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creature-adjacent

Carnivorous plants doin this is so funny to me

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

Kanada?

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

cerisebird

hi there 😳 actual first post here and I've never used tumblr so I don't know what I'm doing, but I love to draw and I love zosan, so here they are <3

lamuliz

straw hats sleepy cuddles wip :333 + mihawk & nico robin doodles

bluestation

'26 march-ish assorted sketches (log #14)

pnglove

Tumblr snek

allthingswhumpyandangsty

YOU. WILL. WRITE. oh you want to write so bad. all the motivation is here. the plot is so good. words come to you so naturally. YOU ARE GOING TO WRITE. RIGHT NOW.

the-reblog-squad-deactivated202

Reblog if you don't use Generative AI to write fanfics/original fics or to create fanart/original art.

the-bedheaded-league

Reblog if you’d rather give yourself papercuts between each of your fingers and then rub hand sanitizer all over your hands than use generative AI to write or draw anything ever

another-name08

I made a similar post on my other blog with more fandoms but of course I had to do TMNT

This is lowk one of my main take aways from TMNT as a franchise.

emeraldhonour

diaryofandnwoman

cbarc

okay let’s get all this straight.

the FIRST figure skating backflip was performed by this guy Terry Kubicka

now Terry landed his flip at the Olympics in ‘76 and in ‘77 the backflip was quickly deemed illegal in this level of figure skating as it was considered dangerous and, some argue more crucially, couldn’t be landed on one foot, as is the required landing for all other figure skating jumps

Fast forward to 1998 at the Olympics once more and French skater Surya Bonaly.

It is widely discussed and disputed as to whether Surya was historically underscored by American judges. She won five straight gold medals in the European championships from ‘90 to ‘95 but couldn’t break past 4th place at two Olympics during this period of time. It was at her 3rd Olympic Games she pulled out her backflip and crucially landed it on one foot.

The one foot landing was seen as the big obstacle in the way of the backflip being legalised. That and its danger level. In the time between Kubicka and Bonaly however many skater had already added two foot landed flips to their performance routines (ie not scored competitions)

Some people see this as the moment the backflip should had been legalised in competitive figure skating. Many skaters had executed it safely and Bonaly proved she could accomplish the one foot landing. Bonaly placed 10th at this Olympics, incurring harsh deductions for the illegal backflip. The backflip was at no point considered in contention for legality despite Bonaly’s accomplishments, (one of which being the first female skater to land a quad jump at the Olympics). Her Olympic backflip was seen as a middle finger to Olympic judges and the stringently unprogressive nature of the sport. There were more moments than this throughout her career such as her initial refusal to mount the second place podium at the ‘94 worlds for reasons unclear. There are rumours of her ‘throwing tantrums’ or being ungrateful, and while this may be true, it’s not an uncommon sight in the world of figure skating, and given how black women are still treated in sports today, especially those that take physical appearance and body lines into account, it is undoubted that Bonaly faced racial bias during her professional career.

Surya Bonaly continued to preform her now signature one footed backflip in performances. And the backflip remained illegal in competition.

Within the conversation about Olympic figure skating backflips, there is one skater who may well be the most overlooked. The one who got the committees to legalise it! And that would be this guy, Adam Siao Him Fa

At the 2024 worlds he told himself if he skated his routine clean he would finish with a backflip, a move he had been practicing with his coaches despite it still being an illegal move. Fa did skate clean, and did preform his backflip, and so incurred the mandatory penalty of a 2 point deduction for the use of an illegal manoeuvre.

In a figure skating full circle moment, one of the judges on the panel for that competition, was Terry Kubicka himself. Almost 50 years on from his backflip he has since commentated on the irony of seeing the move he began in the 70’s and being required to deduct points for it. This two point deduction wouldn’t stop Fa from still claiming the gold medal that year. He preformed an illegal move at the end of a perfect routine and took the gold. Mere months after this at a scheduled review the backflip was removed from the group of illegal moves. It would not be granted any technical points like other jumps but would no longer incur a two point deduction.

Today at the Olympic Games in 2026, Ilia Malinin, thanks to these three (and many more performance skaters) before him has landed the first backflip at the Olympics since it’s legalisation.

So to wrap up.

First backflip (two foot) - Terry Kubicka - move made illegal

First backflip (one foot) - Surya Bonaly - move still illegal

Legalisation turning point - Adam Siao Him Fa - move made legal

First fully legal backflip - Ilia Malinin - flip still does not score points

In the future personally I hope to see the flip be utilised by more and more skaters, be given a score, and personal creativity to be more welcomed into the sport, because really we could have had 50 years of Olympic Backflips at this point.

doxblogsstuff

In the interest of accurate information, Adam didn't win the Gold in 2024, Ilia did. It was actually Ilia's first World's Gold in which he became the first skater land six different quads cleanly.

Adam decided to throw in the backflip as a statement because he had bombed his short program. He was in one of the first two warm up groups and he knew it was unlikely he would win as he had Ilia, Yuma and the then reigning world champion Shoma Uno all skating after him. He skated a phenomenal free skate. It was gorgeous to watch and the backflip was an exclamation point on the end. It also showed that the move could be done safely and with muscality within a program. He would later go on to use that backflip as an example of how the move could be effective when he championed the ISU for the rule change.

It is also important to note that the move is not really super safe. There have been several juniors who have been injured doing the move, and there is currently pushback due to this. In the future we might see the move regulated more, perhaps by making it only legal for seniors (much like how quads and 3As are currently regulated).

kait-draws-stuff

video of my peregrine falcon animation. hopefully this works better than the GIF

funny-tik-toks

vibraph0ny

Everyone's all "ohhh 2026 bring back physical media" until I start talking illuminated manuscripts and then suddenly we're not on the same page anymore

memorizingthedigitsofpi

I made an illuminated manuscript skin for AO3? So im doing my part!

neddea

This is fantastic and needs to be shared. I just changed my skin to this and it brought me so much joy, thank you so much for making it

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24. Türchen: Schokosalami!

Zutaten

300 g Schokolade

150 g Butter

60 g Sahne

150 g Butterkekse

70 g Mandeln

50 g Pistazien

3 EL Puderzucker zum Wälzen

So geht’s: Die Schokolade klein hacken und mit der Butter im Wasserbad schmelzen. Etwas abkühlen lassen, dann die Sahne unterrühren. Die Butterkekse mit den Fingern grob zerbrechen. Pistazien und Mandeln grob hacken. Alles mit der lauwarmen Schokocreme vermengen und die Masse 20 Minuten im Kühlschrank anziehen lassen. Dann in Frischhaltefolie zu zwei Würsten formen. Die Enden wie bei einem Bonbon fest zudrehen,zusätzlich in Alufolie wickeln und fest andrücken, so dass die Folie knittert. Über Nacht im Kühlschrank fest werden lassen. Würste wieder auswickeln und für die echte Salami-Optik in Puderzucker wälzen. Wer möchte kann noch mit Küchenschnur binden. Vor dem Anschneiden kurz Zimmertemperatur annehmen lassen.

Tipp: Man kann auch andere Nüsse verenden, oder, wenn man nur Butterkekse verendet, wird die Salami quasi zum « Kalten Hund ».