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🌸Gretch🌸 @whothepuck.bsky.social · 9h

Logging on and seeing trans folks trying to throw teenagers experimenting with identities and sexualities under the bus

SpongeBob meme "wait you guys actually are still having queer discourse/infighting, I thought we've already established were all maggots in the eyes of the state"

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I’m Haya🍉 @helphaya.bsky.social · 4h

Update:
I’ve been very busy lately because of my studies and returning to the north after the war stopped here.
The war may seem over in the media, but in Gaza, it has not truly ended the suffering continues
Winter is coming,and the tents can’t protect us from the cold🙏💔🇵🇸
chuffed.org/project/1139...

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
OC-tober Day 05: Keaton Allens 🌻⛓️

And here comes a wrap for week 01 - my boy Keaton! He is another oldie: I've had him since 2019, give or take. He started out as a stuntsman originally before I thought it out more!

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 2d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
OC-tober Day 04: Rowan Malcalester 🍀🕰️

One of my other favorites: my little rat! Rowan is the adopted prince of a kingdom who has an insane amount of freewill and ability to do... sort of whatever he wants.
(he is mostly a harmless menace to the people around him.)

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 3d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
Day 03 >> Mari Torres 🍊🌻

Another half of an OC pair with a friend, Mari is a pretty normal girl with poor luck who happened to attract the attention of an angel who attempts to give her good luck and accidentally puts her in really unfair situations.

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 4d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
Day 01 >> Liao Ruoxuan 🏮✨

one half of a pair with a dear friend of mine! Ruoxuan has reincarnated multiple lifetimes to find his soulmate (and have one of them die by the other's hand each time).

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 5d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
Day 01 >> Asuka Radcliff 🌸🐇

starting off week 01 with my rabbit boy - Asuka!

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

THANK YOUUUU keaton is fr one of my handsomest characters imo so i get happy when other people like him

i love thinking abt the drawbacks of various physical changes bc of magic/fantasy reasons and he's a very fun vehicle for worldbuilding that! aches and pains with age and repetetive muscle use...

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

I also think he's just a hot werewolf. idk man.

I associate him with wolves (obvious) and sunflowers, but he's also one of my more... media-interested characters? If you were gonna see any of my OCs in a Legend of Zelda tshirt and cargo shorts, it's probably Keaton.

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

He's a character who I swap around between verses: usually he's just a normal dude, but he also fits into the werewolf niche. In fact, in his fantasy verses, his medical studies are specifically tied to the atrophy of musculature in shifters and finding the best ways to prevent or slow that!

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

He is Japanese-Australian, but resides in Australia! He does mechanics and fixes up bikes and vehicles for fun, and most of his time is spent out on rides or bumming around at bars when he isn't getting himself into dangerous recreational activities.

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

Keaton has definitely become one of those OCs who aged a bunch with me. I think his age has almost doubled as I settled him somewhere. He's one of those characters who is all things leather, chains, the kinds of activities that get your blood pumping!

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 1d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
OC-tober Day 05: Keaton Allens 🌻⛓️

And here comes a wrap for week 01 - my boy Keaton! He is another oldie: I've had him since 2019, give or take. He started out as a stuntsman originally before I thought it out more!

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Hikari @hikaboom.bsky.social · 1d

character art!

#characterart | #art | #digitalart

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 2d

He is a really loyal person, too. He's very protective and adoring of his adoptive family and cares about their opinion of him. He cares about his friends, too, but shows it by pestering and harassing them into doing random shit with him. This often turns into late-night nonsense around the city.

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 2d

He is a huge food lover: Rowan loves to eat and learned to cook for the express reason of being able to make himself good food. He snacks most of the time, and tends to be caught sleeping at weird hours and in weird places. He likes to steal (harmlessly) and has a strong habit of lying.

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 2d

He's pretty flighty: he runs around to bother anyone he wants, most of the time. This tends to lend itself to him leaving home for weeks at a time to spend time with his friends and then reappear at home whenever he so chooses.

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 2d

Rowan has been kind of aging with me over time, so he started as a 15-year-old (mostly) and has just sort of rapidly aged up over time. He is associated with clovers, rats and ferrets, and the sky! I associate him with freedom and flight!

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 2d

#emberchii_OCtober, #ocsky ]]
OC-tober Day 04: Rowan Malcalester 🍀🕰️

One of my other favorites: my little rat! Rowan is the adopted prince of a kingdom who has an insane amount of freewill and ability to do... sort of whatever he wants.
(he is mostly a harmless menace to the people around him.)

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I’m Haya🍉 @helphaya.bsky.social · 2d

My name is Haya, I’m a high school student (Tawjihi) from Gaza 🇵🇸
Despite the war and all the hardships around me, I still dream of finishing my studies and building a better future.🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/1139... ‏

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 3d

realization that i typed day 01 twice for my oc-tober post OOPS

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I’m Haya🍉 @helphaya.bsky.social · 3d

Hello my friends, I brought food for Sameh, and it’s all thanks to you! 💖
Thank you so much for your donations.❤️
If you’d like to help, you can donate through this link:🙏👇
chuffed.org/project/1139...

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Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 3d

thank you!! 💕

Luka 🌸✨ @emberchii.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately, every good situation she manages to find herself in, she always has to deal with the other side of the coin... the angelic good luck she gets periodically always leads to some sort of loss, which always makes her wonder if the good thing she got in exchange was even worth it.

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