Dragon's Study

Not sure what I am doing here expect the most random things and science and transformers

[eleonora-andreacchio]

I mie gufi! Li trovate nel mio negozio etsy. In sconto fino al 4 Settembre. www.EleonorArte.etsy.com

My owls! You can find them in my etsy shop. Discount until September 4th. www.EleonorArte.etsy.com

[catsbeaversandducks]

“We know you’re watching porn, Michael.”

Via Michael Lens

[throughwinterfields]

Ondřej Chvátal

[thewoodbetween]

Walter King Stone

[histsciart]

#SnowyOwl (Bubo scandiacus) is ready for the #LibrariesofInstagram January challenge – #LibraryWonderland! This winter wonderland scene comes from Jacob Henry Studer’s The Birds of North America (1903). View more in @biodivlibrary with thanks to @silibraries for digitizing: http://ow.ly/KGfE30hyPyy _________________________________________________ #HistSciArt #HistoricalSciArt #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHLib #Biodiversity #NaturalHistory #Science #Art #ArtAndScience #Illustration #ScienceArt #Artists #ArtHistory #Owls #SnowyOwls #Birds #Ornithology

[muspeccoll]

We’ve had a few snowy owl sightings in Missouri again this winter!

[bisexualmcqueen]

PIXAR ANSWERED YOUR BIG QUESTION

YOU ASKED:

AND IN THE MOVIE CARS 3, PIXAR ANSWERS:

“Car Life Insurance”

IT’S BOTH

[skidar]

Insuricare is the insurance company Bob Parr worked for in The Incredibles

[yes-gamer]

[manwich85-deactivated20200415]

This is the best thing I’ve seen here this year.

[slowparts]

The purest content

[cozza-frenzy]

Okay but I found the entire video of this and it’s fucking great

[deanwinchcester-archive-deactiv]

reblog this with what your parents almost named you 

[catmeme-moved]

me when the demon in my room tries to scare me in the middle of the night

[rememeory]

[cloacacarnage]

i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

[futureblackwakandan-deactivated]

Wtf????

[theryanproject]

Smoove with it too 

[meqabitch-deactivated20200901]

This is the kind of shit you see in anime that shows that a certain character is stronger than other characters. 

[bankuei]

“Pathetic.  You can’t even hold the bat you dare step to the plate? Have you no respect for the sport?”

[pardonmewhileipanic]

reminds me of this gif

[sueanoi]

[batter-sempai]

Baseball players are to be feared

[cynosurecosplay]

[thenamesdede]

Reblogging for the last one

[saito-91]

^Same for me

[amuzed1-deactivated20241106]

They just kept getting progressively more “woah”

[wild-eyedsoutherngirl]

[minacoladas]

I love this post so much

[shrmptst]

my hand slipped

[elasmata]

with their new hit song, “Randomly Searching 4 U”

[sodomquake-deactivated20140715]

I am re-reblogging just because that was so good

[wolvensnothere]

I think this one’s an Always Reblog, because the picture, the illustration, and the song title are just too damn perfect together.

[peachisty]

reblog if the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy this 2017 (or forever)

[markiplier]

Psst...

You’re awesome.

Pass it on.

[arcticfoxbear]

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving. 

[arafaelkestra]

To paraphrase one of my favorite bits of a ‘humans are awesome’ fiction megapost: “you don’t know you’re from a Death World until you leave it.” For a ton of reasons, I really like the idea of Earth being Space Australia.

[radioactivepeasant]

Earth being Space Australia Words cannot express how much I love these posts

[crazy-pages]

Alien: “I’m sorry, what did you just say your comfortable temperature range is?”

Human: “Honestly we can tolerate anywhere from -40 to 50 Celcius, but we prefer the 0 to 30 range.”

Alien: “……. I’m sorry, did you just list temperatures below freezing?”

Human: “Yeah, but most of us prefer to throw on scarves or jackets at those temperatures it can be a bit nippy.” 

Other human: “Nah mate, I knew this guy in college who refused to wear anything past his knees and elbows until it was -20 at least.”

Human: “Heh. Yeah everybody knows someone like that.”

