Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@BalooUriza despite my best efforts, the book i think has been absorbed into my dad's book collection lol, which is a damn shame that i can't remember the thing's title enough to find it and link it online, as it's one of the very few textbooks i read that i considered a good read instead of yet another block of concrete to endure.

anyway, i think that echolocation is really different from what you're describing, which is audio processing of spacial awareness and depth of field. >

@BalooUriza not exclusively, sure, but they do have brain structures which process those visual-audio inputs very differently than humans do, especially when using echolocation proper (making a noise and responding to the echo of that input) and - presumably, bc we haven't interviewed bats reliably yet lmao - combining this into a gestalt understanding of the world around them.

there's a chapter on this in my old textbook if i manage to dig it up, it's actually a quite nice read, let me go look

@BalooUriza isn't that just audiological-spacial processing, though? echolocation requires an echo, since the concept is a bit more like radar. there are definitely some humans who have claimed to master this though to some degree, usually after being born blind, and they very much rely on sending a sound out (like clicking) to get the feedback. it's thought that the extra brainspace is malleable enough to make it work. (it's been a bit since my evolutionary neurology class lol)

@InspectorCaracal oh jeez yeah that's a very different kettle of fish. i've only used it on my laptop where i have my graphics tablet with, like, an actual stylus, lol

@InspectorCaracal the other program recs i have for Just Drawing are Mischief, which has kind of a unique ability but i find it really nice, and actually the little free edition of Autodesk Sketchbook with Copic lmao

i actually quite like the latter (even if it's hard to find a download for it these days) bc by just giving you the "hey here's your limited color set of markers", it means i didn't get bogged down on MUST FIND JUST THE EXACT RIGHT COLOR, which is nice for quick sketches!

after watching the benchmark here's my true reaction to what it looks like smn's gonna get up to in #ffxiv

note: this is the best LAMB SAUCE LOCATED style carbuncle i can do in like 5 minutes ok

urianger gave alisaie the balance and not me.

betrayal. BETRAYAL. i take back EVERYTHING i EVER said even REMOTELY GOOD about your stupid sexy face, urianger. EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!

yes i know alisaie is the rdm and benchmark characters are all drk, and i know alisaie is my beloved daughter, but MOMMY NEEDS HER BALANCE

@InspectorCaracal solidarity

except i'm apparently greying pubes-first. i have no idea what that means.

p.s. scalies exempt from this, but i would also like to introduce the idea: what if pubic scales? thank you for coming to my TED talk.

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz ok but..... is there a One Ear Up One Ear Down option

because that is the MOST powerful

anyway now that i posted that Hot Opinion here's the relevant art for it, feat. my #ffxiv main and Haurchefant

it's nsfw but not actually any fuckin' just nudity and absurdity and a catgirl who has shaved her pubes into a unicorn head.

really there comes a time in every artists' life when they just accept that on some level, they just wanna be oglaf, okay?

P.S. THIS ALSO GOES FOR MIQOTE IN FFXIV AND OTHER CATGIRLS

LOOK AT MY CATGIRL. SHE HAS THE LONG FLOOFY TAIL.

HER PUBES?

SIMILARLY MAGNIFICENT.

HAURCHEFANT GLADLY FLOSSED HIS TEETH MANY A TIME DOWN THERE.

IF YOU AIN'T GONNA AT LEAST GIVE A LANDING STRIP, YOU A COWARD

if you're a furry artist and you draw some furry lewds and yet somehow the genitals are MYSTERIOUSLY FUR-FREE in texture and presentation, especially if there's just a vagina hangin out there all like Whoops! No Hair! No Pubic Hair Would Ever Happen To A Furry!

you are a COWARD and a KNAVE and a FOOL

and i challenge you to a DUEL. PISTOLS. AT DAWN, SIRRAH. AT DAWN

"harp you can probably quit at some point when the person looks as if they've logged off"

nope sorry everyone the matronly sermon continues until it finishes as per schedule. fortunately now we break for coffee and snacks in the lobby. i baked mini scones today too! you're welcome.

@Dayglochainsaw express concerns compassionately, and in ways that are useful. you will probably find that you can help in ways you didn't know about, or that you might have more concrete knowledge about. or you might find reassurance that quiets your worries.

take compassion, reflect it out, turn it in towards yourself, too.

it's ok to just not understand. it's not ok to be an asshole about it.

right, that's my sermon for tonight lmfao

@Dayglochainsaw it is a very efficient way to hurt the other person by making them feel like you view an essential element they value highly in themselves as bullshit, and make them entrench deeper into what you may genuinely be worried is behavior reinforcing mental illness.

it is also not kind to yourself, to treat relating to other humans this way.

@Dayglochainsaw if you're worried about a particular person exhibiting some behavior, and if that behavior is detrimental to their mental health, think about if it is truly useful or kind to go "you really think you're a kitten or whatever?! that's so stupid!", and similar attitudes, such as "hate me all you want! it's good! i WANTED you to hate me! it's GOOD that people are hating me over some TRIVIAL BULLSHIT THAT DOESN'T MATTER!"

is that useful?

is that kind?

to them? to you?

@Dayglochainsaw no single entity on this earth - human, goldfish, what fucking ever - is going to be able to perfectly understand *everything*. i'm never going to know what it's like for a bat to process the world via echolocation - i literally ain't got the neurons for it.

it is terrifying to admit that we can be measured and found wanting. but *everything* is found wanting in one aspect or another.

extend the compassion around to yourself and just go, "i don't get it, and that's ok."