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I missed drawing them

btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:

Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!

especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)

gingersnappish

Also good for artists drawing with pencils/on a tablet/with a pen!

not-poignant

Also good for writers

wolfythewitch

epithets

ghosttrolls

I'm really really exhausted but would anyone like me to make a tutorial on how to make an origami frog. It's the easiest origami to make imo, you don't even use square paper so it's super easy to just grab whatever paper you might have to make one

ghosttrolls

Okay so first you need a rectangular piece of paper. Honestly, note cards are ideal for this, because of the ratio of size to paper weight. Whichever side you want to be facing out should start out touching the table. For example if you had a paper that was red on one side and white on the other, you'd start with the red facing down. Here I wanted the blank side facing out so I put that side against the table.

Your first fold will be along this purple line, bringing the top right corner to meet the left edge of the paper.

Your goal here should be to fold to a point like this, but it doesn't have to be perfect. Then, you undo that fold, and do the same thing the other way. You fold along the new purple line here, making an X shape. Folding the second time tends to be easier because you can line up your corner to the edge of your earlier fold.

Then we unfold that again, so you have two folds making an X.

The next step is to flip it all over,

And then make a horizontal fold that cuts right through the middle of the X. Fold along the purple line so that the top edge of the paper lines up at the bottom of the X:

ghosttrolls

After this, unfold everything, and flip it back over so you're in the original position.

All this criss cross folding had to take place to make the next step as easy as possible. We're taking the top edge and bringing it down to meet the bottom of the X again, WHILE pushing the middle line inwards. Kind of like you'd fold a cootie catcher.

This results in a multi-layered triangle shape!

After that, we're making the legs! Fold the two corners of the triangle up towards the top, like this:

ghosttrolls

We're gonna have to make this guy a bit skinnier before he can be done, though, so the next step is to fold the outer two edges inward to meet in the middle, like this:

And the last part is next! We're folding up the back legs. Take the bottom edge and fold upwards along this line:

And the last fold is to take that and fold it back in half

And then you should have a thing that slightly resembles a frog!

If you press down on the back and let go suddenly, it even jumps!

👆imagine that guy jumping. It's hard to photograph...

But you can even add your own touches, like smiley faces or whatever you want! Frog time!

Thanks for reading!

ghosttrolls

If anybody ends up making one show me! Or if I missed something in my tutorial you can also let me know

kittycatcarla

Because i used a fairly big paper (as far as the origami ive done before goes) ive done a couple additional folds at the end to shape the legs and the head a bit differently. It doesnt work as well as i thought it would, but weh. Anyway this was fun!

shencomix

I hate going on this shit

bunjywunjy

SIEGE OF THE SEA DEVILS

hey everyone, happy friday and welcome back to another excellent episode of Weird Biology!

this week, we’re examining a charismatic and almost perfect oceanic killing machine! you might be picturing a shark, but you’re wrong.

it’s the flamboyant, fantastic, and fucking ecological nightmare, the

NAAAAAANTS INGONYAAAAMAA

Lionfish are a group of 12 species in the genus Pterois (tare-oh-eese), meaning “winged”. these fish are among the most striking and beautiful in the ocean! they’re also full of poison knives, but more on that later.

also called Dragonfish, Firefish, Turkeyfish, Tastyfish or PEZ DIABLO (Devilfish, or “underwater satan” if you use Google Translate), Lionfish are native to the Southern Pacific and Indian oceans. they are mostly found on coral reefs, where they can grow up to 17 inches long and reach about 3 pounds.

3 pounds of pure whoopass.

small but mighty! SMALL BUT MIGHTY!

see, when it comes to sheer badass ability to survive anywhere, Lionfish are damn near perfect. most reef fish are specialized creatures with a fairly low set of tolerances. not Lionfish! for starters, they’re common in every level of the water column up to 1000 feet down. that’s impressive for a regular fish, let alone a reef specialist. they can also tolerate temperatures as low as 60 F, which again, fucking ridiculous. this fish could probably survive on the moon.

on top of that, their reproductive rate is insane. unlike many reef fish who follow a yearly cycle, Lionfish reproduce monthly. and every month a female Lionfish may lay- wait for it- 15,000 eggs. add in the fact that they have maybe three natural predators and it’s a wonder we aren’t knee deep in them right now.

good news! the Lionfish will submerge us before the oceans do!

