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ref sheet I made for my buddy’s oc, orchid! I love her with my entire heart

sarireina

today I’m just drawing refs for a bunch of my babies

more outfits NSFW version

spicysari

honk honk

clothed version

1000drawings

life after death by Justin McElroy

helloitsbees

*sees art* oh wow this is so cool, i really like it

*sees artist’s name* now hold on,

miggsboson

Some days, other days, and other days still…

shinelikethunder

can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept

Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”

theviewfromthegutter-deactivate

Agreed 100%. “Problematic” often turns everything into an all-or-nothing religious fight.

Adjacent to that, I have some feelings about how useful it sometimes is to use something like “Wanker” in place of things like “homophobic”. Because even if “homophobic” might be technically accurate, that’s when people pull out their “It’s not a phobia/I have a gay cousin/Why does everything have to be serious all the time!” BS. Whereas *sometimes* (and I’m not saying this always works, but I have experience of it working sometimes, and it’s a useful tool to have) - say Dave says something homophobic, you go “Dave, don’t be a tosser, come on.” then you’re still keeping it at the level it started on, in a language people can work with.

And this is not me saying “be nice to homophobes”. I have a vested interest in not being nice to homophobes. I’m talking about meeting and shutting them down where they are.

Another example - I was on a bus with someone I was vaguely friendly with from a course, in the way you get when you’ve been stuck together. He started leaning over the seat and trying to chat up this woman who wasn’t into it.

Sure, I could give him a lecture on sexism and women’s autonomy and all that, or I could go “Look, she’s obviously not interested, don’t be a dickhead. Sorry about him. Anyway, are you off to the match on Saturday?” and redirect. No, that didn’t solve sexism, and no, it doesn’t mean he won’t ever do it again. But it meant he stopped doing it that time, and he has another instance where his behaviour wasn’t approved of - in a way he could process. Chatting up women who aren’t interested = dickhead. No-one really wants to be a dickhead.

(No, I’m not claiming to have solved everything. I’m not claiming to have solved anything. But I think it’s worth having a lot of tools in your arsenal, and basic, “Meet people where they are” gets overlooked. I think it’s more important in the short term to stop shitty behaviour than it is to “correctly label” it as whatever -ism.)

shinelikethunder

I like this.

I particularly like it because it focuses on the actual offense being committed–talking shit about people who’ve done nothing to you, pestering a stranger whose interest is spiralling further into the negative numbers with every word out of your mouth. The gendered or homophobic aspect of it is inescapably there, adding a whole extra dimension to what’s otherwise a petty social misdeed. But that baggage is so heavy (and so heavily contested) that invoking it risks blowing up into a conversation about all the bad shit sexism/homophobia is responsible for in the world and whether one dude’s awkward attempt to chat somebody up really deserves to have all that laid on it.

When, no, the problem isn’t that he Did A Sexism in the abstract. The problem is that he’s pestering a stranger, and the sexism angle is “pestering a stranger doesn’t magically become not-rude just because she’s a girl you want to ask out” with a side of “arguably it is extra rude because she’s under extra pressure to humor you.” And tbh, often that angle is best kept in reserve until you go “don’t be a dick” to someone who actually uses “but it’s not being a dick if I do it to these people” as a defense. In which case, hey, they’re the one who brought the identity-politics gun to the knife fight.

I mean, that’s what this is all about, right? “It’s not okay to mistreat people or treat them as lesser just because they belong to a group whose mistreatment/exploitation/unequal status is woven into the fabric of your society.” On a system-wide level, it means reweaving the fabric of society to stop being organized around mistreating/exploiting/discriminating against the groups in question, but on an individual level, it means “jerk behavior doesn’t stop being jerk behavior when you do it to societally-designated ‘acceptable targets,’ and I am not going to honor whatever pass you’ve gotten for it in the past.” It’s not necessary to re-give that lecture every time, unless you’re dealing with a pattern in someone’s behavior or an actual expectation of impunity. Basic fairness is satisfied by, well, treating the jerk behavior as what it is.

