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vro0m

Whole stadium singing about love while being watched by their president who's currently bombing Iran.

wowbright

Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.

minyardlumberyard

tags too good to leave in tags @hyperrbolic-orange

anxiette

also way too valuable to leave in tags! from @carolinanadeau

quinloki

Also to add:

You do not understand any given geopolitical conflict as well as you think you do. Because it is never that simple, and it's never that simple even for the people in the middle of it, in control of it, or going against it.

And you can do incalculable damage assuming you know more than you do. Especially when you become part of the mob.

horsefigureoftheday

Sucks how many people were taught that "horses put their ears back when they're mad" but then never taught the difference between "angry backwards ears," "mildly annoyed backwards ears," "pain backwards ears," "concentrated backwards ears," "sleepy backwards ears" and "just happens to be listening to something behind it."

"Horses put their ears back when they're mad" idk man i think it depends

horsefigureoftheday

These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.

horsefigureoftheday

Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.

We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.

At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.

Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:

fantasy-anatomy-analyst

Also a useful resource if you want to change the way you draw or describe expressions on non-human characters

ollxn

Meeting of introverts

elcorhamletlive

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

primaius

skelesass

metal tango/Kreon week 2026 day 7: banter

@kreonweek

fabdante

@zutaraweek day 1: tradition

i liked the idea of tradition by the way of ‘in the tradition of a specific artist’ and landed on magritte. the most direct inspirations were two of his paintings, 16th September and the Banquet (non animated version will be up later!)

simkaye

If you ever wanted a Raccoon Comic original, now is your chance😘

4mtns

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter

chocoholicbec

@hamletthedane’s tags: #Vincent Van Gogh is crying somewhere in the after and I’m crying just thinking about that#you knew!! you saw the patterns!! there is a whole planet painted in the oils from your brush!!#TIL that the craft Juno went as close as 4000km from Jupiter’s weather surface#for context: the craft was closer to Jupiter than NYC is to LA#which is space terms is like. basically being on the planet#holy shit