I mentioned on Twitter that I’ll be drawing Huine (temporary name) based on random horse pics daily for this October, have these 4 to cover the first 4 days hahah.
Inspirations:
They are certainly talented depictions displaying a high degree of artistic skill and creativity.
JUNIPER BIRTHDAY CHAOS although her exact date of origin is a mystery, Juniper for sure has turned three sometime in the past month, so she gets treats and a silly hat! this old good baby is still full of energy for being weird and eating things.
I threw an elf in the cell
Don’t ask me I’ll never tell
His shirt’s gone I guess it fell
No elves now in my way
Starvation’s taking its toll
Pennies and dimes for a soul
Didn’t take him for a fool
No elves now in my way
Your glare was holding
Bruised skin, blood was showing
Secrets you be knowing
How will you keep them in baby?
Hey I just met you
I’m a bit crazy
But here’s my mirror
So show me maybe?
It was just inside
The dragon’s lair
But here’s my mirror
So show me maybe?
I can taste your fear
For it’s worth than death
But here’s my mirror
So show me maybe?
If not I’ll kill you
Oh so painfully
But here’s my mirror
So show me maybe?
Todoroki Shouto needs therapy. He has a support system, he has a few friends that understand his situation, but he also needs therapy.
This has honestly been regardless of whether or not he wants his father in his family or not; he needed therapy 10 years ago and still needs it.
But, yes, let’s talk about now. Todo sees Endeavor making an effort to be a decent father, and he’s allowing him a chance. Todo understands that resentment is a valid emotional response (Natsuo), but he, personally, wants to attempt a loving relationship with his father now that said father is trying to make that a possibility. Todo thinks that’s best for TODO, and that’s great. That is how Todo is going to handle this situation, and that is how Todo is going to heal.
It hurts, but I appreciate the fuck out of Hori reminding us that the past still has a profound negative impact on this kid. Todo has psychological scars that remain no matter how much he could come to love his father or how “good” his father is now. He has triggers and flashbacks from then-strangers who don’t know any better (Inasa) and even from friends who are well-meaning (Tokoyami). His father is the No. 1, and EVERYONE has an opinion on that shit.
Potential triggers are literally everywhere for Todoroki; he has PTSD and very little knowledge of coping or maybe even what to call what he has. His support system is great, and it’s having a positive impact on his health. His support system is NECESSARY, but it’s mostly a bunch of little still-growing 15 year-old kids with their own set of problems and very little formal knowledge on what mental illness is or how to manage mental health.
Yes, he’s probably safe right now, but he needs a dedicated professional who can sit down on a regular basis and give him 1. the tools to cope with unavoidable triggers, 2. a name for what he’s experiencing + treatment for PTSD, 3. general therapy, and 4. options if it ever DOES become unsafe for him, because I doubt he really knows.
Enrichment is a foundation of animal care, not an option
It is also not a synonym for entertainment.
Enrichment allows and animal the option to perform a variety of natural behaviors. It is a measureable science benefitting physical and brain health.
If you cannot spare time to provide as basic and indispensable as enrichment, then having a pet is not the right thing for you
—mod Nick
This is incredibly important. All animals need mental and physical enrichment when they’re in human care.
However. This does not mean that if you did not know your pet needed enrichment when you first got it – or if you were not able to be in control of if a pet was given enrichment – that you’re inherently a bad person and should never have pets. I’ve seen a lot of blogs shaming people for how their childhood pet was treated, or for what care they provided their first pet when they knew very little about taking care of an animal.
Would it be ideal if everyone did a ton of research before getting a pet and never messed anything up? Absolutely. But that’s also not realistic. I’d much rather encourage people to do better and praise them for admitting they made a mistake and choosing to make a change in their husbandry protocols rather than attack them for their past. If someone realizes they’re not doing the right thing for their animal and genuinely wants to learn, we need to support them.
Enrichment is vital and necessary, but it’s far more beneficial for your pets to change what you can now and for the future, rather than dwell on the past. What’s important is that you make the choice to provide enrichment once you’ve learned it’s needed. It’s when someone knows their husbandry is lacking and isn’t willing to put in the time or effort it fix it that the above statements really apply.
i honestly hate this post ( that i cropped so y’all don’t have to read the whole thing ) like……….. asexuality isn’t 18+ and just…….. let people discover who they are and try on labels if they want, if they decide they’re not really ace who are you to judge???? let kids figure themselves out without dictating their identity for them
When I was 13 I thought I was bi. When my friend was 14, she thought she was bi. My cousin, at 12 years old, id’d as bi. Turns out none of us are. There’s no problem here. I’m just pointing out that it’s really fucking ridiculous to blame an entire community because you were wrong about your identity during an age when NEARLY ALL of us were wrong. Because we were still exploring ourselves and finding our labels.
