this is so cool and also rosencrantz and guildenstern's sign names are killing me lol

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this is so cool and also rosencrantz and guildenstern's sign names are killing me lol
It looks like Crowley's hair is crimped in a behind the scenes picture and it really made me laugh I had to draw about it
Ducks on the lakeshore (Lake Constance, Hard) - Alexander Max Koester.
German , 1864-1932
Oil on canvas , 63 x 87.5 cm. 24.8 x 34.4 in.
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Theyre lovely! Thank you! I am studying the paint
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falconnier glass bricks. "falconnier. architecture of light" exhibition. museum of architecture.
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oil pastels and oil paints of my favouritest bookshop ever
wait….. he’s cutie?
a lot of his poses are just “corpse of a marine mammal bloating on the beach”
Harrow is like: this is my Powerful Genius Rival Master Warden of the Sixth. we may Collaborate on occasion, but he just waits to show his Alleged Superiority-
and Pal's like: look Harrow, i made us friendship bracelets!
I hope you get your favorite food this week and your favorite drink and your favorite 2k dollars
I'm sorry there's no magic in this post I'm just talking. I hope good stuff happens to people online I hope good things happen to all of us
here is a concept: time travel cop, fish & wildlife division
most of their job is dealing with the kinds of assholes who think black market tiger cubs are a great idea right up until someone gets mauled, except these are even bigger assholes with black market Smilodon cubs that they are even less equipped to care for
this is the most straightforward and therefore relatively headache-free part of their job, because it’s the same “put that thing back where it came from or so help me” song and dance every time
it’s also significantly less depressing than the trophy hunters who don’t even want an alive extinct animal. those are extra annoying because you have to undo the time travel that let them kill that poor Megatherium or thylacine or anklyosaur or whatever, and it’s always so much extra paperwork.
and those people suck, definitely, and have fully earned a stint in Time Jail. no question. but they still do not create anywhere near as much work as the obsessive hobbyists with their exhaustively careful best practices and worryingly good track-covering. also, weirdly, it’s almost always birds with them?
like. the guys who will flagrantly abuse Time Law to bird-nap breeding pairs just long enough to raise one clutch of eggs apiece, and return them seamlessly to their spots on the timeline. who are so determined to keep their pet (ha) projects going that no one even realizes what they’re doing until they have an entire stable breeding population of passenger pigeons up and running. who are now the reason that reps from six different zoos are about to start throwing hands right in front of you over who gets dibs.
those guys cause the most paperwork. and half the time they’re snapped up by the same zoo or wildlife preserve that gets their colony of ivory-billed woodpeckers or Carolina parakeets or — once, very memorably — giant fucking South Island moa, and they never even spend a day in Time Jail.
Ooh! There have been a few "surprise, not extinct!" events recently, again weirdly almost always birds, though occasionally fish. What if they really did go extinct, but someone from 2459 went back to 1900, built up a minimum breeding population in 2459, and then released them into the wild in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015? Releasing new groups every five years in our century would avoid a sudden suspicious population surge and no one would think to look for the culprit in their own century because Jerdon’s Babbler (real-world example, rediscovered in 2014) has always been there/then.
You could build a novel around the relationship between the time cop and the rogue bird lover. The time cop caught the bird lover over the passenger pigeons. They went to time jail for 10 years outside the timeline, and then were hired to manage the passenger pigeons by an accredited zoo's. The time cop suspects they're still up to something, but other than the passenger pigeons, all they appear to be doing is raising research colonies of perfectly ordinary birds. Except all the species they're working with were believed to be extinct at one point....
One thing real world zoos do now is...well...something like elven changelings if you think about it. They time the mating of a captive breeding pair to that of an isolated wild breeding pair in places where inbreeding is a serious risk. Then they swap a captive-born offspring for a wild-born--each breeding pair unknowingly raising a foster. Both zoos and the wild population get improved genetic diversity, without the risk inherent in "rewilding" a zoo-born adult. Doing that with birds and time travel would be even easier--grab an egg, take it to the future, raise and breed it, take an egg back to the original nest. The original parents raise their grandchild, not their child.
