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[sticksandsharks]

less than a week till SBCF'24, where I will be debuting a new comic!

SACRED BODIES is a story about what different people/s see as taboo, and the socio-cultural lines that delineate propriety and deviancy.

It's a 15+ rating on visuals and covers topics of intimacy, natural urges, shame and how we relate to these things and to each other. Also there's bird monster people, wow.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 26, 27 juin 1909, Paris. Robe princesse. Doc. phot. Reutlinger. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

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[socially-awkward-supervillian]

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

[youwinagainmoffat-blog]

jesus that is good to know.

[chandra75-deactivated20180905]

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

[magehenry-moved-blog]

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

[pkmnbreederbrianna]

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

[emo-islandniles]

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

[renirabbit]

this post just got so much better

[enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva]

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

[wylltingtrees]

[sashayed]

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

[clover11-10]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

[oshiawaseni]

so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist

[erin-luci-and-me]

the anxiety cat

[peppermint-madness]

Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great

[elfwreck]

[bunjywunjy]

this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.

so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.

[june-egbert-official]

Cheetah: oh god what’s going on how are we feeling weird spotless cheetah

Dog: :) fine, thanks

Cheetah: :) oh, okay

[greatlordfluffernutter]

[artist-ellen]

Historical Mermay Day 2: Ancient Greece

I wanted to incorporate the sort of double-crown hairstyle, a lot of mermaid hair, and of course the color palettes and a little pattern. I haven’t done such a limited color palette in a long time, it was fun!

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok: @ellenartistic

[pien-art]

some good omens drawings i made this week!

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[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 36, 3 septembre 1899, Paris. Toilette d'automne avec petit collet. Modèle de Mlle Louise Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Description de la gravure coloriée:

Robe en drap gris clair, et soie noire, repsèe, à côtes; celle-ci est employée pour la quille plissée de la jupe, traversée par des cordons de soie grise, qui retiennent la jupe de drap; même garniture sur le corsage, garni d'un plastron plissé, et de revers brodés; sous ces revers, on agrafe le petit collet à revers, qui pose sur les manches plates, garnies de revers noirs; col droit, et ceinture en soie.

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Dress in light gray cloth and black silk, repsèe, with ribs; this is used for the pleated keel of the skirt, crossed by cords of gray silk, which hold the cloth skirt; same trim on the bodice, trimmed with a pleated plastron, and embroidered lapels; under these lapels, we fasten the small capelet, which rests on the flat sleeves, trimmed with black lapels; straight collar, and silk belt.

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La Mode illustrée, no. 32, 6 août 1899, Paris. Costume de canotage. Robe en toile. Robe en piqué quadrillé. Robe ornée de boutons. Modèles de Mme Angenault, rue de Provence, 67. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

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La Mode illustrée, no. 31, 4 août 1895, Paris. Robe en taffetas chiné. Robe en taffetas à bouquets imprimés. Modèles de chez Mmes Coussinet-Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Robe en taffetas chiné.

La jupe en taffetas rose pâle chiné, faite à godets, a 5 mètres de largeur; la ceinture en ruban de satin rose, plissée, est ornée de rosaces. Le corsage, fermé devant, est recouvert au bord inférieur avec une blouse en soie blanche, sur laquelle on pose de la batiste crème brodée à jours, et au bord supérieur avec des draperies plissées en taffetas chiné. Ces draperies, croisées devant et derrière, laissent une petite ouverture en pointe. Le bord supérieur de ces draperies est couvert par une dentelle brodée ayant 13 centimètres de hauteur, fixée sur les épaules par quelques points. Une dentelle semblable borde les garnitures carrées en taffetas, ayant 42 centimètres de longueur, 16 centimètres de largeur au milieu, 20 centimètres de largeur sur les côtés; ces garnitures, plissées sur les épaules, sont un peu relevées, et posent au bord inférieur sur les manches bouffantes, froncées.

