Surgery went well 👍 I am ok
I've been posting more than usual because I cannot do most of my usual hobbies. expect a return to normal within the next couple weeks
Deep breaths everyone.
Just relax with Nothosaurus mirabilis.
Hello, to kick off this new blog, and to celebrate almost 300 followers, I’m hosting a give away!
Prizes - 3 winners One small size print of your choice, any illustration of mine (not just what’s available in my shop! If it’s been posted here, my old blog, Instagram, etc, you can chose it ^^) and on the paper of your choice: lustre, texture, or petal. You can see examples of each paper type in my shop!
Rules & how to enter Simply like and/or reblog to enter! Each reblog counts as an entry, but please don’t spam your followers ^^; (I don’t think any one would do this, but it’s worth mentioning!) You must be following me, and of course be comfortable sharing your address with me so that I can mail the print.
Prints will be sent by letter mail, all costs covered by me! I’ll draw the winners using a random number picker on September 8th, 2023. Two weeks from the time of making this post ^^
Thank you so much for your love and support, it means the world to me!
The following is a list of Dolphinese words and terms for humans, translated into English as best as possible:
“Riptide quitters”
“Current bobbers”
“Debbie drowners”
“Respiratory toddlers”
“Fun-sized shark snacks”
“External testiculars”
“Squares who don’t get high off of pufferfish”
“Echo-less rejects”
“Plastic-pooping monkeys”
“Planet-soilers”
“Need-bait-and-sticks-to-catch-fish”
“Emaciated flippers”
“Chin-side blowholes”
“Rostrum-less savages with tiny melons”
“Dorsal dummies”
“Swimmers of the very shallows”
“Sunburning evolutionary failures whose skin doesn’t shed every two hours”
“Wave weaklings”
“Barely-ever-clean-themselves-in-water slobs”
“Food chewers”
“Both-eyes-closed-sleepers” “Needs-both-brain-hemispheres-working-at-the-same-time doofuses”
“Bad whistlers”
“Penises-Not-Worth-Clicking-Home-About”
I will never again achieve the level of Raw Power I had as a 10 year old child trying to convince an Actual Palaeontologist that a fake dinosaur I made up was actually real and he’d “just never heard of it”
For reference, the dinosaur in question was called “Jarabosaurus” and was a giant 25 metre long relative of Spinosaurus. In my head it looked like this Todd Marshall drawing:
I also made a powerpoint presentation about it that I showed to my parents.
THIS IS A PRIORITY ONE ALERT, I HAVE FOUND THE POWERPOINT
So I dug the old family laptop out of our garage and guess what was inside???
A masterpiece
Also Author’s note, take literally everything in here with so many grains of salt, way more stuff than I realised is completely fake
This at least is mostly factually correct, though I’m not sure I’d describe WW2 as “lately”
Hey remember when I said I made stuff up?? This slide is COMPLETELY FAKE and I have no idea why!
Formatting is my passion
There he is!!!!!! The man, the myth, the completely made up legend, it’s JARABOSAURUS ADORANUS. I,,, still don’t know why I invented a totally fake giant spinosaurid?? As far as I can remember I didn’t make any decision like “hehehe I’m going to make up a dinosaur and fool everyone!!!”, I just kinda,,, added it to the presentation with no further thought?
So what I’m saying is Jarabosaurus sprang totally unbidden to my mind, and it possibly a vision from an alternate universe
(A) Wow, I was on top of the Baryonyx/Suchomimus debate at age ten, that’s pretty impressive! (B) Did I just think every North African dinosaur was destroyed in World War 2??? Suchomimus was discovered in 1998
And finally, ending on what is possibly the most factually accurate slide of the lot?? Like this was an actual thing, Siamosaurus was at one point hypothesised to have actually been a fish
Thank you so much for coming on this journey with me! I am glad we could delve into the wilderness that was my 10 year old child mind.
Tas, buddy, I love you, but what the actual fuck,
Good question! I Don’t Know.
Like none of this was made with any malicious intent I was just. caught up in the mad haze of Dinosaurs and started Writing.
lmao some swifties went and offered tlaloc (Aztec rain god) a friendship bracelet asking him to stop the rainstorms during the Taylor concerts in Mexico 😹
Yes, it worked. Since it’s rainy season it was expected to rain the whole weekend, but it only rained at the end of the show (night3) and the other days it was perfectly clear.
hell yeah. Would not have thought to do that honestly
Animal of the Day!
Albert’s Lyrebird (Menura alberti)
(Photo by Mat Gilfedder)
Conservation Status- Least Concern
Habitat- Southeastern Australia
Size (Weight/Length)- 900 g; 90 cm; 80 cm wingspan
Diet- Insects; Worms
Cool Facts- While the Albert’s lyrebird lacks the lyre tail of their superb cousins, their voices can’t be beat. These songbirds have the smallest range of any continental Australian bird with only 3,500 individuals remaining. Albert’s lyrebirds can mimic many species of other birds, using their calls to create a mixtape mating call. The calls are placed into a specific order that groups of male lyrebirds memorize, creating the music fad for the season that is used to entrance females with sick beats. Female Albert’s lyrebirds build enclosed nests with a small entrance to lay a single egg. As with many Australian birds, the Albert’s lyrebird is threatened by invasive species and poaching for feathers.
