Roxcie

small greedy gremlin & draenei enthusiast. I also like sci fi, fantasy, steampunk & art. This is my everything/OOC tumblr.

[vikaq]

Lex Luthor this week 010522

[princessroxcie]

Evil Mr. Clean

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead 

[bcnnibeau-deactivated20200330]

case in point

this is a Hell of a downgrade 

[garbage-empress]

worst crime capitalism ever committed was eliminating Horny Oil Painter as a viable career option.

[higglety]

I went down a rabbit hole this summer researching romance novel covers and painting fanart in this style and

this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also

many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist

Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.

She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:

magnificent

[sindri42]

Wait shit, she retired in 2003? I think that’s exactly when I started seeing shitty photoshops on all the new romance novel covers.

She was literally carrying the entire industry single-handed and then they just did not replace her.

[elethart]

Witches on a railroad adventure 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃☕

[hayden-christensen]

STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH - 1x01 AFTERMATH (2021)

[archaeologicalnews]

Ancient Native Americans were among the world’s first coppersmiths

About 8500 years ago, hunter-gatherers living beside Eagle Lake in Wisconsin hammered out a conical, 10-centimeter-long projectile point made of pure copper. The finely crafted point, used to hunt big game, highlights a New World technological triumph—and a puzzle. A new study of that artifact and other traces of prehistoric mining concludes that what is known as the Old Copper Culture emerged, then mysteriously faded, far earlier than once thought.

The dates show that early Native Americans were among the first people in the world to mine metal and fashion it into tools. They also suggest a regional climate shift might help explain why, after thousands of years, the pioneering metallurgists abruptly stopped making most copper tools and largely returned to stone and bone implements.

Earth’s largest and purest copper deposits are found around North America’s Great Lakes. At some point, Native Americans learned to harvest the ore and heat, hammer, and grind it into tools. They left behind thousands of mines and countless copper artifacts, including lethal projectile points, hefty knives and axes, and petite fish hooks and awls. Read more.

[skimble-shanks-the-railway-cat]

[blujayonthewing]

[ifanimaltrapped]

[k-phoenix]

Alright, add “You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands” to the list

[valtsv]

cats be like you want to pet me so bad it makes you look stupid

[jadedaceofspades-deactivated202]

@disparatepeace another good one; I don’t know if I’ll try this or not because of my aversion to beans . I might though.

[porcupine-girl]

I love that every. Single. Time. He is genuinely surprised, delighted, and baffled when it turns out good.

[dependsoncontext]

[awed-frog]

thanks I hate it

[siderealsandman]

You Got a Friend In Horse 

[garrettauthor]

YOU DO NOT HAVE A FRIEND IN HORSE

[snini-9]

April 3, 2021: J Pod- San Juan Channel, Spieden Channel, and Haro Strait

J58 Crescent

J38 Cookie

J37 Hy’Shqa

J57 Phoenix 

J26 Mike

Photo Credit to the Center for Whale Research Encounter #16 - April 3, 2021

[nope-deactivated20161202]

[ruinedchildhood]

[stream]

[staci-pratt]

When you’re playing Far Cry Primal and go into a mission that is a higher difficulty than expected

[howtocan]

Baby bird season is incoming and I’d like to remind everyone that birds do not have a significant sense of smell. Bird parents will not reject birdlets because you have handled them.

If you see smol birbs with few or no feathers on the ground, you can safely put them back into their nest, bird parents will still care for them.

If you see smol birbs with some or most feathers on the ground, please leave them there, as bird parents are probably nearby watching and feeding.

[jumpingjacktrash]

nakey bird = accidentally fell out, is cold and scared, put back in nest! if you can’t reach the nest, try to put it on a wide branch or fork so predators can’t get at it as easily.

scruffy feather bird = starting to try the fly thing, not very good at it. only put in nest/branch if predators abound, i.e. you have four outdoor cats and they’re licking their chops.

fluffy feather bird = smol fly guy! do nothing. can probably get away from predators and will flip its shit if you pick it up.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Reblogging this because I’d always heard the ‘Don’t touch a distressed bird its mom will reject it’ thing treated as fact before now, I didn’t realise it wasn’t true…

[illogical-bullshit]

Spring is coming, time to reblog this again.

[thenatsdorf]

Dad who didn’t want a cat. (via)

[ghostlyss]

[schmergo]

Pitch: Muppet Lord of the Rings. Miss Piggy as Eowyn. Imagine her just throwing herself at a human man playing Aragorn. Imagine her defeating the Witch-King of Angmar by going “HI-YA!” and karate chopping him.

[starlitskvader]

Throwing herself at Aragorn

Then Kermit arrives as Faramir and she just bodily pitches Aragorn offscreen