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New Years Resolution for 2026

Finish 50 paintings.

Now I already have a line of paintings I wanna do this year but I also really wanna work more on clouds and smoke because of a painting I've had in mind for quite a while now but don't yet have the skills to pull off.

So for days where I don't wanna work on either I figured why not ask tumblr for painting ideas.

Obviously I won't end up doing every suggestion as dysfunctions gonna executive and everything. But I figure having some will help in my goal on days where I wanna paint but don't know ehat to.

Having a person attatched to the suggestion might help motivate me too.

Anyway I'll try to keep tumblr updated on my completion.

Paintings Done 4/50

#ill probably do more in spring and summer since my studio is an outdoor shed #but still I think 50 is doable for me

thosetiktoks

Credit: meg_langton_

doriangraysrockcollection

oh hey i have one for this

stephexmachina

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

#my plan was to have 2 houses #husband and kids would live in one house and I would live in the other with my dogs and we would just share a yard #eventually i did realize that it was optional

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

byjove

Movie about a depressed and rather morbid autistic man planning to commit suicide and picking up a number of odd jobs in an effort to raise enough money to meticulously plan and prepay for his funeral so his mother doesn’t have to worry about it after he is gone. He begins to connect with people and enjoy life for the first time while working part time as a greeter in the funeral home, helping an eccentric old lady organize her basement, walking 7 dogs and maintaining a feral cat colony for a guy with a broken foot, playing a number of bit parts in local ads and stocking the shelves at the convenience store at night. In the end, he has befriended many of his neighbors and he decides he does not want to die and goes back to school to become a funeral director instead.

byjove

He is popular at his funeral home gig because he keeps accidentally saying things that are very reassuring and death positive. Because he wants to die. He eventually donates his funeral fund to the old lady’s granddaughter after her sudden death so she does not have to sell her grandmother’s prized possessions to pay for her funeral.

#love this #also that beginning part sounds familiar #suicidal guy saves money for his-#wait #its from A Silent Voice

oliver-the-raggedy-doctor

Saw a forearm crutch at the thrift store and I'm tempted to get it but I don't knowwww

nonbinary-octopus

oooh

do, do!

brain-deadx0

As someone who uses forearm crutches I agree. Do it.

I didn't want to get a cane. Then I did and it made things easier. Then I didn't wanna get crutches. Then I did and it made things way easier.

Turns out mobility aids really do aid you.

#also decorate them #i personally use patterned duct tape and stickers #plus it comes with the advantage of people complementing my crutches #so if i see people staring it feels less like judging and more #oh hey those look cool #also crutches can be expensive if you find a decent one or two at a thrift store you grab that gem #might wanna invest in new stoppers though #the default ones arent always great #plus theres various types that may work better for your lifestyle/mobility

tossawary

Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.

I think it'd be really funny if Eric was actually a younger brother. So, like, maybe he's a duke, actually, but he still gets the title of Prince. Travels the sea a lot, unlike a more landlocked heir. Hanging out at this summer seaside palace while the rest of the family is elsewhere for some reason.

Like, imagine Eric's parents and older brother and maybe sister-in-law and niblings getting that letter at the end of this movie. Nearly drowned. Miraculously washed ashore. Fell in love with a mysterious voice and then a mute girl. Got enchanted by a shape-shifting sea witch and nearly married her. Killed the sea witch after she turned into a giant. Married the aforementioned girl who turned out to be the beloved youngest daughter of the mythical King Triton instead and have now established a strong alliance with the merpeople. Wild summer! Wish you were here!

ruffboi-mags

(via @owl-librarian)

genericpuff

i can't even come up with an adequate enough comparison to describe the second-hand embarrassment i'm feeling at this moment, all that's coming to mind is that time i threw up in the school hallway in 5th grade and that was still easier to cope with than this

brain-deadx0

They got the maze runner fits

homunculus-argument

A free-range group therapy called "get herded, idiot", where you and everyone in your group is set loose to run around on an open field while a highly trained shepherd dog tries to keep you all in one group. I am not sure what benefit this would have for anyone involved.

derinthescarletpescatarian

This would fix everyone involved including the dog

what-even-is-thiss

I’ve looked into getting German citizenship recently but unfortunately my ancestors left the old country around the time when they would’ve had to register at a consulate to keep their German citizenship.

