All my thoughts are feathered @gingerjaydraws - Tumblr Blog

Full Intro!

Y'know, I've been here on Tumblr for a bit now, so I figured, it's finally time that I make an official introductory post! So, without further Ado...

Welcome! My name is Elijah J, but you can call me Ginger, or Jay, or whatever works really!

So me info about me:

Age: 21

Pronouns: he/they (80/20)

Bisexual!

Interests: Nature, art, and animation! I enjoy birds, bugs, fish, bats, dinosaurs, dragons, bright colors, being with loved ones, sunsets, the smell of cinnamon, improv club, DND, The Adirondack mountains, and just being alive in general. I love nature, space, and ocean aesthetics, and also retro stuff (I'm an old soul)

Content warnings/ good things to be aware of: I AM NOT A MINOR, NOR IS THIS BLOG MADE WITH MINORS IN MIND, YE BE WARNED!!!! Trigger warning for any mature subjects, including violence, sex, death, etc. Also spiders and bugs have place here so if you don't like those, I'll make sure to warn you which tags those are.

Also! This is a queer, trans, and disability safe space! Please make yourselves at home! I love you all very much, mwah!

Obligitory DNI: Just don't be an ass who actively wants to make people's life worse. I'm here to have a good time goddamn it.

Anyways, tags!

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Art Tags

#my art- exactly what it sounds like! Art made by me.

#not my art- also exactly what it sounds like. Art not made by me, but still something I thought would be cool to share

Art reference!: cool references or sites with references I find for art!

here be dragons: dragons, yay :)

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worldbuilding tags!

ok so I have four head worlds which can sometimes overlap so I'll give a little blurb explaining each one and what they have. but first...

#lemuria: not my headworld, but a public art event headed by Joshua Knuppe on paleostream. I had a couple things go through! Yippee!

Ok, now onto the meat of it:

#murrellia: my oldest headworld (been with me since 2018 or something). Basically a kaimere, world of atlas, subterramundus, "used to be a fantasy world but became speculative evolution" type business. This world has things such as dragons, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, several different modern mammals, etc. Kinda my fun little catch-all, kinda-sorta-half fantasy-ish world. It keeps evolving, which is nice

#chiropteden: my resident seed world! Basically a terraformed moon, seeded with a menagerie of different small animals. The Main creature is the striped yellow-eared bat, but there are also anoles, crabs, several small fish, shrimp, many many insects, etc. This one has a map now!

#paleoterra: my dinosaur world. Basically the classic "what if the dinosaurs actually didn't go extinct" type beat. I want to someday host an old-western rpg in this world so expect whatever I do post in this to be old-west themed. This one doesn't have anything yet though.

#monkey world: post-post apocolyptic earth. Humanity is far dead and gone and the earth has already rehealed. Populated both by the descendants of surving animals, but also genetically modified animals. it's called monkey world because the main "people" are fantasy races, but they're genetically modified monkeys now. Also, dragons are giant eagle-parrot-pheasants that spit stomach acid. There's nothing on this one yet either, but hold tight.

It's worth noting that all of my worlds are pretty soft spec, which means you shouldn't take them too seriously. I have fun making them, so have fun learning about them please!

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Nature tags

#mmmm nature: anything nature related that I find neat!

#folks of the leaf litter: For all the little guys! This is the tag I use for terrestrial invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians, and some small mammals

#folks of the wind and clouds: anything flighted, so bats and birds

#folks of the waves and rushing water: this one's for anything aquatic! So fish, cetaceans, and aquatic invertebrates. This one includes both freshwater and saltwater stuff

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People and life tags

#oh beloved senses: this one is basically my feel-good vibes tag. It made me feel something, usually something nice.

#silly little habits: I save this one for stories of the human condition and habits, so things like little anecdotes and such

#silly goody ahhh: My laugh tag. anything I find funny. It was supposed to be silly goofy ahhh, but I misspelled it because Tumblr has no idea what autocorrrect is and thought it was funny.

#home is where the heart is: Whatever I find comforting and makes me feel like it would be nice for home life. This one doesn't have much, but it's still nice!

#lights camera fashion!: my tag for cool fashion stuff! Also pretty small, but there's nothing wrong with that!

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misc. tags

#the babblings of a mad jay: my talk tag. Anything I directly talk on that isn't just me yapping in the tags gets this one, so be wary, because it's probably a lot of different stuff.

#important info to know!: any real-life info I find on my journeys that I think would probably be good to spread

palaeoblr: paleoart and prehistoric stuff

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If you made it this far, thank you for reading! I honestly really like Tumblr, and I hope to be here for many more years to come.

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Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

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if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

#ooo #I'll have to check these out!

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*Whimpers*

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This is the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis photographed in Indonesia by wildsumatra on iNaturalist.

Dorsal view by the same photographer:

And from the side:

#mmmm nature #folks of the leaf litter

crabussy

thinking about diatoms again

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microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.

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I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.

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and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit

#mmmm nature

kawuli

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

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Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

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i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.

https://www.mojeek.com/

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

#important info to know!

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Robust Assfish (Bassozetus robustus), family Ophidiidae, order Ophidiiformes, found in the deep ocean in tropical and temperate parts of the world

photograph by Alan Jamieson

#mmmm nature #folks of the waves and rushing water

nitashinori

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

#I have hink mine was naruto #I first watched it in middle school because my friends kept me tioning it and I got curious

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The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other.

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller

#art reference!

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This deep-sea fish has one of the best strategies for hiding in the deep-sea 🖤✨️

The California slickhead (Alepocephalus sp.) is often found below 1,000 meters (about 3,300 feet). Their name was inspired by the lack of scales on the fish's head. Those large eyes give the slickhead an edge in an environment where food can be scarce. It can glimpse even the faintest flickers of bioluminescence—the “living light” produced by deep-sea animals.

Deep-sea animals have a variety of remarkable adaptations to help them hide in the midnight zone, but this species uses the shade of their skin to hide from predators and prey in this dark expanse. Ultra-black fishes have unique structures in their skin that very efficiently trap and absorb light. Melanin—the same pigment found in human skin—is densely packed into super-thin layers on the outermost surface of their skin. While most light photons are immediately absorbed, the specific shape, size, and configuration of these melanin layers scatter any missed photons into neighboring skin cells, where they are subsequently absorbed. Ultimately, ultra-black skin absorbs 99.5 percent (or more) of the visible light with virtually none reflected.

#mmmm nature #folks of the waves and rushing water

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S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bear

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

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Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleufagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleufagus !

#mmmm nature #folks of the waves and rushing water

c3rvida3

Me and my cousin have an ongoing bit where we pretend we made "slightly better" versions of things where we'll be like.

"That was a pretty good movie, but not as good as my movie, House of 1001 Corpses," or "I guess this song is okay. Kind of reminds me of a song I'm working on called 'Faster Car'."

Never once has it been funny or made anyone but us laugh.