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This blog features art, animals,politics (usually when drinking beer), places, and history. Lots of history. I guess that i pretty much post about everything. I also love tattoos and lending help to those suffering from mental illness❤

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reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a little pumpkin 🧡

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@blackiavalanche photographed by Amirhossein Farmani for the Iranian brand DIA

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might fuck around and only wear blue lingerie from now on, to celebrate all of the blue that made today possible. 🦋

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Some Insightful Facts about the Beirut Blast

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I grew up with a grandma who quilted, but she’d never been interested in passing along the hobby, so when she finally kicked it I was the grandkid who got all her materials, ‘cause I was the only one who knew how to use a sewing machine. Then, in 2015, a friend had a baby and I figured I’d make her a quilt, ‘cause how hard could it be?

oh

my

god

Luckily I am the stubbornest human alive, ‘cause I never woulda finished otherwise. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know the terms to look up how to do anything, I musta reinvented the wheel like eight times and it took ten months, BUT I DID IT.

Figured I’d suffered enough and would never do it again and now I’m on quilt #9 smdh

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I’m hyperventilating.

Holy shit. Holy SHIT.

This is INCREDIBLE.

Oh my god.

I’ve gotta go lay down holy shit look at this how do we just walk by other human beings every day and live our separate lives when there’s a person sitting next to you on the train or in line for coffee who goes home and makes things like this what even IS being human holy shit.

GOOD FUCKING JOB.

[awheckery]

Oh heck I did not expect the notes to blow up on this, UM

Okay so on a purely technical level, this is not that difficult, you just gotta come at it a little sideways.

The background of this sucker is just rows of 1.5″-wide fabric strips. I can’t remember the exact pattern, but I wanna say it was something like one row 6″ strips, one row 4.5″ strips, one row alternating? I don’t remember exactly, it was a while ago. That’s not difficult, you just lay it out and sew it all together one row at a time. It’s not hard, just tedious.

The fish are a lil different. I can’t draw, there is a disconnect somewhere and my hands are stupid, so I figured out probably fifteen years ago that tracing was the way to go. For this, I legit just yanked several photos of fancy-looking goldfish off the internet and traced over ‘em in Photoshop.

Once I had enough, I printed my outlines, laid ‘em out on the background to create the idea of movement, and then traced the outlines out on fabric and pinned the hell out of ‘em.

This woulda been WAY easier with Heat ‘N Bond, but I didn’t know that was a thing at the time. From there I just used just about every fancy stitch on my inherited sewing machine to make the fish STAY WHERE I PUT THEM, and also look good.

I have since learned this is called “raw edge applique” but whatever. It’s fun, it’s neat, you can do it with a bunch of stuff and impress the hell outta people. More recently, it’s how I’ve gone from this:

to this:

(this was another project I SUFFERED over unnecessarily, because I’m the dip that decided to quilt the waves, like a moron)

god that sucked but it looked SO COOL when I was done!

[ms-demeanor]

I’m very sorry to tell you that if you thought we would be less impressed with you after this update you were very mistaken. I’ll say again:

Holy. Shit.

[hammer253]

Amazing talent.

[thebootydiaries]

i hate small talk . i wanna talk about atoms , death , magic , intellect , the meaning of life , the size of your feet , are they clean , how much do you charge for

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[onenicebugperday]

Velvet worm, New Zealand peripatus, Peripatoides novaezealandiae

Velvet worms are in their own phylum, Onychophora. They are nocturnal hunters that spit an adhesive slime made in glands near their mouth to trap prey. Female Peripatoides produce eggs that are fertilized internally and babies develop inside their mother until large enough to be born, in batches of 4-6, as colorless miniatures of the parents. Here’s a video showing a couple baby velvet worms!

Photos by shaun-lee (1-4), mike68lusk (5), bugman-nz (6), and Frupus (7-10)

[todropscience]

NEW SEAHORSE SPECIES DISCOVERED IN SOUTH AFRICA! And is tiny!

This diminutive seahorse new species, who reach nearly 2 cm, it is confirmed to be the first record of a true pygmy seahorse from Africa, and the first known from the Indian Ocean. Named Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus nalu), it was found triving in the reefs of Sodwana Bay.

-Sodwana Bay, where Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse it was discovered, in red

Seven new species of pygmy seahorses have been officially described and named within the first two decades of the 21st century, and this eighth species extends the range of pygmy seahorses by more than 8000 km, suggesting that more species may be waiting to be discovered. 

Scientifically named as Hippocampus nalu, it refers to Savannah Nalu Olivier a local diver who discovered this new species in Sodwana bay, also, she brought this tiny fish to researchers who described officially this species. In the South African languages, Xhosa and Zulu, nalu refers to the expression ‘here it is’ and therefore. researches extend its meaning in this case to the simple fact that H. nalu was there all along until its discovery. Additionally, nalu is also the Hawaiian word that refers to the waves or surf of the moana (ocean). A powerful name for a tiny fish.

Photo: Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse in situ, juvenile (10 mm ), Sodwana Bay, South Africa at 14 m depth (photograph Richard Smith / oceanrealmimages.com).

Reference (Open access): Short et al., 2020. Hippocampus nalu, A New Species of Pygmy Seahorse from South Africa, and the First Record of A Pygmy Seahorse from the Indian Ocean (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). ZooKeys.

[Photo description: a dark small seahorses, using its tails to attach itself to some algae, is small and is possible to understand it as its sizes looks similar to grains of sands around] 

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More photos of Hippocampus nalu because I always loose my shit over tiny seahorses! 

And a video! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=APKhdpAEi-Y&feature=emb_title

[todropscience]

we told you, IS TINY!

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Mind completely blown.

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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”     

     Douglas Adams,            The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy    

[hammer253]

Amazing.

[the-battle-lesbian]

EVERYONE STOP AND LOOK AT THIS

Have you ever heard of Shaun Keenan? Probably not, but you have now.

Amazing art of dinosaurs in the wild American West? Yes please!

There’s so many he’s done and they’re all just the best aesthetic.

What I never knew I needed but a void has definitely been filled.

Go to his website and give some support!

http://shaunkeenan.com/

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I love these

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I’ve been following this guy for a while on Instagram, and since this original post he’s expanded his series to include a variety of cultures beyond the American West.

WoW orc on a daeodon.

A take on the 80s Dino Riders.

Skeletal styracosaurus.

Spartan and armored T-rex.

WWII Ankylosaurus.

Aztec Eagle Warriors and Therizinosaurus.

Mongolian warriors and mammoths + sabertooth tiger.

Mad Max inspired rider on a carnotaur.

Viking and ceratosaurus.

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@voidhour

[bluesubstitute]

can i just say that ‘snake oil’ salesman selling dino oil? but his two ‘dinosaurs’ are a flying reptile and a mammal like reptile, Not Dinosaurs??? The Cinnomontogrophy

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Don’t worry, be happy!

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[hammer253]

Amazing detective work!

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There’s not NEARLY enough cephalaspis content on this website. What an absolute shame.

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REBLOG to support this cool guy

IGNORE to break his heart

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(via)

[ainawgsd]

Reblogging for Waterfowl Wednesday.

[hammer253]

Waterfowl Wednesday!

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Everyone who reblogs this by the end of March, will get a random Croatian word in their inbox 📬

(Inspired by @sciogli-lingua 🤍)

[ainawgsd]

Lemniscomys, sometimes known as striped grass mice or zebra mice, is a genus of murine rodents from Africa. Most species are from Sub-Saharan Africa; L. barbarus is the only found north of the Sahara. They are generally found in grassy habitats, but where several species overlap in distribution there is a level of habitat differentiation between them.

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