I don't know if you'll ever see this, but i just binge reblogged almost your whole tumblr and i thought i should leave a little something before i go again. I already came and went, seeing your art around so many times that it didn't feel right to just close the door behind me once more. I've followed you around ever since i was 11 years old, from Deviantart and across the internet. I'm 24 now. Your art inspired me to draw. There were times when i forgort about your art and was suddenly reunited with it again through pinterest, through tumblr, through a post on Twitter and went "oh it's CanisAlbus again!" You may never know me. We may never talk or get to know each other, but isn't it so amazing that even without knowing, something so simple as a guy sketching silly dogs on the internet can influence other people's lifes across the globe? Never doubt yourself.

Thank you for taking the time to leave me a little note, I'm very moved by your words! It's always very sobering to hear that you or your creations have been a significant part of someone's life. I guess I've been posting art for a long-ish time now so it shouldn't be that big of a surprise that there are people that have known my work for a good while, but it's still hard to conceptualize.

There's something so insane to me about being able to create and recreate vintage or even ancient music, clothes, fabrics, building architecture, anything, really.

I watched this video about a lady who knit a WWII-era vest, and it was really unique, because the cable work would eat up yarn, when there were shortages of fibers. This pattern would have likely been used by people to send overseas to soldiers, and now it's being created in a time where this war has been over for generations. What were the people making this pattern thinking of? What about the people making the vest? Could they fathom a world where world wars didn't happen back to back? Could they imagine what peace felt like, or did it fade like a distant memory, a faint friend? All we have now are the remnants of their efforts, a "simple" vest that would warm the bodies of countless people the knitter would never have imagined were here on earth with them.

We're reaching across time to learn about other people - we're reaching our hands out just to grasp anything tangible. And when we've take hold of something, all we can do is say I love you I love you I love you

Do people realise you can fuck other people even when you're attracted to someone and its not a moral failing nor does it taint your relationship with them?

Really wanna talk about these three, so I’m sharing this ahead of time! It’s so that I can finish the art I have about them instead of just posting it unfinished and messy.

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*for the followers*

Dear Yuri's fans, if you're bored and doom scrolling is not enough

you may be interested in going through the archive of 2022 and 2021

miss if I see you even glance towards the delete button of your vintage posts, I will eat your fingers

the sweet temptation.....

Normally it's catholics who think they aren't Christian but today I ran into a quaker who thought they weren't Christian. I am begging for even a smidgen of education for all Christians at this point. Christian literally just means you believe in Jesus as the messiah and it encompasses all denominations, yes including catholicism and quakers. It doesn't mean Protestant or evangelical, those have their own names. When I run into Christians who think they aren't Christian they appear to think it means Protestant or evangelical. There, I just gave you the names for the Christians who aren't you, use those. Because you are Christian. saying you aren't makes you sound crazy. Theologically it's very difficult to believe in Jesus as messiah and not be Christian, that is typically reserved for cults. So if you aren't a cult, you're Christian.

This also infuriates me because it means these people think they're exempt from criticism they see leveled at all Christians. No, buddy, you are Christian, and they are also criticizing you. Shockingly, evil was not invented by or exclusive to protestants and evangelicals. It is difficult for me to keep my cool sometimes when people are so insanely misinformed that they have apparently never ever read even once a dictionary definition. I balk to imagine what the hell they were taught in their own churches.

You ever see a theory video from Swifttok and your reaction to it is like good god I can’t believe people navigate their lives with so few brain cells and that much confidence.

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istg people dont know what narrative and foil even mean at this point

okay so not to be that person, but i think i’m going to be a bit more selective about responding to asks. i don’t mean this in the sense that i’ve been sent unwanted things, but more like there are just some things i like to read but don’t actually think need to be on my blog, does that make sense? THIS IS NOT DIRECTED TO BELOVED MUTUALS (AND ESPECIALLY NOT YOU KALE YOUR DEEP DIVES BRING ME SO MUCH JOY)!!! i’m seriously not calling anyone out with this, this is 10000% just me trying to tell myself it’s okay not to respond to everything and i don’t want anyone to feel bad for anything they have sent me :)

Strike-Commander Morrison

Since B.lizz hasn't given us further info on O.verwatch's timeline that I know of, I'll go over what's canon for the blog.

Jack was hesitant to accept the promotion, because in his eyes, Ana and Gabriel were both better picks. In the end, he decided to accept after some talking with core O.verwatch members, especially Gabe, Ana, and Gabrielle.