The mottled pale pink taffeta skirt, made in gores, is 5 meters wide; the belt in pink satin ribbon, pleated, is decorated with rosettes. The bodice, closed in front, is covered at the lower edge with a white silk blouse, over which is placed embroidered cream batiste, and at the upper edge with pleated draperies in mottled taffeta. These draperies, crossed in front and behind, leave a small pointed opening. The upper edge of these draperies is covered by an embroidered lace 13 centimeters high, fixed on the shoulders by a few stitches. A similar lace borders the square taffeta trimmings, having 42 centimeters in length, 16 centimeters in width in the middle, 20 centimeters in width at the sides; these trimmings, pleated on the shoulders, are slightly raised, and rest at the lower edge on the puffed, gathered sleeves.

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Robe en taffetas à bouquets imprimés.

Cette robe est faite en soie pompadour crème à bouquets de couleur; jupe large; une ceinture en ruban de velours vert, ornée derrière d'un nœud et devant, de choux. Le corsage avec manches demi-longues, légèrement plissé à la taille, s'ouvre un peu en pointe devant. La garniture se compose d'un grand col en velours vert, brodé de perles et de paillettes, posé sur une haute dentelle crème, et terminé devant par des choux. Les petites bandes des manches, faites en velours, sont ornées de choux semblables.

This dress is made in cream pompadour silk with colored bouquets; wide skirt; a belt in green velvet ribbon, adorned behind with a bow and in front with choux. The bodice with half-long sleeves, slightly pleated at the waist, opens slightly to a point in front. The trim consists of a large green velvet collar, embroidered with pearls and sequins, placed on high cream lace, and finished in front with choux. The small bands of the sleeves, made of velvet, are adorned with similar choux.

[rottenrushes]

Sorry this is almost exclusively a pit where I throw 1890s fashion plates, but also: I am not sorry at all

[poreyneel]

If you lead I will follow A thousand miles away I will be your Apollo Alone in outer

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La Mode illustrée, no. 46, 13 novembre 1898, Paris. Robe ornée de broderie ajourée pour réception de visites. Modèle de Mmes Coussinet-Piret, rue Richer, 43. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

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La Mode illustrée, no. 19, 7 mai 1899, Paris. Robe-princesse ornée de biais. Modèle de la Mode Illustrée. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

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La Mode nationale, no. 34, 25 août 1894, Paris. No. 1. Toilettes de plage. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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La Mode nationale, no. 19, 14 mai 1898, Paris. No. 1. — Collet blouse et jaquette pour jeune femme. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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[reasonsforhope]

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

[geocaprican]

[gortklatuubaradanekto]

How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.

[nerdfaceangst]

Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.

I am so, so proud of him holy shit.

[fthgurdy]

^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.

And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!

Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”

And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.

There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.

Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Lol whoops THIS is the website

[kilodelta]

Whoever was all “LOL Watch Cali Ban it”: besides the fact that isn’t how it works, LA county has actually deployed similar systems here to help clean up our beaches. They work, and of course we’re using them.

Some of y’all are way too cynical and way too confident about it, yikes.

[reasonsforhope]

@kilodelta Thanks for the addition, this is so true

LA isn’t just deploying similar systems, it has literally officially teamed up with the Ocean Cleanup, using one of their river cleanup systems! To absolutely massive success

77 tons less trash made it into the ocean thanks to this experimental L.A. County device

The Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 collected nearly 155,000 pounds of trash in the first rainy season of its two-year pilot project.

That article actually appears to be non-paywalled right now, but here’s a guaranteed no-paywall Internet Archive copy just in case!

“After a historic winter hit California with dozens of atmospheric rivers, the last line of defense protecting the Pacific from much of L.A.’s trash held strong.

In the first storm season of a two-year pilot project, Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 stopped nearly 155,000 pounds of garbage from flowing out to the ocean.

“Its performance has exceeded our wildest expectations,” said Boyan Slat, founder and chief executive of the Ocean Cleanup. The Dutch nonprofit partnered with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works to introduce the interceptor in October.

