Oh holy shit they found Silphium alive and growing in the wild.

Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.

This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.

I feel like practicing any skill would be way more fun if I could have a lil level increase thing that pops up in front of me every time I do good like in Skyrim

“Push ups increased to level 5”

“Writing dialogue increased to level 37”

“Coping mechanisms (healthy) increased to level 18”

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

it is so wild to me the fashions that are called “emo” today. especially given the fact that probably 80-90% of it is actually scene, not emo. this would have started full on wars 15 years ago

whenever people call this

emo it drives me BANANAS. no! this is not how emos did their hair. this was a scene look!!! some people might have gone from emo to scene depending on their age when new trends happened but they’re DISTINCT

this is getting more popular so i want to clarify, the above are obv scene queens and were what all scene kids aspired to HOWEVER. all of this⤵️? absolutely would have been considered scene in the late 00s (all photos from searching “emo” on pinterest)

whereas these are more emo⤵️

you will note that the scene kids wear brighter pops of color, especially neon pink and green. there’s a lot of pop culture references, patterns and texture. miniskirts very popular, the more layered the better. the emo kids are more simple, the black skinny jeans are a staple obv and usually dark hair and a band shirt, maybe some stripes but not anything crazier than that in terms of patterns. maybe a few accessories, but not so many that you hear them coming from a few miles away.

now THESE three are more in the middle. personally, i would categorize the first as scene, and the #1 giveaway there is the domo necklace- a scene icon- and the multitude/stacking of accessories backs it up. the middle is harder- the front of the hair and band shirt suggest emo, but the pink, layering, and the hair bow are decidedly scene. i think you could probably call it either way but i would lean scene. the last one is also hard- the hair highlights and amount of accessories are more scene, but the color scheme, especially the silver and black for the accessories as opposed to patterns, make me lean emo.

(source: i was in middle school in 2008)

@1kittynoir1 replied to your post:

It's not done yet, but it's the facing, collar, and cuffs for the patchwork dressing gown I'm working on! It was less than half a metre of silk/rayon velvet that I dyed in college because the sample we did of that colour was so nice I wanted a bigger piece. (It was PRO MX fibre reactive dye in the colour Marine, and I don't have my dye sample book with me right now but I think it was at 4%. It shows up more green on some fibres and more blue on others, but is always gorgeous.)

I had no specific plans for it at the time, but eventually the perfect project came along, and there was just enough!

I've been working on this thing (intermittently, in short busts) for a few years now, and am finally done the patchwork and on to the construction. I've posted occasional updates on @vincentbriggs and will post photos there when I'm done.

I've also been filming the whole process, so I'll have a video about it up on my youtube channel eventually, but that'll be a while after it's finished because I have so so so many clips and it's going to take a horrifyingly large amount of editing.

It's based on this c. 1835 original, which is a good 50-100 years later than what I usually sew, but I like it and I wanted one.

If anyone's wondering how many triangles mine has, it's 6,957.

Since I've got the time consuming part out of the way I'm hoping I can get the construction done before winter officially ends.

Edit: Why does everyone think I had a bad time working on the triangles?? I loved working on them, it was so satisfying to put lots of little bits of colour together. The reason I worked on it intermittently is because I could not put it down once I got working on it, and would work on it all day for several days straight until I was very tired and sore, and then I had to put it away to stop myself, and then I'd forget about it for a few months.

Also, they're machine sewn. Most of the actual garment construction will be by hand, but the patchwork is all by machine.

I finished my dressing gown.

And besides the velvet, it of course used up a lot of other little bits of fabric!

(Once again, my sewing and other non-dinosaur works are mainly posted on @vincentbriggs)

Video finished :)

It's an hour and 13 minutes long and I say 11,785 words in it.

"a joy to have in class" aka This Child Will Not Be Diagnosed for at least Eight Years

Stone scarabs found in Eivissa (Ibiza), Balearic Islands. 5th-4th century BC.

The island of Eivissa has provided a large number of this type of amulets, especially in funerary contexts, accompanying buried people. They were made by the Punic, Greek and Etruscan craftmen in Egyptian, Oriental and Hellenic styles. Worn in contact with the body, they kept evil away or propitiated good, in accordance with their magical-religious beliefs.

Photo: MAEF Archive. Source: InterMedit Project.

very good cartoon trope: characters who don't normally have fingers on their hands growing some just to make one very specific gesture, only for their hand to go back to complete normal afterwards

Well. Fuck.

Ok, yeah, obviously I'm posting this up to ask for help because holy fuck we need it, and the partials we'd been doing for previous months are not adding up enough.

So yeah, now would be a great time if you need to buy leatherworks for like late fall or gift season. Here's that link, to help out and get stuff at the same time: http://tormentedartifacts.com

Or if you're willing to just donate and help out, and keep a trans woman artist and her family housed, which would be even better, here's a donation link: http://paypal.me/tormentedartifacts

Okay, y'all, please rally and help Dee. Please let's make this happen.

Let's do our thing. That thing where we support each other.

Signal boost!

Current update- just a touch over 3k gathered in so far, and thank you everyone for the help.

...just 7k still to go. Yeek. Again, please, boost or share if you can.

Ok, current as of this morning, 4.2k out of 10k. So, six grand to go, and obviously, anything helps. Including just sharingnand reblooping.

Also thank you to everyone who helped and contributed thus far.

Ok, roughly we're on day 5? 6? (I'm trying tonnot bump this daily, just so I'm not blasting everyone with it constantly)

Current total: just a touch over 6k, with 4k to go. Thank you so much to everyone. Omg we're close? Anyways, please keep boosting this sucker around as much as you can.

i hope the 11 year old transmascs of the world arent on social media i hope theyre playing outside in the dirt

i also hope all the 11 year old transfemmes arent on social media and are also out playing in the dirt

real i hope they r playing together and having a blast and also that none of them own phones

LMAO TWITTER IS REALLY TURNING PVP IM LAUGHINGGGG

FREE FOR ALL, ITEMS ON, ANY STAGES

LOL

A recent cartoon for New Scientist

We are normal and can be trusted with large amounts of money

ITS NOT DEMONS GUYS I PROMISE

Visual Comparison Of Bird Beaks And Their Uses

"Thank you for the pasta sir. Hey look at my phone, check this uahh,, check this shit out."

Obama, complete sloshed off red wine and pasta: now let me clear uhhhhhhh this laser is dope as hell

The Howling (Joe Dante, 1980)

I think it’s important to remember that executive dysfunction doesn’t just apply to doing chores (work, cleaning, etc). It also makes it difficult to engage with your hobbies.

Some people don’t seem to understand that when I say that I don’t have the motivation to do something that I have said I want to do, it has nothing to do with not being interested enough in said thing. It is just that my brain is not allowing me to do it even though I want to.