(This focus on jerk behavior, and the excusability or non-excusability thereof, also seems like it could be expanded into an antidote to that callout-culture thing. That thing where someone is accused of Doing An Ism with zilch or near-zilch in the way of actual mistreatment of others underlying the allegation, which then authorizes a torrent of mistreatment and harassment to be aimed at them with total impunity. Because anything purportedly done For Grate Justice doesn’t count as mistreatment, or something, and that is one hundred percent not at all a suspiciously-familiar-sounding rehash of the same shit we’ve been fighting to get rid of. Turning the tables and making the dominant group into the acceptable targets may be what the dominant group is viscerally afraid of, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually the goal, and I wish online activism weren’t so dysfunctionally wedded to positions that turn it into the strawman liberal bogeyman some of these these kids’ parents told them scary stories about.)

themudangx

(Hopefully I can add a video in a few days.) 안녕하세요! I am honored to have a calling, being chosen by my Gods to walk this path. My mother and I contacted a manshin (Korean shaman), currently located in 인천 Incheon City, South Korea. She read my fortune after my mother explained to her why we thought...

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the ceremony is set for late August. I’m meant to have the full shrine/temple set up. My mom is going to help scout for possible places in Koreatown(s) to set up in. I’ll pay what I can then, and pay the rest asap to get the items needed once accepted for the loan. As a result, I still need help getting to 10k on the fundraiser as it would TREMENDOUSLY help the strain of such a loan!!

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thecuckoohaslanded

I can’t stop thinking about crocodiles for some reason so here’s some cool pictures I found of probably the second largest one in captivity, his name is Utan:

isn’t he beautiful

listen to the SOUND when he bites

and that’s not even a real power bite, that’s mostly just heavy bone falling on heavy bone from his jaws and the air rushing out from between them

specsthespectraldragon

2000 pounds of Good Boy

thecuckoohaslanded

you get me

thecuckoohaslanded

I honestly expected like 5 notes, what HAPPENED here

thecuckoohaslanded

More tags on this ridiculous post:

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Wait, thats the 2nd biggest crocodile? Then what does the biggest one look like?

thecuckoohaslanded

That would be Cassius, a very old Saltwater crocodile who is estimated to be around 114 years old and lives at Marineland Melanesia in Green Island, Australia. His official measurement is 5.48 meters, which makes him the largest in captivity currently. Because Utan is only slightly smaller and much younger, (only in his 50s), he will likely break Cassius’ record eventually. But for now, Cassius holds the title:

He is NOT, however, either the largest crocodile ever captured in Australia OR the largest ever in captivity.

A slightly larger crocodile has been reported (though not yet comfirmed) to have been captured at 5.58 meters.

And while the famous Brutus of the Adelaide River was estimated to be just slightly larger than Cassius at 5.5m, he was driven out of his territory by a younger and even larger crocodile, who as a result has been given the name, The Dominator. He is estimated to be just over 6m.

This is Brutus, with an appropriate caption:

It is believed that he lost that arm in a fight with a Bull Shark.

The Bull Shark lost.

THIS is the crocodile who kicked him out. The Dominator:

And that’s STILL not the biggest.

The largest living crocodile ever reliably measured was Lolong, who for the 1.5 years between his capture and his death was the largest crocodile ever held in captivity, at a whopping 6.17 meters (20 feet 3 inches) and 1075 kg (2,370 lbs). He had been feeding on both humans and very large livestock in the Bunawan creek in Agusan del Sur in the Philippines. It took 100 people all night to drag him to shore during his capture.

And here’s why:

Also, to prevent credit from getting buried on a separate reblog, I have been informed that the above image of the crocodile with the cartoon eyes and halo was made by @rashkah! (And it is wonderful and I would like to thank him for its existence, because it perfectly captures my feelings about terrifying giant primordial reptiles.)

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theonewhocheeps

Holy fuck

simon-newman

As far as Brutus is concerned I was led to believe that he lost that arm when relatively young.

Since then Brutus developed a habit of hunting and eating Bull Sharks.

Here’s him with a prey.

And if you thought that you’ll be safe if you just stay out of Australia then think again!

