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1. Uvula at this point of history is a shorthand, an instantly recognizable symbol for the inside of someone’s mouth. If you don’t put it in, the inside of the mouth would look weird. There are TONS of those in animation, since in animation you have to “dumb nature down” to a few instantly recognizable shapes. A weird shape in the back of your throat? Pretty recognizable.

2. It’s just a weird silly part of anatomy and it’s kind of funny?

3. The amount of humans working on each cartoon is in the hundreds. To have an scene of a character interacting with an uvula, you need a LOT of people involved. Starting from a script writer a team of board artists, a team of animators. That shot of tweety punching an uvula (done by Warner Brothers not Disney) has just the people who are doing the actual work of drawing a character move, you have a posing artist, a key animator, an inbetweener, a clean up artist, and an person colouring each frame by hand, not to mention the background was first drawn by a layout artist and then painted by a background painting team. Those drybrush speedlines? Were probably done by an FX artist. That’s a fucktonne of people bringing this to life. All of them getting off on an uvula? Unlikely

My point is, it’s really hard to bring in your weird specific fetish into an animation scene. Like you can sneak it in, like a dust cloud that reads sex in lion king, was done by just one FX artist, and it went past the sensors, but having a whole SCENE be your weird fetish is real difficult unless it is actually ..a visual gag, done on purpose, as a joke. Because having a weird anatomy part that a character can interact with is weird and funny. You can for sure think it’s not funny, and some jokes land flat, but YOU CAN NOT HAVE A TEAM OF HUNDREDS OF ARTIST WORK ON YOUR VERY SPECIFIC KINK.

"Y'all notice a sharp decline in protest videos and content in the last couple of weeks?"

Joshua Potash @JoshuaPotash

"I don't think people understand.

This is NYC right now. Day 30. In a row.

On Saturday alone I attended 4 protests in a row. And that was 4 out of many.

So I live with chronic pain and other chronic illness concerns so while most binders look super cool flat wise, they are a nightmare to me because you can’t get them off quickly.

*taps the photos of this bad boy right here*

Zipper!! Now if I’m feeling bad suddenly and either in pain, can’t breathe, or whatever my body wants to throw at me. Zip. Gone.

Its not super tight and won’t flatten a ton especially if you don’t position those puppies. But because it isn’t super tight I can do more in it for longer. (Remember always listen to your body’s limits). Now I do have a large set but it still gives me a more of a Dorito shape which is my fav and allows me to not even need a level of flatness other binders can get.

Some others pros, cheap! 18 bucks. I like the design of this for being shirt-like, sometimes I’ll just wear it around the house when I want to just “be in my underwear”. (A concept that eluded me pre-gender euphoria days.)

My only complaint is that is rides up on my hips which can be annoying. I joked I wanted those sexy like belt garters to hold it down but it hasn’t been that big of a deal tbh

Illustration sheet for my vampire character, Maurice.

Tiny unit

…I hadn’t heard about a new Future Is Wild project, and now I’ve looked it up I’m so so disappointed.

Because the “titan dolphin” makes no anatomical sense.

[source: The Future Is Wild VR]

It appears to have been designed purely for looks, with no real regard for how either dolphins work or just animal anatomy in general. (Or, worse, it looks like somebody drew an “alien dinosaur” concept and then just slapped the “dolphin” ancestry onto it after the fact to try to make it more interesting.)

Why is its vestigial tail fluke vertical instead of horizontal? Why do its teeth seem to go right around the corners of its weird-looking lips? What possible use are such long thin fragile fangs? Why does it have lizard scales? Why is it so lumpy?

And where are its organs? If its legs are derived from forelimbs, then the “body” around them has to be pretty much entirely its ribcage. This thing is literally just the front half of an animal with no space for a digestive system!

I’ve been thinking about how I’d do my own version of a “land dolphin”, too, and I actually ended up taking it in a pretty similar initial direction, using the tail for weight-bearing.

(I just… might have gone a bit weirder with it.)

Their ancestors are dolphins who develop the behavior of driving their prey up onto the shore to catch it, beaching themselves in the process and then wriggling back into the water – similar to the way some modern dolphins beach themselves while hunting fish, along with how orcas hunt sea lions.

They gradually get better and better at maneuvering themselves on the shore, going from flopping to a more sea lion-like bounding motion using strengthened and more flexible flippers and their powerful tails. Instead of just beaching fish they start outright preying on terrestrial animals on the shore, too, in a sort of ambush predator niche.

Eventually they start using their tail as a tripod pseudo-leg, curling it beneath themselves so they can use it to propel themselves forwards. They don’t really run, instead leaping along in an almost frog-like motion to chase terrestrial prey.

They’re still semi-aquatic at this point, spending most of their time lurking in the water, but from here they can become more and more terrestrial.

Their melons reduce because echolocation doesn’t work as well for hunting in air, but they keep the dorsal fins for now as visual display structures. Instead of regaining separate digits their limbs develop tough hoof-like keratinized pads, and they take the vestigial hairs they still develop as embryos and fully grow some sensory whiskers.

They grow some big tusks, too, because they’re bad-tempered pig-like things that like to fight each other.