Rating- 13/10 (DJ’s of the forest.)
Requested by Anonymous
Activists in Tasmania have stuck up more honest promo stickers inside Coles & Woolworths stores, the two dominant supermarket chains in Australia.
I browse Tumblr on high realism mode. Dash has visible pores, throbs, etc.
i prefer surrealism mode personally. i like how its form shifts restlessly and it slowly bleeds into the sky
I tried German expressionist mode but my mouse kept getting lost among the sharp angles of modernity
I do Tumblr on pointillism mode—the dash is made up of infinitesimally tiny dots of color that taken together make up an image!
…wait
I think about this essay a lot, particularly how it ends
Dashboard unfucker 1.0:
- reverts twitterfication of tumblr layout on desktop
Dashboard unfucker 2.0:
- stops tumblr showing you a non functional empty login page for no reason
Dashboard unfucker 3.0:
- restores user avatars
Dashboard unfucker 4.0:
- allows hiding of user badges
- reverses truncation of note count
Dashboard unfucker 5.0:
- removes frightening clown
Dashboard unfucker 6.0:
- allows muting of alert sirens and userjingles
Dashboard unfucker 7.0:
- restores display of usernames
- removes frightening clown (permanently this time)
Dashboard unfucker 8.0:
- covers always-on livestream of uncomfortable looking midwestern woman in wet body paint with a black square (temporary fix as removing this element disables the dashboard feed. better solution soon)
- reduces scale of numerals 310% (back to original size)
Dashboard unfucker 9.0:
- alert siren functionality restored ONLY for the huntsman's siren, so desktop users have fair warning when he is about to spawn
- removes moist sally livestream box altogether
Dashboard unfucker 9.2:
- removes frightening clown hidden behind moist sally livestream box
Dashboard unfucker 10.0:
- MAJOR UPDATE! posts are visible again
I am curious, bc I just ran across one of those, 'everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened!' things so-
This isn't meant to be a commentary on the event, just whether or not you remember where you were/what you were doing when the news hit.
As an example, I was home sick, doing dishes, when mom yelled for me to get in the living room RIGHT NOW.
whoever is running this fucking tumblr ad campaign for the op movie is making it really difficult not to develop actively hostile feelings toward a franchise i know many of my friends genuinely enjoy
anyway The Clown's image url is assets.tumblr.com/pop/src/components/one-piece/assets/toggle-dff697e4.png so you can go ahead and paste that into your adblock filters to get rid of him
I didn’t want to sillypost on @eternityboxes’ earthsea quotes post but i immediately need to share this mental image of a fantasy SPCA sticker that came to me fully formed. Completely different vibe than Tenar’s line, sorry
In Old English, the word sibling meant “a relative”, until the word went extinct in the early Middle English period, around 1400. It was brought back in the 1900s (the decade) and given its modern sense, but only as a technical term used by geneticists. I can’t find a source on when it became an everyday, normal-person word.
Weird! Neat! I think generally that transition is poorly sourced? Maybe try Google ngrams
a reasonable estimate is that the popularization of the word "sibling" happened over the second half of the 20th century. before that the word had been active in technical areas, but didn't seem to pick up steam in other places until the '60s. some interesting timestamps sourced from old newspapers:
- 1943, new york: Henry Hastings Curran (1877–1966, then NYC's chief magistrate) expressed dismay at the increasing use of the word among probation officers, with a bemusing amount of outrage: "how would you like to be called a scarab? or a scamp? or a coystrel or a curmudgeon? or a tatterdemalion? or a gremlin? or a sibling? how would you like that?" "to me it has a very doubtful sound, dubious, dismal, desparate." (1 Aug 1943, New York Daily News)
- 1944, london: at the pensions tribunal at the law courts, Sir Owen Bearsley (could be this Owen Bearsley, unsure) was confused by a psychiatrist's use of the word in his report. Bearsley's colleague had to look it up in a medical dictionary.
- 1953, london: one Alan Dick advocated the use of the word in place of the cumbersome "brother and sister": "here's another ugly one—brother-or-sister. you want to ask somebody if he-or-she is an only child or if he-or-she has any brothers or sisters, and it all has to come out at once—bruthussasistus. this is another place for a single word meaning either. the psychologists... invented a word of their own. sibling. what about taking it over for everyday use?" (24 Feb 1953, Daily Herald)
- 1963, US: William Morris (1913–1994, lexicographer, columnist) mentioned the word in his syndicated column Words, wit and wisdom (5 Nov 1963), stating that the word was "recently popularized" and reporting a difference in the definitions then used in the US ("children born at different times of the same parents") and in the UK ("children having one or both parents in common").
for reference, here is the OED's n-gram for "sibling":
I found out about this long ago by reading a book that was published in 1984 (!) complaining that there was no commonly used English word that could be used to translate the German word Geschwister (in some contexts)