Ciotka Hermenegilda

30 something Central European currently trying to figure out why she still keeps this blog (and to log out more often).

[japaneseaesthetics]

Artist: Ohara Koson Title: Swan and Reeds Date: 1928 Medium: Color woodblock print Credit Line: Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc.

[retroscifiart]

Art by John Berkey for Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 (1962)

[michaelnordeman]

Smooth Newt/mindre vattensalamander. Värmland, Sweden (1 June 2025).

[birds-and-friends]

Flying is effortless, landing can be a little bit harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern royal albatross) (part 1)

[taylors-a-goblin]

There’s so much about this. The tumble itself is so irredeemably funny. The child stops asking for food and just stares in silence as the adult completely beefs it. The adult, absolutely ashamed, wandering off screen, refusing to make eye contact with the baby.

Perfect 10s all round.

[rowan-e-ravenwood]

SERIOUS: NEW BOT SCAM ALERT

heya!

this right here?

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY NOT REAL.

the "@staff" is just the bio text.

tumblr staff will not contact you through anything other than email or their official accounts, which will all have this badge:

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THIS OR SIMILAR ACCOUNTS AND ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS FROM IT.

report and block. i'd also appreciate it if you shared this post, bc that blog was JUST created and was already tagging a LOT of people, and i know not everyone has the scam-sensing instinct, even if this might seem obvious to some.

@staff @tumblr @support

[stephobrien]

A few general rules to avoid scams:

If they ask you to click a link and enter sensitive information, there's a high chance it's a scam. Log into your account via the site's login page (NOT the page the message linked you to), and see if there's a notification in the account that corresponds to their claims.

If they have a mishmash of numbers or letters in their name, like the account screenshotted above, they're not the company's official rep. I've never seen an authorized rep with gibberish in their name, but scammers often have them.

If they try to scare you into taking hasty action, there's a reason why they don't want you to stop and think.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Oh, that’s insidious.

[nekoning]

the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way

[greeniery]

i tried to make a venn diagram but my migraine is ironically too bad for me to have the brain power to take the time to fix the proportions and then i locked one of the text layers and got pissed off and gave up. but i kind of like it all fucked up like this

[spyld]

THE DAY OF LANGUAGES!!!

This 7th of May, 2026, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you're encouraged to speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organisational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-vocal, non-written languages (like sign language and dialects) are more than welcome!

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

Pinned post and FAQ

[spyld]

T O M O R R O W

M O R G E N

D E M A I N

З А В Т Р А

[jadafitch]

Happy Maine Seaweed Week! (design available on tees at Liberty Graphics and stickers and my Etsy shop.)

[shituationist]

Social media is getting to a point where you might as well just send letters to your friends.

[lionofchaeronea]

100% on board with this, honestly. I'd love to write long, thoughtful letters. Longhand, if possible.

[ciotkahermenegilda]

My mother's uncle has this habit of sending a copy of a printed, long-winded letter to the whole extended family at Easter and at Christmas. Occasionally, he includes photos or adds hand-written messages directed specifically to individual family members. We used to laugh these letters (they tend to be kind of pompous), and call them his "circular", but recently we realized that if each of us also sent a circular, we could all just ditch Facebook.

[blasteffect]

Saturn's north pole !

The hexagon is nearly 30,000 km (20,000 miles) wide. This is large enough that two Earths could fit inside the storm with room to spare.

It is a standing atmospheric wave created by a powerful jet stream that wraps around the pole. Winds along its edges can exceed 300 km/h (about 220 mph).

At the very center of the hexagon lies a deep, dark polar vortex that extends hundreds of kilometers down into Saturn's atmosphere.

Spacecraft/Mission: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI (Space Science Institute).

[michaelnordeman]

Crocus/krokus. Värmland, Sweden (15 April 2021).

[nemfrog]

J.M. Bourgery. Plate VI. Muscles and nerves of the neck and shoulder. Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire. vol. VI. 1839.

[warszawskiemozaiki]

Mozaika Kazimierza Gąsiorowskiego z 1976 roku (Warszawa, Konwiktorska).

[lieutenant-pumpky]

Space! Lovers! Yeah! 💖💫🪐

Science Officer x First Officer of the UPSF Destroyed Soyokaze

I’m soooo happy with how this came out. I feel like it looks like a promo poster for the original anime! The background was heavily inspired by the Irresponsible Captain Tylor opening. I desperately need more people to watch this show so I can talk to them about it (and definitely not shove my self-insert art down their throat, goodness nooo…)

[mysticsybilmakes]

The Gang's all here! In color!

I've been meaning to do Inn Between group pictures for ages (I like to picture the Goblins Head having a wall like how restaurants have a wall of pictures of celebrities who've eaten there only it's all the adventuring parties the inn's taken a shine to)

Hopefully everyone's identifiable, it's a whole different kind of hard to try and draw fanart of folks who just don't HAVE canon designs, but this is more or less what they all look like in my head.

[vi-divana]