[batsandboba]

do not start gambling. go outside and locate a bug. now post it on inaturalist. bam. nature's gacha game

[eglcollagefun]

[tanadrin]

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

[jadagul]

https://xkcd.com/2567/

[tanadrin]

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

[bigscaryd]

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

[nordenflycht]

there's an xkcd for that also

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[uwmspeccoll]

A Moser New Year’s Eve

We close out 2022 with these somber wood-engraved landscapes separated by images of icebergs by noted wood engraver, book designer, and fine-press publisher Barry Moser from his 1983 Pennyroyal Press edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, printed by master printer Harold McGrath in a limited edition of 350 copies. The original edition, of course, was published in London in 1818, and Moser’s production was based on a copy of that edition from Special Collections at the Smith College Library.

With its somber winter imagery and our own penchant for wood engravings (18% of our posts for 2022 have wood engravings), we thought this was an appropriate way to ring out the old and ring in the new, as our graduate intern Olivia is currently working on a major exhibition of Barry Moser’s work to open in February 2023. Our copy of the Pennyroyal Frankenstein is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff.

We wish you all a safe and festive passage into the New Year!

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[lady-halibuts-chambers]

[littlestpersimmon]

Rejoice, For the Herald Of Hope Flies Above Us

[nightmaresyrup]

A tiny cookie-sized Ray

Just found out about Finless Sleeper Rays

Look how small they get:

[dantes-heaven-666]

Old school Lolita 🤍🖤

[niurd]

instagram.com/p/DZmpW-NDDEq/

[fragrantblossoms]

George Hendrik Breitner. Hond (Dog), 1893.

[hemipenal-system]

also yknow i do think that people would probably have more success dealing with transphobes if they just got obliquely blunt and unwoke about it

“look at her thats obviously a woman are you fucking stupid” works way better on the average transphobe and bystanders than “well shes transitioning so you should try not to be transphobic to her”

[hemipenal-system]

the average transphobe has kind of psyched themself into a paranoid reality that is mostly incomprehensible to the average person, and because of this the easiest way to socially defuse them is to make them look completely batshit insane. if you're surrounded by normal people, a well-placed "what the FUCK are you talking about?" mid-rant about chromosomes and hormones can shut them down infinitely better than trying to out-gender science them

[everydaylouie]

cupid (blender study of fuuka from yotsuba!)

[handmadelolita]

Otome no Sewing 4 - Classic Lolita and Ouji Coordinates

[lightbluefoods]

[atmeal012]

tsunekawa/クリームソーダ職人.旅する喫茶@tsunekawa_ 8月の誕生石 ペリドットのクリームソーダ

[eglcollagefun]

[sweetlyartemis]

birds that look like fruit <3