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@darknymfa
Could’ve sworn I had an intro post with links and stuff but I can’t find it so here we go, new post to pin since that’s a thing now.
Heyo, I’m Dark! I’m on most websites as “DarkNymfa” so if you run into someone with that name, there’s a good chance it’s me! Examples include DeviantArt, Flight Rising, ArchiveOfOurOwn, etc. This is my main blog, but I have a few more such as: @darknymfa-art (art), @darks-ink (writing/fanfic), and @masked-phantom (Flight Rising).
Weedle?
Weedle???
WEEDLE?!?
The officially licensed tabletop roleplaying game set in the world of the Temeraire novel series by Naomi Novik!
This is launching tomorrow! Super excited; Magpie Games are doing this and they've got a really great approach to the RPG that lets players play both people and dragons \o/ Check out if you're into TTRPG!
Absolutely horrid that a 10hr sleep does not cure you of all that ails you
it doesn't even cure me of being tired
It should work like in RPGs. I want to be able to go to bed exhausted, poisoned, and missing half of my blood and wake up at 100% fully recovered
leverets of the Annamite striped rabbit (Nesolagus timminsi). photographed by Nikolai L. Orlov & published in Abramov et al. 2016.
this is a terrible screenshot but ducks in Stardew can go in the water if they have access to it? that's so cute.
dang didn't know the Tumblr situation was that dire
common kingfisher doing a fly-by
Feeling despair over the general state of things? Blorbo from your shows not enough to hold the horrors at bay? Need something healthier to be insane about? Need to go outside more?
Want to become a pokemon trainer like you dreamed of when you were ten?
MERLIN BIRD ID APP BY CORNELL UNIVERSITY
It's a fun little app that lets you use your phone to identify birds by song. You hear a song, open the app, let it listen for a moment and it tells you what the hell is making that noise (if it's a bird), and shows you a picture of the little feathery bastards, so you can squint at the surrounding shrubbery with a better idea of WHAT you're looking for.
After thinking "Man, I wish I had that app to ID that lovely bird song!" and then completely forgetting that I wanted to do that by the time I got back to WiFi approximately five million times, I have finally managed to install it.
Friends.
I am becoming a pokemon trainer.
This is very literally like the Pokemon anime where Ash would find some godforsaken beast in the shrubbery and immediately whip out his Pokedex to Identify it. I will be out walking the dogs and will hear... Something? And now I can find out what the hell it is! Curiosity immediately rewarded!
And that's one hell of a dopamine hit.
You can increase the immersion into the pokemon trainer by also having Dogs (TM) with you. It's like having a starter pokemon, if your starter refused to go in the ball and was less keen on battling wild pokemon so much as generally yelling at, attempting to micromanage, or just straight-up eating them.
My dogs (functionally an off-brand Houndoom and Yamper-if-it-was-a-psychic-type) are thrilled that they're getting this much walkies, if somewhat confused by my stopping on the trail at random intervals to wave my phone around. They're Very Excited by me taking new, circuitous routes around the lake to get closer to trees and bushes to pick up songs because my phone was old when the pandemic started and the mic sucks. I'm pretty sure it's a matter of time before one or both of them figure out that I'm following birdsong and then I'll really be up shit creek because they fucking LOVE going on a hunt for something, and know that if they alert at something correctly at least a few times, I'll believe them when they pretend to alert at something. Like say, pretending they hear another bird, no I promise it's real you're just a comparatively deaf-ass human no I'm not trying to extend walkies how could you say that-
FURTHERMORE, Merlin Bird ID will keep a life list for you.
That's right.
You can put Birds in your Pokedex to fill it out.
And boy fucking howdy does my autistic ass love collecting things/completing sets, and that "congratulations, new lifer!" Thing lights up my brain like nothing else. I saw a blue grosbeak for the first time ever last night because the app told me ITS BLUE LOOK FOR SOMETHING BLUE!! AND BEHOLD, IT WAS THE BLUEST OF BIRDS!! I sailed through breakfast with my in-laws, a normally harrowing experience, on that high and I'm still going.
Granted, once the Blue Grossbeak took off and I was released from its enchantment, I realized that Herschel was rolling in half of a dessicated fish carcass while Charleston was attempting to work down the other half at speed, but that's just the joy of pet ownership.
...what I need to do now is figure out how to enter birds I can see that are not making noise into the list. There's so many ducks here, and all of them shut the hell up whenever the hounds and I are near.
Anyway,
MERLIN BIRD ID APP BY CORNELL LABS!!
Go insane in a way that makes you go outside and touch grass!
Okay, so, entering birds that you see rather than hear! You have three options:
Take a photo, the app will give the best guess it can as to what the bird is. It's surprisingly good, I have taken some horrible photos where I knew the bird and it still got them right.
Use the Step by Step "what colour is it, where was it, is it bigger than x" questions guide. Pretty solid, can be a bit of a faff if you're not sure or if the bird is Not Where It's Supposed To Be.
If you know exactly what the bird is and just want to record it, there's a search bar on the Explore tab. There's also a list of Likely Birds In Your Area for lazy scrolling purposes.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who made the Pokemon comparison, me and the Husbeast now go on walks where he's running Pokemon Go and I'm running Merlin and the commentary from both of us is pretty much the same...
Ah, I needed to push more buttons, got it!
I already had this app downloaded and can confirm it's a VERY fun time
IT'S HERE!
THE 2026 DRAW DINOS DAILY CHALLENGE! #DRAWDINOSDAILY!
(Thank you to @vergess for the tag name!!!!)
Every day is a different dinosaur!
There is no pressure to draw or not to draw each day, if you tag a piece of art with this tag, I'll reblog it!
It doesn't have to be drawing either, if you want to write poetry or sculpt or whatever, if you tag it, I will reblog!
I'll also seek out stuff for each dinosaur for each day beyond that for the neverending queue monster
A more accessible version of the prompt list is also available here as a google doc for viewing:
But I know how much art prompt followers love a month card to add to things
I would like to thank @plokool, @albertonykus, @otussketching, @thetorterra, @raptorcivilization, @killdeercheer, @verybadpaleontologyjokes, and probably some other folks I'm forgetting for helping me come up with the prompt list without total loss of my remaining sanity, and also editing and proofreading it
(if you notice a typo, please tell me, I'm not proud)
Enjoy! I look forward to seeing what you all create!
A truly fascinating gap right there in my Steam recap. Think it might be related to that early April wrist surgery I had. Just a hunch.
Kind of obsessed with this woman's freakishly modern jacket from 1904.
The complete lack of shoulder definition gives it the silhouette of an MA-1 bomber jacket, but bombers weren't even a thing yet. The Wright brothers barely achieved powered flight in 1903. The ribbing on the shoulder and the angular cutouts with the hexagonal mesh are so futuristic and cyberpunk, but even art deco wouldn't be a thing for another 15 years. The color is like a dusty NASA flight suit. All together it's giving lone spacefarer crash landing their tiny rustbucket ship on Mars.
Truly a visionary of her time.
bro...
spent like 40 minutes with my sibling trying to make a Steam Family together, on the same device. absolute broken system.
what do you mean legends za has a thousand character customization options and none are long straight hair. literally the only long one is wavy.
what is it with the new Pokemon game that's making everyone completely forget the common decency around tagging spoilers? why are we posting untagged spoilers from a leak. guys.
Steam, in what world is a Pokemon-esque monster taming RPG similar to two cleaning sims ???
