Offers u a dragon.

A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

Okay here’s one for what character are YOU (instead of who’s ur bestie)

[ID: A few digital drawings of the archive crew with cats on an off-white background. Martin is a fat white man with short, bright red hair and a small goatee, freckles, a tooth gap, and round glasses, and he's wearing a blue t-shirt; Sasha is an Afro-Latina woman with light brown skin, curly dark hair in a bun, cat-eye glasses and freckles, and she is wearing an orange hoodie; Tim is a mid-sized Latino man with light brown skin, a lilac mullet with the sides shaved, and he is wearing a purple t-shirt and laying under a blanket; and Jon is a thin Arab man with brown skin, black and gray hair pulled into a braid, a mustache, patchy beard, and eyebags, and he's wearing a green t-shirt and laying in bed under a blanket.

Martin is sitting up and has a white cat with brown paws and brown on the tip of her tail kneading his chest. He's smiling, holding her gently, and she is purring. Sasha is facing away from the viewer, looking at a small gray kitten with yellow eyes, who is playing with and biting her phone while looking at her mischievously. She says "baby boy" with a grumpy ">:T" emoticon next to her words. Tim is laying with his hands behind his head, smiling down at a sleeping brown kitten with pink toe beans laying shrimp-posed on his chest. Tim giggles at him. Jon is laying with his head propped up against a pillow and a white and brown kitten with little eyebrows laying on his chest tucked under his blanket, and he is holding the kitten protectively with both hands. Their conversation proceeds thus:

Jon: meeee-ow Kitten: MOW Jon: meow Kitten: MAOW

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oh wowzers its mallow family monday. im not done playing with this au and likely never will be. its kitties that inadvertently save the world and the gang taking care of them. what more could you want.

of course we got Martin's cat, the mother of the litter, Ms. Marsha Mallow, Sasha's little troublemaker Turing, Tim's little baby Lil Baby Fudge, and Jon's new son, Duke Archibald Von Mallow. they make me. SO happy.

[ID: Two digital drawings of Jon Sims with cats on an off-white background. He is a thin Arab man with brown skin and black and gray hair pulled into a bun with a mustache to match and stubble. He has black stud earrings, black painted nails, and half-moon glasses on a green beaded chain, and is wearing a black button-down, a green sweater, and a light brown suit with darker elbow patches and brown shoes.

The first drawing shows his upper body as he's holding a tiny white and brown kitten, smiling down at it as it meows with its paw against his chest. The kitten has eyebrow spots that make it look angry.

The second drawing shows Jon sitting cross-legged and covered in cats. The brown and white kitten, labelled "Duke Archibald von Mallow" is laying on his shoulder while he rubs his face against Jon's as he pets him. There's a gray kitten labelled "Turing" sitting loafed on Jon's phone, which is resting on his knee, a grown white cat with brown eyebrow spots and brown eyes labelled "Ms. Marsha Mallow" who Jon is also petting, and a brown kitten tucked under her labelled "Lil baby Fudge". The kittens all look content while Ms. Mallow is looking at Duke Archibald with slight worry. Jon looks irritated at someone off-screen and says "What do you mean I can't keep all of them?" end ID]

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mallow family monday

AAAA SDV AND TMA??? MY TWO SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT HAVE DESTROYED MY LIFE THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS?? TOO NERVOUS TO SAY ANYTHING ON THE POST BC OF ANXIETY BUT UR SO RIGHT. ALSO I THINK MELANIE WOULD PROBABLY BE ABIGAIL

YOU'RE WELCOMEEEE

Can't decide whether Maru would be Sasha or Georgie

petition for a SECOND pride month in halloween month

rb for yes

like for yes

both for double yes

Two gay men walk into McDonald’s

Pink Prison, a comic I did for my color theory class this semester! we had to pick a color, research it, and do a piece related to it somehow. i chose pink :)

Dawn of the dead, Antony Gormley

Met an old teacher today and we got talking about ‘the good old times’ and ten minutes into the conversation I jokingly said the one regret I have from middle school is that I never won anything at her magnificent tombolas? Because, like, she used to hold this game about once a month so we’d learn the numbers in French and it was never big prizes, but as a 12-yo I desperately craved them - a cactus-shaped eraser, a bright blue notebook with slightly larger-than-usual squares, a set of coloured pens - and never ever got a single one of them. 

