"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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we're not kids anymore.
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Textile painting on linen about the slaying of the cold-drake Scatha by Fram, the fourth Lord of the Éothéod, inspired by the depiction of Sigurð slaying Fáfnir from the Hylestad Stave Church.
(A task for the 20th Tolkien Mailing Competition.)
Textile painting on linen about the slaying of the cold-drake Scatha by Fram, the fourth Lord of the Éothéod, inspired by the depiction of Sigurð slaying Fáfnir from the Hylestad Stave Church.
(A task for the 20th Tolkien Mailing Competition.)
With thanks to those that requested it, we are organising a sympathy card for Rachel Talalay following the loss of her husband and would like to invite Good Omens fans to sign:
Add your message to Rachel Talalay's card.
This is simply an opportunity to extend condolences and kindness during a difficult time.
Whatever opinions or disagreements people may hold, harassment is unacceptable. We do not condone that behaviour, and it should never define this fandom.
Compassion costs nothing and it is reflective of the community many of us want to be in. If you'd like to sign, please do so by Sunday 24th May - otherwise, please scroll on by.
Let's do the right thing, folks.
Good Omens 3 spoilers
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GO s1 was amazing. GO s1 made me fall in love with Aziraphale and Crowley and write so many fanfics about them.
GO s2 made me stop writing them. It wasn't finished, and I was waiting for the conclusion to see whether I'll accept it as their true story.
After GO 3, I can accept it as one of the versions, but not the only one. It's an ending true to the characters and their love but... what about everything else? It takes away the comforting feeling of s1, where you could imagine an angel and demon living in this world, loving each other. That's not true anymore. They still love each other, but they're no longer an angel and a demon. The phone call during covid? That didn't happen here, that happened in a different universe with similar history, billions of years ago.
Maybe Heaven and Hell were flawed since the beginning. But I think they deserved a chance of redemption, not erasure. I think it could have been done... *can* be done. The finale showed us one important thing, although it was one that we already knew (but it is nice to have it acknowledged): their love is a constant in every universe.
We can imagine them in our world as humans, and it's not even that much of an AU anymore. But we can also imagine a world where s2 and the finale didn't happen, and the story went another way towards an ending where Heaven and Hell are also redeemed. I've already written two such stories and I'm actually a bit relieved that the finale didn't make them feel less valid to me. In Back to the Roots, they get there through a lot of pain, while in A Special Place in Hell (co-written with @hotcrosspigeon), Hell is redeemed through their typical shenenigans.
In any case, the finale was a closure. We don't have to wait and wonder how the story ends anymore. We can accept the important parts of it (Aziraphale and Crowley do and will love each other, in every universe), and we are free to imagine them in any version of the universe we like.
I want all animals to become sapient enough to produce art specifically because I want to see what sort of sex homunculus caricature each species would create if given the ability to draw
Like we've already got the anime waifu with the needle-waist and watermelon-bazonkas and borzoi-legs and bug-eyes. Now show me a fucked-up stupid beetle as drawn by a horny beetle. I want to see what a cartoonishly sexy lion looks like according to lions. I want to see the most ridiculous drawing of a peahen that would have the peacocks squaring up by the fountain.
We give this power to ostriches and they just start drawing people
You can actually see the bug version in some orchids. The orchid takes the bug's idea of "sexy" and makes a flower that attracts the males better than the actual female.
(Picture from the paper "Pollinators as Isolation Mechanisms: Field Observations and Field Experiments regarding specificity of pollinator attraction in the genus Ophrys" by Paulus (2018))
Good Omens 3 spoilers
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GO s1 was amazing. GO s1 made me fall in love with Aziraphale and Crowley and write so many fanfics about them.
GO s2 made me stop writing them. It wasn't finished, and I was waiting for the conclusion to see whether I'll accept it as their true story.
After GO 3, I can accept it as one of the versions, but not the only one. It's an ending true to the characters and their love but... what about everything else? It takes away the comforting feeling of s1, where you could imagine an angel and demon living in this world, loving each other. That's not true anymore. They still love each other, but they're no longer an angel and a demon. The phone call during covid? That didn't happen here, that happened in a different universe with similar history, billions of years ago.
Maybe Heaven and Hell were flawed since the beginning. But I think they deserved a chance of redemption, not erasure. I think it could have been done... *can* be done. The finale showed us one important thing, although it was one that we already knew (but it is nice to have it acknowledged): their love is a constant in every universe.
