Alpine lotus leaf flower
flatid planthopper nymph, Singapore. hemipterans (true bugs) like these have mastered the art of covering oneself in weird waxy filaments, which are shed along with their last juvenile molt, revealing a sleek, gossamer-winged adult
I'm sorry, that's just the funkiest little bug I've ever seen. And what a fuckin' glow up.
This is one of my favorite photos in my collection and I’ve always meant to frame it. It’s so dark and otherworldly, like a little fairy-cat captured at dusk. Ca. 1960s.
looks at you
looks at you
@bettsplendens i'd just like you to know that this is my favorite comment on this post and i'd like it to be memorialized
i scrolled down a lot please show us your pink cat again
this is the image some people use as evidence in their claim that my cat is "pink". i assure you these are incorrect assumptions
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where's the forth horseman
May I offer a second, blue Dave?
225-million-year-old petrified opal tree trunk located in Arizona.
Found these photos I took at a cemetery in Brazil in 2019 and they made me swoon all over again.
Today's crab is: patiently waiting and polite
lesbian flag color-picked from this crab...
[id: two images. first is a orange pink and white crab with its pinchers in front standing in a way that makes it look polite. second is the five striped lesbian flag with its orange white and pink shades picked from the crab. end id]
双面三异绣 shuāng miàn sān yì xiù is a new genre of suzhou double-sided embroidery. It is done on both sides, but the patterns, stitches and colors are different, hence the name 双面三异绣( literally double-sided triple difference embroidery). It enables the viewer to appreciate the image of traditional chinese embroidery art with different patterns, stitches and colors on one embroidery.
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Embroidery is a high art form
Okay… but how does the fiber change colors? I’ve been doing needlework fo decades. I’ve never met any sort of embroidery floss that was a different color on the back than it was on the front. (Don’t throw variegated at me. You can see this shirt ain’t variegated.)
The stitches are smaller on one side! Ive done something similar by couching one thread with a different colored in a satin stitch worked in one direction. With silk threads being so thin, you could make long satin stitches with one color on side a, but you wouldn’t be able to see the very tiny stitches made on side b. Then you do the same thing vice versa with side b, giving you two different colors on each side
It could be more complicated, idk, I couldn’t really find tutorials for it, but that’s how I do my double sided embroideries. it doesn’t look as good but here’s how the couching method looks when it’s done!
Picture by @amiguruineapig
treating every korok I find extra gently to make up for all the war crimes 💔
Ladivine by Cinderella Divine 2023 Ready-to-Wear Gowns Pt.2
