[hiveswap]

Does anyone remember frank. The creator shutting it off was such a good choice in hindsight. Imagine the hate theyd be getting rn

[hiveswap]

I miss when ai was very bad and we'd all gather around and cheer when frank accidently put together a weirdly coherent akd profound sentence like "hope is a weapon you wield"

[hiveswap]

Yeah oh god how could i forget that one

[onyxcyon]

Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)

the broken-wing display is one of my favorite examples of innate behaviors!! many bird families have evolved this trait independently, but killdeers are so iconic for it

per usual the original guy for fun

(working through redrawing all the birds in an old book I made!)

[herpsandbirds]

Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum), family Ambystomatidae, NE United States

photograph by Steven David Johnson

[via-appia]

Mosaic from the impluvium of the House of Gometric Mosaics, Pompeii

Roman, 1st century AD

[figureinthedistance]

in stone butch blues leslie feinberg talked abt the 3 items of women’s clothing rule where the police who raided lesbian bars wld check to see how much these women were still upholding femininity. i have never been thru that but i remember reading it + how much it resonated w me. this rule has not been expelled from our cultures mentality… i remember telling a straight woman i was considering getting a buzzcut + the 1st thing she said was ‘oh, they look great w big hoop earrings.’ there’s like a sort of balancing act where for every item of men’s clothing u’ve got to do penance thru makeup + accessories……. + its got everything to do w reassuring the person viewing you, who might feel challenged by ur shirt or jacket or jeans + so needs to be able to look down n take comfort from the pair of heels on ur feet. saddest manifestation is definitely when we internalize it– when the fear of being marked not-woman makes us wear sth we hate, just for some tie 2 femininity. the more masculine the clothing, the thicker the makeup

[nevver]

You can’t get there from here, Clark Franklyn

[fruitblush]

Ode to the Microbe

Prints

[psikonauti]

Armando Veve (American, b. 1989)

[deathandmysticism]

Die Pflanzenwelt, 1913-22

[colsmi]

Jaime Hernandez’s Maggie & Hopey, as printed in 1989’s Ark #29.

[lesbian-archives]

Suzanne Shifflett

[euphorictruths]

Interconnection- Molly Chopin

[stereocyon]

Tarot Reading Cat Illustrated by B. Kliban

[elenaboils]

Spores expanding

[1five1two]

[mariocki]

Kate Bush in That outfit because of reasons

[homunculus-argument]

You ever think about ancient inventions that may no longer actively be used, but which were so geniously designed that technically speaking, they still work?

Consider that old historical monk haircut. The tonsure looks like that on purpose, to keep them humble and away from temptations of sin. And it still works exactly as intended. Do you guys have any idea how much gay porn there would be of medieval monastery dudes knowing each other biblically if their haircuts were not so unfathomably unsexy.

[patrickdiomedes]

boy, I dunno what I expected after the first paragraph, but it wasn't what I got