This is fascinating and I love the part with the mushrooms and the worms if this really works but my favorite part is that we spent decades like “oh no....oil is soaking into fur and feathers....if only we had something that could soak up all this oil”
Chinese sellers on Aliexpress are trying to sell giant land snail eggs as "Little Hatch Toys" which is adorable and hilarious except of course that this is the most illegal animal in the United States and even a zoo or scientific institution would get in trouble for having any
The fact that snails are top tier invasive species threats is such common knowledge in all the nature hobbies and sciences I constantly forget that I need to explain it. Why wouldn’t they be? They’re just non-stop eating machines that breed exponentially and the bigger they are the fewer predators they have. In Hawaii these have driven at least dozens, possibly hundreds of plants and animals extinct over the past few decades.
I think Joan of Arc's fursona would be a dog called Joan of Bark, but my partner thinks it would be a phoenix, which seems insensitive to me, but neither of us are furries, so I guess we don't really get a say either way.
I promise I’m not trying to be pretentious here. Jeanne d’Arc’s last name is d’Arc. An overly-literal translator insisted it stood for “of Arc”, and that’s why we know her as Joan of Arc. At the time, she was more commonly known as “Jeanne la Pucelle”, meaning “Joan the Maiden” or “Joan the Virgin”.
anyways since her main attack strategy was “hit them until they stop moving” I think she’d be a gorilla.
*taking notes* What else do you know about this beautiful world?
if i told you what rhis sounded ljke i dont think youd believe me so just listen
The most fun mechanic to me in magic the gathering is creature tokens. To those who do not play this game, every one of these cards can just indefinitely generate little creatures onto the battlefield and you are allowed to represent them any way you want as long as it is clear to your opponent which ones are which so they can remember their characteristics. It would probably be rude of me to just pile rubber bugs onto the table and expect my opponent to remember that the Annelida are 1/1 black and green creatures but the Hymenoptera are 1/1 green creatures with flying and deathtouch
I think what some people do these days is they get just one of these token cards to be the quick ref and just pile littler things on them to show the individual tokens? You can make your own cards and there's a lot of great fan made ones but I kinda like a lot of the official ones too.
So the important question here is which color worm do I want for the worms, should I go with uncomfortably realistic or the neon green? Actually rhetorical question now that I think about it I would prefer they match the artwork I go with and I love the official worm Chuck Lucaks illustrated.
I thought these little guys would also be perfect for Saprolings (I like how they're conjoined but I'm gonna snap them in half to double my order) but while most Saprolings are depicted green, they are usually canonically fungi. Mike Burns illustrated one of my favorite Saproling Tokens in a proper pale fungus color so I should get these in white???
Steve Prescott's saproling is pink though! By my own arbitrary rules I could use the pink ones!
oh no
Dungeon Meshi has ruined food themed stories for me forever because now if I ever strap in again for a cooking anime or something I won’t be satisfied if it doesn’t delve into human psyche and the nature of hunger and how it ties us all together and is what makes us alive and-
For Elden Ring One Year Anniversary here's a thread of all(?) of my Food/Snack Parody Art in no particular order! They're free to use as pfp! Part 1
the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman
but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything
What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.
I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode
Week after week I become more tempted to try the white gilgamesh
TWO THIRDS BEER AND ONE THIRD MILK
FROM A GOAT OR OF ITS ILK
Ok getting people asking for a review in the notes so here we go.
FLAVOR: Actually not bad at all. I used a wheat beer as sort of the closest modern approximation to sumerian beer, and mixed it 2/3 to 1/3 with goat milk. The flavors complemented each other well.
TEXTURE: Unusual, but not necessarily unpleasant. Creamy yet lightly carbonated from the beer. Definitely gonna bother some people.
AFTEREFFECTS: Sat in my stomach like a rock, and the alcohol hit me like I had had 3 beers instead of one. It does in fact make you feel you're made of wood
I mean I had theories about bigtop burger, sure, but an alien clown getting banished from his homeworld because he got stage fright during a ritual production of the musical cats, (by getting shot out of a cannon,) and slingshotting into the path of earth and killing the dinosaurs on his way to the core of the planet, was not on my radar for some reason