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kivcraft

zagreuses-toast

modern day who’s on second

official-lucifers-child

“me saw who! me saw who!!!”

wolfwarrior142

I cannot stop watching this video. It’s fucking hilarious and I’ve watching it’s approximately 20 times already

#favorite

pandabomb

huh? pompeii? nah dude that song’s so old and overplayed, if the radio station puts that song on one more fucking time I’m gonna—-EH EH OH EH OH EH EH OH EH OH

caramiaaddio

oh hey this feels like a good time to mention that bastille did a remix of pompeii. with goddamn hans zimmer. listen to this to blow your tits clean off

ankle-beez

importantdogimages

plaguedocboi

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

hometoursandotherstuff

beemovieerotica

Genuine question. What does it feel to be a famous blog?

people don't even know that tumblr still exists

ygnjii

yourlocalgayartistttttt

Anyone up for some LEONA FANART???????

pastelxcrown

Drawing practices

pik0u-pi3

I really wish I could actually finish my illustrations, but my adhd is kicking my behind. Anyway, here’s an unfinished Leona as well.

This was my first time drawing him actually. Maybe I’ll get better with time…?

thatdisasterauthor

The state of graphics creation in the wildland fire world is, shall we say, abysmal. Which isn't really anyone's fault! Graphics/design training is not a part of wildland fire training at all, and it used to be that outsourcing graphics was a viable if expensive option. But as the pace of the wildland fire world continues to increase exponentially, outsourcing just isn't possible for most graphics. This means a lot of people with zero training are forced to make graphics in house and they're just doing things as best they can.

This has resulted in some...ah...not great stuff. Which is not on the people creating them at all, usually! They're being asked to do things not in their job description that they have no background or training in.

But there needs to be training. If people can learn to run a damn chainsaw, they can figure out font hierarchies and basic color theory.

So, in my never-ending quest to shove better art skills into the wildland fire world, I created this 25 page guide last year! It covers why good graphics matter, the history of art in the wildland fire world, basic design terms, and basic design principles.

Now, I know, I KNOW, some other professional designers/artists are going to look at this and go "Katy, what the fuck? Some of this is not right." I know. But I wasn't going for the Most Technically Perfect and Correct way to do things, I was going for easy to understand and grasp at a basic level when you're just starting out and not aiming to become a full on design pro. Because let me tell you, the bar is in hell. If I have ONE MORE PERSON tell me that PowerPoint is the best and only accessible design program (yes, fucking PowerPoint) I am going to lose my mind. So yes, maybe I didn't explain the full breadth of DPI and print qualities and color spaces. But if it stops at least one brochure being made in PowerPoint then I'm calling it a win.

You can view and download the full guide on my website if you're interested.

avoidcrowdraws

Well okay

prokopetz

Boring: Assigning "levels of canon" to Star Wars media.

Not boring: Construing all Star Wars media as variously motivated propaganda which actually exists in some notional Star Wars universe, ostensibly based on but often only tenuously related to real events, and loudly speculating about what "really happened".

prokopetz

#i am contractually obligated to say name ONE political agenda benefitting from the droids cartoon ill wait (via @cosmik-homo)

That one wasn't motivated by any particular propaganda goal; the studio just wanted to cash in on the fame of the heroes of the Rebellion, but they were too cheap to pay for the likeness rights, so they wrote out all the real humans and just used the droids (who don't have rights).

jadagul

I've always enjoyed the take that the early (Legends) EU stories are in-universe science fiction.

Galaxy just went through a horrifying paroxysm of violence caused by a superweapon (the Death Star) and the vicious Emperor Palpatine.

So for the next couple decades, pulp stories are full of either "What if another, worse superweapon??" or "What if Palpatine comes back??"

And none of that makes sense, and it definitely doesn't make sense that there would be five distinct Horrible Superweapons all discovered in an eight-year period. But it absolutely makes sense that many different authors would all write pulpy stories about a bunch of different Horrible Superweapons.

Not quite the same thing, since it accepts at least the original trilogy as "accurate", but a very fun take.

necarion

The original trilogy is a reasonably high-quality docudrama, produced in the early New Republic era. That's why the rebellion activities get put on such few individuals, despite being a thing that involved millions as a galaxy wide civil war. Luke and Han legitimately did blow up the Death Star and Luke defeated Vader. But some of the other exploits are rather exaggerated.

Leia and Han thought it was funny than hell.

The prequels were a cash grab docudrama that suffered from too many mandates. The stuff in Phantom Menace that folks find boring is *much* closer to the actual events, but the Ken Burns guy got muscled out. The series also really struggled with "humanizing" Darth Vader while keeping scope in check.

The biggest failure was how it treated the Clone Wars. In the real Clone Wars, all sides used clones, and this was part of how awful it was. But, the showrunners realized that it would make the Old Republic look a lot worse if they were using the same weapon as the enemies, so the Confederacy of Independent Systems got to have disposable "battle droids" instead.

Also, the Clone "Wars" got compressed into one four year conflict, from something that spanned multiple conflicts over decades and a ton of regional and galactic powers.