Gay things with Gay motives (inhibitions optional)

Music lessons are extremely crucial part of your education, why may you ask? because it teaches you so many things you didn't even think you were being taught, hand eye coordination, creative thinking, emotional development are all things music and art classes help foster.

They teach you the fundamental basic of creative problem solving and give kids with big emotions easy and none destructive outlets into something they can use and develop in later life. These fundimental skills are often something that many kids don't have the groundwork for BEFORE they enter school. Due to home life, lack of resources, and neurodivergance which their parents are unable/unwilling to cater to or simply don't know how.

Art classes especially help you visualise complex objects or scenes and how they can tie into emotion or evoke a meaning other then the obvious, this is crucial for things like creative writing, literary analysis, and maths. Have you ever visualised a shape while in a maths class? no? then you could have benefited from an art class.

Music classes have much of the same effect but they can teach you how to do all of that for music, and auditory processes, such as speaking, and talking. Ever struggled to identify someone's tone while talking to them? then you could have benefited from a music class.

These types of classes also help with motor skills and motor skills are notoriously all over the place for children especially when they are entering school, because it's a skill that children have to be taught before they enter school, and some parents for whatever reason can't teach them that, so the kids don't learn it. But these types of creative classes all the way up into the age of 16-17 can help you develop complex motor functions that you wouldn't have learnt elsewhere.

The voices begging to cut these types of classes are coming from a place of Anti-intellectualism, they don't understand how important these classes are because they didn't benefit from them for whatever reason or they did and they just don't see it. Having creative classes all the way from toddler age to adulthood is significantly more important than you could ever imagine. I cannot express just how important these classes are and it goes far beyond fostering a love of art or music.

When ranchers in Utah's Rich County found eighteen sheep killed in March 2022, they assumed coyotes. USDA Wildlife Services flew a plane over the kill site and found something feeding on the carcasses that had only been confirmed in the state eight times in forty years. It was a wolverine. Utah sits at the extreme southern margin of the wolverine's North American range. The animal is built for the deep snow and high alpine of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, country above ten thousand feet where the winters last eight months and the terrain rejects everything that is not specifically engineered to survive it. A wolverine showing up in Utah's ranch country was not a routine predator complaint. It was a biological event. State wildlife managers had no protocol for it because they had never needed one. Biologists set specialized barrel traps near the sheep carcasses. Catching a wolverine in a live trap is considered one of the most difficult captures in North American wildlife management. The animal is trap-smart, solitary, covers enormous distances daily, and operates almost exclusively in terrain that humans struggle to access on foot. The odds of a wolverine walking into a barrel trap were close to zero. The next morning, a sheepherder found one of the trap doors dropped. Inside was a healthy, twenty-eight-pound male, estimated at three to four years old. It was the first wolverine ever live-captured by biologists in Utah's history. The team sedated him, packed his body in ice to keep his core temperature stable during the examination, fitted him with a GPS tracking collar, and released him into the deep snow of the Uinta Mountains. For researchers who had spent careers studying an animal they almost never got to see, that collar was the first real-time data source on wolverine movement the state had ever produced. The data that came back over the next twenty-five days confirmed what wolverine biologists in other states had documented but Utah had never been able to verify on its own ground. The animal logged over 195 miles of travel in less than a month. He did not drift south toward lower elevations or leave the state. He locked into the high peaks of the Uintas above ten thousand feet and ran massive looping circuits through avalanche chutes, rocky ridgelines, and snowfields deep enough to bury a man standing upright. The daily distances he covered would qualify as an endurance event for a human athlete on flat ground. He was doing it through the most physically punishing terrain in the state, in winter, alone, at elevation, without stopping. The eighteen dead sheep that started the whole sequence were never repeated. The wolverine moved into the high country and stayed there, operating in a landscape so remote and so hostile that the only evidence of his existence was the GPS signal pinging coordinates from ridgelines that no person had visited in months. The collar proved what the forty years of scattered sightings could only suggest. The wolverine was not passing through Utah. It was living there, quietly covering nearly two hundred miles of frozen alpine rock in less than a month, completely invisible to every human being in the state.

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

it's a major honour just to be on this list - MICHAEL ROSEN???! HELL YEAH??!

it's public vote, you can vote from anywhere, and ngl winning it would really help with some future projects I've got going on. BUT there are some very deserving names on the list so, I guess vote your conscience?

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