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Time for a pinned post update!

Hi there!

🌕 I'm a non-binary Ukrainian pixelartist, fascinated by the darkness, the beauty in the horrible, and the contrasts of life ✨

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#pixelart #art #украрт #pinned post

ohpannoinno

Alla Horska's Map of Ukraine (1960, 1970)

lordsovorn

Aira Magical Girl Transformation / Bayonetta-style hair outfit

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lordsovorn

Bonus - amnesiac Momo POV

#meanwhile okarun and jiji offscreen are complimenting the cool cape #dandadan #aira shiratori #pixelart #art #украрт #lord diana art #dandadan fanart #dandadan spoilers #I suppose in this case #PS I drew this shitpost too good and got a label #how unfortunate

ladyvictoriart

The Sumiciu is a peculiar house-spirit from Asturias. These ravenous creatures are often blamed for the disappearance of household items and are known to swallow and disappear whatever they get their hands on. With an all-consuming void for a mouth they eat and eat and are never sated. Their true, ghostly form remains a mystery as they are never seen by mortal eyes.

#beautiful and gross #always nice to see something gross as hell (complimentary) that isn't wet

ukulelehitter-deactivated202603

its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic

#perfection

hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard

do not ride on

#majestic creature #even if I couldn't ride it I wish it was real #has vibes like it's a distant cousin to the Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant

Aira Magical Girl Transformation / Bayonetta-style hair outfit

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#dandadan #aira shiratori #pixelart #art #украрт #lord diana art #dandadan fanart

cinemamind

Killer Klowns From Outer Space✨💫

#beautiful and disturbing #fantastic imagery

subaru-copilot

looks inside procrastination -> it's anxiety -> looks inside anxiety -> it's fear -> looks inside fear -> it's shame

teaboot

Surely these circumstances will improve with additional shame

lordsovorn

Fun facts about procrastination and how to actually cope with it:

procrastination comes not from being lazy or underestimating the value of the task, but from OVERVALUING the significance of the task. In short, you feel like a Very Big and Very Important task is before you, and if you do anything even slightly wrong the world will explode. So a part of your brain insists that you put off this world-exploding risk in the hopes that you gain appropriate superpowers or smth in the mean time. It isn't very persuasive, so another part of your brain panics and screams that you must do it NOW and you are a bad person for putting it off and you know how that thought cascade can go;

so, to actually overcome procrastination it is useful to dismember this mental contruct of something Very Big and Very Important. First of all, Very Big Things always consists of smaller steps. Each of which is easy and largely insignificant and carries no risk of the world exploding. Asking yourself "what is the tiniest thing I can do now?" can work wonders, even if this tiniest thing will be just "set aside the time to plan this task and outline the actual first step";

similarly, even if the task is Actually Important, it is vital to remind yourself that it is not World-Ending Important. There is always a spectrum of success and a spectrum of failure. Paradoxically, to help you do the task you're procrastinating, it's important to remember that in the vast majority of cases not accomplishing the task perfectly neither kills you nor sentences you to hell for your sins. Think about what is the worst that could happen. Okay. Rate the probability of it actually going that way. Okay. Think about the best that could happen, what would happen in your wildest fantasies and if the unicorns were real. Rate the probability of that too. And now think about the most boring outcome possible and rate its probability. Let these emotional extremes pass through you, inform you and release the thoughts that don't direct you to helpful actions here and now

lordsovorn

Saint

#reblog

memecucker

Invention of bread is weird bc it’s like some Neolithic ppl were like “hey you know that tall grass thing that’s sorta edible but not really how about we take it and grind it into a very very fine powder which is extra backbreaking right now bc the wheel won’t be invented for awhile and then we mix it with water and heat it up and you know what let’s also toss some mold in there just to see what happens”

quoms

there are a number of distinct steps though, each of which can be observed in isolation. “grind tough seeds to make them edible” is practiced with other foods besides grains (like acorns). the natural next step after that is to add water, which gives you porridge: a common ancient roman meal was puls, very similar to modern cream of wheat. once you have that you also have a simple dough, and baking it to preserve it is a logical experiment (as is baking some you forgot about and left out for a few days, just so you don’t waste it... voila, leavened bread)

there could have been, and probably was (though i’m not an archaeologist) a substantial time between each of these innovations. it’s not too hard to imagine people being chill with “grind seeds for soup, select plants for bigger seeds” for a good while

quasi-normalcy

Do you ever wonder how many amazing things are fated to go forever uninvented because each step necessary to invent them is a completely unintuitive thing to do?

noctumsolis

Okay, that's not how bread was invented. I wrote a potted history, I could try to dig that out if anyone is interested?

quasi-normalcy

Please do

panecultus

I'm putting this on my bread blog, because of course I am. Also tagging @appendingfic who I think expressed interest.

Tens of thousands of years ago people foraged and hunted for their food and ate whatever they could. Among their forage were wild cereals, which included the ancestors of modern cultivated wheat, barley and others.

People like sweet things. Grains are starchy, but if sprouted they start converting those starches to sugars, so people would've left grains in water to sprout. These sprouts are also easier to digest, thus more nutritious, which bestowed an invisible advantage on those sprouting their grains.

If grains are left in water too long, however, they begin to ferment. Alcohol is produced. People like alcohol.

In ancient Mesopotamia the fermented grains were experimented with, resulting in an early form of beer. The process of making that beer was quite complicated and involved a combination of sprouted and mashed grains.

People wanted beer all year round, but early beers did not have long shelf lives and the grain could only be harvested at certain times. So the ancient Mesopotamians invented a way of storing the ingredients for beer.

It was made of the grain mash, honey, dates and spices that were fermented to make beer. For storage, prior to fermentation, the mixture was baked dry, cut into smaller pieces and baked again to remove all water. This produced bapir, a product very much like biscotti, which could be stored for later rehydration and fermentation. Sometimes it was eaten instead.

I've made bapir, and I've eaten it. It is brittle but delicious. It's also a form of unleavened bread.

Bread was invented as a way to store the ingredients for beer, which was most likely a development from a chance discovery. Leavened bread (that is, with bubbles) may well have been discovered when a mixture like that for bapir was accidentally allowed to ferment before baking. Yeast is responsible for both alcohol production and leavening.

There's a lot more to it, in terms of the cultivation of grains and the development of milling, than I've written here. It's been a process of millennia to go from chewing sprouts to eating soft white bread like that pictured. But every step along the way was small and simple.

quasi-normalcy

I never would have guessed that beer pre-existed bread. I've always just assumed that beer was an accidental discovery by breadmakers.

jenniferrpovey

Nope, beer came first. Mead is also very old.

headspace-hotel

Thanks, ancient humans!

thirtyknives

Australian First Nations people developed their own bread making culture independent of the beer-base route. As far as I'm aware, pre colonial Australia had little to nothing by way of fermented drinks at all, so the likelihood of beer being part of the evolution of native breads is unlikely. Their breads, made from native grasses, are both leavened and unleavened. There's also different bread making practices using different grains, dependent on location - Australia is big and Indigenous culture over here is no more a monolith than it is anywhere else. Kamilaroi bread is different to Yuin bread, for example.

The colonization of Australia actively suppressed Indigenous knowledge, and creating an image of the idle wandering tribes was required to justify taking Aboriginal lands. This means a lot of the archeology of how First Nations people developed their breads has not just been lost but deliberately suppressed. The idea that they were settled enough to have ovens, let alone a bread-making tradition, is only now really being examined. I wouldn't be surprised if the grains-porridge-bread route was true for Aussie breads, though.

#fascinating #curious how it went in the Americas