i learned that in India, there is a species of giant squirrel that have multicoloured fur, with with varying shades of orange, maroon and purple. Their bodies measure 36in from head to tail – double the size of their grey relatives – and they can leap 20ft between trees (x)
Some more pictures of these funky dudes cause they’re so pretty
Oh, and they’re very cleverly called Indian giant squirrels or Malabar giant squirrels
They look like heat-treated steel!
just sayin'
This should be taught in school.
Reblogging things I like feels a lot more goblinesque than upvoting ever did. The upvotes felt like "hmm yes, I approve *golf claps*" while reblogging feels like furtively staring at something before shoving it in your mouth and scurrying back underneath the nearest piece of furniture.
Which isn't to say that I don't like it. But I definitely find myself going "maybe I shouldn't reblog this because I've already reblogged a bunch of things today and I don't want to look like I don't have a life," I say as I close the app and reopen it like one of those little automatic box toys with the switches.
God seeing the redditors on here really is just reminding me of everything I like about this site
this is a confession to the star wars fandom because I have to get this off my chest. last summer just for fun I taught myself to read aurebesh and. you fanartists have Got to Continue putting the most Hilarious stuff into the background of your art because it is literally my favorite thing
here’s a couple of excellent things I’ve read since I started keeping a list just last month:
- “I hate drawing lightsabers”
- “Idk what to put here”
- “stupid fucking sign”
- “eat paste, it’s good”
- an entire news article on a phone screen which I actually found really impressive
- a few funny misspellings but the best one so far was ahsoka somehow becoming “asock”
- wanted poster of obi wan that read “wanted for fashion crimes”. the caption translated it as “wanted for high treason”. like blatantly lying to my face. love it.
- door on a ship was labeled “cake storage”
- “shopping list: frogs, hair gel, lightsaber polish”
and my personal favorite:
- “if you’re reading this you’re a fucking nerd”
the statue in the bottom right is Le génie du mal, carved by guillame geefs to replace a different lucifer (known as either Le génie du mal or L’ange du mal) carved by his younger brother. why did joseph geefs’ lucifer get removed from the cathedral? it was too sexy. the statue was too sexy by far.
st. paul’s cathedral in liége went from one lucifer, whom they called ‘too sublime’ and removed because he was distracting ‘pretty penitent girls,’ to another lucifer, who they’ve left there for 170 years even though he’s so hot that satanists visit the cathedral to meditate in the presence of this Most Sexy Of Lucifers
here’s how i imagine that went down.
liege cathedral: hmm. you know what we need? a nice satan for our church. let’s ask joey geefs
joseph geefs: sculpts this
liege cathedral: no!! too hot!! now we all want to fuck lucifer! we need a different satan. let’s ask… the sexy lucifer sculptor’s BROTHER. yes. willy geefs is older so he definitely doesn’t want to fuck lucifer
guillaume geefs, who DOES want to fuck lucifer, and the only sign of his being older than his brother is that the lucifer he wants to fuck is somewhat older: sculpts this
liege cathedral: shit. well we don’t have any more money for lucifers so i guess we’ll keep this sexy lucifer
mlm, straight girls, and satanists in the vicinity of liege: NICE
Hugo Simberg, The Garden of Death, 1896.
Every time I see this I always wonder what the painter’s intended message was. It looks so pleasant, that middle skeleton looks so happy with its work.
Maybe it’s supposed to be a memento mori, but a comforting and encouraging one.
This is one of the most famous paintings in Finland. There are multiple interpretations of it but they all share the same base idea:
“According to Simberg, the flowers represent people’s souls, the skeletons are aids to Death, and the Garden of Death is a purgatory of sorts for souls waiting for entrance into heaven. This artwork invites the viewer to consider the afterlife, to take comfort in his or her own passing, and to not fear what happens after the body fails to function.”
“It depicts Simberg’s thoughts on afterlife, which is not run by angels but skeletons who take care of the heavenly garden with a gentle hand, while waiting for more “gardeners” to arrive. It is derived from the medieval belief that the dead sleep in a blooming garden.”
“In Simberg’s garden the humble Death-like figures struggle against harsh conditions; the landscape around the garden has burnt yellow, it is dry and barren. The cherished flowers grow in exotic shapes, slowly, requiring constant care. The black-clad figures love their nurslings. The garden is a place where Death is allowed to realize its feelings of affection. The Garden of Death can be seen depicting the impossibility of this love; maybe the flowers are tender and fragile because they can not handle the love of Death. Love has two faces: one of them is the face of devastation.”
the Omelas episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is really fucking funny within the broader setting of fully-automated luxury space communism
like the Federation is obviously flawed, but it’s already a quasi-utopia that’s solved world hunger and poverty and most diseases and is full of lots of paradise planets. it’s not like Majalis is measurably better off in comparison, so the ‘powered by a forsaken child’ aspect rings pretty hollow and optional.
if the ones who walk away from Omelas do not actually sacrifice much in the way of quality of life then what’s the big deal
even in star trek, giving up your home and your culture is a big deal. you would be ostracized, completely cut off from your family, everyone you knew. and you don’t just automatically get citizenship elsewhere, as we saw you have to qualify for asylum. we don’t see an immigration process, but it’s pretty clear that other worlds aren’t really the same tech and qol level as the federation. there are some independent worlds, but they’re probably unlikely to allow mass immigration, and you would still need whoever you’re moving to to give you a ride and a hand to get out when we’re talking about space travel. people who don’t agree with the majalis ritual aren’t likely to just be wandering by. you’re stuck with living on that separatist moon colony that was a much lower qol.
think of why people stay in amish or mormon communities even though it’s objectively a big step up to leave. leaving in itself is a huge deal. not to mention that they don’t want anyone leaving, and will actively interfere with anyone doing that. not to mention the number they do on your psyche towards having thoughts about leaving or even thinking that there’s anything wrong, worth leaving over.
after all, why didn’t the entire population just leave the lava planet instead of inventing child torture? why doesn’t anyone today irl just move?
