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I feel a sudden need to bring some important, clarifying information to people. Mostly artists who love drawing murder shrimp.
There are two kinds of crustaceans that are called "shrimp" that use concussive force via cavitation bubbles as a weapon.
These are Pistol Shrimp, a group of actual shrimp, and Mantis Shrimp, which are not actually shrimp but they are the ones you probably think of when you hear "murder shrimp" and "shrimp colors" (specifically the Peacock Mantis, bc there's a lot of species for both.)
I'm not annoying enough to grumble about the mantis being called a murder shrimp, because "murder stomatopod" is objectively a less fun combination of words.
HOWEVER!! People keep drawing mantis murder shrimp with pistol shrimp claws. They are not the same claws!! They are not used the same way!!! I will explain!!!!
Pistol shrimp: A number of shrimp species which have one big megachad claw and one dinky normal one.
The dactyl, or movable part of the large claw, is snapped shut with so much force that it shoots a cavitation bubble out with a very loud snap that can stun prey or scare off predators. It's very fucking cool.
As cool as that is, there is a reason that the mantis shrimp is what most people think of when they read "murder shrimp."
This is the Peacock Mantis Shrimp. Which is not a shrimp, but a stomatopod.
(In a lot of pictures it appears like they're staring intently at the camera. They probably are, because they are alarmingly intelligent.)
Note that it doesn't seem to have the big classic claws, and that's becaus it doesnt. Please stop drawing a shrimp claw on them. Their "claw" appendages are kept tucked up, praying mantis style.
These are a raptorial appendage that do have a sharp bit, but that sharp point has adapted to add support to the club end. They use the club to punch the shit out of things. They do punch so hard that they create a cavitation bubble, but the punch is the main deal.
If you look up a mantis shrimp puncher you may find this image, but they rarely if ever fold out fully past the punching part.
The second common mistake on mantis drawings is from mixing up two types of mantis shrimp. There are punchers, which includes the peacock mantis, and stabbers. You can guess what they do.
Fun fact! The peacock mantis is the largest puncher species, maxing out at 6-7 inches. Some of the stabber species, such as a zebra mantis can get 11 inches. This is because the peacock mantis is as big as it can get before it would shatter itself with the force of its punch!
This has been the marine biologist PSA.
Please stop putting the wrong claw on a peacock mantis.
I love Andy Weir's books but this man is dumb as a bucket of rocks. Dude you have your characters turn to the reader and explain what the social commentary of the book was. You know it's there because you include the sparknotes in the story itself. What the fuck are you talking about.
Dude is extremely good at exactly one thing and that is extremely well researched near future hard scifi and is somewhere between mediocre and dogshit at basically everything else
#what's crazy is that project hail mary is SO FUCKING POLITICAL#he names Rocky's partner a male name#he talks about global warming and mass extinction#he discusses the demolition of the biggest desert on the planet#talks about heterosexuality and war and famine#he doesn't have a clue what politics is which is crazy because he puts it in everything he writes
Mostly true but, as a small point of correction, Adrian is named after Adrian Pennino.
Adrian is Rocky Balboa's love interest, and later wife, in the Rocky movies. She is a woman. Ryland named an alien Rocky because they looked like they were made of rocks, and when he had to come up with a name for their spouse, named them after Rocky's spouse.
It's still hilarious that Weir chose a name that is gender-neutral but also historically mostly used by men for the partner of his human-gender-does-not-apply rock engineer and apparently didn't mean a thing by it. Dude does a simple Rocky Balboa joke and unintentionally becomes a pro-trans pro-equal marriage supporter.
Which, along with everything above, brings me to think that Andy Weir has that quirk that I have seen in many white-cis-straight Americans (not only among them, of course, but it's very prominent in those whose life has not been Political by default) where they believe that social issues and politics are two completely separate, non-overlapping things: one has to do with Real People Issues, and the other has to do with parties and politicians and who gets to have a seat in the House.
Under that worldview, you can justify just about anything as non-political as long as you don't explicitly mention the left or the right, even when the subject matter you're writing about (like, I dunno, the whole world working together and handing the reins to scientists to solve a problem, and two completely alien people figuring out how to talk to each other and form a bond of friendship and (almost) giving their life to save each other's species) is extremely political for anyone who has eyes to see.
Thinking that there is no politics in his books reminds me of this disclaimer from The Nightly News:
Hickman sincerely thought he was writing a non-political revenge thriller comic, because he didn't mention either political party.
The plot of nightly news is that a senator forms a murder cult out of people whose lives were ruined by cable news and uses them to murder a bunch of journalists in order to create a crisis situation that helps him pass a bill that removes the media liability shield so people can sue the news into oblivion. The "revenge" part is literally a two page detour that takes place after countless unrelated people have been gunned down. The comic is also full of infographics presenting real-world data that supports the arguments being made by the murder cultists to justify killing people.
It is fucking baffling to claim that it is a nonpolitical book about revenge, when it spends so much time discussing politics and the revenge is almost an afterthought.
