Thank You For The Advice! Unfortunately I Am Not A Patient Person But I Have Too Much Time To Waste For

I should have known if I brought up wc I’d have to talk about. But it includes of a lot of issues with feral/furry designs that use feathers in hair. I don’t necessarily know why the conversation only started and stayed in the wc fandom when horse/wolf/lion feral fandoms are still doing the same thing.

Now having feathers in the design isn’t a racial attack first thing off because there’s a lot of context around what feather’s are used, the shape, and where they are placed. If the look is anything like "rave Coachella looking tribal fantasy feathers and beads" it’s probably insensitive. I’m not to sure why it has to be feathers, I honestly think the wc fandom are holding themselves back when it comes to forwarding designs in a unique way. Tail feathers are also left out in this conversation as well, one or two feathers or feathers in the shape of a birds tail are fine but bunched together feathers are leaning to close to how we have our horses wear feathers. This is in the context of the design already looking like a "medicine cat" already its bad. it’s like those yt girls wear feather head bands but animal addition.

I’ve talked about this before but silhouettes are so important, like Native American stereotypes are on the global scale you cannot escape this silhouette you just have to avoid it. There’s no "but it’s in so many other cultures" no it’s not it’s totally unique to our people that’s why people flock to it because it’s so "mysterious, sacred" whatever their weird twisted up reason is. There’s so many unique ways to break this silhouette you just gotta be more creative. And I feel like instead of being more creative and coming up with totally different ideas it’s just easier to lean on these visual native stereotypes to get across "wild mythical nature fantasy"

I could get into the horse fandom and the weird situations they’re doing over there but that’s another crazy thing. I should say because someone will ask, ostrich feathers on like show horses or knights or puss in boots style is fine not the same thing (breaking the silhouette) they’re not related.

And it comes down to understanding what you are drawing and where this imagery comes from, I’m not gonna get my feelings hurt because of your design but I’ll question why are you drawing stuff like that. You cant remove that cultural/stereotypical imagery, and if you don’t care about it then you don’t care about the history or how it looks on your character and art.

I made it this far on the internet but if you want to be conscious about these things good on yea it doesn’t take much☺️👍

Edit: can’t believe I gotta say this but yes other cultures utilize feathers, if people are using feathers that are used in their culture then don’t harass them. That’s weird have some common sense. Ostrich feathers, peacock feathers it’s actually so interesting how native birds to an area affect the culture there.

so like. i was like ‘i don’t post 18+ art of the steamy variety on this blog’ and like. that was bc i don’t draw any. 👍 HOWEVER now I draw it bc my friends are certainly some kind of influence on me. no idea what to do

tumblr's ruined my brain I just referred to myself eating grapes as 'a hedonistic little guy' in front of my mother

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OH MY GOD. CASTIEL CLEANS HIMSELF UP AFTER BEING IN PURGATORY, STEPS OUTSIDE THE BATHROOM AND PRESENTS HIMSELF TO DEAN WITH ‘BETTER?’ AND I’M BREAKING MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION OF SWEARING LESS OH MY FUCKING GOD OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING G O D JUST KISS, HOLY SHIT THE SHEER GAY TENSION BETWEEN THESE DUMB FUCKING MEN JUST KISS JUST KISS OH MY FUCKING GOD. HOKY SHIT,

just finished s8e6, honestly it was just so fun. one of my favorites of this season so far. I love Garth’s character so much, he’s such a sweetie. and now i’m onto episode 7 which obviously i like because. Crowley. Any episode i get to see him be a wittily sarcastic asshole is a good episode.

friend dragged me into Epic The Musical so i had to make a self insert. Meet Epic!Cove, aka a fresh water naiad who just wants to vibe in their pond but unfortunately Plot is happening

yes i know the toga thingie probably isn’t historically accurate leave me alone I just wanna be a little water nymph who interacts with gods LOL /lh

It's time to grow up and get wise Come now, Little one

Unicorn horns are a set of single tine, spiraling antlers that grow from two buds in the middle of the forehead. Every year until maturity, the horn is shed and a new one grows in its place, so even a broken horn will be renewed.

Unless

Unless the antler bud is damaged beyond repair. Unless there's nothing you can do except sew the wounds closed and pray your little foal makes it.

And when she does, you have to watch her try year after year to grow something that can harness the magic she knows she has in her. But every time it grows back, it's more twisted than the last. And her heart twists alongside it.

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for all of you who struggle to draw horse feet. :) You’ve gotta have those pasterns in there, as they are the horse’s main shock absorbers, as seen in the “bearing weight” example.

If you can handle an animal autopsy, here’s an interesting vid on how the muscles and joints work in the lower leg of the horse.

i keep forgetting i made this LOL, i’m like ‘boy i wish i could combine the two flags’ and its like. bro. u can and u did

no image id, sorry!! (tired)

I combined the queer chevron flag with the other queer flag awhile back bc i like them both and didn’t want to choose so uhh. here ya go. free to use. have fun