fujisaki31:

colestyle:

colestyle:

they call me the worm wizard

highlights from the tags

darksilvania:

Wide TREVENANT (Grass/Dark)

And this is the third wide variant based on Bromojumbo’s work I made

This TREVENANT is based on Aspen trees. Aspen groves despite looking like several individual trees are actually all part of a singular organism, connected by a complex system of roots.

lastresovejas:

lastresovejas:

lastresovejas:

This a Master post of different Native American reservations and peoples needing assistance this winter due to weather emergencies, my links are from the Minnesota Public Radio News, especially a reporter and digital producer for the outlet, Sam Strooza.

The MPR News article about thousands being trapped on Pine Ridge Reservation and ways to help get people winter clothing and firewood. Condition right now are dire with reports of people trapped in their homes and needing to burn clothes for heat.

Thousands are trapped on Pine Ridge Reservation. Here's how you can help

Indigenous tribes in South Dakota are fighting for their lives after 30 inches of snow and severe wind blocked roads. Here are some ways you

MPR News

Friends of Pine Ridge is doing a drive of both quilt/blankets/comforters and also heaters, they have links to stores where you can buy blankets that will give them to the reservation and links where you can donate money to help people buy propane, fire wood or other immediate needs

A Blankets/Quilts/Comforters Donation Drive for Pine Ridge Reservation - Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation

Pine Ridge Reservation is experiencing extreme cold weather right now and First Families Now has reached out with an urgent need for blanket

Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation

Friend of Pine Ridge works very closely and supports First Families Now that works to support children, elders and families on the Pine Ridge Reservation and you can donate directly to them below

DONATE | Best Indian Charity | First Families Now | United States

Our Mission is to improve the quality of life for families and thereby improve the vibrancy of the communities of the Pine Ridge Indian Rese

First Families Now

One Spirit Lakota does a lot of work supporting the citizens on Pine Ridge Reservation and supporting the Lakota people in both firewood supplies for the winter and supporting in the youth in the Allen community around the reservation and more.

Any donation right now will be used for emergency services and supplies such as firewood, and food and other things for supporting people in need.

Donate — One Spirit

Donate — One Spirit

One Spirit

Sićangu Co typically works to provide housing, food, education, health and addressing systematic issues regarding those concerns but given the twenty feet piles of snow and emergency situation their donations right now are shifted to meet current need of clearing the snow, filing and distribution of drinking water, and donations will also be used to feed their personnel including snow plow drivers, delivery drivers, other volunteers as well as those in need.

Emergency Blizzard Relief for Rosebud

We are in desperate need of help, especially with -50 wind chills on the way

Sicangu Community Development Corporation

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe official website also has link for donating directly to their disaster relief fund related to the blizzard.

Emergency Blizzard Relief for Rosebud

We are in desperate need of help, especially with -50 wind chills on the way

Sicangu Community Development Corporation

Also for clarity especially for people not from the Americas, while my main sources are from Minnesota Public Radio News, Rosebud and Pine Ridge are in South Dakota

This is a link to donate to Re-member that works to support the Oglala Lakota people and improve the quality of life on Pine Ridge Reservation they have multiple donation options from their winter heating fund to donating items directly

Ways to Give | Re-Member

Donate money, goods, or time to Re-Member and help Pine Ridge Reservation.

Re-Member

darksilvania:

PARALOUSE (Bug/Water), SQUAKER (Water) & PARASCYLLA (Bug/Ghost)

PARALOUSE (Parasite/Louse/Perilous) is a small bug type pokemon that lives among the corals, it awaits for a fish pokemon with a mout big enough to jump in, where it will eat and replace that pokemon’s tongue. Once it has gained enough strenght by weakening its host it will evolve

PARASCYLLA (Parasite/Scylla) the “Mermaid” pokemon. It emerges from its host’s mouth, the one it completely fills. At this point its host is competely taken over, becoming PARASCYLLA’s new tail. To further keep its “tail” in place, it will stick its lower legs through the fish’s gills, securing it in place.

SQUAKER (Squawk/Cracker) is a parrot fish pokemon that inhabits the same coral reef where PARALOUSE can be found, they love to feed on coral using their strong beaks to cut and swallow large chunks of it, which sadly makes it the perfect victim for PARALOUSE.
How ever if SQUAKER manages to avoid becoming infected by PARALOUSE it can evolve into the dangerous PARROTEER (Parrot/Privateer)

PARROTEER (Water/Dark) is PARASCYLLA’s natural predator, it preys upon PARASCYLLA with extreme prejudice, using its massive size and hard-as-rock head to knock them out, it then uses its bolt cutter-like beak to cut them in half by the waist, feeding only on the upper bug half and leaving the tails to sink to the bottom

PARALOUSE is based on the cymothoa exigua, a type of parasitic isopod that attached to fishes mouths replacing their tongues

