Hag | 25+ | central European | she/her/they/them | ♠

I like to read a lot and watch anime; Currently dying in rare pair hell; Also exist on AO3 as KittfoxHowlett

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[miiilowo]

having anti role models is a beautiful thing. it's not easy to live up to someone else's behavior but it is easy to lasso yourself into behaving right when you realize you're reminding yourself of the worst person youve ever met in your entire life

[1yuann]

What is it? Right. It’s old drawing.

[cyberass]

@tobirama-week DAY 6: WHITE DEMON

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Dino people, I am abusing my blogging power to ask a critical question. The image below is a reconstruction of Sue, the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This replica is considered to be accurate based on what we know thus far.

My question is this: How do we know this is the correct size of her eyes? Is it based on the size of her skull or something else?

[werevampiwolf]

They can see how big the eye sockets are from the skull. Also, most dinosaurs had bones called scleral rings, which are bones inside the eyeball. I don't know if we have any examples of T. rex that preserved them, but we do have other therapods.

(The info page is by @alithographica )

[werevampiwolf]

I'm reblogging again to add that this means that we know how big their pupils are, since the hole in the scleral ring is only a little bigger than the pupil.

It's also how we know that most dinosaurs had round pupils. It's pretty common for people to depict dinosaurs with slit pupils, probably because of Jurassic Park, mostly because it looks really cool, but nope, they were round. There are very few, if any, birds with slit pupils, which is further evidence for round pupils. And most extant animals with slit pupils are on the small side. Many people think of cats having slit pupils, and they do, but it's the little ones. Lions and tigers have round pupils, because slit pupils are most useful closest to the ground and they actually sacrifice some of their visually acuity for the sake of being better at judging distances in low-light conditions, and most animals with them are ambush predators that jump out at their prey. You ever seen a video where someone throws or bounces a ball towards a cat and it bops them on the head and they seem surprised? That's why; they struggle to track where the ball is going, especially horizontally. So for anything over a certain size, slit pupils are a detriment, especially if they chase down prey.

And yeah, if you've ever seen a scientific source say that a certain species of dinosaur hunted at night and wondered how the hell we could possibly know that, this is how. Their eyeball bones.

[manul01]

I love this chicken

[janihanso]

for rotg anniversary <3

also my prev anni piece from 2022,,,,

oh 2012 ty for releasing rotg, one of my fave brain fungus’s of all time

[midoristeashop]

I didn’t realize how wide this is LMAO

[leaderincrows]

No it's not usually what I draw but I read Of the Northmost Winds and Skies by @jjackfrost and I am in pieces

[darkwingduck]

I know in my heart, in my very soul, that athelas is related to mint. I just KNOW that kingsfoil is in the lamiaceae family.

There are hobbits who recoil in genteel horror when some innocent little baby hobbit gardener proudly says they planted kingsfoil in the herb garden because it smells nice.

The houses of healing at Minas Tirith do not challenge the king about having it in their medicinal gardens, but they do side eye him very hard.

Someone decides to plant it in Mordor

[rosemary-andtime]

ooOOOHHH I HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT THIS

First: YES athelas is absolutely mint family, not just because of the good smell text clues but because Tolkien probably based it on field woundwort (Stachys arvensis) which 1) as you might guess from the name was used for treating wounds, 2) commonly grows specifically along Roman roads in the same way and for the same reason that athelas grows along Númenorean roads, and 3) is also in the mint family (but does not smell good; one can imagine Tolkien learning this lore and going okay but what if it was Better)

Second: absolutely fucking set that weed loose on the Gorgoroth plateau. Mints are fantastic for aerating dense but nutrient-rich soil (like, yk, volcanic areas) so that other plants can get their lil roots in there and actually make use of those nutrients, so they're a solid front line soldier if your goal is aggressive restoration of a dead area. They're also really good at removing toxins like pesticides and heavy metals from the soil so I would like to formally recommend to Elessar Telcontar that he plant heavily in the Morgul Vale as well to combat whatever the fuck is happening in the curséd soil and water there. 🌿🫡

[batfam-belfry]

Batman & Robin: Year One #12

Deadpool/Batman (2025)

Batman hears about 15% of what his Robins say. He has the selective hearing of a tired father at an amusement park with three kids hanging off of him and screaming in his ears. He is the exhausted mother trying to relax for the first time in a week while her child goes "mom mom mom mom look at this hey mom are you watching you're not watching-"

[lovertm]

woven rhubarb by rubybhogal

[modmad]

me: if this an oil painting I'm gonna-

this: *is rhubarb*

me: ... Well I Did Not Expect That

[woolandflax]

This one’s for the tumblrinas

[clarisliadon]

lets make cookies guys!