The hardest part for me would be explaining why the time cop thought this was wrong!
oh I love all of this. i think the time cop would eventually just be like “PLEASE get a license from an accredited zoo already so i can stop having to deal with you” but the accredited zoos aren’t on board with the “release into the wild 200 years ago” part of the scheme
and also our rogue bird enthusiast has a white whale and that white whale is Haast’s eagle
Things really got chaotic until the coelacanth enthusiast was caught reintroducing them in 1997. Time cop fish and game discovered this wasn't his first attempt to bring coelacanths back in to the timeline. He had been attempting to prove the coelacanth as the beginning of human evolution out of the sea from fish by reintroducing the species to points in the timeline as early as 1938, from the evidence found in his home.
He never would admit when his first attempt to bring the coelacanth back into the timeline was. He insisted that if he had only picked a point in history when the climate conditions were just right, humanity would have seen new proto humans evolve out of the sea. He was sure this "event" would bring about an end to religious war and hate crimes as humanity stopped worshiping false gods and united under science. That once they witnessed human evolution with their own eyes in real time, everyone would accept science as fact and finally unite in a single belief system. There would finally be world peace and global harmony. The archivists are still working to identify all his past attempts. The time cops suspect the coelacanth wasn't his only attempt at "uniting humanity under science." But since he was only caught with coelacanths in his possession, and there is no evidence of animal or "living fossil" abuse, the time cop agency is limited in how they conduct research. Some say archivist is the most difficult time cop position, since they must research history to identify tampering events without risking fracturing the true time record further. The archivists always get anxious when they learn a new person has been convicted of manipulating the timeline to add to the lazarus taxon. Lazarus taxon cases tend to remain open, complicated by offenders unwilling to cooperate.
he really is so beautiful sometimes
for contrast, this was Belphie one year ago. he's grown so much fur since then!!
I’m really fond of this one hehe :) it was posted on my Patreon @/magpiecrown a month ago, so if you wish to see these comics ahead of time feel free to check it out!
original gorgeous text written by @wizardlyghost can be found here, inspired by the conversation between @radishnt, @mothman-misato, @boimgfrog, @catsnraincoats, @pidoop, and @silverjirachi
thank you @elodieunderglass for unearthing this one!! Seeing the original heritage post kept making me sad I was never able to find the comic.
You’re very welcome!
On one level, I get why people want Rincewind to finally do magic, especially in fanfic. The man's been through absolute hell multiple times, insulted, dismissed, underestimated, and generally used as the universe's chew toy. It only makes sense to want him to achieve his dreams.
But I can't emphasise enough how important it is, thematically and character-wise, for Rincewind to be inherently incapable of doing magic. In a way, he's the inverse of a wizard, in that it would be more accurate to say that magic uses him. One of the eight great spells used him as a portable spell book, he was a sort of grounding rod for excess magic in Sourcery, and he's a tool of the gods, which themselves need the magic weakened reality in order to exist on the Disc.
Rincewind's stories aren't about overcoming one's weaknesses or finding hidden strength. He's not a hero, he's just someone who happened to be there. Rincewind's stories are of survival, and it's important that that's all they're about. At their heart, these are books about a man who isn't that strong or smart or brave or good or special in any way, but he still survives situations that no one should ever have to face and helps others along the way.
Giving Rincewind magic makes him Special TM, and that stops him being special as a character. Discworld is full of inspirational heroes who chose to do the right thing, and so became important from their choices. Rincewind means more to me as a character, because when you're fighting physical and mental illness, surviving is often the only victory that matters.
So Rincewind trivia is absolutely not my speciality, but I'd argue in addition to this that Rincewind became disabled when he opened the Octavo, and his story is a disability narrative/allegory in many ways (as well as the thematic/character reasoning of course, plus the parody elements of the first couple of novels in particular)
@datsderbunnyblog you're so so right! Rincewind can be a disability allegory, a trans allegory, a mental illness allegory, and more! What other wizard is giving us all that?
Plus, sadly, the University trying to cure him, failing, and then deciding he's not their problem any more, so kick him out instead of working with his unique condition, is depressingly true to how disabled people are treated in real life.
Also he's canonically gay, according to Pterry, though he doesn't get any, so it doesn't matter. (And yes, this was a swipe at Jowling Kowling, but he meant it.) And I kinda love it, honestly.
@vaspider can you remember where he said this? I consider myself a hoarder of Rincewind trivia and need to add this to my collection
It got dug up again recently on twitter but here's the original source
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i'm so happy about the frogs!!!
me also!! here is an incredibly round Kaloula pulchra courtesy of anukma on iNaturalist
frög!!!
one Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldi) for you courtesy of Peter Crowcroft, these guys KILL ME because why do they look like an uncooked piece of chicken???
“get a job” nope im splashing in da pool
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