"Wait! Before you go-"
Beautiful red hen made out of chicken wire by Helen Godfrey Wire Sculpture i have seen this shared around chicken pages on facebook.
I really liked this hen so i went to the artists page and I am floored at the skill and beauty of these sculptures. Anyone who has built anything with the help of chicken wire knows that it is not an easy material to work with but this artist is able to make very realistic organic shapes with it. I love the softness, i love the wire people and how the wild birds use them as perches.
Mother duck with duckling
Runner beans, they are so funny and whimsical
Sculptures about to go to their new home, the hare and owl are amazing and the guineas look just like the real thing lol
A beautiful barn owl
A cute little wren
The wire women. I love how soft their curves are
Im so thankful that i got to see this artists work its so sweet.
Here is her store page but i dont think she has any new sculptures up yet.
Jan 2023
spring 🌼🌧️
Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.
yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.
it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.
do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.
I participated in a workshop once with people who had all been sentenced to death by incarceration—life without parole—and everyone in the organization was remorseful, actively engaged in education and activism efforts, and also (shockingly!) had strong opinions on the life circumstances that had led to their crimes and how they could have been significantly altered by things like funding schools and after-school programs, stricter gun control, juvenile justice/diversion programs, healthcare and housing. And yeah, it was a group of mostly Black men who had been overly targeted and policed for most of their lives.
Like… murderers are never going to legalize murder. That’s a strawman argument. There a lot of other things on the ballot that their votes could sway significantly.
And I’m not saying everyone who has committed murder is secretly a good person or that I would agree with everything they would vote for—but that’s also true of people who have not committed crimes or have not been incarcerated for them! Right now, the worst non-incarcerated person you know has full voting rights, and someone who was convicted as an 18-year-old under Richard Nixon has gone 50 years without the ability to express their an opinion on topics that fucked up their lives beyond repair! Including things that are ACTIVELY fucking up their lives, because when politicians outsource prisons to private companies, provide or deny money to address in-prison sexual assault or drug addiction, ban or promote abusive practices like solitary confinement, etc, that affects… drumroll please… incarcerated people!
Anyway. Yeah, human rights are human rights and humans deserve rights.
It's honestly baffling how many people here don't believe in human rights.
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thank you @phasing-through-walls for commissioning me!!! ☆ you're the sweetest (ノ´ヮ´)ノ*: ・゚
What if Ghost wants to sit on Soap’s lap for a change??
And here are the uncolored and non-purple versions, because I always think they end up looking better for some reason
'Pretty.' 'Yeah.'
Please donate to UNRWA!!
“In the days following the ICJ's decision, the US, Canada, UK, and at least 7 other countries have cut over $662 million in annual funding to UNRWA. The cuts to UNRWA's funding, which constitute the overwhelming majority of its current budget, are an impending catastrophe for more than 6 million Palestinians residing in 60 refugee camps in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria.
UNRWA, or the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, was created in 1949 as a response to the 'Nakba' or catastrophe of 1948, to provide relief and support human development for Palestinian refugees exiled in 1948 and later years, along with their descendants.
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Remember! Even if you can't donate, please boycott! Including Starbucks.
Morning Sermon
its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney
we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article
it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.
everyone go enable this immediately
you need to go to your blog -> your blog’s settings. then scroll down to the visibility section. on the app it’s just labeled “visibility.” you have to do this for each separate blog
can’t believe staff didn’t inform us about this before implementing it
Also it’s blog-specific so you gotta toggle the switch for all sideblogs as well
genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand or do they do the burying?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back
Whenever I question human anatomy or impulse control, I still can come back to "At least we're not horses."
In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.
I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!
From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!
I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.
The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.
(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)
If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.
The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.
- insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box
- add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box
- delete -> self explanatory
- on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic
The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.
Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.
HERE'S THAT BITCH IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR
aftercare ❤️🩹