Like, you could literally do that to EVERY COMMUNITY, but you zero in on aspecs because y’all are too foolish to realize that telling kids about these id’s or not won’t change anything. The same percentage of people will still be initially wrong about their identities as they are now, because that’s how exploration and breaking free of heteronormativity and cisnormativity WORKS.
Anyways this is the full post and it’s literally just saying that children shouldn’t be worrying about sexual attraction and that if they don’t experience it they don’t automatically have to ID as ace, AND ALSO SAYS it’s not the same thing as being gay/bi/trans because those don’t necessarily have to do with sexual attraction but go off
Lmao, the whole post is actually worse than the section cropped.
1) It still blames the entire aspec community for their own mis-identification at 13, their friends misidentification at 14, and their cousins identity at 12. 2) It ignores that most children experience their first sexual attraction (not romantic, SEXUAL attraction) at about 10-12 (With some later bloomers and some earlier bloomers). In my own personal experience, by grade 5 (10-11) nearly every person in my class was already talking about it. By grade 6 (11-12) People were already demanding to know who was a virgin and who wasn’t. 3)Requires a false definition of asexuality. They say those orientations have nothing to do with SEX. Not SEXUAL ATTRACTION. Asexuality ALSO doesn’t imply anything about sex. Because it’s about who you are attracted to (No one), not about who you are or are not having sex with.
Them saying ‘asexuality is literally directly about sex’ is a false definition, which is something people have already explained AT LENGTH. It is HARMFUL to continue using a false definition to tell people they can’t explore their identities. It is a LOT more harmful than a kid misidentifying themselves as ace when they’re 14. But go off, I guess.
this whole “pre-teens shouldn’t be thinking about sex so it’s wrong to teach them about asexuality” is.. infuriatingly hilarious to me. do these folks even fucking remember what it was like to be a pre-teen? cuz let me tell you, if i knew about asexuality when i was 12 i absolutely would have identified with that SPECIFICALLY because i wasn’t feeling the same sexual feelings as my peers
i started my period when i was 11 (a proper “woman” and all that you know). my peers were talking about dating, about porn, learning where babies came from. kids were experimenting with masturbation. i was reading smut (like so many ppl on this site admit to doing) becuz sex was a fascinating thing to me even if i didn’t have an interest in doing it. my CHURCH was telling me to wait to have SEX until marriage (plus that whole “if you let some rando lick your cupcake then you won’t be able to share it with your SoulMate” bs)
you can say “pre-teens shouldn’t be thinking about sex” all you want, but the fact is that pre-teens ARE going to be thinking about sex and THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO FUCKING STOP THEM
and that is NOT the fault of asexual people, that’s just a natural evolution of kids going through puberty and entering a more mature world and experimenting with relationships. and if some pre-teen isn’t feeling those sexual feelings that their peers are, then they deserve to know they aren’t strange or broken or abnormal, that there are other people like them. and maybe that’ll change and maybe it won’t (it sure didn’t for me) but it’s not WRONG for them to identify with asexuality; no more wrong than it would be for them to identify as gay or bi or lesbian or pan becuz it isn’t just about sex it’s about SEXUAL ATTRACTION
honestly it’s like y’all internalized all that bullshit homophobic hypersexualization of gay/queerness and have decided to redirect it at asexuals as some sort of twisted revenge and it’s hypocritical as FUCK
When I was 14, I heard the word asexual for the first time. I had lots of experiences to think it might apply to me… After all, kids around that age actually talk about sexual attraction a lot. I had peers grilling me about who I found hot and thinking I was a liar or not trusting them fully when I couldn’t come up with answers for them, or felt really neutral in the face of it. I ended up lying to please people about people I thought were attractive. These experiences can certainly apply to non-ace kids as well, there’s a lot of nuance, but I think… it would’ve been okay for someone to ID with the label at that age just for a bit anyway, even if just to figure themselves out.
Anyway at that age, I thought to myself: I’m young, it can’t possibly apply to me, I don’t have the right to describe myself like that. I was also scared calling myself asexual would be ‘dehumanizing’ myself. This was back when there wasn’t as much loaded negativity around the term! I didn’t attach fully to the term until I was 19-ish and back then it was not a happy realization.
Dairy Farmers of Canada issued a terse statement soon after the agreement was announced late Sunday, following 14 months of difficult negotiations between the parties.
The organization says the newly minted U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, or USMCA, will grant greater market access to the domestic dairy market and eliminate competitive dairy classes, which the group says will shrink the Canadian industry.
The lobby group says the measures will have “a dramatic impact not only for dairy farmers but for the whole sector,” adding that it fails “to see how this deal can be good for the 220,000 Canadian families that depend on dairy for their livelihood.”
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