My first expedition to the fortress of Crowdkitchens is now live! Off to a good start so far, but is subject to change as is the nature of this game.

First DF video is over on my YouTube blog/channel, check it out!

Geological horror. You find a geode and crack it open and the crystal lining its walls is human blood that can't be genetically matched to anyone. You find a human skeleton but every one of the bones is made from rock, a rock that you know can't be whittled into those shapes. You find layers of clay and loam that sport ancient fossils at the top and the still-rotting corpses of modern animals at the bottom.

This reminds me of the blood river in Antarctica. For like a century scientists had no clue why this river looked like, acted like, and felt exactly like blood. Turns out it’s just really high in iron.

"Blood River in Antartica" yeah right there's no way a river looks like bl-

...nevermind

anxiety is so insane bc ppl will treat it like it's no big deal, like it's "one of the "easy" mental illnesses" or something, and then you have it and it's insanely debilitating and you lose most of your life and your time and energy to it. yesterday i spent 2 hours sitting in my bed trying to convince myself to go to a water fountain to get some water. one time i got so scared to take a bus i passed out. like sure it's a spectrum and i'm definitely at the more severe end of it but the fact that milder cases exist doesn't mean it's not still a problem? and it doesn't mean that those people aren't struggling too

I have never seen such an accurate depiction of what it looks like without glasses.

For writers with good eyesight, this is a good reference for what it’s like trying to see without our glasses

spock’s room decor is actually fucking bonkers. The weapons??? the big red velvet curtain??? like ok phantom of the opera go crazy.

for reference jim’s room has some photos and a plant so we can surmise this is uniquely a spock being a dramatic weirdo thing

You are judging Spock’s room through human associations tastes. Remember, Vulcan blood is green and the planet Vulcan is red (Discovery even adds to this by showing red trees around Sarek’s property).

On Vulcan, red is the color of nature, so (assuming Vulcans even assign meaning to colors), red is likely a very calm and soothing color choice. Green is probably the Vulcan color of passion and/or danger.

From a Vulcan perspective, Spock’s room is a cozy cottage core with some historical knickknacks hung around.

Kirk’s green carpet, green plants, green lighting room is the Vulcan equivalent of a boudoir at best or blood-stained slaughterhouse at worst.

so what you're saying is Vulcan children's hospitals-

hi. did you know australia has a fairywren species called the superb fairywren

and another species called the splendid fairywren

...and one called the lovely fairywren

here’s to all the weird little girls growing up into even weirder men

And to all the weird little boys who grew up into weird women.

and the weird little whatevers that grew up into weirder whatevers

(via コマチさんはTwitterを使っています: “月曜日あたりからコマがお盛りあそばせまして夜中ずーっとキャンキャン鳴くのであやしつつ私は居間のソファーで寝ておりますがほとんど寝れてない(ヽ´ω`) 今日久しぶりにオフトゥンに少し横になったら寝心地の良さにビックリ(笑) http://t.co/GDGGnhbb5t”)

"The March Madness"

The mating period of European hares starts end of January, beginning of February and ends end of July, beginning of August. The height of the breeding season, is known as "March madness", when the normally nocturnal bucks are forced to be active in the daytime.

Right at the beginning of the hare breeding season, in January, is also the best time to see the constellation Lepus.

A very rough early Spring celebratory sketch I had in mind 💚

Here are also seven feisty hares I photographed a couple years ago. I love them so much. :)

Refined some more. (:

It's coming along :) refs are important!

Sketching brings me so much joy. It is definitely my favorite part of the creative process, when nothing slowly becomes something. My sketch process usually starts with messy blobs based on my vision that I slowly shape more and shift elements here and there intuitively so it starts to make sense :)

I recognize when 'it makes sense now' because that's the moment when I get really happy and excited. xD

Rationally I don't know much about composition or color theory or whatever to be very honest. I mean I know when I see it but I can't do it based on theory.. I just follow what makes me happy and peaks my interest. I probably do learn and take things in but it's more subconscious.. On a kind of off-topic sidenote, but still somewhat related, I think this is why people tend to underestimate me/my intelligence (and I underestimate myself too and tend to make myself small and have learned from experiences that it sometimes safer that people underestimate you. I tend to be a silent observer in many ways, but it has also attracted people who take advantage of that and use me as a tool to feel better about themselves). I'm bad at expressing myself intellectually, why I feel a certain way about things, or patterns in behavior I recognize in people that hurt me, or why I feel strongly about things, and then I get talked/argumented and undermined over by intellect, because of the 'facts over irrational feelings' sort of thing for example, meanwhile my art is instinctual and emotional, but I just know it carries 'truth' in certain ways.

It is a feeling I struggle with sometimes when you don't feel 'seen', but It is something I'm working on and I'm unlearning these patterns and learning new ways on how to navigate and form connections where I am respected too in this way for example, and this also means I have to let go of certain connections sometimes based on patterns that don't serve me anymore. Don't know where I'm going with this but I just realized how I make art, connect in different ways in my life as well...:') And this leads to another slightly off-topic side note, when people ask me what the artwork means to me, it doesn't always relate to the meanings of the art that you are seeing (mating season of European hares in this case) but what I'm going through in the meantime, the art in turn gives me new revelations about myself and the problem solving aspect of the art reflects in other aspects of my life.

i have eaten so many failed ‘I’ pretzels that i have a tummy ache

NOOOOOO MY PENIS

yeah this is one of those posts where you read it, scroll down, then go wait shit thats fucking hilarious and scroll back up to reblog

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

love, Kirby the Houndour

HOW DARE YOU BLIND ME WITH SUCH ADORABILITY?!!!!!!???!

i wonder if this dog ever got a houndoom costume when he was all grown up

i hope so

every time i see trad gender roles people being weird about fibercraft i wanna tell them

-medieval and early modern knitting guilds were full of men learning and perfecting fancy knitting techniques to impress rich clients

-in cold, wet climates like the scottish highlands knitting was done by the whole family, in fact it was the perfect activity to do while a man was out on a fishing boat or in the pasture with his sheep and cattle

-men who were away from women for a long time had to know how to knit and sew at least well enough to mend their own clothes. soldiers knitted. sailors knitted. cowboys and frontiersmen knitted. vikings probably knitted (actually they would have been doing a kind of proto knitting called nalbinding, but that's beside the point). all those guys the far right love to treat as ultra masculine heroes were sitting around their barracks and campfires at night darning their socks and knitting themselves little hats

@cat-spotted

i didn’t do hourlies but here’s something that happened to me yesterday

mods are asleep post obra dinn execution scene chicken