Sorry if I’m derailing the post, but holy shit the american education system did not do a good job at teaching students just how recent the Civil Rights movement really was. Like, I’m pretty sure we’ve heard that Rosa Parks was alive when Shrek came out, but the fact that MLK WATCHED STAR TREK really put things into perspective all over again.
Equal Rights is in its fucking infancy and still hasn’t learned to walk yet
sorry to everyone tagging this "malicious helplessness" "learned incompetence" "some straight girl's bf who sucks at doing the dishes on purpose" etc etc etc but this post was actually about disability.
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If you are looking for an embroidery kit or pattern made by an actual person on etsy and not generated by AI or dropshipped, a big indicator that something is real is a video of the finished piece. Embroidery is beautiful but it's very hard to show off a piece with just photos; an embroiderer typically isn't looking for just the flat result but also how it looks from multiple angles and how the thread looks in different lighting (one of the biggest appeals of embroidery is the beautiful thread).
A store run by an actual embroiderer selling their own patterns that they've tested will know all this already and list videos of their patterns, not just photos or generic videos of random embroidery. A listing that doesn't include a video likely doesn't exist or wasn't tested by the store owner. Most AI stores also don't have unique videos of their listings and will just reuse the same generated or stolen videos, but the ones that do try have videos with strange backgrounds (like old wooden tables with random objects) and very little effort to actually show off the piece.
Other quick red flags in embroidery listings:
Stitches that are strange, confusing, or unrecognizable.
Curved straight stitches (they're called straight stitches for a reason).
Very shiny or reflective thread, especially eyes on cute animals; the AI is trying to replicate the reflective eyes of fake amigurumi.
(Metallic thread exists but is notoriously difficult to work with and it will NOT be included in the vast majority of kits, especially ones aimed at beginners.)
Very, very plush looking thread. The only way for embroidery, a fairly flat art done with thin threads, to look plush is to use either very thick thread (not included in kits typically) or by laying stitches on top of each other (often looks very clunk if it's not done SUPER well).
Blurry photos of the pattern, especially if everything around it is very crisp.
The exact same photos for each listing, but the pattern shown is different and the color scheme of the photos changes to match.
Backgrounds that match the pattern perfectly, like flowers that match the flower stitches, decorations that are the same color as the pattern, etc.
Hands holding the "finished" piece that look too smooth or crisp compared to the embroidery, especially if the clothes shown also match the pattern (the ones I've seen usually have a fuzzy sweater the same color as the embroidery).
Inconsistent sizing, where the piece changes size in each photo; in one, it's small enough to be held comfortably in one hand and in another, it dwarfs a vase of flowers or is mirror sized above a dresser.
Reviews where the reviewers are very self-deprecating about their skills (mine looks so much worse, it didn't turn out right, my skills aren't good enough for this, etc) and the photos of their results look much flatter than the listing.
An incredibly detailed piece with a very basic pattern that would be impossible to follow to get those results.
Some quick examples from etsy:
(I don't feel bad reposting these because THEY'RE FUCKING FAKE).
Notice the exact same photo just being changed to match the colors of the pieces, which are also both very detailed and very unfocused.
Incredibly plush stitches that don't make any sense when you look at them and would be impossible to replicate, held by hands that are clearly AI generated.
A reasonably sized piece that is now giant in the same listing. Also a strangely blurry piece compared to the background when you try to actually look at the stitches.
I don't even know what to say about this one. Unless you are doing 10 layers of stitches, that sort of plushness in the clouds Is Not Happening. Also the sea foam is just random loops.
The curving straight stitches. The weirdly plush flowers. The perfect gradient straight stitch (gradient threads exist, but if you want a good and neat gradient, you typically use something controlled like a long and short stitch). The curved straight stitches in the wings and stems. The leaves that make less sense the more you look at them. The straight up circles that aren't even stitches in the flower centers. The AI generated hands. The person in the matching dress standing behind the embroidery as if they are also holding it for some reason. There is a lot wrong here.
@anthropologist-on-the-loose get peer-reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me ( An impact which was already high tbh. The idea that Pompeii was built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations. What if I just started screaming and never stopped. )
But it was buried by generations! Yes, it was buried in a volcanic eruption, but it was also figuratively buried. Over the centuries the location of Pompeii was lost, and it was found again by accident during construction projects. The ruins were not conclusively identified as the city of Pompeii until the 18th century (more than a millennia and a half after the eruption!) and it has been excavated ever since. People have been digging there since before the formation of the United States.
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I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it
I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally
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there’s this like… bizarrely ominous awareness campaign going on in nz relating to people getting hit by trains. you could just go “Look both ways and listen to the alarms” or whatever but they’re like:
i saw one on the actual train that was like A TRAIN CAN APPEAR ANY TIME. watch the fuck out everybody. you’re taking that shower and you think you’re fine? oh fuck no, EXPECT TRAINS
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