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Made based off of a reference from TrueRef that I fell in love with enough that I had to put Adora in it. I swear there's a chair under that fabric

I'm not your Highness, a damsel left helpless by fright.

I am a lioness, fierce as I walk through the night.

Fanart of a scene from "Crowns" by Gazelles on ao3

ao3 is an awesome website for people who love "open in new tab"

okay i've been fucking around on bluesky more and genuinely what if i ran two. one for retweeting art and shit and one for actually talking and shitposts and memes. like i already have two anyway because im squatting on a url i like XD the lack of a tag system on other platforms kills me it makes it so hard to find anything, this is all i can figure to keep things orderly if this becomes a platform i use for more than just occasionally retweeting art. also im not abandoning tweet terminology "X" doesn't deserve to keep it

I think I would have one with the alt handle that exclusively RTs she-ra art but has my usual handle as the display name. and then my other would have my current handle and would be everything else: og posts, shitposts, other fandom, etc. I'd probably also share my fics to both

colorblind pride flag just dropped

Future catradora casual design !

i think most people tend to forget that the particular moment adora dreams of was before attending a ball, where they dressed up nice & fancy like for princess prom (actually, now that i mention it... perhaps it was her turn to host it that decade since she finally got to reclaim her princesshood?), so it won't be what they wear every day, and it bothers me that so much fanart of them in the future depicts them with those designs just because they're official.

the point is... these designs probably more accurate to what catra & adora would actually want to wear casually. they may have finally settled down, but they would still want to make movement easy and not feel limited. i also love how catra still has her boob window and adora is the one wearing that style of top instead (i don't know what it's called, sorry) so i have to say, nice work OP.

Glimmer's fantasy

"how do you tell the difference between a whippet and an italian greyhound" simple. look at it head on. if it looks like a dog it's a whippet. if it's making a face like you've just threatened it with a firearm, it's an iggy

see? simple as

i love you, geek princess 💜❤️🖤

Entrapta is my faaaaavorite~

Shera has consumed me yet again

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

I remember during puberty talk in 6th grade they handed out permission slips for parents to sign if they didn’t want their kids getting sex ed and like five students ended up having to wait in the library while the rest of us learned about puberty and health stuff.

Afterwards during lunch recess almost everyone in class spent our time telling those five kids what we learned and showing them our handouts.

there is something to be said for going to zoos and aquariums on weekdays to avoid school-aged crowds but going to the aviary on a weekend is fun because going into big greenhouses and watching toddlers who just learned to walk encounter loose tropical animals taller than they are is part of the overall experience for me.

to me a three year old is just as much an entertaining and strange beast as an egret. and here they can interact directly. incredible.

listening to a macaw say “peekaboo” at a preschooler who takes it at face value that some birds must be completely fluent in English and no one has bothered to mention this before. unmatched

So my neighbor's three-year-old saw Charlie for the first time last week.

I don't see my neighbors often because they are Morning People (TM) and both our households are acting like the pandemic is still on (it is), but yesterday I happened to be taking Charlie out for a walk when they were coming home from something, and the kid "Checkers" was dumbstruck.

Charlie isn't a Big-big dog, but he is 60lbs and mostly leggy sighthound, so he is significantly taller than the average toddler. Since Checkers' extended family is largely allergic to mammals, they do not see dogs at other people's houses nor at daycare, so this was the fist time they've seen an animal larger than they are up close.

It is a beautiful thing to see a young human experience a sudden and profound shift in their worldview, and you get to witness parts of their brain being rewired in real time across their face. Confusion, then wonder as a fascinating new category of life opened before them. It is doubly wonderful that small children are rarely frightened of things unless they are taught to be, so, cautiously, Checkers approached Charlie, looking between us and making interrogative noises at me, as I was clearly his parent, and therefore responsible for introductions.

"This is Charlie!" I say. "He might or might not say hi back."

Checkers considered the evidence before them: Charlie has a name shared with their playmates, their older sibling is largely nonverbal, and Charlie wears a chest harness with leash, again like some of their playmates, and came to the extremely reasonable conclusion that Charlie is a fellow Human Child, and introduced themselves appropriately:

"Hullo." Said Checkers, stepping up to Charlie. "This is Bionicles." they continued, holding up their plush giraffe toy, the appropriate way to introduce yourself and your friends/interests to a new peer at age 3.

Charlie has a vast preference of humans to other dogs, and of adults to children within humans, often ignoring or evading small children the way he does with dogs that annoy him. It makes sense- small children are not usually the ones with treats, and typically inept petters at best. But something about Bionicles the Giraffe intrigued him and he politely sniffed and listened to Checkers talk about (I'm not sure because I have Audio Processing Problems and Checkers doesn't enunciate much) for a for about a minute, and I got to witness Checkers' parents undergo a similar world-shift as they realized Checkers was addressing Charlie as a fellow human, and how that was entirely rational of them.

The confusion on the adult humans was so interesting that I failed to notice Charlie very delicately taking Bionicles The Giraffe from Checkers until he had taken two steps to give himself room, and then started to Death-Shake the toy, because Charlie ALSO loves plushies, just in a very destructive sense.

I am horrified. The parents are Horrified. Checkers is DELIGHTED, laughing as Charlie very expertly separated Bionicles' head from the rest of the toy, and sat down in the grass to pull the fluff out.

I retrieved both pieces of the toy from Charlie, apologized profusely, took him home, and then came back to sew Bionicles' head back on.

Yesterday I saw Checkers on all fours out in the front yard, trying to re-decapitate Bionicles with their teeth while their father looked on, resigned. We have arranged a future playdate between Charlie and Checkers, with a handful of dollar-store stuffed toys for them to destroy together.

I think it is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Surely this has already been done but-

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Today was the perfect day to post lots of Trixie~

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!!!