Then some of them reactivate the genes for body fur, and get kinda hairy, too. They develop elaborate bony crests on their snouts (like a more ridiculous version of some extinct beaked whales), and so their dorsal fins start to become less prominent.

With longer limbs and stronger hooves, they end up as big carnivores somewhat convergent with entelodonts.

Though if all goes well, and they’re able to re-specialize to a terrestrial lifestyle, there could be a fair amount of diversity that they could attain. Perhaps wallowing hippo-like herbivores or unicorn-like predators as mentioned…or perhaps even a small, omnivorous “raccolphin”…

I love that raccolphin! I can imagine them being obnoxious little troublemakers, and making up for their lack of grabby hands with some corvid-like tool use.

And, yeah, land dolphins would definitely need a lack of terrestrial competition in their ecosystem, so I figure they’d probably happen in an isolated island ecosystem without any other land mammals.

#Spectember is still very far away, but I couldn’t resist going nuts with this concept.

So without further ado:

The Delphinus Archipelago.

An isolated archipelago that arises in the Pacific Ocean an undetermined millions of years in the distant future, the Delphinus Archipelago is soon teeming with life, filled with expanses of grassland, dense forested areas and rich coral reefs around its coastal shallows. An abundance of crustaceans swarm on its beaches, flocks of unique endemic birds settle in its forests and shores, and insects, other arthropods and even small reptiles that rafted onto the archipelago eons ago have now made home in the islands’s rich ecosystem.

So you know how elves are pretty much just weird humans that live in the Deep Woods and commune with the trees and have extra magic?

We don’t have those in Farewenden. Instead, we have weird bears that live in the Deep Woods and commune with the trees and have extra magic, and they are called Langbere. They’re wise and long-lived, but also very secretive and not much is known about them.

I might colour this fellow and add more detail at some point, but for now, he’s done. If you want to colour him in the meantime, please be my guest! ( b ._.)b

Myths About Sinking Britain

MYTH: “There is no historical precedent for sinking Britain!” FACT: Doggerland, which connected Britain to the European mainland, was submerged by water in 6500BC. There is precedent for sinking Britain.

MYTH: “It is unfeasible to sink Britain!” FACT: Britain is strategically located to allow many nations to co-operate in its sinking.

MYTH: “Sinking Britain would raise sea levels!” FACT: The Netherlands already has dams.

MYTH: “Sinking Britain would cause more problems geopolitically than it would solve!” FACT: We simply won’t know this until we sink Britain.

Just wanted to say that the president of Poland Andrzej Duda just signed smthg called “Karta Rodziny”, which basically states that the only true family and marriage is that of heterosexual people, further doubling down on refusing marriage equality and adoption. It will “save children from alien and harmful LGBT ideology” by baning public institutions of mentioning the “LGBT ideology”.

The things happening over in america are horrendous, but also making way for changes for the better. They’re making the whole world have a discussion about racism still woven into our societies.

But please. It’s pride month. My country, my people need this to be on the lips of the world.

[1]: no queer-inclusive sex education at schools, for one. there’s been a push for better sex ed and a counter-push by far-right, anti-choice groups for NO sex ed.

Love Does Not Exclude Association (Miłość nie wyklucza) - focused on ensuring the right to marry for all, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity, and battling harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ community (the link leads you to the donation page in English)

Trans-Fuzja Foundation - activities aimed to help the Polish transgender community by providing professional psychological help and support, legal advisory, educating the public opinion about transgender issues, creating safe spaces for the Polish trangender community (the link leads you to the donation page in English)

Kampania Przeciw Homofobii - fights the discrimination of non-heteronormative and transgender people in Poland, educates about LGBTQ+ issues (link to the donation page in Polish, where you can choose which specific area of their work you want to support - LGBTQ+ families, general support, fighting the violence against the community, fighting discrimination and ignorance in schools, LGBTQ+ health issues, work with LGBTQ+ allies and families of LGBTQ+ folks - google translate should help you with understanding the page)

There was no reason for this to happen. He’s lucky he is white.

They then proceeded to start patting me down - touching my breasts and my front/ back pockets, still laughing. Finally, one of them admitted,“ We shouldn’t be doing this.” Then they called over a female officer to search me. Their names are Officer Cho and Codilla of the LAPD.

I was not the only gender non conforming protestor to be called “it.” There were trans/non-binary protestors divided into the ‘male’ and ‘female’ buses and deliberately misgendered. I was also not the only protestor to be sexually harassed or made uncomfortable.

After being held for over 4 hours - with protestors vomiting, fainting, forced to pee in their seats, losing circulation in their bruised wrists/arms - many began to advocate. We demanded access to bathrooms, water, and medical attention. We held them accountable to the law.

The only response was an officer telling us to “stop acting like high school girls.” We were held even longer, watching other buses with prisoners being processed and released. When I got off the bus, an officer said, “Now that you’re acting reasonable, we let you off the bus.”

We spoke up about LAPD abuse and were punished for it. They heard us begging and screaming for medical attention and chose to keep us there for 5 ½ hours to silence us.

After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: “Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice - I can make this much worse for you.” In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: “You have no rights here.”

This is what protestors are facing. This is the violence and harassment police have been using to silence us, wear us down, and force us off the streets. Even without rubber bullets, tear gas, and batons, they have other means of physical and emotional violence.