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Featherweight's sister as mentioned in Ponyville Confidental, daughter of Feather Flatterfly and Buried Lede

Look at me and tell me that you like that 🫣❤️‍🔥

Been thinking a lot about how we treat sexuality as a culture, hiding it and surrounding it with shame. I can even sort of understand why; we can’t always control our sexual reactions, they aren’t always appropriate, and they can be outright destructive to our lives (and others’ lives) when we aren’t careful in how we express them. It’s a child’s logic—if we don’t talk about this terrible thing, if we hide it away and pretend it doesn’t exist, it can’t hurt us, yes? And surely it stops holding any power over us.

You’d think that centuries of evidence would convince us how flawed that line of thinking is. Sexuality is fundamental to our survival, it will absolutely fetishize that shame and make it serve its own ends. And in the process, stuffing something so powerful into our few narrow socially-prescribed contexts causes so much harm. We degrade performers and workers who make their living in a sexual milieu, because it’s dirty and shameful and therefore they must be too. We blame and despise people who incite sexual feelings within us, because it’s so much easier to criticize them for their dress/language/self-expression than it is to acknowledge those awful feelings. We look at people of alternative genders and sexualities with suspicion and hostility, because our view of what constitutes “acceptable” sex is so limited and anything outside it is a threat.

It makes me happy that there’s been so much movement towards a consent-based model of sexuality in recent years. Acknowledging its power and practicing sex mindfully is the single most powerful antidote to this culture of shame. Yet even within that framework, so many of us are still so invested in the current model that we find new ways to transpose it (witness the discourse around “harboring sexual fantasies about someone without their consent is rape,” or the many many things being referred to as “pedophilia” that have nothing to do with minor children). Shame is a potent means of gaining power, especially around something as charged and controversial as sexuality—and wielding it by positioning ourselves as the arbiter of what’s acceptable is a seductive power trip, especially for people who feel threatened or disempowered by changing mores.

I don’t have any real solutions—this isn’t the kind of thing that can be solved by a few people. Personally, I’m privileged enough to be able to openly practice a highly sexualized art form, so I do, both because I enjoy it and because there’s value in actively refusing to participate in shame culture. I communicate openly with my partners and respect their boundaries and consent. I let go of my own culturally-instilled shame and need to control others, and celebrate their personal expressions of gender and sexuality (or nongender and nonsexuality). And on the whole, I think I’m a better and happier person for it.

A small gift for @rachel8889 of her Edionan OC Caria (Sailor Sphrite). I love her mushroom theme so much I had to find a base to help me when I couldn't get it looking right on my own.

Fine am bunny if I must /j

it’s been a while since I considered this, so I guess I have no clue where I’d start

Last furry design I did that i was happy with was my pink skunk boy, amancio

base by beastofeuthanasia and left likes no reblogs cause I used a base lol ))

My OroKabu daughter I recently designed. She is the older sister of Mitsuki. She is a clone too but unlike her brother, her dna is mainly that of Orochimaru and Kabuto. I call her Kana

a beep

for luck

Fresh Grapes

// I really wanted to slowly get back into drawing my dear OCs again! And I also love all those “Draw yur Squad”-memes - such as this one!

Featuring Pinto from @ask-dj-and-friends and Baby Davis from @arko-and-friend <3