Alien: “……. And did you also say 50 Celcius? As in, half way to boiling?”

Human: “Eugh. Yes. It sucks, we sweat everywhere, and god help you if you touch a seatbelt buckle, but yes.” 

Alien: “……. We’ve got like 50 uninhabitable planets we think you might enjoy.” 

[val-ritz]

“You’re telling me that you have… settlements. On islands with active volcanism?” “Well, yeah. I’m not about to tell Iceland and Hawaii how to live their lives. Actually, it’s kind of a tourist attraction.” “What, the molten rock?” “Well, yeah! It’s not every day you see a mountain spew out liquid rocks! The best one is Yellowstone, though. All these hot springs and geysers from the supervolcano–” “You ACTIVELY SEEK OUT ACTIVE SUPERVOLCANOES?” “Shit, man, we swim in the groundwater near them.”

[wuestenratte]

Sounds like the “Damned” trilogy by Alan Dean Foster.

[networkentertainment-offici-blog]

“And you say the poles of your world would get as low as negative one hundred with wind chill?” 

“Yup, with blizzards you cant see through every other day just about.”

“Amazing! when did you manage to send drones that could survive such temperatures?”

“… well, actually…”

“… what?”

“…we kinda……. sent……….. people…..”

“…”

“…”

“…what?”

“we sent-”

“no yeah I heard you I just- what? You sent… HUMANS… to a place one hundred degrees below freezing?”

“y-yeah”

“and they didn’t… die?”

“Well the first few did”

“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE???!?!?!?”

[arcticfoxbear]

My new favorite Humans are Weird quote

“PEOPLE DIED OF THE COLD AND YOUR SOLUTION WAS TO SEND MORE PEOPLE?”

aka The History of Russia

aka Arctic Exploration

aka The History of Alaska

[burntcopper]

‘But surely you have records of volcanic activity doing tremendous damage to human settlements.’

‘Yep.  Pompeii is legendary.  Entire cities went. Towns buried under lava, peoples’ brains boiled in the first rush of heat, loads more killed by falling pumice.’

‘ah, good, they learned their lesson and didn’t build there again.’

‘…well…’

‘Are you seriously telling me this volcano is legendary for killing several urban conurbations and you built on top of it AGAIN?’

‘In our defence it hasn’t actually done it since.’ 

‘What about earthquake-prone areas? Tell me you’re at least vaguely sensible about those.’

‘Oh yeah.  After the first major earthquake that flattens a city, we build them better.’

[tickedoffshortie]

“Don’t worry, we do drills”

[dissociatingdumbass]

@acnologiaryunoo Read all of it! EVERY FUCKING WORD!

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

This is kinda like the Mass Effect understanding of humans.

I can just see the “alien” being an Asari.

[hzs-modblog]

This reminds me of a bit from Doctor Who.  There’s this asteroid that’s literally right next to a black hole and it won’t go in.  The Doctor said something like:

“I love you humans.  You see an asteroid sitting right next to a black hole unaffectedly, and you don’t say ‘Oh, that’s weird, let’s send a probe and see what’s up.’  No!  You guys just fly out right there, land on it and build a whole research station and live in it!”

And it turns out Satan lived in that asteroid.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

I remember that episode!

This quote from Nietzsche I think best captures the Human spirit: “The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you cannot be rulers and owners…”

[hzs-modblog]

That’s why there’s a bit of freedom found in driving a car that’s close to dying.  It makes every trip an adventure!  Will that one noise finally be what does it in today?  How many more miles can you eek out of this thing?

And every time you get home, “I MADE IT!!”

[zucca101]

Alien: Hold on… my translator is malfunctioning… I was certain you said you said that not only does your moon somehow have no atmosphere, but that you sent people there too! One of those must be wrong…

Human: Nope! We sent people there a lot of times! Here are the ships used…

Alien: Wait…. how does it go from a towering monstrosity to a tiny casule that could fit in my bathroom?

Human: Oh, well, that big part is just the rocket!

Alien: …

Human: What?

Alien: You… strapped three people… to a giant, building-sized bomb… in order to travel to the least hospitable location you could conceive, namely a lifeless moon pockmarked with impacts, in a pair of craft whose thickest surface is thinner than my finger, and it actually worked…?

