The starlit mere of Cuiviénen

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), family Pardalotidae, order Passeriformes, Australia

photograph by Subhranil Das www.instagram.com/subhranildas

[video by emersonbrophy. caption: no celery was wasted in the making of this video (very sick of ants on a log)]

Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.

I get it, man. The other day, I survived a shootout, only to realize that a stray bullet went through a mirror in such a way as to look from the camera's perspective like I got shot in the head through the mirror, so now I have to acknowledge that something that could be reasonably referred to as "me" really did die that day, and it's just like "jfc, gimme a BREAK"

ugh dont even get me started on how the other day i tried to sit on the throne of my conquered foe and light a cigar to celebrate my victory but the lighter wouldnt work and it had to be lighted by the vizier who used to work for my enemy but that i enlisted to work as a double agent and help me in my coup. that jerk afterwards said with a devilish smile "ill always be at your service my liege" and i just KNOW that he said that exact same thing to the previous ruler. signifying that my victory was phyrric since i am still caught in an endless cycle of violence and betrayal. that really spoiled the whole mood

Wow.

You should really listen to the WHOLE thing because this woman does not mince words

ok but like... concept

@hachama you're really good at crochet. how tricky would it be to add ears on a kippa?

ok but flat ears or 3D cones?

Not terribly.

If you want them to stand up, they'd have to be curved at least a little.

You were the caretaker for the mythical beasts of the royal family. Yesterday they decided to replace you with some incompetent noble, before kicking you out of the castle. You then spent the night in a nearby forest. However today you were awakened by the beasts who chose to follow you.

I’m not good with people.

I never have been. I’ve tried, but I’ve never been good with people. I’m always saying the wrong thing, and usually I don’t know what the wrong thing was until a lot later, until I’m thinking about what I said. In the town I grew up in, I was known for being simple.

I don’t think I am, but I understand why they think that- I’m not good at making the words in my head match the words I say.

But I am good with animals. Always have been. Lots of people are, I’m not special, or anything. Mam taught me.

Animals speak their own language, and it’s a lot simpler to figure out. They’re not people, they don’t understand us. A lot of people who are bad at animals expect that. They think an animal should understand them perfectly. They think animals have human impulses, human urges, a human understanding of the world.

And they don’t.

Just a wizard and his paladin

Lil Nas X did a cover of Jolene and Dolly Parton responded to it on twitter

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From Dolly’s insta:

I feel like it gets a bit lost, with how readily we meme his songs online, but Lil Nas X really does have a beautiful country singing voice. He might have the best voice for soulful, impassioned, male country vocals since Johnny Cash, and this cover really shows that off.

it's true and you should say so louder

I don't know any of you, hitting the reblog button.

Zireael brushes, step by step, psd and video timelapse |PATREON|

Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3

Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?

She doesn't even have her mouth and flippers yet!!!! She's fucking embarrassassed...

Smelling you

Finished! My mom named her Beans this morning lol.. She's around 1.2lbs and soppingly pitiful

everybody loves beans

THE CASUALNESS OF THAT COLLIE SLIPPING RIGHT OUT OF THEIR COLLAR. That dude is a Willing Participant of this walk and by god everyone else is going to follow the RULES.

I stop and watch this every time it scrolls past. The absolute adoration and conviction that they are a Good Dog shown in the collie's eyes in the last few seconds just... gets me every time.

LOOK HOW GOOD I AM. I KNOW THE RULES. I MAKE THE WALK HAPPEN. SEE? I'M SO GOOD.

Platypeace was never an option

[ID: Photos of a wooden sculpture of a platypus, standing on its hind legs and holding a knife in its mouth. It's bill and flippers are painted black. The carving knife is on the table next to it. /end]

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:

death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.

you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.

this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.

btw: if you reblog this poll, feel free to explain your answer in the tags or the reblog!

#do we have any specific examples?

example for the “fresh cut grass smell” spell:

I love that he really put thought into his spellcasting gestures – using sign for them makes it just that little bit more fun