Sugar

Butter

Eggs

Flour

Salt

Baking powder

Vanilla extract

Chocolate chips

Remaining time: 3 days 8 hours

[pointless-achievements]

Achievement Available:

C'Mon, You Know You Wanna...

Do it. Click that button. You know which one.

[gilgil-machine]

Gilgamesh in Fate/Strange Fake E4 - The Canon of Demigods

"I can't fully protect you from those ghastly arrows if I leave you here. As you are my Master… it would trouble me so if you were to die."

[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[thecheatinghomunculus]

new reaction image

[rural-panoptes]

[saintjosie]

[damnpharos]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[deerkibble]

[sneakyspades]

[neraiutsuze]

[hacvek]

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[olyia-stories]

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

[dragonpyre]

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

[serinos-kitt]

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

[dragonpyre]

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

[serinos-kitt]

So what is a rain shadow?

[lethalbutterfly]

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

[roach-works]

this is because, as clouds are forced upwards by rising land, they cool and dump their rain. so the side of the mountain facing the ocean (or an inland sea, or a great lake) gets all the rain as the clouds are squeezed out, and the opposite side gets nothing.

my favorite thing is the american great lake snowbelts! so, the 'flow' of weather across north america, in very general terms, blows from the northwest on down south and east to the gulf of mexico.

so the wind is blowing from west to east, and in the winter it's a dryer wind than in the summer because it's colder. but after blowing across a great lake for a hundred miles, the wind is wet again. and that wet turns into snow. so for all of these lakes, the big cities are on the west side, not the east sides, because the east sides absolutely suck to live on.

the sole exception is buffalo, NY, which literally has to be there because, unfortunately, that's where all the important canal stuff between lake ontario and lake erie is happening.

also this always strikes me as cool, check out where cleveland is:

it's right at the edge of that snowbelt. and you see way more cities west of it than east, too.

[beatrice-otter]

#but again. mordor looks like that becaue sauron made it#and he's an ass

On a Watsonian level, sure.

On a Doylistic level, Mordor looks like that because plate tectonics was a fringe, ludicrous, laughable theory that nobody outside serious geology nerds had ever heard of until scientists proved seafloor spreading in the early 1960s. The first edition of the LotR trilogy was published in 54-55. We literally did not know that plate tectonics was real until almost a decade after the book was published, so obviously, it was not something Tolkien could have been considering as he made his maps.

I don't know enough meteorological history to know when white people figured out about rain shadows and added it to geology classes, or what would have been taught about volcanoes and such. But any education Tolkien got on the subject would have been in childhood/adolescence; his college education focused on the liberal arts, not the sciences, and his professional study was linguistics and the middle ages. So anything Medieval and earlier European authors wrote about he had a pretty good chance of knowing about. But not much exposure to modern science. So his science knowledge was probably limited to "what English schools taught at the turn of the 20th Century."

[whetstonefires]

I mean, it's true he didn't know about plate tectonics, but he did know what mountains look like, and that it's not normally That. And it wasn't his style to break that kind of norm without cause.

LotR has recurring themes of the reckless imposition of one's will on the natural world creating ugliness, an order you thought was inherently an improvement that in fact is inferior to what you have displaced. (Typified by reckless tree-felling; a reflection of the despoiling of the English countryside and the world by Progress.)

Mordor is a rectangle because Sauron is an asshole.

[beatrice-otter]

#the rain shadow thing otoh was undoubtedly total ignorance#but those mountains were made as the fortress of a demigod#too steeped in evil to understand beauty#it's *supposed* to look like something that Shouldn't Exist#like quite often this is something that happens in worldbuilding yes#things are arranged Wrong because a person doesn't grasp the underlying logic#but mordor is a bad example for the same reason it's an obvious one#it's So Very Wrong because it was designed to be wrong#to give you a bad feeling with how much it shouldn't look like that#if he just wanted it unapproachable on all sides it could've been in a caldera formation it didn't *need* corners#the corners were a choice#tolkien's job involved lots of looking at maps and things okay#meanwhile people whose lives revolved around the weather generally knew where the rain happened#long before it was formalized into 'rain shadow effect'#people not having The Science doesn't mean they don't have eyes and brains

[cannibalcharon]

Western Washington vs Eastern Washington is a good example of a rain shadows effects for fellow writers.

Western Washington:

Eastern Washington:

For fantasy writers, Washington is a really cool state to study because we have nearly every biome from alpine forests, desert, alpine desert, rainforest, riparian forests, wetlands, coastal, and so on. We have two main mountain ranges, the Olympics and the Cascades. We sit on three tectonic plates which give us said mountains (and earthquakes). Our ecology is really neat here.