I thought some daisies might cheer you up. @elkeriino - Tumblr Blog

🪴 Intro post 🐛

This is long overdue but here is my pinned post

I'm Ellie and I've been here since 2009 i think?..

I'm in my mid ish 30s

I work as a gardener so I'm often covered in mud and bugs

I have a Norwegian Forest Cat called Vivi who looks like this:

She is a baby

I also likeboard games, ttrpgs, cosy pc games, and ambitious/optimistic crochet projects

Also plants, folklore, death care reform, solarpunk, that sort of thing.

My DMs are open, especially for the trading of fun facts!

Did you know that magnolia flowers are so ancient that they're older than BEES? They were originally pollinated by beetles!

#pinned post #intro post

comehomemothman

Artfight attack on @bowelfly !

Careful on the gas now Brother Herbert, someone's being flippant with their corndog back there.

Alternate title: videos taken moments before disaster

bowelfly

you stumble across some manner of varmint ceremony

compound artfight piece for sophmobile and paulinedraws

omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa

Joseph Plateau — Phenakistoscope art (1887)

wetorturedsomefolks

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

neenarchive

maidens if you are going to flee dramatically from my castle in the middle of the night once i reveal my true nature to you please leave your candelabra on the little ledge by the portcullis we are running out of them

neenarchive

starting to think these maidens are stumbling in soaked through from the rain just to steal my beautiful gowns and homewear are any of you actually lost

elektrashocktherapy

At the checkout in Home Goods loading the belt with nothing but candelabras in all shapes & sizes while the cashier watches sympathetically and asks if it’s the maidens again

headspace-hotel

Asunder is basically the most classic way to be torn, and if you're looking to be cleft, in twain is a vintage but stunning choice

grupaok

Harold Edgerton, Cows and Flare at Stonehenge, 1944

probablyasocialecologist

Perhaps because we’ve become so adept at cooling inside spaces with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling outside spaces, too. There is no technology that cools the outdoors as effectively as a tree. These communal parasols are also misting machines that dissipate heat. It’s hard to feel that effect under one or two of them, but get enough trees together and an urban summer can be as fresh as a rural spring, a feat with major implications for energy use and public health.

[...]

As intense heat bears down, we have to see shade as a basic human right. We have forgotten that shade is a natural resource. We don’t grasp its importance, and we don’t appreciate its promise for a better future. Loggers and farmers cut down forests, forcing animals to flee and land to turn fallow. Engineers ignore time-honored methods of keeping out heat, locking us into mechanical cooling systems that fail during blackouts. And urban planners denude shady parks and pave neighborhoods with heat-sucking roads, only to drive us mad with the infernal conditions. But shade is a path to a better future—if we just learn to value it again, and design for it in the places we live.

22 July 2025

monarobot

Here are some of my ideas for variants on how the Andalites (from the book series “Animorphs”) could look in a film or tv show, exploring different possibilities for their alien, centaur-like anatomy!

elkeriino

Huuurgh this is so fuckin cool

animalphotorefs

Species Update: Capybara!

That's right folks, it's the photos from Operation Babybara are now live.

There are now a few hundred photos of adorable baby capybara on the repository page for the species! But I can't just say they're up and not show you immediately...

For those just tuning in, the trip to photograph the cute potatoes was completely funded by the site's incredibly dedicated - and apparently capybara obsessed - supporters.

See the rest here:

The Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations. Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references.

**Patreon** -- **Ko-Fi**

aforest2006remaster

yesterday i made a beetle out of soda tabs and wire. we took the bus home.

goth-queen

ilikewritingandspeedcore

EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

rhyperographer

I went to find the article. It's fascinating.

digital-magus

In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does

thekimonogallery

Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), a woodcut illustration of personified frogs in costume acting out scenes from Kabuki plays. Original from Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. Text by rawpixel

folklorespring

Workers' Day parade, May 1, 1986, Kyiv, 5 days after Chornobyl disaster. Soviet authorities insisted on mass events and concealed what actually happened at the Chornobyl NPP, creating an illusion that it was a minor accident that was taken care of. Thousands of people took part in the celebrations while the wind was carrying a radioactive cloud toward Kyiv.