little dancers 🥹 I love adding the texture to their tails

inspired by Gerhard Heilmann’s dancing mice

and here’s the handle and bottom

French architect Georges Geffroy, who collaborated with Mr. Ricci on the plan of the chalet, designed the graceful staircase. Plants adorn the Entrance Hall, providing uninhibited contrast to the terra-cotta and marble tile floor.

Ring

17th century

Ring of gold enamelled in pale blue, white and black and set with diamonds, decorated with skull and crossbones and nielloed inscription

England

ROUND 1 — Match 253 of 276

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Problematic because: "He survives the Tragedy of Duscur as a child, where his father, stepmother, and a lot of the Kingdom’s royal party are killed. The survivor’s guilt and revenge fixation absolutely eat him alive. By the timeskip, if you’re on the Blue Lions route, he’s spent years as a fugitive and comes back treating his friends like tools to get him to Edelgard. He’s violent, reckless, obsessed with killing her, and openly talks to the dead like he has to appease them with more bodies. After capturing Randolph, Dimitri taunts him and intends to torture him slowly before Byleth steps in and kills Randolph instead. He's explicitly said to have brutally murdered civilians and children." Propaganda: 1. "Pre-timeskip, he really is sweet, polite, protective, and trying very hard to be the prince everyone thinks he is. Then you start seeing the cracks - the way he talks about killing, the way certain memories set him off, the way his idea of justice has revenge folded into it long before the war fully breaks him. His redemption only works because the game lets him become genuinely frightening first. He needs to face the fact that grief has made him cruel, and that the dead he’s trying to honour are being used as an excuse to keep killing. He’s sympathetic, but he’s not harmless. He’s a kind boy, a brutal soldier, a bad king-in-waiting for a while, and eventually someone who has to choose whether he wants to live for the dead or the people still standing in front of him." 2. "you can see the good person in there the whole time and that almost makes it worse. he cares so much, and then the war/trauma/revenge spiral turns that care into something ugly. suddenly his friends are tools, every imperial soldier is a body between him and edelgard, and he’s acting like dying in the process would be fine as long as he gets his revenge first. i love him, but please do not turn him into just sad soft lion boy. sad soft lion boy threatened to torture a prisoner. that’s the interesting part."

vs. Childe (Genshin Impact)

Problematic because: "hes a fatui harbinger, which in normal-person terms means he’s one of the elite officers of a foreign military/political organisation that keeps causing problems across teyvat. he helps the traveler in liyue at first, but he’s also using them. he gives them a sigil of permission, plays the friendly ally role, and meanwhile he’s trying to get access to the geo archon’s gnosis - basically one of the divine chess-piece things the fatui are collecting from gods. when he thinks the traveler has beaten him to it, he attacks them in the golden house, uses his Boss Battle Form, and then, when that fails, he uses replicated sigils of permission to wake osial, an ancient sea god sealed under liyue, because he thinks forcing a god-level disaster will make the archon show himself. liyue harbor is full of ordinary civilians, and childe doesn’t exactly have a safe evacuation plan. he’s regretful about using such a method, but he still does it. not randomly sadistic, not out to kill civilians for fun, but absolutely willing to put a whole city in danger if it gets him the result he wants. he’s also just generally a violent little freak, affectionately and derogatorily. he craves worthy battles, lives for fighting, causes chaos, and will complete his orders even when they go against his own values." Propaganda: "yes, waking osial was insane. yes, he is a fatui harbinger. yes, his idea of bonding with people is fighting them until someone almost dies. but he’s also so weirdly honest about being a problem that it loops back around to being charming. i love that he’s not some cold mastermind. half the time he hates the sneaky political stuff and would rather just fight someone directly, which is honestly very funny considering he still works for one of the shadiest organisations in teyvat. he’s loyal, reckless, violent, sweet with his family, terrifying on the battlefield, and absolutely the sort of man who thinks “i didn’t WANT civilians to die” makes the ancient sea god plan sound better. it does not, ajax. but thank you for the clarification."

The first-edition of The Joy of Gay Sex, published in 1977, declared, “Vegetable shortening may be the best lubricant, since it is not only greasy but also digestible”[4] Such a statement perhaps gives new meaning to the companies boastful declarations that “Its digestible” and “Crisco has been making life in the kitchen more delicious for years.”  Similarly, in the 1978 sex manual The Advocate Guide to Gay Health, Crisco even earned an entry in the book’s index.  Discussions of the shortening’s use as an anal lubricant indicate its popularity, with statements such as: “The lubricant, typically the cultic Crisco, must be copious.”[5]  In fact, Crisco was so synonomus with gay sex that discos and bars around the world took on the name, such as Crisco Disco in New York City, which was one of the premiere clubs during the 1970s and early 1980s.  Other clubs or bathhouses, such as Club Z in Seattle, even featured murals with Crisco.  Thus, Crisco was conversely also one of many things that led to the formation of gay identities during the 20th century.

from this essay: http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/drew2.html

エゾモモンガ

Russian flying squirrel