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My exams start in two weeks and here I am drawing horrid Henry fanart

Though, watching a show about primary schoolers is helping with the exam stress

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

Not to be accused of "medically gatekeeping gluten free" again, but I had to unsub from r/glutenfree after just two weeks after seeing a whole bunch of "I don't have celiac but..." circlejerking and the final straw was a post asking "so what's your cheat food?"

YOU'RE THE REASON I NEARLY BOUGHT "CELIAC CERTIFIED" RAMEN THAT WAS MADE OUT OF BARLEY! EITHER TAKE GLUTEN FREE SERIOUSLY OR STOP CALLING YOUR DIET THAT YOU TONE-DEAF ASSHOLES

best news from encanto: Bruno stims

King letting the Collector hold Francois lives rent free in my head.

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

Random Nexo Knight thought: there should’ve been an episode where Jestro and the lava monsters all snuck into a formal event, specifically a masquerade type of party, in the castle and they all had fancy outfits and they all had to wear masks so they could steal something, like a trinket or something from Merlok’s library. BUT, Jestro gets stuck with like a really cute dress but eventually starts to absolutely ROCK IT, and he and the lava monsters get carried away until either the Book of Monsters reminds them why they’re there or one of them breaks character during a dance. Cue Nexo knights battle scene and that one Nexo power for the episode, corny jokes etc. idk I just feel like Jestro being in a dress would be really cool