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They/She lesbian l8 20s , I love cartoons/manga/webcomics

[wakingfromthewater]

Still thinking about this mobile game ad I got. You will f**k increasingly large creatures.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[toasthaste]

according to An Immense World, apparently giant squid eyes are, like, UNREASONABLY large, even for something their size living at those depths. the next largest eyes on earth, blue whale eyes, are less than half the size, and swordfish, who live at similar depths as giant squid and have the largest eyes of any fish, have eyes that could fit inside a giant squid's pupil.

eyes hit serious diminishing returns wrt resource costs vs vision quality as they get bigger, so the question became: what the FUCK do giant (and colossal) squid need to see so badly that they couldn't see with swordfish-sized eyes that's justifying that massive energy cost? that nothing else in the deep ocean needs to see so fucking badly??

turns out the one strength eyes that big really have over much smaller eyes is: seeing large glowing objects in water deeper than 500 meters from an appreciable distance.

sperm whales are the primary predator of giant squid. sperm whales don't glow. BUT! water that deep is full of bioluminescent creatures-- these creatures light up when bumped into. something a sperm whale's size is continuously bumping into those critters, it's just surrounded by a glowing field all the time when it's swimming at those depths, visible from a distance-- if you have the right eyes-- as a massive glowing shape. so basically the only reason to have eyes the size of soccer balls is if you live in the deep ocean and your life depends on having a heads up when a hungry sperm whale lurking around

and also I gotta say, the imagery... the huge lurking threat betrayed only by the ambiguous glowing shape of its movements through the water, is really evocative, if spooky deep-sea games aren't already using that to make things extremely ominous then they should really start

[important-animal-images]

[moniquill]

'Borrowing the Tiger's Majesty' by Yuzu Kato

[mangonetics]

my highly sexual elf creature

[mangonetics]

This happened within hours of me posting about my distaste for the shitty new harry potter show btw

[nikfromtheinternet]

common grackle and red-winged blackbird best friends forever!!!

[qqchurch]

[d-floe]

[rocketbirdie]

your Cupsy☆Yummy plush inspired me

GASP!!!!!! cupsy my beloved.....thank you so much

[simena]

Anastasia Yarygina

[carlithiel]

The X-Files + Scully’s Darkness Falls Jacket

[delightfullyvague]

(source)

[badbloodalltheway]

Still my favorite X-Files post on this whole damn site.

[spankerella]

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

[rocketbirdie]

You've seen the official reference sheet of Cupsy yet? Iirc there's sheets for all the Yummies, they dropped around the time the archetype released.

ooohhhhh my god oh hhhh my god oh mygod ohb my gohdohmygoffhgd

[princncess]

its like a gacha pull talking to my plural wife i might get the one who usually fronts but there are the rarer ones also . dormant ones would be a legendary but i havent seen those

[joyce-stick]

Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: First Kiss wa Owaranai

(dir. Shinichi Omata, studio A-1 Pictures, based on the manga Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensaitachi no Renai Zunousen by Aka Akasaka)

[catgirltitties]

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[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[sepdet]

There's a van Gogh of an old pair of shoes in the Met. It's not a big painting and it doesn't have his usual vibrant colors, but every time I see it I just love it to death.

Photos taken with my shitty iPhone to try and capture the brushstrokes:

The Met website's version which I assume is color accurate (although I feel like it was a little cooler? It's so hard to tell, between different lighting and camera sensors):

Once I understood that he started in pen and ink, and he was figuuring out how to adapt ink's techniques of hatching, stippling, and linework for brushwork in paint, I saw all his art in a new way.

And then he was working out how to use specific colors and complementary color combinations to evoke different moods/emotions.

At first glance, it looks loose, impulsive. But as the saying goes, there is method in his madness.

You were brilliant, Vincent.

[sarasa-cat]

Hatching like a boss, in color. Absolute FUCKYEAH.

Vincent Van Gogh, Two Crabs - 1889

I always spend time with this one in the National Gallery