Lionfish may look like delicate lacy parasols, but that bold coloration is actually Nature’s equivalent of wearing a bright orange hazard vest! but if we’re doing a direct comparison, in the Lionfish’s case it’s more like the equivalent of wearing a bright orange hazard vest while standing on the roof of a burned-out van, waving a submachine gun at traffic.

see, those lacy fins are are concealing dozens and dozens of long, razor-sharp spines venomous enough to incapacitate a human. any predator unwary enough to get a mouthful of the Lionfish’s poison shiv collection will experience immediate debilitating pain, paralysis, and almost certain death. (this venom isn’t strong enough to kill a healthy adult, but it really fucking sucks and can floor you for at least a day. do not touch.)

it’s time to play our favorite biology game, How Many Poison Knives Is This Animal Packing? if you guess wrong, you die.

Lionfish are voracious eating machines, in addition to being basically a floating wedding dress full of poison ice picks. they feed on fish, invertebrates, mollusks, and smaller Lionfish. these flamboyant cannibals feed by disorienting their prey with a jet of water, and then swallowing it headfirst like a Hardees breakfast sandwich.

and they’ll cram as many fish/shrimp/members of their own species into that ravenous maw as possible- a Lionfish’s stomach can expand to 30 times its original size on a binge! and in lean times, the Lionfish can slow its metabolism to a literal crawl. they can survive a three-month fast and lose only 10% of their body weight. jesus.

can anything stop these frilly nightmares?

SPOILER ALERT: no.

the question is unfortunately relevant. in 1992, Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida and demolished a public aquarium. Florida had bigger things to worry about, so nobody noticed that six Lionfish had been tragically swept out to sea. in the complete absence of natural predators, those six Free-Willied Lionfish (plus many others released from the pet trade) have become MILLIONS.

Lionfish have launched a hostile invasion of Carribean waters, and are now found from the Gulf Coast to North Carolina. this is a big fucking problem.

and that’s no joke.

apart from how dangerous they are, the Lionfish’s natural fish superiority allows it to easily outcompete meek and innocent native fish. this is putting stress on invaded reef ecosystems, and the problem is only getting worse as Lionfish continue to spread further north. Lionfish are even learning to tolerate mildly brackish water and have been found in estuaries four miles from the fucking ocean.

at this rate, we’re all going to wake up and find a Lionfish in our beds.

it’s their bed now. accept your inferiority before Earth’s true dominant species.

the fate of these oceans rests on the questionable shoulders of the Lionfish’s only (un)natural predator:

you.

the only current way to slow their spread is to just eat the absolute hell out of them. that’s right, Lionfish are edible. and not just that, they’re completely fucking delicious and heart-healthy! they’re called Tastyfish for a reason. and for all their prowess, Lionfish have yet to evolve a defense for projectile weapons. (that’s what happens when you put all your skill points into Melee, Lionfish.)

and remember: eating a Lionfish is taking part in the front lines of a battle for the future of your oceans. also, they’re just delicious.

so do your part, and eat up!

WORLD IS A FUCK, 410,757,864,530 DEAD LIONFISH

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IMAGE SOURCES

img1- Pensecola News Journal img2- Oceanea.org img3- Wikipedia img4- Don Johnson img5- Hakai Magazine img6- Florida Keys Treasures img7- CNN img8- dmagazine.com

bunjywunjy

two weeks later and look who’s on the cover of Smithsonian!

all-my-ocs-are-evil

Fair Lady Claire

Don't you just hate it when the person you dread the thought of becoming the most visits you and goes on about how similar you two are?

jackalopetrope

1five1two

invertebrates

i can’t blame him i’d do the same thing

stealingpotatoes

the father, the son, and the daughter

(shoutout to @chorus-of-hell for the idea!!!!)

(commission info // kofi)

oneheadtoanother

littlegraycats

this is just objectively funny though

nsomniacsdream

Great joke tho? Who complained?

catnippackets

tfw your coworker is such a creep that you’d literally rather be kidnapped by the local supervillain than be around him

deadbishop-blog

broken-horn-of-equius

Evidently landlord and lawyer were some rough slander 250 years ago, maybe we still have some things in common with the founding fathers

silencedrowns

my favorite thing about this movie is that it pissed off Nixon so badly (by having a song about how conservatives are obstructionist) that he tried to not only have the song cut but also get the negatives for that scene destroyed and they only added the song back in decades later

it’s on YouTube now though! So you can watch the musical number that made Nixon do a whiny baby tantrum!

beemovieerotica

shout out to the film’s editor who back in the 1970’s completely hid the negatives for that scene for decades allowing us to have it restored for the 2002 re-release