This is awesome on so many levels.

I make no secret of the fact that The Pointer Sisters "Neutron Dance" is one of my all time favourite music tracks, and has been since the first time I heard it.

Their relentless energy and drive, the synth beat, the harmonies, all just pop in my brain.

Gerenuk, the long necked antelope that stands tall to reach hidden leaves in dry African bushlands.

This East African antelope can stand upright on its hind legs and stretch its long neck to reach leaves other animals cannot easily reach. Found in dry bushlands of East Africa, it survives by browsing from thorny shrubs and getting much of its water from the plants it eats.

Carved antler discovered at the Grotte de Lortet rock shelter in the French Pyrenees

When you like someone so much you want to BITE them - and other adventures of Hedwig (Pticenoga) and Vaughn >:)

I've been dealing with some health issues (nothing unusual for me, so no worries; also my husband takes care of me the same way Vaughn does here lol), which kept me from posting for a while. Now I'm trying to get back into it 💀

As you can see, I've also been experimenting a bit. I have 0 training in animation, but I've always admired it, so I decided to try animating something small myself. These are some of my older attempts, I've created more since then (you can find them on my Patreon), and I even revisited Hedwig's leg animation to make it smoother and as if she's rushing forward. I still have a lot to learn, but I'm really excited about it!

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

Even the evening commute filled with people who are still mentally fresh would be tons safer (as well as the morning one that’s full of well-rested people!)

All the mistakes people make and all the shortcuts they take when they’ve been working for seven or eleven or seventeen hours and this person with a life-threatening condition is just one more obstacle between them and the end of the shift? Could just be gone.