Birgfan

I've discovered the joy of reblogging and now no one can stop me. Also, go read Hayden's Notes.

[birgfan]

Comic/Graphic novel - Hayden's Notes

Artist & Author: Yufei (Lalaland)

Hayden's Notes is one of my all time favorite comics/graphic novels and so I want to recommend and promote it, and it's creator Yufei.

142+ pages so binge as you please.

Hayden's Notes is a magic-realism mystery with horror elements, set in a fictional country in the first half of the 20th century. The comic’s told in a non-chronological order revolving around Hayden Carter, immortal (by accident) gray mage, pursuer of knowledge and a witty nuisance for everyone around.

There's a lot of sass and a grumpy detective.

There's also a bunch of cute moments.

Cat's my favorite character, then Shy, then Hayden, then Wolfe.

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Hayden's Notes

HAYDEN’S NOTES is a magic realism mystery with horror elements, set in the fictional country in the first half of the 20th century. The comi

Yufei - 2D Artist, Creator of the comic - Hayden's Notes

Hello! I'm a freelance artist who loves to design characters and currently drawing web-comic Hayden's Notes ( Tapas / Webtoon ) + Hayden'

Yufei(´-ω•`)🔎 (@KanzakiYufei) on X

2D artist who loves to play video-games✨ Tip jar ☕️: https://t.co/fM1089SEP6

[iguanodont]

Another peek into the world of Monoculi, with a sort of mostly arboreal leech. Compressible, elastic spines and muscular extensions of the respiratory system give them a spring-like speed for seizing prey and hopping around. These animals comprise a diverse family of mouse to housecat sized predators, and are known by an equal array endemic names, with meanings like “vine which bites”, “snapping worm” or “flying tree-branch”. Most live in tree canopies or within the branching “roots” of bio-caves, a habitat type unique to this planet’s biome.

[creepymutelilbugger]

[catboybiologist]

This is a huge part of why listening to public trans discourse as a trans biologist is infuriating. 4chan OP is based AF.

[a-teacup-of-golden-cracks]

Never thought I would see the sentence "4chan OP is based AF" be used and I especially never thought I'd agree but here we are

[birgfan]

"4chan OP is based AF" -trans biologist

[menthaaquatica]

[bogleech]

Before this catches on with miserable adult babies reblogging to only add “KILL IT WITH FIRE” or some other idiotic, unfunny meme:

This is a mature female spider of the Nephila genus. I’m not sure the exact species, but members of this genus are also known as “golden silk orb weavers.” Their yellow-orange silk can be used to make golden cloth, like in this tapestry.

The bite of a Nephila isn’t serious. Wikipedia describes the worst case scenario - localized pain or a more severe allergic reaction - but most bitten will only experience a little itching. Like any spider, they only bite in self defense or when forcibly pressed against skin, and these big females are especially docile. I’ve held a related species on two occasions, they don’t scare very easily.

They’re so laid back, in fact, and so insistent on remaining in the same web, that these are the spiders some cultures have used as mosquito guards, deliberately setting them up to spin webs in open windows or over the top of a baby’s crib.

You can trust spiders with babies. Don’t be an asshat about your phobia plz. (By which I mean it’s perfectly okay to have a phobia and be afraid, but you don’t need to hate all spiders and wish they were all dead they didn’t do anything but get born spiders)

[cacodaemonia]

Since the old link to the golden tapestry is broken, here’s another one.

[photo from the NPR article linked above; R. Mickens/AMNH]

[birgfan]

Did not now that.

Very cool.

[barghest-land]

i forgot to post drawings from previous flocking, which means there will be lots of drawings in one post!! all roughly 30min, i worked on them a bit more after streams. id in alt :)

[saeriibon]

tribute to jerboas

[birgfan]

OML those legs are crazy 0.0!

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

[birgfan]

Well, holy sht.

Definitely will check her work out

[iguanodont]

Way back when you first posted your cool weird DnD dragons, I think you mentioned something about them maybe being eusocial with kobolds and maybe dragonborn acting as different biological casts and I honestly think about that idea a lot. When you wrote that, were you imagining these kobolds being just as anatomically weird as the dragons whose colony they were a part of?

I’ve actually drawn kobolds before, but I’ve changed some things about their designs and lore since then.

