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juney-blues

I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...

juney-blues

hmm okay i'm trying to dig up a source on this painting, to see if i could find it in any higher quality

but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao

and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed

and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways

which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something

very mysterious

juney-blues

oh doing his name in russian gives me some actually useful results, why didn't i think to do that

juney-blues

Солнечный город "Sunny City" - No date given.

Мир "World" - No date given.

Чусовские просторы. "Chusovskie expanses." Canvas, oil, 1997. Exhibited at the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Nature.

Осень "Autumn"

juney-blues

ooooh this one is really nice

Огни трудового Тагила, "The Lights of Labor Tagil" acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery in 1986.

juney-blues

октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm

Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm

Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976

okay that's all the art this article had, i'm really glad i could find some this artist's other works!!!!

only-tiktoks

unashamedly-enthusiastic

omnybus

Concept: Baba Yaga house walking around on chicken legs, being followed by one of those plastic Fisher-Price play houses on baby chick legs

Excuse my 15min rush art job, but I just HAD to draw this

Still love this concept. Here’s a redraw that was NOT sketched in 15min while waiting in line at the DMV

fairytaleslive

In the Russian fairytale fantasy film The Last Warrior: Root of Evil (Последний богатырь: Корень зла, 2015) the two cottages have eggs that hatch to reveal their offsprings: little cottages. Do with that information what you want…..

beatrice-otter

For people who have ever wondered “why in the world would anybody imagine a house on legs” or thought “they must have been drunk when they came up with the idea” let me introduce you to a very typical storehouse used across Scandinavia and into Slavic areas:

This type was used mostly by the Sámi, the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula. They’re mostly nomadic, and would build these storehouses (Áittit) up off the ground so that bears and wolves couldn’t get into them while they were elsewhere.

Other groups in Scandinavia and Russia also used elevated storerooms; the Norwegian word for them is “stabbur.” Norwegian ones are still elevated off the ground but are often not as high (because they lived right next to it year round) and often had walls around the legs so you could store non-food items that animals wouldn’t care about in a weather-proof room.

rhube

You get a similar thing on Komodo. Because of the dragons.

onichophora

I read somewhere, if I remember right, that Baba Yaga’s house was like that because a very old kind of coffin was up on stilts too. But maybe it’s to avoid dragons and other scavengers instead. I guess even Baba wouldn’t want to be raided by a bear either

dinovelvet

steampunkskull

@elodieunderglass an adorable thing with legs?

elodieunderglass

High quality!

unsung-idiot

this probably happened on their second day there or something

yume-fanfare

i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book

paperjoshi

what the fuck is a time knife

bramblepatch

strawberrylovely

prismatic-bell

The amount of shitty news coming out this week made me feel like this needed to be said, so.

For all the boys and young men currently afraid that being male means some kind of moral death sentence: the same world that produced Neil Gaiman and Donald Trump also produced Levar Burton, Steve from Blues Clues, and my (step)dad, who isn't famous but did look at a deeply traumatized child with a bunch of mental health issues and said "is anybody going to support that?" and then didn't wait for an answer. There are good men out there doing good work in ways both big and small. Choose to use your strength to help rather than hurt, your voice to speak for those who must be silent, and you can be one of them.

Be the man Mister Rogers knew you could be. He wasn't wrong very often, and he believed you could do wonderful things. I do too.

(Anyone clowning on here will summarily get their ass kicked and their blog blocked. Pain is pain and I know there are a lot of scared teenagers right now.)

justabitfishy

My father can't tell the difference between knitting, crochet, weaving, or anything else you can do to make string into fabric. He doesn't understand how different fibers are used or what quality yarn looks like. He's a bit colorblind and doesn't really *get* why I spend hours and hours playing with yarn.

He finds a yarn or craft store everywhere we travel. He tells me to take my time looking while he sits on the steps or scrolls his phone. He teases me gently about the bags I come out with and helps me carry them. When I finish a project, he admires it and tells me to be proud of my work.

Every time someone says something negative about "all men", I think of him.

prismatic-bell

Please tell your dad I love him. Mine is proud of my crochet, but has never once taken me to a craft store. Yours is definitely winning in the "congratulations, you have a fibercrafter" category.

charlesoberonn

I don't know how people came to think that "the banality of evil" means "evil people are people too".

That's also true but it's not what the banality of evil means.

The term was coined by Hannah Arendt in her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the "final solution" in the Holocaust.

It describes the way in which the Nazis at large and Eichmann in particular have turned the horrendous act of mass murder into just another job, disconnecting themselves morally and emotionally from their actions.

Before the death camps and gas chambers, Nazi soldiers simply shot Jews into mass graves by the hundreds of thousands. It was a lot cheaper and faster, but it caused great psychological distress for the murderers who pulled the trigger.

The leadership's solution was a massively upscaled version of the "gas vans" they used to mass murder hundreds of thousands of Germans with disabilities and mental health issues.

Shooting bound civilians in point blank range over and over is something you can't just pretend you're not doing or is no big deal. But if you're just the guy who sorts people into groups. Or just the guy that funnels them into a room. Or just the guy who opens a cannister on the roof. It's much easier to distance yourself from what you know is happening.