And when I asked my genealogy family members if they ever did that their reaction was basically “No? When the fuck would they have time to do that?”

what-even-is-thiss

Barely literate German farmers living hand to mouth don’t have the time to travel to a consulate to register themselves unfortunately so I’m stuck in the bald eagle cage

#skimming past all I saw was stuck in the bald eagle cage #and was confused as to why that would be a bad thing #then i read the post and was like #oh yeah ok that makes more sense #in my defense i work with eagles so someone getting stuck in the eagle cage is not out of the realm of possibilities #worst case scenario we hear/make a funny radio call #or someone investigates why the eagles are yelling #whichever happens first

animentality

opossum-mypossum

I know american badgers get the "violent" label, in part because of those posts comparing their looks to the european one

But I dont think thats a fair photo comparison. Like look

Based on the photos alone which one looks more pleasant?

bosohurricane

re: scooby doo and the witch’s ghost, that one is also one of my favs but it also makes me laugh every time w the way the narrative treats witchcraft and wicca. wiccans in the movie are basically “good witches” and witches are “bad witches” and thorn from the hex girls is “one sixteenth wiccan” what does that even mean

Lolololol I forgot they DID THAT but hey maybe in scooby doo verse that actually makes sense

brain-deadx0

Scooby Doo lore is insane. Witches and Wiccans being like an actual race of people is one of the least wild things lol

After all who could forget the cat people

whosname

[id. A twitter post by @/Bennieeexyz Jury duty letter came addressed to my cat. Not a mistake. "Felix Martinez" - that's his full name according to his vet records. My last name. His first name. Somehow he's a registered voter now. Called the county clerk. Me: My cat got summoned for jury duty. Clerk: Is the name correct on the summons? Me: Yes, but he's a cat. Clerk: Is Felix Martinez a legal resident of this county? Me: He's a legal cat. Clerk: Sir, if the name matches our records, he needs to appear or file an exemption. Me: He can't file anything. He has paws. Clerk: You can file on his behalf. Me: Under what exemption? There's no box for "is a cat." Clerk: (pause) Check "unable to serve due to medical reasons." Me: What's the medical reason? Clerk: He's a cat. Me: That's not a medical condition. Clerk: It is if it prevents him from serving. Sent in the form. Got rejected two weeks later. "Insufficient documentation. Please provide medical professional's statement." Took the letter to my vet. Me: I need you to write that my cat can't do jury duty. Vet: Why is your cat summoned for jury duty? Me: Excellent question. No good answer. Vet: This is the weirdest request I've gotten. Me: Can you just write that he's medically unfit to serve? Vet: On what grounds? Me: He's a cat. Vet: (started typing) "Patient is unable to serve due to species-related limitations including inability to speak, read, or comprehend legal proceedings." Me: Perfect. Sent it in. Got another rejection. "Summons is mandatory. Failure to appear will result in contempt of court." My roommate thought this was hilarious. Roommate: Felix is going to jail. Me: This is serious. Roommate: Bring him to court. See what happens. Decided that was actually the only option left. Day of jury duty, put Felix in his carrier. Brought the entire paper trail of rejection letters. Checked in at the courthouse. Clerk: Name? Me: Felix Martinez. Clerk: (looked at the cat carrier) Is that Felix? Me: Yes. Clerk: (long stare) He's a cat. Me: I've been saying that for six weeks. Clerk: Why didn't you file an exemption? Me: I filed three. All rejected. Showed her the letters. She read through them, expression shifting from confusion to disbelief. Clerk: Someone rejected the veterinary documentation? Me: Twice. Clerk: (called her supervisor over) You need to see this. Supervisor read everything. Looked at Felix. Looked at me. Supervisor: How did a cat get registered to vote? Me: You tell me. Supervisor: This is a data error. Me: Took you six weeks to figure that out. They dismissed Felix immediately. Apologized for the inconvenience. Supervisor: We'll remove him from the voter registry. Me: Appreciate it. Supervisor: (pause) Out of curiosity, how would he have voted? Me: Probably whatever party supports universal treats. Got a formal apology letter a week later and a voter registration card. For me this time. Apparently I wasn't registered, but my cat was. Roommate: Felix committed voter fraud. Me: Felix committed nothing. He's innocent. Roommate: That's what they all say. Felix is sleeping on the jury summons now. Fitting end to his legal career. end id]