Please shut up about ancient aliens

Just a tired archaeologist it/he/she Multi-fandom Triple A Battery

[itisi-asimplegay]

falling in love with her art all over again...

Starfall by Anastasia Trusova, Acrylic on canvas

[kayit-z]

Un besito

[madphantom]

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.

[rottingraisins]

at a silt verses relisten kind of point in my life and wanted to make a formal lineup for the cast since the last time I took a crack at it most of season 3 wasn't actually out. behold some of my favorite fictional characters of all time

[weenie-kun]

[evilwafflemaker]

spam

[taxed-up-trotter]

I'll do things my own way

[myfairynuffstuff]

Henri Martin (1860 - 1943) - The Bridge in Labastide-du-Vert. Oil on canvas.

[reeddraws]

A quick moody night scene. I always love this look! Daily drawing 2442.

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

[valtsv]

you are all just jealous of my severed head

[litera1lywhat3ver]

the tadera brothers

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[jmtorres]

“buttercups” is a name applied to MANY flowers. in my part of the south it was this one:

imo there’s correct identifications of dandelions, daffodils, easter lilies and marigolds in this thread, but buttercups are simply impossible to agree on and the only solution is for everyone to post pictures of their local buttercups

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*squints* is that a motherfucking EVENING PRIMROSE?!??

[headspace-hotel]

Yes, the pink one above is Oenothera speciosa.

Common names can be a bitch.

[sabertoothwalrus]

I mean this so genuinely, download the iNaturalist app or visit the website.

if you’ve never heard of it, it’s like a pokedex for real life. each of those green markers is someone’s observation. You don’t even need to take pictures of “cool” organisms, you can take a picture of that spider in your bathroom, that little brown moth on your front door, that bird on your neighbor’s fence, and the flowers no one can agree on the name of, and if you upload them to iNaturalist other people can help identify them for you. You can also obscure the precise location of your observation so you don’t doxx yourself.

It’s fun to learn the names of the things that live around you! Don’t be someone’s mom who doesn’t know what a dandelion is!

[crimson-chains]

Wanted to finally make a standee with these two ^^ Still love drawing that goop~

[reeddraws]

It's been a while since I've painted crashing waves against rocks, but I really love how these scenes turn out. I'm really happy with my improvement! Daily drawing 2461.

[classicalcanvas]

In the Tyrol (1904) by John Singer Sargent

[j0an-na]

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