[trisarahtops-sketches]

More fruit dinos.

[memewhore]

[doggiedyke]

Peace and love on planet earth

[glisteringlord]

automatic bread slicer

[ottermatopoeia]

it's right shit at it mate

[tinylilemrys]

hell yeah you funky little non-binary bear 💛

[shmegel]

Gatekeep Geschlecht Girlboss

[henryds564]

Whomst else is missing the pine guard on this fine Tuesday evening?

(ID: Three fan art drawings of The Adventure Zone Amnesty. The first shows Duck in a fighting stance standing back to back with Minerva. They are both wielding their swords. The second shows Aubree on her hands and knees in a dark void. She is reaching out towards a reflection of herself that is glowing reddish orange. The third shows Ned in the midst of The Water, surrounded by debris. He is aiming the Narf Blaster, which is crackling with blue light. End ID)

Also! If y'all are interested in seeing my process for these and other drawings, check out my youtube channel! I’ll link it in the notes.

[prokopetz]

Bro, your Generic Fantasy Media™ is showing us a 20th Century English speaking hero decked out in 16th Century German armour using 12th Century Italian weapons to stab 9th Century Vikings in what appears to be a pastiche of 14th Century Romania, and the fact that this character is Black is the part that offends your commitment to historical accuracy?

[petermorwood]

Here’s some historical accuracy:

These illustrations are from a Fechtbuch (fight manual) by Paulus Hector Mair, published in Augsburg, Germany ca. 1540s.

The text accompanying each drawing is about the move being performed. None of them make any comment about who’s performing the moves, only about how to perform them correctly and the consequences of error.

This statue of St Maurice in Magdeburg Cathedral Germany dates to about 1250, and was clearly carved by someone who knew what Black Africans looked like or had one modelling for him.

This reconstruction shows what the statue probably looked like when new; the spear was a separate accessory, the sword and even shield (as can be seen from its broken remnant in the photos of the original statue) was part of the carving.

Regarding that shield and the details it would have concealed, there’s a story from the construction of the National Cathedral in Washington DC about an artisan carving similar never-to-be-seen detail; he was asked: “Why bother, who’ll know whether you did it or not?” and replied: “God will, and so will I.”

(@dduane​ mentions it here.)

These are later paintings of St Maurice, the first in the Metropolitan Museum New York USA by Lucas Cranach the Elder (~1520-25):

…and by Matthias Grünewald (~1520-24) in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany, both wearing Maximilian-style armour:

This armorial panel from 1521 shows Eva von Schönau, first wife of Jacob von Reinach-Steinbrunn (a wealthy landowner who later became Governor of Montbéliard in France), and is in the Historisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland.

They were both armigerous (arms-bearing) families: his is the lion, hers are the rings.

These drawings by Albrecht Durer were done in 1508 and 1521.

It’s probably fair to say that away from trading ports and major centres of commerce, people of colour whether African, Middle Eastern or Asian were an unfamiliar sight in most of Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

However “unfamiliar” isn’t the same as “unknown”, and in addition, the high-status clothing of the Fechtbuch models, and Eva von Schönau’s family coat of arms, shows they weren’t always just servants or slaves.

Worth noting.

[max1461]

Also worth noting is that slavery wasn’t yet racialized in medieval Europe and chattel slavery as would later emerge from the material incentives of the American plantation economy did not yet exist. So this is not a period in which black Africans would have been viewed as slaves or servants by default. In fact, the most salient image of a black person to a medieval European would probably have been Mansa Musa, 12th century emperor of Mali who was widely known for his incredible wealth.

Projecting modern racial politics, whose historical origin is mostly in the early modern period, onto the medieval world is just nonsense!

[harmalite]

CLADISTICS ruined my life

[aquaticpaleo]

yall joke but this is actually a serious conundrun with cladistic-based classification

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The choice is this: 

Birds are reptiles 

Or crocodilians (and probably turtles) ARENT 

That’s it, that’s the choice 

[shadybacon]

What if Bird and reptiles are two different things that came from the same thing

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Nope 

Because you can’t group (lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians) without also including (birds) 

So if you don’t want to include birds in reptiles then you have to leave out some things we’ve called reptiles 

birds are dinosaurs though, full stop. we’ve already defined what a dinosaur is and it includes birds. but reptiles isn’t really defined so much as thrown against a wall angrily. 

[shadybacon]

But don’t turtles and alligators have more in common with modern reptiles than modern birds have in common with modern reptiles? I’m not trying to contradict, I’m trying to understand. Mammals and reptiles have a common ancestor as well, but we do not make them the same group.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

It’s not about having things in common. It’s about common ancestry, which is how we classify animals in light of extinct species, which defy trait-based classification. 