The same principle applies to much lesser evils, like soldiers operating drones from a distance, or insurance workers denying coverage for life-saving treatment.

everythingfox

Synchronized swish

yr-tiktok-mom

grandtheftflora-again

“When does the gathering actually happen”

noblish

@nebulaaaaaa

libraford

They Left MAGA Steve Vilchez Chicago Read His Story Erica Roach New York Read Her Story Justin Yu California Read His Story Deanna Raper Nor

This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.

Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.

libraford

Yes, actually.

Look, I know people want to react to the 'leopards eating faces party' with a big fat 'told you so,' but these are ex-cultists who are reaching out to people who may need an exit with a soft landing.

People who are deeply in a cult are afraid to leave it and MAGA is no exception! There's a fear that once you leave, you won't be accepted by anyone, so they stay even if they no longer believe in their rhetoric.

A very intelligent person can fall for a cult if they feel that it can offer them something they're missing. The outside world is perilous and you can be safe here. Your friends will reject you now that you've joined us, but we will accept you. Decisions are hard, we can make them for you. The secular world has broken you, we can give you new life through christ.

If you read some of the testimonies (and so many of them are young people) you'll see how much of it is 'I didn't see it, it took someone I love to show it to me, I can't unsee it now.' We've all done things we regret. Some regrets are bigger than others. I would rather forgive them and allow them to do good work than berate them for a decision they made when compromised by anxiety.

If you want to punish them, that's up to you.

But yeah. I think we should cheer for them.

kedreeva

This is going around Facebook right now

And it's 100% the sentiment that needs to be cultivated. If you want MAGA to go away or be diminished, then you have to give people grace when they leave. Not only that, but you literally have to make it as easy as possible, or all you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

animentality

cardassiangoodreads

Maybe it's because I've followed the vaccines-cause-autism crowd for over a decade and a half now and so RFK Jr. and his insanity are not new to me, but as much as I think it's good to point out the horrible effects of what he's doing to our health infrastructure, I really don't think that he's doing this because he wants to do a eugenics and intentionally cull people from the population or whatever Bluesky doomers are saying. I think that is giving him way too much credit. He is that stupid, and his worm-brain has been so cooked on anti-vaccine conspiracies for so long, that he genuinely believes he's doing the right thing here. That's part of what makes him so incredibly dangerous: He's a true believer. He genuinely thinks he's helping by destroying our ability to fight infectious disease, among other things. And somehow even seeing dozens of Samoan children die as a direct result of his anti-vaccine advocacy didn't dissuade him in his crank crusade.

I think there's a sort of comfort in dooming for some people, and specifically in seeing everything you disagree with as coming from those people being fundamentally evil and cruel. And certainly, the Trump administration gives us plenty of examples of things where that is the case, where "the cruelty is the point" is fully accurate: everything about its immigration policies and enforcement, the crusade against diversity in every form, threatening universities and media companies that criticize Trump, the transphobia, the defunding of USAID and public broadcasting and national parks.

But I also think it's important to note that sometimes people support blatantly destructive, cruel policies because they are really really really really really really really fucking dumb.

catpda

how can ppl say cats dont have feelings like.

when my cat got deadly sick she refused to eat a single thing and it had been days but when i started crying she ate just a little bit, and upon seeing how happy it made me, kept doing it whenever she could.

now whenever im sad or crying she finds wherever i am with a mouthful of food and eats the pieces one by one, every time looking up at me making sure i was watching her eat it all because she knew it made me happy. and it DOES make me happy

i love cats!!!

catpda

im so glad my little Foofy has touched everyone’s hearts… she luvs you all

geneeste

This is the funniest fucking thing, omg.

THE SAPPHIC MERIDIAN

naamahdarling

This is INCREDIBLE.

As someone born pre-1995, I can attest, so many women had no idea lesbianism was an option. This is damn near every female friend I had as a teen and below, and some of the lads-later-ladies as well tbh.

Thank god for Gillian Anderson and Laura Dern and Jodie Foster and Sigourney Weaver and

whitepeopletwitter

beckiboos

What the fuck those things are real I thought it was just a cartoon

epic-games-official

I thought the same thing when I moved to Arizona

sharper-and-bigger

Little velociraptor

sonoran-partisan

Lads

squeedge

ok but roadrunners are so cool, I can seldom think of a bird more velociraptor-like

more people need to know they’re real because look at this, this is some real walking with dinosaurs shit

they have powerful legs allowing them to run up to 20mph and leap to impressive heights with ease

they are extremely swift and fearless, quick enough to take down a sizable rattlesnake and other large prey animals like lizards and mice

they have several unique adaptations to thermoregulate, such as the dark patch of feathers on their back which acts as a solar panel to absorb heat, or its crest that either releases or absorbs heat by exposing its skin

they have these long, stiff tailfeathers that they use as a counterbalance when running, very reminiscent of the rod-like tail of a dromaeosaur

and they are capable of bursts of flight/gliding with incredibly beautiful plumage

I’m genuinely shocked how many people think they’re made up, they are real and they are AWESOME

callmebliss

I love you Mr. Meepmeep

naamahdarling

Cannot emphasize enough that the statistical likelihood of you exclaiming “IS THAT A FUCKING ROADRUNNER?!” the first time you see one in the wild is close to 100%.