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The World Of Becca Blake

The barn owl is the most widespread species of owl, living on every continent except Antarctica. Their faces are shaped like a disk to help their hearing, giving them some of the best hearing of any owl. They mostly hunt by sound.

Snowy owls are the largest arctic predatory birds, They are born with black feathers and get whiter as they age. Females usually have more dark feathers than males.

Eastern screech owls have a few feather variants that make them look like completely different species.

The southern white-faced owl can increase its metabolic rate during winter to compensate for the cold and lack of food. They lay their eggs in nests built and abandoned by other birds.

The great grey owl is the largest owl by length, but a lot of that is feathers and they're actually very light for their size. Their hearing is good enough to hear rodents burrowing through snow and they can break through hard-packed snow to catch prey.

Blakiston's fish owl is the largest owl by mass and eats mostly fish. Despite the name, they may be more closely related to eagle owls than fish owls.

The elf owl is the smallest owl species, barely larger than a sparrow. They hunt bugs and play dead when caught. They like to live in holes in saguaro cacti.

Burrowing owls live in underground burrows. While they can dig, they mostly take over burrows from other animals. Farmers killing prairie dogs has severely reduced burrowing owl populations. They decorate their burrows with feces to attract bugs to eat.

The barking owl is called that because

SAW-WHET WEDNESDAY

GIVE IT UP FOR SAW-WHET WEDNESDAY

ON WEDNESDAY WE LOVE SAW-WHET

If it’s watery you throw absorbent on it like you do throw up, we use a kitty-litter type clay based absorbent. You put a trash bag in the dust pan and sweep it all into the bag.

Takes me 15 minutes to clean an absolutely destroyed bathroom stall in a place that sees THOUSANDS of people daily. It’s a shopping and restaurant area that opens up into a nightlife location after 5pm, with some bars opening at 3pm and several restaurants becoming full nightclubs after 9pm. You pay for parking, but anyone can walk in off the sidewalk and not pay a dime and just hang out until 2am.

On a busy night I cover 3 location’s restrooms (2 venues have multiple rr) but on slow days I’m covering around 7. 7 buildings, thousands of drunks, I get a LOT of bio spills.

Our sharps containers are toolbox-looking things that hang on the wall with a flap that allows things to go in but not come out, ever (rip to like 5 phones that I know of), when full it gets closed, locked, and sent to be incinerated. I literally never touch a needle anymore. If I find one on the ground outside we have sharps shuttles which are long plastic tubes that look like giant tampons with a flip top, you put it on the ground, step on it to hold in place, and sweep the sharp into it. Takes like 20 seconds.

NON AI SOLUTIONS!!!

Doll Divine: https://www.dolldivine.com/

Azalea's dressup games: https://www.azaleasdolls.com/

Meiker.io: https://meiker.io/

Flash enabler Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-player-emulator/ (there's probably more out there)

Sadly the Rinmaru site retired after Flash's deactivation but I know a lot of the games (such as the classic fantasy avatar maker and mega anime couple ) got crossposted so look around! You may have to take a screenshot as image saving support may have gone down with Flash, but these things still exist AND people are making new ones all the time.

Many of these sites also have links to other dollmaker sites.

Also, a lot of dollmakers have something picrew hasn't been able to replicate yet - the ability to drag and drop certain items onto a scene. For instance, sunflowers in a drag-n-drop section could be independently colored, resized, and dragged into the pane to assemble a necklace or whatever else you want. This mechanic does come with quirks and limitations - one thing picrew has, both as a flaw and a feature, is a very consistent engine. This limits creativity in some respects but also means you'll have a similar experience with every picrew. A lot of dollmakers were made by the individuals or as a collab; the framework for something like picrew just didn't exist at the time, as I understand it.

Another fun thing is manga page makers - a few dollmakers had consistent design elements set up in different sequences, allowing users to make their own kind of comic with them! It's pretty cool.

Some favorites under the cut: