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B: We are all afraid, Frodo. But to let that fear drive us to destroy what hope we have… don’t you see? That is madness! F: There is no other way. B: I ask only for the strength to defend my people! If you would but lend me the Ring…

megmca

Finished.

Seven years.

40 pattern pages.

140400 stitches.

And if I never see another beige thread again it will be too soon.

Probably never going with 16 count Aida again either.

bookshopcrow

This is incredible and needs more love ❤️

stars-bean

Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito

catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241

I am looking neither respectfully nor disrespectfully. I gaze without recognition of your form, and without understanding.

theofficialjonbeers

Me without my glasses

threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat

i am looking disbespectacledly

kaylmao

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

pavel090875

Heath Ledger by Greg Gorman, 2004

badxwolf

Where is "rose is watching her planet die while the doctor is slaying in the corner" I haven't seen her on my dash in a while I miss her

fenrirscarsback

prokopetz

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

calloutnevvegas

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

revretch

….. Didn’t know most of that

iamthekaijuking

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

revretch

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

bogleech

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

assuming-dinosaur

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

khmelisuneliart

all that remains

lurrlonde

its a heavy burden, having a heart as big as a city. and heavier still when it loves you back

prints

penny-anna

I think the reason why gag candidates are so common in UK elections is thus:

1. Relative ease of running for parliament - you just need 10 signatures of residents in the constituency + £500. Which obviously is not a small sum of money but it's low enough that people are willing to blow it on a publicity stunt or a protest.

2. First past the post system + being a small country means that every general election is made up of 650 local elections, typically 1-2 towns worth of people.

3. Deep seated irreverence for politics.

penny-anna

the way i see it the benefit of the gag candidate is threefold:

to provide a kind of 'none of the above' option on the ballot paper, as a candidate with no actual policies or stances. unlike spoiling your ballot votes for gag candidates are real votes; there will be a publicly available figure of how many people chose the man with the bin on his head over any of the actual politicians.

to act as an ongoing reminder that anyone can run for parliament on any platform. and that's beautiful!

to act as a reminder to politicians not to get too big for their britches. yes, you might be the prime minister, but on election night? you share the stage with the man with a bin on his head. :)

didanagy

WINONA RYDER as MAY WELLAND

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993) dir. martin scorsese

penny-anna

for consideration

anscathmarcach

All this discourse over who does "painting with light"

Hiroshi Nagai's paintings need sunglasses to look at.

They look like how it feels to walk across a parking lot on a 98° summer day without a speck of shade in sight.

They look like heaven but also like you'd burn your bare feet on the ground.

Even when you can see shade you know it's not enough and the minute you step out you'll be burnt to a crisp like a vampire.

And it's BEAUTIFUL

dbarenzu626

I'll throw in the wonderful Eizin Suzuki into this ring too, a man whose work just breathes light without actually using dynamic lighting in the usual way. It's no surprise both Nagai and Suzuki are both considered prolific in art pertaining to the city pop genre because they're able to paint these kinds of scenes with a delicate touch.

This feels like I could trip on that radio and fall right into that water, feeling the crystal waves as I drop in.

And this, a nice stroll down a resort strip, where my sunscreened skin could literally feel cooked if I leaned too close to the tiling.

And then a nice stretch of summer street, wherein you could see your face in the flushed red of that car provided it didn't blind you from its sunny reflections.

I don't think I even need to say anything more, Suzuki's a massive influence in how he even places colours so warmly in such unorthodox manner. It's a naturally sunkissed talent~ 🌊