i know this isn't the reguar theme of this blog but i need to share it somewhere because today someone called my local fire department because they found
a horse
and not only was it a not-dead horse, they dug it up and it was
a lil muddy, mostly
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i know this isn't the reguar theme of this blog but i need to share it somewhere because today someone called my local fire department because they found
a horse
and not only was it a not-dead horse, they dug it up and it was
a lil muddy, mostly

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count dracula? uhhh ok. one
WRONG! searching "dracula" on letterboxd alone gives almost 600 results! and that's just movies! thousands of draculas are upon us
cmon they just started⌠give it some time
thank you.
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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. Theyâre everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, Iâm going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
OP: When you walk the Jianghu, be fast (cr ĺ éćçł)
ARE THESE BIRDSâââ
At this point it's more disappointing than shocking that not a single assassin in the states can aim a fucking gun
Not fucking really
Three Fuckinh Times Bruh wake me up when we get there

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im tired of this grandpa
Randomly remembered seeing this random old black and white photo from like the 50s, pretty sure it was from Sweden. A picture from a morgue, of a tall blond man in some kind of an uniform approaching another man standing beside an opened coffin, clutching something to his chest while looking at the approaching man with a look of wary insult on his face. The caption explained that this was an incident of a police officer stopping a man from putting a bottle of beer in his father's coffin (his own father, not the cop's father) because for some reason doing that was against Sweden's burial laws.
I don't remember the details but I recall how the guy had the looks of a rough life written all over him, ragged clothes in contrast to the police officer's pristine uniform - though obscured by motion blur as he was rapidly approaching with hateful intent - and the much finer burial clothes of the deceased. A small, skinny man with black hair, holding onto the bottle that's about to be confiscated like it's something precious to him.
I felt like something wasn't adding up and went to the comments to see if there was additional context that was missing from all this, and there was: The son and the father were Romani, and at least at the time it was still very much a tradition in Swedish Romani culture to bury the dead with little gifts - not necessarily extravagant or expensive, but things that the lost loved one would have liked.
This wasn't about a mourning son being stopped from playfully paying his respects in a way that someone else thought indignified. This was about a man being prohibited from performing his own peoples' funeral rites.
Had to go find the photo, it's indeed Swedish. Taken by Ă ke Borglund and photo of the year 1958, apparently.
Source: https://digitaltmuseum.se/021016531349/arets-bild-1958-tagen-i-stillhetens-kapell-tid-uppstandelsens-kapell-i
Holy fuck you found it.
I misremembered, it wasn't a morgue, those are empty church pews.
I see that "learned helplessness" is the hot new psychological term getting wildly misused. the phrase you're looking for is "weaponized incompetence," babes
weaponized incompetence is when your partner does chores shitty on purpose so that you stop asking them to do chores. learned helplessness is when you've experienced so much trauma that you've developed the mindset that you can't meaningfully change your situation and have become accordingly passive.
if your partner is exhibiting learned helplessness they aren't manipulating you, they're displaying a trauma response.
hey guys is there a nice wizard on tumblr or is it only the evil one
itâs just me

