womp womp

[bogleech]

The stuff inside a reeses cup is so full of protein and fat and just salty enough it feels more like a hearty dinner than a "candy bar" snack. I feel like you could put it in a spicy chicken and pumpkin curry. But they don't sell it by itself. You gotta get one of those full pound reeses easter bunnies maybe. Eat all the chocolate off. Then put the guts in the curry.

[sapphicfandompirate]

[bogleech]

This is actually just normal peanut butter, like any other peanut butter jar, but with reeses branding :(

Reeses cup filling has a texture and flavor wholly unlike any peanut butter, counting any other imitation recipes or off-brand cups.

They say you can replicate it with enough powdered sugar and graham cracker crumbs to peanut butter, but I've never gotten that to come out with exactly the salty flavor of the real reeses filling, even by just adding salt!

Reeses does something else to make it. Something secret and forbidden. A shadow particle. Dark materials.

[sabertoothwalrus]

Favorite letter?

lower case cursive f

[hotvampireadjacent]

[velvetvexations]

Weird Fantasy (1950) #18 written by Al Feldstein and drawn by Joe Orlando, with editor Bill Gaines

[velvetvexations]

So he said it can't be a Black. So I said, "For God's sakes, Judge Murphy, that's the whole point of the Goddamn story!" So he said, "No, it can't be a Black". Bill just called him up and raised the roof, and finally they said, "Well, you gotta take the perspiration off". I had the stars glistening in the perspiration on his Black skin. Bill said, "Fuck you", and he hung up.

Al Feldstein, Tales of Terror: The EC Companion

[iconuk01]

Just to add context for those not aware of the impact of this story.

The reason it was so important for narrative purposes, was that the plot concerns the visit of the Astronaut, in his completely opaque spacesuit, to a planet populated entirely by self-aware robots (originally from Earth) who have built their own society and are petitioning to be allowed to interact with Earth again as equals.

They have a democratic government and free choice of careers etc. as the orange robot serving as guide tells the Astronaut.

The Astronaut notices that there are two different types of robot on this world; the orange ones, who are in charge, gifted access to all information and facilities. and the blue robots, who are seen as more limited in function, have less access to information and resources, and are not allowed positions of power or as wide a choice of employment opportunities. Even transportation is segregated.

The Astronaut investigates further and discovers that the blue and orange robots are actually structurally identical, there is absolutely no difference between their potential or capabilities, and it is only because the orange robots are instructed by their Educator system to consider themselves superior, that the difference exists.

The Astronaut tells the robots they are not ready for re-alignment with Earth, until they come to terms with their own unfairness, and how Earth had had to deal with this issue themselves. When that time comes, the robots will be able to ally with Earth.

Then he leaves in his spaceship, and it's only in that one final panel that we see the Astronaut is black.

Not subtle, nor should it be, but for 1950 this was a breathtakingly powerful statement, perhaps the first of it's kind in the genre.

The black character was not a caricature, or comedy relief, he was a main character in his own right, a human who "simply" was black.

[assortedinsanities]

Ok, but this story is sadly revolutionary even now. That is not just a human who happens to be black, as far as every other character in this story is concerned this is the most important, maybe even the only human they ever see, who happens to be black.

As depressing as that is, but a black person just casually representing the entirety of humanity is a breathtakingly powerfull statement even today, a quarter of a century later.

[about-faces]

[alex51324]

reblogging for Black History Month!

[leona-florianova]

Rare Goncharov poster from Czechoslovakia by Luboš Frištenský, a less known but still prolific movie poster artist that disappeared in 1975  under mysterious circumstances.

[frostyemma]

Probably THE most notorious piece of Goncharov art to this day, less because of the art itself and more due to Luboš Frištenský’s extremely eerie disappearance

We’ll probably never know what really happened to Frištenský, but this haunting poster is testament to the genius of his work

[opera-ghost]

[tineiya]

[genderoutlaws]

Never read Baldwin before?