The system floats a few hundred yards from the outlet of Ballona Creek into the Pacific Ocean, its twin booms extended to the shoreline to funnel trash to a solar-powered system that lifts objects from the water with a conveyor belt and drops them into six dumpsters. The trash collects in the dumpsters and awaits manual removal…

In all, the first rainy season of the interceptor’s operation saw the collection of 77 tons of material, the vast majority of which went to landfill.

This first pilot year “had all the challenges we wanted it to have: heavy pollutants, lots of flow,” said Mark Pestrella, the Department of Public Works director. In January, storm-generated waves caused one boom to tear, and it had to be replaced.

According to Lee, L.A. County Department of Beaches and Harbors maintenance crews noted “a 75% reduction” in trash along local beaches adjacent to the interceptor.”

-via Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2023

[nonasuch]

These exist in Baltimore, too! Meet Mr. Trash Wheel and the Trash Wheel Family.

[prismatic-bell]

Gortklaatu-whatever up there is a Trumpist.

Do we need any more proof he has no brain?

[chic-a-gigot]

Le Petit écho de la mode. No 32. Volume XVIII. 9 Août 1896. Corsage en pékin rayé. Bibliothèque Forney

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La Mode illustrée, no. 30, 24 juillet 1898, Paris. Toilette de visites en grenadine. Modèle de Mmes Gradoz-Angenault, rue de Provence, 67. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Cette toilette est faite en grenadine de soie noire et bordures de dentelle noire ayant 4 centimètres de largeur; on la complète par un col-empiècement en soie lilas et mousseline de soie avec paillettes noires et broderie de perles. La jupe en grenadine posée sur une jupe à volant en taffetas noir, a un lé de devant étroit et un volant remontant derrière se rattachant aux lés de côté et par derrière; on découpe l'étoffe tout autour en bandes réunies par des bordures de dentelle. Le corsage-blouse entouré d'une ceinture en ruban de satin noir, est légèrement drapé devant. On pose sur la blouse le col, découpé en dents profondes, et se prolongeant devant et derrière jusqu'à la taille; on l'encadre avec des ruches de dentelle et de mousseline de soie; on l'orne de rangées de perles et de paillettes; on le garnit d'un col droit. Les épaulettes sont faites avec des volants en mousseline de soie ornés de dentelle noire.

This ensemble is made of black silk grenadine and borders of black lace 4 centimeters wide; it is completed with a yoke-collar in lilac silk and chiffon with black sequins and bead embroidery. The grenadine skirt placed on a flounced skirt in black taffeta, has a narrow front strip and a flounce going up behind attaching to the side strips and from behind; the fabric is cut all around in strips united by borders of lace. The bodice-blouse surrounded by a belt in black satin ribbon, is lightly draped in front. The collar is placed on the blouse, cut into deep teeth, and extending in front and behind to the waist; it is framed with ruffles of lace and silk muslin; it is adorned with rows of pearls and sequins; it is adorned with a straight collar. The shoulder pads are made with chiffon ruffles adorned with black lace.

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Corrections and additions to @chic-a-gigot's post, which can be found here.

In English,

No 9. Housedress in white wool printed with black polka dots. High blouse-bodice¹, adorned above with white and orange trim making a lapel on one side only: empire sleeves with jockeys² similar to the lapel. Sash of orange velvet over a basque³ falling over the flat skirt gathered at the back. Yardage: 6½ metres of very large-width wool.

(1) a day bodice in blouse form, falling over the hips and worn with a belt || (2) a flounce at the top of a sleeve which formed an epaulette || (3) French term for an extension of the bodice below the waist

In French,

Nᵒ 9. Toilette d'intérieur en lainage blanc imprimée de pois noirs. Corsage blouse montant, orné en dessus par une garniture blanche et orange faisant revers d'un seul côté: manches empire avec jockeys semblables au revers. Ceinture de velours orange sur des basques retombant sur la jupe plate, froncée derrière. Métrage: 6ᵐ,50 lainage très grande largeur.