[dualwieldingtymber]

Had a major wind storm a couple weeks ago.

Lost a window on my porch, so now we’re scrambling to find someone to fix it or replace the porch (frame got shifted during the storm as well.

I had no power for a full day, one sibling was out for 2, and mom was out for about 5.

I know I’m lucky in regards to the damage - no trees fell on mine or my family’s houses or cars, but still …

[o-kurwa]

[somanyofthekids]

I just needed to make sure more people saw this.

[dualwieldingtymber]

I know this won’t be seen by a lot of people but I HAVE to show off the dice bags I just got for spawn and myself.

These are from Queblock’s shop on the BoldKobold site and they’re big and soft and cuddly and my entire hand fits inside the bag so it will hold a decent amount of dice (or other things - that can is a 16.9 oz can)

Queblock

Art by Queblock

[dualwieldingtymber]

Holy shit! Look what sibling #2 designed!

Such a neat dice bag! I ordered one for me and one for spawn, but mine might serve a dual purpose (plasticware/silverware holder for parties)

You should get your own too 🙂

https://store.vilous.net/collections/new-arrivals/products/kobold-dice-bag?fbclid=IwAR14SK4pIemmsR-Lpm97kaMNNxZz18pclHpKDReKjfolDsimM2rcTVNIPyk&fs=e&s=cl

Kobold Dice Bag

This kobold dice bag plush stands 12 inches tall and features an adorable kobold holding a bag that can be closed with a drawstring.Designed

[homokommari]

america got superheroes and japan got magical girls. i think america is the clear loser here

[homokommari]

if i got rescued by a superhero id be like "theres a 50% chance u are a secret billionaire, go kill off bezos if u really wanna help me". if a magical girl rescued me id be like "thank u girl, good luck on ur math test!"

[homokommari]

oh but if spiderman saved me i'd be like "thank u boy, good luck on ur math test!"

[hexporpora]

What can I say… (previous) <— . —> (next)  (Pls, reblog and leave a comment if you like, I would really appreciate it   c: )

[dualwieldingtymber]

Spawn and I hit Lexington Comic and Toy con this weekend. First con since covid.

He had fun, especially meeting the voice actors from My Hero Academia.

Even had a few people stop us for pics on Saturday, which was cool.

[moss-wizard]

What a year this week has been.

[we-dont-matteratall]

It’s Monday.

[jacuwi]

It sure as hell is.

[actualaster]

The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets

[midnightwinterhawk]

[ri-writing]

I mean....accurate. 

[dualwieldingtymber]

We got snow yesterday. Whee

[beyfann]

13 years ago today, Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercial starring Beyoncé, BritneySpears, Pink & Enrique Iglesias was premiered. #PepsiGladiators

[beyondthescatteredwalls-deactiv]

Damn these were simpler times

[allisonpregler]

so lemme break this down

-lord caesar iglesias, who does not sing in this musical commercial, has captured britney spears, pink, and beyonce to battle it out gladiator style -our trio decides instead of fighting, they will instead rock so hard that the audience forgets about their battle to the death -their musical prowess is so damn powerful they rock the foundation of the earth and overthrow caesar iglesias along with his stash of ancient roman pepsi -beyonce, britney spears, and pink drink pepsi while the audience cheers -enrique iglesias is eaten by a lion

[hoomie]

Kendall Jenner could never >_>

[muzikalsiren]

y’all are overlooking the most important part of this ad. all of this centers around Queen’s “We Will Rock You”, with Brian May and Roger Taylor even making a split second cameo (Roger’s even playing a little drum!!)

truly the collab of the century

[the-real-skeletor]

Better than avengers endgame

[iconuk01]

Three Queen’s sing Queen, while two of the original Queen look on!

[dualwieldingtymber]

Tail test for spawn’s Ojiro. Hopefully he won’t grow too much between now and LCTC, in March.

[dualwieldingtymber]

Spawn got a visitor tonight … and we worked on prep for Christmas dinner.

[dualwieldingtymber]

New cosplay in progress. Still some work to do, but I’m proud of it, especially since I’ve never made a tail before

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

[acceptableduraz]

It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green!  Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.) 

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate.  It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic.  (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.)  See how orange and green look to them?

[zarekthelordofthefries]

Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.

[squeeful]

It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra.  Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo.  These aren’t animals with great color vision.  They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not.  Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it.  Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light.  They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing.  That’s way more useful if you’re prey.  Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red.  This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light.  Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.

We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.

[thelibrarina]

I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.

[authoratmidnight]

Ok but like, I think you underestimate just how well they blend in when actually in the environment. Like, just using tigers as an example.

or how about a leopard?

It’s called ‘disruptive colouration’ because the markings help to break up the animal’s outline against the grasses or rocks. And the rosettes on leopards and jaguars? Sun spots shining through the trees and leaves on the ground.

And this is how hard it is to spot them WITH colour vision. Now imagine the above images but with the limited coloured mentioned above?

[hecate-hollow]

I’m sorry but there is not an animal in that first leopard picture

[authoratmidnight]

Are you, sure about that?

[petermorwood]

How Not To Be Seen meets How Not To Be Lunch.

[dualwieldingtymber]

Pictures with Santa this year (I’m SO tempted to do another set mimicking this year’s Christmas card …), plus some post-Santa attempts with the dog that did NOT go well.