They Look So Happy🥹🥹🥹

God he’s so pretty

I don’t like seeing all these people talking about the election, just instantly giving up on day one.

I open TikTok or Bluesky or Tumblr, whatever social media and I see people advising others to stop wearing pride gear in public- or announcing they are going back into the closet. Why? I understand you’re thinking of safety right now but doesn’t anyone realize you’re giving them EXACTLY what they want? You’re playing into EXACTLY what they want you to do?

The only reason we have had rights is not because someone fucking did it FOR us. We have to fight, we have to be loud. We have to fucking be. LOUD. Is your advice really to just “oh let them do this while I cry and wish it could be better.” NO. No???? Really?

Wear your pride gear, dress how you want to dress, be out. Be proud. No you are not going to be immune to criticism but if you really do want rights then you have to put a lot of effort into fighting for them. They can’t just silence us just like that, that’s pathetic.

Stop advising people to hide and give up. If there’s anything I’ve been seeing I agree with it’s actually to buy a gun. If republicans are going to protect anything, it’s the second amendment. If you can, carry a gun. Carry a knife. Carry pepper spray. Carry all three of you need to, but DONT let them walk all over you just because they won.

Protect yourself and your rights and STAND UP for yourself. The whole community, together. We aren’t hiding.

Can you draw the Arby’s Waifu?

BEHOLD THE ARBY’S WAIFU!!!!

Delicious

found my big ol collection of hands 🤌

This is why I love mermay🥹

There are many creatures in this world that earn the definition of "people." Their paths to sentience are as diverse as the shapes and sizes in which they come. For mermaids, mimicking humans and hunting them in packs led to intelligence, language, and society.

Mollusks never hunted humans. They stayed in the depths and communed amongst themselves and eventually with the mermaids who shared their habitat. Long before humans knew of their existence, mollusk and cephalopod people were part of many bustling mermaid societies.

Small wonder, then, that humans referred to as mermaids on every occasion in which we encountered them. As far as sailors knew, things that swim are fish, and thus octopus are fish, and thus octopus people are mermaids.

In truth, mermaids evolved from fully formed fish, which had long split off from the ancestor of mollusks. The other phylum was forging a new path without bones. Thus, sentient creatures who arose from mollusks could not be mermaids any more than they could be fish.

But the name has stuck around. "Octopus mermaid" is more easily parsed than "Octopus person," despite the scientific community's insistence on the latter. Those that make a distinction have coined the term Cecaelia for them, but this has yet to catch on. Beneath the waves, mermaids refer to them by a variety of names, depending on the language. In sea common, the term they use directly translates to "Mirror."

This arose because cephalopods have skin made of chromatophores; cells that flex to reveal and hide their color. These "mermaids" use this trick to create a pseudo face on the top of their mantle, with which they interface with actual fish-mermaids. Their real eyes are held on either side of their head, in the place where our ears would be. To further the illusion, the arms branch and split in a simulacrum of mermaid form: head accessories, two arms, a chest, waist, and tail. So creatures that evolved to mimic humans were in turn imitated, though for different reasons.

There are none more talented at disguise than the mirror known as the Mimic Octopus. This creature is able to stretch its form and change its colors to look like a variety of animals to hide, intimidate, or entertain.

This specimen is seen conversing with a lionfish mermaid on a peaceful coral reef. At first, the colors and shape shift only gently, as the mimic is relaxed in its natural form. Suddenly, it stretches out its spiraled tentacles, the subtle stripes growing into thick bands to match the venomous spines of its lionfish companion.

The two of them continue their conversation, punctuated by the cecaelia's kaleidoscope of shifting skin. Perhaps this is how they laugh.

If you are curious about other people of the sea, you can find more research in the following libraries: High Resolution || Mermaid Requests || Discord || @worldofvonder

I am furiously taking notes

my recipe for drawing hands!

(small note that this is a shortcut that is more abt style and ease than anatomical accuracy. it helps to take time to really properly study hands, makes it easier to bend the rules a bit like this and have it still look good!!)

(learn rules b4 u break them or whatevah)

PLEASE GOD WHYYYYY

He did.

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His Jupiter. His Rome.

I’m actually obsessed with this concept

thinking about the giant centipede cowboy from my dream again

PREACH THAT SHITTTT

This is Mindy, she is one of my new characters... if you want to know more about her then check out my tumblr. Also Mindy is up for asks so send in your questions through DM https://www.instagram.com/quokkatoons/p/BvQitumF-YY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=184k07wtzriby