And, the common ancestor of [lizards, snakes, tuatara, turtles, crocodilians] by definition is also the common ancestor of birds. It is NOT the common ancestor of mammals. 

So, either we decide that Tuatara Lizards and Snakes are the only reptiles, or we include birds as reptiles. Or we just decide reptiles are no longer a thing. 

[anais-ninja-bitch]

don’t throw reptiles against the wall? please? some of them are small and delicate. you could hurt them.

[virovac]

Basically, unless we’re maybe talking massive horizontal gene transfer, everything is still part of the group that came before it. 

You are technically a fish.

[haltraveler]

IIRC the fish thing is so frustrating that scientists have decided fish is just not real cladistic grouping at all

[aethersea]

hey could we go back please to the bit where the closest relative of Birds is Crocodiles? bc I am alarmed

[haltraveler]

Well, technically they’re equally-closely related to crocodiles, alligators, gharials and tomistomas. As archosaurs, they’re all descended from small reptiles that looked something like this 

The two main groups of archosaurs are the Pseudosuchia, or crocodile-line archosaurs, and the Ornithodira, or bird-line archosaurs. Both groups were massively diverse in prehistory, with the Pseudosuchia dominating most land-based niches in the Triassic, and the Ornithodira, especially the dinosaurs, doing the same during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. However, most of them have been wiped out due to the Triassic and Cretaceous mass extinctions, leaving them each with only one surviving clade: Aves, the true birds, and Crocodylia, the semiaquatic, ambush predators like crocs and gators. 

[alexaloraetheris]

This entire post sums up everything we’re not allowed to mention in our Vertebrata classes because the last time someone started that argument they had to break up a fistfight.

[knitordeath]

I’m just hung up on the humans evolving from fish comment.

Like, we evolved from tiny tree-climbing squirrels. To the best of our knowledge.

[theclockworkjudas]

…which evolved from tiny tree-climbing reptiles

…which evolved from amphibians

…which evolved from fish.

[invisible-goats]

*runs in ten minutes late with a plucked chicken* BEHOLD A LIZARD

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

you could have left the feathers on this time tbh

[dee-the-red-witch]

It was already plucked. They just STOLE IT from philosophy 101.

[generouslyandrogynousdragon]

Every turn on this post has been a left, but somehow it hasn’t hit itself, and instead just spiralled outwards like some Ancient Greco-Roman floor design, enveloping taxonomy Tumblr in chaos.

[tantaliart]

dog on the moon!

this is over a year old at this point but I’m a bit surprised I never posted this here! I drew this while listening to balance for the first time back in may of 2020 🧡

[divinesilverdingo]

Thinking of that picture of the fennec sitting like it’s people.

[divinesilverdingo]

Just chillin’

[acidocasualidad]

[oxcykun]

eurotrottest:

WHYYYYY

I never get tired of this

[eh-nandesuka-deactivated2017082]

MIIIIIEEEEEEEEEERDA

[carnival-phantasm]

Santa Maria!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

yall dont know this so i need to inform yall that I’m being commissioned for a frankly wild budget for just the word penis and im so many hours deep into this thing and i think I’ve gone a touch mental and a definite amount of blasphemous with this thing I’ll post an update with a picture when i have the lineart done

[earhartsease]

“So many hours deep” is a phrase that the 12 year old in me is really keeping a straight face about let me tell you

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

bro that was on purpose I’ve crammed just a wild fucken amount of dick jokes into this thing, alas the bird ended up looking more phoenix than rooster but what are ya gonna do, here’s the lines

its 4am so i need to pass out but colors are going on this thing tomorrow

[aropride]

im so srs humans were made for art and friend and food and beddy bye. i mean this

[aropride]

and help each other. humans were made for help each other

[brazenbea]

are we all neurodiverse? is that how this happened? is that how tumblr exists?

like or reblog if ur neurodiverse - ADHD, Autism Spectrum, Pathological Demand Avoidance, Sensory Processing Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Hyperlexia, Synaesthesia, schizophrenia, OCD, borderline, dissociative, bipolar etc.

[castiels-tight-grip]

this INTERVIEW

(x)

[ladyshinga]

if Gilbert Gottfried isn’t voicing this slamming power bottom then what are we even doing here

[elisamaza]

this screenshot leaves out the best part of the character design

guy fieri couture

[blapis-blazuli]

I think we’re not seeing the bigger picture here which is that Disney has a dating sim app, if Iago is in it then who the fuck else is in it

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

I cannot stress this enough, but, what the fuck

[unpretty]

[nootofboot]

I feel like it should be clarified that the sexy anime husband next to Iago is not, in fact, Jafar.

That’s Jafar’s staff.

[catparazzi]

HIS WHAT ???

[actualaster]

This post is a new punch in the face every time I see it

[demoncity]

PONYO ‘崖の上のポニョ’ 2008, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[stupidpetface]