They have a few different castes, not all of which are present in every dragon, and certain castes can change into others. For example, most kobolds are born as quadrupedal Carriers, which act as couriers and assistants to Manuals, which are the bipedal worker caste and second phase of development. A favorite kobold may also be metamorphosed by its parent into a winged drone, which grows significantly taller and acts as scout, messenger, and lover to other dragons. The appearance and unusual sociality of drones has led many layfolk to mistake them for half-dragons, which are almost unheard of in chromatic lineages. Metallics, which are more prone to interacting directly with nondragons are far more likely to produce hybrid offspring. Some species also develop larger “warrior” caste kobolds (swolbolds)

The illustration depicts blue dragon kobolds, which possess a hornlike antenna for locating conspecifics, calling for help, and finding their way home. Brass dragons, which wander the same habitats, will occasionally steal blue kobolds for service by mimicking their Queen’s psychic signal.

Honorable mention to fairy kobolds, which are the mixed bag of smallfolk varmints that metallics commonly press into service. These creatures readily find their ways into dragon lairs through the same liminal byways used to slip between material space and the faewild. Like the faewild, dragon lairs are high magic environments, and often conveniently close to human dwellings to forage from. But it comes at a cost: fairies are a magic rich snack for a dragon, so they have to adapt fast. Using their innate knack for glamouring to blend into a lair’s unique aesthetic, a fairy will begin working to protect and furnish its home as they would in any other dwelling which ultimately serves the interests of the dragon. If the dragon notices them at that point, it usually tolerates them bumming in its house.

[birgfan]

A phonetic alphabet for sperm whales proposed by Daniela Rus, Antonio Torralba and Jacob Andreas.

The open-access study published in Nature Communications titled 'Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations', has analysed sperm whale vocalizations and as part of that, a phonetic 'alphabet' has been proposed for them.

So cool. Dolphins next please.

Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations - Nature Communications

Sperm whales use sequences of clicks to communicate. Here, the authors show that these vocalizations are significantly more complex than pre

MIT news also did an article on this

Exploring the mysterious alphabet of sperm whales

Using machine learning researchers have revealed the complexity of sperm whale communication, identifying a rich "phonetic alphabet&quo

[happigreens]

From the MIT News article:

[...] One of the intriguing aspects of our research is that it parallels the hypothetical scenario of contacting alien species. It’s about understanding a species with a completely different environment and communication protocols, where their interactions are distinctly different from human norms,” says Pratyusha Sharma, an MIT PhD student in EECS, CSAIL affiliate, and the study’s lead author. “We’re exploring how to interpret the basic units of meaning in their communication. This isn’t just about teaching animals a subset of human language, but decoding a naturally evolved communication system within their unique biological and environmental constraints. Essentially, our work could lay the groundwork for deciphering how an ‘alien civilization’ might communicate, providing insights into creating algorithms or systems to understand entirely unfamiliar forms of communication.”

[hellsitegenetics]

WHY ARE YOU MARKED RED ON SHINIGAMI, WTF DID U DO

i cant even post moths anymore. because of woke

[mossybogwitch]

you might be marked red on shiningami eyes because of the moths actually! Or more accurately the butterflies. I filter posts based a some key words including “terf” and consequently anything with “terf” in it gets blocked such as “butterfly,” “waterfall,” and “monsterfucker.” Like so:

The post in question is reblogged by my girlfriend from my own side blog that has “butterfly” in the title

[hellsitegenetics]

that is quite honestly the funniest thing ever

[lurking-kitty]

Here's a tumblr post I found with additional information about what's been happening.

Just a heads up someone who @'d you recently (404shcats) is red on SE and likely a TERF. Thought you should know, stay safe broski -Recoil H

Here's another relevant thread

existence is resistance

refresher for anyone who hasn't heard 🙃

I'm rather embarrassed to only be finding about this now considering the earliest complaints I found with limited searching date back to a month ago. Needless to say, it has become fully unreliable, so it's time to remove it.

[mufos-photo-album]

Deviating from my usual posting content to share this, since I'm under the impression the Sky community is trans-friendly and thus may or may not be in the audience of people who use Shinigami Eyes.

As the person above me mentions, this not just a fluke. I had a look and the Firefox review page has very consistent comments noting discrimination against the non-binary, intersex, transmasc, and people of color. I dug around a bit more and found some similar complaints dating from around 2 months ago (potentially even 6?)

