Pet the baby
My woven patch featuring the Black Rabbit of Inlé is here :D
My Etsy shop is finally open!
Pale Snail Designs
Mushrooms, snails, bees, flowers... All stickers are laminated vinyl, water and UV resistant. Just a handful of stickers available right now, but more is in the works! (I am pretty much dreaming about sticker designs at this point, lol.)
Spring 🌱🌷🌸
#there was probably dialogue but honestly who cares
Batman… I choose YOU!
OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. I DIDNT KNOW THIS.
I REMEMBER THIS
#i am also old
TBF Bruce has a lovely singing voice. This would have been easier if he'd just dropped the cowl.
The culprits (i would die for them)
C // Amythestsparkles • Hal Brindley
Yep, I’m on the side of these superb piggies. This is play stupid games, win stupid prizes territory.
Native wild animals engaging in natural animal behaviors?!?! I'm shocked!
Image by http://wryote.bsky.social
She’s an eco-vengeance iconoclast who loves coyote pee and running at manic speeds. She’s an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt, who turns luxury Arizona golf courses into free range charcuterie boards for her grub-worm girl dinner. She’s a guerilla class-warfare legend whose mating call sounds like the hissing warb-garble of a cappuccino machine milk-steamer.
She’s the internet’s most beloved trash-eating ungulate — the uncompromising, the indefatigable, the lovely javelina.
Wait are we all ignoring that you apparently threw a shark once? Please tell us more!
My family likes to vacation in Topsail, North Carolina, which is a little barrier island mostly covered in vacation homes. We rent a huge house in their off season, when most people consider it too cold to be at the beach, and we, with our icewater blood, consider it quite pleasantly deserted.
I love going for walks at night, especially when there’s a clear sky, so I, age sixteen, would go a few miles up the beach around midnight most nights. One night, while still about a mile from our house, I saw something rolling in the surf.
“That’s either a plastic bag caught on a log,” I thought, “Or a four foot shark.”
I jogged over. It was not a plastic bag caught on a log.
The shark was moving and didn’t appear to be hurt, but was caught in water only an inch or so deep, being pushed higher with every wave. I was by myself, and didn’t own a cell phone, and couldn’t see a house with lights on in either direction. There was nobody around. Leaving to go get help would probably take long enough for him to suffocate. The best thing I could do for this shark, I figured, would be to get him back in the ocean.
I have no idea how he wound up so high on the beach, because it was a very shallow slope. I’d have to carry him a good fifteen or so feet to get him into water deep enough to swim. It was nearly a full moon, so I could sort of see what I was doing. I got a grip on the shark, careful not to squeeze too hard, in case he was hurt, and picked him up. He didn’t like that at all.
I started walking into the water. Here’s a thing I didn’t know about sharks: They’re pretty damn flexible. I got a couple steps with this shark, looked down, and realized there were a hell of a lot of teeth coming directly at my forearm.
It occurred to me that I had not thought this through very well.
I’m not proud of what I did. It seemed like the best way to get this shark back in deep enough water and avoid dropping thirty pounds of very bitey animal directly on my own toes. So.
I yote the shark with as much force as I could muster.
He curved through the air like a thing of beauty, all angry and toothsome in the moonlight, and splashed wonderfully into the deeper waters. I caught a glimpse of fin diving away shortly after.
And that’s the last I saw of him.
my name Hellen, i walk the sand, i lift the shark stuk on the land. before the teeth can find their mark, i thro the fish, i yote the shark.
im fuckin weeping
reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this
I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset
What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know
Mordor.
Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.
And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!
So what is a rain shadow?
Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.
Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.
May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as there’s no scale bar and it’s all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. I’ve only just started playing with it but it’s SO FUN.
All of my fantasy maps are geologically and geomorphologically correct. Unless it makes for a better story that they aren't.
you know how people say soup is round and so it's messed up to put it in a square tupperware? that's how I feel every time I see a square watch
curious what your thoughts on this are then
It says guess bcs you're more likely to actually figure out what time it is that way.
How do you feel about Qlocktwo?
You know given my dyscaculia this is actually easier for me to read than a regular analog clock AND it's giving old school cheesy secret agent vibes so I think it's so ridiculous that it loops back around to being cool again. Still, wish it was round.
Okay this one I think you will probably like then
Reveal by Projects
Super easy to read
I have an addition:
"How do these clocks make you feel?"
Someone brought me this beauty for a battery change a few months ago
It wraps around your wrist and it's probably the coolest watch I've ever seen at work
That's actually the coolest watch I've ever seen in my entire life, thank you for sharing!
Actually days are square. Time is a series of squares.
Um ackshually, a day is how fast this weird thing spins:
Checkmate. Time is round.
And where does checkmate take place? In a square. You fell right into my trap!
Damnit! I fell for one of the classic blunders!!
You got involved in a land war in Asia?
i really want to get a shrimp tattoo and i cannot get this one incredibly specific scenario out of my head
i made this comic over 3 years ago and this week i had an interview in which i briefly had to bring up and explain serotonin as a neurotransmitter, and the interviewer, i shit you not, rolled up her sleeve to show me her molecular serotonin tattoo. when i tell u i almost lost my mind
Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes
If you haven't seen these films, you MUST!
I have a fear that the internet is going to try to make light of the Key Bridge collapse in the same way it did with the Ever Given Suez thing. And if that happens I am going to lose my damn mind. This is going to be devastating for Baltimore, a city that absolutely cannot afford to be devastated.
If people want to read about this, can I recommend the Baltimore Sun?
Please give the local paper some traffic. Also, having lived through national news coverage of Freddie Gray in 2015, please look to local Baltimore reporters first for Baltimore news.
And also the Baltimore Banner, a nonprofit newspaper that started a year or so ago and focuses on local news. Some of the Banner reporters are former Sun reporters.