Here There Be Unicorns

Reverse dapple fire unicorn for Junicorn day 17, from @camelidae's colour prompt list!

Less fiery and extra fiery versions beneath cut

I have a really unusual number of very old poetry books. Some of them are the collected works of one poet, others are big compilations that tend to span a very broad range of works. Back when the kids were in elementary school the school had parent volunteers come and read to the class on Friday afternoons. Helped the parents feel involved, gave the teachers a tiny little break. I was very Extra about it. What do you mean "of course you were"????

I found a shortish story poem about a boy who got to go onboard his father's sailing ship while it was in port. He climbed the rigging, then froze in fear when he was far enough up there to get killed by falling. It's extremely dramatic, and the third-graders I was reading it to were about the age of the boy in the poem. They started out very underwhelmed by the idea of having a poem read to them, and then shit got real and they were Into It. A highly realistic scenario, really, I can certainly imagine a kiddo climbing up and then looking down and freezing.

The ship was rolling a bit side to side. The captain/father got out a musket and aimed at his son. Told the boy that if he didn't jump when told to, he would shoot him. The ship rolled, the father yelled "Jump", the boy jumped and fell into the water beside the boat instead of (splat) on the deck. He was quickly retrieved and all was well. Clasped to the bosom and whatnot.

So for anyone not in the know, the Japanese government decided to fight perversion with censorship.

Specifically you weren't allowed to draw penises.

So they drew things that WEREN'T penises instead. Like tentacles. Fast forward to today and tentacle porn is an entire standalone genre with thousands upon thousands of examples and enjoyers.

The attempt at censorship did not quell perversion, it only caused it to mutate.

And now I'm thinking about tumblr's decision to ban porn and of all the people leaving captions under videos of heavy machinery and industrial accidents like "I need someone to do this to me" and "this wouldn't fix me but it would help" or "everything reminds me of her"

All this to say that without porn on Tumblr

Composers: Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle

1) Yes, definitely

2) Yes except if the dick looks really unappealing

3) Yes but only if the dick is REALLY pretty and alluring

4) Yes, provided the dick is really huge

5) Yes provided the dick is really small

6) Unsure

7) No, highly unlikely

8) No, absolutely NOT

9) Never would suck any dick, ever

*As part of an art exhibit, artist takes combination of drugs that knock him out but also give him a raging erection (but cannot cum). He is exposed naked in a room under a neon sign that reads "Suck My Dick". Visitors can enter the room alone or in groups. It is 100% up to you if you suck the dick or just move on. It will be well cleaned by assistants after each visit. Nobody in-scenario will ever know who and how many people sucked the dick, the artist himself obviously included.

Camera Traps Reveal Iberian Lynxes Soaking Their Prey, a First-Ever Discovery Among Carnivores

Scientists speculate that the wild cats are trying to improve hydration or ease their cubs’ transition to solid food. The finding points to resilience in one of the world’s most endangered felines

A camera trap in Spain recorded a wild female Iberian lynx carrying a dead rabbit to a water trough and dunking it, researchers were shocked. Then, they spotted the behavior several more times. In a study published in March in Ecology, scientists detailed these findings, which they say are the first-ever observations of a carnivore soaking its dead prey in water. The unusual phenomenon has raised questions about how predatory species adapt to changing environments—and it hints at resilience in one of the world’s most endangered felines. “This is very interesting and genuinely a surprising observation,” says Wai-Ming Wong, the director of small-cat conservation science for Panthera, who was not associated with the study. “Wild cats are typically thought of as highly efficient, instinct-driven hunters, so seeing an individual modify how it handles prey in this way is quite remarkable.”...

Reconstruction of Metapterodon anari, the new Miocene hyaenodont from Pakistan that my fellow researchers and I named in the recent paper. The new hyaenodont, roughly the size of a red fox or small coyote, is in the foreground here in a scene reconstructing Pakistan during the early Late Miocene.

Text by Steven Jasinski

Cloître de Saint-Sauveur (Aix Cathedral cloister) in Aix-en-Provence, France. It is a serene Romanesque cloister dating back to the 12th century.

* blizzard/ice storm

* earthquake

* extreme heat

* fire

* flood

* hurricane/tropical storm

* landslide

* twister

* sinkhole

* wind/dust storm

* something else

* see results

* Air hockey

* Skee Ball

* Basketball

* Pinball

* Classic (e.g. Pac Man, Space Invaders)

* Racing (e.g Mario Kart)

* Virtual Fighting (e.g. Mortal Kombat)

* Dance (e.g. Dance Dance Revolution)

* Crane Game

* Photo Booth

* Wait, don’t forget ___ , OP!

* Results