Expertise can't help you here.

I started to read "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie, because I feel like a fucking wild animal that just escaped enclosure when I'm trying to make friends. So I'm reading this book and going "ooh, I'll have try that tactic, never thought of writing down stuff about them so I can suprise them on the next meeting with how much I remember, wonder how far can you push it before it starts being too creepy?" and I realized I'm starting to minmax talking to people like this neurodivergent mf:

There is truthly two wolves inside every neurodivergent person one is Laios Touden and the other is just Kabru.

[ID: Photos of a painted clay sculpture of two Przewalski's horses leaning against one another in an embrace with their eyes closed. The sculpture is from the shoulders up. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

This was an older Embrace piece that wasn't up to scratch, was going to recycle it, instead reworked the faces and manes, and used it as an opportunity to practice painting with acrylics. One of the faces has the more “plastic” look that I've been trying to avoid with acrylics (lower left photo). Watering the paint down and then gradually layering seems to keep the matte look I was getting with gouache.

Available on my Etsy

you know he would have been one of Those kids

inspired by this pic:

Biblically accurate Falin

a companion piece to my previous post

oh my god they were classmates

𓆱 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐬 𓆱

Let the Lark welcome you to Hayfields: A teller's awakening; the Harpy, the Hare, the Hound, and a home that heaves below. These are verses from four different chapters of Meadowlark, a prelude for each of the Harkers.

We have come so far in such a short time, grateful I am for the love youve given my first song. Take Hayfields as a gift to complete the rest of the puzzle, I hope that my melodies will once again bring you joy! :~)

🐇🐐🌳🫎

YouTube / Soundcloud / Bandcamp

get him a ouppy!!!!!

What I find really really compelling about Laios' special interest is this:

As a person who's special interest is dogs, I'll tell you right now that I fucking love them. I live in a city full of strays, and I actively go out of my way to pet, play with, and interact with them. It brings me a lot of joy and comfort to be able to be surrounded by puppies.

I will also be the first to tell you that, like it or not, dogs are animals - and animals, ultimately, can be unpredictable. They can be scared, they can be territorial, and they can be impulsive. And while I genuinely believe that there's no such thing as a bad dog or an angry dog - only a scared one - I also don't believe it makes a functional difference once a dog has bitten you what intentions it may have had.

Dogs are dangerous. I've seen people get bitten, I've been bitten, I've had close calls, some of which were my own fault and others which were not.

And Laios reflects this so beautifully, especially in the Kelpie arc. He's not blinded by his love for these creatures, he's not overtaken by baseless empathy - he understands, understands better than anyone, that these are at the end of the day monsters, and they are dangerous, and when push comes to shove sometimes you've just got to kill them. In fact it's his love for them that lands him this knowledge and understanding in the first place - just as I know that there's no room for fear and weakness when it comes to interacting with dogs, he knows there's no room for hesitation and empathy when it comes to interacting with montsers.

It's so fucking realistic of someone who genuinely researches and cares about these creatures, rather than superficially "liking animals" and then trying to assign human qualities to inherently inhuman creatures.

God.

Laios is fantastic fucking representation.

HEY! We were here first! Go find a spot somewhere else!

Today I was explaining to a friend the basic plot of Dungeon Meishi (Dnd like team have to find food in the dungeon cause no money) and he was like 'that's basically you and your roommates dumpster diving'

You know what. that's fair

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE 'WHAT' ZONE

happy episode 11!

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart