I draw too many cats.

Welcome to my tumblr blog, where I post art and repost nerdy and/or funny things. If you want to just see how many cats I draw, follow me on my art tumblr, linked below.

[vejova]

[betweenthefog]

Henry wishes you have as good a day as he is having.

[offbeatworlds]

The Monster MANual calendar - a fireman-style calendar of D&D monsters reimagined as humanoid beefcakes.

Aboleth, Mind Flayer, Werewolf, Troll, Gelatinous Cube, Shadow Demon, Mimic, Vampire, Beholder, and Shambling Mound.

I have two more left to finish, which will be done in the next couple weeks. Pre-orders for the calendar open tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct 18th!

Find out more here

[boomalope-pope]

[jaubaius]

Creative & DIY

[femur-theif]

SO THAT’S HOW THEY FUCKING DO IT

[stagemanagerssaygo]

[verysorrytobother]

Reblogging this because my entire life, all of my bows have looked like my shoelaces. Wrapping presents is going to be so much more aesthetically pleasing now

[humblegrub]

a mini cat tree for a tiny arachnid kitty

[brightlotusmoon]

Holy shit this is so cute, it actually didn't even startle me, it's exactly like watching a tiny kitten that just has extra legs.

[gallusrostromegalus]

@cellarspider

[somecallmekay]

@why-animals-do-the-thing Look! Cute Spider!

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I really do love the dedication of creating enrichment this detailed for spiders. And the person is handling her so gently and carefully!

(I don't really know why they're comparing this species specifically to cats, behaviorally, but I'm going to let it slide and just enjoy the video.)

[pattheanimator]

Remember how Xenoblade Chronicles was an anime in the mid-90s that never officially came to the west, and the only way to watch it was on bootleg tapes? Okay, I made that up. But this is how it might’ve looked!

[betweenthefog]

it is officially 2023.

I have gone into YT comments section and replied to a person with little to no ability to self reflect and tried to show them the error of their ways.

now, it will be their turn to show me the error of mine

[betweenthefog]

Did a commission! I did a an earlier commission of someone’s Girls’ Frontline OC, and someone liked it and wanted me to do one of another character in a Chilean ropón outfit.

(so, yeah, trying to post my commissions on here again too)

[betweenthefog]

annnnd another commission donne

[betweenthefog]

i swear i still exist, it’s just hard to do three social media streams at once

here is a commission I did, of my and a friend’s characters. Mine, the one with the freckles, is a bear to draw because of that hair. .... and the arm, I suppose

[aluhnim]

Soft Lead

Clark Kent, a cartoonist for the Daily Planet, visits his number one fan, Bruce Wayne, at his home for breakfast.

[sartorialadventure]

Venetian masks: The Moretta mask.

Moretta means “dark”. Also called the Muta, this mask was held in place, not with strings, but with a button attached to the inside, which the wearer held between her teeth. This might keep her mute (thus the name muta). It was often worn with a long taffeta cloth, the xendal, which was originally used by ladies to cover their head and shoulders. This mask–and thus its wearer–was considered mysterious and intriguing, and was only worn by women, but could be worn by women of any class. It was invented in France (where it was called the visard and was used to protect women’s skin from the sun) and rapidly became popular in Venice: though it looks pretty creepy to us today, its simple shape was considered at the time to bring out the beauty of feminine features. It was often worn by women visiting convents.

I have seen a lot said about how the use of the moretta was an instance of the oppression of women, since they couldn’t speak with it on. However, as long as one kept one’s teeth shut, one could certainly have spoken while wearing the mask. In fact, in the novel Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Haywood (1751), a young Englishwoman is depicted as meeting a gentleman while masked, and having quite a bit of conversation with him. After her mask is removed, Haywood writes,

What conversation after this passed between them, I shall leave to the reader’s imagination, and only say, that the voice of the Incognita [unknown woman] being more distinguishable by the button of her mask being removed, Mr. Trueworth could not help thinking, he had heard before accents very like those with which he was new entertained.

So clearly this woman could and did speak while wearing a button-mask of some sort, although it distorted her pronunciation. It’s possible that the Moretta made it more difficult to be heard since, unlike the visard, there was no mouth hole.

Venetian masks actually enhanced the freedom of all citizens of Venice by allowing them greater license: if you wore a mask in public, no one knew who you were. This was particularly important for women, whose reputations were more delicate than men’s. Women in masks could, like the woman in Betsy Thoughtless, carry on dalliances and join in other activities they would not feel free to participate in if their identities were obvious. Thus Venetian women were not kept cooped up in the house and participated more freely in public than upper-class women in other western European countries.

[winemom-culture]

[winemom-culture]

I really don’t feel like we as a society are talking enough about this

[redsparrow12]

TURN THE FUCKING AUDIO ON

[k-eke]

Cat’s belief   vs   reality.

[ampervadasz]

[jurassicsunsets]

You know what else fucks me up? Algae.

This is a single-celled organism.

[despazito]

an independent woman

[jayrockin]

I see doubt in the notes so just wanted to say that YES, this is a unicellular organism! This is a species from a genus of green algae called Caulerpa, which are a siphonous algae. The frond shapes, the “rhizomes” it grows from, and the “roots” it extends into substrate are all extensions of a single multi-nucleate cell. Here’s what a siphonous alga looks like under a microscope, with no divisions in its cytoplasm:

It’s not the only algae like this, either! Caulerpa is a member of order Bryopsidales, which are all siphonous. Here’s some more macroscopic single cell algae: Codium fragile, or dead man’s fingers. This one is a single long noodle of a cell with swollen growths on the outside called urtricles, packed together to create a firm “skin.”

Halimenia, a calcified algae whose shed growths are responsible for a lot of the beautiful white sand on tropical beaches:

Acetabularia or mermaid’s wine glass, the adorable mushrooms of the sea:

Algae? Is actually very cool. And you can’t convince me otherwise.