Trumpet Manucode. One of the birds of paradise, but one that tends to be forgotten due to its “plain” coloration and lack of wildly-specialized feathers. Still, I think they’re beautiful, don’t you?
Based on a photo by Laurie Ross. Just getting some iridescence practice in today.
I scribed all the spells my wizard learned in our last D&D campaign!
This cat strikes me as both fascinated by the sensation of the rain - the smell, sound, and feel of it - and completely mortified by the fact that it comes with being wet
This cat is like “I am enjoying approximately 75% of this experience but I’m not sure if it’s worth that other 25%”
Yes yes Yiling Wei Sect teaching safe and controlled demonic cultivation is very sexy but I think too many people overlook that Wei Wuxian is first and foremost an inventor! He is a man of science! Manipulating resentful energy and doing necromancy is only ONE of the many things this man has done or come up with that changed the cultivation world. Yiling Wei Sect AU where the burial mounds are crowded with workshops and laboratories, forges and studios. Little shidis run errands, fetching and carrying crafting materials, and in addition to the older disciples teaching cultivation there are also classes held for mundane trades and crafts, to be combined and reworked in new and incredible ways. Talismans, enchanted objects, spiritual tools and weapons, useful gadgets. Workrooms full of long, low tables where disciples work shoulder-to-shoulder on their newest inventions, shouting ideas and suggestions from one end of the room to the other. Swords are still traditional, but the Wei Sect is always inviting guest instructors to teach other forms of weaponry, and it’s not unusual for a student’s actual preferred weapon to be something other than a sword. Classes are chaos, students are encouraged to argue and debate, and no topic is ever considered “mastered” even by the teachers – there is always more to learn, to explore, to invent or re-invent. We teach all that is known, but not all that IS. Respect the old ways, but don’t be mindlessly obedient to them. Yiling being the fantasy equivalent of the most technologically advanced city in the world. Not all the things the Wei sect come up with are strictly for cultivation, after all. There are talisman-powered looms and plows that pull themselves and little crystal charms that store spiritual energy so that even non-cultivators can activate the flameless lanterns that light the town and the moving platform that will carry them up the mountain path, if they have right or reason to go visit the burial mounds. What I’m saying is that they’re all nerds. They’re all nerds, is what I’m saying.
Cirilla appreciation post
I hope the person who posted about how the porn blogs “should combine two random words like every real tumblr user does instead of using real names like no tumblr user would” feels at least a bit bad about themself today.
I honestly just had to block-and-report a blog named “exciting-d” and that’s just depressing.
I have one called “half-nakedwhale” and one called “systemic-awl” (with assorted numbers) and it’s just so much more depressing to clear them out now
I feel sad that “disgraceful hydrolysis” was a bot’s name. That’s such a hilarious, evocative name! How does hydrolysis become disgraceful? It haunts me.
The Sahara can reach temperatures of over 100°F, but the fennec fox’s ears act like an air conditioning system by cooling the blood in a network of veins. BBC Earth
They were cold so they decided to sleep in one bed. L to R Spooky, Iris, Luna
You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.
Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.
Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them
stepped on a plum (overripe plum) (barefoot) it was on the driveway got out of the car and accidentally (didn't know it was there) stepped on the plum (warm) (on the ground) (it had fallen from the tree) barefoot (no shoes) wearing long pants (too long) (need to hem them) plum viscera got on them (the pants) unexpected plum on the driveway (hot plum) (97 degrees out) already super hungover (throwing up all morning) (should not have been driving at all) and I stepped out of the car (black car) (97 degrees out) and onto the plum (unexpected) (didn't know the plum was there) and it burst (plum nightmare on my only good pair of sweatpants) still we find ways to keep ourselves going from day to day
This is a tournament to determine the best Little Cat out there!!! This is for all members of the Felidae family except for Felis catus and the Panthera genus. The bracket is based on the Wikipedia page for Felidae. This is a single-elimination 33 team bracket, and to make the numbers easiest all three lynx species will go against each other in the first round. All polls will be tagged with #little cat showdown poll. Polls will last one week and the first round begins today, May 4. The cats were seeded based on how popular I personally think they are, and how long I've known they exist.
The mascot of the tournament is my beautiful tiger boy Lunar Apples Module (Luna for short). He has never seen any of them in his life but you can clearly tell he's related to them by the way he majestically hunts crickets in the summertime (he is an indoor cat who goes on walks on a leash and I don't think he's ever even killed a cricket. he doesn't know what to do when he catches a cricket. he just gets confused. I love him so much)
Here is the bracket!!
[ID: a 33-team bracket with the following matchups:
Cheetah vs European Wildcat
African Golden Cat vs Marbled Cat
Palls Cat vs Leopard Cat
Flat Headed Cat vs Ocelot
Bobcat vs Black-footed Cat
Andean Mountain Cat vs Jagarundi
Sunda Clouded Leopard vs Oncilla
Eurasian Lynx vs Canada Lynx vs Iberian Lynx
Sand Cat vs Chinese Mountain Cat
Kodkod vs Bay Cat
Serval vs Pampas Cat
Jungle Cat vs Fishing Cat
Cougar vs Rusty-Spotted Cat
Margay vs Caracal
Asian Golden Cat vs Geoffoy's Cat
African Wildcat vs Clouded Leopard
end ID]
so many cats!
Love having a malfunctioning meat suit...
Bodies be like "Oh you had plans for today??? Nope. Only dizzy and brain fog now. Fuck you."
Day and night. Painter: Frederick Judd Waugh (1841-1940).
