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☉ Visions From The Wild: Melissa S Illustration ☽ She/her 🎨 Wildlife artist: watercolor, acrylic, goldleaf, procreate ❤️ Natural History enthusiast 🚫 No AI art. Thank you for supporting human artists.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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I'm also really excited about House of the Dragon S2 and even took a portrait class to draw the characters. I hope I can get back to that sooner rather than later.

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I'm impatient with myself and I need to be compassionate and gentle considering my current situation. I wish I could be having fun discovering cara and sharing art with everyone. That looks really exciting. Anyhow, I'm here 👇🏼 I'll try and catch up and add everyone when I can..

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He seems genuinely sorry and doesn't want to lose the house, we are looking at options.

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Yeah, in my province I don't think that can work in my favor. My brother says he looked into it and it seemed to be a USA law thing.

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My boyfriend/best friend of 16 years cheated on me/ broke up with me and now I have to somehow buy him out to keep the house and my pets. Losing your best friend,lover,potentially house and pets is unbearable right now. The bank says i don't make enough.

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How much wealth do these dragons need to hoard? Makes me cranky. Eat the rich! guillotines! Let's make them trendy! Down with the big tech oligarchs! Hear hear!

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And it's not getting any cheaper! 🙃 Our only option is to eat the rich! Or maybe guillotines are still in?

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Anyone have 80k lying around that they don't need by any chance

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Oh totally sad. Imagine your best friend and lover of 16+ years decides it's a great idea to cheat on you 👍🏼.

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I must say, I am tired of coming SO close to getting back on my feet. So close to finishing projects, posting art..and then something so fucking miserable happens that I can't get to the goddamn finish line. 🫥 I am so tired. Anyway, see you on Cara soon?

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No more people pleasing for me. Entering the villain era of my life like

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If you’re upset about Meta scraping your work (and you should be) then I definitely implore you to poison the well. Use nightshade or whatever software on your work before you post it to IG or wherever they’re getting data from. Absolutely Fuck it UP. If they ignore opt-out, fuck em up, Barbara.

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Keep posting beautiful artwork and sharing that with the world.

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Lol seriously is this a joke? Are there any hidden cameras anywhere? Fuck

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depressed since 2018, had a burnout from 2021-2023 and needed leave from work. My partner of 16 years who I trusted has romantic feelings for someone else. I couldn't give him the love he was missing when I couldn't love myself. I started feeling better to take care of "us" again I'm too late.

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When you want to paint digitally but the tablet and pen are both low battery 🙃... I love procreate but I also have no idea how to play with levels and settings to make the exported painting not look like arse. 🧐 Learning curve ✨

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What's even cuter is they used to all hate each other but now they're cuddling ✨ adding Freyja to the fam actually reduced tensions.

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Europe is definitely freaking out, and in Canada Putin can get us from the north so, yeah I would say.

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I can understand this point of view. We are not nearly as polarized yet here in Canada , so I can only imagine. Do what is right for you. I am deeply worried for this world on fire.

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Vox is a pretty reliable source at, least as far as I can tell. They also interviewed these Christian nationalists and they have nothing to hide. I do not see a reason why they wouldn't be able to go forward with these propositions with a trump presidency.

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Certainly, but didn't the house pass a bill to prevent biden from doing the right thing: withholding weapons from Israel? I am not here looking for a fight. I'm just a tired human trying to get through the day with much of the planet on fire and hoping it doesn't get worse for everyone. That's all

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Can you care about what is happening in Palestine at the same time but also not want a trump presidency? 🙃

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