel, Sage Burr, Trace Dentmore, Razor Chayne, June, Feather Razor and June belong to @registered-morro-simp and Feather belongs to @stellarwaffles

#wizard more like rizzard #the knights are nexos #nexo knights #merloks digital toes #nexoknights #nexo #milkisvibin #toes ocs #milk ocs #nexo knights oc #squirebot #squirebot oc #nexo knights season 5 #june #trace #sage #feather #razor #cherry

[bells-of-black-sunday]

"And what of it? I will return as the cycle wishes. To rot and become food for the scavengers and my my blood will soak the soil for the ants. Death is not the end of life for many it is a new beginning and that is the beauty in it."

Hi I can't sleep, but I'm thinking many thoughts about my t.av, death domain clerics my beloved-

#ooc #still debating on a cleric of T.alona (chaotic evil; goddess of poisons; diesease; and rot) or #the r.aven q.ueen (neutral good; goddess of l.ife; d.eath; and memories) #because I've played a r.aven q.ueen cleric many times- but #its very much: fcked up little guy who collects memories from the dead vs fcked up little guy who rots all they touch #either way an unnerving party member for most though they'll be on the neutral spectrum regardless- #ive played chaotic evil clerics and chaotic neutral ones; I wanna dip my toes into smthn more tamed #bald gay 3 is literally jus d.nd 5.e all its positives and faults (5.e combat my beloathed) so there's a lot to pull from #for now I need to sleep- and think more when I wake up because I have a pretty set idea for how I want them to look #that won't rlly change all that much depending on the deity; more so jus the symbolism in the embellishments #tear drops vs feathers that kind of thing

[city-tickles]

tickling where they don't laugh?

She laughs a little in this vid but I don’t really have that since I don’t prefer to watch it. Hope you enjoy!

#tickling #ticklish #foot tickling #m/f tickling #tickle video #tickle request #feather tickling #toe flossing