[androgynosaurus]

Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission "official" book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we've created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It's the only way to live!!

[cyberth0t-deactivated20260111]

me constantly releasing press junkets about my OCs like they are actual celebrities and i am their PR agent

[loamsome]

What did we do to deserve Bill Nye

[angry-acehole-for-positivity]

BILL NYE SAID ACE RIGHTS!!!

[rainebowkitty]

BILL NYE SAID GENDERFLUID RIGHTS!!!

[scruffy-bunny]

BILL NYE SAID QUEER RIGHTS!!!

[justtransteenagerstuff]

I love Bill Nye

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[koko-mochi]

Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

[weaselle]

a truly unique and magnificent Feature on our planet, as singular and fascinating as Jupiter's Great Red Spot

[weaselle]

in the words of farmboy, as you wish

the lake is quite cold, and as a result, these seals are very loaf

the babbeez are white poofs with lil eyebrowses

it is incredibly deep, and over a thousand species of plant and animal live ONLY there

[robotlyra]

Lake Baikal Seals' faces look way too much like grey aliens for my liking. Those eyes have SEEN shit in the depths.

[hellenhighwater]

Lake animal...

[velociraptrix]

there are freshwater sponges and giant amphipods in the lake too

and the Lake Baikal oilfish, which is the deepest-living freshwater fish, and has a lot of similar adaptations to deep sea fishes

[vamptits]

I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...

[vamptits]

these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.

[hareofhrair]

“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.

MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.

The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.

BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.

The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.

If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.

[bowelfly]

hey remember that 7-month, 36-artist game of art telephone i hosted last year? well hold onto your assholes and prepare for:

SEE IT ALL HERE!

there's also no reasonable way of fitting all of the submissions into a single tumblr post without crushing all the detail out of everything to satisfy the 30-image limit per post so i'm gonna have to make a whole chain to feature all the kickass art:

1-3: @bedupolker @psshaw @slabmangrave

4-6: @bruneburg @whip-o-will @thedancingemu

7-9: @odetoscavengers @tickflea @deadlydaemondraws

10-12: @charseraph @biomechanicalmush @ungeziefer

13-15: @barabones @threeleggedart @phanta-friends

16-18: @snejkha @librivore42 @edenartfactory

19-21: @lymphwyrm @palossssssand @gachimushi

22-24: umberfossil justagoldfish @pinkbat5

25-27: @solidagold @nutspider elixer

DON'T REBLOG YET WE'RE NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH!!!

[bowelfly]

28-30: @flame-shadow @cicadaghost @slimekingmike

31-33: sludge (no website) @snippit-crickit thenauticalwarlock

34-36: luzie @eisly @salavarte

37-39: @leona-florianova @nardacci-does-art @holy-planet

40-42: @ibenkrutt @skelebee @crtastrophe

43-45: @mathpope @avpol @iguanodont

46-48: @delta-hexagon @dimetrodone @saprophilous

49-51: @chumpodile @pitofsquids @bugsdontsmokecigarettes

52-54: nocturnalfiend @krmayerillustration @bluedotjpeg

55-57: @blossompigeon @0ce4n-m4n @dunwichdrawsstuff

NOT DONE YET! ONE MORE POST TO GO!!

[bowelfly]

58-60: @escherbug @skelizardarts @mobileleprechaun

61-63: @craboon exuvialremains @espimyte

64-66: @turbofanatic @slitherbop @chalkrub

67-69 (nice): @artvalentinapaz @satourni @vhsdruid

70-72: @psalidodont @boxheadpaint @bowelfly

and that's all folks! big round of applause for all of these insanely talented artists. what a ridiculous and fun project. 14 fucking months...

also here's that link again to the whole thing again so you don't have to scroll all the way up

(also oops i messed up the order of 16-18 it should be librivore42, edenartfactory, snejkha)

[birgfan]

Well sht, this makes for such an awesome showcase for these artists.

I love the diversity in styles and vision.

Credit to gachimushi for introducing the shrimp that not only managed to survive all the way from 21 to 51 but also launched an incredibly successful singing career before being overshadowed by Crab.

I love how it ends in what I assume to be an apocalypse type event.

Also the suns puking melted cheese XD

[knightofleo]

Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti