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He does usually hang out with me all day long, except when he decides to go on little patrols by himself to check on the rest of his farm. This past week though I have been completely abandoned, because a farmer moved some of his heifers to the pasture next to mine and Pandolf is in love with the idea of finally having a herd of his own and a job as a proper sheepdog. He's too busy for me now. From dawn to dusk he runs round his little herd with dedication and delight; if a predator showed up he would fend it off so much.

The cows are very kind to him and humour him as he tirelessly circles them to make sure they don't scatter (they have no intention of doing such a thing).

Sometimes Pandolf the Sheepdog is like "Do not LEAVE the HERD! you might get LOST!! but I will go and save you" and the cow is like "I'm going for a drink of water young man, it's quite all right, I won't get lost. Look, the trough's just over here."

I was telling a friend the other day that I now have to wait forever when I call Pandolf at bedtime, even though he has a 5-minute commute to work, and I can only assume that's because he goes round his herd giving each of his precious cows a goodnight kiss one by one and telling them "I'll be back tomorrow <3" before finally running home.

I miss doing fun month drawing challenges, so I put together a little prompt list for myself, and figured I'd post it now! (Half so I'm held accountable to this commitment, and half in case anyone wants to join me!)

🎵i’m sorry I was gone…but look I made you some conteeeeeent!🎵

Hey hi how are ya. I drew another dress up game.

It’s made with meiker.io, (which has a move tool now that I’m really happy about), its called dress up, schmess up and you can play it here! I’m bad at coming up with names ok..

This is the largest meiker game I’ve ever drawn and I worked real hard on the layering on this one, it was A Lot. No real theme here, just modern fashion stuff, just wanted to draw what I felt like without worrying about it too much.

Also, now for the price of a single kofi you can purchase my eternal love and devotion! But seriously if you like these type of games, and you’d like to see me make more of them, it would mean a ton to me if you feel like doing that. (I mean..i will make more anyway..but…u kno…)

the idea of living in the same place, or jointly bringing up children, and performing many other tasks as a kind of unit that society would often mislabel as something done by two romantic partners in a union of some kind (i use that term to loosely define an exclusive relationship, not actual binding marriage, though this can include such). the idea of the QPR isn’t just “friends”, it’s very specifically “individuals in a platonic relationship that perform a number of the social aspects of a traditional romantic partnership”.

like, be real for a second. if someone described their relationship with someone to you and said “Yeah we own a house together, we have a kid that we adopted and take care of, we decided to get a dog last week and we file taxes as two members of the same household.”, you wouldn’t look at that person and assume that they arent romantic/sexual partners of some kind, because... well, traditionally, that’s shit that married people do. getting hit with the additional “Yup! And we’re not romantically or sexually involved at all! She has a boyfriend that she visits on the weekends and I’ve never had a romantic relationship in my life.” would throw you for a goddamn loop! What would you even call that relationship? and that’s where the term comes from: an attempt to define a very specific kind of relationship that certainly can and has existed, but isn’t commonly recognized or talked about!

Okay, granted, it’s been a while since I’ve seen “all trans readers like one kind of fic, and no trans readers ever like another kind of fic, so it is Transphobia when you write the Wrong Kind.”

…but it hasn’t been that long since I’ve seen someone quietly wonder if they’re a Bad Trans Person for having preferences.

So it’s never a bad time to say: different people have different needs, and it’s okay to be fulfilled by different kinds of stories!

origins!ranboo is a such a lad

FUCKING SNIPEZA HOLY SHIT

all the cozy commissions from 2020