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pseudomantis

What the fuck

astarlingdiscovery

It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.

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bogleech

Nature is incredible, you can really see just at a quick glance how these evolved to speak together in rhyming riddles while performing a spooky dance, laughing at you because they're The Wee Creatures Three and you will Never Get Their Key.

ceanothusspinosus

foot to head ratio off the charts

#bittern

ela-draws

I FINALLY FINISHED THIS ??!! I started this family tree project 2 years ago (you can see it on Finrod's face lol) and every batch of portraits are like a year apart

#tolkien #<3

simena

Füsun Ürkün - Uğur Böceği

me-be-bubbles

@momentarymirth

michaelnordeman

European Badger/grävling. Värmland, Sweden (9 June 2023).

michaelnordeman

European Badger/grävling. Värmland, Sweden (9 June 2023).

lesbienj

i’m gonna be so real idk how many more aurë entuluvas i got left in me

#tolkien #i'd like to have an utúlie n aure someday pls ...#one moment of respite before it all goes to hell again

constantlyfalling

Big Sky in July

#skies

memories-of-ancients

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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#80700 #better than expected!#this was fun

maryoliveoil

earhartsease

in case anyone is missing the sheer beauty of this french pun, in english it says "ominous" but broken up like a separated head and body - but in french "o minous" means "oh kitties"

#a classic 👌

peachyindeed

@giaffa >:|

giaffa

#tolkien #no ... just ... please no ...

julijbee

my elfsona (q.m.)yulatië/(q.p.)fangamilya/(s.)mengil. he has no glasses and cannot see. born on the helcaraxë in Y.T. 1499, almost froze to death. almost burned to death in sacking associated with the dagor aglareb. almost burned to death in sacking associated with the dagor bragollach. almost killed by orcs fleeing hithlum. almost trampled to death by loose horse in skirmish associated with the nirnaeth arnoediad. almost trampled to death by glaurung in sacking of nargothrond. almost died of exposure in the year following sack of nargothrond. almost died of infected stab wound after the battle of the thousand caves. almost died of exposure after the sacking and ruin of doriath. almost died of smoke inhalation after the third kinslaying in the havens. drowned at some point in Y.S. 580. recuperating in mandos.

#tolkien #oh poor lad

snake-eggs

“There aren’t enough hours in a day.” There are actually. The problem is that we think 40 hour work weeks are an unavoidable fact of life.

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.

No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

broken-horn-of-equius

fangirl-erdariel

One thing I find particularly funny with how commonly elves are depicted as vegans or vegetarians/not eating meat in later works of fantasy that are to varying degrees copying the aesthetics of Tolkien's work or copying works that copied tolkien (which then sometimes seems to weirdly radiate back to Tolkien fanfic? it's not so common these days, at least in the corner of the fandom I'm usually in, but I recall it being a thing that'd occasionally turn up in fanfic around when I was first getting into fandoms and fanfic, so back in 2015-2017ish i guess. I think PJ's Hobbit movies might've had something to do with that(?) the same way they introduced the "Thranduil rides an elk" bit that's stuck around since, but i'm not sure)

is that in addition to numerous Tolkien's elves canonically being hunters and thus presumably eating meat

there are actually two characters in Tolkien's Legendarium who are canonically established as vegetarians/not eating meat, and neither of them is an elf

like we have more canonical precedence in Tolkien's works for humans deliberately not eating meat than elves not doing so, but noooope, every bit of fantasy since, if you've got a vegan or vegetarian character it's always an elf

#tolkien #oh 100% it's so annoying #since NoMe is out we have more details of course #that some elves and men are vegetarians but it's generally considered alright to kill animals for food

louisa605

Epilogue

Happy Barricade Day! After all, June 6th is the day they made their sacrifice, so I’m not late, right?

The inspiration for this drawing came from the Toledo Cathedral—the sense of the heavens opening up, which also corresponds to the final song of Les Misérables, "Epilogue."

In the painting, I wanted to depict the scene Jean Valjean vaguely sees as he passes away. Fantine takes his hand, leading him toward heaven, while the Bishop stands beside him, illuminating the path behind. And in the background are those who fell during the battle.

The upward composition gives the feeling that their voices fade into the "valley of the light," reflecting their destiny of "climbing to the light." I wanted the darker surroundings to contrast with the light of heaven, showing that they now dwell in that place beyond—echoing the lyric, "We will live again in freedom in the garden of the Lord."

Jehan loves playing the flute, so perhaps the "distant drums" are sounds he conjures.

Behind Valjean, there is a mural of women—intended to represent the "lovely ladies," along with little Gavroche and his sister Éponine above. These figures embody the suffering people of the earth, much like the lyrics of "Wretched of the Earth."

On the heavenly side of the mural are two elderly men: the Parliament G and Mabeuf. Finally, the little angels surrounding the Bishop are Gavroche’s younger brothers.

#barricade day #les mis #damn this is cool!