PARASCYLLA is based on a twisted version of a mermaid with some inspiration is the Greek monster Scylla, a creature with the upper torso of a woman, but a lower body made out of heads and tails

SQUAKER is based on the Steephead parrotfish and its colors are based on the Scarlet Macaw

PARROTEER is based on the Humphead parrotfish and its colors are based on the Dracula Parrot, as well as being based on a Pirate

PARROTEER hunting and feeding only on PARASCYLLA is a reference to Pirates hunting mermaids as represented in some myths and popular media, like Peter Pan or Pirates of the Caribbean

At the moment, SQUAKER is the only suitable pokemon available in PARALOUSE’s habitat for it to attach, but, if more pokemon were avaible it could attach to them as long as they met certain criteria:
-Being a Fish (No mammals, reptiles of crustaceans)
-Having a big enoug mouth
Here are some examples of PARASCYLLA using other fish pokemons as its tail

The only exception to this rule being Gygantamax PARASCYLLA

normal-horoscopes:

autisticsansa:

largishcat:

anyone else get embarrassed when their self indulgent daydreams are like too self-indulgent? like oh jeez the telepaths are going to judge me

#ah so when you’re not Catholic you think it’s telepaths lol

Sentences that explain like 70% of America

morriganwarrior:

millenianthemums:

sometimes plushies make me cry because it’s like. they’re little guys made to be loved. their only purpose is to be held and hugged and loved. we made them because we love making things and we love loving things. and they’re so cute

Years back, I was working at a specialty store, and we got this HUGE crate of plushy toys. They were all insanely cute and squishy. I knew kids would go nuts for them, as it was the first week of December, so parents and grandparents often had kids with them while shopping for furniture, lamps, cooking equipment, lights, etc.

One night, I was working my last hour of my shift covering the Customer Service desk, which meant when I wasn’t busy, I was supposed to help clean up around the cash registers, including taking back items people changed their minds about at the checkout. Earlier, I had witnessed a kid carrying thos cute plushy toy. It was a brown and white hedgehog. The kid, at the checkout, saw a remote control car and he told his dad he qanted it. The dad told him, “The plushy or the car- you can’t have both” (by the way, I respect boundaries with kids and parents sticking to their guns about it), and the kid picked the car.

So, I’m cleaning up, have less than an hour left of my shift, and I see the little plushy hedgehog. Somehow, he never got put back nor had anyone else seen him and decided to buy him. He was just sitting there, slumped to the side, unattended.

It’s Christmas and I’m a sentimental old sap at heart. My brain starts replaying the scene from RUDOLPH where he’s on the Island of Misfot Toys, and is told a toy is never truly happy until it is loved. I picked him up and quickly took him back to the bin with the plushies but… It was empty. He was literally the last plushy toy and my boss was about to wheel the bin out. We weren’t getting any more toys till November, so that meant any toys left at this point needed to sell or they’d be sent to the dump.

I brought the little hedgehog to the front, figuring someone would see him with the candy, candles, & Christmas brick-a-brack, and fall in love with him. When I finished my shift, I went to ask my manager a question and as I passed the Christmas candle display - there he sat, the sad little slumped over hedgehog plushy. No one had bought him, or even moved him.

My manager, Phillip, saw me and the hedgehog. He asked how the hedgehog got there. I told him how I’d put him there when the bin got sent back, and he was the only plushy left. Philip had kids, I figured he’d probably get sentimental and buy it for his kids. Nope. He shrugged and said he’d send it back to be disposed of.

That night, I came home with a plushy hedgehog in my passenger seat. My mom saw him and just thought he was the cutest little hedgehog and asked what I wanted to do with him. I told her the story, then added I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do with him.

My mom is a child psychiatrist, specializing in children with PTSD and brain damage that results in learning problems/issues with processing their emotions. She asked if she could have the plushy hedgehog (even offered to pay me for him, she didn’t expect me to just give him over), so kids could hug him when they were upset in session.

Murphy, the plushy hedgehog that still slumps a little to the left when seated, has been hugged by hundreds of kids. Little girls have held him tight while explaining about bullies, little boys have held him tight while crying over their panic attacks, younger siblings have held him to whisper secrets while elder siblings and parents talk about self-soothing techniques, teenagers have hugged Murphy while talking about the worst day of their lives. Murphy has also been hugged by kids excitedly chatting about a new friend at school, a teen girl excited to be called by her name instead of her dead-name, little kids proudly saying they’ve mastered their ABCs, and even staff members who just need to come chat over a case they are having trouble with.

Every now and then, my mom brings Murphy home for a weekend. He gets washed (she calls it a Spa Weekend, to her coworkers, all of them laughing), dried, and sits outside with my mom in the sunshine to get aired out, then on Monday, they are back to work. Some kids even just ask to hold Murphy while they talk, no matter their mood or what they want to talk about. They just want to hug Murphy.

So yes. Plushies are made for one purpose. To be hugged and loved. To be a comfort.