Meet Gustave the Nile Croc.

This crocodile became almost legendary for both it’s size and the habit of hunting both livestock AND humans.

So how big is Gustave?

No one is sure. Since he was NEVER captured.

His estimated size is of at least 5,5m but some give him over 6m.

The terrifying parts are:

1) He is still growing having only about 60 years.

2) Adult crocodiles often perform a gesture of submission to him - something usually done by young crocodiles toward adults - Gustave is just THAT BIG.

3) His sheer size makes it difficult for him to catch agile prey Nile crocs tend to feed on - hence why he developed a habit of hunting either larger prey like Hippopotamus or creatures which are not good at spotting danger in the first place like livestock and humans.

And this is NOT ALL.

Gustave actually has a noticeable scars on his body - he was shot at east 3 times and stabbed with a spear or something similar at one occasion.

He lived to tell the tale - my question is:

What happened to that one dude who attacked Gustave with a spear?

thecuckoohaslanded

*Crocodile Dundee voice* Mate, that’s not Gustave:

THIS is Gustave:

And he is the PERFECT CROCODILE. He is the perfect example of what I mean when I talk about (as I do) how the morphology of extremely large crocodiles adapts to the changing physics of their bite.

This is a typical adult Nile Crocodile:

And THIS is a god among his kind:

This is it, folks. The Final Form. THIS is what peak performance looks like.

Crocodiles and physics have an interesting relationship. Crocodiles have, by a CONSIDERABLE MARGIN, the strongest bite of any animal on Earth. EVER. Scaled up estimates (based on Nile and Saltwater crocodiles) give the extinct Deinosuchus an estimated bite force MORE THAN DOUBLE the recently updated Tyrannosaurus bite estimates. Living crocodiles have bite forces measured in the range of 5000 pounds per square inch, for an individual around 15-16 feet. It is estimated that modern crocodiles in the range of 18-20 feet would have bit forces around 7-8000 psi or more.

That’s a problem.

Because a crocodile’s skull is only designed to handle so much pressure. Go beyond that limit and the force of impact when those jaws snap shut could literally shatter their own skulls.

But evolution has spent hundreds of millions of years perfecting crocodiles, so PHYSICS ISN’T GOING TO STOP THEM. What ends up happening in the skulls of these extremely large crocodiles is they will increase dramatically in mass to compensate for the increased forces. A crocodile’s skull is almost exclusively solid bone, with only minimal space for nasal passages, a surprisingly advanced brain, and some slightly porous looking framework that helps the bone distribute the force over a larger area. The effect is by far the most pronounced in Nile crocodiles, which most regularly feed on larger prey and need to make use of all that power.

Compare, 26 inch skull:

vs 29 inch skull:

Both of those are Nile crocodile skulls (or rather, replicas thereof).

And just for fun, here are the skulls of completely different (and very extinct species), Deinosuchus:

and Purussaurus:

The bigger the crocodile (within a given species), the more massive the skull needs to be to compensate for that UNBELIEVABLE bit pressure. This is one way to see from a distance whether you are looking at a normal sized crocodile:

and a truly extraordinary individual:

One of the things about Gustave that’s so impressive is how healthy his teeth look. A lot of large crocodiles, in their old age, have very worn down and often missing teeth. They do replace them many times over a lifetime, but when they get very old this slows down. Gustave, at least in every picture taken of him, had teeth that were in very good condition.

Even crocodiles much smaller than Gustave’s reported size (probably similar in size to Dominator or Lolong) tend to have smaller or more worn teeth:

than the pinnacle of his kind:

muchymozzarella

Lolong! It means Gramps or Grandpa, because he’s a relic of an ancient world where crocs more massive than he was walked the earth. His body is on display somewhere right now though I forgot where.

tyrantisterror

Every time I see this post there’s more crocodiles. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

stability

when will this happen to me

bloodandsoymilk

reblog in 30 seconds to have a sugar daddy appear in your life

awwww-cute

blackandmildwithgod

If you scroll pass this you don’t got ten dollars

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Need my $10

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Guys i literally just got tipped $10 at work

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