queer narwhals✨

underwater magpie

[mommahoney]

Lying Liars

YES!

[gaeliclass]

Law to make it illegal to lie in elections passed in Senedd

Welsh parliament agrees law to outlaw lying in future Senedd election campaigns.

[katiedingo]

I had to check this wasn’t The Onion

[marine-gifs]

A coelacanth displays its species' odd swimming technique. Filmed in Indonesia. From Deep Ocean: Kingdom of the Coelacanth (2025).

[apologize-to-no-one]

[distractionsfromthefood]

[lemonscribs]

Pride sharks! Happy pride month :D more super cute pride flags themed sharks coming soon 👀

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[batmanlesbian]

Last night, two earthquakes hit the city of Caracas in Venezuela. So far, reports show a death toll of 164 people, with nearly a thousand injured. Multiple hospitals and health centers have begun taking in patients and continue to expand their capacity to serve everyone in the area, and Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has declared a State of Emergency.

If you are able, please consider donating to the Venezuela Humanitarian Fund. They dispense donations out to local organizations on the ground in Venezuela, and you can donate as little as 2 dollars. If you know of any local organizations who are able to take donations online, please share them.

I am lucky in that my friends and their families from and in Venezuela are okay, and my heart is with everyone affected by this disaster.

[fadedlovemp3]

The death toll has risen to 589 dead and over 3,000 injured with hundreds of people still missing.

There are, of course, tons of local organizations and efforts ongoing. These often involving donating through Zelle or other mobile pay apps and I know that many people are less likely to donate if there are ‘extra steps.’

In light of this, I’ve added a few larger, “easier”organizations providing aid in Venezuela rn that you can donate to.

I Love Venezuela

World Central Kitchen

CORE

Direct Relief

International Rescue Committee

If you’d like links to some local orgs/action feel free to reach out.

[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a digital drawing of cooper and oliver from the big bad wolf series. oliver is in fur and cartoonishly teary-eyed and is thinking, he's afraid of me, of course he is, how could he not be? i never should have shown him this, now he's terrified same as everyone else and will leave me and- on the right, cooper is half kneeling, looking away and blushing with a tightly contained expression, one hand raised and shaking between them and oliver, and he's thinking, is it culturally insensitive to pet my boyfriend? End ID]

this is it this is the whole series.

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[reggiemess]

Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?

[theblogginggoth]

By Czech writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[only-cat-memes]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The Upper East Side Meowdow.

[darcylightninglewis]

The MET Gala is a fundraiser for The Met. Putting on the fashion exhibition is VERY costly. Has the politics, inflation, and bullshit gotten out of hand? Yeah. To give you an idea of how much this can cost, the collection I work for has 2 gowns from 1798 & 1809 currently being conserved and had mounts made for them so displaying them wouldn’t cause further damage. They were already in a solid B shape and cost more than 50k to conserve so the public can view them for 5 months each. They will then be reboxed (archival tissue and box) for a minimum of 10 years before they’re considered to be seen again. Oh, and archival material only lasts 10 years before it has to be replaced, whether or not it’s being considered for display.

Don’t like the gala? Support local museums with a textile or fashion collection, they get fractions of the revenue or publicity, and still aim to achieve a solid fraction of what the MET does. More collections are deaccessioning their textiles because they’re costly to maintain, large and need space. However, after big names artists like Van Gogh, Botticelli or da Vinci they get the most interest in from the public. The study of clothing is an opportunity to shine light on women & minority stories as well. Don’t let the fact that some of the guests suck and have more money than any of them need take away the importance of museums and dress study.

[jstor]

Hey I don't know if this is too promotion-ish, but a friend of mine is publishing an *incredibly* academic-minded fantasy novel complete with an absurd number of footnotes, essays on physical historical artifacts, an entire in-universe bibliography, all heavily inspired by the real-life story of the ancient Roman emperor Hadrian and his lover Antinous. It's written as an academic thesis by a young, fantasy-present-day historian who uncovers a manuscript answering a millenia-old mystery of where the Emperor disappeared to for five years, only to return a shell of a man who would speak nothing of his journey.

Anyway it just struck me that it would incredibly vibe with *waves hands* all of this academic amazingness. It's called The Wisdom of Emperors, by Alexandra Rowland, the kickstarter begins soon and features bonus papyrus bookmarks (I can't explain how hyped I am to feel actual papyrus) ok byeeeee

Fiction is such a compelling way to explore how knowledge is constructed! This sounds like a really interesting example of that approach :^)

[asymmetryestablished]

has anyone tagged the author @ariaste yet?

[ariaste]

omg wow this is like meeting a celebrity. hello @jstor wow wow wow

here is the link to the kickstarter campaign!!!! It launches in about an hour!!

Coming soon: The Wisdom of Emperors: Deluxe Collector's Edition

A new fantasy novel by Alexandra Rowland, author of A TASTE OF GOLD AND IRON, RUNNING CLOSE TO THE WIND, & YIELD UNDER GREAT PERSUASION

[rthwrms]

TODAY I AM EXCITED ABOUT ESCAPING THE TORTURE LABYRINTH (& other affirmations)

[skygenders]

College should be free and you should be able to study “useless” degrees just for the love of learning

[ariaste]

The Fantasy Romans book, at last

So excited to reveal the cover to my new book today, The Wisdom of Emperors! You can check it out on Kickstarter, along with the full summary!

Inspired by the story of the Ancient Roman emperor Hadrian and his lover Antinous, The Wisdom of Emperors is a second-world adult fantasy novel written in the style of a fictional academic text. It documents the translation and study of a world-changing artifact discovered in an archaeological dig: a manuscript which provides the clues to finally unravel the mysteries surrounding one of the most famous emperors of the ancient world. 

The Kickstarter campaign is for the deluxe collector's edition, but you'll be able to preorder the standard hardback/paperback, PLUS the early-access ebook, available to backers well before general publication to everyone else. And there's going to be some really, REALLY cool merch as well (genuine papyrus bookmarks, designed and blockprinted by my own hands!)

Anyway, the Kickstarter goes live on May 5th at 4:00pm EST, so if you are the sort of person who reads news articles about major new archaeological discoveries and gets SUPER MAD that they don't tell you absolutely everything about why it's important and what it changes about what we thought we knew..... this one's for you, babe. ;)

[ariaste]

Also I was told by a publishing industry insider that this book probably wouldn't sell because publishers are explicitly saying that they don't want "challenging" books, they want books that (and i QUOTE) "aren't necessarily making readers think"

So if that pisses you the FUCK off, sauce me a signal boost.

[fallout-lou-begas]

really exploitable image of batman for this website i think

[fallout-lou-begas]

[fallout-lou-begas]