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Not today Justin

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JVL
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trying on a metaphor
Sade Olutola
will byers stan first human second
Xuebing Du
Stranger Things
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
wallacepolsom
occasionally subtle

Janaina Medeiros
Misplaced Lens Cap

if i look back, i am lost
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noise dept.

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sheepfilms

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@izzythebestever
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
Corn dogs are named for their traditional meat, the unicorn. As unicorns are now extinct, they can only be referred to properly as ‘Corn Dogs and not “Unicorn Dogs” as they were prior to 2009.
This is actually a common misconception! While the Unicorn Dog did exist and was discontinued following the extinction of unicorns in 2009, the Corn Dog is not a rebranding of the Unicorn Dog! The Corn Dog was created in 2003 by James H. Corn, though it remained a relatively unpopular Ohio treat until 2010 when Mr. Corn took the opportunity left by the Unicorn Dog’s exit from the market to take over the niche.
Sarah Morgan
'Is it raining where you are? '
She has more! Here's her website. She lives in the Peak District, England.
"A little shower"
"Proper big rain, that"
She has a lot of sky paintings with good colours but I particularly enjoy her human figures:
In order: Knackered / He's knackered too / The bears are really knackered / The heterosexuals, they're bloody knackered / The lesbians are knackered too / The polyamorous... well, you would be knackered, wouldn't you?
And this was just charming:
"Enjoying a little soak"
Canada goose painted from a reference I took!
frankie my frankie
the woman in question
After 9 months of work, my Oseberg tapestry sweater is complete!
This was my first sweater knitted in the round, first stranded colourwork project, and my first time steeking. It was definitely my most challenging project so far, and a lot of learning and research was involved. I used a colourwork chart created by the very talented Molly Gifford, which is available for free on Ravelry
For reference, this is one of the fragments uncovered from the gravesite:
Some scholars think that the Oseberg tapestry includes the earliest known artistic depiction of Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn. So I added them to the sleeves as a little Easter egg.
took me 8 months and very approx 380m of embroidery floss, and I'm now finished. going to have it framed soon :)
it has now finally been framed & gifted to my dad! people were asking how big it is - 50x70cm. pic of me holding it for perspective.
seeing a lot of people say they wish they had the skill to pull this off - you do!! most of the map is backstitch. i had only completed 4 much smaller pieces before i decided to do this, so it's not an unreachable project for a lot of people!
I am so glad I was able to find this post!! I started my map of middle earth about a week ago! Here is the progress I have made so far...
It is slow going simply because embroidery is a new art medium for me, BUT, I am so so very excited about this. The wording is very difficult, and it looks a little shabby, but I'm not so worried about that, since from far away it looks okay. Hopefully I will improve on lettering by the time I get to the larger letters!
Gute sheep/gutefår. Värmland, Sweden (24 April 2020).
An all-transmasc Ironman trio just won 3rd place in a major men's triathlon, beating over 200 other men's teams. 🏊♂️🏃🚴♂️ Trans men win men's competitions all the time, but nobody pays attention because it doesn't fit the mainstream narrative. I think we should celebrate their victories, too! 🏆
@this-is-trans-joy
This is trans joy!!!
Lesser spotted woodpecker/mindre hackspett. Värmland, Sweden (23 April 2023).
Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century
from The Hunt Museum, Limerick
i was compelled
I was also compelled
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Item: Walking Honker
This is Progress
In the Silence of the Green Garden, 2024. Bat Ella. Acrylic, oil and pigments on canvas.
the brothers Area
writers and artists everywhere all the time
“Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he’s got an answer: “536.” Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu killed 50 million to 100 million people, mostly young adults. But 536. In Europe, “It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,” says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist who chairs the Harvard University Initiative for the Science of the Human Past. A mysterious fog plunged Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia into darkness, day and night—for 18 months. “For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year,” wrote Byzantine historian Procopius. Temperatures in the summer of 536 fell 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade in the past 2300 years. Snow fell that summer in China; crops failed; people starved. The Irish chronicles record “a failure of bread from the years 536–539.” Then, in 541, bubonic plague struck the Roman port of Pelusium, in Egypt. What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says. Historians have long known that the middle of the sixth century was a dark hour in what used to be called the Dark Ages, but the source of the mysterious clouds has long been a puzzle. Now, an ultraprecise analysis of ice from a Swiss glacier by a team led by McCormick and glaciologist Paul Mayewski at the Climate Change Institute of The University of Maine (UM) in Orono has fingered a culprit. At a workshop at Harvard this week, the team reported that a cataclysmic volcanic eruption in Iceland spewed ash across the Northern Hemisphere early in 536. Two other massive eruptions followed, in 540 and 547. The repeated blows, followed by plague, plunged Europe into economic stagnation that lasted until 640, when another signal in the ice—a spike in airborne lead—marks a resurgence of silver mining, as the team reports in Antiquity this week.”
— “Why 536 was the worst year to be alive” from Science magazine (via principleofplenitude)