My party as of now:

(almost tempted not to evolve Wailmer because that smile is so cute)

And for completeness' sake, the others:



I promise I won't make posts just for Pokemon and eggs; rather, they'll turn up in unrelated posts. GPX is addictive. I'm not setting out to build a comprehensive collection, I just want to hatch and breed my favourites. :3

Okay, in other minutiae, I was watching the latest Doctor Who special, "The Waters of Mars", and I wish I could show this to the rest of WERP because not only was it set in a future colony on Mars, the colony's captain (a Cool Old Lady) was pretty much Aida aged 60 in looks and personality. We also saw her 10-year-old self and she was just Leah all over, and I think her granddaughter may have been played by Clemence Poesy, who always reminds me of Aida too. Steele, are you secretly writing for DW?

I'm not even into Pokemon, but they're so cute.

Fox News: Mother cat adopts rejected newborn Rottweiler. It's old (2007), but worth posting.

Racialicious: What is "good hair", anyway?

karnythia in sex_and_race: the do's and don'ts of being a good ally.

FWD / Feminists with Disabilities: A person with OCD writes about the phrase "You're so OCD!" and how it compares to her experience of the condition.

Fat Sisters: An illustrated guide to intuitive eating.

Celebrate Africa: "Chioma and Oluchi believe that there are many misconceptions about Africa; and that the best way to clear those doubts would be to travel across the continent to see all the beauty that the continent has to offer." When I read this it struck me that all the accounts of travel in Africa I'd read until then had been by Westerners; something is wrong there.

Via phinnia: because it would obviously be a disaster if your baby girl was mistaken for a boy. "It's quick, easy and baby barely knows it's there." I can't imagine trying to get a baby to keep that thing on their head. I used to pull off things like hats, socks, things I needed to wear; there's no way I would have tolerated a wig. Wut.

In closing, a sloth.

Here's the 56-year-old Rabbit. Yeah, the lineart is the same as for the younger, just altered, either to better compare the two or because I'm lazy. Two more versions to come, but I'll probably put those behind a cut.

First attempt at visualising the 26-year-old Rabbit Angstrom. I might go back and add some of the greyscale shading (face, hair) in the middle version to the finished one on the right, because it looks a little too clean and young.

It almost looks like a studio portrait taken in high school to me... the pose. I wanted him to look attractive in a way, but also a little arrogant and immature. I'm drawing versions of him in his thirties, forties and fifties, at the times the other three books are set, and some of the other characters as well.

I just discovered Twisty Faster's blog. I think I want to be her when I grow up. And she has a puppy.

"A wonderful mystery": mortality rates of black infants in one Wisconsin county have plummeted since the 1990s.

Swedish schoolchildren challenge gender stereotyping. This is awesome.

From phinnia : a three-year-old's view of the NYC subway (this just makes me feel happy about life) and sand animator Kseniya Simonova, who creates, live, an animation about the USSR's Great Patriotic War, in the medium of sand. That is badass.

Women of Japan by Laurie Toby Edison: "All of my portraiture projects are about the beauty and power of the models, about making the invisible visible, about finding ways to bring out something essential about each person I photograph, and about using imagery for social change. Women of Japan is all of that, and it’s also about Japanese identity.”

Nuclear Warfare 101, 102 and 103.

Red panda and baby tigers and shark pups and a Scottish Fold kitten.

I love style but dislike the fashion industry. I dislike it because designers and stylists in positions of influence can be as racist, sexist, body-shaming, heterocentric, ableist, othering, (...) as they like, then say it's Art and the critics are just philistines and/or jealous of the pretty models.

I would like to know who thought this was okay and what they were on at the time. (racism trigger warning)

It might also have something to do with the whole "unless you are this arbitrarily defined sample size you are unworthy of wearing our clothes" thing, but I'm not even going there right now, except to say that a recent commenter on Shapely Prose had a good point when zie said designers who can only make flattering clothes for one body type cannot justifiably call themselves artists.

This post brought to you by wishing my brain defaulted to nicer subjects at 4am when I can't sleep.

also I dislike fashion because of this

From The F-Word, a study is being carried out to examine how advertising media impact people with body image disturbances/eating disorders, with particular emphasis on the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty ads. It's a quick (<20 minutes), anonymous survey that anyone can answer, not just people with body image problems, and it seems worthwhile so I'm reposting in case anyone is interested. The deadline for participation is Wednesday October 28th.

ETA: as with anything on this topic, it could be triggering, although the only advertising material in the survey is a few of the Dove ads (images and video) and the questions about body image are not in-depth.

Dear Jan Moir,

Being gay is not in fact a cause of death. Just saying.

Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit.



That is all.

Happy fun charcoal times.

( three 15-minute drawings, NSFW )

[I'm Haru!] Which Avatar character are you?

That sounds a lot like Helene. XD I'm usually INFJ on these tests, so that's pretty close.

Art class was good this week... I'm slowly getting more control over the charcoal. I'll photograph the drawings tomorrow morning when there's enough light.

Charcoal over pencil sketch. I guess it's finished? I had to clear it off the table before lunch anyway.

"Stop using morality-laden words to describe food. If you want to cook my goose, burn my biscuits or frost my ass, use words like “decadent”, “sinful”, or “guilty pleasure” to describe food or the ingesting thereof. “Decadent” is not a flavor; neither is “sinful”. I know I’ve said it probably…1.5 billion times already, but food does not contain morality. It does not convey upon you any sort of moral standing. If you have a salad for dinner, it does not make you a better, smarter, more fashionable, or more interesting person than if you have a cheeseburger for dinner. Watching every single thing that you put into your mouth does not make you a good person or a bad person. What makes you a bad person is you looking at what others choose to place into their mouths and declaring them to be repugnant for ingesting what they choose to. Don’t comment on what other people are eating unless it contains the words “fuck, that looks delicious” or “I think it’s moving”. If you’re unable to handle such a concept, then you should not dine with others."

- casual blasphemies