We can imagine them in our world as humans, and it's not even that much of an AU anymore. But we can also imagine a world where s2 and the finale didn't happen, and the story went another way towards an ending where Heaven and Hell are also redeemed. I've already written two such stories and I'm actually a bit relieved that the finale didn't make them feel less valid to me. In Back to the Roots, they get there through a lot of pain, while in A Special Place in Hell (co-written with @hotcrosspigeon), Hell is redeemed through their typical shenenigans.
In any case, the finale was a closure. We don't have to wait and wonder how the story ends anymore. We can accept the important parts of it (Aziraphale and Crowley do and will love each other, in every universe), and we are free to imagine them in any version of the universe we like.
Chinese dancer performs bellydance(Raqs Sharqi) in his oc assassin style (cr 舞贝勒）
Fragile life. At first I wanted it to be autumn around them but thought that spring can be even sadder
Hug me from the inside out
Anyway yew trees are the best trees for making bows with but they grow very slowly, much too slow to sustainably satisfy the demand for bows, which is why there are very few wild yew forests left in the world. People eventually stopped making bows out of them for this reason, but I don't think they're actually protected at all despite the radical shrinking of their native territory because people will still cut veteran yews down for landscaping reasons as per that one very angry conservationist article I read. One thing that I did look up but struggled to find reliable sources on was the symbolism of the yew tree in pre-Christian celtic cultures. I found a number of well-sourced lists of symbolism that Christians applied to them but when I went searching specifically for pre-Christian cultures the sources got a lot less reliable. It was the habit of early Christians to simply borrow other cultures' symbolism without altering it much at all, so I imagine the symbolism would be pretty much the same but I would still like to have more information about it. Anyway the entire tree is extremely toxic except for the red fruit surrounding the aril, which is a potent laxative. Reports indicate that it doesn't taste good but I think they're just lying so people don't accidentally eat the arils and die
Look me in the eye and tell me this isn't the juciest most succulent berry you've ever seen. The seed inside will kill you slowly and painfully. BTW
A 5 year old boy with no significant past medical history presents with his mother to the Emergency Department after a berry ingestion.
The five year old who ate a few in this case said they were yummy and I trust him in this case more than I trust someone lecturing me about how poisonous it is
I can confirm they are yummy and perfectly safe if you don't eat the seed (the tree relies on birds to eat those and spread the undigested seeds). They have a mild sweetness with a slightly slimy texture. I don't know about the laxative effect, I have eaten up to 10 with no such effect, so it's probably not that potent.
Behold the pocket-sized western pygmy possum! (Cercartetus concinnus). One of the world’s smallest possums, this species typically weighs just 0.5 oz (14 g)—the size of an AA battery. This dainty marsupial is a nectarivore, meaning that its diet consists primarily of plant nectar. It inhabits treetops in forests throughout parts of Australia, using its long prehensile tail like a fifth limb as it moves from branch to branch.
Photo: Donna Belder, CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist
A spring cartoon for New Scientist
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among birds: the illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer. Available on Birds of the World, the Phylogeny Explorer offers a captivating experience for exploring avian evolution, discovering closely related species, and grasping the timescales at which they evolved.
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I’m sorry I had no choice, my hands moved on their own
FINROD FELAGUND [MARK II]
A pretty rushed piece that I started because I wanted to try out some specific lighting directions (essentially light being ‘caught’ by golden hair, then strained and refracted and thus the lit side of the face seeming shadowed and vice versa) with it, and midway through I decided it would be very fun if Finrod was re-embodied with his monsterfucking werewolf-killing scars!
Man’s truly been through the wringer and came out hotter for it. Everyone say thank you Mr Werewolf for the sexy little snarl 😇
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Eönwë: Herald of Manwë
Manwë: all right buddy boy. this is your big day. the host of valinor is heading to middle earth. now, remember what i told you about wearing normal armour and not embarrassing both me and my eagles by emblazoning a giant eagle sigil on your breastplate?
Eönwë: don’t worry, my lord. i do not have a giant eagle sigil emblazoned on my breastplate. here, take a look yourself.
Manwë: good, good. wait. wait. where’s your helmet. where’s your fucking helmet.
Eönwë: like i said, my lord. i do not have a giant eagle sigil emblazoned on my breastplate.
Had the worst day I've had in the last few years but in pursuit of pretending it didn’t exist, I decided to hyperfocus and finish the Eönwë in the most normal helmet commission I shared here 🥲
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A stained window (glass colors and cut paper) depicting the three insances when Huan spoke in the Tale of Beren and Lúthien.
A task for the 20th Tolkien Mailing Competition.
