Dem bones

Welcome to my blog, a slightly accurate collection of things from my head that I am willing to put online. I am studying palaeontology, and as such my blog is full of bones and skulls. Oddly enough, muscles and organs make me a little queasy. My blog will be a lot of bones and dead things, with personal posts about my life, my anxieties and my thesis. It also contains, but is not limited to, a bit of Doctor Who, Sherlock, Supernatural, Community, dinosaurs, science, animals (live ones this time), landscapes and pretty pictures, amusing things and a bit of comedy. I will do my best to tag things. Feel free to drop me a line to rave about bones and dead things, ask questions or just to say hi (I warn you about asking about my thesis, I may go on a bit). Enjoy my brain, folks. Feel free to stay a while.

[hplyrikz]

Everyone has scars. We just don’t all wear them on the outside.

Natasha Friend, My Life in Black & White (via hplyrikz)

[needledbynella]

This was a fun project! For my half of a trade with a needle felter I know from Instagram, I was asked to make a Parasaurolophus. I made a Parasaurolophus once before, but I knew for the trade I wanted to go a lot bigger and more complex.

Pitta here is the end result! Measuring in at about 10 and a half inches long, she took me 28 hours over the course of two months (!!!!) to complete. (I’m not the fasted needle felter in the world.) She’s got a wire armature through her body, and separate wire cores in her limbs so you can bend her and pose her, and then those limbs are string-jointed for some extra poseability as well! Her little accessories are made from embroidery floss and some beads I had lurking in my jewelry kit.

I can’t wait to send her off to Maria, and to enjoy the baby raptor I’m going to get in return!

[davidorogenic-deactivated201910]

RIGHT ON

[strangelykatie]

a little mothkeeper

♢ patreon

[ladysorceress]

[thek560]

Allosaurus #dinosaur #drawing

[honorized]

[thingsonhazelshead]

[tvisaddictive]

Geralt and Ciri’s reunion - part 5 (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)

“Spotkali się pośrodku podwórka. Popielatowłosa dziewuszka w szarej sukieneczce. I białowlosy wiedźmin z mieczem na plecach, cały w czarnej skórze lśniącej od srebra. Wiedźmin w miękkim skoku, dziewuszka w truchciku, wiedźmin na kolanach, cienkie rączki dziewuszki dookoła jego szyi, popielate, mysie włosy na jego ramieniu.” Andrzej Sapkowski - “Miecz przeznaczenia”

“They met in the middle of the yard. Mousy haired little girl in grey dress. And the white haired witcher with a sword across his back, all in black leather, glimmering with silver. The witcher in a soft jump, little girl trotting, the witcher on his knees, the girl’s thin arms around his neck, grey, mousy hair on his shoulder.” Andrzej Sapkowski - “The Sword of Destiny”

It is funny how Geralt’s / Ciri’s memory changed details of this scene. Instead of a dirty village yard - a beautiful meadow. No black and silver clothes, no sword. But the way they found each other is the same. The way they run towards each other. I love the relationship between Geralt and Ciri.

[klvmstrakur]

[flawinthemachine]

The Witcher III - Wild Hunt

[paxamericana]

The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.

Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]

During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]

The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]

[gaypet-deactivated20150628]

please read the full wikipedia article

[lesbophobes-deactivated20220907]

Orgrimmar during the incident.

[lyinginbedmon]

This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.

[nerdgerhl]

This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations. 

[hikikomomo]

Is this a real life thing

[cool-ghoul]

Yup! Scholars still look at it to this day.

[thalassarche]

Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) - photo by sypix

[bedupolker]

Gems as dragons?? (Yeah I posted some of these before but I touched them up) I guess that would make Steven dovahkiin…

[jedavu]

Russian Photographers Show How Birds See Our World And It’ll Leave You Breathless

Epic panoramic photos by AirPano

[lizclimo]

I finally drew a red panda, because RED PANDA <3 Check him out in my new book Lobster is The Best Medicine (out in Oct!) along with a bunch of other new characters. I’ll be introducing a new one every few weeks from now until the book is out :) Pre-order available here

[pdlcomics]

So Strong

[papermonkeyism]

*speechless arm flailing*

DONE!

[soulsreach-deactivated20160831]

Realistic, birdlike dino animation? But aren’t you supposed to make them stomp around heavily, roar for absolutely no reason, and move its head around like a sedated elephant? WHAT IS THIS LOVELY MADNESS??

[anauthorandherservicedog]

Psst, dominatrixeditrix

[neverwhere]

palaeoplushies nonbinarysunset irisbleufic !

[paleofeathers-deactivated201809]

AAAHH!!