horns & claws & teeth & tails

reblogging shitposts, art, photography, etc

[bustedlestatdoll]

my mom just had a 7cm brain tumor removed and since she's woken up she's been talking nonstop about this dream she had about going to an art gallery full of colourful paintings by a 'homosexual artist' named klimsdorf who was ethereal and wise, both young and old... at first she was convinced he was a real person but after failing to find him online she's accepted he was a figment of her subconscious mind and is now determined to bring him to life via painting his portrait herself. she's 67 and has never drawn in her life. and now this. blorbo from her tumor

[lgb-without-t-deactivated202509]

[plastiboo]

[quietwingsinthesky]

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

[dogzcats]

[botanyshitposts]

Nothing like inhaling massive amounts of plant semen all summer

*grabs you by the shoulders* listen don’t get it twisted you CANNOT get it twisted. those are plant penises, NOT the sperm. once the pollen lands on the female structure in question, THEN it germinates and makes the sperm. do you know how many college biology students are threatened by this misinformation each year?? how many fall victim to the classic blunder??

[botanyshitposts]

obsessed with this person organically deriving the alternation of generations in the tags of this post

[botanyshitposts]

the alternation of generations is, I think, one of the hardest things for people to learn going into plants just because it’s unthinkable to us that anyone would add extra steps. why would you do this when the penis and the vagina could simply remain on one’s body, and then one could have sex and give birth like an animal, the obvious simplest way to reproduce as stated by the animals? and the answer, which I hyperfixtated on for months in 2022, is that it’s really Fucking complicated and you actually need to be a calculus understander and equation chef (which at this moment I am not) to get to the cutting edge of the outsourced penis problem. like under further inspection the alternation of generations reveals itself as not a baffling quirk, but rather as primordial-ooze level plant architecture with sticky threads of cost and benefit in every Got Dam green agal descendant on the planet, and at a certain point you actually can only discuss the raw source of the madness in graphs and theorems. it’s a 100% dark academia madness inducing topic with many twists and turns.

anyway my overall review is that it was really funny when ferns had cheat codes to it, would have loved some of that in the newer flower story arc in part because it’s the closest thread I can grasp to actually understanding something (presumably????) deeper about this weird sex system from a flaw/exploit it had (and still has in ferns, to be fair), but flowers just seem to treat it like something to compensate for and patched it in an update, so reducing the gametophytes down as small as possible and leaving the female ones attached directly to the sporophyte IS surprising when people learn about it. you would never even know they had any kind of wild sex cycle because half of the stages are microscopic and protected behind like 8 layers of tissue, which makes sense because yes they’re ‘vulnerable’ stages but it’s still annoying of them to do to me personally, you know?

[talisidekick]

A while back my pharmacist saw my deadname on my profile and accidentially called it out, he corrected and deleted my deadname from the system so only my preferred name shows up now. There was a crowd of people behind me, so as he hands over the pills he apologized, in equal tone and volume as when he called my deadname and lied saying it's been a long day and he didn't mean to call out -his own- name. I quietly told him it was fine and he didn't need to do that for my sake.

His response: "No, it's my name now."

I went to the pharmacist yesterday, his nametag is my deadname. He informed me he's immigrating and in the process he's changed his first name to my deadname to have an English sounding name. That's why he's now able to get a reprint of his nametag to be my deadname. And repeated, with the intense seriousness of someone who is going to die on this hill: "It's mine now. Not yours. I'm taking." His tone indicated that decision is final.

Bro literally deadnamed me once, and has committed to flat out stealing my deadname. It's his now. Legally. Officially. I over heard his co-workers call him by the name.

[smugpugchimera]

Have been on a quest to better understand insect mouthparts, here're breakdowns I did on mantis, but a lot of the basic structure applies to most insects with chewing mouthparts Here's also a very nice video that covers all adaptations and names all the individual parts:

[smugpugchimera]

for peeps saying this is complicated, you haven't even seen ants. They're fucked I barely understand them at all

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Justin posted the 1956 house he and his wife bought in Jasper, Indiana. It is a complete time capsule. Absolutely NOTHING has been updated or touched.  

Everything is still here- look at the appliances. All original. This is not like the classy expensive updated mid century homes we’ve seen before. 

The furniture has to be the original pieces and sets the previous owners bought. 

The wall hangings are aged.

This is an interesting piece, this bar. 

Look at the bathroom- pink fixtures.

Those lamps!

The master bath has a yellow tub and fixtures.

A 2nd bdm. Even the bedding is vintage.

And, this bath has blue Fixtures. Wow, I would definitely keep them.

More cool lamps and original furniture in the knotty pine family room. 

Wow, look at the built-ins in the office.

The lower floor.

The basement is cool- look at that floor! And, the TV. The bar is classic. I wonder if they were leaving any of this.

Off the rec room is a 2nd kitchen. A pink fridge!

And, there’s this room, too. Look at the stone wall.

for the love of old houses

[stonedrunkwizard]

I’m reblogging this just because it’s great reference. Who knows if i ever get the chance to draw a fifties living room?

[asphodelles]

dark urge run so far’s pretty fun

[crazysodomite]

lets talk about fat tails too

[bltchkawa]

Ive never drawn saejima before because I was too intimidated by his hair but we made it through

[kraniumet]

meet cute: it's raining and I see your battered bleeding body lying in the mud and I kick it slightly to see if you're dead

[unteriors]

Palmerston Highway, O'Briens Hill, Queensland.

[lambstooth]

ma'am are you looking for any henchmen and where can i sign up?

big beautiful belongs to @gammelgaedda

[liltingaway]

random button pngs

[dollsofthe1960s]

Vintage BDSM Heels (and Boots)