The Lion in Winter

OOC blog for @ser-rex for memes and politics and signal boosting and silliness. Hit me up at Rex#2287 on Discord!

[blancabitchcraft]

[mornington-the-crescent]

[ach-seal-beag-gearr-deactivated]

*vibrating* it’s the cowboy witch poem it’s the cowboy witch poem it’s the cowboy witch poem

[kathaynesart]

Total party wipe in my DnD game the other night. Damn op kittens.

[deebeezkneez]

[ze0nitis-deactivated20240628]

this holds WEIGHT…

[brightlotusmoon]

This is power. Being able to maintain boundaries is a power shift.

[nymianlion]

someone who truly loves you back and is in a healthy place to be in a relationship and secure in themselves will also be happy that you set them! That is a sign that you are both communicating openly, honestly and with respect. You both know you can get what you need and maintain your autonomy.

[starpeace]

video game companion: we have to go right now we have to complete this SUPER URGENT quest, everyone is relying on us the WORLD is relying on us

me stopping to loot every single corpse:

[todaysbird]

i can’t express how much id kill or die for jeremy mayer’s typewriter bird sculptures

[cryptcollector]

i finally got around to getting the firefox youtube dislikes extension and i think this enhances my experience immensely

[cryptcollector]

i did not expect this to get notes. anyways heres the links to Return YouTube Dislike: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtube-dislikes/ and https://returnyoutubedislike.com/

and also heres the link to YouTube Enhancer (has really cool features like filters and the rewatch statistics bar): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/

you may have to play around with the settings to get a result that you want, but go nuts, have fun, go watch your favorite youtube videos

[redloftwingfeathers]

I've noticed the new era of Zelda fans aren't aware of this gem, so I thought I'd upload it here. This was a commercial exclusively for Japan in the early 90s to promote A Link to the Past for the Super Famicom. It's fully choreographed, and the practical effects and puppeteering aged super well for its time! Not to mention, the rap is still bangin☆

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

appellomancers are based

[tilthat]

TIL Boudica destroyed so much of ancient London, that dozens of feet below current street level, lies a thick red, burnt strip archaeologists call the “Boudica Destruction Layer”

via reddit.com

[raionmimi]

[t00thpasteface]

on this, the most out-of-touch of thursdays, i would like to offer yall a very special shout: NIL SE HAALVUT. big props to the imperial library for their dragon dictionary! use this shout wisely, dragonborn…

[cyber-junkyard]

[thenamelessdoll]

Found this hiding away in a long-forgotten folder. :o ((Earth source: X))

MORE ANIMATION EDITS

[shadythetortie]

Okay, don't get me wrong here. I LOVE Jurassic Park. I love seeing their dinosaurs. But after watching Prehistoric Planet, and going back to look at this...

And then looking at this...

Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn't wrinkle like they're dehydrated. You can't see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren't supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.

THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.

Well done, BBC.

[shadythetortie]

STOP BACKYARD BREEDING YOUR DINOSAURS

Get your Tyrannosaurs from responsible, DKC registered breeders! Anyone who says your rex should be skinny or 'thats just how they are' is lying to you.

[gerard-guey]

When you've been out of high school for years and u use simple math

[collapsedsquid]

[argumate]

it’s kind of established that there is no “get out of a beatdown” role you can take other than being a cop yourself, right? media, medics, lawyers, all fair game.

[quasi-normalcy]

Turns out that cops are just dudes who really like beating the shit out of defenceless people. There’s really no other qualification.

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

For those who hate lawyers I do want to point out that legal observers are sent by the National Lawyer’s Guild, which is the primary organization providing pro-bono legal defense to protesters and black community leaders who have been jailed to try to derail the movement.  So, these are not the lawyers you hate.

[lesbiansandpuns]

Just to reiterate: the entire point of NLG legal observers is to deter unlawful or improper behavior on the part of the police / law enforcement personnel–and to document such behavior, if they aren’t successful in deterring it. In the U.S., they have to be trained and certified. Their job is to help you protest to the full extent of your constitutional rights and with minimal interaction with the criminal justice system. I cannot stress the extent to which they are on your side.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

The National Lawyer’s Guild’s motto is “human rights over property interests” and was created as a direct fuck you to conservative and exclusionary bar associations. Their dues are way cheaper than other bar associations and you can join even as a jailhouse lawyer (a prisoner who teaches themselves the law to advocate for others). 

And just because this is literally my job: your negative perception of lawyers is literally propaganda. The portrayal of defense attorneys as evil for defending criminals, the idea that suing people is something only rich or very greedy people do, the complete erasure of legal aid as a thing that exists, are all designed to make you afraid to advocate for your legal rights.

[gardengnosticator]

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

[gardengnosticator]

[narcissus-thee-squeekual]

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

[nymianlion]

these are so beautiful! I might see if there are prints available, my mum would love these for her 1900s time traveller bathroom wall~

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there’s a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[bogleech]

felt like reblogging this again :(