(Actually spent a good few months thinking I was genetically unlucky and researching ancient family curses with my grandma.) 

So today I don’t know what I was hoping for - nothing, really?

(I mean, that part of me that’s still twelve was probably expecting this sweet old woman to have a set of glitter stickers in her purse and just go ‘You know what, you’re right - I’ve been saving this one for you all these years, here you go’ but I’m a solidly rational person and I know that’s stupid.)

No, I thought we’d just laugh and it would be a good shared memory and that would be it. Instead, my teacher got flustered and a bit embarrassed and explained the game was rigged. It was never about learning French at all. She’d just noticed some kids couldn’t afford even basic stationery, so she’d buy a few half-fancy items every month with her own money just for them. She didn’t want them to feel different or left out. And obviously the way she used to walk around in the classroom, looking over our shoulders - it wasn’t to prevent cheating. It was because she was cheating herself, wanting to see which number a particular child needed to get a Minnie Mouse pencil case.

Guys - the world is fucked up, but so many people out there are just good and kind and humbly heroic it honestly gives me hope. 

It’ll be alright, you’ll see.

small bird was VERY offended that I picked him up off the sidewalk like a potato chip. don't fall asleep on the sidewalk then

I'm trying to write a post about tick safety and avoiding tick bites, but a lot of the info on websites is like "Avoid going in the woods, in plants, and where there are wild animals" and "Activities like hiking and gardening can put you at risk" and I'm like thanks! This is worthless!

As ticks and tick borne illnesses are expanding their range, I think it's important for people to be educated about these things, and I think it's especially important to give people actual advice on how to protect themselves instead of telling them to just...avoid the natural world

Rough draft version of Tick Advice:

Ticks don't jump down on you from trees, they get on you when you brush against grass, brush, bushes etc.

Ticks get brought to an area when they get done feeding from an animal and fall off them. In the USA, the main tick-bringing animal is deer, but I've seen plenty ticks on feral cats and songbirds.

Ticks get killed when they dry out so drier areas with more sunlight are less favorable to ticks.

The above is useful for figuring out whether an area is likely to have lots of ticks, and how vigilant you have to be in that area.

Wear light-colored, long pants outside. Tuck your pants into your socks, and tuck your shirt into the waist of your pants. Invest in light, breathable fabrics idc

IMMEDIATELY change out of your outside clothes when you come back from a tick-prone area, wash them, and dry them on high heat to kill any ticks that might be stuck on.

Shower and check yourself for ticks after coming inside. Hair, armpits, and nether regions in particular. You can use a handheld mirror or rely on touch; an attached tick will feel like a bump kinda like a scab

While you're outside, you can just periodically check for ticks by running your hands down your legs and checking visually to see if anything is crawling on your clothes. Light colors make them easy to spot, and they don't move fast.

Combing through each others' hair to check for creepy crawly critters is a time-honored primate ritual and is not weird. When hiking, bring a friend who will have your back when you feel something on your neck and need to know if it's sweat or a tick

If you're careful, you can usually catch ticks before they bite you, but if one does bite you, it's not the end of the world. Since tickborne diseases are different regionally i suspect this advice will differ based on where you are, but the important thing is remove the tick with tweezers (DON'T use butter, a lit match, or anything that kills the tick while it's still attached, please) and contact a doctor to see what to watch for. Most illnesses you can catch from ticks are easily treatable if you recognize them when symptoms first appear

pleasant things

Seen several TMA/sdv crossovers where Jon is paralleled with Gunther or Harvey however. We have a stardew character who canonically visits the player in dreams, which is fairly similar to tma canon so clearly H he is Emily :))

Send him to the crystal shop

It's for his enrichment