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Found this swan while scrolling Ebay one day… I think it was about 160 bucks. “Beautiful handcarved goose or swan”. It be damn thicc doe.

@bowie-star-trekking

shiftythrifting

hitmewithcute

Look at this confident little nugget

jooshthepunished-deactivated202

SPLORT pit pat pit pat pit pat

shencomix

annabellehectorworldofweird

katjohnadams

THE DREAD GAZEEBO HAS EVOLVED AND BECOME MOBILE

bunjywunjy

holy shit I just got my hands on a chunk of two-sided blue labradorite and LOOK at this thing

it's like a physical representation of the lowest, deepest cello note you can possibly imagine

dogf0odlid

Labradorite is amazing. It is similar to opal where it has very deep bold colors that shine in the light. But fucking hell does it have the BEST blues in it.

bunjywunjy

I just found out that this sort of sheen is called 'labradorescence' so I'm going to be using that into my daily vocabulary at every available opportunity

bunjywunjy

GET THAT COMMENT OUT HERE IN THE LIGHT WHERE IT BELONGS

rionsanura

It does more colors, too. have a side-hustle carving Tolkien’s dwarvish into labradorite, and let me tell you the day the stones get here in the mail is a day lost to contemplation of the crystalline divinity of labradorescence.

bunjywunjy

wait go back to the part where you carve Dwarvish into those bad boys

rionsanura

Yes! I do that! I try and make the carvings in a way that highlights the labradorescence, too, if I can:

bunjywunjy

dude holy SHIT that's fucking incredible

draconym

“Dragon” is such a vague category of creature with such a ridiculous diversity of bauplans. It doesn’t matter how big it is or how many legs it has or whether it has wings or not: you can call it a dragon if it is kind of snakey, and/or breathes fire (virtually anything that can breathe fire has the potential to qualify as a dragon).

Case in point, look at all these different things that are dragons:

draconym

Upon further thought, my tentative criteria for draconic eligibility are that a dragon must have at least two of these traits:

big

snakey

firebreathing

By these standards, a lizard that can breathe fire may count as a very small dragon, but a tiny wyvern without the ability to breathe fire would not. A snake would obviously qualify on the “snakey” front, but would have to be of notable size or capable of breathing fire to be a dragon. A phoenix, provided it can actually breathe fire and not just self-immolate, could also be a dragon, on the condition that it is very large.

draconym

Is Jabba the Hutt a dragon? I think if you gave him some big teeth he would qualify.

draconym

I am broadly getting two kinds of responses to this post: the first are people who are asking “why did you leave out this specific mythological creature that is clearly a dragon” and my answer to you is that this is a shitpost I made at 3am and not a comprehensive list of things that might qualify as dragons

And people who are like “is a chicken a dragon”

No, obviously not–it is neither large enough nor snakey enough nor magical enough. I am willing to concede that dragons may have other breath weapons and that perhaps “magical” is a better qualifier than “firebreathing,” but I agree wholeheartedly with @glumshoe that:

breathing fire isn’t a requirement for dragons, as in there are lots of dragons that can’t breathe fire. but breathing fire is so distinctly draconian that if something does breathes fire it is almost certainly a dragon.

To summarize: if you slap a pair of wings on most animals, it doesn’t automatically make them dragons. Take this wolf, for example.

There are wolflike dragons, sure, but what is the minimum amount of modification you can make to turn something into a dragon? Just adding wings to it won’t make it a dragon.

That’s just a wolf with wings. That guy would have to be absolutely colossal and breathe fire to qualify as a dragon. You have to make it SNAKEY, like this:

YEAH BABEY THAT’S A DRAGON

weaver-z

How the media depicts the Apollo 11 mission:

Actual quotes from the Apollo 11 mission:

georgieharrisons

also according to michael collins when the three of them were discussing what neil armstrong should say when he first stepped on the moon, collins suggested armstrong say “Oh, my God, what is that thing?” and then scream and cut out his mic.

wickedwitch-of-the-left

all you’ve done is convince me that michael collins was one of the funniest men alive tbh

bunjywunjy

Hey bunjy! Do you have a cursed/blessed swan fact to brighten my day? Yesterday about an hour after I left Richmond park in London, where I go birdwatching, a jogger kicked a baby swan out of his way and it's now in critical condition :'( they're still looking for the guy and I'm very upset.

the largest swan species of all is the Trumpeter Swan and they are FUCKING HUGE

bunjywunjy

SO FUCKING HUGE

(also I guess they hate geese)

ultrainfinitepit

Hot Wheels.

bunjywunjy

Perhaps a cursed cetacean fact?

Cuviers’s Beaked Whale is the most widely distributed of the beaked whales and looks like a 20-foot long Bottlenose Dolphin with an attitude problem.

they eat squid and pretty much only squid, which they dive to great depths for. a Cuvier’s Beaked Whale with a radio tracker set the all-time record for an unassisted airbreather dive when it descended to nearly 10,000 feet, or almost two miles, and stayed there for two hours.