watch her when she's lightin' up the night, nobody knows that she's a lonely girl

— template.

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.

Revelations.

these two are so interesting to me

characters belong to @canisalbus

Burger.

Empty ver.

Always love it when I see people making pre-mutation(and even pre-moviestar) Lou act a lot like Leo. It's literally my favorite thing. Like father, like son- wait-

Hey y'all! I've really felt like making more cc lately, but I'm determined to upload some more of my completed recolors before I hop into any new projects. Here we have two summer themed recolors, a dress and a jumpsuit! Details, credits and download links below the cut.

DETAILS:

These are recolors of @joliebean's jungle dress and @akalukery's plunge halter jumpsuit. Mesh is included thanks to the original creators generous tou's, but I recommend you check out and download the originals as well.

the dress has 15 swatches and the jumpsuit has 12, various summer themed patterns for both.

Both have custom thumbnails for the first swatch.

You can see an unedited in-game photo of some more swatches right here.

these definitely aren't perfect recolors, but honestly I think they work just fine and I liked how they ended up so I figured I'd share.

P.S sorry that i'm never going to use any other preview style for CAS cc, it's just too easy to use this template and I do not have the energy to do proper previews anymore especially if i'm going to be uploading a bunch of stuff, which i plan to!

CREDIT:

thank you to joliebean and akalukery for their generous tou's and for the original meshes.

Patterns found via freepik, vecteezy, spoonflower, maybe a few from colourlovers/google. All credit goes to the original creators for their lovely patterns!

DL: MF / SFS

@mmfinds @alwaysfreecc

saw a tweet immediately had to draw them☝️

idk how to format this so forgive me but this tweet! https://x.com/misophrioida/status/1775786565551489501?s=61

https://x.com/misophrioida/status/1775786565551489501?s=61

POV: You’re an adult mutant ninja turtle whose about to be sucked into some multiverse bullshit

I love this dumb fic trope where everyone thinks the younger versions of tmnt are just…. the kids of the older versions. Bonus points if both sides just roll with it to troll the villains.

dr ratio I love you my husband

Pale isn’t good at following the script

Pale and Template belong to unu-nunu-art

This comic was inspired by this (found on Twitter):

Transcription:

Pale: I am going to eat another universe

Template: STOP RIGHT THERE, VILAIN!

Template: I, Template, will stop your carnage once and for all! Give up now, or face my unlimited power and strength!!

Pale: Maybe I should kill myself

Template: NO DONT DO THAT

Template: your next line was supposed to be: “you’re too late, I’ve already-“ Are you even listening??

Not me actually painting Jango for once

made a gdocs OC sheet for reverse 1999, as usual trying to imitate the in-game menus <3

feel free to use it, it's here! and tag me if you use it, I'd love to see!

there aren't many assets for the game beyond the sprites, so I had to make do with other logos and icons. still, looks pretty good!

team B.E.S.T. always the best (wip)

　 ❥ 　 ∿ 　 killer in love 　 ｡｡｡ ͏͏͏ ～

　 kokoa yoshizaki 　 ☆　 rentry graphics

　 rq by anon　◞　 ♥︎ if using

2 graphics were removed rn , i’ll re do them later 2day ~

Unfortunately for everyone, I love Book 1.