Nonfiction

The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)

The Fire Next Time (pdf download)

Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)

Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)

The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)

Fiction

Giovanni's Room (pdf download)

If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)

BONUS

Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)

Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)

Another Country (pdf and epub download)

Sonny's Blues (pdf download)

Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)

[creatingblackcharacters]

My next Black History Month request:

Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

The Green Shelled Semi-Slug: the scientists who discovered this species originally wanted to name it "Ibycus felis," because it rests with its tail curled around its body, just like a sleeping cat

The scientific name of this gastropod is Ibycus rachelae, but it's also known as the green-shelled semi-slug or long-tailed semi-slug. The species was first described in 2008, and it can be found only in the montane forests of Sabah (Borneo) and Peninsular Malaysia.

The term "semi-slug" refers to an intermediate stage of evolution that occurs when a snail is gradually evolving into a slug. These gastropods still have shells that are at least partially visible, but their shells have been reduced to the point where they can no longer accommodate the snail's whole body.

There are many different species of semi-slug; their features often vary, but most of them have a noticeably reduced, receding, and/or transparent shell that is partially concealed beneath a flap of tissue known as the mantle.

This article describes another interesting characteristic of semi-slugs (including Ibycus rachelae):

... semi-slugs don’t just look weird, they act weird, too. They employ sharp projectiles called love darts in their courtship rituals, by shooting several of them at a prospective mate. The mate, in turn, shoots several love darts right back.

Researchers have found that if semi-slugs are able to lodge love darts into one another, the subsequent copulation tends to be much more successful. It’s thought that the mucus distributed by the love dart ensures greater survivability of the sperm

This is what the "love darts" look like (when magnified under SEM):

The tiny, harpoon-like structures are made of calcium carbonate, and they transmit certain hormones (via mucus) that help to increase the likelihood of reproductive success. Semi-slugs are not the only gastropods that use "love darts," however; they are also used by some other land snails and slugs.

Sources & More Info:

World Wildlife Fund: Borneo's New World (PDF)

Basteria (Journal): The Slugs and Semislugs of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (PDF)

Forest Research Institute Malaysia: Introduction to the Land Snails and Slugs of Malaysia (PDF)

Malay Peninsular Terrestrial Molluscs: Ibycus rachelae

Live Science: World's Longest Bug and 'Ninja' Slug Discovered in Borneo

Australian Geographic: Meet the Semi-Slug, a Snail without a Home

[epicallyepicnerdery]

[sheshallfromtimetotime]

Reblogging with a link to the artist, Emily K., who's based in Philly and is firmly anti-AI! You can print this piece (and some others) for free for use at protests and such!

[molzysketch]

average Hozier listen

[teomodo]

[bunchashapes]

Visit Original Link

[dykekarkat]

"imagine showing insert blank to a medieval peasant they'd die lol" personally i think if i saw the medieval peasant's night sky i'd start crying and never stop

[shamebats]

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

[nyaa]

horse with a dvd player on its back 2006-03-21

[nyaa]

wild

[nerveblot]

sorry I have some kind of brain disease

I suspect this was meant as a visual pun because this server is rated for 733 watts, almost exactly one metric horsepower

[burlbread]

Idk if I posted my fav rat pic here yet. Here it is:

[pien-art]

⋆｡𖦹°⭒˚｡⋆ Drew some of my favorite trinkets :^) ⋆｡˚⭒°𖦹｡⋆

They are:

Tiny tiny gnome that my sister gave to me. May or may not have obtained it illegally. Crime gnome.

Wind-up music box that plays the theme from The Godfather.

Tiny headless figurine of Lilly the Witch that was on the end of a lint bookmark. Found it at the library I work at.

Brass tube of paint, doubles as a necklace pendant.

Cat figurine >^.^<

Bug stuck in bouncyball. Save her.

Brass tube with red glass as the paint.

Button buddy! I bring it everywhere and I've named it Jeremy.

Prints available :P

Close-ups under the cut

[catcrumb]