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we need to instill a new storytelling rule of thumb into people called "show don't tweet" where we encourage them to put all pertinent canon information into the actual story and its official supplemental material instead of using reddit AMAs as lore dlcs
Kihansi Spray Toad (Nectophrynoides asperginis), family Bufonidae, Tanzania
EXTINCT IN THE WILD. (declared in 2009)
This species was endemic to a two-hectare (5-acre) area at the base of the Kihansi River waterfall in the Udzungwa escarpment of the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania.
The small population of this habitat restricted toad fluctuated greatly over the years, with the largest known peak being ~29,000 individuals. By 2004, only 3 individuals were found, the last of the frogs seen in the wild.
Extinction in the wild was due to habitat destruction and degradation due to the construction of the Kihansi Dam in 1999.
The species is being bred and cared for in zoos around the world, and reintroduction efforts are under way (which includes habitat restoration).
Like other toads in this genus, they give live birth.
photographs by RatioTile
the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it
Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped
He's such a little guy!
Here's the original image before someone manipulated it
has anyone seen my pet bacteriophage its name is styrofoam and its about [hand touching the floor] this tall
it's actually so annoying how i can walk around outside for 5 hours and be fine but if i spend 45 minutes standing up winding yarn into a ball i am in physical pain like what's the benefit here. what's going on
good or not, would anyone else WANT your url?
MANY people would want my Tumblr handle
a small handful of folks might want my Tumblr handle
I'm the only one who wants my url (positive)
Honestly? I don't even want this url myself
Smooth Green Snake (Opheodrys vernalis), family Colubridae, Manitoba, Canada
photograph by Owen Edwards
on participatory art:
Beethovenâs âHammerklavierâ sonata, first published over two hundreds years ago, is notoriously considered one of the most difficult-to-play piano pieces of all time.
In particular, when Beethoven sent it to his publisher in 1818, he allegedly said, âNow you have a sonata that will keep the pianists busy when it is played 50 years hence!â, and much has been made of the fact that it wasnât publicly performed in its entirety until eighteen years later, by Franz Liszt himself.
Except thatâs a bit of a deceptive statistic. See, when Beethoven published Hammerklavier, public solo piano recitals/concerts werenât really a thing yet. Symphonies, sure; concertos, definitely. But sonatas were âparlorâ musicâa thing played by amateurs, often skilled amateurs, but amateurs nonetheless, in little sitting-rooms for a bit of entertainment after dinner, or at private salons with a guest list in the low dozens. (And mostly they were meant to be sight-read! The culture of obsessively polishing a piece to make it âperformance-readyâ wasnât as much of a thing, back then.) People bought these things the way they bought novels, and, just as someone might buy a copy of Joyceâs Ulysses today and enjoy puzzling over the thing, even if they never read the whole thing or feel like they fully âgetâ it, well⌠some folks would enjoy sonatas the same way.
So yeah, Hammerklavier didnât have its first public performance until Liszt played it in the Salle Ărard. But also, Liszt basically invented the format of âstar virtuoso pianist hogging the stage for two hoursâ in order to get a public audience at all.
But in the meantimeâI think about how wonderful it mustâve been, tooling around on the piano during that 18-year-span where there was no evidence that thing even was playable, or that, if playable, that the thing even made sense. Beethoven was nearly totally deaf by this point, after all, a fact that was publicly knownâhad he totally lost it? people had to wonder. And the only way to find out would be⌠well, trying it out yourself!
It has the sound of a gimmick. And Iâll bet it was, at least a little bitâbut just because somethingâs more interesting to play than listen to doesnât mean itâs failing in its goal. (Though fwiw it is very interesting to listen to.)
It also has the sound of, like, Dark Souls, to be honest. Proto-video game culture. A new game drops and people are asking each other: can anyone beat this boss? can you beat this boss? do you still consider your time on the game well-spent even if you never 100% it?
Biographies generally agree that Beethovenâs metronome markings (which only appear in his later work, and only *some* of his later work) are preposterousâoften borderline-unplayable, and certainly not very musical. I couldnât find a recording of anyone trying to play Hammerklavier at the marked 138bpm tempo, so I got a computer to do itâand burst out laughing at the result because, yeah, 138bpm is fucking NUTS. But whether intentional or accidental, I love the audacity of its being there, like a taunt: I dare you to do more. I dare you to do better. I dare you to try.
Much has been made of how difficultyâs a way of keeping people outâbut itâs also a way of inviting people in, I think. It says: do this hard thing and you will be rewarded. You will be rewarded in the trying. Because the trying is the thing that makes the music live; there is no music without you.
Hereâs an old bit from an interview with the game designer Porpentine:
âThe purpose of a puzzle [in a game] is to provide resistance. For me, that resistance doesnât need to be coercive or challenging, just interesting and aesthetic. My mechanics are to be touched. Games are perhaps the most intimate art because the player must remain touching at all times. They must touch or the game does not exist.â
So it goes with these sonatas, too.
@arwcn is this what you mean when you talk about your father aggressively playing piano for fun at home đ
This has unlocked a new fear O_O he's been working on Chopin's ĂŠtudes for like ten years; he's over 70, so his version of extreme sports is seeing how fast he can play them
You misused thou/thee in a joke post and provoked my ire.
the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you
my lil zhongli (from nagarnia) modeling his new bandana :) i made it out of embroidery thread that i found in my desk
also he wanted me to say he has a werthers original for you if you'd like one
Friend in an alleyway | my wife sent me this photo the other day and said "you HAVE to draw this." and I agreed completely <:
oops I was told you can only see the photo if you have a bsky account, so here's a screenshot of it!
Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O
Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O
Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans
#we would create an entire new astrology system about it#spoinglology
Grace, watching the eridian children develop a whole astrology-esque personality typing system based around what colour they are: oh god what have I done
