you don’t have to justify your suffering to anyone especially a perpetrator.

your emotions are your emotions. your pain is your pain.

Inktober Part 1 - GTODAE sketches

171022 Daesung - Dna Show Vol.1 in Osaka

*The funniest moment was during a moment of silence right between the end of the talk segment and the beginning of the game part, when a super loud sneeze could be heard in the audience. Daesung exploded in laughter, the band members started laughing too, then the fans joined in. Daesung was on the floor trying to calm down but he couldn’t.  We were all laughing for several minutes.Daesung was literally crying of laughter but even while drying his tears with tissue paper he couldn’t stop laughing. He grabbed his stomach saying “It hurts!”, still laughing.

*Then he explained “Do you know those times when you don’t wanna laugh cuz your stomach hurts but you can’t stop?”.When he finally calmed down he said he hadn’t laughed so much in a while.He then asked the person who had sneezed to be brave & come out. Turned out it was a kid. really deep voice, he even apologized saying he didn’t expect that his sneeze would come out so loud. Daesung asked him what his dream was & he replied it was to win a national kendo tournament. Then Daesung said he’ll root for him. (Conversation: Here)

Daesung in Hawaii Photobook

African penguins: adorable and endangered. 

The answer is: lots of reasons including oil spills, food scarcity, habitat degradation and human harvesting of penguin eggs and guano. Here at the Aquarium, our resident colony of African penguins is part of the AZA Species Survival Plan to maintain a healthy population of penguins in the United States.

Over in South Africa, an organization called SANCCOB is leading the way in studying, rescuing, and rehabilitating wild African penguins. Through their Chick Bolstering Project, SANCCOB biologists monitor African penguins in the wild and bring abandoned, injured or starving chicks in for care. Together with colony managers, they also rescue and hand-rear eggs that have either been abandoned by their parents or when the adult penguins were found nesting in areas outside of the protected colony area. Last year Monterey Bay Aquarium Aviculturist Monika Rohrer journeyed to South Africa to volunteer with SANCCOB.

Monika tends to rescued penguin chicks at SANCCOB’s Cape Town facility.

“One thing that stuck out to me was the sheer number of penguins [at SANCCOB],” says Monika “There were so many birds that needed help.” The organization took in 497 African penguin chicks in 2015, and about double that in 2014. To help SANCCOB care for its penguin patients, professional seabird caregivers from zoos and aquariums around the world come every year to volunteer.

Rescued penguin chicks at SANCCOB. Chicks may be abandoned by parents either during oil spills, when they struggle to find food or due to the parents going into molt.

It’s hard work! Monika tended to a section of about 150 penguins every day. Here’s what daily care for a rescued penguin means:

Um when’s naptime?

Working with 150 rescued penguins every day gave Monika an opportunity to use husbandry skills that she doesn’t always get a chance to practice when looking after our colony of 18 penguins, such as tube feeding a sick penguin. “The experience I got there was invaluable,” she says. “It was absolutely beneficial. And it helped conserve penguins, which is what we’re all about.”

Monika was one of many volunteers from zoos and aquariums around the world.

In order to be released back into the wild, rescued penguins at SANCCOB must:

Be 100% waterproof

Pass blood test criteria

Be able to swim for at least an hour

Be eating well

Be at a good body weight

Not be on any medication

Not be habituated to people

African penguins face many threats, but programs like SANCCOB’s Chick Bolstering Project provide hope for their population. Monika was able to see rehabilitation at work firsthand. “Penguins are so hardy, it’s incredible,” she says. “One adult we released only had one foot and had been at SANCCOB for over a year, but made it through all the tests and was able to return to the wild!”

Release day! Farewell, penguins!

Hi! Just thought I’d compile a list of masterposts that I’ve seen and reblogged on Tumblr. Let me know if any links are dead!

