No longer shadowbanned:) @estellarium is my backup just in case I go by Art, he/him, in my 20s. Officially not an amateur but still a clown. Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Sneky_Art/profile Once in a full moon I reblog suggestive/not so safe for work stuff so beware 🔞
so christopher nolan drilled into an active historical site to rig a scene, dumped a bunch of plastic skeletons into the ocean with no plan to fish them out, and ruined an actual Viking ship on loan from sweden and refuses to pay for damages. all for that garbage movie.
Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up
Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it
looking for a news outlet to pick up the archeologist drama over this but you can google the practical effects used for the cyclops and find the pictures pretty easily
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AAAaa- I'm so proud of this one! I wanted to try out a different style, and I think it looks neat :3 I kind of thought it was both interesting and terrifying how often Shiro changes throughout the show and how most of it happens against his will, but I also thinks that's what makes him such a good character, cause he just keeps going.
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There are layers to this. Earlier in the episode, Xena discovers her secret while they're sharing a locker room. A woman she has got naked with turned out to be trans. It's the exact scenario terfs are always fear-mongering about, but Xena just shrugs it off.
Also, the kiss was a big deal not just because it was gay but because the trans actress was HIV positive. They wanted to show the world that you can't contract HIV just from kissing someone. Bear in mind, the AIDS crisis was still fresh on people's minds in the 90s.
The art is meant to be a particular scene from chapter 28 of CAA. The accompanying text is a snippet from that chapter out of context:
“Can I ask about your hands?”
Alex shifted nervously in his seat, clearing his throat and casting his eyes down to his plate. He spun the spaghetti on his fork, not sure what to say exactly.
“Yeah?”
Mallory faltered, “Well, what happened? Did you get in a fight with someone?”
“Only the wall,” Alex admitted shamefully, still keeping his head down.
“Alex…” Mallory breathed sadly.
Reaching out cautiously, Mallory slid his hand across the table and delicately placed it on top of one of Alex’s, taking care to avoid putting any pressure on his injured knuckles. The gesture was enough to lift Alex’s head finally, showing him that Mallory’s eyes were only filled with worry and care.
“I’m always pretty hard on myself,” he began, slumping back in his seat, but keeping his hand extended to allow Mallory to hold it. “I think you know that by now.”
“Yeah, I know,” Mallory nodded. “You’re really disciplined.”
“Yeah.” Alex took in a sharp breath, letting it waver as he exhaled it slowly. “I told you before about my dad, and how he would always talk down to me, tell me I’d amount to nothing.”
Mallory nodded again. “I remember.”
“I just heard his voice in my head, mocking me for proving him right,” Alex admitted quietly, his voice almost a whisper. “When he would get going, sometimes he would get physical.”
“Oh, Alex…”
“You’re probably thinking that I punched some ghost of him or something, but… It’s worse than that.” Alex hung his head again, balling his hands into fists. “In that moment, I was sure he was right. And I wanted nothing more than to hurt myself, since that’s what he would always do.”
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all night long the sword on the wall above my bed has been rattling and i finally woke up all the way and went wtf and turned on the light and found this.
@ those of you saying this is cute… that’s a feral rat. a feral rat hovered over my head watching me sleep for three hours while trying to figure out how to assassinate me with a longsword. thanks.
[images ID: three images of a comic titled "one must imagine sisyphus happy" by druid-for-hire. it is a visual narrative beginning with someone with wrist pain (depicted by bright orange nerves) working at a drafting table. the reader is shown the same wrist as the person uses it for many everyday tasks such as carrying a grocery basket, pushing elevator buttons, typing, and doing dishes, until the pain dissolves all the panels into chaos. the person then performs several physical therapy exercises until the pain subsides. they sit back down at a desk with their laptop, sigh, and begin typing. a small spark of pain reappears. end id]
a fun little piece i made during the semester and submitted into our school comic anthology! (which you can buy at the Static Fish table at MoCCAFest in NYC ;] ). it's about artists and injury
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Good news, he was not next! In fact, she accepted him as her mate, he learned the crane mating dance and now every year, he artificially inseminates her with crane semen to expand the very endangered crane population. True story.
Sorry, he WHAT? Imagine being this man's boss and having to sit him down like. Listen. Brian. We need you to fuck the bird. You have to act like you're excited about it.
(WalWaPo makes you jump through like three separate hoops before you can read the article, so I will share some of the highlights:
Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980′s. The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.
As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.
It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.
Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, it’s pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.
The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.
They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.
Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris--and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.
Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.
Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent. (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)
It worked!
Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility--sometimes the biological dad and his mate--both because it’s unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.
However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them. (This would not work with real eggs because he can’t sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)
Chris accepts that he is pretty much married to this bird. White-naped cranes live to be about 60, and they mate for life, so he knows he can’t retire while Walnut is alive. (At the time of the article, Walnut was 36, and Chris 42.)
she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)
His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)
the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)
"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")
chris sits any potential human partners down, like "my love, you must understand before we wed,,, i am already... Attached" (camera drifts wistfully to the above photo) "Lady Walnut and I have an,, Understanding... the relationship is open, but very committed"
Not only is he 'married' to walnut, this has apparently happened SEVERAL times, so he has MULTIPLE crane wives, none of which know about any of his other crane wives. This man is, for some unknown reason, irresistible to cranes
the “this content has been removed for violating Tumblr’s Community Guidelines” notice really adds a lot of flavor to this post and somehow makes it MORE obscene than whatever that actually was
I regret being the bearer of bad news, but I thought it should be shared that Walnut passed away in January of this year (2024). There's a lot of mixed info about the lifespan of cranes (due to people misunderstanding what a median is...) but the average for most species I know of is 20-30 years (in the wild if nothing eats them/they don't die young), and 30-45 in captivity, with the oldest known white-naped crane having loved to be 46. Given that she was 42, this old gal did good, and I'm certain she will be missed by folks here.
Is it really just a me thing that it's genuinely more difficult to read things in dark mode. Like. White text on a dark background starts sort of swimming when i try to read it and i Can do it but it's way more tiring for me. But i guess that's not a thing for many other people??? ¿ ?
It’s not just a you thing! I get this exact issue too right down to the text “swimming”. If I persevere and keep reading anyway, then once I stop, text keeps swimming for a good few minutes or longer afterwards and I can’t really read for shit at all.
Which similarly (re your tags) is why I hate a) having dark mode forced on me and b) the jokes about people who use light mode. Like hey man. I can’t See.
It also makes things swim mildly for me, something to do with the contrast I think. But light mode gives me migraines, so I pick the lesser of the evils. If apps have a middleground dark mode that isn't as contrasty, I'll usually pick that. I liked discord's dark gradients, but lost them when I stopped paying for nitro.
So fun fact ( from my eye doctor) if you have astigmatism and/or a high perscription in your glasses or contacts dark mode often IS harder on you eyes than light mode! Its called the halation effect and it happens because your eye perceives light in a more scattered formation than people without astigmatism, creating halos around the lighter letters and making them fuzzy or vibrating. Its the same reason you might see halos around headlights at night!