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You dig a big enough hole that water can stay in, it becomes a pond. And once it's been a pond for long enough, fish somehow appear. Even though it's not connected to any other water - hell, consider all the lakes that aren't connected to any other water. How the fuck are there fish? Where do they come from?
One day, something in space is going to look at humans the same way. You go to a new galaxy and there's freaking humans in there, like they just spontaneously manifest on random planets that have the ability to sustain them. All you need is an atmosphere with enough oxygen, some form of water, and that's pretty much all you need before they seem to just pop out of the ground and start terraforming it.
The mystery of the lake fish has been solved, by the way. It's waterfowl. Much like the birds that eat seeds and spread them around, waterfowl consume roe from the water, and while the number of fertilised fish eggs that pass through the digestive system of a duck or wild goose alive and unharmed may be small, it's not zero. A goose will shit in the lake water, and through comes the roe. It happens just often enough that lakes and ponds become - and remain - populated with fish.
Humans don't pop up on unknown planets and and unreachable galaxies on purpose. They couldn't get in there any more than they could get out of there, they have no choice but to claim the most viable-looking planet they can reach and start terraforming it. But how did they even get there?
You see, every once in a while an unfortunate human spaceship gets swallowed by a cosmic duck
Some fish are also just able to straight up walk on land
"They just walked there" is now my favourite theory of "how are lakes populated with fish".
The biological inspirations of Avatar: the arctic camel
Perhaps my greatest disappointment regarding The Legend of Korra was the lack of many new animal hybrids to chew on. I hope The Seven Havens can give us more in that regard. In the meantime, I have to admit that the animal designs we did get from TLoK are absolute bangers. Maybe itâs just because Iâm a sucker for ungulates, but the arctic camel has quickly become one of my favourites.
The question arises- why choose a camel as the base for an animal that lives at the South Pole? Itâs not generally the kind of animal youâd envision living in a tundra. Itâs possible that this is the reason it was chosen, as yet another fantastical part of the Avatar world. But interestingly, the idea of a camel braving cold and snow is a lot more realistic than you might first think.
In the modern day, there are two surviving lineages of camel: the one-humped dromedary camel, which hails from Northern Africa and the Middle East, and the two-humped bactrian camel, found in the deserts of Central Asia. Avatarâs arctic camel is obviously based on the latter. Atlaculture has previously pointed out that certain aspects of the Water Tribe are based on real-world Mongolian cultures; I have to wonder if this is the reason camels were chosen as mounts for the Water Tribe.
Photo by Nurlan Kalchinov
The Central Asian deserts are highly seasonal. Temperatures swing from -20°C (-4°F) in the winter to 30°C (86°F) in the summer. Bactrian camels are thus not just adapted for the searing heat, but also the frigid cold. In the winter, they grow long, shaggy coats, and wild bactrian camels have even been seen eating snow.
If we go back in time, we can even find truly arctic camels in our real world. The record for âfurthest north camelâ is currently held by the Ellesmere Island camel (binomial name pending). For those of you who are like me and donât know anything about North America, this is Ellesmere Island:
The fossil of the Ellesmere Island camel is highly fragmentary, so unfortunately we donât know anything about it except that it was Very Big. This makes sense, as arctic animals tend to get larger than their equatorial counterparts (see: Bergmannâs rule), which may be because larger animals lose less heat. Itâs important to note, however, that this animal was not living in todayâs arctic climate. It lived about 3.5 million years ago, before the current era of northern glaciation. Thatâs why, while there are no trees on Ellesmere Island today, there are some in the background of this delightful paleoart by Agustin Diaz:
The Ellesmere Island camel is only one example of the âHigh Arctic camelsâ that lived before the ice age. So⌠why were arctic camels a thing?? The truth is, camels and their closest living relatives- llamas, alpacas, and so on- are just a modern snapshot of an ancient and diverse lineage called camelids. We can see just from camels and llamas an adaptation to many different environments- hot and cold deserts, mountains, and the high arctic. Camelids first evolved in the North American prairie, as small antelope-like creatures. My favourite extinct camelid is Aepycamelus, which convergently evolved with giraffes.
Art by Carlost1205
Since camels first evolved in North America, they had to cross the Bering land bridge- a sunken steppe that once connected Siberia and Alaska- to make it to their modern homes in Asia and Africa. They had to adapt to the arctic to make this crossing, and their relatives left behind in North America are now all extinct. So, if arctic camels really were a fantastical pipe dream⌠we may not have camels at all. Funny how that works.
Yes, this is my first post on this blog. Does anyone have any ideas for fictional creatures or media properties I could cover in the future?
This is so neat. LOK definitely leaned more into Mongolian culture in general, compared to ATLA, so the cold weather camels align with that.
People worry about their fics being unoriginal whereas I read a good fic and I'm like "wow!! I hope I can find another fic exactly like this one to read"
There's something so deeply calming about watching megafauna prance and gambol about like they're little lambs
Bison pronking is already so magical, and then the double rainbow and the happy birdsong just put it way over the top

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