Thief of the Night

Neither bold nor free, but let's see how far I can go. I'm no bot, but this blog is reblog-heavy and on whatever whim I have!

[cottoncandylesbo]

oh hello delightful forest boar. why are you charging at me so fast

[depsidase]

[songsofwaterandnight]

No, app on my phone, I don't want to edit it with AI. I don't want to generate with AI. I don't want to ask the AI. I don't want to make AI wallpapers. I don't want to rewrite with AI. I don't want t-

[longseasons]

"muscle mommy" "cardio bunny" these women don't fucking KNOW you bro

[such-sights]

Why do people call strong women such things... when they should be calling them, "sensei".

Train And Fight.

[thecorpsethatwalks]

re-watching the original trilogy is great because you really get a sense for how weird luke skywalker is, just how quickly he becomes that weird AND how quickly he commits to it. Like he's honestly pretty chill in a new hope, but the absolute INSTANT he figures out he can move shit with his mind he goes full send on the cryptic off-putting bullshit. Walking around in full black robes, speaking in riddles, aura farming and backflipping whenever physically possible. He's clearly annoyed when he first meets yoda in empire, but he dismisses that pretty quickly in favour of ALSO becoming an over-dramatic space wizard. The combination of his two teachers being yoda and obi-wan kenobi and him being the son of anakin and padme creates the single most intense and fundamentally kind force sensitive perfectly embodying the heart of the jedi order whilst also serving egregious amounts of cunt and being bizarre to be around. He would have THRIVED as a jedi master during the high republic. he would have been every padawan's favourite and every other master's worst nightmare

[zhoudadudugongjin]

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

[zhoudadudugongjin]

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

[inthefallofasparrow]

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[foone]

Me: I'm trans

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[catgirl-kaiju]

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[notaspy11]

Literally beyond parody

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Some example steps from the production of a twenty color print from Shinbi Shoin's Processes of wood-cut printing explained (1916).

Full text, including all twenty steps, available here.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

An illustration of a tiger from Shōzō Kawasaki's Chōshunkaku kanshō v.3 (1914). Full text here.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A dinosaur of the late Cretaceous, Struthiomimus altus, engaged in various possible behaviors from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History v.35 (1916). From the top: running, anthill attacking, tree browsing, and shoreline hunting.

Full text here.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A violet-tailed sylph hummingbird from Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History v.55 (1926)

Full text here.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

An angular roughshark from D. Marcus Elieser Bloch's, ausübenden Arztes zu Berlin pt.2:Atlas 3. Full text here.

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

A variety of talons from August Holmgren's Skandinaviens foglar (1866-1871). Full text here.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[mariolanzas]

MOSASAURIA.

Mosasaurs were the third main lineage of Marine Reptiles of the Mesozoic, and the last one. They diversified throughout the late Cretaceous period, and were the dominant predators of the oceans until they became extict at the same time with Dinosaurs. Their evolutive lineage is not totally clear, but we know the are related to snakes and monitor lizards

This art is available at Redbubble for prints and more here. Many more are shown in this Youtube video I dedicated to this lineage of marine reptiles

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Prints and more items of my artwork

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Yeah so apparently this is not a cute flower symbol like my dumb ass thought, it's a defective utility pole tag.