SecretDuckPuppy

Polyam Pan Nonbinary / Reblogger

[wandirge]

Experiment PRINT

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

We are living in a time of unprecedented amounts of original paleoart being produced. All over the world, throughout all social strata and in all sorts of styles. This boom in artistic output was not made possible by the development of art stealing technology and large corporations forcing it upon us but by networking, knowledge sharing and community building. That is what made paleontology more accessible and made it possible for so many people to be inspired by the fossil record to express themselves artistically.

The older I get the more scientific credibility becomes the mere baseline and the human aspects of a paleoartwork come into focus. Artistic decisions that a chatbot can never replace and should never make because Earth's history is too rich and filled with too many mysteries to let a machine take the wheel.

[soegenofaraway]

meow

[stavrosskundromichalis]

A young Afrovenator abakensis suddenly lunges out of a copse in an optimistic attempt to hunt a midsized sauropod in Niger during the Middle Jurassic.

[jasperthehatchet]

Decorating all of my compression braces part 1: hands

Now they're skeleton gloves 💀✨️ my knee braces are next

*****

[Image ID: two images of a pair of black compression gloves with hand bones painted on the back in white fabric paint. The second image is just my left hand wearing the left glove. The background is my gray and white cutting mat which covered most of the desk im sitting at. End ID]

[codotafterdark]

Please

PLEASE

Tell me that Edward wears ankle garters for his socks

And my life is yours (/lh)

Visit Original Link

[creature-lala]

To the people who tagged me on this:

Yes, I have drawn him with sock garters.

It’s an important part of his character design after all✨

[amandla]

[guooey]

Uni's magical Mario Galaxy adventure..

[were--ralph]

this genuinely made me so happy

[jununy]

last 3 done........ i cant believe i finally redrew all my d&d ocs

[wdarlingyap]

So. Real talk.

I have spent a significant portion of my life sick in bed. This means I have read... a lot of fanfiction. I do not want to run the numbers (for my own sanity) but there is a nonzero chance that I have read a greater volume of fanfiction than most of you will in a lifetime (yes, even in a tumblr crowd, where I have some real competition 😆).

For a number of years I was really embarrassed by this because for most of my life, I've fit best with the 'socially elitist nerd' set. You know - the ones who don't care if you make a little less eye contact, as long as your performance of intelligence can make them feel intelligent too. I "passed" there. So more than a decade of constant fluff and rom-com "junk" really felt like something I should be ashamed of.

But I've realized recently what fanfiction (or any free web fiction) really is. It's the author's hopes. It's the author's fears. It's all the things you wouldn't write to publish because they feel too sad, or sinful, or sacred.

Without really thinking about it, I've been drinking from the well of human desire - from fear, and love, and lust. I've been reading your precious wishes for family, or protection, or connection. I've been learning how you dream life could be.

Thank you to every writer whose work I have read or will read someday. Thank you for sharing the most precious parts of your heart, even when you didn't realize what you were doing. To every writer out there - every middle schooler with dreams, every suburban mom wishing her life could be something more. You reached out into the oblivion with the piece of yourself you probably don't even share with those closest. And somewhere in this world, a person noticed. Your dreams and hopes and wishes became a piece of me too.

I am so lucky to be the person who heard you.

[nightingale-prompts]

Danny: They stopped trying to convert me.

Tim: *rolling his eyes* I wonder why.

[veveen]

🤍🪻❤️‍🔥

The wip was making me a little depressed lol. It looks like he was dead !

[red-plutoo]

batfamily members favourite cake flavour

Better question, how many cake flavours can I name before I have to start googling shit

Bruce likes Victoria sponge cake, Alfred used to make it when he was young so + nostalgia and it’s his favourite

Dick loves carrot cake, like a disturbing amount, and not even the nice Brazilian kind of carrot cake with the Caramel-y icing that I can’t remember the name of now, but the weird carrot cake

Babs adores Black Forest gateau, that one’s vibe based but I feel like she loves it

Cass loves funfetti, Steph introduced them to her and they’ve been her favourite ever since, I’ve never actually tried one but they feel Cass coded

Jason is a red velvet cake kinda guy, I think him and Alfred would’ve gotten into genuine arguments over it being the same as chocolate cake but he still argues they taste better

Tim feels like he likes poppyseed cake, I only say this because of a very specific fanfic I’ve read like… 400 times, I love it, Tim loves poppyseed cake, I have correct opinions

Steph likes cheesecake, is this a cop out? Maybe, but I’m right, give this girl a cheesecake and it’s not gonna be there very quickly

Duke loves apple cake, he likes it because it’s not freakishly sweet and they’re a fuck ton of nice spices in it (if you make it right)

Damian likes lemon drizzle, but also I’d like to bring up a courgette lemon drizzle cake my mum made that was spectacular that I think he’d fuck with

Maps feels like she coconut cake, that just feels in character idk

+ Alfred likes coffee cake, vastly because he needs any caffeine he could possibly get to handle that household

10 cake flavours before I had to start googling btw (it was for maps. I for some reason did not think of that) I did know more just non of them felt correct

[papayafromtv]

do you guys think that at some point there’s a moment where the bats are on patrol and Alfred is helping from the cave and Dick or somebody needs information urgently and he asks Alfred to send it to him and Alfred is like ‘of course, Nightwing’ confidently and then there’s silence for a few seconds and Dick’s like. are you sending it? and Alfred’s just ‘i thought i just did?’

‘no i don’t have it.’

‘i pressed the green send button?’

‘did you highlight the right information because you know if you don’t paste it right then-‘

‘which button is highlight again?’

‘…right click.’

‘i’m clicking. it’s not doing anything.’

‘it can’t not do anything- are you in spectator mode or edit mode on the document?’

‘i just went onto the document, i can see it. it’s right here.’

‘right but if you don’t get into edit mode it won’t let you highlight-‘

‘what is ‘sticky keys’? it’s blocking my screen.’

‘oh for-‘

eventually Tim hacks in remotely and sends Dick the info he needs and they all politely tell Alfred he’s fine to go to bed if he wants to. after Alfred leaves there’s a solid twenty seconds of silence before Jason mumbles ‘every now and then i forget he is like. seventy.’

[naiad-r]

A young Earth couple in their honeymoon phase. Definitely not the Fire Lord Zuko and his close friend Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe.

[wetheurban]

[hamrikaa]

Burned through the sheets and curtains...again