HUGE masterposts:

notes, everything, vegan, soundtracks, etc

back-to-school (supplies, music, health, how-tos, etc)

discipline, essays, exams, language, notes, time management

books that i need to read lol

art, advice, bujo, college, all subjects, handwriting, mental health, printables, productivity, standardized tests, quotes

test prep

mega

mega 2

mega 3

subjects masterpost

ap exams

free online resources

99 places to find literature

save money on books! 

list of hobbies

Writing:

writing stuff

words to replace “said”

more words to replace “said”

pretty words

synonyms for basic words

Being a studyblr:

studyblr advice

stationery!

bullet journaling

60+ stationery brands

apps

apps 2

apps+websites

fonts

General study tips:

study habits

study habits 2

rare study tips

more tips

more!

study music

College:

applications 

college life

interview tips

Self-care:

one

two

three

ever wanted to do some stuff? like, different stuff? tired of having to scroll through your huge ref tag? LOOK NO FURTHER!! Have a masterpost of LITERALLY EVERYTHING which took me 5 hours to make so reblog it

Art:

Painting tutorial

Female/male arms

Kneeling + Sitting ref

Dragon head view tutorial

SAI brushes 86786

Drawing expressions

Sai Brushes 1

NGE colour palette 1

100+ colour palletes

Avoiding same face

Face contours/highlighting 

free art MyPaint

Body anatomy help 1

How to shift images using blur in PS

Drawing clothe folding

How to draw ice

Colour palette 1

Colour palette 2

SAI brush settings 2

SAI/PS pixel brushes

Warm/Cool gray

Flower crown tutorial

Skin colour palette

Pink colour sheet

How to draw butts&thighs

The male torso

Drawing glowing stuff in SAI

Drawing horse/animal legs on humans

Drawing clouds

Muscular male with bow stock photos

Pastel colours

Drawing grass fields in SAI

Expressions&Legs

All about the human body

20+ colour palettes 

Colour conversion

Kissing ref

Creature design 

Colour meanings

Creating expression

Tutorial masterpost (100+)

Lineart

Canine

How to colour

Pose studies

Feline comparisons

How to draw penis

Leaf pressing

100+ anatomy references 

How to draw folds

SAI brushes 3

Sitting poses

Colour palette 4

Cloud painting

How to draw 3D rooms

Colour info

Colouring ref

Hair tutorial

Clothing ref

Bodies and poses

SAI brushes 5

Colour scheme designer

Folding ref

Heads&Angles 

Paint tool SAI masterpost

Drawing ref masterpost (10+)

Hair+Fur

How to draw faces

SAI brushes 4

Anatomy of mutant humans

What should I draw?

Free art software

pastel colour ref

Mass art ref

Soft SAI brushes

ways to draw stuff

SAI brush settings

baseball cap ref

Penis ref

Drawing human wings

Cool free art software

Huge art ref

Colour blender

2 SAI brushes

Photoshop for free 

Writing:

Inspiration 1

Instead of ‘whispered’

Music for writing fight scenes

Writing fantasy

Emotions vocab sheet

How to reveal character

Writers block resource

Writing a death scene

BIO help

Music to help you write

Writing prompt generators

Got writers block?

How to torture a character

Degrees of emotion

ULTIMATE writing ref, 500+

Character names

Body language

25 days of fic

HOW TO DRAW ANYTHING

Writing people of colour

nanowrimo start kit

character flaws

General: 

Becoming an adult masterpost

cute OTP things

Resource masterpost

For bored people

Anime + Manga recs

how to make a blanket nest

Getting an apartment

what should i read next?

If you’re bored

Delete tourists from photos

Cute pet nicknames

Family tree explained 

Pulling an all nighter 

masterpost of themes/pixels/emoticons

List of demon names

Demons & Deities in the bible

Moss graffiti 

Types of attraction

Trampoline = outside bed

College textbooks

God masterpost

Creepypasta

OTP necklaces

Super silky summer legs

Plastic keychains

How to write cover letters

make music on itunes sound great

Documentarys 

Classic lit

Makeup:

Black/gold ref 1

Cosplay eye makeup

Halloween eye gore makeup (tw eye gore)

Rotting skin halloween makeup

Eyeliner ref

bloody halloween nails

Gender:

Getting gender-neutral pronouns on facebook

Backgrounds:

Pokemon mystery dungeons iphone

Ghosty backgrounds 

Themes/pixel/backgrounds

Clothing: 

1000+ everything clothing ref

Awesome jackets

Cheer up/Be happy

If you’re having a bad night

Movies to watch when you’re down

Confidence

Sowing:

8ft giant squid pattern

Food:

Cheeseburger cupcakes

Deep-dish cookie for one

Exercise: 

Burning stomach fat

Games:

PokéRadar guide

Play pokémon games online

Pkmn Shiny hunting guide

Animal crossing new leaf face/hair guide

Free RPG games

Mental health: