A Helicopter Has Just Arrived. Stood Above My Head Me And My Cousin On The Seashore. It Continued To

I literally block like 5 bots a day at the LEAST and we're not that active yet lmao. PLEASE have something in your bio, at least!

- Peasant Artist Willow

 HEY! If you’re new to tumblr, get a pfp right away, and throw something in your bio. With the bot problem right now, anyone without one is likely to get blocked just out of reflex. Make it obvious that you’re not a bot!

It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

artist in denial of being depressed: omg this 2 month long art block has been crazy... sorry i haven't updated any of my fics in a long while! it's just been super difficult to daydream! so weird that i've lost a little bit of passion for my current comfort character and ocs... this couldn't possibly have any implications or alternative explanations

Okie book lovers, what are your favorite books?

oooh, books? okay, favourite series hands down has to be Wings of Fire. that shit slaps! my favourite book overall.. for some reason i really love these two morbid books i read a while back, one of them being the Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks, and another being Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton. my favourite Wings of Fire book has to be Moon's, just because if her unique perspective, but Darkstalker's is a CLOSE second. i also really liked the Amulet series but i never read all of it. - Peasant Artist Willow

My favourite book series is definitely Wings of Fire, it's what got me into loving books. Um.. it's hard for me to pick a favourite book.. I've read a lot of stand-alone books, but I don't remember them! If I were to try to pick out a favourite book in the Wings of Fire series, it would have to be.. uhhh... Either Glory's book, Darkstalker's book, or also Clay's book--I feel like Clay's book doesn't get enough credit. - Overlord Tofu

Patching Up

Aftermath of Determined Protector! they all snuggle up in the den together so cutely <3

anyway i know we talk a lot of shit abt this site but i just wanna say that tumblr taught me to romanticize life a little. like where else am i gonna find an essay abt how hands were made to hold other hands or posts with thousands of notes abt how peeling an orange for a loved one can be the purest act of care & love? all the softest, sweetest and kindest ppl on the internet are here and i'm so grateful to be here along with y'all. i love you and please keep romanticizing the smallest things... god knows we need that now more than ever.

made these studying cat genetics over the past 2 weeks!

i felt like there weren't enough visual guides of cat genetics so i went ahead and made some simple ones, my main references were Sparrow's Garden the website, Sparrow's Garden the blog, Messybeast, and The Little Carnivore.

Please only use these for general reference and not for tracing, using as a base, or reposting!! You can trace the poses for practice, but please don't post them if you do so. Please don't use them as a free Base, either.

It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.