Approximate Ball Knowledge

I'd better not give any signals till I know what I'm signalling.

[catilinas]

i hope no french frigate comes out of this ominous fog and comes fucks me

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

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[gracklesong]

Yeah, the post says chemtrails are real, but it's ALSO a strong statement against war and racism. I don't think any REAL war-hating anti-racist would waste their time looking into the chemtrail claims. That's nitpicking. They put a screenshot in their post, for crying out loud! In fact, I'd say your insistence on fact-checking is downright suspicious, maybe even reactionary. Whose side are you REALLY on 🤨

[seventhhorse]

Set of glazed ceramic tiles, 17th century, originating from the Netherlands. Collection: Museum Rotterdam.⁣

[krasnoarmeyets]

i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it

[thylacines-toybox]

Made some sinosauropteryx plushies again, this time with pastel colours! Plus some of the wee rainbow babies I've made before.

Both available in my shop!

https://www.thylacinestoyshop.com/

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Bank of England are letting you vote for what animals you want on their new bank notes: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/help-us-design-our-next-series-of-banknotes

Pine martens are an option!

PINE MARTENS??!?

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Oh my god, you can choose up to two from each category:

HOW CAN I NARROW THIS DOWN

[v-spicata]

I chose the fox as one of mine, it's an obvious choice but it'd be nice to celebrate an animal so commonly denigrated. Not that old 'foul mart' has had much of a fun time of it historically either.

Some interesting options here in general, they've not just gone with the obvious animals.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I ended up not choosing the fox, purely because I actually reckon it's going to romp home - for all the controversy, it's the most common wild mammal people see in urban centres, and it's charismatic

I went pine marten, as I've been involved in helping their reintroduction to Wales, and then I wrestled with myself for an Age before finally going hedgehog.

Birds: puffins were the easiest choice. The UK - and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in west Wales specifically - has a significant portion of the global breeding population of puffins, thanks to Skomer and Grassholm islands. In a country with the biodiversity depletion we have (bottom 10% of countries globally for biodiversity), the islands of Pembrokeshire are almost obscene in how high their biodiversity is, and it's for breeding specifically. We can be justly proud of those. Plus, puffins are fun clowns.

And then I agonised about the others until I finally went for the Great Spotted Woodpecker, a bird I do periodically see and get excited about every time

The Lumped-Together-Others: the bumblebee, you have to. I adore bumblebees.

And then I went for the marsh fritillary, because it's super endangered and I'm an environmentalist with a specialism in habitat management and ecology, and therefore spend a non-trivial amount of my time explaining how to manage for the little assholes.

But MY GOD it took me a while

[cherrychouchou]

embroidered ceramic vessel by caroline harrius

[sailorloneperblog]

"Waves Crashing on the Coast"- Charles Vickery (1913-1998) was an American painter.

[molabuddy]

i Really love when two characters are really quite similar but in such a way that they just hate eachother onsight.. dog barking at a mirror type beef

[wizardjail]

i mean, you know, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities. let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as i'm concerned. but i ain't spending any time on it, because in the meantime, every three months, a person's torn to pieces by maenads in thebes

[aurpiment]

When people say they don’t have an accent they more or less mean that they have an accent perceived as standard (rather than regional or foreign), usually in contrast to the regional accent of the place where they learned to speak or the place where they live now. Of course every speaker has an accent, but when people say they don’t have an accent, they are trying to tell you about something real they experience without the technical vocabulary to describe it.

[stargazing-zani]

In universe Project Hail Mary memes upon ye

[animentality]

[salamandersorcerer]

the womens conditions here are still entirely dependent on the men who keep them. the contracts are written by men for men to men. the women are still treated at best as beloved pets who occasionally get a say. these are still sweet stories but this is not actually being treated as a person

[glassphemy]

Agree and it's like, literally one example out of how many billions of women who were married off?

[larkandkatydid]

“Some people claim that women were treated like property but this story of a guy writing an elaborate contract about the conditions in which he will hand over his daughter to some other guy (somehow) refutes that”

[aurpiment]

PHM fandom not know about verb moods, statement.

Not every non-question utterance can be classified as statement, statement.

PHM fandom learn about verb moods, wish.

If PHM fandom knew about verb moods, aurpiment reblog more posts, hypothetical.

Go learn verb moods for better dialogue conventions in rockyposts, command.

[ooooooh]

Eridians have a full name that they introduce themselves with and use formally, and it’s very long because it includes details like their occupation, role in society, and their lineage. And, once Grace is on Erid, it’s decided by Rocky and the Eridian officials that Grace needs a full Eridian name, because it’s odd to just call him Grace in certain situations. It is easy to figure out part of his new full name, adding in teacher and savior of the stars, but the lineage bit is a little tricky. Grace was never particularly close to his parents so that doesn’t feel right, and he doesn’t feel like attempting to translate their names into Eridian. In the end, for that section, he just adopts parts of Rocky’s and Adrian’s names because that’s really his new family.

On his first excursion out of his biodome and through Erid (because of course they made him his own xenonite suit) with Rocky and Adrian, they get approached by many other Eridians who have heard of Grace. They coo some and praise the human, and add a congratulations to Rocky and Adrian at the end. It takes this happening a few times before Grace picks out the Eridian word for baby or child in the congratulations, and he’s ECSTATIC, making the assumption that his friends must be having a baby. Of course, he has some questions like “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” and “Why does everyone know but me?” and “When will they be here?” and “Actually, how do Eridians reproduce?”. During his barrage of questions, Rocky and Adrian are speaking to each other in low tones, trying to figure out the best way to tell Grace that the name he uses for introductions and official matters translates to Grace, Child of Rocky and Adrian, Teacher and Savior of the Stars.

The other Eridians figure that thirty Earth years and then some is awfully young to tragically no longer have parents, and it’s very kind of Rocky and Adrian to take in a child of an alien species and raise it as their own. Especially since Earthlings don’t seem to take good care of their young, sending them into space.

[fruitpunchfrog]

Rocky and Adrian: We’re adopting!

Grace: That’s amazing! So who’s the lucky little pebble?

Rocky, showing him the Eridian equivalent of adoption papers: You.

[soundoftheirwings]

Happy Monday and happy Pride here’s some little doodles of Dorinda’s A kiss slowly rising to the eyes of the sea which you should read <3