Human: What, you didn’t?

Alien: Our moons are lush and habitable and we get there by flying via two-stage elevation craft and solar wind!

Human: Well shucks…

Alien: At least… *Gulp* at least tell me you took the time to explore your moon and make all that risk worth it. That’s why you went, right?

Human: Actually, we went there pretty much just to prove that we *could* so one country could rub that fact in another country’s face…

Alien: I… I don’t… I….

Human: And we almost lost some guys the thirteenth time we went!

Alien: Th-Then why didn’t you stop….? Gah, nevermind! At least your people were wise enough to stay out of the deadly depths of the ocean…

Human; Weeeeeeell……

Alien:

[yvettes]

Human: we put three people in a tiny submarine and it took them a couple hours to get to the bottom of the ocean, but they did it.

Alien: Based on the other things that you told me, they didn’t survive at first and you sent more anyways?

Human: Well, I don’t know the complete history of submarines, but the specific one I was referring to went to see the wreck of a ship that is 2.5 miles below the surface. They survived and a movie was made about that ship.

Alien: Why did the ship fail?

Human: The Titanic? Oh, that was before airplanes were the best way to travel long distances. That ship sank for many reasons, but it was considered a huge disaster because so many people died because they didn’t have enough lifeboats.

Alien: What? You used boats to cross the dangerous expanses of water? And aren’t those airplane things dangerous too?

Human: Well, drowning wasn’t the primary cause of death for the people that didn’t survive. They froze in the water first.

Alien: And your species stopped crossing the ocean after that tragedy?

Human: No, but we changed the safety rules for the ships.

Alien: What is wrong with your species?

[comet5000]

Long Car Rides

Other people: uh so boring

Me, a maladaptive daydreamer: oh this is a blessing let me just listen to music and stare at my window while my mind slips away into my alternate reality

[hellfucingshitfuck-deactivated2]

hades isn’t a badass. hades named his three-headed-guard-of-the-underworld-dog spot. hades whispers to his flowers to make them grow. hades grows fruit. there’s no sun in the underworld.

hades isn’t a badass. stop saying this false thing

[oldcicadahymns-archived]

#hades probably double knots his laces

[zenosanalytic]

In myth, Hades’ most remarked upon traits are 1) how responsible/reliable he is, 2)how sober-minded he is, 3)how dedicated, implacable, and long-remembering he is, and 4)how boring and grim most of the other Olympians think he is to be around. Oh and notably, that if you play him a song he likes, he’ll basically give you anything you ask for(though not without conditions).

Hades is, canonically, a gigantic nerd. If they’d had trainsets, he’d have been the Olympian who collected trainsets, meticulously corrected with exacto knife and hobby-paints the errors toy-makers introduced to those trainsets, and then endlessly talked about those trainsets to anyone sat next to him at Thanksgiving Dinner :| When he wasn’t trying to rope them into an interminable discussion about gardening or divine law, that is :| :| He’s the sort of god who frequently handed out punishment like giving someone a million-piece puzzle where every piece is shaped the same, that resets itself at the start of every day if you don’t complete it, and then he keeps the last piece on his person at all times as a secret private joke for eternity because he finds you personally distasteful(not even because he’s mad at you or hates you particularly; he just doesn’t like you as a person) :| :| :| He is. A Gigantic. Nerd.

[ronandhermy]

He’s also like one of the only gods who is faithful to his wife. And he listens to her like when she asks for a soul to be released and he’s like “But honey, the rules.” And she just gives him that look and he goes “Yes dear,” and lets the soul go with the easiest freaking instructions ever in a myth. And the human still fucks it up. Not his fault Persephone, not Hades’ fault this time. Essentially, Hades is sorta like the accountant suburban dad who collects really specific figurines and gets really grumpy when people mess up his lawn. Do you know how hard his wife worked on those roses? He is calling his attorney. Oh wait, he is also an attorney.   

[ghostcat3000]

Filed under: Favorite Myths

[johnbodyheat]

Everybody knows it’s Persephone that you’ve got to watch out for. 

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

I love this post every time I see it.