Aside from trying to manage the trauma from the Crisis, Jack spent a lot of the initial months trying to adjust to the position, leading to high stress and some blatantly wrong decisions on the political side. He was still a soldier, and that meant that he needed to take care of his people. Their lives and livelihoods were in his hands, and he took that seriously. Most of his early failures followed themes of unpreparedness, rash decision-making, lack of decorum, or just making the wrong choices regarding certain aspects of leadership. The public was slow to trust O.verwatch in the beginning due to this, but Jack continued to adapt and work through issues, throwing his entire life into O.verwatch.

Jack, for all his faults, was an unflinchingly kind man who spent most of his time campaigning for O.verwatch to help in the most affected areas of the world, often going head to head with some higher-ups over that. In addition, Jack was often embroiled in arguments with people who wanted to gear O.verwatch towards a more militaristic institution, as Jack found they would be better served with doctors and scientists. He still went on missions at this time, O.verwatch acting as ancillary or emergency help in other countries at first.

That continued as time went on, and Jack most often tried to keep this version of Overwatch at the forefront. He joined missions less and less because of the workload, leading to a bit of his own crisis as he asked whether or not he was still a soldier (whether he still wanted to be treated as a solider as he got farther from the battlefield). Ultimately, he still defined himself as a soldier more than a politician, though he tried to balance to two when the situation called for it. He pushed on trying to hire the best of the best when it came to doctors, climate scientists, and leaders both on and off the field. In many aspects, his most trusted people were Ana, Vivian, and Gabe, though the last relationship would sour as time went on and they fought more and more.

Despite his desire to focus on O.verwatch's medical and scientific teams, he couldn't ignore Talon. While Jack was kind in as much as he could, Talon was where most of his disdain went. He was glad to make an enemy of them, publicly denouncing them too many times to count and working against them at every turn. Though they were evenly matched in many ways, Talon tended to take the upper hand at times, given their lack of moral constraints. Jack dedicated as much time and effort to fighting Talon on all fronts as he could, though he still found time to argue for O.verwatch's cause in the meantime.

He was not infallible, and this includes many decisions regarding B.lackwatch and his refusal to either earnestly question Gabe or put a stop to certain activities/missions. And on more than a few occasions, Jack was happy to look the other way as B.lackwatch struck against Talon in some capacity. As much as Antonio's death wasn't one he shed a tear over, it was something of a wakeup call to what he was enabling. While he and Gabe had been at odds for a year or two by then, it only intensified when B.lackwatch was shut down. In addition to other stresses, Jack struggled to maintain things while Overwatch began to crumble.

However, he truly believed that he could reunite the warring parts of Overwatch at the conference in the Swiss headquarters, but that was demolished when the building was destroyed with them in it.

If anything I make ever takes off I can see the absolute braindead takes people would have about how my LGBT+ rep is problematic with my eyes closed. Either because A) not everyone fits into neat little boxes and people hate that B) some will fall into stereotypes as if there’s never been a person who falls into those or a C) Some of them are VILLAINS. When like. Idk how to tell you this but A is not actually a problem you just have respectability brainrot, and B and C are only problems if that is your sole rep, that your message becomes ‘people who are blank are all <insert stereotype and/or negative trait here>’. Like I promise you the fact that 99% of the plots problems being traced back to a genderqueer man actually has 0 to do with my biases. I am a genderqueer man and there’s at least 20 other characters I have who also are genderqueer men, and at least two others in the aforementioned story where this occurs.  Just because I have one (1) instance of this does not actually mean I, a genderqueer man, actually hate genderqueer men, or that I didn’t think about the potential implications of the portrayal very carefully

Idk man if like the overwhelming majority of my characters are some flavour of alphabet soup that means sometimes you’re going to get evil lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered folks and a whole whole lot of evil +. Cry about it ig.

i love reading fics because it is such an intimate way to know someone else's interpretation of the characters and situations of a given piece of media. you can really feel their love and their beliefs and their soul in the writing.

oh but i hate reading fics because it is such an intimate way to know someone else's interpretations, and when they have it so utterly off-base from you own it just feels like getting sand in your eye

Not every character has to be beloved; some of them are supposed to suck

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive always thought it's so wiiiiiiiiild that so many of these ~mansions~ that used to be slave plantations are now government-owned and converted into museums instead of being collectively owned by all black americans, liiiiiiiiiiike....

we should fucking own that shit! our ancestors RAN those farms! worked that land! built those mansions! yet somebody other than us is benefiting from it now???

honest to god i wish black folks could all own those properties like a timeshare lmao and we'd all be entitled to spend a few days a year living it up in our luxurious country homes in the deep south. catch me sipping lemonade on my veranda on a hot summer evening while my housekeepers clean up the kitchen after dinner.