[windwenn]

*ugly crying* no no im fine why would you ask me this

[windwenn]

Are they, you know…..hiking buddies……..

[malibuklaus]

[dimension20memes]

Thought this was fitting for the current events

[zubbyzub]

From the fertile mind of Peter Blegvad.

[dailycatsblog]

[thatsnotweirdatall-deactivated2]

[without-ado]

13 Full Moons of the Year 2026 (x)

[alex51324]

okay, so if you're like me and you're wondering why there is a blood worm moon, it turns out that it's two separate things. March is the worm moon because in the Northern hemisphere that's when the ground is usually thawing and all our little worm and bug friends start waking up! And then the blood moon is when the moon passes through the Earth's shadow and looks sorta red. This year, the worm moon happens to be a blood moon.

No bloodworms are involved.

Other names for March include Sugar Moon and Goose Moon, so if you don't like the sound of blood Worm Moon, you could say Red Sugar Moon or Shadow Goose Moon.

[evilwizard]

sorry , no. the blood worm for thee

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

Wait! Tell me more about this Shadow Goose

[evilwizard]

Shadow Goose has potential …

[dragonnan]

[jgvfhl]

I rewatched the first episode of The Untamed last night for fun. I forgot how weirdly comical the cold open is. Like.

16 years ago: ["Good News" from Wicked starts playing]

"The Yiling Patriarch is dead! That's really great news! He was evil and crafty and set the Clans against each other >:( The Jiang Clan took him in and it was nearly destroyed! He's evil!!!!"

[Cold cut to the Saddest Most Broken Man You've Ever Seen watching people kill each other and unable to stop them. He promptly jumps off a cliff. Very Evil, yes.]

"But they never found a body so. There's a tiny possibility he's not dead. But that's just rumor!"

16 years later: Mo Xuanyu "Oh you abuse me? You kick Xuyuan's body like the football? DEATH to the Mo Clan!!! Death to the Mo Clan for 1000 years via Yiling Patriarch himself!!!!!"

Wei Wuxian: ........ what the shit why am I alive again. Why is this asshole kicking me.

[samreich]

a CH classic: "insulting the boss with a punk rock video," starring streeter seidell and brian murphy

[crowtrobot2001-deactivated20201]

The Soviet edition of The Hobbit (1976) with illustrations by Mikhail Belomlinsky.

[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!

[belbar74]

[absolutely-existing]

do you ever look at a friend and feel soooooo affectionate

[absolutely-existing]

i’m glad this is the post of mine to get a degree of notes, fuck yeah friends

[good-4-her]

[good-4-her]

simply dont monday

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Dino people, I am abusing my blogging power to ask a critical question. The image below is a reconstruction of Sue, the T-Rex skeleton at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. This replica is considered to be accurate based on what we know thus far.

My question is this: How do we know this is the correct size of her eyes? Is it based on the size of her skull or something else?

[werevampiwolf]

They can see how big the eye sockets are from the skull. Also, most dinosaurs had bones called scleral rings, which are bones inside the eyeball. I don't know if we have any examples of T. rex that preserved them, but we do have other therapods.

(The info page is by @alithographica )

[werevampiwolf]

I'm reblogging again to add that this means that we know how big their pupils are, since the hole in the scleral ring is only a little bigger than the pupil.

It's also how we know that most dinosaurs had round pupils. It's pretty common for people to depict dinosaurs with slit pupils, probably because of Jurassic Park, mostly because it looks really cool, but nope, they were round. There are very few, if any, birds with slit pupils, which is further evidence for round pupils. And most extant animals with slit pupils are on the small side. Many people think of cats having slit pupils, and they do, but it's the little ones. Lions and tigers have round pupils, because slit pupils are most useful closest to the ground and they actually sacrifice some of their visually acuity for the sake of being better at judging distances in low-light conditions, and most animals with them are ambush predators that jump out at their prey. You ever seen a video where someone throws or bounces a ball towards a cat and it bops them on the head and they seem surprised? That's why; they struggle to track where the ball is going, especially horizontally. So for anything over a certain size, slit pupils are a detriment, especially if they chase down prey.

And yeah, if you've ever seen a scientific source say that a certain species of dinosaur hunted at night and wondered how the hell we could possibly know that, this is how. Their eyeball bones.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Thank you dino (and bird science!) people, this is exactly what I needed.

[thatmadscientistbitch]

follow up question: why do Sue's eyes look so kind????