Oh dear God, now I have to NAME this thing?

The ramblings of Thea van Diepen. They look questionable to me...

[jedavu]

[rocket-prose]

Classic animators doing reference poses for their own drawings. I’m in love with these images.

[auilix]

Part of the reason animators like to work alone, late at night when no one is watching.

[samstiels-deactivated20201212]

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[animatedamerican]

this strikes me as useful to know

[priscellie]

Man. I feel so thirsty lately.  I can’t drink enough water. I feel like the senator guy in that X-Men movie after getting exposed to Magneto’s mutant machine, and he keeps drinking drinking drinking water uncontrollably until he dives into the ocean and becomes a terrifying jellyfish creature and explodes.  Freaking Magneto. I was already sympathetic to the mutant cause. Why you gotta hate?

[seananmcguire]

You’re not a mutant, honey, you’re a mermaid.  It’s all right.  Once your scales start coming in, you won’t be as thirsty.

[knitmeapony]

You know, being a diagnostician in a world with more public magical creatures must be a trip and a half.  

“Extreme thirst has a lot of causes.  Let’s check your blood sugar, and let’s take a skin sample to see if you’re developing scales.”

“Joint pain is pretty common when someone’s pushing themself that way with training, and I’d definitely recommend some rest, but it sounds like it’s been coming on with the moon so we might want to do a blood test to check for lycanthropy.”

“I’m going to give you this journal.  Keep track of how often you’re near bodies of water and copses of trees – not single trees, there needs to be a cluster.”

“Bear with me, I know you’re lactose intolerant, but buy a pint of milk and keep it in your kitchen.  If it spoils faster than expected, we’ll have a better idea of what’s going on here.”

[seananmcguire]

“Have you considered that you may not, in fact, actually be a mammal?”

[hasufin]

“Okay, I’m going to have to refer you to a specialist. It looks like your tertiary dentition is coming in.” “I think we need to check for allergic reactions to silver, iron, a few types of wood, garlic, and holy water. That’ll help us rule out some possible causes for this rash. In the mean time I think you should avoid Italian food and holy ground.”

“Have you noticed clusters of birds following you? Were they corvids? Hm, interesting. You ought to come in to the office so we can discuss this further.” “That itching sensation might be a rash, but I think we ought to give you an MRI and see if you’re about to grow horns.”

[defilerwyrm]

So basically, medicine in the Dark Ages, upgraded.

[disasterlarper]

This is literally my dream as a writer and my worst nightmare as a nurse

[syncretic11]

So I imagine a supernatural version of House where almost every episode someone is like “it’s lycanthropy” and the House character goes “it’s never lycanthropy” except for the one episode it is where the title of the episode is lycanthropy.

[robintalley]

Reblogging this because the idea of that version of House needs to be further explored. Come on, fic writers, add more House-specific notes, please.

[nineprotons]

I now want to read books about a medical professional serving magical creatures in the modern world.

[setej]

I will be at the Edmonton Expo again this year!

Which is to say, I’ll be there tomorrow and Saturday and the first and last bits of Sunday (I’ll be at a book launch in the afternoon - when an author you know comes up from Australia to launch her book, you make sure you attend :D ).

Come say hi and see all the pretty books :D

For more info (and a picture of approximately what the booth will look like), go here.

[setej]

The Nature of Generosity (It’s Not About Numbers) ^^^About stuff that happened during my Kickstarter

[gadgets-cnl]

[archiemcphee]

Today the Department of Astonishing Optical Illusions is redecorating their office with these awesome stools and benches by Jongha Choi that both look like 2D wall art and function as 3D seats.

stuffguyswant

Contemporary Wall Art Turns Into Functional Furniture

Designer Jongha Choi’s new ingenious project, titled “De-dimension_From 2D to 3D” turns wall art into useable furniture. The pieces are incognito on the wall and appear as 2D artwork. When they are taken off the wall and unfolded, they quickly become additional seats or tables:

[theperksofbeingabookseller]

You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.

Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book (via theperksofbeingabookseller)

[pointless-letters]

It’s the brilliant note of outrage right at the end there that really sells this letter.

[setej]

So that happened. What happened next is up on my website.

[whatsdifferentincanada]

Three generations of Canadian $20. In the UK, the Queen stays the same age. 

[sheldontinydino]

Visitor Center Sheldon

Storenvy | Redbubble | Plush Preorder

[trinitywings]

Me: Creating a story in my head and trying to write it down.

[theoreocat]

He’s getting his groove on (full version) 🎵

~ Turn up the volume 🎙📻🎵

[recklesssketches]

Please press play

[alasdeer]

@why-animals-do-the-thing Normal play behaviour, right? The head shaking is a bit odd to me but I have seen it before

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

I think it’s fine. The head shaking would be worrying if it was frequent, but assuming that a video made of clips is a representative sample of how often it occurs, it was likely just part of play here. 

[pangur-and-grim]

The head shaking is self-restraint :) as in “I want to bite into my prey item & rip it up, but it’s just a toy” Instead of destroying something with their teeth, they just snap their heads back & whip them about. Quite cute! My cats do it constantly.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

You learn something new every day.

[fiti-vation]

[ernasd]

oh this is a life saver

[ralfmaximus]

[god-dammit-mason-blog]

Everyone is saying that the professor is grinding the Pokémon into candy, but consider the following:

• The professor frantically running around with assistants, inspecting hundreds of thousands of pidgeys a day, getting bitten and screeched at while they try to figure out if this pidgey has been tagged yet so they release them back to track their migration

• Panicked interns trying to scoop the ekanses back into their tank because theyre freaking out the rattatas

• Three caterpies climbed into a vent and evolved into metapods that are too far in to reach so six underpaid college students are trying to dismantle ductwork

• Theres a big door marked “KEEP OUT” because a dozen oddish evolved into a squad of Vileplumes and until they stop releasing stun spores the entire room is just off limits

• Hundreds of researchers running on red bull and determination trying to tag and examine all the Pokemon but having to turn off the machine every once in a while to the discontent of trainers who are all getting a “Sorry, the servers are currently down” message at LEAST twice a day

• “GPS not found” flashes while returning a big group and suddenly Florida has been gifted 6,000 mankeys right in the middle of Epcot

• Someone in the back room up to their waist in stale dog treats with a bunch of little stamps. They sigh deeply at how gullible Pokemon trainers are that they think these things actually do anything other than excite the Pokemon so much they evolve

• Actual science professor surrounded by chaos and interns and a budget just too small

[snailchimera]

Pokedexes have always been biological survey equipment, and this? Right here? Is largely how actual biology surveys work- you catch and release LARGE numbers of the species you’re studying, as large as you can afford, sometimes keeping them in the lab for observation first. Also if they were running on the average funding of a US university/public bio lab, this would explain… basically everything about the app.

[friendlyfrankenstein]

It Also explains why the professor is like HERES SOME POKEBALLS CATCH EM HERES SOME TEAMS FOR FRIENDLY COMPETITION GOGOGO and then vanishes. If he’s running a whole survey on his own he’s probably running on sheer determination and sleeping on his office couch. 

If his office couch is even visible anymore. 

[bjornwilde]

This has become my head canon to such an extent that I now think of catching and transferring pokemon as catch, tag, and release.

[vikanderalicia-deactivated20200]

“The Upside Down. Like the Vale of Shadows- The Vale of Shadows is a dimension that is a dark reflection or echo of our world. It is a place of decay and death. A plane out of phase. A place of monsters. It is right next to you, and you don’t even see it. An alternate dimension.” Stranger Things (2016) The Duffer Brothers.