Monterey Bay Aquarium
@theartofmadeline
Kaledo Art
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Andulka
Jules of Nature
Product Placement
trying on a metaphor
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TVSTRANGERTHINGS
#extradirty
Cosimo Galluzzi
JBB: An Artblog!
Kiana Khansmith
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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wallacepolsom
sheepfilms
Misplaced Lens Cap
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@acriimonious
‘Sometimes Dead is Bettah’ by Taylor Rose, prints available HERE
Folow on Tumblr :)
COEMETERIUM
[noun]
cemetery; churchyard; graveyard; burial ground; necropolis.
Etymology: from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētērion, “sleeping chamber”), from κοιμάν (koimān, “to put to sleep”).
NOCTIVAGANT
[adjective]
going about in the night; night-wandering.
Etymology: Latin nox, noctis, “night” + vagans, past participle of vagary, “to wander about”.
[sswanderer - Night Spirit]
KOSZMAR
[noun]
nightmare; a frightening or unpleasant dream.
Etymology: Polish, from French, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare; composed by two elements, blend of cauche (ultimately from Latin calcō, “trample, tread on”) and mar (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marǭ, “nightmare, incubus”, from Proto-Indo-European *mor-, “malicious female spirit”.
[Lenka Šimečková - Nightmares]
SHADES OF WHITE
Achromatic, Alabaster, Albino, Albugineous, Anaemic, Anti-flash white, Antique white, Argent, Baby powder, Beige, Blanched, Bleach, Bloodless, Bone, Cacholong, Cadaverous, Calcimine, Canescent, Ceruse, Chalky, Colourless, Cornsilk, Cosmic latte, Cream, Cretaceous, Eburnean, Frost, Ghost white, Hoary, Incanous, Ivory, Leucochroic, Leuko-, Marmoreal, Milky, Moonbeam, Navajo white, Neutral, Niveous, Ochroleucous, Old lace, Oyster white, Pale, Pallid, Pearl, Seashell, Silver, Snow, Vanilla, Wan, Whey, White wine.
[Mark Mawson]
SHADES OF BLACK
Achromatic, Anthracite, Atramentous, Atroceruleous, Atrous, Bistre, Black bean, Black leather jacket, Black olive, Café noir aka black coffee, Carbon black (also known as acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black or thermal black), Charcoal, Charleston green, Ceylanite, Coal, Corbeau, Damson, Dusky, Ebeneous, Ebony, Fuliginous, Gloomy, Graphite, Ink, Jet, Licorice, Mars black, Melanoid, Murrey, Nigrescent, Nigrine, Obsidian, Onyx, Outer space, Piceous, Prune, Raven, Sable, Slate, Sloe, Smoky black, Sombre, Sooty, Stygian, Taupe.
[Shinichi Maruyama]
SHADES OF PURPLE
Amaranth purple, Amethystine, Anil, Archil, Aubergine aka Eggplant, Bellflower, Boysenberry, Byzantium, Carpodacus, Cassius, Cold, Crocus, Cudbear, Damson, Fandango, Fuchsia, Germander, Grape, Gridelin, Halayà úbe, Han purple, Heliotrope, Hyacinthine, Ianthine, Indigo, Iris, Jacaranda, Lacmoid, Lavender, Lilac, Magenta, Mauve, Mountbatten pink, Mulberry, Murex, Orchid, Palatinate purple, Pansy, Periwinkle, Perse, Petunia, Plum, Porphyra, Porphyrous, Prune, Puce, Puniceous, Purpure, Raisin, Red-violet, Rose, Thistle, Trabea, Tyrian purple, Violaceous, Violet, Violet-blue, Wisteria.
[Alberto Seveso]
INGENUITY
[noun]
1. the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness.
2. cleverness or skillfulness of conception or design.
3. an ingenious contrivance or device.
4. Obsolete: ingenuousness.
Etymology: from Latin ingenuitās, “a freeborn condition, outlook consistent with such a condition”, from ingenuus, “native, freeborn”.
[Philipp Banken - Syd Barrett]
MALFEASANCE
[noun]
1. the performance of an evil and/or harmful act.
2. the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).
Etymology: from Old French mal faisant, from mal, “evil” + faisant, “doing”, from faire, “to do”, from Latin facere.
[Lenka Šimečková]
PANDEMONIUM
[noun]
1. wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
2. a place or scene of riotous uproar or utter chaos.
3. (often initial capital letter) the abode of all the demons.
4. hell.
Etymology: after Pandaemonium, Milton’s name in Paradise Lost for the capital of hell; pan-, “all” + demon, from Greek daimónion, “thing of divine nature” (for Jewish and Christian writers, “evil spirit”) + -ium, a suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin.
[offermoord - Desert Pandemonium]
ANATHEMA
[noun]
1. a person or thing detest or loathed.
2. a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
3. a form of ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
4. any imprecation of divine punishment.
5. a curse; execration.
Etymology: from Late Latin anathema, “curse, person cursed, offering”, from Ancient Greek ἀνάθεμα (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil”), from ἀνατίθημι (anatíthēmi, “I set upon, offer as a votive gift”), from ἀνά (aná, “upon”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”).
[Etam Cru - Medusa]
PHLEBOTOMY
[noun]
the act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood as a therapeutic measure; venesection; bleeding.
Etymology: from Old French flebothomie, from Late Latin phlebotomia, from Greek phlebo-, combining form meaning “vein”, from phléps, “vein” + -tomy, a combining form meaning “cutting, incision” of an organ, “excision” of an object, from tome, “a cutting, section”.
[Ray Caesar]
SEDULOUS
[adjective]
1. diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
2. persistently or carefully maintained.
Etymology: Latin sēdulus, derived from the phrase sē dolō, “diligently”, literally, “without guile”; replacing sedulious.
[Miguel Almagro]
FORMIDABLE
[adjective]
1. causing fear, apprehension, or dread.
2. of discouraging or awesome strength, size, difficulty, etc.; intimidating.
3. arousing feelings of awe or admiration because of grandeur, strength, etc.
4. of great strength; forceful; powerful.
Etymology: from Latin formīdābilis, from formīdāre, “to dread”, from formīdō, “fear”.
[Alexey Egorov - Territory War]
SLUMBEROUS
[adjective]
1. sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
2. causing or inducing sleep.
3. pertaining to, characterised by, or suggestive of slumber.
4. inactive or sluggish; calm or quiet.
Etymology: from Middle English slumeren, frequentative of slumen, “to doze”, derivative of Old English slūma, “sleep”.
[Katrina Sesum - Under The Stars]
finally
someone with a good fashion sense
@odxe x
Antennae coil and uncoil as the centipede is drawn towards the elegant sounds of piano. The vibrations of the music notes feel pleasant as his antennae receive the sound waves. This can only be the working of his dear friend Odea! Just the arthropod he wanted to see today.
Secondary hands reach into his trouser pocket to produce a blindfold, poised for execution. In a silent flash, Tsumuri quickly blinds the mantis, tying the blindfold securely before stepping away to watch the other react in alarm.
“ℋ𝒆𝓵𝓵𝓸, 𝓞𝓭𝒆𝓪. 𝓘𝓽'𝓼 𝓼𝓸 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝒆𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝒆𝒆 𝔂𝓸𝓾. 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝔀𝒆 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝒆 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝒆 𝒇𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸𝓭𝓪𝔂?“
