peregrine lorescent

[10oclockdot]

Saying that man and woman are the only genders is actually LESS nuanced than saying that earth, water, air, and fire are the only elements.

[afniel]

This is fantastic.

[anyawildt]

This! This is what I keep saying!!

[monikahmakes]

WIP tonight. I don't know what's gotten into me with these candy colors- they're not my usual palette at all, and they certainly don't fit the inspiration (concentric lichen rings). But they're cheerful, and it's February, and I have a gloomy cold, and I'll take it.

[baronfelix]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: The Magicians (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh Characters: Margo Hanson, Kady Orloff-Diaz, Alice Quinn (The Magicians) Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, First Time, There! was! only! one! bed!, Welters, Alternate Universe - No Beast (The Magicians), Frottage, Anal Sex, Recreational Drug Use, minor Margo/Kady/Alice, minor Eliot/oc Summary:

Our favorite Welters team gets a chance to play in the big leagues. The accommodations provide some...interesting challenges.

[politicalsci]

[rainbowdoom32]

Also more kids in cages! Biden has opened another detention center to hold immigrant children who have conmited no crimes

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Collecting Animal Tears

Like humans, most vertebrates rely on tear films to keep their eyes moist and protected from the environment. But compared to humans, some animals’ tears have superior staying power. (Image credit: A. Oriá; research credit: A. Raposo et al.; via NYTimes; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh) Read the full article

[itscolossal]

Under UV Light, Platypuses Radiate a Fluorescent Green-Blue Hue—But Scientists Aren’t Sure Why

[dustedmagazine]

Punk’d History, Vol. VIII: This Machine [blank] Fascists

Photo by Richard Young

It has the appearance of a worrisome pattern: any number of punk rock’s founding figures embraced the symbolics of Nazi Germany. Ron Asheton, an original and indispensable member of the Stooges, played a number of gigs wearing a red swastika armband, and liked to sport Iron Cross medals and a Luftwaffe-style leather jacket. Sid Vicious loved his bright scarlet, swastika-emblazoned tee shirt, and Siouxsie Sioux, during her tenure as the It-Girl of the Bromley Contingent, mixed her breast-baring, black leather bondage gear with a bunch of “Nazi chic.” And how many early Ramones songs (inevitably penned by Dee Dee) referenced Nazi gear, concepts and geography? “Blitzkrieg Bop,” “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World,” “Commando,” “It’s a Long Way Back to Germany,” “All’s Quiet on the Eastern Front,” and so on—for sure, more than a few.

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[itscolossal]

A Japanese Forestry Technique Prunes Upper Branches to Create a Tree Platform for More Sustainable Harvests

[elsinore-snores]

some really beautiful african architecture because honestly this site is so western-centric

mako

unknown

cameroon

burkina faso

mali

Ndebele

burkina faso

please add more if you can!

[ayeshapoptropica]

these are SO BEAUTIFUL

[musinvenusian]

MALI IS MY FAVORITE. I LOVE THE COLORS 😍😍😍😍😍

[misshoneywheeler]

The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia

The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt

The Nubian Pyramids at Meroe, Sudan

Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, a commemoration of the destroyed Library at Alexandria

Bosjes Chapel, South Africa

The Gando School by Diébédo Francis Kéré, Gando, Burkina Faso

The Dyeji Building, Luanda, Angola

[dustedmagazine]

Anne Guthrie / Virginia Overton / François Bonnet — Sculpture Gardens (Future Audio Graphics)

It’s a sad, hard fact that circulating music by means of physical objects is becoming the exception and not the rule. So, if you’re going to do it, might as well do it right and make it special. Future Audio Graphics makes LPs that bind interdisciplinary collaborations within gatefold LPs. Each combines a text by one artist, images by another and a record of sounds by a third. Ironically on Sculpture Gardens the efforts of writer François Bonnet (aka Kassel Jaeger), sculptor Virginia Overton and sound artist Anne Guthrie cohere into a consideration of impermanence.

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[baronfelix]

this is real, people

[amnhnyc]

Behold the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta)! This large evergreen tree grows up to about 60 meters (197 feet) tall and is native to the dense, humid forests of New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Philippines. What gives it such a spectrum of color? When strips of its bark peel off, they change in color: bark starts out in shades of green, then transitions into purple, red, and orange as time goes on. Continuous peeling helps the tree keep its trunk clear of other plants. And having a vibrant range of colors is thought to help it absorb a wider range of light to aid in photosynthesis. Photo: Janine Sprout

[baronfelix]

soundscape, wolf ridge, marin ca quick burst of wind’s rise and fall tritone of ringing buoys and foghorns scattered birdsong close buzz of an insect distant crunch of feet on gravel just out of sight unsettling weight of a hawk’s silent glide

[itscolossal]

San Francisco Shrouded in Dense Fog Captured by Michael Shainblum

[amnhnyc]

The chevrotain, one of the smallest hoofed mammals in the world, is known by many names–and comparisons to many other animals. Its common name comes from the French for “little goat.” In English, it’s also called a “mouse-deer.” In Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, it’s called “jarini pandi,” which means “a deer and a pig.“ What does this tiny hoofed critter look like to you?

[nevver]

A group of Narwhals is called a ‘Blessing’

[baronfelix]

i feel recently that my life has become crowded with memory it pushes up against the present and the future is unbearable