I’m not arguing that logistically and practically, leaving the Child Torture Omelas Planet would be challenging—I’m arguing that symbolically and thematically it makes the entire premise fall apart. It’s not Omelas and it’s not exploring the same questions as Omelas. The ones who walk away from Omelas walk away from the premise that exploitation and suffering is necessity and a society without it is beyond imagination. The ones who walk away from Majalis just walk away from those weird culty assholes who can’t be arsed to find better tech than the Child Torture Machine.
moonrise (2015) by phyllis shafer vs. landscape from saint-rémy (1889) by vincent van gogh . kind of obsessed how they bleed into each other side by side
one time a casual hockey fan tried to convey this experience to me from the other side as: "it's like... okay, imagine that you like donuts, and you meet a guy who also likes donuts, and you're like, hey, cool, we both like donuts! but this guy... he built his house out of donuts"
so now when I trip into a new fandom I'm like "oh shit I'm building this house out of donuts"
[Image ID: Tweet from @/ warnerbff on 22.03.23 reading: talking to someone with the same interests as you and realizing they're a casual enjoyer while you're deranged /End ID]
They are not as high-profile as the WGA, but I would like to bring everyone's attention to the imminent strike action by thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles. They are set to go on strike tomorrow, July 1st, 2023.
More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.
my favorite location in hit classic Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga is the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell that fawful and cackletta cause a ruckus in
(Jolligig belongs to @darkfawful!)
Instead of "live laugh love" or "home is where the heart is" my (wonderful, progressive, very accepting) dad put up the racism sign in the foyer
whats the racism sign?
The racism sign, as I like to call it, is from an art piece I made halfway through my first semester of art school:
It reads "any attempted theft will be reported to the police" in the 15 most commonly spoken languages by immigrants here other than English or other western european languages (in descending order).
This sign was only half of the art piece, the other half was the most stereotypically Icelandic painting I could think of:
When the piece was shown the painting and the sign were hung on opposite sides of the room, making the sign more of an afterthought for those who don't speak any of the languages written on the sign. Standing out just enough for them to notice it and maybe wonder what it said, but ultimately not giving it a second thought for the most part.
I wanted to highlight one of the most common ways racism and xenophobia present themselves here as well as the comfort of ignorance. The sign doesn't cater to you, you ignore it it, and you don't care what it might say. You don't have to think about it because it doesn't affect you.
For those who can read the sign though, or bother to translate it, this is just yet another reminder of people's ignorance and double standards. My inspiration for this piece came from my old workplace, where they had this sign hanging on one of the doors:
The main things that stood out about this to me were that
People love saying that we're not racist/xenophobic here even though we very much are. The problem is just that so many people don't take the time to look when it doesn't directly affect them. I was very happy with my piece because people actually came up to me and asked what the sign said because they wanted to know, it started a conversation and made those previously unaware of this issue more aware. I wonder if these sorts of signs would be anywhere near as commonplace as they are if more people looked at them critically and asked "why is this the thing we bother translating?"
Anyway, all that aside I love my dad and I like the way this art piece turned out but also I am slightly worried about giving people the wrong idea when this is the first thing they see when they enter our home 💀
Well if you want my permission to show it then you have it :))
Are there any weird weasel/weasel adjacent lil guys? Tumblr tag searching is being rude
Yes! Marbled polecats have to be the weirdest of the noodle-y mustelids. The ear puffs, the color, the patterns, the stance, the pout, the length, they have it all!
Other polecats like the Saharan and striped are also pretty wacky skunk lookalikes. Convergent evolution!
I think Malayan weasels are the funkiest literal weasels, very interesting color scheme for a critter living in the tropics.
Japanese martins look pretty similar to the Malayans, but even more vivid. Really would like to know why this coloration evolved twice!
Another tropical guy, nilgiri marten have very bold and striking colors. You look like a bee.
Tayra are not especially weasel flavored as far as mustelids go, but they always look kinda sad and concerned. One of their names in Spanish translates to ‘old man of the mountains’ and I can see why. Has an elderly vibe.
I literally spit water all over my screen.
Is it lost? Is it trapped? Is it home? Is it innocent? Is it hunting you? Can you feel it watching you? Is it the house?
None pizza with left leaf
i have lined up an inadvisable amount of work for myself for the next 7 or so days could someone roll me inta the microwave real quick thanks
in between the ink drying on the current project i've slapped this togerther, ty to @blackboxwarrior for the skruknknkle version of man... i used here
oh god oh fuxk its 5 am im gona snork mimimimimi
