odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”
Oðinn spake:
Bright the sun shone | at the time of Þor’s birth, And bathed his count'nance fair. Loki, wolf-father, | the trickster, the liar, I found on the cold pavement While returning in glory | from a grand hunt For a 3 AM quesadilla.
This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees’ range has shrunk by 90%.
(my own photos)
Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.
Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would’ve penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you’ve observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.
You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:
just stumbled across your account and your art style is absolutely amazing, I was wondering if you use any specific brushes you could reccomend for the softness your lineart/sketches have?
hey! tysm! lately ive been using Clip Studio for art, i just use the chalk brush! it has this rough but soft texture to it thats perfect, and i use just the regular round watercolor brush to fill it in/shade, i did put the brush setting of that on replace alpha though!
i also put my lineart/sketch layer on overlay and then duplicate it, i think that adds to the soft/warm feel of it also!
so its like:
normal-> on overlay-> duplicated
more complicated than it has to be probably but it works for me XD
Queerplatonic relationship should be platonic-queer relationship. “But derin that’s a far more confusing phrasing, that just sounds like having gay friends which is absolutely not the – ” yeah yeah I know, but.
PQR. Alphabetical. We can make the term worse to make it part of the alphabet.
I am normal with normal priorities, you can trust me with language.
If you are adding an S it should be at the start. Situational Platonic-Queer Relationship (SPQR) (Senatus Populusque Romanus)
There have been a lot of people talking about the Romans in the notes of this one
”average streaming service has all the shows” factoid is acutaly just a statistical error. average streaming service has 0 shows. Poob, which has over 10,000 for you, is a statistical outlier adn should not have been counted.
Trans people of all stripes, when you write your insane discourse, why do you have a need to shorten phrases so much?
“It specifically refers to tendencies among tme trans people to use their agab as a shorthand for their precieved innocence mostly to the detriment of transfems and themselves, as the comic illustrates.”
Why couldn’t this be:
It specifically refers to tendencies among transmisogyny exempt trans people to use their assigned gender at birth as a shorthand for their precieved innocence mostly to the detriment of transfems and themselves, as the comic illustrates.
Tumblr character limits are fairly large, this isn’t Twitter, what the hell are you doing with all that time you’re saving anyway?
Not to mention the, frankly befuddling, trend of these acronyms getting completely detached from their actual meanings and being used nonsensically.
For example, I have on several occasions seen the acronym ‘TERF’ being used for random transphobia that has nothing to do with 'Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism’ which is what that acronym is supposed to mean.
I understand that writing a four word phrase every time can be annoying, but if it prevents nonsense takes, why not do it?
This is, I think, a problem with acronyms in general. I mean:
“poc artist”
Person of color artist? What?? Obviously we should just say 'artist of color’ yet the obsession with acronyms (like we’re sending SMS messages or something) seems to persist.
People straight up do not realize that part of the reason manufacturing is not returning to the United States in massive waves is because we have things like “OSHA” and “environmental laws” and “minimum wages.”
It’s not even just about fair wages. It’s literally about the fact that you can’t dump industrial waste in a river here anymore.
Our cheap goods are so cheap because South American and Asians environments are being destroyed so you can buy a $40 pair of shoes every 3 months.
Cutting granite countertops has lead to a rapid increase in silicosis in the lungs out in California. All the working men and women in my family have died from pulmonary fibrosis. They were carpet layers, Post office workers, floor tilers. Staying safe in manufacturing jobs is annoying but also very, very expensive. Real manufacturing factories belch smoke and dust and grime that causes asthma and birth defects in surrounding communities. Everyone wants their manufacturing jobs back until they realize their kids are living directly under the Asthma Plant.
There will come a time when the workers in these countries rise up and demand better and things will start to even out, but if you want to honestly “do your part,” you gotta stop buying cheap shit for no reason.
Not every event needs to be celebrate with a baseball cap or a coozie or a t shirt or a keychain. Not every wall in the house has to have a picture or a cute phrase on it. The knickknacks are killing people.
It is absolutely vital in any fandom to have a favourite character who you want to wrap up in a pile of blankets and give sweet treats to and a favourite character you want to beat on the head with hammers.
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